And not the illegals wave that pours over the porous southern border.
This was rain, and one can only wonder what chemicals were in it.
Remember, folks, oil was still being burned up top. Where do you think that smoke went?
And what goes up....
"Waning hurricane paralyzes a Mexican city; 2 die as rivers roar to life; Texas is mostly spared" by Christopher Sherman, Associated Press | July 2, 2010
MATAMOROS, Mexico — The sprawling remains of Hurricane Alex drenched much of Northern Mexico yesterday, paralyzing the major city of Monterrey. At least two people were killed when dry rivers roared to life and highways turned into rushing streams.
Hurricane Alex ripped off roofs, caused severe flooding, and forced thousands of people to flee fishing villages as it hit land Wednesday evening in the border state of Tamaulipas. Power and telephone service were down in several towns and cities.
The system weakened to a tropical storm yesterday as it moved west to Nuevo Leon state, but it still caused major problems.
The dry Santa Catalina river, which cuts through Monterrey, roared to life — sweeping away cars and parts of rickety wooden homes.
A man died when he was caught by a torrent of water along a six-lane highway, the city’s Civil Protection director, Pedro Trevino, told the Televisa Monterrey network. Another man drowned by the side of a creek.
It's because of the shock, isn't it? Can't believe what is in front of your eyes.
Nuevo Leon state’s governor, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, told Televisa he had ordered all schools closed and appealed for people to stay home from all but essential jobs.
The US consulate in Monterrey also closed.
De la Cruz said Alex had already dumped 16 inches of rain in some areas.
Schools were also canceled in Tamaulipas state, where cleanup efforts began and floodwaters started subsiding.
That's why AmeriKa's MSM moves along.
Crews swept up debris in Matamoros, a city across the border from Brownsville, Texas. Emergency officials had to use boats to survey the damage in some neighborhoods.
Most of the 2,500 people who stayed in shelters overnight boarded buses back to their coastal villages yesterday after lining up for breakfast served by military personnel.
“The city is practically underwater,’’ said Saul Hernandez Bautista, Matamoros director of civil defense. “But the most important thing is that there was no loss of life. We took important and opportune measures to evacuate people.’’
Raging winds knocked down hundreds of trees, telephone posts, and traffic lights in the Matamoros area and farther south along Mexico’s northern Gulf Coast. Power and telephone service was out in San Fernando, a town near where Alex made landfall, and in the state capital of Ciudad Victoria.
Abel Ramirez of San Fernando’s Civil Protection and Fire Department said seven fishing villages, with a combined population of about 5,000, were evacuated.
But there were no reports of injuries. “We’re better,’’ Ramirez said as he surveyed the damage.
The Mexican Navy reported yesterday that it rescued seven people Wednesday from a fishing boat that ran aground on the remote, low-lying island of Cayo Nuevo, about 130 miles off the Mexican coast, amid high waves and heavy rain.
I didn't know Mexico had a Navy?
They also have an air force, I checked.
The navy said the shipwreck was “presumably because of the effects of the remnants of Tropical Storm Alex.’’ The fishermen had to be pulled off the key by rescue divers.
The Atlantic season’s first hurricane largely spared Texas, which had prepared for a possible direct hit. While the storm brought rain, spawned two tornadoes, and caused 1,000 people to evacuate low-lying areas there, state officials reported no injuries or major damage.
Pumps sucked out high water in only a few remaining flooded areas in Texas by yesterday morning. Authorities said low-lying colonias — slapdash and unincorporated communities frequently without public utilities — stood up well to Alex.
That's AmeriKan newsspeak for CAMPS of ILLEGALS!!!
“It was a great drill,’’ said Johnny Cavanos, Cameron County’s emergency management coordinator....
Pffft!
It was the first June hurricane in the Atlantic since 1995, according to the hurricane center.That can't bode well for summer, especially with that goo gushing into the Gulf.
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Oh, right, I didn't mention the FLOOD of DRUGS, did I?
"Mexican arrested in consulate killing; Gang leader says he carried out cartel’s command" by Marc Lacey and Elisabeth Malkin, New York Times | July 3, 2010
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican police said yesterday that they had arrested a gang leader who confessed to ordering some of the most horrifying killings in Ciudad Juarez, including the killing of a pregnant American consular employee and her husband.
Also see: Drug War Diversion
Jesus Ernesto Chavez Castillo, 41, confessed that he ordered the murder of Lesley A. Enriquez at the command of La Linea, the enforcement arm of the Juarez drug cartel, federal prosecutors said. The motive, he said, was revenge, because the consulate had issued visas to members of a rival gang.
U.S. Government Brings Drug War to U.S. Cities
How else did you expect it to happen?
The arrest of Chavez, nicknamed the Camel, came at the end of a particularly violent week in the border region. Twenty-one people died Thursday morning in a single fierce shootout between rival drug traffickers outside Nogales, which borders Arizona.
Hours earlier, a Chihuahua state prosecutor was killed in Ciudad Juarez, across the Mexico-Texas border from El Paso. Presumed drug traffickers hung handwritten banners in the city threatening the mayor and another top prosecutor there....
Chavez’s story — that Enriquez’s killing had been ordered because she helped members of a rival gang obtain visas — contradicts both her official job description and the motive offered by another suspect.
I'm BEGINNING to SMELL SPY, aren't you?
Yup, sitting in a State Department office issuing visas to drug-dealers and who knows who else. Terrorists?
American officials have said that Enriquez worked in the office that helps US citizens and had no authority over visas.
Well, if AmeriKan officials said it you can be SURE it is a LIE!
Another suspect arrested shortly after the killings, Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, said the target of the shooting was Enriquez’s husband, Redelfs.
Newspapers in El Paso and Juarez reported that gang leaders wanted to kill him because they said he had tormented a gang member in the El Paso County Jail.
