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FERISTSA - The Mexico - Panama Railway Inside Costa Rica ... USD$3 billion privately owned commercial railroad going from the Panama Canal Railway Company through the entire length of Central America, linking with Mexico's rail system at the Guatemala border, and thus to the United States of America. ... See all stories on this topic »

Organic Agriculture May Be Outgrowing Its Ideals New York Times TODOS SANTOS, Mexico — Clamshell containers on supermarket shelves in the United States may depict verdant fields, tangles of vines and ruby red tomatoes. But at this time of year, the tomatoes, peppers and basil certified as organic by the ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Deported teen still lives in fear Toronto Star ... made headlines when he was unexpectedly arrested and sent to a Canada Border Services Agency detention centre. His application for refugee status had been denied, and Garcia, then 18, was to be deported to his native Mexico on New Year's Day. ... See all stories on this topic »

Historic New Mexico dam to offer tours after long closure Foster's Daily Democrat 7 for one day only, the public can again tour the nearly century-old dam, which has played a key role in water politics and disputes among Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/ubmNmP) that the tour is ... See all stories on this topic »

Babeu: Arpaio civil rights allegations' timing suspect TriValley Central Operation Fast and Furious, a Justice Department initiative that allowed the sale of more than 2000 guns, was executed with the idea that the guns would be trafficked to Mexico. The Justice Department believed the large flow of guns to Mexico, ... See all stories on this topic »

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Falcon Lake: Bones of Slain American Jet Skier Found? | MyPress ... By NewsDesk - Christer Ornestad Skeletal remains found in a lake on the Texas-Mexico border are being tested to see if they belong to the American was allegedly shot by Mexican drug cartel members there last year. The widow of David Hartley, Tiffany Hartley, told police the ... MyPress.SE - Universal News Agency

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Falcon Lake: Bones of Slain American Jet Skier Found? | KLPW Radio Giorgio Fochesato/Vetta/Getty Images(NUEVO CIUDAD GUERRERO, Mexico) -- Skeletal remains found in a lake on the Texas-Mexico border are being tested ... www.klpw.com/.../falcon-lake-bones-slain-american-jet-skier-f...

Local Pro Fisherman Makes Gruesome Discovery On Trip To Border ... Professional angler Alton Jones of Waco made a grim discovery while on a holiday trip to Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border, but what he found could ... www.kwtx.com/.../Local_Pro_Fisherman_Makes_Gruesome_...

Texas Public Radio - Mexican Crime Victims May Find Help In U.S.
Residents along the U.S.-Mexico border who are targeted by criminals in ... Texas, Arizona and California have programs known as victims' compensation funds. ...
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Texas Mexico Border Texas Mexico Border. Some recent public comments about the border. ElectronSingles. Amazon USA #19528 The Dead Women of Juárez (Kindle Single): Is the ... texasmexicoborder.com/view/151121720441454592

Skeleton found in border lake where Colorado man reportedly slain ... Aug 26: New attack on Mexican border lake where Colorado man was killed ... body on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake, which is on the Texas-Mexico border. ... www.denverpost.com/popular/ci_19643437?source=pop...

U.S. Special Ops Team Crosses the Border into Mexico; Escorted by ...
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http://deadlinelive.info/2011/12/28/video-u-s-special-ops-team-crosses-the-border-into-mexico-escorted-by-mexican-military/. Last week, a U.S. special operations team was seen crossing the border from Brownsville, Texas into Matamoros, ...
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Progreso bridge owner was well-known figure at border crossing [The Monitor ... Insurance News Net (press release) Johnson said Sparks delighted in the "little things and sometimes big things" that went into operating the Progeso bridge, one of only two privately held international ports along the entire US- Mexico border. While he fought fiercely to protect his ... See all stories on this topic »

8000 soldiers sent to northeast Mexico Windsor Star Mexico has sent 8000 additional soldiers to the crime-ridden northeast after a string of drug killings over the holidays, officials said. The extra forces will be distributed across several cities along the border with Texas as well as in the southern ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexico's Sinaloa cartel apparently ramping up meth production in neighboring ... Washington Post MEXICO CITY — Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor chemicals stream into the Central American nation. ... See all stories on this topic »

Former Mexico soldier sentenced for aiding cartels Reuters Canada MEXICO CITY Dec 30 (Reuters) - A former soldier in the Mexican army was sentenced to 25 years in prison for aiding drug cartels, the attorney general's office said on Friday. Reymundo Morales of the Mexican infantry was arrested two years ago and found ... See all stories on this topic »

Falcon Lake: Bones of Slain American Jet Skier Found? ABC News (blog) Skeletal remains found in a lake on the Texas-Mexico border are being tested to see if they belong to the American was allegedly shot by Mexican drug cartel members there last year. The widow of David Hartley, Tiffany Hartley, told police the couple ... See all stories on this topic »

