Related: Drug War a Cover For North American Union
"Mexico border security, aid to Pakistan get Senate support" by Andrew Taylor, Associated Press | April 2, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Senate voted yesterday to boost aid to Pakistan and increase funds for security along the US-Mexico border, but rejected a Republican attempt to freeze spending on domestic programs.
As lawmakers continued work on a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year, the Senate approved by voice vote a plan by Senator Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, to add $550 million to the homeland security budget to protect areas along the US-Mexico border from violent drug cartels....
--more--"And then, JUST LIKE THAT (I always wonder how the double-dealing, double-crossing, drug-running government knows so much about these guys, and yet can't capture or catch them -- most of the time. Oh, stench):
"Key drug cartel leader is arrested; Suspect among most-wanted figures in Mexico" by Ken Ellingwood, Los Angeles Times | April 3, 2009
MEXICO CITY - Mexican authorities yesterday announced the capture of Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a suspected top leader of a family-run drug gang based in Ciudad Juarez and one of the country's most-wanted figures.
Federal law enforcement officials said Carrillo Leyva, the son of deceased drug kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes, was arrested Wednesday while exercising in a wealthy neighborhood of Mexico City. The younger Carrillo was listed among the country's 24 most-wanted drug suspects last week when the federal government offered $2-million rewards for each. Authorities described him as an heir to the organization once led by his father, who was known as the "Lord of the Skies" for his use of aircraft to move drugs.
The announcement came as US Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano were preparing to meet outside Mexico City yesterday afternoon with top Mexican security officials to discuss how to staunch southbound smuggling of weapons to drug cartels from the United States.
Gee, what a COINCIDENCE, 'eh?
The arrest of Carrillo Leyva, 32, represents a significant victory for Mexican President Felipe Calderón's two-year-old war against drug traffickers. But it leaves in place the younger Carrillo's uncle, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, known as "the Viceroy," as leader of one of the four largest trafficking organizations in Mexico.
Carrillo Leyva, considered the Juarez group's No. 2 figure, helped manage the gang and launder proceeds from its drug sales, authorities said. Officials said Carrillo Leyva was living in Mexico City under an assumed name, Alejandro Peralta Alvarez. Authorities said they were able to find him in part because his wife, Celia Karina Quevedo Gastelum, kept her name.
The bigger the pile of bulls***, the more you'll....
Marisela Morales Ibanez, who heads the organized-crime unit of the Mexican attorney general's office, said Carrillo Leyva's capture reflects the "absolute commitment of the federal government to combat all organized crime groups that attack the peace, tranquillity and security of the population."
The Juarez gang has been locked in a turf war with a band of traffickers based in the northwestern state of Sinaloa and led by Joaquin Guzman, the country's most-wanted fugitive.
The bloodletting left about 1,600 people dead in Ciudad Juarez last year. Violence continued in the border city during the first two months of 2009 but has dipped since Calderón sent 5,000 more troops and hundreds of additional federal police there in recent weeks.
At least 10,000 people have died nationwide since Calderón launched his crackdown on organized crime groups soon after taking office in December 2006. The visit of Napolitano and Holder comes amid a flurry of diplomacy between the two neighbors. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent two days in Mexico last week in a visit that focused heavily on border security.
Also see: Hillary Clinton Calls For Decriminalizing Drugs
President Barack Obama is scheduled to come April 16 and 17. Last week, Napolitano unveiled a border-security plan aimed at attacking the cartels and keeping serious violence from spilling into the United States. That plan envisions sending hundreds more federal agents and intelligence analysts to the border region.
Interesting how they keep all the high-tech spying and license-plate readers, etc, etc, under wraps in there "background" paragraph (which they saved until the very end).
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Must I repeat myself about obfuscations and censorship?
And the agenda continues to be ramped up and rammed into your head by the agenda-pushing press:
"US, Mexico revisit extradition laws to fight smuggling" by Eileen Sullivan, Associated Press | April 4, 2009
MEXICO CITY - In their effort to stop the illegal flow of guns and drugs between the United States and Mexico, officials from the two countries are considering changes to extradition laws to ensure that offenders get the greatest punishment possible.
