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    Mexican authorities say they have seized a ship belonging to a drugs cartel which was carrying 68,000 tonnes of illegal iron ore.

    The authorities were tipped off by an anonymous phone call after the ship left the port of Lazaro Cardenas.

    The town's mayor was arrested on Tuesday over suspected links to drug traffickers.

    Mexico has seized more than 200,000 tonnes of illegal iron ore in recent months, most of it on its way to China.

    The ship, Jian Hua, was detained near the Pacific port of Manzanillo.

    The company operating the ship now have 30 days to prove to authorities that the iron ore was extracted legally from Mexico.
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    Default Human Rights Abuse in Mexico

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    Default Mexican Drug Cartel Enforcers Torture Local Men

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    A Friday shootout in Reynosa may have claimed the life of an original member of Los Zetas, a group of paramilitary deserters that grew into one of Mexico’s largest and most feared drug cartels.

    Authorities in both the U.S. and Mexico believe that Galindo “El Mellado” or “Z-9” Mellado Cruz died Friday morning in a hail of gunfire during a raid at his hideout in the Las Fuentes neighborhood.
    While not a household name in regards to popular drug lords, Mellado had been a key target of U.S. law enforcement agencies in recent years for his role as a leading figure within the Gulf Cartel — while at the same time keeping a low profile, the U.S. official said.
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    Cartel shenanigans in Minneapolis
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    Violence is consuming the Mexican city of Reynosa, just south of the Texas border, as street battles have reportedly claimed the lives of over 80 people, including high-ranking police officers and drug cartel leaders. You only have to go to YouTube to watch the war from the front line.

    High-intensity battles involving the Gulfo Cartel, the Zeta Cartel, and Mexican federal authorities are being recorded and broadcast to the world in full by cartel gunmen and residents caught in the crossfire. The battle videos are gaining hundreds of thousands of views.
    http://www.dailydot.com/news/mexican...artel-youtube/
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    From January -

    Earlier this month, agents of the Philippines National Bureau of Investigation raided three separate luxury condos in suburban Manila—one of which had been operating as a drug processing lab—and arrested four Canadians. The NBI ended up seizing $2.5 million dollars worth of cocaine, MDMA, and meth (or as they say in Asia, shabu) in the process.

    Two of the men arrested, James Riach and Barry Espadilla, have close ties with BC’s lower mainland underworld according to Kim Bolan of the Vancouver Sun as former members of a gang called the Independent Soldiers, and most recently have been affiliated with the Wolf Pack—a gang that Bolan writes is “a coalition made up of some I.S. members, some Red Scorpions and some Hells Angels.”
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    EL PASO, Texas -- El Paso police are investigating two mysterious billboards that appeared just off I-10, each with a mannequin hanging from a noose. .

    “It’s not an advertisement,” said Mike Mons, regional manager for Lamar Outdoor advertising.

    The first vandalized billboard off I-10 had Plata o Plomo in large black letters which translates into silver or lead. It is usually a warning targeting police or government officials in Mexico. The warning: work with a cartel and take a bribe or get a bullet.

    The hanging mannequin was dressed in a suit and tie.

    “This symbol has historically been used by Mexican drug cartels to threaten or intimidate Mexican citizens, business owners and government officials; however, we have never experienced this in El Paso,” said police in a statement released to media.
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    Default Autodefensas, Vigilantes and Self-Policing in Mexico: Civilian Dominance over Public

    Autodefensas, Vigilantes and Self-Policing in Mexico: Civilian Dominance over Public Safety Policies?

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    Default Mexico Is Not Colombia: Seeking More Productive Analogies for Responding to the Chall

    Mexico Is Not Colombia: Seeking More Productive Analogies for Responding to the Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations

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    Default General Kelly Says Mexico Border Security Now ‘Existential’ Threat

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    RINCON PENINSULA, Texas -- U.S. Border Patrol agents on the American side of the Rio Grande were forced to take cover Friday night when high-caliber weaponry was fired at them from the Mexican side of the river, sources told FoxNews.com.

    The weapons were fired at the U.S. side of the riverbank in the area of the Rincon Peninsula across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Mexico, at about 8:30 p.m., sources said. Bullets ricocheted into an area where Border Patrol agents were positioned, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, told FoxNews.com.

    Border Patrol sources confirmed Gohmert's account, and said the shots may have been fired by .50-caliber weapons.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/20...mbling-on-rio/


    Perry will announce his plans Monday to mobilize some 1,000 guardsmen to the Rio Grande Valley to increase security at the border, according to the Monitor, a south Texas newspaper. The newspaper quoted a state senator and an internal memo it obtained from a state official’s office.

    Perry spokesman Felix Browne told The Washington Post he would neither confirm nor deny the report, but said all details will be given at a news conference at 2 p.m. Central time Monday in Austin. It was unclear what mission the guard will have.
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    From 30 June 14

    (Reuters) - At least 22 suspected gang members were killed southwest of Mexico City early on Monday, the government said, in one of the bloodiest shootouts with security forces since President Enrique Pena Nieto took power.


    An Interior Ministry spokesman said the gunfight took place in Tlatlaya on the southern fringes of the State of Mexico, an area that has been plagued by gang violence in the two neighboring states of Guerrero and Michoacan.
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    Default The Threat Of Mexico's Massive Underground Economy

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    Illegal immigration may be a hot-button political issue in Washington, D.C., but for U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Rodriguez, who works on the front lines of the battle to curb illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border, it is much more than a philosophical debate: It is a daily reality.

    In this episode of “Power Players,” Rodriguez takes us along for a patrol on the Rio Grande, along one of the most heavily used routes by which migrants cross illegally into the United States.

    “This is a spot that is well known for rocking incidents, especially once it starts getting dark,” Rodriguez warns as the boat speeds through a narrow area of the river. “They throw rocks in front of the boat going 30 mph in one direction.”

    While some of the rocks are thrown by mischievous kids, Rodriguez blames some of the incidents on illegal smugglers.

    “We are interrupting their business, so they want to take some kind of revenge on us,” he said.
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    Default More Than a Mexican Problem: How the US Can Adapt Plan Colombia to Mexico

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    Mexico City (AFP) - Mexico's military detained an officer and seven soldiers in connection with the shooting deaths of 22 gang suspects after a witness said 21 of them were executed despite surrendering.
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    Iguala (Mexico) (AFP) - Two gang hitmen linked to police admitted to killing 17 of 43 students missing in southern Mexico, amid fears the victims were among bodies found in a mass grave.

    Inaky Blanco, the chief prosecutor of violence-plagued Guerrero state, said Sunday it would take at least 15 days to identify the 28 bodies in the clandestine grave, some of which were badly burned and in pieces.
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    Extra points for ironic gestures.

    MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican soldiers used alleged criminals' own guns to kill those who initially survived a confrontation at a warehouse southwest of Mexico City, the country's attorney general said Friday.
    In an interview with MVS Radio, Jesus Murillo Karam said that three soldiers have been charged with murder and a lieutenant with a cover up for the events of June 30 in San Pedro Limon, a community in the municipality of Tlatlaya in the state of Mexico.
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