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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers
(NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and
Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free
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El Universal
(Mexico City) 5/11/08
Sinaloans have opted for locking themselves up inside
their houses for fear of being victims of the drug cartel combats which have
cost the lives of 46 persons so far this month. Not even yesterday, Day of the
Mothers, (sic) did the residents go out to celebrate. The city looked desolate
and fear spread itself among the population.
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a.b.c. ,
El Universal (both Mexico City) , El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa)
5/11/08
Mexico's National Security Cabinet will hold an
urgent meeting Tuesday (5/13) in Culiacan regarding strategies against
insecurity. Attending will be the Secretary of Government, Juan Mourino and his
counterpart in Sinaloa, Jesus Aguilar. Also present will be the Secretary of
Defense, Guillermo Galvan and the Att'y. Gen., Eduardo Medina, plus the Sec. of
Federal Public Security, Genaro Garcia , the Sec. of the Navy and the Director
of Natn'l. Investigations and Security Center.
Elsewhere in Culiacan: federal police surrounded and
searched the office of an alleged private security and investigations firm; they
seized twelve AK47 rifles, an AR15, a .40 caliber grenade launcher and a .50
caliber Barret rifle which can down aircraft and penetrate armor. Five subjects
were arrested and have already been flown to Mexico City. One of the detainees,
Alfonso Gutierrez Loera, is said to be a cousin of prominent drug dealer Joaquin
Guzman Loera, aka "El Chapo.'
Also seized at the same place: three grenades, 102
clips and 3,543 rounds of ammunition.
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El Diario de Coahuila
(Saltillo, Coahuila) 5/11/08
(Note: the following was the introduction, in large
italic font style, of a long recounting of past violent events generally in the
state of Sinaloa)
- It is ever more clear that the violence associated
with narcotraffic in Mexico cannot be contained by anything or anyone nor by the
federal government or by a combination of both.... Moreover, its expansive wave
corrodes practically everything in the entire Republic. What occurs these days
in Sinaloa, Sonora and Guerrero, with repercussions even in the Distrito
Federal, constitutes an example of what can be called the great failure of the
Calderonista government: its total war against narcotraffic. In the case of
Sinaloa, the executions of police officers and of hired killers even reached
Edgar Guzman, one of the sons of El Chapo, who died riddled by gunfire on
Thursday the 8th.
- Federal, military, municipal and state authorities
are preparing joint programs to reinforce Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Culiacan to
stop the spiral of violence flailing the region.
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El Diario
(Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 5/11/08
The city of Juarez' Public Security office will stay
in a red alert condition indefinitely due to the execution at dawn yesterday of
the chief of police, Juan Antonio Roman Garcia. This attack took place during a
week in which police captain Mario Saul Pena Lopez was murdered and three
bicycle patrol police officers were wounded in a shootout on Juarez Avenue.
Further, the gunfire attack on the recently named head of the Babicon office (of
the Juarez Police) and two of his escorts, all of who are still hospitalized.
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La Cronica
(Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 5/11/08
1,300 kilos of weed were found by Mex. military where
they had been left on a side road in the desert south of San Luis Rio Colorado,
Sonora . (this is just south of Yuma AZ)
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Frontera
(Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 5/11/08
In Baja California violent assaults and robberies
against individuals increased more than 90% in relation to last year and 500% in
comparison with 2006. From January to March of this year there have been 2,263
cases of this type recorded in Tijuana, 69% of the 3,270 in the entire state.
Officials recommend: try as much as possible to avoid showing that one is
carrying money; do not wear attention getting jewelry; do not go to lonely
spots; be careful about people who might approach you.
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El Manana
(Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas) 5/11/08
A man and a young girl were standing at the corner of
20 de Noviembre and Gonzalez Sts. in Nuevo Laredo. When a passing police patrol
unit saw them, the man bolted and disappeared. Thinking that the man might have
been bothering her, the police officers approached the girl. "In an unusually
cold tone, she told them she was selling heroin and showed them five bags of
that substance." The girl, just 12 years old, was jailed. The man was not found.
(no date was given for that report)
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El Sur
(Acapulco, Guerrero) 5/11/08
On the Acapulco city limits on the way to San Marcos,
Guerreo, a "camioneta" (the term for either an SUV or a p/u truck) came up
alongside a taxi and its occupants fired on the persons in the taxi, killing the
driver and his two passengers. Twenty-six AK47 shell casings were found.
Elsewhere in the state of Guerrero, there were contradictory accounts about a
confrontation between federal police and a gang of criminals on the
Guerrero-Michoacan state line. One man was later found dead; he'd been shot once
on the mouth and once on the head.
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La Cronica de Hoy
(Mexico City) 5/11/08
Mexico's Secretary of Tourism, Rodolfo Elizondo
Torres, said that the U.S. alert about visiting Mexico will not affect tourism;
he added that the Americans who decide to travel to Mexico already know it well
because on the contrary, with the violence, the narcotraffic and the executions
which have taken place "they simply would not come."
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Novedades de Quintana Roo
(Cancun, Q.R.) 5/11/08
200 "elite" Mex. military personnel arrived in
Chetumal yesterday to reinforce security operations and combat narcotraffic in
the state due to the executions and kidnappings which have taken place in Cancun
and Riviera Maya. (Chetumal is on the south end of the state of Quintana Roo and
just north of the border with Belize)
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La Jornada
(Mexico City) 5/11/08
Fabian Nunez, "president of the California State
Assembly", visited Mexico along with assemblyman Kevin de Leon and senator Abel
Maldonado, "all three of Latin origin" and met with Felipe Calderon (sic),
authorities of the various governmental entities, legislators, representatives
of political parties and organizations which deal with the immigration issue.
Nunez said an anti-immigrant wave such as is occurring especially against the
children of undocumented persons had not been experienced since 1994 ; he
promised that California assemblymen will do everything possible to counteract
these events and will strive to block the anti-immigrant attacks by means of
legislation.