Good news, drug war in Mexico not a failure

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This is so good to know. I thought the fact that the cartels were killing more people and that people across the border from Juarez are getting hit by stray gunfire meant it was getting worse.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said Monday that the war on drugs in Mexico "is not a failure." At a press conference in Mexico City after meeting Mexican Interior Minister Alejandro Poire, Napolitano called the drug policies of both Mexico and the United States "a continuing effort to keep our peoples from becoming addicted to dangerous drugs."
Napolitano also said that among the things discussed at the meeting with Poire was how to have a more regional approach to a number of security issues threatening the United States, Mexico and Central America.
Asked why, in spite of efforts by both Mexico and the United States, the leader Mexico's most powerful criminal organization -- the Sinaloa drug cartel -- remains at large, Napolitano implied it's only a matter of time before Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman falls.

Napolitano: Mexican drug war 'not a failure' - CNN.com
 
Sinaloa Drug Violence Leaves 12 Dead...
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Twelve dead in Mexican clash
May 03, 2012 - A CLASH between soldiers and suspected criminals in northwest Mexico has left 12 dead, including two soldiers, a state official said.
"Ten of the dead were civilians, apparently members of an armed group, and two were soldiers... who were on patrol," said a press officer from the Sinaloa state attorney general's office, declining to be named. Men armed with grenades and high calibre weapons attacked several military patrol vehicles on a road in the Guasave municipality of Sinaloa, home to the eponymous and powerful drug cartel, the official said.

Schools in the area, some 1500 kilometres northwest of Mexico City, suspended classes and local businesses closed after the clash. Soldiers seized one vehicle and a burned out vehicle remained at the site, according to the prosecutor's office. Soldiers also seized weapons including a Barrett rifle which can penetrate armoured vehicles.

Sinaloa state, on the Pacific coast, is the cradle of Mexico's drug-trafficking industry and one of the worst affected areas in a wave of drug-related violence blamed for more than 50,000 deaths nationwide since 2006. A series of clashes between soldiers and outlaws were reported in the state over the weekend, leaving 20 dead.

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Of course it's a success. It's helping to usher in the statist dream of a police state. It is funding one of the largest growth industeries in the US. Private prisons. It is helping cash strapped police departments and municipalities with the unconsitutional seizures of property. Not to mention funding the Cartels, and US black market dealers selling low quality product for extremely high prices.

For the average Joe American, well you're fucked, again.
 
Drug battle in Sinaloa state...
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Mexico gunbattle leaves 11 dead in Sinaloa state
9 July 2012 - Seven police officers and four alleged gunmen have been killed in a shootout in north-western Mexico.
Officials said the officers were ambushed by a group of gunmen on a road in Sinaloa state. The officers were returning from Choix, a town which has seen a steep rise in violence, including the murder of the police chief last month.

Sinaloa is the stronghold of the drugs cartel of the same name, one of the most powerful in the country. The attack came three days after Sinaloa Governor Mario Lopez Valdez announced that federal police forces would take over security duties in Choix.

Police under fire

Mr Lopez Valdez said that after Municipal Police Chief Hector Echaverria Islas was shot dead on 29 June, no-one from the municipal force had been willing to replace him. Local officials recommended that residents avoid going out after nightfall and take refuge in their homes "to avoid being hit by a bullet". In May, 21 people were killed in Choix during clashes between the army and several rival drug gangs.

Analysts say members of the Beltran Leyva gang are trying to wrest control of the area from the Sinaloa cartel, whose traditional stronghold it is. More than 55,000 people are estimated to have been killed as a result of drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon came to power in December 2006. The confirmed winner of Mexico's presidential election on 1 July, Enrique Pena Nieto, has hired the former director of Colombia's police force, Gen Oscar Naranjo, to help him fight the cartels.

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Mexico violence: Fear and intimidation
14 May 2012 - Drug cartels such as the Zetas boast of their violent exploits to intimidate rival gangs
In September 2006, gunmen opened the doors of the Sol y Sombra discotheque in Uruapan, in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, and threw five human heads onto the dance floor. As frightened partygoers looked on, the gang left a scrawled message at the scene, announcing the arrival of a new, breakaway drug cartel called La Familia Michoacana, and walked out as coolly as they had entered. For many, it represented a shocking new degree of brutality by the country's drug traffickers. It made headlines around the world.

Francisco Castellanos is the correspondent for the respected Mexican magazine, Proceso, in Michoacan. He sees the 2006 beheadings as a game-changing moment in the conflict: "The five were local drug dealers in Uruapan", he says in an email from the embattled Pacific state, adding that the hastily-written threat left at the crime scene spoke of "divine justice". "It generated great fear and terror", remembers Mr Castellanos, "and then investors started to leave for more secure areas."