Fed Drug Case Defendant Wants New Atty. Memphis Daily News They were allegedly part of the drug organization headed by Craig Petties with direct ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel of Mexico. Nine defendants were charged in seven indictments between 2002 and 2008. Clinton Lewis and Martin Lewis are scheduled to go ... See all stories on this topic »

Drug Wars Take Over Veracruz; Philippines Floods Too Dangerous For Travel Hartford Courant The state was once a major oil export hub, but has since turned into a microcosm of Mexico's larger drug-related woes. As violence intensifies between the Zetas gang and Gulf drug cartels, attacks have become more commonplace. ... See all stories on this topic »

Juárez police chief in the spotlight, under scrutiny El Paso Inc. Shirk said it likely had more to do with cartel dynamics - a truce or shift in power, with one group gaining an overwhelming edge. Some Sinaloa cartel members on trial in the United States have said they tried to work with Mexican and US authorities so ... See all stories on this topic »

Cartels scheme to get noncriminals to do their dirty work Dallas Morning News (subscription) By ALFREDO CORCHADO EL PASO — A young Mexican woman in the county jail here has an all-too-familiar border story: alleged pot smuggler. Except this is a story with a twist. Her family says she was forced by traffickers to sneak drugs across the border ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexico gang seen ramping up meth in Guatemala KWQC 6 AP National News Video By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and SONIA PEREZ AP MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its massive production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala, as hundreds of tons of precursor ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexico Gang Seen Ramping Up Meth In Guatemala Salon By E. Eduardo Castillo and Sonia Perez, AP MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala. Mexico is usually estimated to be the main supplier of meth used ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexico gang seen ramping up meth in Guatemala San Diego Source (subscription) By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and SONIA PEREZ, AP Mexico's powerful Sinaloa drug cartel appears to be extending its production of methamphetamine into neighboring Guatemala. Comments are moderated by SDDT, in accordance with the SDDT Comment Policy, ... See all stories on this topic »

A chronology of those who died in 2011 Winnipeg Free Press Francisco Blake Mora, 45, Mexico's interior minister and point man in the country's deadly war against organized crime and drug cartels, in a helicopter crash in the mountainous area of Chalco. — Choiseul Henriquez, Haiti's cultural minister and a ... See all stories on this topic »

TEA TIME W/ ANTHONY MELE: Like a 2012 Diogenese, Looking for an Honest Man Rockland County Times Attorney General Eric Holder, acting on orders from the president, crafts a scheme of funneling firearms to drug cartels in Mexico, to spike gun violence and manipulate news reports in an attempt to incite public opinion to call for the incremental ... See all stories on this topic »

Six Gunmen Die in Clashes with Mexican Troops Latin American Herald Tribune MORELIA, Mexico – Six gunmen thought to work for the Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel were killed in two separate clashes with troops in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico's defense department said. The first incident took place around ... See all stories on this topic »

Goodbye 2011, a truly strange golf year The Desert Sun (blog) The other was in Mexico and was canceled because of security concerns in a country seemingly ruled by drug cartels. Rory McIlroy had the ecstasy of winning a major championship at the US Open, but only after the agony of throwing the Masters away on ... See all stories on this topic »

Rush On the Record with Greta Van Susteren: Additional Segments RushLimbaugh.com (subscription) The Democratic Party has lost the argument, intellectually, so let's get guns from Arizona gun shops into the hands of drug cartels and wipe people out and spread the news that the guns came from America, which Obama did. He went to Mexico and had a ... See all stories on this topic »

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Radio Zeta: How Mexico's Drug Cartels Stay Networked | THE ... By THEUNHIVEDMIND http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/cartel-radio-mexico/. Arranging drug sales on a cellphone, cryptic email or even a pager? That's strictly for the small-time dealer. If you're a Mexican drug cartel, you have your own radio network. ... THE UNHIVED MIND

Opinion Matters: Whitehouse Created Mexican Drug Cartel Gun ... By Brian Wilkins Whitehouse Created Mexican Drug Cartel Gun Problem. Fox19.com reports on the "Fast and Furious" gun sales: While the ATF has said that 90 percent of all the guns begin found at crime scenes in Mexico have come from the United States, ... Opinion Matters

obama administration cut deal to extend immunity to mexican drug ... By jj and, so it is alleged by a criminal defendant. a criminal defendant in a chicago, illinois federal court has interposed a defense of "immunity" to the drug charges brought against him. he claims that his "cartel" was extended immunity in... summer patriot, winter soldier

Mexico City- Cartels Recruit young people from USA into the drug ... By Narco-Bullit! The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reported that Mexican gangs are organized crime recruiting young Americans aged 14 to 20 years to become assassins, to operators of both drug trafficking and also to extort or kidnap. According to ... Narco-Bullit!

