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| Cattle Rustling on the Rise in Coahuila |
| 2010-06-09 |
| Babelfish, etc... The number of reported cattle theft cases have nearly doubled, according to a Mexican news report published by El Diario de Coahuila, going from 30 cases in two years to more than 50. José Guadalupe Duran Meza, agent of the Ministerio Público for rural areas in the Southwest Region, said a number of cases are centered in southern areas of Coahuila, such as Saltillo, General Cepeda, and Ramos Arizpe and Arteaga. "This crime always has existed", Duran Mezawas is quoted as saying. "...this crime was not denounced as much, after the rural section of the Public Ministry was created is when more cases have arrived, mainly of the cattle rustling, although also they report other types of robberies to us." Current rules for cattle producers large and small are the producer must make the denunciation before a judge, so the state attorney general can get involved. The Ministerio Público can then go across the countryside looking for missing animals. Some of the small farm are very remote, but even so, denunciations have grown in the past year, he said. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 See also WAFF > MEXICO AND THE AMERICAN WAR. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-09 21:26 |
| #2 When you owe money to people who are going to cut off your head and throw your body into an old silver mine, I guess you get it by any means available. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-06-09 14:20 |
| #1 The return of the 'running iron' (branding iron used to fake cattle brands by rustlers.) Mere possession of such an iron used to be a serious offense, looked at like burglary tools. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-09 09:18 |