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Baja California again heads bad news category

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Due to the serious safety concerns on the part of the Department of State regarding travel by American Citizens in Mexico, we are now including State Department Travel Alerts. You can access them here: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_3028.html
Note: The Department of State only issues these alerts when they feel there is a credible danger.

Foreign News Report

The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.

La Jornada (Mexico City) 4/18/08

Local legislators have asked the governor of Baja California to urgently revise the "Public Security State System" due to the levels of violence in this border area.. Deputy Carlos Barboza pointed out that business people and non-governmental organizations complain about the increase in kidnappings in Tijuana and Mexicali. He added that this growing violence harms society and families. "No one is safe from its repercussions." Further, that law and order have been overwhelmed and thus it is urgent to find a solution with the participation of various sectors of society and politicians. He labeled as "alarming" the week about to end, during which there have been a number of kidnappings, shootouts and homicides.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 4/18/08

The Baja California Medical Federation which has "some six thousand (sic) physicians in Tijuana" declared a twelve hour work stoppage this Friday as a protest against violence on this border. During a meeting at the Medical School in Tijuana, doctors said that they and their families have been victims of all sorts of crimes, from extortion to kidnapping. Some twenty doctors have been kidnapped. Extremely ill persons and emergency cases will still be cared for.
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La Cronica (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 4/18/08

Three Mex. federal agents who had just arrived in Tijuana were kidnapped and their bodies were found at dawn yesterday (Thursday) by a dirt road on the outskirts of Tecate, Baja Calif.; the three had their arms tied behind their back and their heads had been wrapped with tape. They had all been shot in the head and the empty cartridges by the bodies are of AK47 rifle caliber.
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El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coah.), Entorno a Tamaulipas (Matamoros, Tamps.) 4/18/08

The Chief of Police of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Juan Jose Muniz Salinas, was arrested by Mex. federal police and has been taken to Mexico City. Though not yet formally charged, his arrest is based on the belief that he was protecting the "Zetas" thugs. The police facility's radio frequencies were also being looked into.
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El Diario (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 4/18/08

Jose Nicolas Morales Ramos is the chairman of the Population, Borders and Migration Issues of the Chamber of Deputies (House of Representatives) of Mexico. He has announced that he will present a legal complaint at the United Nations about the violations of migrants' human rights by the "migratory authorities of the United States." The foregoing is due to new measures adopted by the U.S. government seeking to take DNA genetic samples from the undocumented detained by federal agents.
He added "It's one more offense, it's as if we were animals, any time now they'll want to put a piece of metal on us to identify the ones who are Mexican from the ones who aren't." The legislator, who as an adolescent emigrated to the United States and after attaining the so-called "American dream" returned to Jalisco to be mayor of Cuautla and then federal deputy for that state said that he is disappointed with that country because of the treatment of immigrants.
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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 4/18/08

Ninety-two Ecuadoreans, including four minors and twenty women, left Ecuador on April 10 aboard the "Paco", a small vessel with a six man crew and only a 20-person capacity. Their aim was to reach the coast of Mexico and then to cross into the United States. Five days later they were spotted by a U.S. reconnaissance plane some 215 miles off the coast of Costa Rica and were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard "Midgett" as the "Paco" was sinking. The 92 have now been returned to Ecuador aboard two Ecuadorean coast guard units. A couple of the travelers who were interviewed by reporters upon their arrival in Ecuador said they would try again.
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 4/18/08

Honduran police arrested a Nicaraguan "coyote" - Marlon Fernando Reyes Leiva - who had with him in a hotel four Peruvians enroute to the U.S. The same four, three of them women, had previously been arrested a year ago in Honduras while attempting to reach the U.S. Their entire trip this time was by land, helped along by a string of different "polleros."
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Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 4/18/08

Guatemalan officials made their third seizure of cocaine this week, this time 200 kilos at Tecun Uman, quite close to the border with Mexico. This week's cocaine total has now reached 1,600 kilos.
And the Guatemala City area was the scene of five murders this morning (Friday). One of the victims had been kidnapped yesterday.
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