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See the original video, by Juan Martinez, here: www.vjmovement.com Spanish: English Subtitles
Learn more about drug wars in Mexico: projects.latimes.com Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com
MOXNews.com October 21, 2009 PBS World Focus
Tangled in the front line trenches of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's anti-narcotics campaign are the country's growing legions of addicts, who find themselves sought by gangsters as both customers and sometime targets of their violence. Cheap and plentiful narcotics have flooded the country as producers and traffickers have sought to open new markets for cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs. And the gangland violence, which has killed thousands, also has targeted addicts and ...
Thirteen people are dead after a brutally violent two days in Juarez, Mexico on Saturday (July 18). The drug war killed more than 6000 people across Mexico in 2008 and 2500 people so far this year. It is President Felipe Calderon's biggest challenge and the violence has started to spill over some parts of the US border. US President Barack Obama praised Calderon's campaign in a visit to Mexico in April and US officials say escalating violence is a sign of drug gangs' weakness....
The death toll continues to mount in Mexico's drug battles. Three federal policemen are killed and another seriously injured, their vehicles attacked by a barrage of machine-gun fire from alleged drug gang hitmen in Michoacan. Days earlier, gunmen tossed a grenade into a taco restaurant killing a police officer and a 15-year old boy. On the same day in Ciuadad Juarez gunmen burst into a hotel and opened fired on patrons. Five people died. Drug dealers are even targeting drug rehabilitation ...
More at www.linktv.org (Latin Pulse: May 21, 2009) Day after day, Mexico is home to more and more victims of drug trafficking and organized crime. In 2008 alone, 6290 murders were attributed to fighting between the factions of organized crime. These factions are fighting for control over the drug routes to the United States, the world's biggest consumer of drugs. In addition, other illicit, million-dollars businesses - like human trafficking and kidnapping - are also expanding, even beyond ...
Mexico's federal police arrested ten men and four women who are suspected of drug trafficking and are linked to the Beltran Leyva drug cartel. [Rodrigo Esparza, Federal Police Commissioner]: "The federal secretary of public security announced the arrest yesterday of 14 suspected members of the Beltran Leyva criminal organization in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos. These people carried out logistical and operational tasks for the Beltran Leyva organization in Morelos and the State of Guerrero ...
Violence in Mexico escalates and starting to spill into the US. It's only a matter of time when we're facing the same horrors from the drug cartels
As the Mexican government cracks down on violent drug cartels near the US border, wings of the vast drug network are emerging in some unlikely places, far away from border towns. (April 17)
ABC AUSTRALIA, April 15, 2009: Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports on the violence in Juarez, Mexico and its affect on the neighboring city of El Paso, Texas. The report claims $75 million dollars worth of "narcotics" have been seized by the border patrol, 705 firearms and $15 million dollars in cash. Predictably, the report blames guns and cash coming into Juarez from El Paso, without explaining that there are no customs formalities for people entering Mexico from the US either on ...
messed up. Mexican drug violence 4:31 Former Mexican president Vicente Fox speaks to CNN's John Roberts about drug violence across the border.
US officials and politicians, particularly those in states that border Mexico have repeatedly warned of a "spillover" of violence from Mexico's drug violence. And both the Texan and Arizona governors have gone as far as calling for the deployment of the US national guard to the US-Mexico border. But others have disputed the concept of Mexican violence bleeding over the border. Al Jazeera's Monica Villamizar went to Phoenix, Arizona, to try and separate fact from fiction....
Cuiliacan, in the Mexican province of Sinaloa, is one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports on the casualties of Mexico's spiraling drug violence.
CNN reports on the Travels of Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton to Mexico to "assure" the Aid of the US to help fight the Mexican Drug Cartel growing violence.
Bill O'Reilly, Marc Lamont Hill, and Marc Thiessen debate whether or not the United States is responsible for the rise in drug violence on the Mexican Border. Hill argues that NAFTA, as well as America's demand for drugs, has produced the very problem that they're attempting to fix.
Juan Carlos Hidalgo on Violence in Mexico on BBC www.cato.org
www.instablogs.com Mexico drug war: Ciudad Juarez Military vehicles escorted the new Juarez police chief, Col. Alfonso Cristobal Melgar, through the city on Monday as the Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz announced the new police chief as well as a new director of police and an intelligence director for the city, all of whom are military. Many Juarez citizens were skeptical at first but now seem to support the military takeover as means in combatting the Drug Cartels, corruption and ...
