Tag Archives: Mexico

May 14 2012

Mexico-US border: 49 headless, handless, footless persons discovered

There have been over 50,000 casualties in Mexghanistan since the cartel wars began. One might think that would make it a pressing issue for the Obama Administration and the Democrat-controlled media, but one would be wrong. Obama came out of the closet for gay marriage and he killed Osama with his bare hands. Rinse, repeat.

MONTERREY, Mexico –  Police found 49 mutilated bodies scattered in a pool of blood near the border with the U.S., a region where Mexico’s two dominant drug cartels are trying to outdo each other in bloodshed while warring over smuggling routes.

The bodies of 43 men and six women with their heads, hands and feet chopped off were dumped at the entrance to the town of San Juan, on a highway that connects the industrial city of Monterrey with Reynosa, across from McAllen, Texas.

At the spot where authorities discovered the bodies before dawn Sunday, a white stone arch that normally welcomes visitors to the town was spray-painted with “100% Zeta” in black letters — an apparent reference to the fearsome Zetas drug cartel that was founded by deserters from the Mexican army’s special forces.

The bodies, some of them in plastic garbage bags, were most likely brought to the spot and dropped from the back of a dump truck, Nuevo Leon state security spokesman Jorge Domene said.

Domene said the dead would be hard to identify because of the lack of heads, hands and feet. The remains were taken to a Monterrey auditorium for DNA tests.

The victims could have been killed as long as two days ago at another location, then transported to San Juan, a town in the municipality of Cadereyta, about 105 miles (175 kilometers) west-southwest of McAllen, Texas, and 75 miles (125 kilometers) southwest of the Roma, Texas, border crossing, state Attorney General Adrian de la Garza said. (more >>>)

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Dec 20 2011

Video: Mexican drug gangs’ public relations campaign

A video on how Mexican drug gangs intimidate people in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Sad that such a report has to be filed on Al Jazeera, as the Obama state-run media pretty much ignores the daily horrors perpetrated by the drug cartels in Mexghanistan.

Saddest of all, as has been evidenced by investigations into ‘Fast and Furious’ and Eric Holder’s treasonous Justice Department, the cartels have found a good friend in the Obama regime.

on Dec 20, 2011 (h/t Rightscoop) – From guns to the media, Mexican drug cartels have turned to new and unusual tactics to intimidate their rivals. Videos of drug-related massacres have been sent to news networks and posted online. The gangs have also tried to win support through public displays of strength. But as Al Jazeera’s Rachel Levin reports, people in the southern city of Cuernavaca are not impressed by the cartels’ campaigns.

Nov 25 2011

3 abandoned vehicles containing 26 murdered bodies found on Mexican highway

Things in Mexghanistan continue to spiral out of control. According to the video below, some 50,000 people have died during Mexico’s drug wars. More than in war-torn Afghanistan. Yet, we hear very little about any of it.

UK Daily Mail – Bound and gagged corpses were found dumped in Mexico’s second-largest city, in what experts said could mark a new stage in the full-scale war between the country’s two main drug cartels.

The 26 male bodies were stuffed in two vans and a pick-up truck and abandoned on an expressway near the Milennium Arches in Guadalajara yesterday, one of the most recognisable landmarks in the picturesque city that hosted last month’s Pan-American Games.

Most of the men died of asphyxia, according to officials in Jalisco state, although initial reports indicated some had been shot.

The victims, aged between 25 and 35, had the words ‘Milenio Zetas’ or ‘Milenium’ written on their chests in oil, said state interior secretary Fernando Guzman Perez.

A law enforcement official, who was not authorised to speak on the record, said the writing was apparently meant as the killers’ calling card, identifying the assassins as being from the cartel, the Zetas and a smaller, allied gang, the Milenio Cartel.

The official said a banner found in one of the vehicles – whose contents Mr Guzman Perez refused to reveal – was in fact signed by the Zetas.

Mexican cartels frequently leave threatening messages with the bodies of their victims as a way of intimidating rivals and claiming responsibility for their actions.

The killings, believed to have been carried out in the early hours of yesterday morning, bore a similarity to the dumping of 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast city of Veracruz on September 20.  (more >>>)

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Nov 17 2011

Major Tijuana – U.S. smuggling tunnel uncovered

One must wonder if the engineers behind the tunnel were these guys.

Another story on the tunnel.

Nov 16, 2011 by

An estimated 17 tons of marijuana were seized when authorities discovered a major cross-border drug tunnel between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.

