By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter Aug 1, 2008 12:thirty PM PDT
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The Mexican and U.S. Governments are in denial. The dictionary definition of civil war indicates that a civil war is a military conflict which arises from a desire for normally radical adjust in society as a result of either cultural, social, religious, political or financial disputes due to diametrically opposed and uncompromising suggestions about the leadership, administration and management of the population and territory it occupies, and which it resolved through use of weapons. This would appear to explain the current circumstance in Mexico right now as the Mexican federal government wages war against the strong Mexican drug cartels.
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Just considering that the beginning of this 12 months more than 4,000 men and women have been murdered in Mexico in what authorities blame on the Mexican cartels and their criminal gangs and Para-military forces.
An 11-12 months-aged American citizen from El Paso was killed not too long ago in the course of a highway robbery on the Durango-Mazatlan street in Mexico. The boy, Rico Armando Bañuelas, was on a loved ones trip to Mazatlan when robbers attempted to cease the Volkswagen Jetta he was riding in around a part of mountain road recognized as “El Espinazo del Diablo,” (the devil’s spine), El Siglo De Durango newspaper reported.
The robbers opened fire, killing Rico, when the Jetta sped previous a roadblock the bandits had set up and utilized to rob bus passengers and yet another vehicle. Rey del Valle, and Rico’s mom, Norma Patricia Chairez, were wounded.
“U.S. citizens ought to be aware of the threat posed by the deteriorating protection predicament, in Mexico and along the border” mentioned a statement issued in Mexico City and Washington. “Violent criminal activity, including murder and kidnapping, in Mexico has improved.”
New instances of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom carry on to be reported. No one can be regarded as immune from kidnapping on the foundation of occupation, nationality, or other aspects. Criminals have been known to stick to and harass U.S. citizens traveling in their automobiles, particularly in border places including Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Reynosa, Juarez, Mexicali, Tijuana and most all border towns.
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23 12 months outdated American Kyle Mostello Belanger has been reported lacking because very last May possibly and believed to have been kidnapped and is getting held against his will for ransom in Juarez Mexico. The data has been forwarded to the Mexican Government and to the FBI and other U.S. agencies with no apparent adhere to-up investigations a lot much less locating arresting and punishing his perpetrators.
U.S. law enforcement authorities aided facilitate a ,000 ransom payment in Mexico for a relative of a U.S. congressman who was kidnapped by gunmen in Ciudad Juarez, a border city across from El Paso Texas.
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The kidnapping took location in Mexico not on U.S. soil but in a feign region. The victim was not even an American citizen but a Mexican national.
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Until eventually a prominent US citizen is abducted, the problem will not get considerably attention in the media or from the Public.
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Jake Mendoza of El Paso, named the Journal and asked “How is it that a kidnapping in a feign country of a feign nationwide gets investigated and resolved by American law enforcement even though other not so connected Americans who are at the moment getting held for ransom some who are considered to have been kidnapped from American soil, and taken to a feign region and held for ransom. Whilst nonetheless other Americans have been executed, murdered, wounded and held for ransom in Mexico with no apparent U.S. Law enforcement investigation or stick to-up? How can that be?”
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According to Citizens for Obligation and Ethics in Washington (CREW) in a letter to Division of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asked for an investigation into Immigration and Customized Enforcement’s (ICE) recent efforts in procuring the release of a Mexican lady kidnapped in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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The household raised the dollars, in accordance to the memo. On June 21, two males on a motorcycle collected the ransom funds at a Juarez road corner but sped off and eluded investigators who had staked out the drop site.
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Mrs. Posselt was introduced many hrs later, and Mexican authorities swiftly transferred her to their American counterparts, who rushed her to the United States for “security reasons,” in accordance to the ICE memo.
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No arrests have been created
La Mesa California lady Libby Gianna Craig was between 4 folks identified shot to demise in a canyon in the vicinity of Rosarito Beach in Baja California.
The 28-yr-old was in an region recognized as Morro Canyon along with three Afro-American males, Mexican police recognized as “Black Americans”. Early reports also explained far more bodies had been found in a separate area at various factors of Playas de Rosarito, noted some Mexican papers.
All the shootings have been apparently deliberate, targeted, not just random bystanders caught up in the wave of violence that has engulfed U.S. Mexican border cities, Mexican authorities mentioned.
Also a short while ago four Americans have been shot and wounded as they were leaving the Arriba Chihuahua nightclub in the ProNaF tourist zone in the violent Mexican border city of Juárez.
The Mexican federal government has described significantly of the violence as revenge for President Felipe Calderón’s yr-previous crackdown on organized crime that sent hundreds of soldiers and federal police into violence-plagued Mexican cities and all Mexican cities bordering the United States.
The Mexican President Calderon, as although as other officials have pledged to break the country’s effective drug cartels, which make billions of bucks a yr by supplying U.S. users.
The State Division mentioned police forces in Mexican border communities “experience from lack of funds and teaching, and the judicial program is weak, overworked and inefficient.”