Mexico's growing drug violence is now considered a "national security threat" by the United States, as the wave of drug-related killings and attacks in Mexico continues to mount. There is a growing worry among US officials that the bloodshed will spill over into the United States as Mexican authorities struggle to curb power of the drug cartels.
CNN reports on the growing number of dead bodies as a result of the Drug War between the Mexican Government & the Drug Cartel. Such a numerous amount of dead have arrived at the Mexican morgues that there is no room left to store them. More than 1000 are from the first 8 weeks of 2009 alone.
STORY: Drug violence has reemerged in Tijuana, along Mexico's northern border with the United States, as authorities discovered three beheaded victims, some 500 meters from the fence that separates Mexico from the US Violence of this kind had not been seen in Tijuana since authorities said there was an attempt for a truce between rival gangs. Meanwhile hundreds of heavily armed soldiers fanned out across Mexico's bloodiest drug war city—Ciudad Juarez—trying to prevent a collapse ...
(March 5, 2009) Beheadings, assassinations, gun battles on the street - Mexico is ground zero in the global war on drugs. US media focuses on the spread of violence north of the border, as drug cartels spread fear and intimidation south of it. What will it take for Mexico to beat the drug lords? Sources: Once Noticias, Mexico; TeleSur, Venezuela; TVE, Spain; Galavision, Mexico; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; NBC, US; CNN, US; Fox News, US; BBC News Online, UK; Stratfor Global Intelligence, US ...
Have we had enough yet? What is it going to take to wake the American people up to the fact that their country is being overrun with foreigners who have no great love of this country, but who only want to make a buck at any expense. Should not the violence on the Mexican-American border be a warning to us all of what is waiting for all of America if this illegal immigration is not stopped? How long will we wait until we take control of our border? I say that when the troops start coming home ...
Since January 2007 there have been more than 6800 drug-war related deaths in Mexico, and Mexican drug cartels continue to expand their operations in American cities. Washington's response has been to expand its prohibitionist efforts with the Mérida Initiative, a USMexico anti-drug-trafficking program. Historically, however, prohibitionist policies have had little success in reducing the flow of drugs. Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato's Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies ...
The drug violence in Mexico has gotten so bad that booming numbers of Mexican and American professionals are having their cars fitted with armor, bulletproof glass and James Bond-style gadgets. (March 4)
Mexico's drug war & violence have spilled over the US borders and the Dem homeland security secretary is still denying it.
Drug-cartel fueled violence has turned into a war in Mexico, with thousands of deaths and the government battling well-armed gangs whose military-quality weapons come mostly from US dealers. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.
The Mexican government ordered the deployment of army troops in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, the country's most dangerous city where drug cartel-related violence left 250 people dead this past month. (March 1)
2009-02-27 [FOXNEWS] Mexico drug violence on US Border
Drug Gang violence in Mexico is escalating and spreading to the USA.
In an interview with The Associated Press CEO Tom Curley, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Mexico is making progress and hopes to win the war against the world's most powerful drug gangs before his term ends in 2012. (Feb. 26)
In an interview with The Associated Press CEO Tom Curley, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Mexico is making progress and hopes to win the war against the world's most powerful drug gangs before his term ends in 2012. (Feb. 26)
NBC Nightly News story Feb. 25th,. 2009 Drug runners powered by US guns Feb. 25: As Mexico's drug violence spills into the US and officials warn tourists of the danger, Mexican officials say more than 90 percent of all drug trafficking weapons are obtained from dealers and gun shows in the US NBC's Mark Potter reports. One has to ask "Why?" would Mexican drug lords take the trouble to 'buy' and 'smuggle' US weapons BACK to Mexico ...when full auto weapons can be easily obtained by bribing ...
I wonder if this will be a catalyst to start up the North American Union? Drug violence crosses border 2:35 CNN's Samantha Hayes takes a look at how Mexico's drug violence is spreading into the United States.
