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Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
2010-07-30
The body dump near Ciudad Vitoria, Tamaulipas is included in today's More Mexican Mayhem death count. For a map, click here.
31 Die in Northern Mexico

Drug and gang violence claimed at least 31 lives in northern Mexico, including a gunfight at the Nogales, Sonora, airport and a kidnap hostage rescue in Tamaulipas.
  • Four unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Thursday, say Mexican press reports. The attack took place near the intersection of Independencia and Juärez-Porvenir road. Reports say a single armed suspect shot the two inside their Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck. Stray rounds struck and killed two more people nearby.

  • Two people were shot to death and two people were wounded in an attack near a commercial center in Juarez, according to Mexicn news accounts. Fernando Garcia Urrutia and Roberto Urrea Caraveo were shot in the Plaza Portales shopping center in the Campestre district. Two more unidentified victims were also shot and are hospitalized.

  • A man was shot to death in Juarez, say Mexican press accounts. David Orozco, 50, was shot at his residence near the intersection of calles Esther Gómez and Elisa Griensen in the Independencia II district. Orozco is the final survivor of his family the remainder of which were murdered last April.

  • Two unidentified men were shot to death in two separate crimes in Juarez Thursday, accordng to the Mexican daily La Polaka. The first attack took place near the intersection of calles Puerto Argentino and Mar del Sur in the Paraje de Oriente district. Two men were hit by armed suspects firing rifles. One man died and another was wounded and hospitalized.

    In the second attack, which took place near the intersection of calles Tercera and Durango in the Infonavit Ampliacion Aeropuerto district, where a man was shot seven times and died at the scene

  • An unidentified man was shot to death and two more wounded following a confrontation with security elements in Nogales, Sonora, say Mexican press reports. As of the moment it is unclear who the responding authorities were, except the battle took place at the airport in Nogales. Reports say AK-47 assault rifles were used in the gunfight.

  • Six people were killed in intergang battles in Tamaulipas, according to Mexican press reports. Four men were shot to death in Nuevo Laredo and two victims were found burned inside of an abandoned car in Diaz Ordaz.

  • The Mexican Army based in Reynosa, Tamaulipas reported the rescue of an unidentified kidnap victim in the town of La Providencia, Tamaulipas July 25th. The rescue took place when a Mexican Army convoy was fired on while on patrol. Following then end of the firefight, the Army seized 14 rifles, 178 weapons magazines and about 4,000 cartridges.
    Posted by:badanov

    #4  Is it my imagination, or does the violence in Northern Mexico seem to be spreading?

    The violence used to be concentrated in Juarez. Now it seems to be all along the border (and all the way south to Monterey).

    I haven't been reading and writing Mexican drug crime news long enough to answer your question cogently. Ask it again in a year and I may be able to provide an answer.

    But what I do know is that the intergang violence is concentrated in four main areas: Juarez, Chihuahua; Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; and the Mexican Federal highway system that runs from Guerrero through Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa. Battle areas shift all the time according to what the Mexican Army does and what other gangs do.

    For example, the intergang fight in Tubutama, Sonora earlier this July we later found out wasn't an intergang fight, but an ambush involving at least 150 gang members from Command X, a sub group of the Sinaloa cartel, and Los Zetas operating on behalf of the Beltran-Leyva Cartel.

    What the hell Sinaloa Cartel was doing in central Sonora is anyone's guess, but they paid for their stupidity with at least 15 dead.

    Now we find another intergang fight has taken place again near Saric ( roughly 10 kilometers north of Tubutama ) today. Details to follow later.

    The upshot is that the battleground are shifting all the time with differing factors such as Mexican Federal intervention, such as Mexican Federal agents and the Mexican Army, drug operations and counter gang operations affecting where the next fight will be.

    Ask me in another year.
    Posted by: badanov   2010-07-30 17:27  

    #3  The violence is spreading as far north as Phoenix, my friend. Kidnap and Home Invasion capital of the U.S.A. I live in Tucson where home invasions are rampant, also. Dealers are naturally a wee bit hesitant to call the police when their stash, cash, and weaponry is stolen. The local constabulatory finds out via the ubiquitous gunshots involved in these cases. Things are messy here in Tucson, helicopter/searchlight overflights in my neighborhood most every night. No cops though, unless there is blood in the streets...
    Posted by: borgboy   2010-07-30 16:17  

    #2  Is it my imagination, or does the violence in Northern Mexico seem to be spreading?

    The violence used to be concentrated in Juarez. Now it seems to be all along the border (and all the way south to Monterey).
    Posted by: Frozen Al   2010-07-30 11:15  

    #1  More than made up for the slow day earlier in the week.
    Posted by: Glenmore   2010-07-30 08:31  

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