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Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
2010-06-09
14 Dead in northern Mexico

Fourteen people have lost their lives in ongoing gang and drug related violence in northern Mexico, including a find of 10 dead in Juarez in less than an hour last night.
  • Ten unidentified people were found executed within an hour at about 2200 hrs in Juarez last night according to the Mexican news daily La Polaka. Three were found inside a car on calle Aguirre Laredo in the San Angel district, while a fourth was found in a car in an automotive sound shop nearby in the same district.

    Two men were found in the Cuernavaca district of Juarez tortured with gunshot wounds to the head. They had been dumped on the sidewalk on Calle Mecatepec. Another dead man was found nearby.

    One man was found dead in the Infonavit Casas Grandes district of Juarez, while two more were found on Calle Ramocoy, in the Los Portales district of southern Juarez.

  • A disc salesman was shot to death at close range by two armed suspects today in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports. Javier Martinez of 31 was shot near the intersection of Avenida Juarez and Calle 25th this afternoon by armed suspects who then escaped aboard a white Subaru. Martinez's brother was also in the area but was unharmed.

  • A woman was executed by five men in a home invasion in Juarez today, say Mexican news accounts. Lorenza Gutiérrez Grove, 41, was shot to death by armed suspects while her son, sequestered by the suspects in another room of the home, was unharmed. The murder took place in the Baborigame district of Juarez.

  • Two men were murdered in separate crimes in small businesses in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The unidentified client of a barber was shot to death as he was getting a haircut at La Cherie barbershop near the intersection of Avenida Los Aztecas and Calle Cantera in the Independence II district of Juarez. The barber was also wounded in the attack, but is expected to survive.

    Ismael Gomez, 40, an employee of the Homie grocery store near the intersection of calles 27th and Belisario Domínguez in the Chaveña district was shot dead in the store by an armed suspect.
Posted by:badanov

#11  I'll start covering Baja California if someone watches Sinaloa and Guerrero.
Posted by: badanov   2010-06-09 21:00  

#10  I'll keep an eye out for Baja, Bad.
Posted by: Frank G   2010-06-09 18:58  

#9  Badanov: you are doing a great job and can't cover all of Mexico.

Thanks for the compliment,.

I'd like to raise a few points, however.

To compose a news roundup with ten crimes and between 500 and 650 words takes me about 3 hours; just about every last bit of spare time I have. I won't bore you with the details, but it just isn't enough to dump the babelfish translation into an article; we are trying to accurately chronicle the insanity that has become Mexican society in recent months because of gangs, drugs and greed.

Secondly, the Mexican federal government is apparently comfortable enough with the crime situation in Sinaloa and Baja California, that they just transferred last week 500 Mexican Federal agents to Sonora from those two states, Sinaloa and Baja California.

Why?

Because the Mexican Army had three armed confrontations with drug gangs in the span of two days not to mention the gun battles between elements of Sonoran state police against the bad guys, as well a a number of mass murders centered around Nogales.

I cover five of the six most northern states: all but Baja California, perusing per night about a dozen Spanish language newspapers, often several times an evening.

I said all that to say this: If someone wants to cover Sinaloa and Baja California, that would be helpful. I am stretched as far as I can be in what I am doing.
Posted by: badanov   2010-06-09 17:37  

#8  As always, if one needs head shopts to bring home the point, check out "El Alarma" on the web. (Prensa rojo = Mexican version of yellow jounalism).
Posted by: borgboy   2010-06-09 16:30  

#7  Badanov: you are doing a great job and can't cover all of Mexico. Sinaloa, however, has long been the fatherland of the narcos. Hundreds of narco-corridos have been written/sang about its capital, Culiacan. ("Los Tres Gallos de Sinaloa", por ejemplo.)
Posted by: borgboy   2010-06-09 16:28  

#6  No hellfires. FASCAM-ADAM(AP). It will give the National Guard Artillery crews something to do for summer drill.

Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar   2010-06-09 12:07  

#5  Texas lawmakers have also asked that the FAA to create a faster way of processing applications for new flights.

Long past the time to designate the first five miles along the border outside of incorporated metro areas [100,000+] as a military march. Let the writ of the administrator take precedent over that of the beltway bureaucrat.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2010-06-09 08:51  

#4  Unarmed Predator drones now flying along border

Watching. And beaming back really nifty high-res images of Mexicans hopping over our high-security fence before disappearing into the landscape while sipping on a Slurpee and cracking jokes with the the rest of the latest Illegal Aliens class of that particular day.

What? No Hellfires?! FAIL.
Posted by: gorb   2010-06-09 02:00  

#3  El Paso Times: Unarmed Predator drones now flying along border
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-06-09 01:51  

#2  I just don't cover Sinaloa.
Posted by: badanov   2010-06-09 01:07  

#1  AP: Authorities say six inmates had their throats cut and died in a prison in Culiacan.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-06-09 00:35  

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