Previous uncovered tunnels:

It’s well known that these guys are experts in tunneling.

Sep 15 2011

Mexican drug cartel hogties, disembowels, slashes and hangs social media users from bridge

Good grief!

Mexghanistan’s drug lords continue to say that the Taliban has nothing on us! (Updated with enlarged photo below.)

CNN (h/t Hotairpundit) – Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: Two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.

A woman was hogtied and disemboweled, her intestines protruding from three deep cuts on her abdomen. Attackers left her topless, dangling by her feet and hands from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. A bloodied man next to her was hanging by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply the bone was visible.

Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.

“This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet,” one sign said. “You better (expletive) pay attention. I’m about to get you.”

The gruesome scene sent a chilling message at a time when online posts have become some of the loudest voices reporting violence in Mexico. In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media. Sometimes even local authorities fear speaking out.

Mexico’s notoriously ruthless drug gangs regularly hang victims from bridges and highway overpasses.

And bloggers who specialize in sharing news about trafficking have been threatened in the past. But this could be the first time users of such social networks have been targeted. (more >>>)

UPDATE: UK Daily Mail has more on the story, including this enlarged photo:

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Aug 26 2011

Mexico: 2 dozen gunmen storm casino, torch it, kill at least 53

Mexghanistan. Everything but exploding sombreros. So far.

MONTERREY, Mexico (The Blaze/AP) — Two dozen gunmen burst into a casino in northern Mexico on Thursday, doused it with a flammable liquid and started a fire that trapped gamblers inside, killing at least 53 people and injuring many more, authorities said.

The fire at the Casino Royale in Monterrey, which has seen a surge in drug cartel-related violence, represented one of the deadliest attacks against an entertainment center in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against drug cartels in late 2006.

State police officials quoted survivors as saying that about two dozen armed men burst into the casino, apparently to rob it, and began dousing the premises with fuel from tanks they brought with them. The officials were not authorized to be quoted by name for security reasons.

With shouts and profanities, the attackers told the customers and employees to get out. But many terrified customers and employees fled further inside the building, where they died trapped amid the flames and thick smoke that soon billowed out of the building.

Angel Flores, a commander of the Monterrey Green Cross rescue service, said 28 bodies had been recovered from the casino, and that more were likely to be recovered. He said most died of asphyxiation. (more >>)

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Jun 22 2011

Sheriff: Arizona fire almost certainly started by smugglers or illegals

Arizona Cochise County Sheriff Dever knows what he’s talking about, and he is almost 100% sure that at least the Monument fire which scorched thousands of acres was started by either smugglers or illegals from Mexico.

He is near certain of this because the park was closed when the fire started, absolutely no one was allowed in, there were no lighting storms, and the fire started in an area near the border fence that is closed to visitors and known to law enforcement for “high-intensity, drug- and human-trafficking.”

h/t therightscoop

Jun 19 2011

Drug cartels help fight Mexican youth unemployment by hiring teen hitwomen

The Mexghanistan drug cartels are doing their part in fighting teen unemployment by hiring teenage girls to carry out assassinations and other hits. The Obama Administration finds the idea thought-provoking and is instructing his team of economic gurus to work up a feasibility study, hoping to include such a program in his next stimulus plan.

(Reuters) – Dwarfed by surrounding reporters and with her head bowed to avoid the television cameras, the slender 16-year-old hesitated slightly before she answered the question. “I’m a hitwoman,” she said.

Maria Celeste Mendoza was among six teenage suspected gang members arrested this week by police after a shoot-out with authorities in central Mexico, one of the growing ranks of young people working for the country’s drug cartels.

Dressed in combat fatigues and with her face hidden, the girl from the northern border state of Tamaulipas described how she had been trained to use Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons by the Zetas, one of Mexico’s most brutal gangs.

In a listless drawl, Mendoza said she was paid 12,000 pesos ($1,000) for two weeks’ work, more than three times the national average. Although she said she was trained as a hitwoman, it was unclear if she had killed anyone yet.

As is customary in Mexico, she and the other suspects, six of whom were women aged 21 or below, were paraded in front of the media by police after their capture in San Cristobal de la Barranca, near the country’s second city, Guadalajara.

Rising youth unemployment, easy access to drugs and the quick cash cartels offer recruits are all blamed for felling the delinquency that has cast a shadow over Mexico’s future.

Suspected members of the Zeta cartel, among them minors, are taken to a presentation for the media in Guadalajara.

