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Crafty_Dog:
Abro este hilo para platicar temas de interes sobre Mexico.  

Veo en el periodico hoy que se mataron el nuevo jefe de policia de Nuevo Lardeo en su primer dia de trabajo , , ,

Anonymous:
Disculpen por favor que lo siguiente sea en ingles , , ,

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TERRORISM BRIEF

Increasing Danger on the U.S.-Mexican Border
June 14, 2005 1730 GMT

Mexican President Vicente Fox ordered Mexican army troops and federal agents to detain all 700 officers of the Nuevo Laredo police force June 13 and assume policing duties in the town, just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. The move, which came in response to a breakdown of law and order in the city, will be extended to other border towns, authorities said. It is indicative of the serious deterioration in the security situation along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Assailants killed Nuevo Laredo Police chief Alejandro Dominguez on June 8, just nine hours after he took over the job. Dominquez was not accompanied by a personal protection detail at the time, meaning he was either arrogant, naive about crime in the city, or under the protection of one of the city's criminal gangs who then betrayed him. One of Nuevo Laredo's many drug cartels might have killed him to make the statement that the cartels, not the police, control the city.

A federal investigation of Dominguez's killing caused tensions to rise
between federal officers and local police, and on June 10 shooting erupted
between the two groups, leaving a plainclothes federal agent wounded. In
Chihuahua city, capital of the border state of Chihuahua, three gunmen
assassinated the operations chief of police on June 13.

Corrupt police, growing anti-U.S. sentiment in Mexico and a war raging
between rival drug gangs have made the border increasingly dangerous for U.S. citizens and corporations. Mexican National Police reported 550
drug-related homicides in Mexico in the first five months of 2005, most of
them occurring in towns along the border. In Nuevo Laredo alone, more than 60 killings related to organized crime have occurred, seven police officers among them.

Nuevo Laredo is a battleground for several rival drug gangs, most notably
the Juarez Cartel, the Tijuana Cartel, a cartel from western Sinaloa state,
and the Gulf Cartel from Matamoros. As the cartels battled over turf, they
have infiltrated Nuevo Laredo's police force and placed corrupt police
officers on their payrolls.

Growing anti-U.S. sentiment in Mexico, stoked by election-year rhetoric and negative publicity over a group of American vigilantes that organized its own border patrol in Arizona, also contributes to a dangerous situation for Americans on the border. To further complicate the situation, the so-called Minutemen are soon to expand their activities from Arizona into New Mexico and Texas.

In one sign of the increasing anti-U.S. sentiment, officials in the border
cities of Tijuana and Mexicali recently revoked permission for U.S.
corporations to bring U.S. security details into the country, saying
security must be provided by Mexicans. The city officials invoked a federal
law against such practices, although U.S. embassy officials who contacted
the Mexican government on behalf of U.S. corporations were unable to verify the existence of such a law. In any case, if the law does exist, it was not enforced before mid-May. Many U.S. firms with dealings in Mexico are now scrambling to find trustworthy Mexican companies to provide security for their personnel.

Few Mexican security firms, however, meet U.S. standards. These companies consist of former police officers or off-duty officers who possibly continue to maintain corrupt relationships with organized crime. At the same time, Mexico offers no reliable process for conducting background checks on these officers, suggesting that the only way to ensure reliable security is to develop a personal relationship with a local firm over time. In the meantime, U.S. corporate personnel are facing a higher risk of falling victim to crime in Mexico.

American tourists visiting U.S. border cities also are facing increased
threats. Dozens of reports have appeared over the past 18 months of U.S.
citizens going missing in Mexico during short trips across the border. With
the increase in activity by drug gangs, many of the missing likely ran afoul
of organized crime.  Mexican police so far have proven ineffective at solving the disappearances.

