MEXICANS ARE THE MOST RACIST AND VIOLENT CULTURE ON THE
HEMISPHERE!
Why are beheadings so popular with
Mexico's drug gangs?
By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers
CUERNAVACA, Mexico — The
preferred form of cruelty by drug cartel henchmen is to capture enemies and
behead them, a once-shocking act that has now become numbingly routine.
Since March 22,
authorities have come across four separate grisly scenes of beheaded bodies, in
one case with several heads placed neatly in a row.
Dozens of people have
been decapitated in recent months, most of them apparently members of rival
drug gangs locked in turf battles over narcotics routes, betrayals of loyalty
and territorial influence.
One morning earlier this
week, four bodies were thrown on a sidewalk along a service road of radiator
shops and garages abutting the main highway leading from Mexico's capital
through this city to the south and on to Acapulco, the Pacific beach resort.
One of the bodies was missing its head.
As is usual in
drug-related beheadings, a sign was left next to the bodies. It was addressed
to Edgar Valdez Villarreal, a Mexican-American drug trafficker known by the
nickname La Barbie because his light complexion makes him look like Ken, the
companion of the Barbie doll. "Here are your homosexuals," the note
began. "This will happen to all the traitors and those who support
you."
Within hours, government
workers had carted away the bodies and scrubbed the scene nearly clean of
bloodstains. Locals declined to talk.
Decapitations by drug
cartels in Mexico first began in 2006, and that year armed thugs swaggered onto
the white tile dance floor of the Sol y Sombra discotheque in Uruapan, a town
in Michoacan state, and dumped five heads from plastic garbage bags.
The blood-curdling act
shocked Mexico, and evoked images of Islamic terrorism half a world away.
"These guys are
copying the methods of al Qaida (terrorists)," said Jorge Chabat, a
criminal justice expert at the Center for Research and Teaching of Economics in
Mexico City. He said the Mexican drug lords saw Internet video of beheadings of
hostages captured by Muslim extremists in Iraq and Pakistan, and adopted the
tactic themselves, down to the posting of video on the internet.
Decapitations emerged
alongside another gruesome tactic — dumping the bodies of rivals in vats of
acid. Cartel goons have moved away from that method, however.
"Dissolving the
bodies in acid didn't bring them the same spectacular results," said
Arturo Arango Duran, a security consultant in Monterrey, the industrial and
business hub in the nation's north, referring to media coverage. "This is
all part of a plan to use publicity to control territory through terror."
Experts suggest that the
drug gangs have several motives. First, they seek to use beheadings to cow the
citizenry from squealing on them and to pressure local authorities to
collaborate. Second, the gangs try to out-macho each other with greater acts of
macabre violence, frightening rivals in a murderous spiral.
The only hitch is that
all the drug gangs have taken up beheadings.
"Even though
everybody does it, it still works. That's the problem," Chabat said.
"If you're a trafficker and you know that this is part of the game, the
idea of having your head decapitated is not attractive."
National print media in
Mexico now downplay the beheadings, giving them scant paragraphs and limiting
the publicity the cartels once received.
The pace of drug-related
violence is quickening. March was the bloodiest month yet with 958 deaths, El
Universal newspaper reported Thursday. Since President Felipe Calderon took
office in late 2006, confronting drug cartels, 18,757 people have died, it
said.
"They are plumbing
the depths of brutality now — the beheading of people, dissolving people in
acid, doing the massacres in addiction centers, you know, throwing peoples'
bodies in ditches," said Bruce Bagley, an expert on narcotics trafficking
at the University of Miami.
Beheadings in recent
days occurred across the country:
- In Acapulco on the Pacific Coast, two nephews of the
city's deputy transit director were found dismembered and beheaded on
March 22. A sign near the bodies said it was vengeance against those who
supported drug lord Hector Beltran Leyva, a bitter rival of La Barbie.
- On a rural highway north of Monterrey, the beheaded
bodies of a rural police chief and his brother were found in a Chevrolet
pickup truck March 26. Assailants used the blood from the victims to
scrawl "CDG," the Spanish initials for the Gulf Cartel, on the
windshield and the driver's door.
