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Colombian Vice President concerned about FARC in Mexico

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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.

Editor's Note: FARC, is a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization. The FARC is considered a terrorist group by the Colombian government, the United States, Canada, the Latin American Parliament and the European Union. The FARC was established in the 1960s as the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party.

El Pulso (San Luis Potosi, S.L.P.) 3/9/08

In an interview with El Universal the Vice President of Colombia, Francisco Santos, said that FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) has reactivated its international operations in Mexico by infiltrating universities as well as with drug cartels, since drug traffic is the main financial source for this armed group. He added that the growth and presence of FARC in Mexico "has to worry not only all of us in the Colombian government but also the Mexican government and I believe that these public knowledge recent events must alert the security, investigations and intelligence elements of both countries."

He pointed out that the the presence of Mexicans in the FARC campground in Ecuador "must allow the government to open its eyes about what is going on, to start to investigate it."

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El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 3/9/08

At a recent meeting of the State of Guerrero Bar Association, Juan Heriberto Salinas Altes, the state's Secretary of Public Security, admitted that several states of Mexico, among them Guerrero, "have been overwhelmed" by organized crime since the latter is better organized and armed than police agencies.

He added that one thousand state "preventive police" officers have been dismissed during this administration and that another seventy-six dismissals are being considered for various reasons.

He pointed out that "the level of security has changed" because now there are organized crime groups that have international connections and emphasized that for the first time "organized crime has challenged the state with better armament and communications equipment."

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a.b.c. (Mexico City) 3/9/08

A research study by Jaciel Montoya Arce, of the Advanced Population Study Center of the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico showed that one hundred residents of the state of Mexico emigrate to the United States every 24 hours to improve their quality of life.

(note: one of the states within the country of Mexico is also called Mexico, where Mexico City is also located. This item has to do with that state, not with the whole country of Mexico.)

While in 1970 persons from the state of Mexico residing in the U.S. were the tenth most numerous, by 2000 they became the fourth largest group. In that year 656,000 state residents emigrated and the calculation is that by 2005 and 2006 these figures reached 836 and 872 thousand respectively.

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a.m. (Leon, Guanajuato) 3/9/08

The cash found at the Port of Manzanillo, Colima, in the false double bottom of a shipboard container last Thursday reached $11,963,385 U.S. dollars, all in twenty boxes and in denominations of 10, 20, 50 & 100 dollar bills. The container had come from Toluca (very near Mexico City) and was destined to Panama aboard a Liberian flag vessel.

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El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 3/9/08

(The following figures are from an op/column about Mexico's brain drain)

The Under Secretary of Higher Education of Mexico's Dep't. of Education, Rodolfo Tuiran Gutierrez, said that because of lack of employment opportunities in Mexico many educated Mexicans look for employment outside the country.

By the end of 2007, one in fifteen Mexican college graduates resided in the U.S.; one in five with master's degrees and one in three with doctorates.

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Diario (Chihuahua, Chihuahua) 3/9/08

The shootout in Chihuahua City (our report of yesterday) also resulted in eleven wounded. The "safe house" assailed by the Mex. military at #5801 Mendez St., Colonia Rosario, Chihuahua City, yielded 14 "large caliber" firearms including six M-60 machine guns with folding tripods, one G3 high power rifle, four AK47 rifles, "hundreds" of rounds, bandoleer cartridge belts, military uniforms, jackets and bullet proof vests, plus money-counting machines and foreign license plates for vehicles as well as from other states of Mexico. There was also radio communications gear. Over one thousand rounds were fired during this event.

Preceding the shootout at this house there had been searches that same night at three other houses and those yielded five arrests, an unspecified amount of ammo, "AFI" (Mex. federal investigations agency) uniforms and one sub-machine gun.

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El Financiero (Mexico City) 3/9/08

The following were reported burned by officials in Sonora:

- At San Luis Rio Colorado: 125 kilos 700 grams of cocaine; 953 kilos of marihuana; i kilo of meth

- At Sonoyta: 11 kilos 500 gms. of cocaine; 4 tons 617.5 kilos of weed

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El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 3/9/08

Three men ran away from a hilltop by Cibuta, 30 kms. south of Nogales, Sonora, when they saw a military patrol unit. They left behind 174 packages of weed weighing a total of 1,678 kilos.

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El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) 3/9/08

Two more groups of Ecuadoreans were detained by the Ecuadorean Migration Police while attempting to emigrate illegally by using fishing boats. The "majority" of the first group managed to escape but a total of thirty persons were caught.

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