“I worry that the inability of nearby law enforcement to arrive to grips with growing drug warfare, kidnappings and random road violence will have a chilling effect on the cross-border exchange, tourism and commerce so important to the region’s prosperity,” Traffickers are armed with AK-47 assault rifles, grenade launchers and bazookas. They’re carrying other weapons, sporting vests and utilizing police jargon. Within a moment or two, a person is shoving a hood about the victim’s head and dragging him into a car. His car is left on the aspect of the road – often outgunning and daunting border police, sheriff depts., and Mexican protection forces.
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An alarming quantity of Americans are vanishing in Mexico in which there has been a remarkable improve in the numbers of U.S. citizens who have recently been noted missing or kidnapped along the border with Mexico, reviews the Washington Post. Several who have vanished from U.S. cities are even now missing and it is feared they will turn up in the mass graves that have been found out recently in Mexico.
The U.S. Federal government is aiding Mexico beneath the provisions of the Merida Initiative, a multiyear .4 billion anti-narcotics deal accredited by Congress. As reported before this 12 months in the Laguna/El Paso Journal many Americans are asking yourself when the Bush administration is heading to increase the travel alert to its highest level “journey warning,” to forewarn American travelers to Mexico? How a lot of American citizens are heading to have to be shot, executed or kidnapped just before the American authorities move to prevent needless deaths and problem the suitable substantial alert of “travel warning,” for Americans
Drug wars in Mexico have claimed the lives of a dozen or far more journalists.
Previous 12 months the Houston Chronicle reported that “Statistics fluctuate between watchdog groups, but they agree that Mexico has surpassed Colombia, a nation plagued by decades of guerrilla and drug violence, in the range of journalists killed each and every year. Seven Mexican journalists had been slain previous year, according to a count by the Miami-based mostly Inter American Press Association. The Paris-primarily based Reporters without having Borders tallied nine killings, and the Federation of Mexican Journalist Associations noted 12.
In accordance to the Chronicle, “Many Mexican reporters, particularly in the embattled border states, have stopped writing about organized crime, and, as the drug war spreads south, journalists across the country are starting to be targets. On May well three, World Press Independence Day, the decapitated body of a nearby drug seller turned up outdoors a newspaper in the eastern port city of Veracruz. According to regional press reports, the killers left this warning: ‘For Milo, you are going to all spend. You know it, and much more heads of damned reporters are going to roll.’ The danger was presumed to be directed at Milo Vera, a regional columnist. ‘There’s total impunity,’ explained Jose Antonio Calcanio, president of the Federation of Mexican Journalists Associations, which represents 137 journalist groups nationwide. ‘The government has no interest in resolving any of these cases,’ Calcanio explained. ‘It’s only when there’s a prominent situation like Amado Ramirez that they pretend to act, but then they forget, and absolutely nothing happens.’ Two suspects had been arrested in the days soon after the radio host’s murder, but equally have been launched on bail. Many of Ramirez’s colleagues suspect the guys were scapegoats.”
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Dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped, or held hostage, or killed by their captors in Mexico and several instances stay unsolved. Moreover, new circumstances of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom continue to be noted.
From Brownsville Texas to San Diego California and as far north as Dallas Texas Americans are becoming kidnapped and killed. All of this is escalating narcotics-related violence across northern Mexico the State Department has alerted Americans of the risks of crossing the border. But there are no alerts of Americans getting kidnapped right right here on U.S. soil and becoming taken and held for ransom or even killed.
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Mexican cartels via there enforcers of Mexican and American gangs purchase smaller sized American gangs to kidnap and in some instances murder Americans.
Mexican cartel Los Zetas paramilitary surrogates attacked and slaughtered an American in Phoenix Ariz. Police say the attackers have been dressed in black military like fight uniforms really equivalent to identified Mexican cartel paramilitary gangs.
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Phoenix papers report that 6 Mexicans killed a Phoenix man who was found dead by police in a regional neighborhood home riddled with far more than a hundred bullets. Of the few that the FBI reported as known kidnappings there have been 30 U.S. citizens that have been kidnapped or disappeared, nine were later on launched, two identified dead and 13 even now missing.
The FBI now refuses to estimate the numbers of Americans getting kidnapped or murdered in Mexico. These before reports have been out dated and officials feel the actual numbers are significantly higher. All thirty had been Americans just from the San Diego place alone. How several other U.S. citizens are there? No one would seem to know for confident. But there are other folks more from border cities like El Paso.
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“The U.S. federal government would like to assume that drug violence is just a difficulty south of the Rio Grande. It isn’t,” said Raymundo Ramos, a human rights advocate in Nuevo Laredo.
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It is believed now that there are a lot of much more Americans missing several other folks from Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Reynosa, Juarez, Mexicali, Tijuana and other border cities. When asked, the FBI mentioned they have no other numbers other then people thirty noted. Nonetheless my supply says El Paso FBI agent Josie Figaro was notified of at least one episode. And it is imagine there are other folks.
Law enforcement officials stated some of the vanishings may be owing to a war among Mexican drug cartels vying for manage of the smuggling routes and ports of entry which are the gateway for millions of dollars’ well worth of illicit medication that are smuggled north by truck, vehicle, boats and trains and mixed in with cargoes of reputable products.