Coded killings

"In the 1990s, the cartels didn't cut the heads off their victims", says Samuel Gonzalez Ruiz, a former advisor to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. "They used different codes of murder which were more or less established between the criminals," Mr Gonzalez Ruiz says. He tells of a well-known hitman who sent out messages by the different ways he shot his victims. A bullet to the back of the head, for example, meant the victim was a traitor, a bullet to the temple signified he was a member of a rival gang.

Now, however, beheading is a tactic often employed by Mexican drug organisations, in particular by the vast criminal network Los Zetas and their two main rivals, the Gulf Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. Such a violent form of execution is generally associated with the sort of radical Islamist groups who killed US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley in Iraq.

Cult of death
 
Drug battle in Sinaloa state...
:eusa_eh:
Mexico gunbattle leaves 11 dead in Sinaloa state
9 July 2012 - Seven police officers and four alleged gunmen have been killed in a shootout in north-western Mexico.
Officials said the officers were ambushed by a group of gunmen on a road in Sinaloa state. The officers were returning from Choix, a town which has seen a steep rise in violence, including the murder of the police chief last month.

Sinaloa is the stronghold of the drugs cartel of the same name, one of the most powerful in the country. The attack came three days after Sinaloa Governor Mario Lopez Valdez announced that federal police forces would take over security duties in Choix.

Police under fire

Mr Lopez Valdez said that after Municipal Police Chief Hector Echaverria Islas was shot dead on 29 June, no-one from the municipal force had been willing to replace him. Local officials recommended that residents avoid going out after nightfall and take refuge in their homes "to avoid being hit by a bullet". In May, 21 people were killed in Choix during clashes between the army and several rival drug gangs.

Analysts say members of the Beltran Leyva gang are trying to wrest control of the area from the Sinaloa cartel, whose traditional stronghold it is. More than 55,000 people are estimated to have been killed as a result of drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon came to power in December 2006. The confirmed winner of Mexico's presidential election on 1 July, Enrique Pena Nieto, has hired the former director of Colombia's police force, Gen Oscar Naranjo, to help him fight the cartels.

Source

See also:

Mexico violence: Fear and intimidation
14 May 2012 - Drug cartels such as the Zetas boast of their violent exploits to intimidate rival gangs
In September 2006, gunmen opened the doors of the Sol y Sombra discotheque in Uruapan, in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, and threw five human heads onto the dance floor. As frightened partygoers looked on, the gang left a scrawled message at the scene, announcing the arrival of a new, breakaway drug cartel called La Familia Michoacana, and walked out as coolly as they had entered. For many, it represented a shocking new degree of brutality by the country's drug traffickers. It made headlines around the world.

Francisco Castellanos is the correspondent for the respected Mexican magazine, Proceso, in Michoacan. He sees the 2006 beheadings as a game-changing moment in the conflict: "The five were local drug dealers in Uruapan", he says in an email from the embattled Pacific state, adding that the hastily-written threat left at the crime scene spoke of "divine justice". "It generated great fear and terror", remembers Mr Castellanos, "and then investors started to leave for more secure areas."

Coded killings

"In the 1990s, the cartels didn't cut the heads off their victims", says Samuel Gonzalez Ruiz, a former advisor to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. "They used different codes of murder which were more or less established between the criminals," Mr Gonzalez Ruiz says. He tells of a well-known hitman who sent out messages by the different ways he shot his victims. A bullet to the back of the head, for example, meant the victim was a traitor, a bullet to the temple signified he was a member of a rival gang.

Now, however, beheading is a tactic often employed by Mexican drug organisations, in particular by the vast criminal network Los Zetas and their two main rivals, the Gulf Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel. Such a violent form of execution is generally associated with the sort of radical Islamist groups who killed US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley in Iraq.

Cult of death

Yeah Baby, WIN THAT WAR!!



/sarcasm
 
Beltran's ol' lady gets caught...
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Accused female drug ‘queen’ sent from Mexico to US
Sat, Aug 11, 2012 - Mexican officials extradited the suspected drug trafficker known as the “Queen of the Pacific” to the US on Thursday. Sandra Avila Beltran was handed over at the Toluca airport outside Mexico City to US marshals who took her to Miami to face federal cocaine-trafficking charges, the attorney general’s office said.
Avila had been acquitted of similar charges in Mexico and her defense argued unsuccessfully that meant she should not be extradited. In June, a court granted the extradition so she could face the charges pending in the US, where prosecutors allege she also had links to cocaine seizures in Chicago. In 2001, US agents intercepted a telephone call in which Avila allegedly asked for payment for 100kg of cocaine delivered in Chicago.

Federal prosecutors said the extradition request indicates Avila belonged to an organization that trafficked cocaine from Colombia to the US. US prosecutors allege she helped store and move shipments of the drug from Mexico to the US. Until Thursday, Avila had been held in a prison in Mexico’s Pacific coast state of Nayarit, pending trial for a separate money-laundering charge. It was not immediately clear how Mexican prosecutors would proceed with that case. Avila, who was arrested in 2007 sipping coffee in a Mexico City diner, has said she is innocent.

