Extortionists burn down nursery school in Ciudad Juarez

[Bullfighter]

Unidentified attackers have set fire to a kindergarten in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, apparently after its owners refused to pay extortion money. ​

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A message was sprayed on the walls of the kindergarten urging the owners to pay up.

The fire happened overnight, so no children were injured. The nursery has now been closed down indefinitely.

Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico, with an average of eight murders a day.

The nursery's owners had been approached by unidentified men who demanded an undisclosed sum in exchange for "protection", which was not paid, police told local media.

Some teachers in the city have reported being threatened with attacks unless they hand over half their Christmas bonuses.
Also on Sunday night, armed men attacked two drug rehabilitation centres in the city killing four of the patients.

Attacks on drug rehabilitation centres in Mexico are increasingly common.
Police say the facilities are often used to recruit young men to work in the drugs trade, making them a target for rival drug gangs.

Nine people were killed in an attack on a drug clinic in June in Durango state and 13 were shot dead in October in Tijuana, another city on the US-Mexico border.

The northern states along the border are at the centre of a violent battle between rival drug cartels for control over the lucrative drug smuggling routes to the United States.

More than 30,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence over the past four years, since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's drug cartels.

BBC News - Extortionists burn down nursery school in Ciudad Juarez

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Will these things be happening in the US when illegal invaders see that they can control the American government with the threat of LA RAZA going on the warpath?

Start forming militia groups and be prepared to defend your country!

"Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon,
but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here."

Captain John Parker
Battle of Lexington
April 19, 1775

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[Mr.Fitnah]

Narco-terrorism works just like Islamic terrorism
The victims tire of the fight.

 

[waltky]

Murder capitol of the world...

More Civilians Killed Last Year in One Mexican Border Town Than All Afghanistan
Friday, February 25, 2011 - More civilians were killed last year in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican city across the border from El Paso, Texas, than were killed in all of Afghanistan.

There were 3,111 civilians murdered in the city of Juarez in 2010 and 2,421 in the entire country of Afghanistan. On a per capita basis, a civilian was 30 times more likely to be murdered last year in Juarez, where there are 1,328,017 inhabitants according to Mexico’s 2010 census, than in Afghanistan, where there are 29,121,286 people according to the CIA World Factbook.

The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan was compiled by the Congressional Research Service and published in a CRS report released on Feb. 3. The number of civilians killed in Juarez was compiled by Molly Molloy, a research librarian at New Mexico State University who maintains a count of murders Juarez and published it on the Frontera List Web site. Molloy’s work on civilian murders in Juarez was also referenced in a recent CRS report on Mexican drug cartels.

Much of the violence in Juárez is sparked by drug trafficking organizations battling over one of the major smuggling corridors into the United States.

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ICE: 11-state ring, with RI 'cell', sold fake IDs to illegals
Thu, Feb 24, 2011 | A federal indictment identifies a house on Sabin Street in Pawtucket as one of more than a dozen "cells" allegedly operated nationwide by a Mexico-based "highly sophisticated and violent" fraudulent-document trafficking operation.

Twenty-two people have been charged with operating the cartel that sold fake documents to illegal immigrants, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as part of an ongoing operation by ICE's Homeland Security Investigations dubbed "Operation Phalanx." An indictment released Thursday by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Richmond, Va., charges the 22 with counts including murder, racketeering, money laundering and kidnapping.

According to the indictment, the cartel used cells in 19 cities and 11 states, including Rhode Island, to produce and sell driver's licenses, Social Security cards, work documents and other bogus documentation. Cells were also operating in or around New Haven, Conn., and Chelsea, Mass., as well as Arkansas, Ohio, North Carolina, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Tennessee, according to the indictment. The indictment pinpoints 102 Sabin St., Apartment 3 in Pawtucket as the location of the " new Pawtucket, Rhode Island document producing cell" that began in September 2010 and continued through Nov. 18, 2010.

One of the defendants, Ricardo Patina Vargus, aka "Perruchi," "started and managed the Pawtucket, Rhode Island document production cell under the supervision of Israel Cruz Millan, aka 'El Muerto,'" according to the indictment. Cruz Millan is accused of managing the ring's operations in the United States. The indictment alleges that Vargus provided oversight for a number of "runners," who recruited clients for the organization, according to the indictment.

"The indictment portrays a deadly criminal organization that uses brutal violence to eliminate rivals, protect its turf and enforce discipline against its own members," said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride. Prosecutors say the cells sent more than $1 million to Mexico from January 2008 to November 2010.

ICE: 11-state ring, with RI 'cell', sold fake IDs to illegals - Projo 7 to 7 News Blog | Rhode Island news | The Providence Journal

 

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New Juarez cartel leader 'Ugly Betty' arrested...

Mexican police arrest ‘Ugly Betty’ drug cartel leader
Tue, Sep 03, 2013 - Mexican police have detained the alleged leader of the New Juarez Cartel, a 47-year-old man known as “Ugly Betty,” authorities said on Sunday.