Criminals in Mexico break into trucking yards for U.S. load info Mexican drug cartels have used tunnels, swimmers and hang gliders to bring drugs into the U.S., but few methods can carry the volume and even security of hiding drugs in legitimate cargo loads. Trucking remains king, said Dan Burges, ... Land Line Daily eNews RSS Feed

Alleged Mexican drug trafficker snagged By admin Alleged Mexican drug trafficker snagged. Officials ... Eventually, pressured by the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, the Rodriguez brothers motivated their operations to Leon, Guanajuato, and established a sturdy correlation with the Zetas drug cartel. ... Forum-Social-Democracy.Org

Huffington Post Promotes How Ron Paul Believes In CIA ... By mah29001 Say didn't the Russian government run Russia Today also pushed this nonsense too? And yet it's the same Russian government that's supporting Hugo Chavez and his FARC pals whom support Mexican drug cartels too… ... Zionism's Survival: Surviving...

Fast N Furious Investigation: Eric Holder is a funny man By Fast N Furious Investigation to Mexican drug cartels, even laundering money for them. Let's forget for a moment the over 200 Mexican civilians, soldiers, and federal agents killed by weapons supplied by Operation Fast and Furious (aka “Gunwalker”). After all, no one ... Fast N Furious Investigation

Better Economics: Choo Choo con game was back in town By Matt Young Once the meth heads see the hole they have made in their brains they may just cut back a little, reducing the flow of federal funds to the Mexican Drug Cartels. Fresno has no economy when 10% of its population has a hole in their head, ... Better Economics

Medical: MedicalConspiracies- Healthcare Workers Oppose The Flu ... By Medical Attorney General Eric Holder, whose Department of Justice orchestrated the Fast and Furious gunwalking scheme to supply Mexican drug cartels with illegal firearms, released a statement on Wednesday decrying the fact that too many people ... Medical

Grim Discovery Made on Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border ... By Scared Monkeys Just curious, why would a drug cartel bind an individuals feet together after they had supposedly already shot David Hartley in the head on his Jet Ski? Tiffany Hartley had stated back on September 30, 2010 that Mexican pirates shot her ... Scared Monkeys

HONDURAS | The Global Realm By The Global Realm The violence is partly connected to the presence of Mexican drug cartels like Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel, which according to recently published accounts operate throughout Central America, but especially in the Northern Triangle. ... The Global Realm

lgstarr: Sinaloan cartel floods U.S. with drugs and receives weapons ... By lgstarr (CNSNews.com) – An alleged Mexican drug trafficker awaiting trial in a Chicago federal court claims that the notorious Sinaloa cartel received weapons from “Operation Fast and Furious” under an alleged immunity agreement that the U.S. ... lgstarr

Remains Found at US Border Lake Where American Was Reported Killed by Mexican ... Fox News Authorities are investigating human remains found at the same US border lake where a Colorado man was reported to have been killed by Mexican drug cartel members last year. A professional fisherman found the skeletal remains on the Mexican side of ... See all stories on this topic » Fox News

Will pulling border Guard weaken security? OCRegister Amidst the hubbub of the Afghanistan pull-out and holiday shopping, the White House announced it's withdrawing 900 of the 1200 Guardsmen along the US-Mexico border. I was with the Guard at the border six months ago. And when I heard the news, ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexican Drug Cartels Recruit Young Latinos In Southern California Huffington Post Their proximity to the US-Mexico border made it easier for them to fall prey to the advances of the Mexican drug cartels. Many times, children as young as 11 years old, who are referred to as the "The expendables," according to The National Post, ... See all stories on this topic »

Border Bank Funds Projects Salem-News.Com Growing out of the negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement and based in San Antonio, Texas, the NADB is a mechanism to fund vital infrastructure and environmental projects in the underdeveloped US-Mexico border region. ... See all stories on this topic » Salem-News.Com

Border law enforcement uses more military equipment Gant Daily “The missions from these two centers will allow [Customs and Border Protection] to deploy its unmanned aircraft from the eastern tip of California across the common Mexican land borders of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas,” the agency said in a statement ... See all stories on this topic »

Retiring Border Patrol chief's legacy: A more secure border Arizona Republic A total of nine Predator drones are now patrolling the southern border. Under Bersin, the Border Patrol also expanded a program in the Tucson Sector that prosecutes illegal border crossers before sending them back to Mexico. He also expanded the use of ... See all stories on this topic »

New fencing doesn't stop illegal crossings Washington Post A decade ago, when illegal immigration from Mexico was at an all-time high, this stretch of border was as good a place as any to sneak into the United States. Migrants and smugglers could slip through the alfalfa fields outside town or plow their ... See all stories on this topic »

