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Foreign News ReportThe 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.
Excelsior (Mexico City) 2/13/08
The 2008 International Report on Freedom of the Press, issued by the Reporters Without Borders organization placed Mexico as the most dangerous country in which to practice journalism.
Mexico retains the title as the deadliest for reporters in this hemisphere, with two of them having been murdered and three having disappeared.
Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 2/13/08
At a meeting with Mexican community residents in Chicago, President Calderon said that he doesn't look for confrontations with anyone because he is convinced that the only way out is for both governments (that of Mexico and the United States) to work together, as has happened in Europe, becoming more integrated.
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El Debate (Culiacan, Sinaloa), El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 2/13/08
The cities of Guadalupe and San Nicolas are divided by a creek and both those cities are suburbs of Monterrey, state of Nuevo Leon. The problem is that thieves from Guadalupe continuously cross the creek and rob houses in San Nicolas. Now the Mayor of San Nicolas is planning to build a seven kilometer long chain link fence along the creek that divides the two communities and also to install cameras to monitor vehicle license plates and pedestrian traffic at the bridges that cross the creek. The Mayor of Guadalupe was not consulted in the matter and is against the idea. She said territorial limits should not discriminate or divide.
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El Universal , El Financiero (both Mexico City) 2/13/08
Two vehicles "which circulated in a suspicious manner" were stopped by police in Mexico City Tuesday night. Seven men "with northern accents" and believed to be members of the Sinaloa drug cartel were taken into custody when officers found the following in the vehicles: - - 6 semi automatic G3 rifles, caliber 7.62
- - a Barret .50 caliber anti-aircraft machine gun with heat sensors, capable of penetrating across concrete and steel armor
- - 2 Fredregs Buro cal. 5.7X28 pistols, known as "cop killers", and a 9 mm Beretta
- - Ten fragmentation grenades
- - 834 rounds of ammo
- - 30 high power loaders
- - 7 black tactical vests; 16 black ski masks; 11 phones; gloves, 4 radios and cash.
(note: the photo at he end of this report show some of these items)
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Diario (Nuevo Casas Grande, Chihuahua, edition) 2/13/08
(note: Nuevo Casas Grande, Palomas and Ascencion are small northern Chihuahua towns west & southwest of Juarez; our report yesterday mentioned the execution killing of the chief of police at Nuevo Casas Grande.) Along with that event, "a strongly armed commando of at least 15 men" broke into 2 houses and kidnapped four persons. A violent night in all three towns of this isolated region resulted in a total of fifteen kidnappings, three deaths and one person wounded. "Psychosis and uncertainty have overcome the Public Security bodies of the area."
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El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 2/13/08
At 2707 Hidalgo St., San Luis Rio Colorado, (note: just south of Yuma, AZ) state of Sonora,: 56 packages of marihuana totaling 376.2 kilos, 844 rounds of ammo, and a scale. Three persons arrested.
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El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 2/13/08
Thirty-nine Acapulco police officers recently tested positive when given a narcotics drug detection test. So far only nine of them have had their weapons taken away from them; the other thirty are still armed because of the bureaucratic procedures involved. All thirty-nine will eventually be reassigned to "administrative duties."
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 2/13/08
1. An off-duty Tijuana police officer, home on sick leave, was out in front of his house washing his car. Four "cholo" (thug) types approached and started to steal the car. The officer resisted, but he was not only hit on the head with a bat but was also shot in the left arm. The thugs left with the car. The wounded officer is in a hospital.
2. Two more execution victims turned up at dawn today in Tijuana. One of them was found behind a cemetery and "evidenced signs of violence on various parts of the body." The other one, found earlier, had a tag board with writing again challenging the military who presently have a campaign asking the public to inform on criminals. The "narcothreats" began Monday night, when the mutilated bodies of three other execution victims were found with similar messages warning informants.
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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 2/13/08
A "group chief" of the Ministerial Police at Epitacio Huerta, state of Michoacan, was ambushed and executed while on his way home at dawn today. The killers fled.
And in Zinapecuaro, Michoacan, a Ministerial police team was shot at when they attempted to arrest a man. Eventually, 14 persons were arrested.
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La Jornada (Mexico City) 2/13/08
21 hectares (almost 52 acres) of poppy and 4 hectares of marihuana were found in Coatepec de Harinas, some 35 kilometers south of Toluca, state of Mexico.
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