This is shocking!

Mexican narco-war murder statistics...
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Study: Mexico Homicides Rose 23 Percent in 2010
Thursday, July 28, 2011 — The number of homicides in Mexico rose by nearly a quarter in 2010 compared to the year before as the drug war intensified across the country, Mexican statisticians said Thursday.
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography recorded 24,374 homicides over the course of last year, a 23 percent increase from 19,803 in 2009. Last year's figure represented 22 killings for every 100,000 residents in the country. Many but not all of the homicides were committed by organized crime organizations, the institute told The Associated Press. Violence has risen in many Mexican regions as a result of drug trafficking and other organized criminal activity. President Felipe Calderon's office has said that more than 15,000 homicides in 2010 were attributed to organized crime.

According to the statistics institute, the U.S.-bordering state of Chihuahua saw the highest number of homicides with 4,747. Sinaloa, in northwestern Mexico, registered 2,505. Sinaloa is the headquarters of the Sinaoloa cartel, while Chihuahua includes the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez. Those two states are among the most affected by drug violence, and together they accounted for 29 percent of Mexico's homicides. The institute cautioned that its information was preliminary and said it awaited definitive results that are to be released in September.

In the northern state of Zacatecas, prosecutors said a town mayor was found shot to death lying alongside a slain local farm union official Thursday, a day after they were kidnapped by gunmen. The dead mayor, Fortino Cortes Sandoval, headed the city government in Florencia de Benito Juarez. Last week, soldiers killed six suspected cartel hitmen during a firefight on a highway linking Sandoval's city with the Teulada municipality.

A dozen mayors have been killed in Mexico since last year, many of them victims of violence related to drug cartels. In Michoacan state, two local police officers in Nocupetaro were arrested with high-caliber weapons including a Mini 14 and two AR-15 rifles and 185 pounds (84 kilograms) of marijuana, the Defense Department said. Military officials also reported the seizure of 22 tons of ethyl phenylacetate in the port of Manzanillo in Colima state that had been shipped from Shekou, China. The chemical is used in the production of methamphetamine.

Study: Mexico Homicides Rose 23 Percent in 2010 | CNSnews.com

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Mexico Suspends Police Aid to Violent Border City
Thursday, July 28, 2011 — Mexico's federal government has suspended aid for a police-training program in the violence-wracked border city of Ciudad Juarez, saying authorities there haven't followed reporting rules and have trained few police.
Mexico's National Public Safety System says it has suspended 57 million pesos ($4.85 million) in aid scheduled to be delivered this year, because the city has done little to actually train local police.

It said Thursday that from 2008 to 2010 the city trained only about 6 percent of its police force, and none of its commanding officers. "It is unfortunate that the federal government is not showing solidarity with Ciudad Juarez in the serious problem of insecurity," city clerk Hector Arceluz Perez told a Thursday hearing.

The announcement comes amid rising tensions between local and federal authorities, after federal police shot at a vehicle carrying Ciudad Juarez police chief Julian Leyzaola. Arceluz said the city has opened a formal complaint against the federal police officers, accusing them of attempted murder.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/mexico-suspends-police-aid-violent-borde
 
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Mexican police official killed, border gun shops whinin' about new gun sale rule...
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Juarez police official slain in ambush
Aug. 7,`11 (UPI) -- The newly appointed police commander in downtown Juarez, Mexico, was gunned down this weekend in an apparent ambush near the U.S. border, the department said.
Victor Nazario Moreno Ramirez, 32, was shot in his vehicle Saturday by a cadre of gunmen after two pickup trucks and two cars boxed him in near the Bridge of the Americas.

Another officer who was riding with Nazario was seriously wounded, the El Paso (Texas) Times said Sunday. Investigators recovered 420 spent shells, likely from AK-47 assault rifles, at the scene of the shooting.

Nazario had been assigned to head up the municipal police district downtown on June 29 with orders to beef up patrols and response times, the El Paso (Texas) Times said Sunday. He had previously been commander of the department's special-operations tactical unit, which responds to high-impact crimes.

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Border Gun Shop Owners Sue over New Requirement
Friday, August 05, 2011 — Gun store owners in states on the U.S.-Mexico border are suing the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. At issue is a new requirement that owners alert federal authorities if someone buys multiple high-powered rifles over five days.
The new requirement is only for gun stores in the four states that border Mexico: California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

It goes into effect Aug. 14 and stems from a law enforcement operation in Arizona that resulted in high-powered weapons flowing into Mexico.

The gun store owners argue that the requirement is unlawful, would hurt them economically and invades the privacy of their customers.

The lawsuits were filed in Washington, D.C., Texas and New Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday. The National Rifle Association is funding them.

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When you have a country such as Mexico, where I would venture to guess, that 95% of all crimes committed are NEVER brought to justice, it is no surprise that the homicide rate would be sky high. When you have a country such as Mexico, who NEVER takes responsiblility for their failures and keeps blaming their favorite 'rich uncle' for EVERYTHING, what can one expect??? And - when you have a country such as the USA who continues to treat Mexico as a spoiled child, none of the above is surprising.
 
