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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.
Posted May 17, 2008 -- American
Patrol Report
Noroeste
(Culiacan, Sinaloa) 5/16/08
Samuel Gonzalez Ruiz, the past director of the
Special Unit on Organized Crime of Mexico's Dep't. of Justice, said that the
security crisis in Mexico, together with the challenge by organized crime and
the lack of strategies against narco-traffic groups foretell the "Colombianization"
of the country. He opined that federal authorities must implement a
comprehensive strategy against the narco on various fronts: detaining the
leaders, destroying their financial structure, breaking the corruption links and
eliminating the connections between politicians and narcotraffickers.
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Norte
(Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 5/16/08
The latest executions in the area have now - in four
and a half months - surpassed the death tally for all of 2007, a year when 316
persons were murdered.
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Prensa Libre
(Guatemala City, Guatemala) 5/16/08
Sixty-three more officers were fired yesterday by the
Guatemalan "PNC", the National Civil Police, on various charges including
drunkenness, homicide, scandal and corruption. This brings the year's total to
497.
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El Diario de Yucatan
(Merida, Yucatan) 5/15/08
After an aircraft made a night landing in a remote
area of the state of Campeche, Mexican military set up checkpoints and later
found two vehicles whose occupants abandoned them and fled. Inside the vehicles
was a total of one ton 279 kgs. of cocaine. The area involved is some 46 kms.
S.E. of Ciudad del Carmen.(a check of the area map shows this to be about
halfway between that city and the town of Candelaria, mentioned in our report of
5/10/08)
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Excelsior
(Mexico City) 5/16/08
Mex. federal agents and military personnel searched
two houses in Reynosa, Tamaulipas (just across from McAllen, TX) and seized two
thousand rounds of ammunition, grenades, firearm loaders plus a variety of hand
and shoulder firearms. Both locales also yielded uniforms with police insignia
and small amounts of drugs.