Mexico's ongoing war with drug smuggling cartels claimed more than 5300 lives last year and one of the most violent places in the Latin American nation is Ciudad Juarez, right across the border from the US city of El Paso, Texas. Drug cartel killers have decapitated policemen, shot up restaurants and left bodies on streets all over the city of over 1300000 people. El Paso remains relatively calm.
This chilling video shows the violence of Mexican drug gangs in Phoenix, which is now the kidnapping capital of America, thanks to our open borders policies. Don't forget that Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano presided over the state while this was happening, and she's now running Homeland Security. Do you feel safe with her at the top?
A drug related kidnapping ended in the deaths of 21 people, after executions and gun battles. The police chief of Cancun has also been detained for a possible drug-related killing. (Feb. 11)
Santiago Meza Lopez, a stocky 45-year-old taken into custody after a raid near Ensenada, was identified as the pozolero who liquefied the bodies of victims for lieutenants of the Arellano Felix drug cartel. Authorities say he laid claim to stuffing 300 bodies into barrels of lye, then dumping some of the liquefied remains in a pit in a hillside compound in eastern Tijuana. His capture riveted Mexico with sickening details behind drug violence that has left more than 8000 dead in two years ...
www.instablogs.com Mexican drug war is a de facto turf war between rival drug cartels and government forces. As cartels get dismantled or left without leaders violent power struggles erupt over who takes their place. At present, these powerfully organized crime syndicates have aligned themselves into 2 blocks led by Gulf Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel. These two blocks are involved in massive, violent turf wars currently being carried out throughout Mexico with the help of their own private army ...
Nearly 300 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since the beginning of the year. As the violence grows, the government has just received another $400m from the US to help fight drug crime. Al Jazeera's Franc Contreras reports from Mexico City on the government's war on drugs.
We all know that President Obama has his plate full, having inherited a struggling economy and two wars when he took the oath of office on Tuesday. But a third war demands his attention as well: the ongoing drug-related violence in Mexico. Drug-related violence has been on the rise, and in Obama's January 12th meeting with Mexican President Felipe Caldero, he pledged to continue to support Mexico's crackdown on the drug cartels. But why is violence on the rise, given that Mexico has been ...
Homeland Security Has Plan If Mexico Drug Violence Spreads To US. www.nationalterroralert.com www.elpasotimes.com
Drug wars Mexico www.youtube.com More drug wars www.youtube.com Mexican drug cartel www.youtube.com Drug wars for the control of Tijuana Mexico. Arellano Felix cartel controls the western Tijuana drug mafia. Drug boss Teodoro Garcia Simental controls drug trafficking eastern Tijuana Video by Wyatt Kaldenberg
Today, Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice visited the Mexican foreign minister, Patricia Espinosa. An estimated 4000 people have been killed due to drug-related violence in Mexico this year, with a significant rise in recent weeks. Rodolfo de la Garza, a Columbia University political science professor, speaks with Martin Savidge about the US connection to Mexicos surge of drug violence. De la Garza attributes this violence to increased state challenges to the drug cartels in areas they claim ...
July 15, 2008 -- Lou Dobbs Tonight // Drug violence continues to wreak havoc on Mexican cities, and the violence is spilling over the border and directly feeding the violence in cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Mexican drug cartels have infiltrated nearly 200 cities across the US says a recent report by the National Drug Intelligence Center. That report found that Mexican drug cartels are "the most pervasive organizational threat to the United States," active in every region ...
For more then a year Mexican authorities have been trying to dismantle the country's drug cartels. Heavily armed drug gangs have retaliated by assassinating top police chiefs and the military has been called in to help. Recent intelligence reports say the drug traffickers are fighting back by joining forces to create a new 'mega-cartel' and the Mexican people are caught in the middle. Elmer Mendoza is an Author who lives in Culiacan, one of Mexico's most violent cities, this is his story in ...
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www.mexicodefense.com 51 Batallon de Infanteria. Four purported drug traffickers were killed in a shootout Monday with soldiers in Michoacán, the second deadly clash in a week between traffickers and troops in the same remote, mountainous region. Three men and one woman were killed during the clash, said Magdalena Guzmán, spokeswoman for the state prosecutor´s office. Plagued by drug violence, Michoacán is the target of a military-led anti-drug offensive. Last week, five soldiers, including ...
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