AZMEX UPDATE 21 DEC 2018
Last month of EPN ( Enrique Peña Nieto ) confirms unprecedented violence in Mexico
Guanajuato leads the intentional homicides with 2 thousand 988 cases
SIN EMBARGO Mx
12/21/2018 | 5:35
https://www.noroeste.com.mx/publicaciones/view/Ultimo-mes-de-epn-confirma-violencia-inedita-en-mexico-1151091
Mexico City (SinEmbargo) .- At least 2,686 people were murdered in Mexico in November,
the last of the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto.
Their cases were concentrated in 2,336 investigation folders opened for intentional homicide.
From January to November the number of victims rose to 30, 449, of which 26,376 research folders were opened, according to the figures issued today by the Executive Secretariat of Public Security (SENSP).
In November the homicide decreased, with 129 victims less than those registered in October, when the figure rose to 2,815.
Guanajuato was positioned as the most violent state with at least 2 thousand 988 victims of intentional homicide, with a total of 2 thousand 367 investigation folders initiated.
Baja California was ranked second, with a total of 2 thousand 872 victims, in 2 thousand 570 research folders.
The State of Mexico, in third place, registers a total of 2 thousand 396 people murdered, in 2 thousand 120 folders initiated.
Guerrero reports a 1,285 victims of intentional homicide from January to November;
Jalisco, 2,179;
Chihuahua 2,028;
Michoacán, 1,488;
Veracruz, 1,482;
Puebla, 1,172 and
Mexico City, 1,213 cases.
According to official figures in the period of Enrique Peña Nieto, from December 2012 to November 2018, 124,296 folders of malicious homicide investigations were opened in Mexico.
In relation to feminicide in Mexico, official figures report a total of 786 victims concentrated in 760 investigations. A novelty presented by the SNSP this month is that it has disaggregated feminicide by type in its statistics. Most of the feminicides in Mexico have been registered by other means, followed by firearms with a total of 183 murders, then 156 committed with a other weapon and 28 unspecified.
From January to November a total of 1,072 kidnappings have been recorded. August was the month with the highest number of deprivations of liberty with a total of 119 cases. In the crime of extortion, the Government reports a total of 5 thousand 820 people affected.
Practically year after year the intentional homicides were increasing during the administration that ended.
Only in 2017 (2018 has not concluded) the figure came to shoot down any record of recent years with 32 thousand 79 victims of intentional homicides.
Academics and security experts agree that Peña Nieto's strategy in the fight against violence and organized crime failed miserably, despite the capture of drug trafficking leaders, such as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. . However, the captures of the criminal heads further accentuated the deaths in the country.
Likewise, as the federal administration progressed, the expansion of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) was consolidated in a large part of the country until it reached a presence in 22 of 32 states, and with this the levels of violence increased.
FINISH
Monday, December 31, 2018
AZBRA EXTRA 29-12-18
AZBRA EXTRA 29 DEC 2018
Comment: Record homicides? Confirming that when only outlaws have guns.
computer "translation" of O Globo article.
Obrigado
Jair Bolsonaro says that he will facilitate purchase of firearms for citizens
Photo: AP
By: AP | 12/29/2018 8:57
https://www.elimparcial.com/Internacional/2018/12/29/1397933-Jair-Bolsonaro-dice-que-facilitara-compra-de-armas-de-fuego-a-los-ciudadanos.html
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)
Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that when he takes office, he will issue a decree that will guarantee citizens without a criminal record the possibility of possessing firearms.
Bolsonaro made the announcement through Twitter. The flexibilization of firearms laws was a central component of his electoral campaign. The former army captain takes office on January 1.
Currently, the possession of firearms is very restricted in Brazil.
Civilians must go through a long process of verification and the sale of arms is limited to small calibers.
Despite the difficulty of legally possessing a firearm, violence with firearms is a problem in Brazil.
In 2017, Brazil established a record of homicides with just over 63,000 people dead.
In a referendum held in 2005, Brazilians were asked if the sale of firearms should be prohibited.
Almost 64% of the population voted against the initiative.
END
Bolsonaro plans decree to extend gun ownership in Brazil
On Twitter, he said that the right to have a gun at home would be guaranteed to citizens without a criminal record
Jailton Carvalho and Renata Mariz
12/29/2018 - 12:13 / Updated 12/29/2018 - 2:18 PM
https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/bolsonaro-plan-decreto-para-ampliar-posse-de-arma-no-brasil-23335006
The president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, will take office on January 1 Photo: Jorge William / Agência O Globo
RIO - President-elect Jair Bolsonaro plans to issue a decree to facilitate gun ownership in the country. On Twitter, Bolsonaro said he wants to guarantee possession of weapons to those without a criminal record. The transition team is already preparing the decree, which is practically ready and can be edited at any time, depending on the decision of Bolsonaro, according to one of the authors of the text.