“Organized crime has become a job provider for a section of the population who don’t have a lot of other options,” said Victor Clark-Alfaro, director of the Binational Center for Human Rights in Tijuana on the Mexican border with California.

“Since 2000, the age at which people start getting mixed up in organized crime has fallen,” he added. “And in the last few years, the age has dropped to about 17 or 18.”

Detailed figures on the role of minors in the cartels are scarce, but newspaper Reforma said the number charged with involvement in organized crime jumped to 214 last year from 8 in 2007, citing data from the attorney general’s office.

The arrest of Mendoza and another 16-year-old girl with her, Isela Sandoval, is part of the trend. Sandoval also said she had been trained as a hitwoman but that she had not killed anyone yet, according to Mexican media reports.

Around 40,000 people have died in escalating drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon sent in the army to try to crush the cartels at the end of 2006. (more >>>)

Jun 14 2011

Mexghanistan: Drug lords forcing captives to become gladiators

Will gladiator fights replace bullfighting in Mexico in the not too distant future?

Drug gangsters are kidnapping highway bus passengers and forcing them into gladiatorlike fights to groom fresh assassins.

I think we have the next hit Reality TV show – Mexghanistan Gladiators!

Houston Chronicle (h/t Weasel Zippers) — The elderly are killed. Young women are raped. And able-bodied men are given hammers, machetes and sticks and forced to fight to the death.

In one of the most chilling revelations yet about the violence in Mexico, a drug cartel-connected trafficker claims fellow gangsters have kidnapped highway bus passengers and forced them into gladiatorlike fights to groom fresh assassins.

In an in-person interview arranged by intermediaries on the condition that neither his name nor the location of his Texas visit be published, the trafficker also admitted to helping push cocaine worth $5 million to $10 million a month into the United States.

Law enforcement sources confirm he is a cartel operative but not a fugitive from pending charges.

His words are not those of a federal agent or drawn from a news conference or court papers.

Instead, he offers a voice from inside Mexico’s mayhem — a mafioso who mingles among crime bosses and foot soldiers in a protracted war between drug cartels as well as against the government.

If what he says is true, gangsters who make commonplace beheadings, hangings and quartering bodies have managed an even crueler twist to their barbarity.

Members of the Zetas cartel, he says, have pushed passengers into an ancient Rome-like blood sport with a modern Mexico twist that they call, “Who is going to be the next hit man?”

“They cut guys to pieces,” he said.

The victims are likely among the hundreds of people found in mass graves in recent months, he said.  Keep reading…

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Jun 12 2011

Mexghanistan: 3 men tortured, shot, dangled from bridge, 1 survives

Violence in Mexico resembles that of the Islamic world more and more, only minus the suicide bombers, for now anyway. The drug cartels are every bit as vicious as al-Qaeda or Hamas. Not surprising when it is known that they are working with Hezbollah and Hamas, who are sharing their tunneling expertise with them, among other things.

The UK Daily Mail reports that on Sunday, two other men, one with a foot cut off, had been hanged from a pedestrian bridge in Monterrey. Both died.

CBS (h/t Gateway Pundit) - A kicking, screaming teenager with a gunshot wound was found dangling from a rope over a busy highway Wednesday in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey. Police said another man alongside him was dead by the time rescuers arrived and a third was found dead below.

Witnesses told police that a group of gunmen descended from a vehicle and hanged the men off a bridge around 10 a.m., stopping traffic along one of the busiest routes in Mexico’s third-largest city, which has been plagued by drug-gang violence.

All three of the men had been shot and tortured, and their hands were bound with duct tape, said a Nuevo Leon state police investigator who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case.

The dead man, estimated to be in his early 20s, dangled lifelessly in a blue shirt and plaid shorts. Bound in his hands was a cell phone, a possible sign that he was considered an informant.

Police said none of the victims had been identified.

Two other men, one with a foot cut off, were hanged by their necks from a pedestrian bridge Sunday in Monterrey. Both died.

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May 11 2011

Likely Hamas, Hezbollah tunnels found under U.S.-Mexico border

250 feet through solid rock.

Why is it more and more we have to rely on European media to report all the crap that goes on in the U.S.? It’s a rhetorical question.

The article doesn’t say that the tunnels were dug by Hamas or Hezbollah cells in Mexghanistan, but from previous stories, it is very, very likely that they were dug with the help of the terrorist organizations’ expertise. The Obama Administration will never admit to it, so don’t hold your breath.

