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El Universal (Mexico City) 3/21/08
Zetas even in the bedroom.
The Zetas (hired guns of the Gulf Cartel) have established a dozen bases in the state of Hidalgo, including its main tourist area, making their fiefdom the second largest base of operations in the country, less than an hour from Mexico, DF. At the end of last year the state director of police received a "gift box" in his office that contained the shoes he had left under his bed the day before. It was to demonstrate that they could enter his home without invitation. Since last December, videos can be viewed on You Tube (Los Zetas) relating to some of the 27 executions reported during 2007. Though state officials minimize the reports, the images show zones of operations, victims, photos of group leaders and executions.
El Porvenir (Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) 3/21/08
Three hired killers executed a man in a bar in Monterrey and wounded another with deliberate shots to his leg. The three were leaving in a vehicle with police markings and light bar when the police arrive and engaged in a brief exchange of gunfire. The assailants left, chased by the police, but were able to escape.
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Norte (Cd, Juarez, Chihuahua) 3/21/08
Official word from the Department of Justice in Juarez is that there are only two, not six, kidnapping cases. (This apparently in response to yesterday's report) In a meeting that took place yesterday, state authorities announced the beginning of a program of information directed to Juarez business leaders to combat crime.
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Excelsior and La Jornada (both Mexico City) 3/21/08
The Chihuahua border town of Paloma (across from Columbus, NM) was left without police protection when six of its eight police officers resigned. They decided to abandon their duties to find refuge in the U.S. after threats from organized crime. Military and state police have assumed their duties.
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La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 3/21/08
1. According to a report by the Department of Justice to the Senate, 8,500 arms were seized from narcotraffickers, among them some that had the power to destroy armored vehicles. However, despite those seizures, they calculate that there are 15 million illegal arms in the country as well as 5 million legal ones carried by authorized persons. The arms traffic into the country uses the corridors through Tijuana, Baja California, Nogales, Sonora and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The states of Sonora and Tamaulipas are the starting points of the traffic routes that pass through the capital toward the south of the country.
2. Two soldiers were killed in Veracruz and Oaxaca in separate incidents. In Veracruz the soldier died in a battle between army forces and an armed group. In Oaxaca, the soldier was found in his vehicle dead from stab wounds.
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Diario de Yucatan (Merida, Yucatan) 3/21/08
In an article titled "U.S. loses the battle against drugs," experts of the International Crisis Group affirm that the U.S. should revise its anti-drug policy and put more emphasis on reducing the demand because it is losing the battle and the value and usage of drugs are increasing.
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La Jornada (Mexico City) 3/21/08
1. The Mexican AFI (read:FBI) arrested 101 illegal aliens in the State of Chiapas after they were abandoned by smugglers. The aliens were from Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras and were being transported in two semi-trailers. The Central Americans had paid between 5 and 10 thousand dollars for transport to the U.S. border. Chiapas is the customary entry route of the undocumented from the south. In 2007, authorities arrested 57,494, most from Central America.
2. The body of an unidentified woman was found early this morning near the military compound in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, with her amputated hand in her mouth and other signs of torture. With the body was a message directed to the commandant of the military post warning that this is what happens to informants.
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