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Posted on May 8, 2008
Mexico's "narcowar" monthly death tally: 205
El Financiero
(Mexico City) 5/7/08
The number of dead in the war against narcotraffic
already exceeds three thousand 500 hundred. On average, 205 members of the
different factions have died on a monthly basis between Dec. 2006 and April of
this year. In contrast, the monthly average of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq is
around 100.
President Felipe Calderon has warned that the narco-war
would bring with it an elevated cost in human lives, but the specialists in the
matter point out that the level of violence was underestimated. The president of
the "CNDH" (Mex. Natn'l. Commission on Human Rights), Jose Luis Soberanes, warns
that the capacity of the State has been surpassed and that more forceful means
are due.
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La Cronica
(Mexicali, Baja Calif.) , Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 5/7/08
The Baja California Sec. of Public Security and the
state's Att'y. Gen. held a press conference and announced that 145 law
enforcement personnel in five different cities of the state are being dismissed
since "irregularities in their conduct" have been found. Some have been linked
to organized crime. The number includes 42 "ministerial police" officers, 94
"preventive police" and four others.
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El Manana
(Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas) , El Universal (Mexico City) 5/7/08
Chihuahua, Sonora & Sinaloa experienced extreme
violence in the last 24 hours; seventeen persons were executed, seven of whom
were state and city police officers. In Ciudad Juarez, Berenice Garcia Corral
was executed Monday night by killers who went into her garage as she was parking
her car. She was the commander of the Juarez sub-office of the state of
Chihuahua's Att'y. Gen's. Sexual Crimes unit and also 2nd in command of the
State Investigative Agency.
Also in Juarez, the private security guard in a bar was found dead an hour after being taken away by a "commando"; in another event, two city police officers in a parked patrol unit suffered bullet wounds caused by unknown persons. At Parral, Chihuahua, two city police officers were shot and killed just two blocks away from the police facility when they tried to stop subjects in a "camioneta" (read either p/u truck or SUV).
In Nogales, Sonora, a shootout between city police and "presumed criminals" resulted in four deaths, one of them an agent. Three persons were arrested and a woman relative of the thugs was later killed in Hermosillo in what was believed to be a follow-up event to those deaths. By the afternoon, the partially burned bodies of two men were found inside bags in Cajeme; one of them had had his legs cut off.
Yesterday (Tuesday), "Ministerial" agent Jose Manuel Pena Lopez was driving a vehicle in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, when he was shot and killed by subjects riding a motorcycle. And Monday night, Miguel Angel Santa Cruz Armendariz, the state's Ministerial Police investigations coordinator was riddled by gunfire.
In Navolato, Sinaloa, the body of a beheaded man was
found with a message on a tag board. Three other crimes presumable linked to
organized crime took place in the states of Chiapas, Tamaulipas and Durango.
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El Porvenir
(Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 5/7/08
In Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon, five subjects robbed a
service station manager as he was leaving to make a deposit with the funds he
was carrying. But five subjects assaulted him and robbed him of the 273 thousand
pesos in his briefcase. Now the five thieves have been arrested. Four of them
turned out to be Montemorelos city police officers. (Montemorelos is some 50 mi.
SE of Monterrey)
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El Sol de Mexico
(Mexico City) 5/7/08
Mexico's Chamber of Deputies (House of Reps.) will
seek to "close the door" to presidential candidates whose parents were not
Mexican citizens by birth.
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La Voz de la Frontera
(Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 5/7/08
1,745 kgs. of marihuana headed for Mexicali were
found aboard an 18 wheeler at the "Cucapah" highway checkpoint some 20 kms.
outside San Luis Rio Colorado on the highway to Sonoita, Sonora.. The load was
hidden among a cargo of lemons. And a 20-yr. old female resident of Mexicali was
stopped by agents just before reaching the border crossing into Calexico, CA.
Federal police searched her car and found 24 packs of cocaine weighing 29 kgs.;
she had said she was going to San Bernardino as a tourist.
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El Diario
(Ciudad Juarez, Chih.) 5/7/08
A captain of the Public Municipal Security Dep't.,
Saul Pena Lopez, died this morning (Wed.) after having been shot last night
during a car-to-car assault in Juarez.