Expert Says Beheadings in U.S. Look Like Work of Cartels. Three beheadings in two different states and they happened here in the United States, not Mexico.
Former DEA supervisor Phil Jordan says all three beheadings have cartel written all over them. One Mexican State Bordering The US Was Deadlier Than All of Afghanistan Last Year. More than 47,000 people have been killed in drug violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown against drug cartels.
(AP Photo/Felix Marquez) (CNSNews.com) – Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan. According to the Mexican government, from January through September 2011 2,276 deaths were recorded in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico. A Nov. 2011 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report states that over nearly the same period – January through October 2011 – 2,177 civilians were killed in Afghanistan, where a U.S. -led war against the Taliban is underway. Per capita, a person was at least nine times more likely to be murdered in Chihuahua last year than in Afghanistan.
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Special Ops Team Crosses the Border into Mexico; Escorted by Mexican Military. Mexican Cartels Seek Recruits Among California Latinos. More than 5,000 young people in San Diego, most of them Hispanics accused of being involved in street gangs, have been held in confinement by the city's corrections system during the past two years.
Most of the crimes are associated with assaults, robbery, drug trafficking or consumption, since according to the authorities, being near the border also makes the youths easy targets for Mexican cartels that recruit them to smuggle drugs. Pedro Ríos, an activist with the San Diego office of the American Friends Service Committee, told Efe on Tuesday that the situation is particularly prevalent at high schools in the southern part of the county, which is fertile terrain for recruiting U.S. -born Hispanics who can cross the border with little difficulty. According to SANDAG, among the youths interviewed in San Diego County detention facilities, 11 percent said that at some time they have been asked to transport drugs over the border, with their first crossing at the average age of 14.
13 killed, 8 at funeral, in violent Mexico state. Texas Ranchers Using AK47s to Defend Against Cartel Invaders. » 1.4 MILLION Gang Members And More Pour Into The United States Every Single Day Alex Jones. The American Dream January 21, 2012 A vast army of heavily armed criminals has embedded itself in every major city in the United States.
In fact, nearly every community in America is now affected by these thugs. Drugs, theft and brutal violence are all part of the every day lifestyle of the members of this army. They aggressively recruit our young people and floods of illegal immigrants are joining their ranks. Once civil unrest erupts in America, they will go on a crime spree that will be absolutely unprecedented and they will burn large areas of some U.S. cities to the ground.
The FBI tells us that there are now 1.4 million gang members involved in the 33,000 different gangs that are active inside the United States. In many areas of America today, families live behind windows that have bars on them and they won’t ever go out at night because it is just too dangerous. In Focus: Mexico Drug War, Five Years Later. Posted Dec 21, 2011 Share This Gallery inShare19 A graphic picture is emerging in Mexico five years after President Felipe Calderon launched his all-out assault on organized crime: Mass killings as cartels fight each other for territory and civilians caught in the violence; police unable to prevent the mayhem or to investigate the aftermath.
The government needed to act decisively, he said, to prevent organized crime from taking over the country. Radio Zeta: How Mexico's Drug Cartels Stay Networked. Arranging drug sales on a cellphone, cryptic email or even a pager?
That’s strictly for the small-time dealer. If you’re a Mexican drug cartel, you have your own radio network. Since 2006, the cartels have maintained an encrypted DIY radio network that stretches across nearly all 31 Mexican states, even down south into Guatemala. The communications infrastructure of the narco-gangs that have turned Mexico into a gangster’s paradise consists of “professional-grade” radio antennas, signal relays and simple handheld radios that cost “millions of dollars” — and which the Mexican authorities haven’t been able to shut down. If it sounds like a military-grade communications apparatus, it should. But the Zetas aren’t stupid enough to make big deals over a radio frequency, even an encrypted one. Here’s how it works, according to a fascinating Associated Press piece. The network is primarily an early warning reconnaissance system. But there’s an alternative for taking down the cartel broadcasts. Mexican youths forced to work for drug gangs.
Carlos Fuentes: legalise drugs to save Mexico.