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Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
2010-05-09
Ten More Dead in Chihuahua Friday, One in Juarez Today

Eleven more people were found victims of gun violence in Chihuahua, Mexico, Friday, including a find of five corpses in the city of Chihuahua.
A CIPOL agent visiting his nephew in Juarez repelled an assassination attempt Saturday morning by elements of organized crime but not before the nephew was shot, according to Mexican press reports. Reports say the nephew died later that morning.

The attack took place in the El Granjero district of Juarez near Garambullo and Mostaza streets at 0900 hrs.
  • Two men were found bound, gagged and shot to death Saturday on the Ojinaga-Chihuahua highway near Ojinaga, Chihuahua. About 15 9mm spent casings were found near the bodies, according to news reports. Investigators speculated the men died as a result of a busted drug deal.

  • Five people were found dead in the city of Chihuahua in two separate incidents, according to Mexican press reports.

    Police received a call Friday afternoon about a number of bodies found behind the Westin Sovereign in Chihuahua. Investigators found four bodies piled on the sidewalk, bound, tortured and shot to death. One of the victims appeared to be newlywed. Conflicting stories by witnesses said the victims were dumped there while others said they heard shots.

    In the second incident, one man was found shot dead in his home in the wealthy district of Chihuahua known as Residencial Campestre near the intersection of Camino al Campestre and Virginia. According to the translation, when the victim opened the door to see if vehicles were being robbed, he was shot, and the shooters escaped easily.

  • Three men were murdered in the middle of a wedding ceremony in a Catholic Church Friday evening in Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. According to witnesses, gunmen broke into the church, at Valentín Fuentes and Simona Barba streets and shot the groom and two of his godfathers. One guest attempted to intervene but was met with gunfire.

    According to the reports, a quantity of police and army elements characterized as in the hundreds cordoned off the area for almost two hours following the assassinations. As the dead lay in the doorway the killers escaped the scene aboard several vehicles.
    • Posted by:badanov

    #8  The Czar was elected every six years??

    Who knew?
    Posted by: badanov   2010-05-09 14:20  

    #7  I'm sure _beat cops_ get criticized in the press _all the time_ in oligarchies. It's kinda like China, where _local party officials_ are criticized all the time, but the central committee is absolutely not to blame.

    The best ironic description of this mindset I've seen came from Russia, where the saying was "If only the Czar knew."
    Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2010-05-09 14:09  

    #6  We are becoming Mexico: a thin veneer of oligarchs protected by a compliant media and dominating a weak, incompetent regulatory apparatus and bankrupt state, with a swelling underclass and a shrinking middle class paying the inflated salaries and bloated pensions of a huge and growing public sector union base that ensures the oligarchs' continued hold on power.

    If you read Mexican press you will find they have a vigorous, critical, and under the circumstances, courageous press.

    Our media would do well to emulate what Mexican journalists have to go through to report the news.

    A lot of the stuff I rewrite here: I leave out a ton of critical stuff the press publishes about the government. They love their cops but they aren't afraid to go after them if they think the cops f*cked up.

    For example: at the catholic church one older women was screaming at the cops and soldiers who had cordoned the streets around the crime scene, accusing them of being complicit in the murders.

    If the Mexican state were run by oppressive oligarchs,would that make it in the press?

    Here?
    Posted by: badanov   2010-05-09 13:46  

    #5  IIRC that's how Bill Gates and other US oligarchs live, not too far from the border in their gated suburban San Diego compound of Rancho Santa Fe.

    We are becoming Mexico: a thin veneer of oligarchs protected by a compliant media and dominating a weak, incompetent regulatory apparatus and bankrupt state, with a swelling underclass and a shrinking middle class paying the inflated salaries and bloated pensions of a huge and growing public sector union base that ensures the oligarchs' continued hold on power.

    Mexifornia's only the first step. Coming to your neighborhood soon.
    Posted by: lex   2010-05-09 12:42  

    #4  Oooooo! I always wanted to live in a gated community!
    Posted by: Frank G   2010-05-09 12:37  

    #3  Someday, we're going to need to build a wall around southern California.
    Posted by: Gleasing Lumumba6409   2010-05-09 12:19  

    #2  Underclass = criminal class? I wonder what the Saturday body count is? Time out for Mother's Day?
    Posted by: JohnQC   2010-05-09 12:07  

    #1  Why are we importing another underclass?
    Posted by: lex   2010-05-09 01:18  

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