16 indicted in California Los Angeles Times - Aug. 26, 2009 California authorities announced indictments Wednesdayagainst a distribution cell of the Sinaloa drug cartel that allegedly smuggled large amounts of cocaine and marijuana nto Southern California through the border crossing atCalexico. |
Aide in Probe of Mexican Associated Press - August 28, 2009 CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, Aug. 27 -- Gunmen killed the aide of a Mexican federal agent investigating the death of a crime reporter -- a month after the first agent assigned to the case was shot dead, authorities said Thursday. |
Many killed in Mexico drug violence Al Jazeerain English - Aug. 27, 2009 At least 13 people have been killed in seven attacks in the embattled Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities have said. |
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Mayhem Crosses the U.S. Agents Recruiting Mexican Drug Figures By William Booth Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, August 27, 2009 EL PASO -- José Daniel González was living the sweet life in America. He bought the $365,000 two-story Mediterranean with the tile roof and swimming pool. He started a trucking company, was raising a family. But on a Friday night in May, he was executed in his front yard -- eight shots, tight pattern, close range.
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The Narcotics Nod: Obama Gave Go-Ahead for Mexican Drug Law "It provides an officially sanctioned market for the consumption of the world's most dangerous drugs," San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said. "For the people of San Diego the risk is direct and lethal. |
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New York Post By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN Dude, you're not hallucinating. South of the border, you won't get busted for possessing small amounts of hardcore drugs, as long as it's for personal use. Mexico's newly minted law allows a person to own the equivalent of about five marijuana joints, four lines of cocaine, six dime bags of heroin and one hit of LSD. |
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Big money fuels Mexico's narco-terror Washingtron Times - Aug. 23, 2009 $10 billion a year crosses our southern border Last week's brief "Three Amigos" summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, has been all but forgottenin the growing storm over health care reform. |
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GULF TIMES US drug traffic earns $63bn per year: Mexican official Drug trafficking in the US generates an annual income of $63 billion Mexico’s Secretary of Public Safety said on Wednesday. Genaro Garcia Luna told a security forum in the border city of Ciudad Juarez - the epicentre of Mexico’s drug violence - that 1kg of cocaine in Europe or the US can sell for almost 50 times as much as it sells for in some Latin American countries. “The cost of cocaine per kilogram in a country like Colombia or Mexico is $2,198, but in cities inside the US or Europe people buy it for up to $97,400” per kilogram, the Mexican official said. The government has declared war on the drugcartels and over 10,000 are feared to have died. |
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Cash flow to Mexico Los Angeles Times - Aug. 26, 2009 Reporting from Mexico City - Cash remittances from Mexicans living abroad keep tumbling, with a second-quarter drop of 17.9% compared with the same period last year, officials said Tuesday. |
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Pictire above - Store where "illegal" cheese sold L.A. crackdown on unpasteurized One of those charged with misdemeanors says the product is vital to his Oaxacan restaurant. An official says the problem is health risks from unlicensed cheese. For years, relatives of Zeferino Garcia in Mexico's Oaxaca state routinely sent him a cargo of quesillo cheese by airplane. From Tijuana, the bulk of unpasteurized cheese would be brought to his restaurant and two stores in Los Angeles. Life was good, he thought, and tasty. |
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WATCHING MEXICO has been created to focus on the latest up-to-date news on Mexico's drug cartel, crime and corruption events, espeically kidnapping and narcotic-realated violence against Mexicans and foreigners. The site also carries frequent analysese of these events and their relationship to Mexico at large, i.e. politics and the economy, and towards its closest neightbors and global ramificaons. Inside are pages that concentrate on.the special problems of taxi crime and kidnapping, car driving, street crime, con games aimed at foreigners and specific, current situatons to major cities and resorts, as well as rural doings. Our audience includes Mexicos from all classes, when even farmers have laptops to download latest news that could affect crops, as well as foreigners in Mexico for busienss or pleasure, and those who married Mexicans or just fell love with the country, not a hard thing to do at all. We recognize that Mexican culture is far more subtle and sophisticated than 99% of Americans have even a clue. Also, those of us who do have that clue still have little hope of penetrating the strong and supple veneer most Mexicans present to the outside world. Our Mexican associates can assist with that. Mexicans themselves are the most vulnerable victims of the confluence of forces that has brought the drug and corruption wars to their homeland, and only they can win the struggle. We want to make www.watchingmexico.com partially a kind of Mexican-focused Drudge Report, bringing links to the latest news articles from Spanish and English language media on Mexico, and the Mexican drug war, border problems, narcotics mafia, the kidnapping gangs often led by active duty police officers, but also the business successes and opportunities of living and working in Mexico. The second part will consist of analyses of major news, as well as in-depth looks at parts of Mexico and how it relates to current events, and advice from insiders on how to succeed in Mexico, not only in business and just living there, but avoiding kidnapping gangs, even the petty ones who use taxis to find victims to empty their ATM accounts over a period of days. Please bookmark us and sign up to www.twitter.com/watchingmexico to get instant notices of the latest news, including where danger could have popped up, or where the scene is calm. Get instant latest tweets by following: "http://www.twitter.com/watchingmexico" Click Here forJump to Previous home page stories that will lead further backward. Please, please email us with corrections, comments, suggestions at: watchingmexico@watchingmexico.com |
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Mexico violence is actually down, Mex Attorney Gen Says Los Angeles Times – Aug. 22 A drug war is raging, but the Mexican attorney general points to statistics that indicate homicides have declined nationwide in the last 15 years. Critics dismiss his argument as so much spin. |
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Local authorities: Mexico drug Ana Ley - The Monitor - August 22, 2009 A new Mexican law decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin sends the wrong message to a country caught in a grueling drug war, local law enforcement officials said Friday.
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Mexico decriminalizes Associated Press - Aug 21 MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin on Friday—a move that prosecutors say makes sense even in the midst of the government's grueling battle against drug traffickers. |
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HRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Mexico quietly decriminalizes drug use Now marijuana, cocaine, LSD, and heroin will be tolerated for personal use. It's part of a bid to free up resources and jail space so that authorities can focus efforts on big-time traffickers |
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New York Times In Mexico, Ambivalence on a Drug Law IJUANA, Mexico — Yolanda Espinosa’s eyes darted this way and that. Her hands trembled. For Ms. Espinosa, a cocaine and heroin addict in desperate need of a fix, a new Mexican law decriminalizing the possession of small quantities of drugs had a definite appeal. |
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Mexico legalizes heroin, cocaine possession August 24, 2009 THE INDEPENDENT OF LONDON A controversial new law decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of heroin, marijuana, cocaine and other illicit substances was quietly slipped on to the statute books in Mexico today. |
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Others Pay Dearly For Our Cheap Thrills David Penberthy | August 22, 2009 Article from: The Australian ON the present sickening trend, the number of Mexicans killed in the drug-related bloodshed that has paralysed the country since January 2007 will hit 10,000 within the next few weeks, possibly even days. |
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Suspected drug gunmen kill Mexican The Associated Press Saturday, August 22, 2009 SLIDE SHOW OF SHOOTING SITE ON LINK CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Gunmen killed an army officer and another man in a bowling alley in Ciudad Juarez, a border city that has seen Mexico's highest levels of drug-related violence in recent years, police said Saturday. |
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