"By decree we intend to guarantee the possession of firearms for the citizen without criminal records, as well as make their registration definitive," the president wrote in the social network.
According to the auxiliary, the idea of the decree is "to flexibilize (the rules) in the possible thing within the law" to extend the cases in which the possession of weapon is allowed. The explanation is that the generalization of the possession of arms for those who do not have legal pending is a promise of campaign. So there would be no surprises in the president-elect's announcement. The measure would meet a request from a part of the population that would feel safer with the possibility of having a weapon.
"If it's a campaign promise, he has to comply," said one of Bolsonaro's aides.
The decree must also make "definitive" the registration of the weapon, which today must be renewed every five years. The proposed change may mean that, once the possession of a weapon is obtained, it will no longer be necessary to periodically present the required proofs, such as technical ability, psychological aptitude and criminal record.
Another source, also from the president-elect's team, said the decree will not be edited on the first day of government. The edition of the measure will depend on the opinions of the ministries with interest in the matter.
Bolsonaro is expected to sign a decree only after hearing the ministries of Justice and Defense. The two portfolios are responsible for the control and oversight of the trade and use of firearms in the country.
The technical area of the transitional government is still studying a new model to make the firearms register "final". At least three hypotheses are under analysis. One is to extend the renewal term, which is now five years. Another is simply to end with renewal requirement. The third would be to require the renewal only of persons who, after registration, become involved in any criminal occurrence.
Possession is different from carrying weapons. Under the law, possession is the authorization to keep the gun only inside the home or at the owner's workplace, as long as you are the legal guardian of the property. Porting, in turn, assumes that the firearm is outside of the residence or place of work, and is prohibited, except for members of the Armed Forces, police, guards, prison guards and private security companies, among others.
The Disarmament Statute foresees requirements for the civilian to acquire a firearm - such as not having a criminal record, not responding to a police investigation or prosecution, proving technical capacity and psychological aptitude. It also determines that it is necessary to "declare the actual need". The same requirement is set out in the decree, issued in 2004, which regulates the statute.
Today, the Federal Police makes an analysis to verify if the interested party has in fact need to have the gun. Proponents of the dismantling of the Disarmament Statute have always complained of a supposedly skewed PF position of denying the claims on the grounds that the "actual need" would not be proven.
The idea is to withdraw this power of analysis from the FP, making clear that it is enough for the interested party to meet the objective criteria of documentation to be entitled to possession of a weapon.
It will not be the first time gun control rules have been modified by presidential decree. President Michel Temer made a series of changes, based on decrees and ordinances, in the regulation of the Disarmament Statute. He extended the validity of possession of firearm from three to five years. By means of the decree, the measure does not have to be discussed by Congress and begins to apply after publication in the Official Gazette.
In another comment on Twitter, Bolsonaro says that deadlines and scope of the new measures will be discussed within the Executive, but that other actions will go through Congress.
"The temporal expansion will be of intermediation of the executive, however other forms of improvement also depend on the National Congress, being the involvement of all interested parties," he wrote.
Today, the Federal Police makes an analysis to verify if the interested party has in fact need to have the gun. Proponents of the dismantling of the Disarmament Statute have always complained of a supposedly skewed PF position of denying the claims on the grounds that the "actual need" would not be proven.
The idea is to withdraw this power of analysis from the FP, making clear that it is enough for the interested party to meet the objective criteria of documentation to be entitled to possession of a weapon.
It will not be the first time gun control rules have been modified by presidential decree. President Michel Temer made a series of changes, based on decrees and ordinances, in the regulation of the Disarmament Statute. He extended the validity of possession of firearm from three to five years. By means of the decree, the measure does not have to be discussed by Congress and begins to apply after publication in the Official Gazette.
In another comment on Twitter, Bolsonaro says that deadlines and scope of the new measures will be discussed within the Executive, but that other actions will go through Congress.
"The temporal expansion will be of intermediation of the executive, however other forms of improvement also depend on the National Congress, being the involvement of all interested parties," he wrote.
PUBLICITY
Flexibilization of possession of weapons and other measures contrary to the Disarmament Statute is a long-standing claim of the bullet.
End
Comment: Record homicides? Confirming that when only outlaws have guns.
computer "translation" of O Globo article.
Obrigado
Jair Bolsonaro says that he will facilitate purchase of firearms for citizens
Photo: AP
By: AP | 12/29/2018 8:57
https://www.elimparcial.com/Internacional/2018/12/29/1397933-Jair-Bolsonaro-dice-que-facilitara-compra-de-armas-de-fuego-a-los-ciudadanos.html
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP)
Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that when he takes office, he will issue a decree that will guarantee citizens without a criminal record the possibility of possessing firearms.
