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May 13, 2012

Police Find 49 Bodies by a Highway in Mexico

By KARLA ZABLUDOVSKY

MEXICO CITY — Forty-nine mutilated bodies were found dumped along a highway on Sunday near Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest city, according to officials.

The security spokesman for the state of Nuevo León, which includes Monterrey, said that it would be difficult to identify the victims — 6 women and 43 men — because their heads, hands and legs had been cut off. It was not immediately clear when the people were killed; the bodies already showed signs of decay, officials said.

A message left near the scene suggested that the extremely violent Zetas drug cartel was responsible.

The bodies were found less than a week after officials authorized extending the army’s presence in Nuevo León and the neighboring state of Tamaulipas until the end of November. President Felipe Calderón began sending federal troops to fight organized crime syndicates in many parts of the country when he took office in 2006; violence related to the drug cartels and the crackdown on them has claimed more than 50,000 lives, most of them in states like Nuevo León near the American border.

The state attorney general, Adrián de la Garza, said the bodies were found in Cadereyta Jiménez, which is just east of Monterrey and 105 miles southwest of McAllen, Tex. Mr. de la Garza said the victims might have been migrants headed for the United States, though he pointed out that some of the bodies had tattoos of the “Santa Muerte,” the Mexican skeletal saint of death.

As the drug cartels have diversified their activities to include extortion, money laundering and human trafficking, they have taken aim at Central and South Americans passing through Mexico on their way north. Last year, the bodies of 193 people who were believed to have been migrants were discovered in a grave in San Fernando in Tamaulipas. A year earlier, 72 massacred migrants were found in the same area. The Zetas, one of the most ruthless of Mexico’s gangs, are believed to have been responsible for both mass killings.

The Zetas began as assassins for the powerful Gulf cartel, but split off in 2010 and have been waging a turf war with other criminal gangs, including the Sinaloa cartel, since then.

There have been a series of grisly discoveries in Mexico recently, including 23 bodies found in Nuevo Laredo bearing signs of torture, and 18 dismembered bodies found in vans a week later near Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city. In September 2011, 26 bodies were dumped in the heart of Guadalajara, and a month later at least 60 bodies were found in Veracruz State.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Jorge Domene, the Nuevo León state security spokesman, mentioned some of the recent massacres. But he said that the violence was taking place between criminal gangs. “This is not an attack against the civil population,” Mr. Domene said.

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8 Out of 10 Illegals Apprehended in 2010 Never Prosecuted
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Eight Out of Ten Illegal Aliens Apprehended in 2010 Never Prosecuted, Says Border Congressman

Thursday, March 17, 2011
By Edwin Mora

Washington (CNSNews.com) – An illegal alien apprehended by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency during the last fiscal year had an estimated 84 percent chance of never being prosecuted, according to figures compiled by the office of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas).

Culberson submitted the figures for the record during a hearing Wednesday of the House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security.

Of 447,731 illegal aliens apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol during fiscal year 2010 (which ended last September), only 73,263 (16.4 percent) were prosecuted, according to the submitted data. That means that 374,468 illegal aliens that were taken into custody (83.6 percent) were never prosecuted

May 13, 2012

U.S. May Scrap Costly Efforts to Train Iraqi Police

By TIM ARANGO

BAGHDAD — In the face of spiraling costs and Iraqi officials who say they never wanted it in the first place, the State Department has slashed — and may jettison entirely by the end of the year — a multibillion-dollar police training program that was to have been the centerpiece of a hugely expanded civilian mission here.

What was originally envisioned as a training cadre of about 350 American law enforcement officers was quickly scaled back to 190 and then to 100. The latest restructuring calls for 50 advisers, but most experts and even some State Department officials say even they may be withdrawn by the end of this year.

The training effort, which began in October and has already cost $500 million, was conceived of as the largest component of a mission billed as the most ambitious American aid effort since the Marshall Plan. Instead, it has emerged as the latest high-profile example of the waning American influence here following the military withdrawal, and it reflects a costly miscalculation on the part of American officials, who did not count on the Iraqi government to assert its sovereignty so aggressively.

“I think that with the departure of the military, the Iraqis decided to say, ‘O.K., how large is the American presence here?’ ” said James F. Jeffrey, the American ambassador to Iraq, in an interview. “How large should it be? How does this equate with our sovereignty? In various areas they obviously expressed some concerns.”

Last year the State Department embarked on $343 million worth of construction projects around the country to upgrade facilities to accommodate the police training program, which was to have comprised hundreds of trainers and more than 1,000 support staff members working in three cities — Baghdad, Erbil and Basra — for five years. But like so much else in the nine years of war, occupation and reconstruction here, it has not gone as planned.