Alberto Carrillo Fuentes was arrested by federal police in the western state of Nayarit and he was later questioned by prosecutors, an official from the attorney general’s office said on condition of anonymity. He faces charges of drug trafficking, murder and organized crime. The official declined to provide more details.

THE VICEROY

Carrillo Fuentes is believed to have taken over the drug cartel named after Ciudad Juarez, the city bordering Texas, after his brother, Vicente “The Viceroy” Carrillo Fuentes, gave up the job. The original group was founded by another brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, alias “The Lord of the Skies,” who died in mysterious circumstances following plastic surgery in 1997.

According to the weekly magazine Proceso, the Juarez gang was in an intense turf war in several northwestern states against the Sinaloa cartel led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Mexico’s most wanted man. The two cartels waged a fierce battle for control of Ciudad Juarez in recent years and Guzman is believed to have come out on top.

DROP IN MURDER RATE

The city was once considered the world’s murder capital, but the murder rate has dropped since a peak of more than 3,000 in 2010. Carrillo Fuentes’s arrest marks the third capture of a high-profile drug lord since July. Authorities detained Zetas cartel kingpin Miguel Angel Trevino, alias “Z-40,” on July 15, followed by Gulf cartel leader Mario Ramirez Trevino on Aug. 17.

Mexican police arrest ?Ugly Betty? drug cartel leader - Taipei Times

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Mexico probes possible female vengeance killer
Sep 2,`13 -- Mexican prosecutors said Monday they are investigating claims that a woman who killed two bus drivers last week in this northern border city was seeking revenge for alleged sexual abuse of female passengers.

The claims made in an email from the self-styled "bus driver hunter" echoed deeply in Ciudad Juarez, which has a grim history of sexual violence against women aboard buses. A woman wearing a blond wig - or dyed hair - boarded one of the school bus-style vehicles that serve as transport in Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday morning. She approached the driver, took out a pistol, shot him in the head and left the bus. The next day, apparently the same woman did exactly the same thing to another driver on the same route.

Over the weekend, media outlets began receiving emails from the address "Diana the hunter of bus drivers." "I myself and other women have suffered in silence but we can't stay quiet anymore," the email said. "We were victims of sexual violence by the drivers on the night shift on the routes to the maquilas," a reference to the border assembly plants that employ many residents in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. "I am the instrument of vengeance for several women." The newspaper Diario de Juarez reported that a witness quoted the killer as telling the second victim, "You guys think you're real bad, don't you?" before shooting him.

Authorities have not verified the authenticity of the email, or of a Facebook page set up under a similar name Aug. 31. But Arturo Sandoval, spokesman for the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office, said the vigilante claim is considered one of the working hypotheses in the crimes. There was no apparent robbery involved in the killings. "Now that we have the email in the case file, it indicates that this could have been someone who had a run-in with a driver or one of his relatives," Sandoval said.

The government announced it will put undercover police aboard some buses and conduct weapons searches to prevent further killings, and said a citywide search for the suspect is already on. "We have a police sketch of the suspect and we are looking for her," municipal police spokesman Adrian Sanchez said. Many of the women murdered during a string of more than 100 eerily similar women's killings in Ciudad Juarez in the 1990s and early 2000s disappeared after boarding buses. Their bodies were often found weeks or months later, raped, strangled and dumped in the desert or vacant lots.

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Mexico bus drivers idle after 'revenge' killings
Sep 3,`13 -- Half of the drivers who work a bus route on which two colleagues were shot to death last week, possibly by a woman seeking revenge for purported sexual abuse of female passengers, didn't show up for their jobs Tuesday.

Only 10 of the 20 drivers assigned to the 4A bus route in this border city took the wheel, "because they are afraid," a dispatcher said. "There were a lot fewer passengers, too," said the dispatcher, who refused to be quoted by name out of fear of being targeted. "Everyone is afraid something could happen," he added. Officials said plainclothes police officers were aboard some buses and conducting weapons searches to prevent further killings. Mexican prosecutors released a police sketch of a female suspect drawn from the testimony of at least 20 witnesses.

They said they were looking into claims made over the weekend in an email from the self-styled "bus driver hunter," who said she is seeking revenge on behalf of fellow women who she alleged had been abused by bus drivers in Ciudad Juarez, which is across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. The claims echoed deeply in Ciudad Juarez, which has a grim history of sexual violence against women aboard buses.

A woman wearing a blond wig - or dyed hair - boarded one of the school bus-style vehicles that serve as transport in Ciudad Juarez on Wednesday morning. She approached the driver, took out a pistol, shot him in the head and left the bus. The next day, apparently the same woman did exactly the same thing to another driver on the same route.

Over the weekend, media outlets began receiving emails from the address "Diana the hunter of bus drivers." "I myself and other women have suffered in silence but we can't stay quiet anymore," the email said. "We were victims of sexual violence by the drivers on the night shift on the routes to the maquilas," a reference to the border assembly plants that employ many residents in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. "I am the instrument of vengeance for several women." The newspaper Diario de Juarez reported that a witness quoted the killer as telling the second victim, "You guys think you're real bad, don't you?" before shooting him.

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