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A few responses to the recent news report below sent from a friend and Kimber investor:
T, Listen, these guys are all on the take down there. Some few just got a little big for their britches and now have to be taken out and they are not going quietly. Soon, some nice, obedient drug lords, who know how to play ball with the government will take their places and everything will settle down and get back to corrupt business as usual. A
C. Del Oro, my man on the ground in San Diego gives me regular reports from across the border, and most Mexicans have little concern over such things as the US press is making so much out of. A
Unrest in Mexico is not as big a deal as it is made out to be. It is all very far away from KBX. I believe the US press is sensationalizing it all in order to take people's attention off the US's problems. Imagine news stories to Mexico of the Watts' riots with headlines about the overthrow of the US Government. How ridiculous that would have seemed to us! Mexico is a very big place. A few drug lords are not going to start a revolution and take over the country. A
Posted: 23 Feb 2009 06:25 AM PST
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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.
Saturday 2/21/09
El Universal (Mexico City) 2/20-21/09
A presumed area boss for the Beltran Leyva drug cartel in the State of Mexico was arrested in mid-afternoon in the m ajor business district of Santa Fe in Mexico City during a high-security operation by the Federal Agency of Investigation (AFI) with Army support. He was identified as Gerardo Gonzalez Benavides, aka Abraham Esparza Blancarte, “Tony la Mentira” and “La Bitch.” He was believed to be in charge of the drug traffic operations in cities such as Cuautitlan and Tultitlan in the state that surrounds the Federal District. The subject is considered to be an important part of the Beltran Leyva organization and had an enforcement group of professional killers under his command.
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Dismal record: one thousand executions in 51 days. In an intense roller coaster of events in the war against organized crime, yesterday the assassinations linked to narcotraffic surpassed 1,000. According to the count made by El Universal, so far in the year there have been 1,003 violent murders related to narcotraffic, which averages out to 19 per day. Last year, the 1,000 mark was registered on April 22 and the year before, after mid-year. Half of the nation’s assassinations happened in the state of Chihuahua.
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The Director of Public Security in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, resigned his post under organized threats that the assassination of his police officers would continue until he steps down. Roberto Orduño said he could not allow his men, who work to defend the country, continue to lose their lives. The bodies of two recently murdered law officers had been found with narco-messages warning that this would happen to at least one police officer every 48 hours until Orduña resigned.
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The war for the drug market in Peru between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels has resulted in 12 deaths and at least 40 wounded in the past 16 months, according to local sources. The Peruvian newspaper, La Republica, cited sources from the anti-drug office as saying that the casualties are victims of a war started by the Sinaloa cartel to take over territory in Peru from Colombian narcos.
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The president of the Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) backed the use of the Army in combating organized crime and warned that Mexico is not at peace. ”I don’t believe we are in a situation of peace. The truth is that the agenda of organized crime has become not just a problem of health [the section of law under which drug offenders are prosecuted], which is the obligation of the State to look after, but also a true posture of challenge to the Mexican State itself, in such a way that we have an exceptional situation that has to be attended to using the recourses available. Asked about yesterday’s statement by the Army that it could have an undesired effect on the population, the president of Coparmex replied that, “There is no possibility of wavering in the determination the State has in combating whatever is outside the law,” and added his hope that this does not become a political issue. The PAN party considers that the Army is “fulfilling its role” in the narco war. The worker parties, Convergencia and Social Democratic, agreed with the Secretary of National Defense, Guillermo Galvan, who said that a “risky fringe” operated in the20Army between the people and criminals and criticized the government.
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The Center for Public Security Studies (CESP) considered that the country’s intelligence agencies, such as the Center for National Investigation and Security (CISEN) and the Department of Federal Publlic Security (SSPF), minimized, or were not capable of foreseeing, the mobilization of the street-blocking demonstrations in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, prior to the Army Day celebration led by President Felipe Calderón in the city. This past week, people in the states of Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and Veracruz attacked the Army’s operation against organized crime in demonstrations asserting that the military actions violate human rights and social stability. The director of CESP stated, “the impression that prevails is, that after the statements by the Secretary of Public Security in answer to the events in Monterrey [that organized crime orchestrated the demonstrations], the reaction of organized crime was to escalate the dimensions of their operations throughout the northeast section of the country.
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The Mexican Federal Agency of Investigations (AFI) arrested two men transporting 66 fragmentation grenades hidden in a truck on the Tuxtla Gutierrez-Coatzalcoalcos highway in the state of Veracruz. The grenades were concealed in a compartment made by adding a second bed to the truck. It is assumed that the explosives were obtained in Guatemala.
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Five people were wounded when two fragmentation grenades were tossed at the police station in Zihuantenejo, Guerrero, from a moving vehicle. The explosions wounded two police officers two taxi drivers and a woman, but none gravely. [The town is in an area known as the Costa Grande, up-coast from Acapulco.]
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Business owners in the tourist sector of Cozumel, Quintana Roo, consider there will be a decrease in the volume of foreign investment after Friday’s alert by the US government regarding visiting Mexico. The president of the National Tourist Business Counsel (CNET) recognizes that for some time the northern border has been “very hot,” although, he said, confronting crime is what must be done. So far, the tourist trade has not been affected and continues without change in the beach areas of southeast Mexico.
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