The
Gulf Cartel, based in Tamaulipas state, is locked in a bloody feud with a group
that once provided muscle to its leaders. The armed wing, known as Los Zetas,
struck out on its own in 2008, and the killings between the two have continued
nonstop.
- In Apatzingan, a city of 100,000 people in Michoacan
state, four heads were left in a row next to a statue to Lazaro Cardenas,
a former president, on March 31. A sign said it was vengeance by enforcers
of the brutal criminal drug gang known as La Familia against Los Zetas,
and suggested that a Zetas chief known as "Rufo," should search
for an Internet video to see how the beheadings were carried out. (A video
was posted on the Web, but YouTube removed it, citing a "terms of use
violation.")
In an indication of the
frequency of decapitations, local media in Michoacan said Apatzingan alone has
been the scene of 18 beheadings since the beginning of the year.
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'El Loco' Arrested After 49 Beheaded Bodies Found
By RANDY KREIDER | ABC News -- 11 hrs ago...
'El Loco' Arrested After 49 Beheaded . . .
Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico.
When the Mexican Army came to arrest Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, say authorities, Ramirez attempted to elude capture by shooting at troops and throwing a fragmentation grenade. Zetas commanders nicknamed The Shrimp and The Speaker have also been linked to the body dump, but officials have not yet apprehended them.
The mutilated bodies of 43 men and six women were found near Cadereyta, Mexico on May 13. Though the condition of the bodies made it difficult to identify any of them, some physical features and tattoos indicated that they may have been migrants from southern Mexico and Central America.
A graphic seven-minute video posted on the web last week allegedly showed gunmen dumping the bodies, and then flourishing a "narcobanner" "signed" by El Loco and two other alleged Zetas commanders.
The banner warned that the same fate would befall members of rival cartels, the police and the military. The video is still available on-line, though a version that was posted on YouTube has been removed. The first version that appeared on YouTube was posted by someone who claimed to be a Zeta.
After the bodies were discovered in Cadereyta, the Zetas posted new "narcobanners" throughout Northern Mexico condemning the murders, but Mexican officials claimed they had only done so to create confusion about responsibility for the deaths.
The Zetas, who dominate much of eastern and northern Mexico, are battling the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa cartel for dominance in Nuevo Leon and other Mexican states. Founded by former members of the Mexican military, the Zetas have a reputation for violence.
During a press conference in Mexico City, Brig. General Edgar Ruiz Villegas Melendez alleged that "El Loco" had been told to dump the bodies in the town square of Cadereyta but instead chose to dump them on a nearby highway. Villegas claimed that Ramirez, who was arrested Sunday, had confessed to dumping the corpses and said he'd done so on the orders of Zeta leaders.
El Loco is also a suspect in the kidnapping, murder and dismembering of two women last year, one of them the girlfriend of an Army lieutenant. He was mistakenly reported killed during an operation to apprehend the alleged kidnapers. He sent a taunting message to the Mexican media that said, "I'm still alive ... El Loco of the Zetas."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/el-loc...ry?id=16398875
By RANDY KREIDER | ABC News -- 11 hrs ago...
'El Loco' Arrested After 49 Beheaded . . .
Authorities have arrested an alleged Zetas drug cartel leader nicknamed "El Loco," AKA the Fool or the Crazy One, on charges that he dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway outside Monterrey, Mexico.
When the Mexican Army came to arrest Daniel Elizondo Jesus Ramirez, say authorities, Ramirez attempted to elude capture by shooting at troops and throwing a fragmentation grenade. Zetas commanders nicknamed The Shrimp and The Speaker have also been linked to the body dump, but officials have not yet apprehended them.
The mutilated bodies of 43 men and six women were found near Cadereyta, Mexico on May 13. Though the condition of the bodies made it difficult to identify any of them, some physical features and tattoos indicated that they may have been migrants from southern Mexico and Central America.
A graphic seven-minute video posted on the web last week allegedly showed gunmen dumping the bodies, and then flourishing a "narcobanner" "signed" by El Loco and two other alleged Zetas commanders.
The banner warned that the same fate would befall members of rival cartels, the police and the military. The video is still available on-line, though a version that was posted on YouTube has been removed. The first version that appeared on YouTube was posted by someone who claimed to be a Zeta.