Ironically, this story comes just as Obama was spiking the bin Laden football in El Paso, claiming that the borders have never been safer. Will anyone in the mainstream media bring these tunnels up to Janet Napolitano?

Resourceful: Authorities have found eight similar tunnels in the last six months.

UK Daily Mail - A tunnel running 250 feet beneath the U.S.-Mexican border has been discovered fully kitted out with electricity, water pumps and ventilation.

Authorities in Arizona said although they’ve found dozens of tunnels in Nogales, a city in Santa Cruz County since the 1990s, this one is by far the most sophisticated.

Chief border patrol agent Randy Hill said those who were building it had chiselled through solid rock and installed lighting and other equipment.

Border patrol found an entrance to the tunnel on May 2 in an abandoned building. An investigation has begun with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Mexican government.

The tunnel lies 15 feet beneath the ground and is three feet wide and five feet high.

Chief Hill said: ‘This tunnel is more sophisticated than other recently discovered tunnels. They chiselled through solid rock and then installed electricity, lighting, water pumps, and ventilation.

‘It is a prime example of the risks traffickers will take and the lengths they will go to smuggle contraband into our country.’

Pressure point: The number of tunnels into the city of Nogales, Arizona shows how vulnerable the mountainous region is to the drug trade.

The state of Arizona straddles a heavily trafficked route for powerful Mexican cartels smuggling marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines into the U.S.

Security has been tightened along the shared border in recent years leaving drug smugglers no option but to burrow underground to try to evade detection.

At least eight tunnels have been found running beneath the streets on both sides of the border since October last year. (more >>>)

May 10 2011

13 killed in lake gun battle on U.S. – Mexghanistan border

Mexican Navy marines conduct an operation in an island on Falcon Lake, Mexico.

Mexghanistan continues to demonstrate that places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen have some catching up to do in the carnage department. Over 40,000 people have been killed in Mexico’s drug wars since 2006.

The latest is 13 dead during a shoot out along the Texas border between the Zetas drug cartel and Mexican marines.

Meanwhile, outside a secondary school in the northern Mexican city of Durango, another grisly discovery – 6 human heads were found, and at a separate location, 11 bodies in a mass grave.

The heads were discovered in the morning, shortly before the school day started. Their bodies, however, were not found.

The 11 bodies in the mass grave brought to 168 the total of bodies found in clandestine graves in Durango alone since early April.

More civilians were killed last year in just the city of Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, TX, than were killed in all of Afghanistan. There were 3,111 civilians murdered in the city of Juarez in 2010 and 2,421 in the entire country of Afghanistan.

Forbes - Mexican marines patrolling a lake along the border with Texas discovered a drug gang camp on an island, provoking a gunbattle that left 13 people dead, the navy said Monday.

Investigators in a different northern state reported finding 11 decapitated bodies and exhumed 17 remains from mass grave sites where they have found 174 dead people since last month.

One marine and 12 suspected gunmen of the Zetas drug cartel were killed in the battle Sunday on Falcon Lake in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the navy said in a statement.

The navy said the gunmen opened fire first when the marines discovered the camp, which the gang is believed to have used as a launching point for smuggling marijuana into Texas by speedboat. Marines seized more than 20 guns after the shootout, including several assault rifles.

Falcon Lake, a dammed section of the Rio Grande, is where U.S. citizen David Hartley was presumably chased and gunned down by pirates Sept. 30. His body has not been found and Mexican investigators have reported no leads in the case. (more >>>)

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Apr 7 2011

Mass grave containing 59 bodies found in Mexghanistan

No sooner do I post about the 41 murdered in a 4-day killing spree in the Mexghanistan city of Ciudad Juarez, this story pops up.

Isn’t it just a little bit odd that some 34,000 people can be murdered in Mexico in the span of just a few years, but when reports of a few hundred killed in Libya come out, we suddenly have a great humanitarian crisis on our hands that is so urgent that President Obama feels that even mentioning  to congress that we’re off to a 3rd war isn’t necessary. Before you know it, U.S. and NATO forces are bombing Libya at a cost of billions of dollars, and arming and training al-Qaeda fighters to join in the fun.

Hmm, if only we could get the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran, or al-Qaeda to side with Mexghanistan President Felipe Calderon, then we could bomb the hell out of the drug lords.

Fox News – Mexican security forces searching for abducted bus passengers in a violent northern state bordering Texas have stumbled on a collection of pits holding a total of 59 bodies.

The grisly find was made near the ranch where drug cartel gunmen less than a year ago massacred 72 migrants who were trying to reach the United States.

