He will discover his fate on August 20th when his sentence will be handed down. Read more.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
Showing posts with label guerra contra el narcotráfico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guerra contra el narcotráfico. Show all posts
Jul 24, 2014
Possibly 30 Years for Canadian Narco with ties to Sinaloa Cartel and the Mafia
Borderland Beat: Canadian Drug Kingpin , Jimmy Cournoyer, with Ties to the Rizutto and Bonanno Crime Families, the Hells Angels and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Plead Guilty in 2013 to Narcotics Trafficking Crimes Carrying Sentence of 20 Years to Life and $1 Billion in Forfeiture.
Jun 6, 2014
Tamaulipas: A Death Trap for Mexico's Military
Vanguardia - Source: 24 Horas
Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat
June 2, 2014
Sixty soldiers have died in operations against drug trafficking in the past 18 months; the Gulf and the Nueva Generacion (Jalisco's New Generation cartel) are the main aggressors.
REYNOSA.- A total of 60 Mexican Army soldiers have died in the first 18 months of this presidential term while taking part in operations implemented against organized crime and drug trafficking. One in three has lost his life in Tamaulipas.
Jalisco and Michoacan are states that have also seen soldiers fall, six in each case from December, 2012, until now. Next are Durango and Chihuahua with five (deaths) each, Sinaloa with four, and the rest in seven other states.
Two attacks have resulted in the greatest number of deaths for the military. In both cases, the criminals had an advantage because they were ambushes, not direct confrontations.
One of them took place just this past May 13, at kilometer marker 70 on the Ameca-Mascota highway, right at the arches at the entrance to the municipality of Guachinango. A convoy of six soldiers with the 32nd Infantry Battalion were sent to obtain a sample from an illegal fuel tap. When the military transport was traveling through the area, a pickup truck blocked the road and triggered the ambush. More than 20 gunmen with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion) fired several volleys with their AK-47 assault rifles from the east side of the road, from about 40 meters away. The criminals also used fragmentation grenades.
Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat
June 2, 2014
REYNOSA.- A total of 60 Mexican Army soldiers have died in the first 18 months of this presidential term while taking part in operations implemented against organized crime and drug trafficking. One in three has lost his life in Tamaulipas.
Jalisco and Michoacan are states that have also seen soldiers fall, six in each case from December, 2012, until now. Next are Durango and Chihuahua with five (deaths) each, Sinaloa with four, and the rest in seven other states.
Two attacks have resulted in the greatest number of deaths for the military. In both cases, the criminals had an advantage because they were ambushes, not direct confrontations.
One of them took place just this past May 13, at kilometer marker 70 on the Ameca-Mascota highway, right at the arches at the entrance to the municipality of Guachinango. A convoy of six soldiers with the 32nd Infantry Battalion were sent to obtain a sample from an illegal fuel tap. When the military transport was traveling through the area, a pickup truck blocked the road and triggered the ambush. More than 20 gunmen with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion) fired several volleys with their AK-47 assault rifles from the east side of the road, from about 40 meters away. The criminals also used fragmentation grenades.
Feb 25, 2014
Capture of El Chapo: Like a Drop of Water in Rain (La Jornada, Mexico)
February 25, 2014
Translated by WorldMeets
In December 2013 , the Attorney General's Office released a list of 69 of the 122 capos most wanted for drug trafficking who were arrested or killed during President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration. This was a follow up on previous arrest priorities implemented under the administration of Felipe Calderón, the success of who's security strategy was measured based on the number of criminal detainees, and without connection to the nation's prevailing insecurity.
On February 21, during a presentation on governance and the rule of law as a strategy for development at the 2014 National Industrial Convention, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said that of the 122 criminal ringleaders, 74 have been detained.
Now, with the arrest of Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias El Chapo, the number of captured organized crime leaders has reached 75. However, it wasn't only the Mexican authorities that targeted El Chapo. The drug trafficker was one of the U.S. government's most wanted criminals, with the Obama Administration offering a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. Read more.
Sep 13, 2012
Traitors, Tattlers, Tourists and Terror
Frontera NorteSur September 12, 2012
Special Report
As the administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon enters its final weeks, parts of Mexico remain awash in blood from the so-called narco war. And Mexico’s old beach resort of Acapulco is among the most violent places. Practically on a daily basis, executions, shoot-outs and the discovery of dismembered bodies disturb the social peace.
The state of Guerrero’s biggest city, Acapulco is a hub of violence that extends into the countryside and reverberates back into the Pacific port city.
“The corridor of the Costa Grande of the state, from Acapulco to the municipality of La Union that borders the state of Michoacan, has been a constant news item because of the criminal acts that are now common in the zone,” recently wrote a reporter for the Guerrero daily El Sur.
In a possible retaliation for the dumping of 17 murdered men in La Union late last month, the bodies of 16 tortured men were found September 10 in a truck parked near police installations up the highway in the rural municipality of Coyuca de Catalan.
Signed by La Familia Michoacana, accompanying messages were directed against the rival Knights Templar; both organizations have common roots in the neighboring state of Michoacan. At least 11 of the earlier victims were identified as residents of Michoacan.
In Acapulco, press accounts report that at least 50 people were murdered from August 24 to September 10. Official numbers released by the Guerrero state government during the first week of September reported that 797 gangland-style homicides were recorded in Acapulco since the commencement of the government’s Operation Safe Guerrero anti-crime campaign in October 2011. Read more.
Special Report
As the administration of Mexican President Felipe Calderon enters its final weeks, parts of Mexico remain awash in blood from the so-called narco war. And Mexico’s old beach resort of Acapulco is among the most violent places. Practically on a daily basis, executions, shoot-outs and the discovery of dismembered bodies disturb the social peace.