After the bodies were discovered in Cadereyta, the Zetas posted new "narcobanners" throughout Northern Mexico condemning the murders, but Mexican officials claimed they had only done so to create confusion about responsibility for the deaths.
The Zetas, who dominate much of eastern and northern Mexico, are battling the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa cartel for dominance in Nuevo Leon and other Mexican states. Founded by former members of the Mexican military, the Zetas have a reputation for violence.
During a press conference in Mexico City, Brig. General Edgar Ruiz Villegas Melendez alleged that "El Loco" had been told to dump the bodies in the town square of Cadereyta but instead chose to dump them on a nearby highway. Villegas claimed that Ramirez, who was arrested Sunday, had confessed to dumping the corpses and said he'd done so on the orders of Zeta leaders.
El Loco is also a suspect in the kidnapping, murder and dismembering of two women last year, one of them the girlfriend of an Army lieutenant. He was mistakenly reported killed during an operation to apprehend the alleged kidnapers. He sent a taunting message to the Mexican media that said, "I'm still alive ... El Loco of the Zetas."
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/el-loc...ry?id=16398875
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CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY
GEN KAMALA HARRIS DECLARES THAT NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN MEXIFORNIA ARE BY
MEXICAN GANGS. REALLY WANT OBAMA’S OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS AS HE SQUANDERS
BILLIONS MONTHLY DEFENDING MUSLIM DICTATORS’ BORDERS OVER THERE???
CNN RECENTLY REPORTED THAT THE NUMBER OF MEX GANG
MEMBERS EXCEEDS ONE MILLION!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000
gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in
our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to
import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert
joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why
he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug
gangs.
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Threat grows as Mexican cartels move to
beef up U.S. presence
By William Booth and Nick Miroff
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, October 19, 2010; 1:36 AM
Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, October 19, 2010; 1:36 AM
SAN DIEGO -- When a major Mexican drug
cartel opened a branch office here on the California side of the border, U.S.
authorities tapped into their cellphones - then listened, watched and waited.
Their surveillance effort captured more
than 50,000 calls over six months, conversations that reached deep into Mexico and helped build a
sprawling case against 43 suspects - including Mexican police and top officials
- allegedly linked to a savage trafficking ring known as the Fernando Sanchez
Organization.
According to the wiretaps and
confidential informants, the suspects plotted kidnappings and killings and
hired American teenage girls, with nicknames like Dopey, to smuggle
quarter-pound loads of methamphetamine across the border for $100 a trip. To
send a message to a rival, they dumped a disemboweled dog in his mother's front
yard.
But U.S. law enforcement officials say
the most worrisome thing about the Fernando Sanchez Organization was how
aggressively it moved to set up operations in the United States, working out of
a San Diego apartment it called "The Office."
At a time of heightened concern in
Washington that drug violence along the border may spill into the United
States, the case dubbed "Luz Verde," or Green Light, shows how
Mexican cartels are trying to build up their U.S. presence.
The Fernando Sanchez Organization's San
Diego venture functioned almost like a franchise, prosecutors say, giving it
greater control over lucrative smuggling routes and drug distribution networks
north of the border.
"They moved back and forth, from
one side to the other. They commuted. We had lieutenants of the organization
living here in San Diego and ordering kidnappings and murders in Mexico,"
said Todd Robinson, the assistant U.S. attorney who will prosecute the alleged
drug ring next year.
The case shows that as the border
becomes less of an operational barrier for Mexican cartels, it appears to be
less of one for U.S. surveillance efforts. Because the suspects' cellphone and
radio traffic could be captured by towers on the northern side of the border,
U.S. agents were able to eavesdrop on calls made on Mexican cellphones, between
two callers in Mexico - a tactic prosecutors say has never been deployed so
extensively.
Captured on one wiretap: a cartel
leader, a former homicide detective from Tijuana, negotiating with a Mexican
state judicial police officer about a job offer to lead a death squad.
Recorded on other calls: the
operation's biggest catch, Jesus Quinones Marquez, a high-ranking Mexican
official and alleged cartel operative code-named "El Rinon," or
"The Kidney." As he worked and socialized with U.S. law enforcement
officials in his role as international liaison for the Baja California attorney
general's office, Quinones passed confidential information to cartel bosses and
directed Mexican police to take action against rival traffickers, prosecutors
say.