With drug wars raging on both sides of the border -- and law and order
broken down in Nuevo Laredo to the point in which the army has been sent in -- the U.S.-Mexican border has become a dangerous place.

omar:
Hola, esta es informaci?n del estado del Narco en M?xico, esta nota aparece en un diario de gran circulaci?n llamado la jornada, no apunte la fecha, pero es de la semana pasada:

Informe secreto de la PGR confirma que son los principales introductores de coca?na a EU
C?rteles mexicanos, lejos de ser desmantelados, se consolidan
 Existen en el pa?s al menos 100 bandas dedicadas al narcotr?fico; 85% operan en la frontera norte
ALFREDO MENDEZ ORTIZ
Al menos en los ?ltimos cinco a?os, los c?rteles mexicanos se han consolidado como los principales introductores de coca?na en el mercado estadunidense, se?ala la Procuradur?a General de la Rep?blica (PGR) a partir de informaci?n de las agencias Central de Inteligencia (CIA) y antidrogas (DEA) de Estados Unidos.
Asimismo, agrega que en el pa?s existen al menos 100 bandas y grupos dedicados al narcotr?fico, 85 por ciento de los cuales operan en la frontera norte, y que entre las principales organizaciones delictivas destacan los c?rteles de Ciudad Ju?rez, Sinaloa, Tijuana, del Golfo y del Milenio, as? como otros de menor ''impacto delictivo'', los cuales b?sicamente operan en el centro y sur del pa?s y se dedican a fomentar el consumo y distribuci?n de drogas entre j?venes y ni?os.
Pr?xima reuni?n de procuradores
De acuerdo con un informe de la PGR sobre la situaci?n actual de la delincuencia organizada en M?xico, elaborado a petici?n del nuevo procurador, Daniel Cabeza de Vaca, la dependencia federal busca reforzar los v?nculos de colaboraci?n con autoridades de inteligencia de Estados Unidos.
Una de las finalidades de la PGR es elaborar ''estrategias espec?ficas contra el crimen organizado'', y enfrentar con ellas la ola de violencia que ha aumentado considerablemente en territorio mexicano en lo que va de este a?o.
Adem?s -refiere el documento al que tuvo acceso La Jornada-, en los pr?ximos d?as M?xico y Estados Unidos fijar?n la fecha para una reuni?n entre sus procuradores (Daniel Cabeza de Vaca y Alberto R. Gonzales, respectivamente), a partir de la cual se pondr? de manifiesto la intenci?n de las autoridades federales de nuestro pa?s (PGR y Secretar?a de Seguridad P?blica) de obtener el apoyo necesario para combatir al narcotr?fico.
Otro de los fines buscados por la dependencia federal es incrementar la cercan?a con autoridades policiacas y de procuraci?n de justicia estatales y municipales, lo que permitir? profundizar los alcances del combate contra los narcotraficantes.
El informe refiere que la PGR tiene registro de que los c?rteles mexicanos, lejos de ser desmantelados, se han consolidado como los principales introductores de coca?na en el mercado estadunidense. Por lo menos esto ha ocurrido desde finales de 1999, de acuerdo con reportes de la DEA y la CIA.
La informaci?n precisa que en el vecino pa?s b?sicamente existen seis zonas por las que se trasladan de manera cotidiana diversos vol?menes de coca?na, cuatro de las cuales est?n dominadas por grupos delictivos que operan en M?xico, en tanto que los otros dos son compartidos por c?rteles de Colombia, Rep?blica Dominicana y Hait?.
Seg?n el documento, de car?cter confidencial, en M?xico existen al menos 100 c?rteles, y 85 por ciento operan en la frontera norte. Entre las principales organizaciones delictivas destacan los c?rteles de Ciudad Ju?rez, Sinaloa, Tijuana, del Golfo y del Milenio, as? como algunos de menor importancia que operan en el centro y sur del pa?s, conformados por pocos integrantes.
Las organizaciones menos importantes est?n dedicadas principalmente al narcomenudeo y recepci?n de coca?na procedente de Centroam?rica.
Por otra parte, funcionarios de la PGR consultados por este diario indicaron que Jos? Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, titular de la Subprocuradur?a de Investigaci?n Especializada en Delincuencia Organizada (SIEDO), recibi? la instrucci?n del nuevo procurador de ''reforzar'' el combate al narcotr?fico, y para ello le pidi? ''estrechar v?nculos con las fuerzas armadas, as? como con autoridades de Estados Unidos''.