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U.S. officials say, “We’re seeing outright lawlessness along the U.S. Mexican border. Things are just getting out of hand.”
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Historically, drug-connected violence was usually confined to the Mexican side of the border, news reviews disclosed. Nonetheless that pattern is changing, advised officials.
In spite of the hazards Mexico continues to attract U.S. citizens who want to go to family members or acquire cheaper medicines, have reduce fee dental operate completed or prescription eyewear or just be a tourist. It is also a draw for young individuals, who migrate there on weekends to social gathering late and get pleasure from the reduced consuming age of 18.
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Mexico has sent federal police officers and Mexican army personalized to patrol the streets of most of their cities bordering the U.S. The officers had been dispatched at the request of local authorities who said crime had spun out of handle.
“U.S. citizens ought to be aware of the risk posed by the deteriorating protection scenario,” the State Division advisory has mentioned, even though it stopped quick of urging Americans to stay away from Mexico. Downtown El Paso businessman Jamie Rodriguez explained “if the very same circumstance that now exist in Mexico existed in any other region the U.S. State Dept would advise Americans to not even go there.”
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The shut romantic relationship among the two governments and in fact equally presidents may possibly contribute to that lenience shown Mexico by the U.S. Federal government.
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In Mexico another harmful crime versus tourist is you can be kidnapped in what is a lot more like a shakedown or robbery than a classic ransom circumstance. As what is believed took place to 11-12 months-outdated American Rico Armando Bañuelas. An FBI official said this obvious burgeoning of a cottage market of kidnapping for ransom – some of individuals returned alive had been held captive for days or even months, soon after their abductors demanded payments as large as ,000.
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American visitors have reported to the Mexican police that whilst driving along principal and rural roads at dusk or soon after darkish. Road blocks are set up. This can be as sophisticated as a movable plank with spikes or as reduced-tech as glass or sharp rocks. When their motor property or auto is disabled, a group of armed banditos approached them with guns drawn. Usually, a truck or van parked on the side of the road begins up and slowly and gradually techniques the scene. The men usually dressed as Mexican police begin to take their possessions and rummage by means of their belongings. Then in a lot of situations it is noted they take all the victims cash. Victims report hoods are placed about their heads they are loaded into trucks or SUV’s and driven to one more place. You might be asked once more for much more money. In more circumstances then not Mexican police report the lady are raped and the victim tourists are abandoned far from their automobile.
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There have been reported some substantial-profile cases in which the victims, like two American university ladies, who had been slain after they have been robbed.
Sophisticated Mexican groups plot abductions Organized, well-financed and violent Mexican kidnapping cells are focusing on a developing quantity of U.S. citizens going to Mexico.
While the FBI wouldn’t say what the ransom demands are, or how often they’re paid, agents said dollars is driving the enhance.
Some of the kidnappings go unreported because men and women dread retribution, said Eric Drickersen, who supervises the FBI’s border liaison office.
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Even the U.S. Military has been band from getting into Mexico since of the increasing violence. U.S. Military officials say they’ve discontinued issuing passes to soldiers who want to journey across the border to Mexico. “If it is not secure for U.S. Soldiers, than it is unsafe for other Americans”. Explained, John Lutes who was born in the border metropolis of El Paso Texas and served in the military.
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Mexican Drug cartels are ordering decapitations blind foldings and hooding victims prior to they shoot them. The Cartels are sending a chilling concept to the Mexican President Felipe Calderon Administration by adopting techniques of intimidation manufactured notorious by Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Google or click on: New Terrorist Bases South Of the Border
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Dozens of folks have been decapitated in Mexico so far this 12 months, with heads caught on fence posts, discovered in trash bags and heads getting tossed onto a nightclub dance floor for all to see. Report on Mexican Violence
An unknown– but considerable– quantity of executions continues to occur in the states of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas as nicely as: Chihuahua, Baja California Norte, Tabasco, Guerrero, Michoacan, Veracruz, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Chiapas and Coahuila.
All Mexico States are going through several law enforcement deaths, as nicely as multiple kidnappings happening regularly.
Kidnappings as warnings to government and other enemies have been recorded with particular MESSAGES attached.
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Evaluated approaches and varieties of Violence to murder victims had been: Bodily beating, torture, release on road, or physique dumped on street or whole lot torture involving beating, tooth elimination, appendage elimination, death by torture, strangulation, single shot to head and/or numerous shots to head and entire body.
Other techniques have been exact same as over with head and/or confront entirely or partially wrapped with duct tape or other head wrappings or blind folds. Bodies usually disposed of by the alternate “Pozole” approach.
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Many were beheaded with or without published messages on bodies or in cars.
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A lot of Mexican law enforcement officers have joined the cartels for cash or in some situations they themselves if they did not cooperate with the cartels they would turn into victims of that horror.
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Warning just before reviewing document numerous will come across the text offensive and the photo’s gruesome: para_bsmc_2.pdf
Google: Youthful woman raped and beheaded in Florida by Mexican traffickers
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