Monthly Archives: July 2009
NarcoPetro Dollars – Zetas Inside Pemex
Another page opens in the ever-amazing book of Zetas. They have managed to penetrate and compromise the third largest crude oil producer in the world–Pemex. On Wednesday a federal joint task force raided Pemex security offices on the sixth and … Continue reading
Filed under Capitalism, Commercial Insurgency, Corporate Corruption, Counternarcotics, Criminal, Drug Trafficking, Drug War, Drug Wars, Free Market Capitalism, Government Fail, Latin America, Law Enforcement, Mexican Politics, Mexico, NAFTA, Narcoguerra, Organized Crime, Privatization, US ForeignPolicy, War on Drugs
Narco Cartels as the New Commies
William Booth and Steve Fainuru reporting in today’s Boston Globe … There are now sustained calls in Mexico for a change in tactics, even from allies within Calderon’s political party, who say the deployment of 45,000 soldiers to fight the … Continue reading
Filed under American History, Border Security, Capitalism, CIA, Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism, Covert Operations, Drug Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, Drug Wars, Free Market Capitalism, Government Fail, Government Spending, Latin America, Mexican Politics, Mexico, NAFTA, Narcoguerra, Obama Administration, Organized Crime, Privatization, US ForeignPolicy, US Military, War on Drugs
Free Market Insurgency
Today’s Mexidata features a fretful report warning of the Mexican cartels’ ability to not only sustain, but expand their operations after more than three years of President Calderon’s militarized war on them. John Sullivan and Adam Elkus’ Mexican Crime Families: … Continue reading
Filed under Border Security, Bush, Capitalism, Caribbean, Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism, Drug Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, Drug Wars, Free Market Capitalism, George W Bush, Human trafficking, Immigration, Latin America, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Migrant Labor, NAFTA, Narcoguerra, Organized Crime, Politics, Privatization, Republican Party, US ForeignPolicy, War on Drugs
Zetas Now Harvesting and Marketing Kidneys
Human rights commissioner in Tabasco, Jesús Manuel Argáez de los Santos tells Tabasco Hoy that Los Zetas is removing kidneys from migrants from Honduras and Guatemala snared by the cartel’s human trafficking operations. The story comes on the heels of … Continue reading
Filed under Border Security, Criminal, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Narcotraficantes, Los Zetas, Organized Crime, Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Drug War, Drug Wars, Film, Free Market Capitalism, Government Fail, Human Rights, Human trafficking, Immigration, Labor, Latin America, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Migrant Labor, NAFTA, Narcoguerra, Social Justice, Torture, War on Drugs
Los Linces–New Special Forces Hitmen
More Blowback from Bragg. First, the Zetas, now, the Lynx. Another group of former Mexican Special Forces are in the narcoguerra–this time working for Carrillo Fuentes’ La Linnea organization in the battle for Chihuahua and the Juarez corridor. Their sole … Continue reading
Filed under Border Security, Counternarcotics, Death Squads, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Narcotraficantes, Los Zetas, Organized Crime, Mexico, Drug Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, Drug War, Drug Wars, Free Market Capitalism, Government Fail, Mexico, Murder, Narcoguerra, Organized Crime, US Military, War on Drugs
Lost In Translation–Calderon’s Narcoguerra/Bush’s War on Terror
Like a subtitled remake of a disaster movie, Felipe Calderon’s “Narcoguerra” looks more and more like George W. Bush’s “War on Terror”–especially as Bush and company waged it in Iraq. Calderon seems to share the former US president’s self-righteous stubborn … Continue reading
Filed under Counternarcotics, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Narcotraficantes, Los Zetas, Organized Crime, Mexico, Drug Enforcement, Drug War, George W Bush, Government Fail, Human Rights, Iraq, Mexican Politics, Mexico, Narcoguerra, Organized Crime, Right-Wing, Torture, US ForeignPolicy, War on Drugs
A Narcoinsurgency Sampler
The startling coordinated attacks on federal police and the army by La Familia yesterday in Michoacan and Guerrero will bring the term “narco-insurgency” to the lips of various pundits and mavens before the week is out. Here is a sampler … Continue reading
Filed under Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Narcotraficantes, Los Zetas, Organized Crime, Mexico, Drug Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, Drug War, Government Fail, Latin America, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Narcoguerra, Organized Crime, US ForeignPolicy, US Military, War on Drugs
La Familia Strikes Federales and Army
Yesterday–Saturday July 11– the faith-based gangsters La Familia staged what El Universal calls “the biggest offensive in the history of organized crime in Mexico against federal forces and military.” Triggered by the arrest earlier in the day of the meth cartel’s … Continue reading
Filed under Counternarcotics, Death Squads, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Narcotraficantes, Los Zetas, Organized Crime, Mexico, Drug Enforcement, Drug Trafficking, Drug War, Drug Wars, Evangelicals, Free Market Capitalism, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Narcoguerra, Organized Crime, Religious right, War on Drugs
Wakeup Call in Gringoland
This week brought more bad news for Calderon and his mano dura militarization of half the country. Not yet recovered from the battering he and his party took in the July 5 elections, here comes the US media at his … Continue reading
Filed under Border Security, Counternarcotics, Counterterrorism, Criminal, Death Squads, Drug Cartels, Drug War, War on Drugs, Narcotraficantes, Los Zetas, Organized Crime, Mexico, Drug Enforcement, Drug Law Reform, Drug Trafficking, Drug War, Drug Wars, Free Market Capitalism, Government Fail, Government Spending, Homeland Security, Human Rights, Journalism, Latin America, Law Enforcement, Mexico, Narcoguerra, Obama Administration, Organized Crime, Politics, Torture, US Congress, US ForeignPolicy, US Military
An Election and a Coup
First, the election. Then, the coup. That’s the way it’s done in a “democracy”, correct? Richard Grabman has interesting (and funny) post-election inside baseball from Mexico’s midterms at The Mex Files. Mexico is in deep deep shit… “recession”…and Calderon has … Continue reading
