Processo, 3/21/2013
Nuevo Leon will not release detainees’ nicknames nor the names of the cartels they worked with.
The state government will suspend the old practice that publicly presented detainees to the press as trophies. Instead, they will now release newsletters and photographs to news outlets.
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Reforma, 9/16/12
While Nuevo Leon is suffering from the worst wave of violence in its history, the military is leaving the streets of Monterrey and is being replaced by a new civilian police force called the Fuerza Civil which was created by the state’s governor Rodrigo Medina last year. There will be an 80% reduction in military presence, and they are recruiting many new police officers.
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Huffington Post, 7/31/2012
An official in the Nuevo Leon state prosecutors’ office who was not authorized to speak on the record says the attack targeted a plant run by the DIPSA company in the city of Monterrey. It handles work for the Proceso news magazine as well as society and gossip publications.
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The Washington Post/The Associated Press, 7/23/2012
After police found 49 dismembered bodies strewn on a Mexican highway leading to the Texas border, it took the army just a week to parade an alleged drug trafficker before journalists as the man who purportedly oversaw the body dump.
Yet two months after the grisly discovery in Nuevo Leon state, authorities have not identified a single victim.
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El Universal, 7/11/12
In Nuevo Leon an explosive was launched against, “El Mañana” and in Monterrey two grenade attacks were launched against two of ”El Norte’s” offices. The front of the newspapers buildings suffered the most damages. The Observatory for the Processes of Public Communication of Violence has said that this is proof that the state cannot guarantee safety for the press. Neither the newspapers directors nor the authorities have reported any casualties. Members of the Federal Police and the Army have cordoned off the areas while looking for clues as to which types of explosives were used. This is the second such attack that, ”El Mañana” has suffered this year.
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The New York Times, 5/13/12
Forty-nine mutilated bodies were found dumped along a highway on Sunday near Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest city, according to officials.
The security spokesman for the state of Nuevo León, which includes Monterrey, said that it would be difficult to identify the victims — 6 women and 43 men — because their heads, hands and legs had been cut off. It was not immediately clear when the people were killed; the bodies already showed signs of decay, officials said. A message left near the scene suggested that the extremely violent Zetas drug cartel was responsible.
The bodies were found less than a week after officials authorized extending the army’s presence in Nuevo León and the neighboring state of Tamaulipas until the end of November. President Felipe Calderón began sending federal troops to fight organized crime syndicates in many parts of the country when he took office in 2006; violence related to the drug cartels and the crackdown on them has claimed more than 50,000 lives, most of them in states like Nuevo León near the American border.
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El Universal, 4/23/2012
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), candidate of Movimiento Progresista (a coalition between the PRD, the PT and Movimiento Ciudadano), made a commitment that, if he were to win the presidential election, he would visit the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León every 15 days in order to carry out an evaluation of the country’s state of security.
Given that Nuevo León is currently one of the states with the largest presence of organized crime groups, AMLO explained that he would meet with his security cabinet there.
AMLO also used his public appearance in front of the Palacio de Gobierno of Nuevo León to declare that his political campaign in this state is crucial as he seeks to establish a pact between workers and business leaders. He also stressed the importance of achieving a “permanent alliance” between the three sectors of Mexico’s economy: the public, the private, and the social one. “We need to further these three engines of the economy to achieve the rebirth of the country,” AMLO said.
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The Huffington Post, 2/6/2012
A Fuller Picture: Mexico’s Many Layers
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Fox News Latino, 10/10/11
More than 100 officers, the entire police force of the town of Linares, Mexico –75 miles (120 kilometers) southeast of the northern industrial city of Monterrey — were herded into buses and driven to a nearby town, Linares Mayor Francisco Medina Quintanilla told Milenio Television on Sunday.
They are being held for investigation of possible corruption and ties to organized crime. Mexican soldiers and Nuevo Leon state police are patrolling instead. The detention of more than 100 officers comes after a rise in kidnapping and extortion in the area. A series of investigations in other towns already has put hundreds of officers in custody.
The military action comes as Monterrey and the surrounding region have been the scene of an ongoing war between the Zetas and Golfo drug cartels.
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El Universal, 9/15/11
Una jornada de violencia vivió Monterrey y la zona conurbada, al registrarse un total de 15 asesinatos en las últimas horas, entre ellos el de una familia completa vinculada a un policía que participó en la identificación de 20 presuntos “zetas” que participaron en el ataque al casino Royale del pasado 25 de agosto.
Los familiares, dos hombres y una mujer, (papá, mamá y hermano del agente), fueron acribillados la noche de ayer en la colonia Valle de Morelos, en la capital del estado.
También en la zona conurbada de Monterrey se reportó el asesinato de 12 personas más en colonias populares del municipio de San Nicolás de los Garza. En la colonia Fidel Velázquez, a 10 kilómetros del centro de Monterrey, varios hombres persiguieron a balazos a dos jóvenes sobre las calles Revolución y Democracia, hasta acribillarlos a tiros.
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