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A Day without Murder
Some noteworthy news as we approach the Day of the Dead commemoration (November 2): According to a Juarez, Mexico newspaper report, October 29, 2009 was the first day in the year 2009 to register ZERO homicides. The last previous day on...
Tags: drug war, war on drugs, drug cartel violence, homicides, most dangerous city, Juarez, femicides
Juárez War Update. Who's Winning...and Why?
Gangland-style murders, now about seven per day, continue unabated in Juárez, Mexico just across the US border from El Paso, TX despite the presence of 7,500 soldiers and an additional 2,300 federal police officers. Much like Humpty Dumpty, "all...
Tags: Operation Joint Chihuahua, drug cartel violence, Juarez Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border
Taking a Bite Out of Crime by Biting the Traffic Police!
Juarez, Mexico, our sister city, had descended into lawlessness, lamented the El Paso Times only a few months ago. As part of the ongoing effort to turn this around, 90 Juarez traffic cops who failed drug and/or polygraph tests were bounced from the...
Tags: José Reyes Ferriz, drug cartel violence, police corruption, U.S.-Mexico border
Now Harder to Enter Mexico; Will We Learn to Wait? Charritos, Anyone?
In an effort to stop the illegal importing of weapons from the U.S., Mexico has launched a new program for heightened screening of incoming vehicles. New measures will weigh all incoming cars and scan their license plates through a database. The...
Tags: Janet Napolitano, smuggling, border security procedures, illegal weapons, drug cartel violence, technology, U.S-Mexican border
Mexican Drug War Zone: A Citizen-Report from Texas USA, March 2009
Tracking the drug war is like following a moving target, if you'll forgive the pun implicit in a weaponry analogy. Constant change makes it hard to get a fix on the truth. These bullet points show some important ways that the drug wars (there are...
Tags: Mexico drug war, drug cartel violence, militarization of the border, Barack Obama, Felipe Calderón, Burce Berman, Operation Joint Chihuahua, 60 Minutes, Democracy Now, US-Mexico border
War Breaks Out in the U.S.; Geneva Convention Does Not Apply!
Speculation that the Mexican drug war would cross the border into the U.S. was both right and wrong. Right: Drug war action is already occurring in the U.S., as witnessed by kidnappings, beatings, torture and slit throats documented in U.S. cities. Wrong:...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, FBI, drug cartel violence, David Cuthbertson, Geneva Convention, Rusty Payne, Drug Enforcement Administration, Alicia Caldwell, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times
U.S. State Department Visits War-Ravaged U.S.-Mexico Border
When a U.S. State Department official accepted U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Texas) invitation to El Paso, we locals hoped for insight. Could Mexico collapse, as a recent U.S. Joint Forces Command report suggests? Will the U.S. $1.4 Billion Merida Initiative...
Tags: U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, William L. McGlynn, U.S. State Department, drug cartel violence, Merida Initiative, Chamber of Commerce, U.S.-Mexico Border, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Beto O'Rourke
What's Next: U.S. Intervention in Mexico Possible!
U.S. officials are considering heightened intervention in Mexico if the drug cartel violence continues, according to recent reports. An enhanced U.S. role in battling Mexican drug cartels could include joint operations with Mexican forces. Involvement...
Tags: drug cartel violence, U.S.-MX Border, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Silvestre Reyes, U.S. State Department, FBI, DEA, U.S. Marshals, Juarez MX, El Paso TX
“Killing each other hurts our business!”--A Bizarre Meeting at a Seafood Restaurant
When warring drug cartel representatives met up at a Mexican seafood restaurant, it raised eyebrows last month in Culiacán, Sinoloa. What did they discuss over lobster and shrimp?* They considered a truce in their bloody war over control of drug...
My Report from an Undeclared War Zone [01/23/2009]
An abandoned ice chest on a village plaza just east of Juárez, Mexico--our sister city--opened to reveal three severed human heads Tuesday. Later that day authorities fished a headless body out of a sewage canal. No identification provided--unlike...
Tags: drug cartel violence, Juarez Mexico, U.S.-Mexico Border
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