Prosecutors have alleged that Avila spent more than a decade working her way to the top of Mexico’s drug trade. They say her romance with Colombian Juan Diego Espinoza brought together Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel with Colombia’s Norte del Valle. The Sinaloa cartel led by drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been locked in a vicious fight with the violent Zetas gang in several regions of Mexico.

Accused female drug ?queen? sent from Mexico to US - Taipei Times
 
A leader of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel arrested...

Most wanted target of 'El Chapo's' Sinaloa Cartel captured
Nov. 30, 2016 -- The head of Mexico's Criminal Investigation Agency said police arrested a leader of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel for his alleged involvement in drug trafficking and murder.
Omar Hamid García said a man identified only as Vicente Rufino N. was arrested along with his bodyguard, identified as Fermín N., in the city of Acapulco in Guerrero state on Saturday. Hamid García said police seized a rifle, two pistols, cocaine and methamphetamine.

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Vicente Rufino N. was declared one of the Mexican government's 122 priority targets to battle drug cartels in Mexico. About half of those targets belonged to the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexican officials have killed or captured the majority of the suspects, with less than two dozen remaining.

Hamid García said Vicente Rufino N. and Fermín N. are accused of killing police, at least one politician, and of trafficking drugs and weapons. Hamid García announced the arrests during a press conference on Tuesday.

Most wanted target of 'El Chapo's' Sinaloa Cartel captured
 
Granny says, "Dat's right - throw him inna pokey with El Chapo...
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Sinaloa Cartel member 'La Gallina' arrested on murder charges
Feb. 17, 2017 -- Mexican security forces recaptured Roberto "La Gallina" Nájera Gutiérrez, an operative for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel for allegedly killing two women.
Operatives from the Sinaloa state Attorney General's Office with the support from the Yucatán state Attorney General's Office arrested Nájera Gutiérre in the Yucatán city of Mérida and transported him to Mexico City, Proceso reported.

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Roberto "La Gallina" Nájera Gutiérrez, seen here in mugshot images, was recaptured by Mexican security forces after being released by a judge following his arrest on gun charges. He was arrested for allegedly ordering the killings of a mother and daughter in 2009.​

A federal judge recently released Nájera Gutiérrez after he was first arrested for possessing Mexican army high-caliber weapons. Following the judge's ruling, the state prosecutors agreed to issue an arrest warrant for Nájera Gutiérre over the alleged 2009 revenge killings of mother and daughter María Librada Rivera Flores and Keni Paola Ruiz Rivera. Nájera Gutiérrez is accused of ordering the killings.

Sinaloa Cartel member 'La Gallina' arrested on murder charges
 
Granny says, "Dat's right - kill `em all, let God sort `em out...
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Mexican gunfight that killed 17 raises relatives' fears of police executions
Mon Jul 3, 2017 | Relatives of 17 suspected gang members killed late last week by police in northwest Mexico fear a skewed death toll points to what has become a grimly regular complaint in recent years - summary executions by security forces.
The 17 men, who authorities said were armed with 24 guns, were killed by police near the coastal city of Mazatlan in the unruly state of Sinaloa on Friday night. Another two people died nearby in what appeared to be earlier, related shootings, the state attorney general's office said. None of the suspects in the gun battle were found wounded or arrested. Genaro Robles, Sinaloa's head of police, put the outcome down to his officers' better training and said there was no use of excessive force or extrajudicial killing in the exchange. Five of the 11 police involved suffered gunshot wounds. None died.

However, for relatives of the dead, the events raised the suspicion they were victims of a heavy-handed response by security forces of the kind that has stained Mexico's human rights record in recent years. Three people told Reuters they believed their relatives were killed in cold blood. Two of them cited gunshot wounds they said they had seen in the backs of their loved ones as evidence. "They murdered them," said the sister of one of the dead men as she waited outside a funeral home in Mazatlan. She declined to give her name for fear of reprisals. "They didn't have a chance. This wasn't a gun battle like they say in the news."

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Joel Ernesto Soto, head of the Mazatlan municipal police, speaks during a news conference in Mazatlan, Mexico​

Local municipal police also rejected the allegation, though human rights officials are investigating possible abuses. Drug smugglers have been scrapping for control of the state amid a power vacuum following the deportation of iconic Sinaloa-native, drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Police chief Robles said officers were alerted to two people injured behind a mall in the small town of Villa Union on Friday evening, and chased down the suspected assailants, sparking a gun battle on a road outside town. Blood was visible on the road when Reuters visited the scene at the weekend.

Nightime footage posted on social media afterwards purporting to show victims of the event, showed bodies piled up in the back of pickup trucks, with more scattered along a road. Reuters could not verify the authenticity of the videos. The nephew of one of the victims said his uncle had worked for a drug cartel and had been shot from behind. "When I saw my uncle's body it had gunshots in the back," said the man, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. One local policeman described the shootings as "butchery" and unlike another recent gun-battle he had seen. He asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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