Investigators struggled to exhume the bodies in the mass grave to determine whether they belonged to kidnapped bus passengers, migrants who frequently ride buses in the area, or drug traffickers executed by rivals.

Tamaulipas state investigators and federal authorities went to the site about 80 miles south of the border at Brownsville, Texas, to investigate reports that gunmen had begun stopping buses and pulling off some passengers in the area starting March 25.

Two other such cases were reported in subsequent days, in what may have been an attempt at forced recruitment by a drug gang, Tamaulipas state interior secretary Morelos Canseco said. The gunmen reportedly abducted almost exclusively men and allowed the remaining passengers to continue on their way.

State and federal investigators and soldiers conducted the raid, but differed on what exactly happened.

The federal Interior Department said the first pit was discovered Saturday and soldiers detained five suspected kidnappers. Tamaulipas officials said the pits were found Wednesday, and a total of 11 suspected kidnappers were captured and five kidnap victims were freed. The reason for the discrepancy was not clear.

But the security forces agreed that a series of eight burial pits had been found, one of which contained 43 bodies and the others 16 corpses. The bodies were being examined to determine their identities and cause of death.

Canseco said two of the dead were women. Many of the victims found in the pits appeared to have died between 10 and 15 days ago, dates that would roughly match the bus abductions, he said.  (keep reading >>)

Apr 7 2011

41 murdered in 4-day killing spree in the Mexghanistan city of Ciudad Juarez

Mexghanistan continues to demonstrate that places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen have some catching up to do in the carnage department. Over 34,000 people have been killed in Mexico’s drug wars since 2006.

No humanitarian crisis there, though.

Now you can add another 41 people dead. They were killed in the span of just 96 hours in the border town of Ciudad Juarez. But, don’t expect your state-run media to spend much if any time on this story. They are too busy demagoguing the budget showdown in Washington and telling you that the only real threat on the planet is Republicans trying to stave off an economic apocalypse.

Press TV (h/t Hotairpundit) – Forty-one people, including a 10-year old boy, have been killed during a four-day bloody murder spree in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez.

According to the spokesman for Mexican state of Chihuahua spokesman, there had been 41 homicides in Ciudad Juarez from Thursday until the end of Sunday, CNN reported.

“On Thursday the 31st of March, we had a day with many violent attacks. There was an attack at a bar where 10 people were killed and four more died in different attacks,” said the spokesman, Arturo Sandoval.

The suspects set a second bar on fire with Molotov cocktail on Friday, leaving five people dead and three others injured.

Investigations were carried out until late Monday, as prosecutors were still conducting interviews with friends and families of the victims.

According to Mexican Attorney General Arturo Chavez, the country’s criminal gangs and drug cartels have killed more than 15,000 people in 2010, making it the deadliest year ever.

Officials say more than 34,000 people have been killed in bloody wars among drug cartels since December 2006.

Mar 23 2011

13 illegals posings as U.S. marines named ‘Perez’ caught at CA border

13 illegal aliens were apprehended at a California border crossing posing as U.S. marines riding in a fake military van with stolen plates.

The van drew suspicion in part because it had an altered U.S. Government license plate, we’re told. But I think the real giveaway was that all the ‘soldiers’ had ‘Perez’ written on their uniform, which is kinda funny.

The LA Times adds that, such ploys have a long history along the border. Over the years, immigrants have disguised themselves as hard-hatted contractors and utility repairmen, and smugglers have painted and placed decals on cars to look like Border Patrol or other government vehicles.

Mr. Obama, if America is such a rotten, racist, bigoted country, why do people go through such elaborate schemes to get a taste of it?

FOX News (via GWP)  -  Border Patrol agents recently arrested 13 illegal immigrants disguised as U.S. Marines and riding in a fake military van, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.

The illegal immigrants were clad in Marine uniforms when they were apprehended at the Campo Border Patrol Westbound I-8 checkpoint at 11 p.m. on March 14 near Pine Valley, Calif., border officials said. Two U.S. citizens in the van also were arrested.

After the suspicious white van was subjected to secondary inspection, it was determined that the driver of the vehicle and its front seat passenger were U.S. citizens who were attempting to smuggle 13 illegal immigrants into the United States. All of the vehicle’s occupants wore U.S. Marine uniforms, reportedly emblazoned with the name “Perez.”

“This effort is an example of the lengths smugglers will go to avoid detection, and the skilled and effective police work and vigilance displayed everyday by Customs and Border Protection personnel,” the agency said in a written statement.