Get involved is a hit and run spam poster.

His source, NumbersUSA is against all immigration and loves to attract hardcore racists to its campaigns
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NumbersUSA seems to be popular throughout the white nationalist and skinhead communities. At the beginning of the week NumbersUSA’s campaign was promoted by white nationalist David Duke, a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. On Vinlanders Social Club, NumbersUSA is promoted on the home page with a direct link to its website. Vinlanders Social Club is a midwest coalition of racist skinhead groups with a history of violence against members of the black community.

On Stormfront, in a thread entitled, “Obama Begins Immigration Reform and Amnesty” a posting which reads like a NumbersUSA advertisement cites the details of the S.T.O.P Amnesty campaign and directs Stormfront members to the NumbersUSA website. Stormfront is the leading white nationalist, white supremacist, neo-Nazi, and skinhead social networking forum. The website was started by former Ku Klux Klan leader, Don Black, in 1995. NumbersUSA’s campaign was promoted on Stormfront the same week that a member of Stormfront wrote of his plans to carry a concealed weapon to a similar immigration reform rally in Utah.

So if you are offended by my linking of an anti-illegal position with bigotry. Tough luck, the position seems to welcome it.
 
Bodies everywhere...
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Gunmen dump 35 bodies on busy avenue in Mexico
Sep 20,`11 - Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city Tuesday and dumped the bodies of 35 slaying victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.
Veracruz state Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said the bodies were left piled in two trucks and on the ground of an underpass near a shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio. Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal records for murder, drug dealing, kidnapping and extorsion and were linked to organized crime, Escobar said. He didn't say to what group the victims belonged to. The Zetas drug cartel has been locked in a bloody war with drug gangs for control of Veracruz, a state along an important route for drugs and Central American migrants heading north.

Motorists first began tweeting Tuesday afternoon that masked gunmen in military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard in Boca del Rio's downtown and pointing their guns at civilians. "They don't seem to be soldiers or police," a tweet read. Another said, "Don't go through that area, there is danger." Escobar said police were reviewing surveillance video recorded in the area. Local media said that 12 of the victims were women and that some of the dead men had been among prisoners who escaped from three Veracruz prisons on Monday, but Escobar said he couldn't confirm that. At least 32 inmates got away from the three Veracruz prisons. Police recaptured 14 of them.

Earlier Tuesday, the Mexican army announced it had captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico. Saul Solis Solis, 49, a former police chief and one-time congressional candidate, was captured without incident Monday in the cartel's home state of Michoacan, Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said during a presentation of Solis to the media. Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights Templar, which split late last year from La Familia, a pseudo-religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine. He is accused in various attacks on the military and federal police, including one in May 2007 that killed an officer and four soldiers, Villegas said.

Solis also is suspected of planting and harvesting drugs, managing clandestine labs manufacturing synthetic drugs and ordering attacks on police facilities in cities around the entire state. Mexico's attorney general had offered a $1.1 million reward for information leading to his capture. Solis is a cousin of one of the Knights Templar's main alleged leaders, Enrique Plancarte Solis. Saul Solis served as director of public safety in the Michoacan town of Turicato in 2003-05 and ran for the federal congress in 2009 as a Green Party candidate, finishing fourth in his district with about 11,000 votes. Authorities said a judge had issued an arrest warrant for Solis on charges of organized crime and drug trafficking at the time of the vote.

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Two more bodiless heads found in Mexico City near army base...
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2 severed heads found in Mexico City with message
3 Oct.`11 - Police in Mexico City found two severed human heads on a street near a major military base Monday, a grisly tactic of warring drug gangs that has long affected other parts of the country while largely sparing the capital.
Decapitations are frequently carried out by gangs in drug-violence-plagued cities such as the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco and in northern Mexico, often to intimidate or threaten rivals. But it was the first multiple decapitation in the capital since January 2008, when two heads were found near the city's international airport. Two heads were also found in the same vicinity in December 2007. Those killings were believed to be related to a drug shipment that had been seized at the airport.

The office of Mexico City Attorney General Miguel Mancera said in a statement that one of the heads found Monday had been placed on the hood of a sport utility vehicle, and the other was found on a nearby sidewalk. The heads were found just before dawn on the side of a busy ring road across from the army's headquarters at Military Camp 1. Mancera was quoted by local news media as saying Monday that the heads were accompanied by a note referring to the "Mano con Ojos" or "Hand with Eyes" drug gang. The organization has been active in the State of Mexico, which borders Mexico City, and in some southern districts of the capital. Mancera gave no details of what the message said.

The heads were found on a busy ring road across from the army's national headquarters at Military Camp 1. The Hand with Eyes gang formed after the arrest of Edgar Valdez, aka "La Barbie," a top assassin for the Beltran Leyva cartel until he was detained in 2010. The alleged leader of the Hand with Eyes, Oscar Osvaldo Garcia Montoya, 36, was arrested in July and told prosecutors he helped carry out or ordered more than 600 killings.

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