He and 34 other suspects are now in
U.S. jails. The remaining eight are still at large.
Investigators say it is not unusual for
Mexican cartel leaders and their underlings to move north to seek refuge, or
place representatives in such cities as Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta to
manage large deliveries of drugs. But the Fernando Sanchez Organization was
more ambitious. It was building a network in San Diego, complete with senior
managers to facilitate large and small drug shipments and sales.
Cross-border network
The gang is an offshoot of the Tijuana
cartel, led by baby-faced Fernando Sanchez Arellano, a nephew of the once
fearsome Arellano-Felix brothers who ran the Tijuana drug trade for almost 20
years before they were captured or killed. The nephew's organization is a
weaker syndicate, at war with itself and rivals, police say, and locked in a
desperate struggle to maintain market share in the highly competitive
billion-dollar drug corridor into California.
Unlike the cartel crews in Mexico,
which are typically built on strong ties between families or friends, the San
Diego franchise recruited from U.S.-based Latino street gangs. Some were
illegal immigrants, others U.S. citizens, according to arrest warrants. Twelve
of the 43 indicted have alleged gang affiliations in San Diego. Six of the 43
are current or former Mexican law enforcement officers. Eight are women.
"You couldn't pick these people
out of a crowd," said Leonard Miranda, a retired captain in the Chula
Vista, Calif., police department who worked on the investigation. "Some of
them kept a very low profile. Their family members didn't even know."
According to the 86-page federal
racketeering indictment unsealed July 23, cartel members operated stash houses,
managed smuggling crews, distributed marijuana and methamphetamine, trafficked
weapons, laundered money, committed robberies and collected drug debts. When
people did not pay, they were kidnapped or targeted with execution on both
sides of the border.
U.S. authorities say the wiretaps
allowed them to foil murder plots and other violent acts. The assistant special
agent in charge of the San Diego FBI office, David Bowdich, said his teams
stopped the execution of two Mexican police officers. The authorities also
saved a cartel associate called "Sharky" who was going to be killed
because he had disrespected drug lords in Tijuana.
Troubling signs
From their apartments by the beach or
cars parked at motels, the targets of the investigation talked and talked on
their cellphones.
They almost always spoke in Spanish,
usually in clipped code, with lots of street slang. They bought and quickly
discarded the phones. Top lieutenants often employed "alineadores,"
personal assistants who juggled a dozen phones and took messages so that the
boss would not be heard on the line. Investigators say the alleged cartel
members clearly were afraid that their calls could be monitored.
And they were right. In February, the
FBI secured hard-to-get "roving" wiretaps for 44 individuals that
allowed investigators to track their movements via global positioning
satellites.
According to U.S. law enforcement
officials, the Mexican government was not involved in the investigation.
Quinones, the high-ranking Mexican
official, was a close adviser to Attorney General Rommel Moreno, the top
prosecutor in Mexico's Baja California state. He was arrested July 22 when U.S.
agents invited him to the San Diego police department to help with an
investigation. It was a setup.
"My client's gone from a
cross-border international liaison officer to a guy in a 10-by-10-foot
isolation cell in lockdown 23 hours a day," said his defense attorney,
Patrick Hall, who described Quinones as "a normal dad with three kids,
married 11 years, who lived in Tijuana all his adult life and was one of the
dads out there at the Little League baseball games."
Hall said the federal agents were
"reading in facts and interpretations and distortions into the true
meanings of what's being said on the wiretaps."
Quinones's arrest has almost certainly
dealt a blow to efforts at cross-border information sharing and collaboration,
though officials on both sides played down the apparent betrayal. "Would
you stop going to church just because of one bad priest?" Quinones's boss,
Moreno, said in an interview in Tijuana.
But the U.S. wiretaps also detected
other troubling signs of corruption.
On the day of the mass arrests, U.S.
agents arranged for suspected drug lieutenant Jose Najera Gil to pick up visa
documents he was seeking from the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana. But the Mexican
police who were supposed to arrest him at the consulate failed to show up.