Mar 9 2011

Bravest sheriff update

I wrote first here and then here about Marisol Valles-Garcia, the young woman and mother of one who took over sheriff duties in the terror-wracked border town of Praxedis G. Guerrero in Mexghanistan.

In the last post I wrote about the rumor that the 20-year old sheriff had fled for her life, and that she might be seeking asylum in the U.S..

According to Fox News, the rumor has been confirmed, and that the young women is currently in America seeking asylum.

Fox writes that according to city officials Garcia was granted a leave of absence from March 2–7 to travel to the U.S. for personal matters, but she failed to return as agreed. The town’s mayor removed her from the post on Monday.

Residents of Praxedis said that Valles-Garcia had received threats against her life, and there may even have been an attempt to kidnap her.

Buena suerte, Señorita Garcia. Maybe you can run for Sheriff Dupe-nik’s job!

(FOX News via Weasel Zippers) — A young police chief who fled a violent Mexican border town is now seeking asylum in the United States, FoxNews.com has learned.

Marisol Valles-Garcia, 20, made international headlines last year when she accepted the post as top law enforcement official of Praxedis G. Guerrero in October. The town had been without a police chief since her predecessor was shot to death in July 2009.

Garcia was granted a leave of absence from March 2–7 to travel to the U.S. for personal matters, but she failed to return as agreed, city officials said. The town’s mayor removed her from the post on Monday.

Officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Garcia is now seeking asylum in the United States following death threats she received in Mexico.

“Marisol Valles-Garcia is in the United States and she will have the opportunity to present the facts of her case before an impartial immigration judge,” a statement to FoxNews.com from DHS officials read. “Absent a signed privacy waiver, there are no additional details.”

A local official accompanied the police chief last week to the international bridge connecting El Porvenir to Fort Hancock, Tex., according to Human Rights Commission official Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson.

De la Rosa Hickerson said Monday that he still had not been able to reach her and did not know where she was. He added that he would ask officials to retract their dismissal of the young chief.

“I have the impression that this position by the mayor is a bit hasty,” he said. “Because right now Marisol needs support, and one way to be supportive is to leave her in office.”

De la Rosa Hickerson said residents of Praxedis told him Valles-Garcia had received threats against her life, and there may even have been an attempt to kidnap her.

Drug violence has transformed the township of about 8,500 people from a string of quiet farming communities into a lawless no man’s land. Two rival gangs — the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels — are battling over control of its single highway, a lucrative drug-trafficking route along the Texas border.

Police will answer to the mayor until a new chief is appointed, the city government’s statement said.

Mar 6 2011

Brave young Mexghanistan woman sheriff rumored to have fled

Marisol Valles Garcis - Sheriff

You might recall the story I posted on Feb. 18, the ‘Bravest Woman in Mexghanistan’, about Marisol Valles Garcia, the 20-year old woman and mother of one who took her first job as chief of police in one of Mexghanistan’s deadliest towns.

Her predecessor’s head was left outside the police station over a year ago, and no one wanted to fill the vacancy since.

She’s back in the news. Ms. Garcia is rumored to have fled the city of Praxedis G. Guerrero amid mounting threats to her life.

The AFP is reporting relatives of Ms. Valles Garcia have said that the young police chief has left Mexico for the US to seek asylum. She has purportedly been receiving death threats from criminal gangs who wanted her to work for them.

However, town officials are denying reports that Valles Garcia has fled her post. CBS is reporting that town Secretary Andres Morales told the El Paso Times that the police chief was taking personal leave to be with her child and would return on Monday.

I hope she has fled, and so saved her life and that of her child. The people she is up against down there are ruthless monsters, evil-incarnate, and this gentle, naive young lady is way over her head. She has shown guts, but she must show smarts, and get while she still can.

She would be in good company. According to the Christian Science Monitor:

Last year, drug gangs told residents of Praxedis G. Guerrero… they had until Easter Sunday to leave town. About 50 houses were burned and one-third of the population left for good.

Praxedis G. Guerrero is located in the Juarez Valley just south of the Rio Grande. The region has witnessed a mass exodus in recent years due to drug related violence. Census estimates for the region indicate a population decline of up to 45 percent since 2005.

As for the issue of her seeking asylum in the U.S., that doesn’t seem necessary. She should be able to relocate elsewhere in Mexico, a very big country, and under a new name and identity, if needed. But, even if she were to get asylum in America, she at least, would be doing so legally, and educated and hardworking that she is, she could be an asset to America.