El pasado viernes Vasconcelos acudi? a Washington para reunirse con autoridades de la DEA y de la CIA, a fin de acordar los canales de cooperaci?n e incrementar el intercambio de informaci?n.
Asimismo, las fuentes consultadas refirieron que durante las reuniones recientes entre Cabeza de Vaca y Vasconcelos, ?ste inform? a su superior que la lucha contra el crimen organizado se efect?a en dos v?as: la primera, combatiendo las c?lulas de delincuentes que fomentan el narcomenudeo e inducen a adolescentes y ni?os a dedicarse a la distribuci?n y consumo de estupefacientes. La segunda, identificando y persiguiendo a los l?deres o cabezas de los c?rteles, y que incluso tienen v?nculos con grupos delictivos de otras naciones.
Adem?s, el nuevo procurador le manifest? a Vasconcelos su ''gran preocupaci?n'' por el reciente incremento en el n?mero de ejecuciones perpetradas a nivel nacional, entre cuyas v?ctimas se encuentran servidores p?blicos y periodistas. Ayer este diario document? que, durante la semana pasada, se cometieron 29 asesinatos vinculados al crimen organizado, siete de los cuales ocurrieron el s?bado, y provocaron la muerte de dos estudiantes y un agente de la Polic?a Federal Preventiva (PFP).
De acuerdo con el informe de la PGR, tanto la recomposici?n de los c?rteles como el incremento en las ejecuciones a nivel nacional se deben al ''combate frontal'' y ''acciones constantes'' de la dependencia en contra de los integrantes de grupos delictivos.
Entre estas acciones destacan detenciones de diversos capos del narcotr?fico, como Osiel C?rdenas Guill?n, l?der del c?rtel del Golfo, y Armando Valencia Cornelio, El Juanito, uno de los pilares del c?rtel del Milenio, que encabezan los hermanos Valencia.
Sin embargo, la dependencia reconoce, aunque no de manera oficial, que pese a que se ha detenido a miembros de varios grupos delictivos 'importantes a nivel nacional'', eso ha provocado la ''conformaci?n de c?lulas'' que han hecho m?s complejo el combate al narcotr?fico.
Entre las asignaturas pendientes en la procuradur?a destaca la ubicaci?n y captura de varios capos que enfrentan ?rdenes de aprehensi?n o que se fugaron de alg?n penal federal o local, entre los cuales uno de los m?s sonados es Joaqu?n Guzm?n Loera, El Chapo, libre para operar el c?rtel de Sinaloa, tras fugarse en enero de 2001 del penal de Puente Grande, en Jalisco.
Del c?rtel de Ju?rez se encuentran pr?fugos Vicente Carrillo Fuentes y Vicente Carrillo Leyva, sus l?deres principales, as? como varios sicarios y operadores financieros. Del de Tijuana, Francisco Javier Arellano F?lix, El Tigrillo, de quien se dice actualmente encabeza el grupo delictivo. Del c?rtel del Golfo, Juan Manuel Garza Rend?n, uno de los operadores de Osiel C?rdenas Guill?n.
Una de las metas de la PGR al reforzar los v?nculos de cooperaci?n e intercambio de informaci?n entre autoridades de M?xico y Estados Unidos es que el pa?s cuente con polic?as federales especializados en el combate al narcotr?fico.
Polic?as de elite
Derivado de lo anterior, al menos 10 integrantes de la AFI, que fueron entrenados por la DEA y por la polic?a espa?ola, se encuentran en Coahuila y Sonora desde el mes pasado para enfrentar el resurgimiento de ejecuciones y actividades ligadas al crimen organizado. Esta acci?n, dijo la dependencia federal, es s?lo el inicio de lo que se planea hacer durante los pr?ximos meses en los estados con gran presencia de narcotraficantes, como Chihuahua, Nuevo Le?n, Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, Colima, Michoac?n, Yucat?n y Quintana Roo.
La informaci?n obtenida por este diario revela que, adem?s de la regi?n norte de M?xico, existe entre las autoridades federales la preocupaci?n por un posible ''calentamiento'' en la zona sur-sureste, por la presencia de bandas que pretenden asumir el control del narcotr?fico, principalmente en el Caribe y en la pen?nsula de Yucat?n.
Asimismo se ha documentado que por esa regi?n ingresa aproximadamente 66 por ciento del total de la coca?na que despu?s es trasladada por territorio mexicano a Estados Unidos.

