May 22, 2008
Mexico City
The daily execution rate in Mexico is now 7.6. It has now been eighteen months since Mexico's President Calderon took office (527 days up to May 20); during that time there have now been over four thousand executions, an average of 7.6 per day.
Last week the average was 15 every 24 hours, mainly in the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa. More than 45 public officials have fallen victim in 2008. These numbers were supplied by the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (link below)
(left President Calderon)
Todays Brief:
El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa), El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) & "o.e.m." nationwide paper chain 5/22/08
Thirty percent of agricultural field production in Mexico is dedicated to growing marihuana or poppy, according to Mex. Congressman Jesus Sesma. The data originates from the National Agrarian Tribunal and specifies that the states of Oaxaca and Guerrero have the highest concentration of land used for those purposes.
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El Universal (mexico City) 5/22/08
That record of 34 executions in one day set yesterday was premature. The number increased to 37 since the Durango affray claimed 18 lives rather than 16; besides, Jesus Guillermo Lara, an "AFI" (Mex. Fed, Inv. Agency) officer was murdered in the state of Morelos after an ambush which also left his partner wounded. Wednesday's toll was seven: three in Ciudad Juarez, others in Ojinaga (state of Chihuahua, right across from Presidio, TX) and Guerrero. And vehicle theft in the Distrito Federal of Mexico is now at a daily average of seventy.
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Entorno a Tamaulipas (Matamoros, Tamps.) 5/22/08
In Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, a Mex. federal judge sentenced six "Zetas" to prison sentences ranging from 26 to 36 years after their conviction on charges or organized crime, weapons violations and crimes against health (read: drug trafficking). All six are ex-military.
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La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 5/22/08
Mex. military personnel detected a clandestine airstrip near the La Alameda hamlet of Caborca, Sonora. A Cessna loaded with 355 kgs. of weed was seized and three persons were arrested including the pilot. A Ford Econoline van with AZ license 834MW was also at the scene.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 5/22/08
Another 212 kgs. of weed , headed for Tijuana, were found hidden among a load of tomatoes in a truck yesterday morning at the Cucapa checkpoint on the Sonoyta to San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, highway.
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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 5/22/08
The presentation of an official law enforcement operation plan against gang members had to be postponed due to the murder of a police officer. The current daily average of homicides in El Salvador is nine.
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