For more on her, see my earlier post.

Feb 24 2011

Arizona catches “unusually large” group of illegal aliens crossing desert

Zzzz....

But, but, Janet Napolitano said, “Illegal immigration is decreasing.”

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LUKEVILLE, Ariz. (AP) — Border agents have arrested an unusually large group of illegal immigrants in the western Arizona desert just north of Mexico.

Border Patrol Agent Eric Cantu said Wednesday that surveillance operators spotted a group of more than 100 people walking about 15 miles west of Lukeville, Ariz., Friday morning.

When agents responded, they were able to arrest 22 people but the rest of the group scattered.

Cantu says a helicopter team found much of the group hiding in thick brush, and agents arrested 106 more illegal immigrants in the group.

The smugglers and other suspected illegal immigrants may have gotten away.

(h/t Weasel Zippers)

Feb 18 2011

The bravest woman in Mexghanistan

A 20-year old woman and mother of one took her first job as chief of police in one of Mexghanistan’s deadliest towns. Her predecessor’s head was left outside the police station over a year ago, and no one wanted to fill the vacancy since.

Last year alone, over 13,000 people were killed in violent attacks, over 28,000 in the past few years. Mexico goes through sheriffs and police faster than Obama goes through allies.

Marisol Valles Garcia is stepping in between two rival gangs – the Juarez and Sinaloa drug cartels – who have been battling for control of a single highway, a lucrative drug trafficking route along the Texas border.

Drug gangs take over at night, riding through the towns in convoys of SUVs and pickups, assault rifles and even .50 caliber sniper rifles at the ready. The assistant mayor of nearby El Porvenir and the mayor of Distrito Bravos were killed recently even after they took refuge in nearby Ciudad Juarez.

She has been assigned two bodyguards but won’t carry a gun.

I hate to think of what will likely become of her. You might recall a story not long back about another woman who took on the job of sheriff in a Mexghanistan town. She remained alive for 2 months. She, too, didn’t carry a gun, and was fond of saying, ”If you don’t owe anything, you don’t fear anything.” Maybe so, but the animals who shot her up weren’t so philosophical.

(h/t Hotairpundit)

Feb 4 2011

Chief of police and bodyguards murdered in Mexghanistan

Sheriff Manuel Farfan Carriola

Not long after clueless Janet Incompetano declared that it was it is a big fat lie “that the border is overrun with violence and out of control”, chief of police and retired army general in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, Manuel Farfan Carriola, was assassinated on his way home from work. 4 bodyguards and several police officers were also wounded in the gunfight with the assailants.

More than 34,000 Mexicans have been killed in drug-related violence since December 2006.

Arizona Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu disagrees with Incompetano. But who are you going to believe, an Arizona sheriff who sees the border hell every single day, or a Liberal hack who has been proven to be both dangerously foolish and wrong on every issue she has ever held forth on?

Jan 25 2011

Murder and mayhem round up

Dead soccer player. Sign reads: “Live Better”

Lots of murder and mayhem around the world these past few days. The ‘religion of peace’, as usual, led with dead people scored, inflicting major death and destruction at Moscow’s airport, and in Iraq and Nigeria.

Perennial runner-up, Mexghanistan, added to their tally, when a group of heavily armed men opened fire at a soccer match between two local teams in western Ciudad Juarez, killing 7 people and wounding 2 others.

Ciudad Juarez has been a big killing ground over the past few years. CNN reports that the soccer field is at a community center that opened just four months ago as part of a program to decrease drug violence in the city. How’s that working out for them?

The gunmen sprayed the soccer field with about 180 rounds from assault rifles, just before the game got started. At least one among the dead was a soccer player. As you can see in the sadly ironic photo, he lays sprawled under a sign that reads in Spanish, “Live Better” , the  slogan in Juarez’s anti-violence campaign.

But America seems headed for the murder and mayhem big leagues, as well. Over the past few days there have been numerous killings, policemen being the target of most of them.