Yes, OUR SPIES DO TORTURE, yes!!!!
Both Chavez and de la Rosa belong to Los Aztecas, a cross-border gang that works for La Linea....
Who all work for some intelligence agency in the end.
Chavez had served five years in prison in Louisiana on a drug charge, police said.
A GREAT TIME for the CIA (or ICE, or FBI, or whoever) to GET TO HIM!
You know, kind of like a CAPTIVE AUDIENCE (complete with torture?).
He was arrested in April 2008 by the Mexican army on drug charges and later released.
Oh, readers, this is REALLY STARTING to STINK!!
He also confessed that he was part of a group of gunmen that attacked a teenagers’ party at the end of January, killing 15 people, authorities said.
Was this before or after the torture by Mexican authorities?
Chavez told the police that his group had mistakenly believed the people at the party were members of a rival gang, known as the Artists Assassins, or Double-A.
Andrea Simmons, a spokeswoman for the FBI in El Paso, said she had no additional information about the arrest.
“We’re working with Mexican authorities as part of a joint investigation,’’ she said.Translation: We are working on the cover-up.
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Related: Mexican Oil Siphoning Story Stinks
Yes, how odd the NYT never mentioned the most powerful cartel, huh?
Also see (second story down): Soccer Match Monday: Somali Pirates Sentenced
More BS, if you know what I mean:
"Ruling party making gains in Mexico vote" by Associated Press | July 5, 2010
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — President Felipe Calderon’s party appeared headed to victory yesterday in a longtime stronghold of the former ruling party and was in a tight race for the governorship of another key state, according to exit polls and preliminary official results.
Well, they STOLE ANOTHER ONE!
And amazing how those polls only failed in the 2004 presidential election (not that it would have mattered; as we have seen since, Kerry a Pos, too).
Almost as amazing as fire dropping steel skyscrapers straight down at free-fall speed three times in a day.
A win in the southern state of Oaxaca would be a much-needed boost for Calderon after a campaign for local elections in more than a dozen states that was besieged by assassinations and scandals that displayed the power of drug cartels.
And CUI BONO?
Oaxaca, an impoverished and volatile region, is one of several states in which Calderon’s conservative National Action Party formed alliances with leftist parties seeking to thwart a resurgence of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico for 71 years and still controls many state governments.
The PRI had hoped for significant gains in the elections to pick up momentum for its bid to regain the presidency in 2012, trying to capitalize on growing frustration with surging drug gang violence. But exit polls released by
The polls and preliminary official results pointed to a PRI defeat in Oaxaca, a heavily indigenous state that it had ruled for 80 years. The PAN and its leftist allies were also in a tight race in the PRI bastion of Sinaloa, a violent northern state that is the birthplace of the powerful drug cartel of the same name....
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And it looks AP jumped the gun a bit.
"Mexican elections show little party allegiance" by ASSOCIATED PRESS | July 6, 2010
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico — After a Super Sunday of elections across Mexico that was widely seen as a test for the 2012 presidential race and the nation’s future, the winner turns out to be — not really anyone.
No, but there was a LOSER and it is the MEXICAN PEOPLE!
President Felipe Calderon’s party is weak, the left is in collapse, and the Institutional Revolutionary Party that is on a tentative path to recapture the presidency it held for 71 years was shown to be vulnerable.
But Calderon got a much-needed boost, that's what I was told above.
Sigh.
Drug cartel intimidation dissuaded many from voting at all.
Or maybe they have begun to realize it doesn't matter -- the same as the AmeriKan people after this disastrous presidency of "hope and change."
The mixed outcome in elections across 15 states showed no party has won faith of Mexicans desperate to bring their country out of a quagmire of economic stagnation and relentless gang wars that have killed more than 23,000 people since Calderon took office three years ago.
Yeah, but somehow he did good!
Also see: South Africa Scores First
So Calderon is just another front man for the New World Order, huh?
Calderon’s conservative National Action Party won not a single state on its own, and lost two it had held, according to results yesterday.
That is ONE HELL OF a BOOST, AP!
Sigh!
WHAT S***-SPINNING LIARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it needed desperate alliances with leftists to wrest strongholds from the old ruling party.
The same people they stuck in the back for the presidency!
That party, known as the PRI, demonstrated it remains Mexico’s most important political force, winning nine of 12 governorships Sunday.
But its defeat in three longtime bastion states indicated many Mexicans are still repulsed by the party that ruled through patronage and corruption from 1929 to 2000.
Yeah, but somehow the AmeriKan MSM has given the impression that they are on the comeback trail and the Mexicans want them back.
What that tells me is ANOTHER RIGGED ELECTION coming up!
Oh, yeah, about that rain:
"6 die while monitoring Mexico floods" by Associated Press | July 8, 2010
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — A border city mayor, a state official, and four other people died yesterday when an airplane crashed as they inspected widespread flooding that has forced tens of thousands of evacuations near the US border.
And here the Boston Globe IGNORED IT for a WEEK!!!
And ANYTIME a PLANE CRASHES with HIGH OFFICIALS on it.... STINK!!!
The small plane carrying Jose Manuel Maldonado, the mayor of Piedras Negras, was over a rain-swollen reservoir about 25 miles east of Eagle Pass, Texas, when it went down, said a spokesman.
No other details? Another assassination? A cover-up?
State spokeswoman Irma Flores said there were no survivors. She said the dead included state public works director Horacio Del Bosque, the pilot, and three other people.
The officials were surveying the condition of reservoirs along the border, which have reached their highest levels in decades following days of drenching rain.
And this is the first I've seen of that in my newspaper, dear readers.
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I guess other stories are way more important.
I leave it to you, dear readers, to determine if I (and my fellow citizens) am being well-served by the Boston Globe.
