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Assassin for Zetas and Gulf Cartel gangs found guility for gruesome crimes
Examiner.com
A notorious Mexican gang assassin whose nickname is 'cheeks' in Spansih was found guilty in a south Texas federal court on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 for various charges involving murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking. According to US Attorney ...
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'Blind mules' unknowingly ferry drugs across the US-Mexico border
CNN International
Jesus Chavez and Carlos Alberto Gomez, both Mexican citizens living in Texas, were recently accused in a 20-page criminal complaint of doing just that. Jesus Chavez was arrested for allegedly targeting innocent drivers to ferry drugs into Mexico.
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| Giffords border legislation heads to White House Washington Post (blog) Security has become a central issue along the Arizona-Mexico border following several high-profile shootings. Giffords had previously won support of border legislation in August 2010, which she touted in her tough reelection victory that November. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN Sees an Unexpected Arrival: Bags of Drugs New York Times More likely, he said, is that someone had the idea to use the counterfeit diplomatic pouches to escape inspection at the Mexican border, and the plan went awry when they were actually delivered to the United Nations. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Candidate's English skills questioned WatertownDailyTimes.com A small town on the Arizona-Mexico border, San Luis, Ariz., is wrestling with that question. Alejandrina Cabrera, whose first language is Spanish, wants to run for City Council in the bilingual town of 25000. The problem is that she does not speak much ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US Immigrant Restaurateurs Share Dishes of Mexican State Voice of America The lives of Mexican immigrants revolve around family -- often extended families whose members live in both the United States and Mexico. Son Gilberto Cetina Junior was raised on both sides of the border. “So I really got to experience the culture, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| In 'Miss Bala,' terror of drug-war abduction comes to life Philadelphia Inquirer By Steven Rea YOU WANT to use the word "surreal" to describe the teen girl's night-from-hell drama "Miss Bala," but this slice of life on the Mexican border is all too real. The annual death total from that country's drug war surpassed 12000 people ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| PEN writers group condemns attacks on Mexican journalists Minneapolis Star Tribune Mexico's national human rights commission says 74 journalists were killed from 2000 to 2011. The Committee to Protect Journalists says 51 were slain in that time. AP Exclusive: Barrier proposed as Israel border. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TV: Latino sitcom 'Rob' -- the only laughter comes canned ScrippsNews They visit her Mexican-American family to inform them about their Las Vegas elopement, and that's when the program becomes an insult to all things Mexican. The dialogue slithers from one inane remark to another and is laced with racial slurs. See all stories on this topic » |
Assassin for Zetas and Gulf Cartel gangs found guility for gruesome crimes
Examiner.com
A notorious Mexican gang assassin whose nickname is 'cheeks' in Spansih was found guilty in a south Texas federal court on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 for various charges involving murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking. According to US Attorney ...
See all stories on this topic »
'Blind mules' unknowingly ferry drugs across the US-Mexico border
CNN International
Jesus Chavez and Carlos Alberto Gomez, both Mexican citizens living in Texas, were recently accused in a 20-page criminal complaint of doing just that. Jesus Chavez was arrested for allegedly targeting innocent drivers to ferry drugs into Mexico.
See all stories on this topic »
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| In campaign, Romney rarely notes Mexican heritage Peoria Journal Star His father, George, was born in Mexico, and his extended relatives still live in that same community, the border state of Chihuahua. The younger Romney's second cousins, tall men with light hair who speak American-accented English, share the family's ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Eagle Ford shale no threat to water supply, task force says Corpus Christi Caller Times Concerns over water supplies last year were compounded by record drought conditions and the proliferation of hydraulic fracturing operations throughout the Eagle Ford shale play, which extends from the Texas-Mexico border near Laredo to counties ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Florida GOP debate : Worth “Getting upset about?” The Daily Campus (blog) Congressman Ron Paul comes from the state that shares the longest border with Mexico-Texas has seen firsthand the difficulties of securing a large border. Paul said, “We don't have a well-managed border. So I think we need more resources. