And why does the AmeriKan MSM dig up its stories, rewrite and reedit them, all for the Boston Globe to bury them with a NYT replacement?
"Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrants" by Mark Stevenson and E. Eduardo Castillo, Associated Press Writer | August 25, 2010
MEXICO CITY --A wounded migrant stumbled into a military checkpoint and led marines to a gruesome scene, what may be the biggest massacre so far in Mexico's bloody drug war: a room strewn with the bodies of 72 fellow travelers, some piled on top of each other, just 100 miles from their goal, the U.S. border.
The 58 men and 14 women were killed by the Zetas gang, the migrant told investigators Wednesday. The gang, started by former Mexican army special forces soldiers, is known to extort money from migrants who pass through its territory.
Oh, "former" government soldiers in the drug trade, huh?
And they are PIRATES, too?
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Mexican Oil Siphoning Story Stinks
So does the whole drug war -- like stinky weed.
If authorities corroborate the story, it would be the most horrifying example yet of the plight of migrants trying to cross a country where drug cartels are increasingly scouting shelters and highways, hoping to extort cash or even recruit vulnerable immigrants.
The Ecuadorean migrant staggered to the checkpoint on Tuesday, with a bullet wound in his neck. He told the marines he had just escaped from gunmen at a ranch in San Fernando, a town in the northern state of Tamaulipas about 100 miles from Brownsville, Texas.
The Zetas so brutally control some parts of Tamaulipas that even many Mexicans do not dare to travel on the highways in the state. Many residents in the state tell of loved ones or friends who have disappeared traveling from one town to the next. Many of these kidnappings are never reported for fear that police are in league with the criminals.
In league with?
They ARE the CRIMINALS!!
The marines scrambled helicopters to raid the ranch, drawing gunfire from cartel gunmen. One marine and three gunmen died in a gunbattle....
Photos posted on websites of local media Wednesday night showed piles of people, some of them blindfolded and with their hands tied behind their back, slumped on top of each other along the cinderblock walls of an abandoned warehouse....
Authorities said they were trying to determine whether the victims were killed at the same time -- and why. Alejandro Poire, the government's security spokesman, noted migrants are frequently kidnapped by cartel gunmen demanding money, sometimes contacting relatives in the U.S. to demand ransoms.
Poire also said the government believes cartels are increasingly trying to recruit migrants as foot soldiers -- a concern that has also been expressed by U.S. politicians demanding more security at the border.
The government has confirmed at least seven cases of cartels kidnapping groups of migrants so far this year, said Antonio Diaz, an official with the National Migration Institute, a think tank that studies immigration.
But other groups say migrant kidnappings are much more rampant. In its most recent study, the National Human Rights Commission said some 1,600 migrants are kidnapped in Mexico each month....
Looks like there is another kind of wall they must cross before reaching the border.
Does the brochure tell you about that risk?
Violence along the northeastern border with the U.S. has soared this year since the Zetas broke with their former employer, the Gulf cartel. Authorities say the Gulf cartel has joined forces with its once-bitter enemies, the Sinaloa and La Familia gangs, to destroy the Zetas, who have grown so powerful they now have reach into Central America....
It was the third time this year that Mexican authorities have discovered large masses of corpses. In the other two cases, investigators believe the bodies were dumped at the sites over a long time.
In May, authorities discovered 55 bodies in an abandoned mine near Taxco, a colonial-era city south of Mexico City that is popular with tourists.
It amazes me how they never get dusted.
In July, investigators found 51 corpses in two days of digging in a field near a trash dump outside the northern metropolis of Monterrey. Many of those found were believed to have been rival traffickers. But cartels often dispose of the bodies of kidnap victims in such dumping grounds.
Related: Mexican Meter
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And WHY the OMISSION, huh?
Mexico's drug violence has surged since President Felipe Calderon dispatched soldiers and federal police to root out drug traffickers from their strongholds in northern Mexico and along the Pacific coast.
More than 28,000 people have been killed in drug-gang violence since the offensive began.
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That is about 3,000 more people killed over about month!
And yet my Boston Globe barely covered the 1oo dead a day drug war!
And when they add stuff I must give them credit:
Authorities are still digging in a mine shaft where seven bodies were removed over the weekend in the central state of Hidalgo. Two more bodies have been pulled out since, officials said Wednesday.
The Rev. Alejandro Solalinde, who runs a shelter in the southern state of Oaxaca, where many migrants pass on their way to Tamaulipas, said the Zetas have put informants inside shelters to find out which migrants have relatives in the U.S. -- the most lucrative targets for kidnap-extortion schemes.
Now they're acting like the CIA!
He said he constantly hears horror stories, including people who "say their companions have been killed with baseball bats in front of the others."
--more--"Okay, let's give the NYT a look:
"72 are found massacred on Mexico ranch; Survivor says attackers beset journey to US" by Randal C. Archibold, New York Times | August 26, 2010
MEXICO CITY — The bullet-pocked bodies of 72 people, believed to be migrants heading to the United States who resisted demands for money, have been found in a large room on a ranch in an area of northeast Mexico with surging violence, the authorities said yesterday.
Initial reports after the victims were found Tuesday suggested that the mass of bodies was the largest of several dumping grounds — often with dozens of dead — discovered in recent months and attributed to the violence of the drug business.
If the victims, found after a raid on a ranch in Tamaulipas state by Mexican naval units, are confirmed as migrants, their killings would provide a sharp reminder of the violence in human smuggling as well....
And is also a reminder of immigration and its associated ills just in time for the political elections here in AmeriKa!
After reading literally next-to-nothing for months in my Boston Globe.
US law enforcement officials have warned that drug trafficking groups have increasingly moved into the lucrative business of human smuggling, extorting fees from migrants for safe passage across the border and sometimes forcing them to carry bundles of drugs. Smugglers are also known to rob, kidnap, and sometimes kill migrants on both sides of the border....
More than 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderón began a crackdown on organized crime in 2006.
Well, at least the NYT does mention the death toll; however, they LEFT OUT the GOVERNMENT CONNECTIONS to the Zetas!
Smells like CENSORSHIP to ME!!
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And here is your slow Saturday report:
REYNOSA, Mexico — Two cars exploded early yesterday in a northern state where officials are investigating the killing of 72 Central and South American migrants, and a prosecutor investigating the massacre has disappeared....
Oh, right, the "terrorists" are in Mexico now.
I'm just waiting to see when they begin showing up in U.S. cities.
Then you will know the New World Order is here for real, Americans.
The two car explosions occurred less than 45 minutes apart in Ciudad Victoria, the Tamaulipas state capital, the attorney general’s office said. The first exploded in front of the offices of the Televisa network and the second in front of transit police offices.
There were no injuries, though both blasts caused some damage to buildings and knocked out the signal of the Televisa network for several hours. The explosion outside Televisa was felt for several blocks.
Nothing like incompetent, government-trained terrorists!
The network described the explosion as a car bomb, but the state attorney general’s office said the cause of the explosions had not been determined.
If confirmed, it would mean a total of four car bombs in Mexico this year — a new and frightening tactic in the country’s escalating drug war....
Yeah, they will have the Mexicans BEGGING for the New World Order!!
Or 1,600 a month.
Six is one, half-dozen another.
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Also see: U.S. Government Brings Drug War to U.S. Cities
They wouldn't do that.... would they?
