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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 to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.
Milenio
(Mexico City) 5/15/08
The Bogota, Colombia, daily El Tiempo
today editorialized that the Mexican drug gangs have copied the tactics used 20
years ago by the late Colombian narco-trafficker Pablo Escobar. The Medellin
Cartel aimed to "intimidate society and blackmail the State by means of vehicle
bombs and indiscriminate terrorism" and this is what the Mexican criminals aim
to do. It added "The government of Felipe Calderon confronts a war ever so more
tenacious against the drug cartels". It pointed out that the United States
"proposes the design of a type of Plan Colombia to help Mexico in its fight
which also affects the border and illegal immigration." (Continuing to quote
from the Colombian paper) "No one argues that economic and technical assistance
is needed. But, as long as the illegal narcotraffic business continues to be the
world's most lucrative, the present war strategy against drugs has been shown to
be ineffectual."
"The recent and hard Colombian experience evidences
this and the tragedy which Mexico is undergoing today confirms it. There are
more than enough candidates to replace each and every drug boss who falls."
It commented that "the large cartels are dismembered
but others appear, more mobile, relentless and sophisticated. Which confirms the
urgency of seeking new forms of confronting this phenomenon and weakening its
economic base and its capacity to generate violence and corruption." "As happens
with the coca, marihuana or poppy plantations, the illegal economic activity and
the violence associated with this crime move from place to place. So much so,
that in Peru they are alarmed by the presence of money and weapons coming from
the north. But they don't call in Colombianization but Mexicanization."
According to the paper, the war being fought by
President Calderon against the mafias has found a reply by the narcotraffickers
and mainly in the Gulf and Sinaloa Cartels."
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Cuarto Poder
(Tuxtla, Chiapas) 5/15/08
In the state of Chiapas 15,856 illegal aliens have
been detected and detained from January to April of this year. Although the
great majority were from Central American countries, principally Guatemala,
there were also 45 Ethiopians, 52 Somalis and 91 Eritreans.
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El Diario de Yucatan
(Merida, Yucatan) 5/15/08
Two shipboard containers destined to Lebanon
"disappeared" while in transit through the Customs facility in Belize. One of
them was said to be loaded with firearms.
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El Debate
(Culiacan Sinaloa) 5/15/08
Yesterday Mex. federal police seized three tons of
marihuana from a house in Culiacan.
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El Diario de Coahuila
(Saltillo, Coah.) 5/15/08
- In a pre-dawn attack yesterday a group of forty
armed men dressed in black destroyed the Ministerial Police facility at
Guamuchil, Sinaloa, with assault rifle fire and fragmentation grenades. This,
just hours after the federal government had announced the start of its
operations in Culiacan and Navolato. Three private residences were also attacked
by the same group. Guamuchil is 100 kms. north of Culiacan.
- In Torreon, Coahuila, an armed commando kidnapped
eight members of the same family. Local police answering a related report were
met with gunfire and two of the police officers were killed; two others were
wounded by shrapnel from exploding grenades. The A.G. for Coahuila attributed
this resurgence of violence there to a "rearrangement of the cartels' crime
forces" and foresaw that Torreon and Durango will once again be disputed by the
criminals. Later, at least two of the kidnapped persons were rescued from a safe
house and two thugs were arrested.
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El Diario
(Chihuahua) ( El Paso edition) 5/15/08
Jesus Miguel Huizar, who is a naturalized citizen
from Mexico and a Border Patrol Agent, was arrested Tuesday for allowing the
passage of illegal aliens through a highway checkpoint for $500 each. His
accomplices, Emeterio Sigala Favela and Luis Carlos Chacon Rubio were also
arrested. The charges against Huizar could result in imprisonment for up to 30
years, the seizure of his house (which was used to temporarily house illegal
aliens and where two such were found) plus also a fine of half a million
dollars. The checkpoint in question is located near Las Cruces, NM. Huizar's
operation reportedly started in 2005.
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La Cronica
(Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 5/15/08
Jose Magana, a Customs and Border Protection
inspector, was arrested Monday. He is being charged with allowing the crossing
of undocumented persons into the United States at the San Luis, AZ border
crossing in exchange for money. Two accomplices were also arrested and two
others are at large.
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Reforma
(Mexico City) 5/15/08
Mexico's 2009 federal public security budget will
increase 440% to 2 billion 650 million pesos. One of the major items under this
increase is the establishment of new base stations for the federal police around
the country to permit their more rapid deployment.
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El Heraldo
(Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 5/15/08
(Main front section item): The Honduras Embassy in
Washington D.C. will today (Thurs.) receive instructions from the Chancery to
investigate whether the deportees from the United States have been drugged. An
investigation by The Washing Post affirms that U.S. immigration authorities use
psychotropic medications on some deportees who do not evidence any mental
illness.