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Prof. awarded Mexican honor The Brown Daily Herald Last month, Julio Ortega, professor of Hispanic Studies, was awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor the Mexican government bestows upon a foreigner. Established in 1933, the Order of the Aztec Eagle is the "highest recognition that the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Possible BRAC leaves fort in flux Sierra Vista Herald The basin basically includes the Huachuca Mountains west to Tombstone and parts of Bisbee, and north of the US Mexico border to south of St. David. Calling the potential of a BRAC round “bad timing,” the mayor noted Sierra Vista's coffers are low and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Stanford, Morgan Stanley, MF Global, Commerzbank, Chevron in Court News Bloomberg Stanford International Bank, 09-cv-298, US District Court, Northern District of Texas (Dallas). For more, click here. New Suits Morgan Stanley Sued Over $1.2 Billion in Mortgage Securities Morgan Stanley was sued over about $1.2 billion worth of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Comandante, please avoid the Snowbelt next time San Antonio Express Comandante, I have tried through the years — per General Order 6.2, Subsection 3 — to explain that immigration from Mexico very much mimics past migrations. You know, folks with strange surnames and different cultures come, only to meld into their ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mexico's drug war by the numbers (Infographic) GlobalPost Yet they still shock: according to a government tally, nearly 50000 people have lost their lives since the Mexican government declared war on the drug cartels in 2006. The war may have been brought on by the Mexican government against the cartels. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| This Week at the Movies Patch.com By C. Zawadi Morris The multiplexes were filled with action packed, globe trotting new releases this past weekend that followed assassins, military pilots and drug cartels to Spain, Italy, Germany, Ireland and Mexico. Steven Soderbergh's “Haywire” is a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| defendant could get six years in coke case Aspen Times DENVER — Aspen resident Wayne Alan Reid, referred to by Drug Enforcement Administration agents as the ringleader of a cocaine-trafficking network they claimed had ties to Mexican drug cartels, has agreed to a plea deal that will put him behind bars ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| First Look: Benicio Del Toro & Blake Lively in Oliver Stone's Drug Thriller ... WhatCulture! The Argentina arm of Universal Pictures have tweeted the first official image from Savages, the new drug thriller from veteran director Oliver Stone. Our first look features Benicio Del Toro as a Mexican drug cartel enforcer who is blowing smoke into ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Miss Bala Boston.com What ensues is a horrific roundelay of events as Laura becomes a pawn in the cartel's ongoing war with both Mexican police and the US Drug Enforcement Administration. The cartel's leader, Lino Valdez (Noe Hernández), makes a deal with Laura to get her ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexican State Promoting Reading as Antidote to Violence Fox News EFE Print Email Share Comments Recommend Tweet Chihuahua, one of the Mexican states hardest hit by drug-related violence in recent years, is looking to recover public spaces and rebuild its torn social fabric through a new reading-promotion initiative. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| 9 people found shot to death in center of violence-plagued Monterrey in ... Washington Post He didn't say if the killings were drug related. This northern industrial city has been plagued by fighting between the Gulf and Zetas cartels, former allies that split in early 2010. Elsewhere on Thursday, the Mexican army announced the arrest of a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mexico: Cartel radio gear, 3 tons of pot seized in border towns Monitor The Mexican military announced the seizure of more than 6700 pounds of marijuana and radio communication equipment used by organized crime. The drugs were seized Tuesday near the town of Guardados De Abajo, near Miguel Aleman, where soldiers on patrol ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Meet Dominic Bracco: Los Ninis in Ciudad Juarez Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/mexico-ciudad-juarez-drug-war-los-ninis-youth Over the course of two years, Pulitzer Center photojournalist Dominic Bracco spent time with young people who neither work nor study—the Los Ninis—of Ciudad ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cuba sees spike in drug shipments en route to US KeysNet The news comes two months after the US State Department warned that pressure from law enforcement organizations on drug cartels and smugglers in Mexico and Central America could make the Caribbean a drug trafficking hub once again. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| In Honduras, a Mess Made in the US New York Times According to the United Nations, it now has the world's highest murder rate, and San Pedro Sula, its second city, is more dangerous than Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a center for drug cartel violence. Much of the press in the United States has attributed ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cooperation nets truck driver time served for Mobile-to-Mexico gun smuggling ... al.com (blog) The weapons, according to court records, were bound for the notorious drug organization known as the Gulf Cartel. The next day, De La Garza wired another $5000 to a bank account in Mobile, according to the plea agreement. Authorities contend that De La ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| World watch Chicago Tribune Mexico Drug violence once limited to border regions is beginning to spread to places once thought safe. Two weeks ago a pair of headless bodies were found in a burning van in front of one of Mexico City's largest and most expensive malls. