10 More Dead Found in Mexican Port of Veracruz
“Mexican officials say 10 more bodies have been found in what appears to be more bloodshed in the battle between rival cartels for control of drug trafficking in the port city of Veracruz. The...
View ArticleTexas Attorney General warns Obama: Mexican cartels ‘spilling over’ border
“Texas Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Obama on Wednesday warning that Mexican cartel violence is increasingly “spilling over” the border and calling for more security. Abbott cited a...
View ArticleAll White House communications on government gun-smuggling scandal at ATF...
by Dudley Brown “In just a few short weeks, Barack Obama’s hand-picked, anti-gun Attorney General, Eric Holder, will be forced to testify before Congress about the ATF’s scandal, “Fast & Furious.”...
View ArticleMexican Blogger Decapitated
“The moderator of a popular Mexican social network has been murdered, allegedly for tipping off the authorities about the local drug cartel. Nicknamed “Rascatripas” or “Scraper” (literally “Fiddler”)...
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Cartel Plot: Use U.S. Guns for Massive Mexico City Attack
“In October of 2008, Chicago-based drug trafficker Margarito “Twin” Flores was summoned to the Sinaloa Cartel’s mountaintop compound. The leaders of the Mexican narcotics syndicate were pissed. The...
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Polarization and Sustained Violence in Mexico’s Cartel War
From: Stratfor As we noted in last year’s annual cartel report, Mexico in 2010 bore witness to some 15,273 deaths in connection with the drug trade. The death toll for 2010 surpassed that of any...
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Four Killed in Drug Violence in Western Mexico
From: Borderland Beat Suspected drug cartel enforcers killed four men and hung two of the victims’ bodies from a bridge in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, prosecutors said. The state Attorney...
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How the U.S. is Fighting the Zeta Cartel
From: Danger Room The violence in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon began Tuesday morning and continued into Wednesday. By the end, 30 bodies had turned up around the state with bullet wounds or...
View ArticleStatement on Investigation into Shooting of Border Patrol Agents
Statement on Investigation into Shooting of Border Patrol Agents Oct. 2, 2012 The FBI and the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office are conducting a joint investigation into the shooting of Border Patrol...
View ArticleUS Agents Banned From Using Firearms While Assisting Mexican Authorities
From Fox News: U.S. agents on assignment in Mexico, where they are helping the local authorities go after violent drug cartels, are not allowed to carry weapons for their own protection, a situation...
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