The proposal emerged from three days of discussions in which US Attorney General Eric Holder said "there have been breakthroughs" on how to combat drug cartels along the border.
Hardly heard a word of 'em on the tv; last week it was the next crisis. WTF?
Holder and US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met yesterday with President Felipe Calderón and other high-ranking Mexican officials to discuss how to detect weapons, drugs, and bulk quantities of cash at border crossings. The discussion also focused on coordination between the Mexican Navy and the US Coast Guard to intercept offshore smugglers.
Can you say SLOWLY into a NAU?
SO SLOW you WON'T EVEN NOTICE, Amurkn!!!!
Sean Smith, Homeland Security spokesman, said the United States agreed to begin training dogs to work with Mexican handlers. At present, canine units are credited with detecting about 60 percent of the cash, guns, and drugs intercepted along the southeastern US border. Before the meeting with Calderón, Holder said that officials are looking at their extradition laws and considering ways to ensure that cartel members and associates are prosecuted in locations where they face the toughest penalties....
How much that gonna cost the U.S. taxpayer for a phony -- fatal, but phony premises behind it -- war?
The threat of cartel violence is forcing a new approach to border concerns. The two countries are considering sending more vetted Mexican law enforcement officials to the United States to work on US law enforcement investigations into the drug cartels' operations.
That way when the FOREIGN JACKBOOTS ROUGH YOU UP, 'murkn, there will be NO APPEAL to NATIONALIST SYMPATHIES!!!!
The Obama administration has already committed nearly 500 more law enforcement officers to the southwest border, some of whom will be checking vehicles leaving the United States and going to Mexico for cash and weapons.
And CHECK THIS OUT (CUI BONO?):
On Thursday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Frio County, Texas, found nearly $122,000 in cash and weapons, including 10 live hand grenades stashed in a car.
What idiot....?
The car, heading south toward Mexico, was pulled over for speeding. Two US citizens were arrested and are awaiting charges, said a law enforcement official, who requested anonymity because the charges have not been announced.
WHY the ANONYMITY, MSM? WTF?!!!!!!
Something is a STINKING, readers?
The MSM HIDING the GOVERNMENT AGENTS IDENTITIES?
Mexico's attorney general, Eduardo Medina-Mora, said more meetings are needed to develop plans to bring warring drug cartels under control along the border. Mexico plans to begin checking 10 percent of the vehicles entering the country from the United States for illegal weapons and will more closely check outgoing vehicles for drugs and money, Medina-Mora said.
Yeah, right, whatever. Salt shaker, please.
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Think I'm off the rails with my "conspiratorial" commentary?
Read this: The MSM Monitor Looks Into the Mirror
Update:
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Eleven people were found shot dead around Mexico on Saturday, some bearing signs of torture and left with threatening messages emblematic of drug violence.
Four of the victims were found in a car in the western city of Apatzingan, along with a message threatening the Zetas, a group of hitmen for the Gulf cartel. The message was signed La Familia, a drug gang battling for territory in western Michoacan state.
Another dead man was found in the western port city of Lazaro Cardenas, also with a threatening message from La Familia to the Zetas.
A sixth man was found on a highway in the city of Morelia. He had been shot in the head three times and left with a T-shirt pulled over his head and his hands handcuffed behind his back. A seventh was found shot dead in the town of Tacambaro.
La Familia was once considered aligned with the powerful Gulf cartel, but it was named as a separate gang in a government list of most-wanted drug trafficking suspects released last month.
President Felipe Calderon's government has attributed fractures in the cartels to a military crackdown, saying the arrest of drug kingpins has set off internal battles for control that have led to Mexico's sharp surge in drug-related violence.
Four other bodies were found around the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero, including two men left in the boot of a car in the resort town of Zihuatanejo. The two were blindfolded and had their hands tied behind their backs, according to a police report.
Another man was found burned on a highway linking Mexico City to the resort city of Acapulco and a fourth died in a shootout in the city of Chilpancingo.
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So WHY did the GLOBE IGNORE THIS, too?!!
God, THEY CERTAINLY and SURELY DO SUCK!!
SHUT 'EM DOWN!!!!!!!!
