Mexico Sets New Record: Deaths Related To Drug Traffic Hit 3000 - an 80% increase over 2008
El Universal (Mexico City) 6/18/09
Yesterday (6/17/09) deaths related to drug traffic in Mexico surpassed 3 thousand, which sets a new record since 2005 when "El Universal" began the register of executions brought about by the war between cartels. The number grew almost 80% in comparison with last year. One thousand 701 victims of executions had been counted on this same date in 2008.
This year the first thousand dead took 51 days, the following thousand 59 days and the last thousand 58 days, an average of 17 persons assassinated daily. Chihuahua is the state with most crimes linked to drug traffic for the second year in a row. Up until yesterday they tallied one thousand 196, nearly 40% of the total. Only Hidalgo, Tlaxcala and Yucatan were free of executions.
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 6/18/09
The "documentation chief" of Honduras' "RNP" (National Register of Persons) stated that trafficking in documentation continues to be one of the causes that is "annihilating this government entity", and that just in the last few days some ten fraudulent personal identity cases have been detected. "Influential" personnel with the agency are blamed for the issuance of false birth and death certificates and even for the issuance of national identity documents to persons who are not Hondurans.
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La Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guat.) 6/18/09
Guatemala achieved the second seizure of pseudoephedrine pills within a couple of days. This time, 58 boxes arrived on a cargo flight originating from India; they contained 1,148,400 pills, falsely documented as "paper labels". (M3 Report of 6/17/09 relates)
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La Hora (Guatemala City, Guat.) 6/18/09
Ubaldo Villatoro, "executive director" of Guatemala's "National Migrations Board", said that this year could end up with some 55 thousand Guatemalans "expelled" from the United States and Mexico. He urged the government to inform the U.N. about ascertaining the immigrants' human rights, and also that immigration legislation be revised. A photo accompanying this article shows deportees exiting a passenger plane. The caption reads: "Fellow countrymen keep migrating to the United States, despite the increase in migratory controls."
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 6/18/09
The main retail places for police and military uniforms are the second hand street shops in Juarez. Now, the state congress has modified the penal code to provide for up to six years imprisonment for the unauthorized sale of these uniforms to other than police or military.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 6/18/09
The head of Mexico's immigration service at Mexico City's airport, and one other immigration agent, were both arrested for "collaboration in the traffic of undocumented persons." They were observed while allowing the entry into Mexico of persons from other countries (in this case, from Peru) without the necessary documents.
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 6/18/09
The crime of robbery, the most common in Nogales, Sonora has seen an upsurge of nearly 100%. In 2007 166 armed robberies were reported from January to May; this year, the figure has risen to 293. Un-armed robberies this year have reached 455. And homicides now total 41 for the year, one every 3.42 days. (Nogales, Sonora, is just across the border from Nogales, Arizona)
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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 6/18/09
Three "SIEDO" officials in Mexico are now under a 40 day preliminary judicial arrest order. Two of them are accused of links with the Beltran-Leyva drug cartel, while the third one is linked to the "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia cartel. ("SIEDO" is a federal agency; the acronym's full translation is something like: "Law Enforcement Sub-Agency regarding Specialized Investigations about Organized Crime")
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Milenio (Mexico City) 6/18/09
The head of Mexico's immigration office in Saltillo, Coahuila, said that 500 undocumented aliens have been detained in Coahuila this year. Most are Central Americans, mainly from Honduras. He added that the flow of Central Americans en route to the United States continues through Coahuila's border and that a number of the illegals get tired and opt for being deported to their own countries.
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Crime endemic throughout Mexico; Over 70% of Mexico's citizens fear kidnapping and robbery
Posted: 18 Jun 2009 07:29 AM PDT
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La Crónica de Hoy (Mexico City) 6/17/09
Some numbers from a May 24th national poll about public security, conducted by "Consulta Mitofsky" (a major public opinion firm in Mexico) and from "Mexico United Against Crime" :
Mexicans continue to be fearful of being victims of some crime: 72% fear being kidnapped and 78% fear being robbed; almost three out of four Mexicans perceive "a situation of deteriorated insecurity in the last 12 months and only 24 percent thinks that it has improved." The perception about the ease of obtaining narcotic drugs went from 66 percent in August of 2008 to 71 percent in the poll of May of this year. Crime has touched society in general: 24 percent of respondents stated that crime has affected them or some family member during the last three months. Respondents also say that the army has worked a lot to combat crime and violence, nevertheless 49 percent affirms that all that effort is not enough.
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Papers from one end of Mexico to the other, and even from Central America, today reported the seizure of a shipment of cocaine found at Progreso, Yucatan, in the frozen bodies of a shipment of sharks inside a couple of shipboard containers which had reportedly been loaded in Puerto Limon, Costa Rica. The weight of the cocaine varied considerably depending on which paper was seen. The 870 packages of the drug lend credence to the reported total weight of either 900 kilos or 1 ton, 44 kilos.
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Crítica (Hermosillo, Sonora) 6/17/09
Guatemala's Human Rights Dep't. reported that "high level" Mexican and Guatemalan officials, as well as police, judicial personnel and organized crime groups all participate in the "lucrative business" of human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Of the 400 cases investigated in 2008 only one resulted in a guilty sentence. Guatemala is seen as a stopping point in the contraband of these human beings toward Mexico and the United States.
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El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 6/17/09
Despite the growing organization by the migrants (read: illegal aliens) and the obvious willingness of the Mexican and U.S. governments to resolve the immigration problem "we must not have any illusions, because the anti-immigrant hysteria has also been increasing", said Mexican Senator Rosario Green, during the presentation of a new book. After acknowledging immigration is "a complex problem", Green affirmed that "it is essential for our main trading partners, who benefit from the migratory exchange, to accept their responsibility and to realize that prolonging the inequality of their relation with Mexico will only end up in canceling the prospects for their own growth."
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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa) & Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 6/17/09
A gang of four kidnappers was arrested by Mex. military in Rosarito, Baja Calif., (just south of Tijuana). One kidnap victim was rescued; the kidnappers had cut off one of his fingers and sent it to his family with the ransom demand. The four thugs are said to be part of the organized crime group led by "El Teo", dedicated to kidnapping, murder, firearm and drug traffic in urban areas of Baja California and cities bordering the United States. 20 firearms (mostly rifles), 278 clips, 14,662 rounds of ammo, 27 bullet proof vests and 15 helmets were also seized.
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El Universal (Mexico City) 6/17/09
The upswing of violence in the war between organized crime groups caused 37 executions in Mexico in the last 24 hours. 15 of those homicides took place in Chihuahua, 5 in Michoacán, nine in Durango, 6 in Sinaloa and 2 in Veracruz. (The article then goes on to describe these crimes in more detail) (But the victims in the following report were not included in this tally of death)
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Milenio (Mexico City) 6/17/09
Three decapitated victims were found on the street in the hamlet of Ocurahui, east of Los Mochis, Sinaloa. The three heads were found inside black bags. * * * * The deputy chief of police of the Los Pinos area of Tijuana was shot and killed during a car-to-car attack this morning as he left work and was heading home. He is the sixteenth police assassinated this year in the Tijuana area.
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