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Mexico's AG confirms FARC is into drug trade

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Mexico's AG confirms FARC is into drug trade

La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 3/10/08

1.   Eduardo Medina-Mora, Mexico's Attorney General, confirmed that the Colombian guerrilla has become involved in the cultivation and production of drugs, mainly cocaine, and including its distribution to Mexico and other countries.
A Colombian government report states that FARC (the Colombian revolutionary insurgent group) sells 780 million dollars worth of cocaine on a global scale; of that amount 55% ($428 million) is sold to Mexican drug cartels.
On Oct. 7, 2007, a shipment of 11 thousand 720 kilos of cocaine was seized at the port of Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Days later, an investigation revealed that the drug had belonged to the Gulf Cartel and that it had come from Colombia. At month's end, on Oct. 30, "the largest shipment of cocaine seized in all history", 23.5 tons, took place at the port of Manzanillo (state of Colima, Mexico) in a ship that had also come from Colombia.

2.   Edmundo Ramirez Martinez is a Mexican Congressman and national coordinator of the "PRI" (major Mexican political party) Migration Work Group of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. Its report states that some 310 thousand Mexican females abandoned Mexico during 2007 in search of the "American dream" and that percentage-wise they overtook the number of Mexican males who left their country in search of employment. The study estimated Mexican migration to the U.S. last year reached 560 thousand.
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La Voz de Michoacan (Morelia, Michoacan) 3/10/08

Hispanic leaders of the Midwest Convention in Defense of Immigrants are planning a "mega march" in Chicago on May 1st and hope to gather at least 300,000 participants for the purpose of having the U.S. Congress reopen the debate on immigration reform.
Jorge Mujica, "March 10th Movement" coordinator, said there is much anger because of the round-ups; he proposed to work up a Migratory Reform proposal and to find some legislator who will agree to promote it. El Universo (Guayaquil, Ecuador) added to this by saying that marches are planned in several cities around the U.S. on that date for that purpose.
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a.b.c. (Mexico City) 3/10/08

Jose Luis Soberanes is the head of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission and just held a meeting with his counterparts from El Salvador and Honduras. Soberanes said: "The criminalization of undocumented migration is part of an unjust, dangerous and wrong tendency which violates the rights of men and women who abandon their places of origin for various reasons in search of a more decent living." He added that Mexico had signed an agreement with Honduras to bring about the rights in the "International Convention about the Protection of Migratory Workers and their Families", given that according to official statistics   at least 185 thousand Salvadorans emigrate to the United States every year.
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Diario Xalapa (Xalapa, Veracruz) (part of large nationwide paper chain "OEM") 3/10/08

1.   Although DNA test verification is not yet completed, relatives have now identified a second Mexican citizen who died at the FARC campground in Ecuador. The Ecuadorean government presumes that three other Mexicans also died at that place during the attack by Colombian military forces.

2.   Three men from the state of Sinaloa, Mexico, were arrested in Zapopan, Jalisco. One of them is Arturo Beltran Leyva, aka "El Patron" ("The Boss") who is believed to be the brains behind the bomb explosion on Feb. 15 in downtown Mexico City which had as its target Mexico's Dep't. of Public Security. Beltran is considered a close affiliate of the Sinaloa Cartel.
After the arrest, two police officers were sent back to the house where Beltran had been detained; now, those two officers have been kidnapped and thugs are offering to swap them for the three criminals including Beltran. The situation remains unresolved.
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Diario (Juarez, Chihuahua) 3/10/08

In Juarez yesterday morning two police patrol units were stopped at a traffic light when criminals in two other vehicles came up to them and opened fire. One officer died on the spot and the other three are in critical condition. The name of one of those three had appeared on a list of officers to be killed; that list was left by criminals on Jan. 26 as a threat and warning.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 3/10/08

Tijuana is investing over a hundred million pesos in "authentic war technology" to battle the mafia criminals. Among the items now on order:
- an assault vehicle with #8 level armor
- a mobile command and control center unit with satellite technology
- 55 police interceptor sedans
- an "impenetrable" frequency "Matra" radio system
- 600 bullet proof vests
The balance of the funds received from the national government is to be invested in police training and "certification."
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El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 3/10/08

Enrique Reina Garcia, the Honduran Vice Chancellor, described a new problem for Hondurans trying to enter the United States illegally: they are kidnapped by Mexicans, sometimes by their "coyotes" themselves, near the U.S. border and then held under guard until their families in Honduras pay a ransom of around two or three thousand dollars. He stated there have been some thirty such cases reported in 2007 and added that captives are held in their underwear and fed very little to prevent them from trying to escape.
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