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| Mexico police chief, 10 others killed by gunmen |
| 2008-08-25 |
| The Hidalgo state police chief was kidnapped and shot to death, a police officer was killed in southeastern Tabasco state and nine people were murdered in northern Chihuahua state, local officials said Saturday. The relentless killing spree in Mexico has claimed the lives of more than 2,700 people so far this year, despite a crackdown by authorities against drug trafficking and kidnapping gangs and organized crime in general. In the latest violence, Hidalgo state police chief Raymundo Zamorano was kidnapped at gunpoint while patrolling the streets of Pachuca in his official car late Friday, state public safety secretary Damian Canales told AFP. Zamorano's bullet-riddled body was found Saturday 60 kilometers outside the city, he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 the epidemic of kidnapping-for-ransom going on in Mex. Surely that's not new? I knew a Mexican lady who'd married a local German back when we lived in that country -- our children were in an American Women's Club playgroup together. She went home to visit family in the summer of '94 or so, and her sister wouldn't allow her to take her daughter to the bottom of the driveway to buy ice cream for fear of kidnapping. Granted, both my girlfriend and her daughter were very blond, but it was only a thoroughly middle class neighborhood in Mexico City. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-08-25 23:39 |
| #6 FREEREPUBLIC/NEWSVINE > seems MEXICO'S crime orgs have authorized select assassinations to take place across the US border. WOT > Among other, 'tis MACKINDER'S "WORLD ISLAND" WAR BWTN NEW WORLD + OLD WORLD > PROPOSED NORTH AMER UNION/FEDERATION, PAN-AMER + TEXAS SUPERHIGHWAY = Mexi's crime orgs are jockeying for lead/pole position at the border as OWG FREE TRADE ZONES = SPECIAL ECON ZONES ARE SET UP IN THE CARIBBEAN + CALIFORNIA-BAJA, etc [control of Entry Points = Trade, $$$ Flows]. * ALSO GOOD THE OTHER WAY, I.E. FOR LIMITING = KEEPING THE USA OUT OF MEXICO AND LOWER AMERICAS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-08-25 23:00 |
| #5 In San Antonio there has been a quiet undercurrent of well-off Mexicans buying second homes in tranquil gated communities and bringing their families North. At one of the networking luncheons I used to go to, there were some reps from local real estate firms where it is a big bonus to be fluent in Spanish for just that reason, when it comes to selling high-end homes. I recall someone telling me (or maybe I read it in the newspaper) that a certain high-end neighborhood in demand by Mexican expatriots was especially prized... because the families of the people buying second houses there did not have to go around with squads of bodyguards, 24-7. They could have something approximating what Americans think of as a normal life. On the down-side, we have noticed a lot of police squad cars in our own neighborhood recently. A neighbor who has also noticed this asked a friend who was a SAPD detective - and the friend told her that they had reports of 200 members of a Mexican gang suddenly appearing in San Antonio in recent months. Their purposes are unspecified, but assumed to be malign. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2008-08-25 22:56 |
| #4 The only Mexican proverb I know is "Badges? We don need no steenkin' badges!" |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-08-25 22:14 |
| #3 Wonder if a $1,000,000,000 bounty on coyotes would make a difference to the boarder farmers who are probably paid handsomly to let these scum through. Oh well, the good news is we'll be getting our boys back from Iraq well trained in desert warfare just in time to deal with problems closer to home. Isn't there a Mexican proverb that goes something like "You mess with the bull, you get the horn"? |
| Posted by: DLR 2008-08-25 18:15 |
| #2 There was also a story in Strategy Page about the epidemic of kidnapping-for-ransom going on in Mex That is what accounts for the legal [often well paid for] immigration by purer European blood Mexicans to America [vice their program effort to dump their unemployed, unskilled, uneducated indios y mestizos on the US]. They're getting out to protect their families and fortune. Some how they can't connect the long running corroding effect of their oligarchy upon the economy and social stability of Mexico with these symptoms. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-08-25 09:12 |
| #1 Mike K. stated the other day that Mex is in worse shape than the USG or the media are letting on. There was also a story in Strategy Page about the epidemic of kidnapping-for-ransom going on in Mex. Mike may well be right. If so, all the more reason to expedite the construction of the fence and to be proactive in deporting the illegals now. If Mex collapses, we'll have a hell of a time continuing to deport illegals into that mess, and the problem will come from the lefties here. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-08-25 09:03 |