A day before the arrests, another
Mexican police officer, Jose Ortega Nuvo, received a call on his cellphone,
which was being tapped by U.S agents. The caller warned him that he was about
to be arrested. According to court testimony, the call came from the offices of
the federal police in Mexico City - a special unit vetted to work alongside
agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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MEXICANS ARE THE MOST VIOLENT AND
RACIST OF ANY CULTURE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE!
WHILE WE SQUANDER BILLIONS OVER
THERE PROTECTING BIG BUSH SAUDIS INTERESTS, OUR OWN BORDERS ARE DELIBERATELY
LEFT OPEN AND UNDEFENDED TO ASSURE LA RAZA AN EASY WAY INTO TO OUR JOBS.
YOU WILL NOT FIND EVEN ONE LA RAZA
DEM, Obama, Clinton, Feinstein, Boxer, Waxman, Becerra, Lofgren or Reid, THAT
ARE NOT BANKROLLED BY THE SPECIAL INTERESTS THAT BENEFIT FROM CHEAP LABOR
ILLEGALS AND THE DEPRESSED WAGES ($300 TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR!!!) THE MEXICAN
INVASION AND OCCUPATION CAUSES.
IN THE LA RAZA INFESTED STATE OF
MEXIFORNIA, WHICH PUTS OUT $20 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS
AGAINST DEFICITS OF $28 BILLION. CA HAS
UNEMPLOYMENT LEVELS AT NEARLY 30% IN SOME COUNTIES, HOWEVER LA RAZA JERRY BROWN
JUST SIGNED A BILL TO LAW MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY.
THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT (8) STATES
WITH A POPULATION GREATER THAN LOS ANGELES COUNTY, WHERE HALF OF THOSE WITH A
JOB ARE ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! THIS SAME COUNTY PUTS
OUT (ABOVE STATE COSTS) $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR HAS
DECLARED LOS ANGELES THE MEXICAN GANG CAPITAL OF AMERICA!
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CA, KAMALA
HARRIS DECLARES THAT NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS. OF
HARRIS’ TOP 10 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS, ALL ARE MEXICANS! OF THE TOP 200 MOST
WANTED CRIMINALS IN LOS ANGELES, 176 ARE MEXICANS, THE REST MOSTLY RUSSIANS!
OBAMA PUNKED A NATION BIG TIME WITH
HIS CRAP ON “CHANGE”. WE KNOW WHAT KIND OF CHANGE HE MEANT. THE KIND HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS BOUGHT.
OBAMA IS NOTHING BUT BUSH’S THIRD TERM, WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT NO ADMIN IN
HISTORY HAS MORE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST PARTY MEMBERS THAN OBAMA! OBAMA NOT ONLY
HISPANDERS FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES, SABOTAGES OUR BORDERS TO ASSURE A STEADY
FLOW OF LA RAZA OVER OUR BORDERS, HE !
FUNDS! THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY OF LA RAZA OUT OF OUR TAX DOLLARS!
Police find 11 decapitated bodies in Mexico
Last Updated: Friday, August 29, 2008
The Associated Press
Police in southern Mexico found two piles of decapitated
bodies containing the remains of 11 men on Thursday.
Photos of the crime scene showed headless corpses stacked on
top of one another in a field outside the city of Merida. Some of the bodies
had tattoos and were jumbled amid blankets and tarps.
The heads were not immediately found.
It appeared to be the largest single group of beheadings in
recent years in Mexico. The tactic has become more frequent in gangland-style
killings, and the largest previous instance of decapitations occurred in 2006,
when gunmen tossed five human heads into a bar in central Mexico.
The federal attorney general's office confirmed there were
11 dead and it was taking over the investigation — a move that usually
indicates a case involves high-calibre weapons or drug trafficking, both
federal offences.
Merida, located on the Yucatan Peninsula, had largely been
spared the drug-gang violence afflicting many other Mexican cities.
…….
ON OUR OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BORDERS
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MEXICO UNDER SIEGE
Drug war bodies are piling up in Mexico
The heap of 11 decapitated bodies found in Yucatan shows
that the battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade knows no
boundaries.
By Ken Ellingwood
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 30, 2008
MEXICO CITY — The sickening discovery this week of 11 headless bodies heaped like broken dolls near the colonial city of Merida underscored a bitter lesson for Mexico: The battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade knows no boundaries.
