Specialist foresees "Colombianization" of Mexico

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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.

Noroeste (Culiacan, Sinaloa) 5/16/08

Samuel Gonzalez Ruiz, the past director of the Special Unit on Organized Crime of Mexico's Dep't. of Justice, said that the security crisis in Mexico, together with the challenge by organized crime and the lack of strategies against narco-traffic groups foretell the "Colombianization" of the country. He opined that federal authorities must implement a comprehensive strategy against the narco on various fronts: detaining the leaders, destroying their financial structure, breaking the corruption links and eliminating the connections between politicians and narcotraffickers.

Norte (Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua) 5/16/08

The latest executions in the area have now - in four and a half months - surpassed the death tally for all of 2007, a year when 316 persons were murdered.
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Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 5/16/08

Sixty-three more officers were fired yesterday by the Guatemalan "PNC", the National Civil Police, on various charges including drunkenness, homicide, scandal and corruption. This brings the year's total to 497.
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El Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 5/15/08

After an aircraft made a night landing in a remote area of the state of Campeche, Mexican military set up checkpoints and later found two vehicles whose occupants abandoned them and fled. Inside the vehicles was a total of one ton 279 kgs. of cocaine. The area involved is some 46 kms. S.E. of Ciudad del Carmen.(a check of the area map shows this to be about halfway between that city and the town of Candelaria, mentioned in our report of 5/10/08)
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Excelsior (Mexico City) 5/16/08

Mex. federal agents and military personnel searched two houses in Reynosa, Tamaulipas (just across from McAllen, TX) and seized two thousand rounds of ammunition, grenades, firearm loaders plus a variety of hand and shoulder firearms. Both locales also yielded uniforms with police insignia and small amounts of drugs.
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