From the Seattle Times:

  • In St. Petersburg Monday morning, Sgt. Thomas Baitinger and Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz were killed and a U.S. marshal’s deputy was wounded while trying to serve the suspect a felony arrest warrant, according to news reports. The deputy was reported in stable condition, according to TV station WFTS in Tampa.
  • In Miami on Thursday, Miami-Dade police Officers Amanda Haworth and Roger Castillo were shot and killed while trying to arrest a fugitive wanted for murder, The Miami Herald reported. Another officer fatally wounded the fugitive gunman, Johnny Simms, 22.
  • In Detroit, a gunman walked into a Northwest District police station Sunday afternoon during roll call and opened fire with a shotgun. Four officers were wounded before police killed the gunman, 38-year-old Lamar Moore.
  • In Indianapolis, police Officer David Moore was shot Sunday morning during a traffic stop. He’s in a hospital intensive-care unit with two gunshot wounds to the head and one to the hip, The Indianapolis Star reported Monday, noting a suspect, Thomas Hardy, is under arrest.
  • In Port Orchard, also on Sunday, two Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies were wounded after confronting a suspicious person in a Walmart parking lot. They and a third deputy returned fire, killing the suspect, Anthony A. Martinez, 31, of Salt Lake City, Utah. The deputies were shot in their torsos, and one went home Monday while the other, in satisfactory condition, could be released from the hospital as soon as Tuesday.
  • In Lincoln City, Ore., police Officer Steven B. Dodds was in critical condition after being shot several times during a traffic stop at 11 p.m. Sunday, Portland’s South County Spotlight reported on its website. Police are looking for the man whose car was stopped “to confirm he is safe.”

Of course, none of these stories will get much attention in the state-run media. They don’t fit the narrative. Even the ghastly Moscow bombing will be swept from the pages and broadcasts as all media attention will turn to the Platitude-in-Chief’s State of the Union Speech.

 

Jan 8 2011

Mexghanistan: Another 15 people dead, 14 of them decapitated

Mexghanistan looks like it tends to outdo last year’s record number of murders. The country is a veritable killing fields, as it seems every day there are reports of another round of slayings. The murders are taking on the appearance of those one finds in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, decapitation and dismembering.

It’s truly horrible what is going on down there, but don’t expect the media to take much notice. After all, if over 30,000 murdered persons since 2006 didn’t get their attention, it’s not likely another few thousand will. It’s the new normal.

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Breitbart

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) – Police found the bodies of 15 slain men, 14 of them headless, on a street outside a shopping center in the Pacific coast resort ofAcapulco on Saturday.

The victims, all of whom appeared to be in their 20s, were discovered in an area not frequented by tourists.

Handwritten signs left with the bodies were signed by “El Chapo’s People”—a reference to the Sinaloa cartel, headed by drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman—said Fernando Monreal Leyva, director of investigative police for Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.

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Acapulco has been the site of fierce battles between drug gangs, and this weekend got off to a bloody start with 27 people killed there from Friday evening to early Saturday, Leyva said.

The dead included two police officers cut down on a main bayside avenue in front of tourists and locals; six people who were shot dead and stuffed in a taxi, their hands and feet bound; and four others elsewhere in the city.

At least 30,196 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against cartels in late 2006.

Also Saturday, authorities said a small-town mayor was found dead in northern Mexico.

Saul Vara Rivera, mayor of the municipality of Zaragoza, was reported missing by family members Wednesday, Coahuila state prosecutors said in a statement. His bullet-ridden body was discovered Friday in neighboring Nuevo Leon state.

At least a dozen mayors were killed nationwide last year in acts of intimidation attributed to drug gangs.

Jan 3 2011

Mexghanistan hits new level of brutality in 2010

America has Mexghanistan on its southern border. More people are killed just south of Arizona than are killed north of Pakistan, and that’s saying something. According to the Daily Times, more than 10,000 people, about a fifth of them civilians, lost their lives in violence in Afghanistan last year. In Mexico, over 13,000 were killed in violent attacks in 2010. But, like so much else these days, this is accepted by the media as the new normal.

If one Palestinian terrorist is killed in Israel it is decried as scandalous, but 13,000 murdered Mexicans on America’s border, it’s just the new normal.

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Drug violence in Mexico hit new level of brutality in 2010

The Dallas Morning News, January 1, 2011

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s drug violence in 2010 was striking not only for its scale but also for its brutality.

In the northern city of Santiago, the mayor’s body was found with the eyes gouged out. In the picturesque town of Cuernavaca, four decapitated men were hanged from a bridge along a heavily traveled highway. And in Ciudad Juárez this week, two university students were hunted through a maze of streets and killed with bullets to the head, their bodies set on fire.

In 2010, the levels of Mexican violence and the kind of extreme cruelty once reserved for Quentin Tarantino movies reached new heights, not just along the Texas-Mexico border, but in regions that were once spared such bloodshed. More than 13,000 people were killed across the country in drug violence, up from an estimated 9,600 a year earlier.

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