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U.S. Law Enforcement Authorities Helped Facilitate Ransom Payment For Relative Of U.S. Congressmen In Third World Mexico
June 28th, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. law enforcement authorities helped facilitate a $32,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped last week by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, a border city with rampant drug smuggling, gunfights and corruption.
Erika Posselt, a Mexican national described only as “a relative of the wife” of Rep. Silvestre Reyes, Texas Democrat and powerful chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, was abducted June 19 from an auto glass store she owns in Juarez.
Held for three days, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - at Mr. Reyes’ request - helped arrange her safe return.
Saying they would kill Mrs. Posselt if a $500,000 ransom wasn’t paid, the kidnappers negotiated with Mrs. Posselt’s brother in Juarez and agreed to release her for $32,000 - in U.S. and Mexican currency. According to a confidential ICE memo, Mrs. Posselt was heard yelling in the background on one phone call between her brother and her captors.
Read More7 Mexican Federal Police Officers Die And 4 More Are Wounded In Third-World Shithole Shootout While Trying To Arresting One Child And One Adult - Police Commander Calls It “Progress”
May 27th, 2008
CULIACAN, MEXICO — Seven federal police officers were killed Tuesday in northwest Mexico in the latest in a series of drug-related violence, a spokesman for the federal police said.
Another four officers were wounded and a civilian was killed during the incident, which occurred as police were conducting a weapons and drugs raid on a home in Culiacan, police spokesman Armando Arteaga said.
Upon arriving at the house, the officers were fired upon and a grenade was thrown at them, Arteaga said. Authorities arrested two people, including a minor, and confiscated seven AK-47s and dozens of ammunition clips.
Photographs taken by Mexican police showed the walls of the house pockmarked with bullets and the small arsenal of confiscated arms in police custody.
The body of an unidentified man lay face up in a pool of blood on a cement floor.
Read MoreFake Border Crossing Outdoor Adventure In South Of The Border Mexican Shithole Allows Participants Play Wetback For 3 Hours
May 25th, 2008
EL ALBERTO, MEXICO — Gunshots ring out and sirens shriek, mixing with the ragged breath of muddy, panting humans. Suddenly, the full moon sweeping the ground like a searchlight reveals a disturbing scene: a group of illegal immigrants being handcuffed and led away by U.S. Border Patrol agents.
But the U.S. border is 700 miles from this rugged municipal park in Hidalgo state, a three-hour drive north of Mexico City. The spectacle unfolding here isn’t an actual border crossing attempt but a live simulation-adventure that attempts to give participants a taste of what it’s like for the thousands of Mexican and other Latin American undocumented migrants trying to enter the promised land of “el norte.”
Dubbed the “Caminata Nocturna” (Night Hike), the three-hour simulation is a combination obstacle course, sociology lesson and PG-rated family outing. Founded in 2004, it’s run by members of a local village of Hnahnu Indians, an indigenous people of south-central Mexico, whose population of about 2,500 has been decimated by migration to the United States.
Read MoreThird-World Justice: Mexican Cops Jail Donkey For Assault And Battery
May 22nd, 2008
The animal was locked up at a local jail that normally holds people for public drunkenness and other disturbances after it bit and kicked two men near a ranch in Chiapas state, police said Monday.
Officer Sinar Gomez said the donkey will remain behind bars until its owner agrees to pay the men’s medical bills.
“Around here, if someone commits a crime they are jailed,” Gomez said — “no matter who they are.”
The owner, Mauro Gutierrez, told The Associated Press he would try to reach a friendly arrangement to pay the men’s bills, estimated at US$420 (euro270).
The victims said the donkey bit Genaro Vazquez, 63, in the chest on Sunday and then kicked 52-year-old Andres Hernandez as he tried to come to the rescue, fracturing his ankle.
Recruiting Banners Tell Third-World Mexican Police To Join Drug Cartels Or Die - Warnings Issued To Officers Over Police Radio Frequencies - Mexicans Assume Police Are Corrupt Until Proven Otherwise, So There Is No Stigma Attached To Killing Cops
May 19th, 2008
The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, including Mexico’s acting federal police chief.
Mexico has battled for years to clean up its security forces and win them the public’s respect. But Mexicans generally assume police and even soldiers are corrupt until proven otherwise, and the honest ones lack resources, training and the assurance that their colleagues are watching their backs. Here, the taboo on cop-killing familiar to Americans seems hardly to apply.
Civil War Rages In Third World Hellhole - At Least 10 Mexican Cops Murdered In Past 2 Weeks, Including Chief Of Federal Police And Head Of Mexico City Detectives
May 12th, 2008
MEXICO - A full-scale civil war is raging in Mexico — and few are paying attention.
Drug cartels seeking to keep control over huge swathes of Mexico have been on a rampage. In the past two weeks alone, at least 10 police officials have been murdered — including the chief of Mexico’s federal police, Edgar Millan.
Millan was gunned down outside his home Thursday morning. On Friday, the killings continued with the the shooting death of Esteban Robles Espinosa, commander of Mexico City’s police detectives. His body was riddled with eight bullets.
President Felipe Calderon began taking on the cartels last year, deploying the nation’s military to bolster police activities. So far, estimates say more than 3,000 Mexicans have been killed, with almost 1,000 deaths this year alone in a brutal struggle by the civilian government to reassert authority.
The engagements between cartels and the authoritied are getting more grisly by the day.
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