Americans wrongly detained by U.S. immigration program can now call a toll ... 89.3 KPCC A US Border Patrol agent patrols along the US-Mexico border in Naco, Ariz., in September. One loud complaint about the “Secure Communities” immigration enforcement program is that it often snatches up US citizens by mistake. ... See all stories on this topic » 89.3 KPCC

: Accused Killer of Mexican Toddler Extradited to Tijuana, Mexico Middle East North Africa Financial Network By working together, we ensure that fugitives cannot evade justice simply by crossing the border." "We will continue to work with Mexican authorities to ensure that dangerous criminals are not allowed to seek safe haven in Mexico or the United States," ... See all stories on this topic »

Development grows in 2011 Las Cruces Bulletin Doña Ana County had increased activity in the south with the groundbreaking of Union Pacific's intermodal station and commercial development along the US-Mexico border. On April 5, Gov. Susana Martinez signed a bill that eliminated a tax on diesel fuel ... See all stories on this topic »

Triple-murder suspect deported at Nogales Nogales International "Once we confirmed he was wanted in Mexico as a homicide suspect, ICE agents apprehended him in Phoenix and made his subsequent removal a priority." ICE then worked in collaboration with the US Border Patrol to hand Rentería over to Mexican law ... See all stories on this topic »

Officers find 275 gallons of meth ingredient in van bound for Mexico KVOA Tucson News NOGALES - A woman was arrested by Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales as she attempted to exit the United States with several drums of a chemical used in the manufacture of methamphetamine. The 47-year-old Nogales, Sonora woman was ... See all stories on this topic »

Gang Boss Arrested in Violent Mexican Border City Latin American Herald Tribune CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – A suspected leader of the La Linea gang was arrested by municipal police in Ciudad Juarez, a border city in northern Mexico, city spokesman Manuel del Castillo said. Julio Cesar Perez allegedly planned kidnappings, ran extortion ... See all stories on this topic » Latin American Herald Tribune

Mexico sends 8000 troops to violent north-east Straits Times The extra forces will be distributed across several cities along the border with the United States state of Texas as well as in the southern part of the north-east Gulf coast Tamaulipas state, military spokesman Jose Juarez said on Thursday. ... See all stories on this topic »

US targets money laundering activity for drug cartels Economic Times WASHINGTON: The Obama administration said that it was hitting two Lebanese-Colombian men and dozens of companies they run with sanctions for allegedly laundering money on behalf of Mexican and Colombian drug cartels. Officials said Thursday that one of ... See all stories on this topic »

American Teen Murdered in Mexico: Drug Cartels Responsible? International Business Times The brutal nature of the crime has led many to believe that the murder could be related to a drug cartel. Cartels are almost always an assumption in Mexican murder cases, especially in the state of Michoacan where rival gangs are battling for territory ... See all stories on this topic » International Business Times

Suspected Mexican drug cartel head captured euronews La Linea is the armed wing of the notorious Juarez cartel. In 2006, the army was sent into Ciudad Juarez as part of the Mexican government's crackdown on drugs. The city lies south of the US city of El Paso, Texas and is a key transport route for ... See all stories on this topic » euronews

Days of the dead Sydney Morning Herald The cartels have paused to consider if this bloodletting is in their own interests. When they decided in 2007 to attempt a negotiated carve-up of the Mexican drug turf that might allow them to get on with business without drawing the attention of the ... See all stories on this topic » Sydney Morning Herald

Richardson: Tempe must try to cut off drug cartel tentacles East Valley Tribune Some jurisdictions in Arizona report that gangs are responsible for at least 90 percent of crime.” Arizona street gangs have been linked to the Arizona Mexican Mafia prison gang that the feds have linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel. ... See all stories on this topic »

6 Gunmen die in clashes with Mexican troops Middle East North Africa Financial Network Morelia, Mexico, Dec 30, 2011 (EFE via COMTEX) -- Six gunmen thought to work for the Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel were killed in two separate clashes with troops in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico's defense department said. ... See all stories on this topic »

Glenn Langohr Spent 10 Years Incarcerated on Drug Charges Where He Changed His ... San Francisco Chronicle (press release) In Roll Call, Glenn Langohr takes the reader on a journey from his runaway childhood, to addict and drug dealer, deeper into the drug war for an inside look at Mexican cartel wars, corrupt narcotic detectives and a California Prison Union bent on ... See all stories on this topic »

Mexican Crime Victims May Find Help In US Fronteras: The Changing America Desk Most were innocent victims caught in the crossfire of two warring drug cartels. There was the teenage softball player who was shot and killed at a family baptism. Then there was the elementary school boy slain in his relative's front yard. ... See all stories on this topic »