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Posted on the American Patrol Report May 4, 2008
"Uncontrollable slaughter"
Milenio (mexico City) 5/3/08
(Note: "Uncontrollable slaughter" is the title of an op/column by Alejandro Gertz Manero. What follows are all but the last two sentences - deemed irrelevant.)
For years we have been warning about the security crisis now in one of its most decisive moments due to the brutal confrontation and the pitiless slaughter between hired killers of drug traffic, who are basically tied to "narco-retailing", who dispute each street, each neighborhood, each city of the country with blood and by gunfire, while other ordinary crimes multiply constantly and silently. This phenomenon, as we've pointed out on innumerable occasions, is due to the transformation of narco-traffic in Mexico, which has changed from being a producing country for marihuana and heroin, and of cocaine transit, to the conversion of its territory into an immense consuming market in which we more than 105 million inhabitants are already hostages of the brutal mechanisms of that "savage capitalism" of organized and unorganized crime, which at this time can already produce synthetic drugs in any neighborhood yard by using a cooking pot and diverse commercial ingredients at minimum cost. This criminal event has multiplied more than a thousand percent in the last three years and for it to grow uncontrollably a fundamental component is needed, which is the complicity of and covering up by a goodly number of members of agencies which are supposed to combat crime, at the same time that these bureaucratic entities are involved in internal debates and lack of results while in the midst of constant corruption scandals. The Mexican army has been able to document the reality of this evidence with precision by showing on repeated occasions the link between police, agents of various agencies and government entities with organized crime. This has been shown by their massive detention of the entire force of municipal and city police officers in various cities of the country, where there are more than 350 thousand police officers as against a small number of federal agencies who also face various problems of the same sort. And that is the context in which the massacres are taking place (and) which the media reports daily. This phenomenon persists despite the presence of the army, which goes from one part of the country to another to contain the more evident cases of violence and brutality but which can't, neither by its numbers nor due to its functional structure, carry out the daily functions which are the job of the police and law enforcement agencies.
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Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 5/3/08
The bodies of seven men were found dumped in a garbage dump near a highway at the southernmost area of the state of Zacatecas, near Jalisco. All had been tied, showed signs of torture and had been executed with a coup de grace.
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El Debate (culiacan, Sinaloa) , Excelsior (Mexico City) 5/3/04
After the five dead and 13 arrests of Wednesday the "narco-war" intensified in the area of Culiacan, Sinaloa last night (Friday) and the result was more deaths: six police officers and two other men were executed within a lapse of 30 minutes in different parts of the area. The first incident took place when an armed group of some sixty individuals in 16 vehicles stormed one or more safe houses presumably owned by the Carrillo Fuentes group. An unknown number of subjects fled from there but one was found dead inside one of the houses, still wearing his black bullet proof vest. Strangely, no "ministerial police" went there because their chief supposedly ordered them to stay put in their facility.
Minutes later, two police officers traveling a few miles outside town were killed when their patrol unit was hit and and thugs opened fire with "goat's horns" (read: AK47). At just about the same time, in downtown Culiacan, four other police officers fell victim to a car-to-car AK47 gunfire assault. Lastly, another subject was found dead in front of the Banorte Stadium.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 5/3/08
In Guamuchil, Sinaloa (just north of Culiacan) Siebel Rivera Navarrete went to the funeral services for a man who was killed in one of Culiacan's shootouts last Wednesday. As he arrived at the funeral home Rivera himself fell victim to a hail of bullets and was killed. 29 shell casings from an AK47 were located at the scene by police agents.
Statistics from "SEDENA" (Mex. Dep't. of Defense) for this year to date:
- 390 tons of marihuana seized
- 40,000 marihuana plantings and 36,000 poppy plantings destroyed
- 1,676 persons arrested due to drug trafficking
- 3,900 firearms, 52 aircraft, 4 vessels seized
- 9 million 600 thousand pesos & "more than" eight million U.S. dollars seized
- 221 clandestine airstrips & 438 drug drying facilities destroyed
- 1,400 kgs. of marihuana seed, 350 kgs. of poppy, "more than" 18 kgs. of opium gum, 70 kgs. of heroin seized
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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 5/3/08
A director of the "SSP" (Mex. federal Dep't. of Public Security) Joint Staff, Aristeo Gomez Martinez, was shot and killed while on a street in Colonia Romero de Terreros, Coyoacan, a section of Mexico City. This is the second execution of a ranking member of that agency within the last 24 hours.
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El Universal (Mexico City) 5/3/08
When a group of members of the state of Guerrero's Regional Cattlemen's Association had just reached the entry area of the Maria Isabel Hotel in Iguala, Guerrero, an armed group opened fire on them killing five and wounding nine others.
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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 5/3/08
Yet another group of Ecuadoreans, this time 47 of them, were found by Ecuadorean officials at an island on the Jambuli Archipelago waiting to begin their sea journey in the hope of reaching the United States.
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 5/3/08
A scandal concerning the traffic of Cubans to Honduras based on illegal practices by Honduran officials has brought about the resignation of the head of the Honduran Immigration Agency as well as that of the "General Secretary of the Chancery."
And after a group of 31 "mara" gang members in custody were moved to a different prison within Honduras they were attacked by other "common criminal" inmates at the new prison and at least 18 of the "maras" were killed "with knives and pistols."
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Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 5/3/08
The head of Guatemala's immigration dep't., Ana Maria Villegas de Fortin, was dismissed from her post effective this coming Monday. The Presidency and the Ministry of Government agreed that she is responsible for the illegal entry of 300 aliens into Guatemala by means of courtesy visas. Immigration inspectors allege that they had to give Villegas part of the $3,000 dollars they were charging some of those aliens. (Our report of 5/1/08 relates)
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