The bodies are piling up nationwide, even in normally tranquil and touristy spots such as Merida, not far from the Maya ruins of Chichen Itza.
During a seven-day period ended Friday, more than 130 people died violently throughout the country. Headless bodies turned up in four states, including Baja California.
The Yucatan peninsula, strategically close to smuggling routes through Central America, tallied 12, after another decapitated body was found a few hours later Thursday about 80 miles east of the carnage near Merida.
Mexico's drug wars used to play out mainly in smuggling battlegrounds along the U.S. border, such as Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. But a crackdown launched 21 months ago by President Felipe Calderon has exacerbated feuding among drug traffickers for control of smuggling routes.
As a result, the country convulses with daily violence that shows a new and disturbing geographic reach and viciousness.
"The bottom line is you've got a major internecine battle, a kind of civil war among drug cartels," said Bruce Bagley, a security and drug-trafficking expert at the University of Miami. "It has intensified because the stakes are high. There's a great deal of money to be made."
But traffickers are keenly aware of the psychological effect on enemies and ordinary Mexicans when they chop off rivals' heads and leave threatening notes with the remains.
Some analysts say tactics such as beheadings, once unheard of in Mexico's drug underworld, are akin to terrorism because part of the goal is to scare civilians so that they will press the government to back off. Calderon has sent 40,000 troops and 5,000 federal police officers into the streets as part of the campaign against organized crime.
"You're sending a signal to the Calderon government, to the police, that you mean business," said Fred Burton, vice president for counter-terrorism at Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based intelligence firm. " 'This is the result when you don't play ball with us.' "
Last week, the Calderon government announced a broad new blueprint for fighting crime, including better coordination between federal and local authorities, new federal prisons, improved tracking of cellphones and tougher steps against money laundering.
Calderon administration officials said Thursday night that the Yucatan beheadings and other spectacular displays of violence show that arrests and drug seizures have hurt the cartels, prompting them to lash out with increasing savagery.
"They have to respond in a symbolic way that creates uncertainty in the public -- this is what they have been doing during the last months," Atty. Gen. Eduardo Medina Mora said late Thursday during an interview on Mexican television.
Since Saturday, Mexico has tallied at least 136 killings across 18 of its 31 states, according to Mexican news media accounts. They included especially brazen attacks:
* On Thursday, the day the headless bodies were found near Merida, gunmen stormed a house in the Pacific state of Guerrero, killing two women and two girls, ages 8 and 12. Two police officers were ambushed and slain in a gun battle as they raced to the home.
* An armed group battled Mexican troops Wednesday in the central state of Guanajuato. Four gunmen died and two soldiers were wounded.
* Four decapitated bodies turned up Tuesday in Tijuana. Those killings appeared to be linked to a power struggle between drug traffickers who once collaborated as part of the Arellano Felix gang. Headless bodies also were found in Sinaloa and the northern state of Durango.
Two weeks ago, a hit squad killed 13 people, including a 16-month-old boy, at a family gathering in the northern town of Creel, a tourist gateway to the scenic Copper Canyon region.
Hardly a day goes by without new accounts of violence. Unofficial tallies by Mexican news outlets put the death toll from drug violence this year at more than 2,600. By some counts, it has already exceeded the total for 2007, which set a record.
Police officers have died at an alarming rate. The daily Milenio newspaper reported Friday that 71 officers had been slain nationwide in August -- the highest monthly toll since Calderon launched his crime offensive in December 2006.
Some of Mexico's more than 300,000 local and state police officers have been killed by drug hit men while carrying out their duties. But others have worked as hired gunmen for drug smugglers, and become targets of rival gangs. when one gang takes on another.
The violence has left Mexicans increasingly unsettled. They are unnerved by the steady stream of bloody news and pessimistic about the government's odds of winning, polls show. Many Mexicans tend to view the drug killings as largely a matter among criminal gangs, but the violence is increasingly claiming innocents, and showing up in new spots.
The Yucatan peninsula, though part of an important coastal smuggling corridor for cocaine shipped from Colombia, has not traditionally been a place where drug traffickers have battled.