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UN Starr Spins Media, After ICP Exclusive, Of DEA & Mexican Police: UN Recipient? YouTube Inner City Press' law enforcement sources say the NY Police Department and Drug Enforcement Agency arrived at the UN that day at 12:30 in the afternoon. Inner City Press asked Starr why the UN had not disclosed the find of 14 kilos of cocaine ten days ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| DEA bust leads to firefighter arrest KRQE Sources tell News 13 the drug ring was linked to the Mexican cartel. The DEA says more than 100 officers from multiple agencies were part of a months long investigation into a ring that was smuggling and dealing large amounts of cocaine, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| El Nogalar: Up and Coming Playwright Tanya Saracho Adapts Chekhov's Cherry Orchard Uprising Greeting the family home in northern Mexico after years of living in the US is a new and brutal climate and class divide due to the drug cartels. Adjusting to the new changes does not come easily for Maité and her family who continue to spend their ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Veracruz: More than a Temporary Calm? InSight Crime Mexico's authorities have claimed a recent drop in violence in crime-ridden Veracruz as the fruit of military operations, but given the preceding months of spiralling violence, it remains unclear if this more than a blip. Jose Luis Vergara Ibarra, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| DPS shows off boats at grand opening of regional office Monitor Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa said the regional office and the 900-horsepower vessels were an “appropriate response to the ever-increasing threat” of Mexican drug cartels. He helped secure funding for the fleet and a “high-altitude surveillance aircraft” during ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| DEA Deciphers Drug Dealers' Phone Code Seattle Weekly (blog) For example, when Jose Rodriguez-Rivera, the alleged ringleader of the local cartel, was overheard telling a potential customer that he should visit house number 23, it was (again, allegedly) a way of saying the brick of blow would cost 23 grand. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Senate panel OKs bill to create state militia for border security, disasters Arizona Capitol Times By Luige del Puerto A Senate panel today approved a proposal to create an armed militia that could be deployed to the Mexican border and support local governments combat the drug cartels. The proposal, which is backed by states' rights advocates and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Nine Gunned Down in Mexico's Industrial Capital Latin American Herald Tribune MONTERREY, Mexico – Nine people were murdered Thursday in this northern Mexican metropolis, eight of them in a single incident, authorities said. Around 5:00 am, a police source told Efe, armed subjects climbed out of several vehicles, lined up eight ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 16 Kg of Cocaine Valued at About $2 Mn Seized at UN Outlook PTI | Yoshita Singh | United Nations | Jan 27, 2012 The UN headquarters recently became the recipient of a very unusual package - 16 kg of cocaine from the notorious Mexican drug cartels valued at about USD 2 million. A whopping 16 kg of the highly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ariz. attorney who pleaded 5th in Fast and Furious investigation leaves job AZFamily It's believed that Cunningham and his office allowed more than 2000 guns purchased in Arizona to be taken into Mexico. The intent was to follow the guns from small-time buyers to the big players in the drug cartels. The guns, however, vanished, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Neither liberty nor safety Human Events Obama wants restrictions on guns sold to Americans in violation of the Second Amendment even as his Justice Department runs the Fast and Furious program to allow the same guns to walk across the border into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| ASSET bill headed to Senate floor Education News Colorado He cited the story of a former student of his who returned to Mexico, despite threats on his life by drug cartels, to await determination of his immigration status. “I don't think you can tell me with a straight face that child lacks tenacity. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| NUGENT: Fast and Furious stinks – Washington Times « Gds44's Blog By gds44 What kind of inebriated idiot would hatch an evil scheme such as this and then believe that, somehow, the guns could be traced to Mexican drug cartels without an electronic tracing component? This isn't some low-ranking bureaucratic village ... Gds44's Blog | ||
| Borderland Beat: U.S., Mexico team up for murder trial By Gerardo WASHINGTON — A federal judge signaled Wednesday that he would allow Mexico and U.S. prosecutors to team up in the trial of a Mexican drug cartel member accused of killing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent ... Borderland Beat | ||
| Mikeb302000: For FWM - Looks Like the Obama Administration ... By dog gone The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which mandated the reporting, says that many of the guns used by Mexican drug cartels are purchased from dealers along the border and that obtaining sales data will help authorities ... Mikeb302000 | ||
| Wrong addressee? Large stash of cocaine arrives at UN HQ — RT By RT Despite a halving of global cocaine profits over the last 15 years, drug-related violence has sky-rocketed in Mexico. Now, as the cartels diversify their profit base, the drive to brutally silence their critics has spread to social networks. News RSS : Today | ||
| Nader Elhefnawy: 2011 Round-Up, Part II: The Year's Biggest ... By noreply@blogger.com (Nader) ... F-22 fleet, the beleaguered F-35 program), the revelations of previously secret programs (like the stealth helicopter used in the operation against bin Laden, and Pentagon research into crowdsourcing), the activities of Mexican drug cartels, ... Nader Elhefnawy | ||
| US To Import M1 Rifles From South Korea | ROK Drop By GI Korea Some how I don't expect LA street gangs to be doing drive by shootings with an M1 Garand. What is even more ridiculous is that the US government was allowing the sale of high powered weapons in the US to be trafficked to Mexican drug ... ROK Drop |
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| THE DISAPPEARED: Mexico's Vanishing Victims of the Drugwar ... Few elements exemplifies the inaccuracies of drug deathtallies more than taking in to account the “disappeared”. It is perplexing why Mexico or human ... www.drugscartels.com/the-disappeared-mexicos-vanishing-vic... |
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