The state of Guerrero’s biggest city, Acapulco is a hub of violence that extends into the countryside and reverberates back into the Pacific port city.
“The corridor of the Costa Grande of the state, from Acapulco to the municipality of La Union that borders the state of Michoacan, has been a constant news item because of the criminal acts that are now common in the zone,” recently wrote a reporter for the Guerrero daily El Sur.
In a possible retaliation for the dumping of 17 murdered men in La Union late last month, the bodies of 16 tortured men were found September 10 in a truck parked near police installations up the highway in the rural municipality of Coyuca de Catalan.
Signed by La Familia Michoacana, accompanying messages were directed against the rival Knights Templar; both organizations have common roots in the neighboring state of Michoacan. At least 11 of the earlier victims were identified as residents of Michoacan.
In Acapulco, press accounts report that at least 50 people were murdered from August 24 to September 10. Official numbers released by the Guerrero state government during the first week of September reported that 797 gangland-style homicides were recorded in Acapulco since the commencement of the government’s Operation Safe Guerrero anti-crime campaign in October 2011. Read more.
May 6, 2011
Caravana de migrantes atacada, se esfuma la policia: "Estamos completamente solos"
En comunicación con el Programa de las Américas, Rubén Figueroa, miembro de la caravana de migrantes que está viajando por tren para unirse a la Marcha por la Paz con Justicia, informa que la caravana fue atacado a las 13:30 del día de hoy. Un grupo de hombres armados intentaron a secuestrar a unas mujeres de la caravana, en los límites de los municipios de Orizaba y Rio Blanco--una zona conocida por los frecuentes secuestros de migrantes.
Figueroa afirmó que el grupo se ha quedado sin protección en el lugar de los hechos. "Estamos completamente solos en las orillas de las vias." UPDATE: A las 17:45 todavía no habían llegado elementos de seguridad.
"La policia municipal estuvo 10 minutos, 15 minutos y se fueron. Dijeron que no sabían con quién se estaban enfrentando ellos, porque al parecer era gente muy fuerte. Y por eso no hay nadie.
"Estamos completamente solos aqui. No quisiéramos seguir abordando el tren y prefiríamos esperarnos aqui."
Los y las miembros de la caravana habían bajado del tren cuando sufrieron el ataque.
Eduardo Almeida de Nodo de Derechos Humanos explica el contexto. "Es parte de esta descomposión que se ha dado en nuesto país. Hay todo una industria de secuestrar a migrantes para reclutarlos al crimen, para secuestrarlos para pedir dinero de sus parientes en EEUU, o para utilizar a las muchachas--que parece ser el caso en esto, uno podría suponer que es el caso--para explotarlas sexualmente en estas redes de trata de personas."
Sin embargo, Almedia no descarta que el ataque podría estar relacionado con la marcha. "Es una marcha que se anunció muy públicamente," afirma. "Puede ser una señal de hostilidad a la intención de sumar el tema del migrante a todo este tema de la violencia en México que se está representando en la caravana que convoca Javier Sicilia.
"Es importante hacer notar la pérdida de seguridad, esta es una zona en que nadie puede transitar con seguridad, no solo migrantes. Muestra el nivel de deterioro institucional, porque el crimen está allí y ha ido creciendo también por esta incapacidad institucional, gubernamental de poner los frenos en los lugares adecuados, mas allá de una estrategia de militarización," concluye Almeida.
Por lo pronto, lo más importante es obtener protección para el grupo de 60 migrantes y sus acompañantes que siguen esperando en condiciones de gran vulnerabilidad y riesgo. Los miembros de la caravana dicen que ni los representantes de la Comisión Nacionalidad de Derechos Humanos ni elementos de la Policia Federal han llegado al lugar a ayudarles.
Figueroa afirmó que el grupo se ha quedado sin protección en el lugar de los hechos. "Estamos completamente solos en las orillas de las vias." UPDATE: A las 17:45 todavía no habían llegado elementos de seguridad.
"La policia municipal estuvo 10 minutos, 15 minutos y se fueron. Dijeron que no sabían con quién se estaban enfrentando ellos, porque al parecer era gente muy fuerte. Y por eso no hay nadie.
"Estamos completamente solos aqui. No quisiéramos seguir abordando el tren y prefiríamos esperarnos aqui."
Los y las miembros de la caravana habían bajado del tren cuando sufrieron el ataque.
Eduardo Almeida de Nodo de Derechos Humanos explica el contexto. "Es parte de esta descomposión que se ha dado en nuesto país. Hay todo una industria de secuestrar a migrantes para reclutarlos al crimen, para secuestrarlos para pedir dinero de sus parientes en EEUU, o para utilizar a las muchachas--que parece ser el caso en esto, uno podría suponer que es el caso--para explotarlas sexualmente en estas redes de trata de personas."
Sin embargo, Almedia no descarta que el ataque podría estar relacionado con la marcha. "Es una marcha que se anunció muy públicamente," afirma. "Puede ser una señal de hostilidad a la intención de sumar el tema del migrante a todo este tema de la violencia en México que se está representando en la caravana que convoca Javier Sicilia.
"Es importante hacer notar la pérdida de seguridad, esta es una zona en que nadie puede transitar con seguridad, no solo migrantes. Muestra el nivel de deterioro institucional, porque el crimen está allí y ha ido creciendo también por esta incapacidad institucional, gubernamental de poner los frenos en los lugares adecuados, mas allá de una estrategia de militarización," concluye Almeida.
Por lo pronto, lo más importante es obtener protección para el grupo de 60 migrantes y sus acompañantes que siguen esperando en condiciones de gran vulnerabilidad y riesgo. Los miembros de la caravana dicen que ni los representantes de la Comisión Nacionalidad de Derechos Humanos ni elementos de la Policia Federal han llegado al lugar a ayudarles.
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