But it has become an increasingly important transit route for narcotics relayed by land from neighboring Guatemala. That, and a growing local market for illegal drugs, has heightened competition for control, Bagley said.
Traffickers have resorted to decapitating rivals during the last two years.
Thursday, a young farmer came upon the heap of bodies, which according to some Mexican news accounts were covered with tattoos and bore signs of torture. Some of the accounts speculated that the killings might have been the work of the Zetas, a group of paramilitary-style hit men for the Gulf cartel who are known for extreme violence.
Gov. Ivonne Ortega Pacheco said in a television interview that anonymous callers had been demanding that authorities remove road checkpoints "and let them work." Ortega said the callers became more menacing about two weeks ago, threatening that bodies would start to turn up.
But Ortega said the roadblocks would remain in place. In a separate broadcast message, she sought to reassure Yucatan's residents.
"Yucatan is a peaceful state of hardworking people," she said. "We can't let any lawbreakers affect our families' tranquillity."
As Ortega spoke, news reports were circulating of the discovery of four bodies, 1,500 miles away in the northern border state of Sonora. Three had been beheaded.
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 30, 2008
MEXICO CITY — The sickening discovery this week of 11 headless bodies heaped like broken dolls near the colonial city of Merida underscored a bitter lesson for Mexico: The battle to control the multibillion-dollar drug trade knows no boundaries.
The bodies are piling up nationwide, even in normally tranquil and touristy spots such as Merida, not far from the Maya ruins of Chichen Itza.
During a seven-day period ended Friday, more than 130 people died violently throughout the country. Headless bodies turned up in four states, including Baja California.
The Yucatan peninsula, strategically close to smuggling routes through Central America, tallied 12, after another decapitated body was found a few hours later Thursday about 80 miles east of the carnage near Merida.
Mexico's drug wars used to play out mainly in smuggling battlegrounds along the U.S. border, such as Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez. But a crackdown launched 21 months ago by President Felipe Calderon has exacerbated feuding among drug traffickers for control of smuggling routes.
As a result, the country convulses with daily violence that shows a new and disturbing geographic reach and viciousness.
"The bottom line is you've got a major internecine battle, a kind of civil war among drug cartels," said Bruce Bagley, a security and drug-trafficking expert at the University of Miami. "It has intensified because the stakes are high. There's a great deal of money to be made."
But traffickers are keenly aware of the psychological effect on enemies and ordinary Mexicans when they chop off rivals' heads and leave threatening notes with the remains.
Some analysts say tactics such as beheadings, once unheard of in Mexico's drug underworld, are akin to terrorism because part of the goal is to scare civilians so that they will press the government to back off. Calderon has sent 40,000 troops and 5,000 federal police officers into the streets as part of the campaign against organized crime.
"You're sending a signal to the Calderon government, to the police, that you mean business," said Fred Burton, vice president for counter-terrorism at Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based intelligence firm. " 'This is the result when you don't play ball with us.' "
Last week, the Calderon government announced a broad new blueprint for fighting crime, including better coordination between federal and local authorities, new federal prisons, improved tracking of cellphones and tougher steps against money laundering.
Calderon administration officials said Thursday night that the Yucatan beheadings and other spectacular displays of violence show that arrests and drug seizures have hurt the cartels, prompting them to lash out with increasing savagery.
"They have to respond in a symbolic way that creates uncertainty in the public -- this is what they have been doing during the last months," Atty. Gen. Eduardo Medina Mora said late Thursday during an interview on Mexican television.
Since Saturday, Mexico has tallied at least 136 killings across 18 of its 31 states, according to Mexican news media accounts. They included especially brazen attacks:
* On Thursday, the day the headless bodies were found near Merida, gunmen stormed a house in the Pacific state of Guerrero, killing two women and two girls, ages 8 and 12. Two police officers were ambushed and slain in a gun battle as they raced to the home.
* An armed group battled Mexican troops Wednesday in the central state of Guanajuato. Four gunmen died and two soldiers were wounded.
* Four decapitated bodies turned up Tuesday in Tijuana. Those killings appeared to be linked to a power struggle between drug traffickers who once collaborated as part of the Arellano Felix gang. Headless bodies also were found in Sinaloa and the northern state of Durango.
