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Ciudad Juarez in the spotlight

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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.

Diario , Norte (both Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua), Excelsior (Mexico City) 3/31/08

The arrival in Ciudad Juarez of the Mex. army's latest contingent will result in forty-six unannounced traffic checkpoints in surprise locations, each to be manned by thirty soldiers. All land routes into and out of Ciudad Juarez are to be "sealed" to prevent the escape of criminals.
Juarez police officers had their cell phones taken away to prevent "extraordinary communications"; the army also took over control of the police radio operations and the emergency phone call system.
Twelve Juarez police officers have been arrested within the past five days, four of them since yesterday alone, on charges of illegal possession of firearms. The arrests caused fear of the military by the police and some refused to carry out their routine duties for several hours until their supervisors convinced them to resume their functions.
The military have been performing aerial surveillance with helicopters over various parts of the city and they have also made several forced entry house searches but have kept reporters away from the immediate area; items removed from the searched houses were covered to prevent their identification when they were taken from the houses to the vehicles outside.
Forty-six Juarez police officers have either quit or filed for retirement this month, five of them since Friday when the "Chihuahua Joint Operation" was announced.
In all, a relatively quiet weekend for Juarez. Only three executions took place, versus the normal ten on weekends. Two of the victims were found dumped in different parts of the area; they had signs of torture on their bodies and their heads were covered with black plastic bags which had then been taped shut.

Cuarto Poder (Tuxtla, Chiapas) 3/31/08

Civic leaders of several smaller communities in Chiapas held a "Public Security Council" and denounced the continuing traffic of undocumented people through their area. The mayor of La Independencia said that they've received constant complaints about "polleros" who drive trucks at night through the communities of Galeana, El Triunfo and Emiliano Zapata and added that the trucks are loaded with Central Americans. Local residents fear for their own safety because the "polleros" fire guns as a warning to keep away any curious locals.
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Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 3/31/08

The Inter American Press Society ("SIP") urged a greater investigative effort by Mexican authorities concerning the forty-four cases of murder & disappearances of journalists, crimes mostly committed by drug cartel members between 1987 & 2008. Ten occurred in Tamaulipas, seven in Chihuahua and "at least" three in Baja California. In Michoacan the cases of four murdered journalists and three who disappeared have never been solved.
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La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 3/31/08

Guatemalan authorities confirmed yesterday that two strong drug cartels - Gulf & Sinaloa - are disputing control of Guatemalan territory to rule over the most advantageous drug trafficking routes through that country. Their latest armed face-off resulted in eleven deaths last Tuesday.
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