Anonymous:
Gracias por ese articulo interesante.  Ahora he aqui otro en ingles.  :oops:
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Mexico: Fox's Uphill Battle to Win the Drug War
Summary

Mexican President Vicente Fox recently deployed some 1,500 soldiers and federal police agents to Nuevo Laredo and seven other lawless cities in an operation that will be expanded in coming weeks to other parts of Mexico. However, the Fox government's "Operation Safe Mexico" will fail to dismantle Mexico's powerful drug cartels or contain escalating violence associated with rival drug-trafficking organizations' permanent efforts to rule Mexico's $50 billion-a-year illegal-drug industry. Moreover, an emerging crack-cocaine epidemic will drive Mexico's crime rates sharply higher in coming years.

Analysis

The government of Mexican President Vicente Fox recently launched "Operation Safe Mexico," deploying more than 1,500 army soldiers and federal police agents June 13 to the northern cities of Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, Reynosa, Culiacan, Mazatlan, Mexicali and Tijuana to confront drug crime.

Mexico's crime-related national security crisis will be the biggest political issue in the country during Fox's final year in power until presidential elections scheduled for July 2, 2006, and will have a spillover effect on U.S. states bordering Mexico. Complicating things for Mexico, the crisis will intensify during a period in which Mexican economic growth will be slowing. In the face of these challenges, Fox's efforts to stymie the drug trade and its associated violence will fall short and will be complicated by an emerging crack-cocaine epidemic.

Fox initially deployed troops in the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Baja California, Sinaloa and Sonora. Officials with the Mexican Attorney General's office, however, said deployments soon would expand to the state of Mexico, Mexico City (the federal district) and several states in southern Mexico, reportedly including Chiapas, Guerrero and Yucatan.

A presidential spokesman described Operation Safe Mexico as a two-pronged initiative. One part of the plan calls for aggressive deployments of troops and federal agents to secure cities with roadblocks, accompanied by vehicle searches and heavily armed patrols intended to suppress criminal activities. The second part calls for wholesale purges of corrupt police at the local, state and federal level. Thousands of police officers likely will be fired in the purge. While Mexican Foreign Ministry spokesmen routinely dismiss U.S. criticism of Mexico's security problems as an unwelcome intrusion in Mexican affairs, a spokesman for the Attorney General's office acknowledged recently that drug traffickers have corrupted and penetrated practically every local and state law enforcement agency in northern Mexico. The corruption also extends to federal police, generally afflicting law enforcement across the country.

At least seven major Mexican drug-trafficking organizations operate along the U.S.-Mexican border. Fox launched Operation Safe Mexico to end a vicious war between these rival drug cartels that began in 2003 after the dismantling of the Tijuana cartel upon the death and arrest of the cartel's two top leaders, Ramon and Benjamin Arellano-Felix. The chief combatants in this cartel war include Osiel Cardenas, the jailed leader of the Gulf cartel who is battling an alliance of drug traffickers that includes Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Juan Jose "El Azul" Esparragoza.

Mexican federal anti-drug officials estimate that close to 1,500 people have been killed in the cartel war since 2003. During roughly the same period, about 1,750 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq. Since the beginning of 2005, Mexican police agencies have tallied more than 600 killings related to the war between the rival cartels. Human rights groups, on the other hand, estimate the warring cartels have killed close to 900 people in the first six months of 2005.

Cardenas and the Gulf cartel control the drug trade in northeastern Mexico, which is headquartered in Nuevo Laredo. Cardenas also is trying to seize control of drug-trafficking routes and activities in Baja California and Sinaloa, controlled until 2003 by the Arellano-Felix family's Tijuana cartel. However, Guzman's Sinaloa drug cartel and his associates Zambada and Esparragoza oppose Cardenas' bid for control of Baja California and Sinaloa. This group, the Sinaloa alliance -- also known as "the federation" by some Mexican police officials -- in turn is trying to wrest control of Nuevo Laredo's drug trade from Cardenas and the Gulf cartel.