Two weeks ago, a hit squad killed 13 people, including a 16-month-old boy, at a family gathering in the northern town of Creel, a tourist gateway to the scenic Copper Canyon region.
Hardly a day goes by without new accounts of violence. Unofficial tallies by Mexican news outlets put the death toll from drug violence this year at more than 2,600. By some counts, it has already exceeded the total for 2007, which set a record.
Police officers have died at an alarming rate. The daily Milenio newspaper reported Friday that 71 officers had been slain nationwide in August -- the highest monthly toll since Calderon launched his crime offensive in December 2006.
Some of Mexico's more than 300,000 local and state police officers have been killed by drug hit men while carrying out their duties. But others have worked as hired gunmen for drug smugglers, and become targets of rival gangs. when one gang takes on another.
The violence has left Mexicans increasingly unsettled. They are unnerved by the steady stream of bloody news and pessimistic about the government's odds of winning, polls show. Many Mexicans tend to view the drug killings as largely a matter among criminal gangs, but the violence is increasingly claiming innocents, and showing up in new spots.
The Yucatan peninsula, though part of an important coastal smuggling corridor for cocaine shipped from Colombia, has not traditionally been a place where drug traffickers have battled.
But it has become an increasingly important transit route for narcotics relayed by land from neighboring Guatemala. That, and a growing local market for illegal drugs, has heightened competition for control, Bagley said.
Traffickers have resorted to decapitating rivals during the last two years.
Thursday, a young farmer came upon the heap of bodies, which according to some Mexican news accounts were covered with tattoos and bore signs of torture. Some of the accounts speculated that the killings might have been the work of the Zetas, a group of paramilitary-style hit men for the Gulf cartel who are known for extreme violence.
Gov. Ivonne Ortega Pacheco said in a television interview that anonymous callers had been demanding that authorities remove road checkpoints "and let them work." Ortega said the callers became more menacing about two weeks ago, threatening that bodies would start to turn up.
But Ortega said the roadblocks would remain in place. In a separate broadcast message, she sought to reassure Yucatan's residents.
"Yucatan is a peaceful state of hardworking people," she said. "We can't let any lawbreakers affect our families' tranquillity."
As Ortega spoke, news reports were circulating of the discovery of four bodies, 1,500 miles away in the northern border state of Sonora. Three had been beheaded.
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FBI
DIRECTOR:
"The violent MS-13 - or Mara Salvatrucha - street gang is
following the migratory routes of illegal aliens across the country, FBI
officials say, calling the Salvadoran gang the new American mafia. MS-13, has a
significant presence in the Washington area, and other gangs are spreading into
small towns and suburbs by following illegal aliens seeking work in places such
as Providence, R.I., and the Carolinas, FBI task force director Robert Clifford
said. "The migrant moves and the gang follows," said Mr. Clifford,
director of the agency's MS-13 National Gang Task Force."
INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants 2006 (First
Quarter) INS/FBI Statistical Report on Undocumented Immigrants CRIME STATISTICS
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens. 83% of
warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens. 86% of warrants for
murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens. 75% of those on the most wanted
list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens. 24.9% of all
inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here
illegally 48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican
nationals here illegally 29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our
state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually 53% plus of all
investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and
Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens. 50% plus of all gang members in Los
Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border. 71% plus of all
apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and
California were stolen by Illegal aliens or “transport coyotes". 47% of
cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no
registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens. 63% of
cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no
registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens 66% of
cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no
registration for the vehicle. Of that 66% 98% are illegal aliens.
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BESIDES DRUGS AND CRIMINALS, MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORT ARE PREGNANT
WOMEN. THEY HOP OUR BORDERS PREGNANT TO
GET “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING AND 18 YEARS OF WELFARE FOR EACH AND EVERY
CHILD THEY HAVE. THEN THEY TEACH THAT CHILD THAT THEY LIVE IN LA RAZA OCCUPIED
GRINGO-WELFARE STATE WHERE SPEAKING ENGLISH IS AS LOW AS A MEXICAN CAN GET!
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BIRTH STATISTICS 380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. in
2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically
U.S.citizens. 97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the
American taxpayers. 66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien
Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers
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