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The Freeman: How To End Mexico’s Deadly Drug War
NORML Blog —
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Since 2008 more than 7,000 people , including Mexican civilians, journalists, police, and public officials, have been killed in clashes with warring drug traffickers — traffickers who US government officials allege derive 60 percent of their profits from exporting marijuana north of the border. So what are the ...3 days ago -
Mexican drug cartels operate here; US blamed for Mexican violence
Stupidica —
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Saturday 11/21/09 El Universal (Mexico City) 11/20/09 Tentacles of La Familia Michoacána in US Fifteen members of one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels, La Familia Michoacána , were arrested today in the Chicago area, accused of distribution of thousands of kilos of cocaine. The US Drug Enforcement Agency ...3 days ago -
Mexico - drug witness died in apparent suicide
Mexico | Vacation Packages | Travel Site | Mexico Blog —
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A top drug cartel suspect who turned state’s evidence has been found dead in an apparent suicide, while a body found in Guerrero state was identified as a rebel leader who accused the state governor of drug ties, Mexican law enforcement said Saturday. Jesus Zambada Reyes, identified as the nephew of drug lord ...5 days ago -
U.S., Mexico establish new political direction over drug gangs
Eideard —
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Drug gangs conflict turns to new direction.5 days ago -
Funny Stuff: Mexican City of Cuidad Juarez Calls For U.N. to Help Quell Violence
Feral Jundi —
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I apologize for laughing, but come on? Obviously these guys have not done their homework with researching the track record of the U.N. You don’t bring in peacekeepers, when there is no peace to keep. The cartels and drug gangs would use blue helmets for target practice, and then go back to ...1 week ago -
FM newswire, 20 November – News you can use
Fabius Maximus —
Authority: 558
Today’s broadsheet from the FM website pressroom. There are 4 sections, all with hot news.Links to interesting news and analysisQuote of the Day — Goldman’s contempt for usAnother quote of the day — Capitalism is deadFeatured article of the dayPlus, an Afterword(I) Links to interesting news and ...1 week ago -
The Takeaway takes on topic of Mexico violence
Diana Washington Valdez blog —
Authority: 100
Takes on Mexicos spreading violence http://www.thetakeaway.org/stories/2009/nov/18/drug-violence-on-rise-in-mexico/ The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women, the first investigative book about the Juarez murders by a U.S. journalist.1 week ago -
Killing Fields meeting on the Net by feminists
Diana Washington Valdez blog —
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Discussion on the Juarez killing fields book The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women - Feminista (Washington, DC ...Join us to discuss the book The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women written byEl Paso Times journalist Diana Washington Valdez. It exposes the Mexicankilling ... ...1 week ago -
Dallas ISD Daily Dish
DALLAS ISD —
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Todays tray of hot district morsels ... ** Todays Dallas Morning News has this story on Mexican drug cartels recruiting in Texas schools. According to the story, DISD officials say they have seen no direct cartel influence in the Dallas schools. Also, here is Channel 33 s take on the story. ** This story out ...1 week ago -
Municipal and federal police officers confronted each other in Monterrey
Mexico | Vacation Packages | Travel Site | Mexico Blog —
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Municipal and federal police officers confront each other in Monterrey, Mexico, this summer after federal authorities arrested dozens of officers from several towns who were accused of colluding with drug traffickers. (Christian Lara / Grupo Reforma) At the heart of the overhaul is a “new police model” that ...1 week ago -
15 people killed in 1 day in Mexican border city
Report on Arrakis —
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Is it becoming more like China Everywhere or is it me ? The task of trying to find out what is going on in certain parts of the world is just ridiculous ! Pakistan is pounding the hell out of the Taliban and it is rarely in the news ! The drug cartels Have not stopped their killing Rampages , but to read the ...1 week ago -
Mexican Drug War Gets Its Own Vocabulary
TakePart Social Action Network —
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It seems Mexico’s drug war has become so outrageously violent that the Mexican media has created words to describe the scene. These new words are used to describe drug-related acts ranging from “being dumped in the trunk of a car” to “the hand-scrawled notes hit men leave with the bodies of their victims.” ...2 weeks ago -
Enjoyable article with lots of sad truth.
InvestmentWatch —
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Wall Street is honest and stupid. They make it clear that they want to own everything including our lives - that is honest. On the stupid side they do not understand that this wealth transfer robs working people of their livelihood and wealth production ends. The thinking of Wall Street is reflected in the movie ...2 weeks ago -
White wants state of Colorado to go into the weed business
Colorado Independent —
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State Sen. Al White, R-Hayden, Friday promised to end the high times in the high country, serving up a big dose of GOP buzz kill in a release outlining legislation he’ll introduce next session to snuff out the current “free-for-all” in Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. “What we’ve effectively got now ...3 weeks ago -
Globalization in Pictures: Courtesy AT & T
InsightAnalytical -- Watching Our World —
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By InsightAnalytical-GRL Since I seem to be always thinking about the demise of the dollar and the march of power and wealth to the East (China, in particular, with India and other S. E. Asian countries joining in the fun), this flyer really reminded me of what’s going on a lot closer to home. We’ve discussed in ...3 weeks ago -
Read of the day
Beers with Demo —
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Great news… Or consider the case of border inspector Margarita Crispin—“precisely the kind of border corruption case that alarms us,” says William Abbott, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s criminal branch in El Paso, Texas. In 2005, he says, a federal informant tipped off the Bureau that ...3 weeks ago -
Reeling Mexico hopes travel deals bring back the tourists
TexasFred —
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Reeling Mexico hopes travel deals bring back the tourists During a visit to San Diego in April, Pratik and Priti Chavda thought they’d slip over the border into Tijuana just to do a little shopping, have a quick meal and say they had made it to Mexico. But upon hearing the plan, staffers at their [...]3 weeks ago -
Mexican farm leader killed with 14 others on ranch
Report on Arrakis —
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And another mass killing by Mexicos lovely Cartels ! .... MEXICO CITY ( Reuters ) - Gunmen killed fifteen people on an isolated ranch in northern Mexico, including a prominent farmworker leader, in the latest grisly attack in an area overrun by drug gangs, local police said on Friday. Margarito Montes, a well-known ...4 weeks ago -
Juárez mayor asks for more soldiers
Report on Arrakis —
Authority: 617
To read the papers around here (El Paso TX ) not much is going on in Jaurez , some of my co-workers live in the wonderful city of Jaurez , and I here some tid bits here and there ! for the most part they are true ! A day last week there was a report on the radio (Mexico) that 18 people were killed by noon ! it never ...4 weeks ago -
New Report on Most Violent Cities 2009
Pursuing Personal Freedom —
Authority: 100
Forbes has released a new report on America’s most dangerous cities . This list differs slightly from prior compilations mainly because of the very specific criteria used. For example, New Orleans, Washington D.C., and Detroit have historically traded places over the years as the murder capital of America. But, ...4 weeks ago