Nuevo Laredo and Tijuana represent the strategic prizes in Mexico's drug-cartel wars. The U.S.-Mexican border crossing at Laredo-Nuevo Laredo accounts for 38 percent of total U.S.-Mexican trade. More than 10,000 trucks and 1,200 rail cars per day cross the four bridges joining Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in both directions. Tijuana ranks No. 2 in terms of cargo volume and cross-border traffic after Nuevo Laredo. There are close to 2,000 transportation and customs-brokerage companies between Tijuana and Nuevo Laredo. Whichever drug cartel controls these cities, including their local police forces, controls the Mexican drug-trafficking industry along the entire U.S.-Mexican border.

The impact of Mexico's security crisis over the coming year on U.S. states such as Texas and California that border Mexico will be greater. The resources of local law enforcement in U.S. communities and counties abutting the U.S.-Mexican border will come under increasing strain by Mexican drug-related violence that spills into U.S. territory. The integrity of local U.S. law enforcement in the border area also will face an increasing challenge from Mexican drug traffickers seeking to corrupt police in the United States, just as they have done with Mexican police.

Mexico's security crisis and election-year uncertainties also will cause foreign companies to postpone or cancel investment projects in Mexico over the coming year. Such fallout will come along the lines of Toyota Motor Corp.'s recent cancellation of a $445 million project in northern Mexico because of security concerns. Instead, the Japanese automaker will build its new factory, employing 1,500 people, in Ontario.

Mexico's crime-related security crisis will continue to increase over the coming year before the scheduled July 2, 2006, presidential elections for several reasons. First, the Fox government does not have the law enforcement resources to battle an illegal narcotics industry that produces more revenue than oil exports. Mexico's illegal drug trade generated more than $50 billion in revenue in 2004 for the country's drug cartels, while oil exports the same year totaled slightly more than $21 billion. These totals afford Mexican drug barons the firepower and cash flow to kill and corrupt law enforcement.

Second, Fox lacks the political capital to persuade the Mexican Congress to pass tougher anti-crime legislation and to earmark substantial funding to expand the country's law-enforcement agencies. Opposition parties in Congress already are criticizing Operation Safe Mexico as an illegal security initiative because army troops are stopping and searching vehicles at random -- without probable cause or legal search warrants.

Economic need represents a third reason why Mexico's crime-related security crisis will intensify. The economy's growth is slowing in 2005 as a result of slowing U.S. growth, higher U.S. interest rates, competition from China and a Mexican regulatory environment that discourages some foreign investment. Some Mexican economists estimate that fewer than 2 million Mexicans in a country with more than 100 million inhabitants earn more than $1,000 a month. Sluggish economic growth and high poverty rates assure a steady supply of new recruits into the Mexican drug-trafficking industry.

The cartel wars between Cardenas and his rivals from Sinaloa will continue until one side kills off the other side and absorbs its drug trafficking operations. This process could take another year or two before the body counts in Tamaulipas, Baja California and Sinaloa drop.

Making matters worse for Mexico, the nation also is in the early stages of a crack-cocaine epidemic that could last a decade, and could be more violent than the U.S. crack epidemic of the 1980s. Crack is powerfully addictive, and crimes such as armed robbery, assault, carjackings and murder will increase in many Mexican cities as the country's crack epidemic gains momentum.

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9-terremoto:
Hola todos.

Duro hablar del narcotr?fico en M?xico y USA, pues esto implica hablar de corrupci?n. Obviamente, los due?os del negocio tienen suficiente dinero para repartir a las autoridades y cada qui?n trata de hacer su agosto (ayer volvi? a reportarse un "error" de ?una tonelada! en el conteo de una carga de coca).

Independientemente de las luchas por el poder, por ah? esciribi? William Burroughs, el escritor adicto, por lo menos durante 20 a?os, a drogas "duras", palabras m?s, palabras menos, que es fantasiosos creer que se acabar? con el narcotr?fico atacando s?lo a los narcotraficantes, pues mientras exista alguien dispuesto a hacer LO QUE SEA por una dosis, el narcotr?fico continuar?.

Gracias

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