Posted on July 22, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Robin Emmott, Reuters, 7/22/2009
A cult-like drug cartel is defying President Felipe Calderon in his home state in western Mexico by taking on security forces with a menacing mix of violence, pseudo-religion and gifts for the poor.
“La Familia” (The Family) uses Bible scriptures to inspire its traffickers and has taken over smuggling in the state of [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post 7/22/2009
Tucked into the voluminous congressional plan for U.S. military spending next year is $160 million intended to help Mexico’s police buy U.S.-made first-responder radios.
It is a major purchase that one radio manufacturer got rolling, 12 members of Congress formally requested and a powerful defense appropriations chairman championed, according to [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Associated Press, 7/22/2009
Police have captured four men accused of slaying 12 federal agents and dumping their bloodied bodies along a highway in President Felipe Calderon’s home state of Michoacan, federal authorities said Wednesday.
The head of the Federal Police’s anti-drug unit, Ramon Pequeno, said the suspects belong to the La Familia drug cartel.
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Associated Press, 7/22/2009
President Obama recently held a White House meeting on immigration and Sen. Charles M. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is talking about the principles for comprehensive immigration reform, a signal that they are serious about starting the congressional debate on reforming the nation’s laws.
For those who expect this debate to be a repeat of the [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Associated Press, 7/22/2009
Apparently deterred by rising unemployment in the U.S., the number of Mexican immigrants who crossed the border dropped sharply in the past year to the lowest level in a decade, even while undocumented workers already here are opting to stay.
The analysis of census data from both the U.S. and Mexican governments, being released [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by mexicoinstitute
Associated Press, 7/22/2009
Three bodies, one of them headless, were found floating in an irrigation ditch Tuesday in a northern Mexican border city where drug violence has spiked despite the presence of thousands of soldiers.
Firefighters fished the bodies from the ditch in Ciudad Juarez, a city across the border from El Paso, Texas. One of the [...]
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