Bolsonaro made the announcement through Twitter. The flexibilization of firearms laws was a central component of his electoral campaign. The former army captain takes office on January 1.
Currently, the possession of firearms is very restricted in Brazil.
Civilians must go through a long process of verification and the sale of arms is limited to small calibers.
Despite the difficulty of legally possessing a firearm, violence with firearms is a problem in Brazil.
In 2017, Brazil established a record of homicides with just over 63,000 people dead.
In a referendum held in 2005, Brazilians were asked if the sale of firearms should be prohibited.
Almost 64% of the population voted against the initiative.
END
Bolsonaro plans decree to extend gun ownership in Brazil
On Twitter, he said that the right to have a gun at home would be guaranteed to citizens without a criminal record
Jailton Carvalho and Renata Mariz
12/29/2018 - 12:13 / Updated 12/29/2018 - 2:18 PM
https://oglobo.globo.com/brasil/bolsonaro-plan-decreto-para-ampliar-posse-de-arma-no-brasil-23335006
The president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, will take office on January 1 Photo: Jorge William / Agência O Globo
RIO - President-elect Jair Bolsonaro plans to issue a decree to facilitate gun ownership in the country. On Twitter, Bolsonaro said he wants to guarantee possession of weapons to those without a criminal record. The transition team is already preparing the decree, which is practically ready and can be edited at any time, depending on the decision of Bolsonaro, according to one of the authors of the text.
"By decree we intend to guarantee the possession of firearms for the citizen without criminal records, as well as make their registration definitive," the president wrote in the social network.
According to the auxiliary, the idea of the decree is "to flexibilize (the rules) in the possible thing within the law" to extend the cases in which the possession of weapon is allowed. The explanation is that the generalization of the possession of arms for those who do not have legal pending is a promise of campaign. So there would be no surprises in the president-elect's announcement. The measure would meet a request from a part of the population that would feel safer with the possibility of having a weapon.
"If it's a campaign promise, he has to comply," said one of Bolsonaro's aides.
The decree must also make "definitive" the registration of the weapon, which today must be renewed every five years. The proposed change may mean that, once the possession of a weapon is obtained, it will no longer be necessary to periodically present the required proofs, such as technical ability, psychological aptitude and criminal record.
Another source, also from the president-elect's team, said the decree will not be edited on the first day of government. The edition of the measure will depend on the opinions of the ministries with interest in the matter.
Bolsonaro is expected to sign a decree only after hearing the ministries of Justice and Defense. The two portfolios are responsible for the control and oversight of the trade and use of firearms in the country.
The technical area of the transitional government is still studying a new model to make the firearms register "final". At least three hypotheses are under analysis. One is to extend the renewal term, which is now five years. Another is simply to end with renewal requirement. The third would be to require the renewal only of persons who, after registration, become involved in any criminal occurrence.
Possession is different from carrying weapons. Under the law, possession is the authorization to keep the gun only inside the home or at the owner's workplace, as long as you are the legal guardian of the property. Porting, in turn, assumes that the firearm is outside of the residence or place of work, and is prohibited, except for members of the Armed Forces, police, guards, prison guards and private security companies, among others.
The Disarmament Statute foresees requirements for the civilian to acquire a firearm - such as not having a criminal record, not responding to a police investigation or prosecution, proving technical capacity and psychological aptitude. It also determines that it is necessary to "declare the actual need". The same requirement is set out in the decree, issued in 2004, which regulates the statute.
Today, the Federal Police makes an analysis to verify if the interested party has in fact need to have the gun. Proponents of the dismantling of the Disarmament Statute have always complained of a supposedly skewed PF position of denying the claims on the grounds that the "actual need" would not be proven.
The idea is to withdraw this power of analysis from the FP, making clear that it is enough for the interested party to meet the objective criteria of documentation to be entitled to possession of a weapon.
It will not be the first time gun control rules have been modified by presidential decree. President Michel Temer made a series of changes, based on decrees and ordinances, in the regulation of the Disarmament Statute. He extended the validity of possession of firearm from three to five years. By means of the decree, the measure does not have to be discussed by Congress and begins to apply after publication in the Official Gazette.
In another comment on Twitter, Bolsonaro says that deadlines and scope of the new measures will be discussed within the Executive, but that other actions will go through Congress.
"The temporal expansion will be of intermediation of the executive, however other forms of improvement also depend on the National Congress, being the involvement of all interested parties," he wrote.
Today, the Federal Police makes an analysis to verify if the interested party has in fact need to have the gun. Proponents of the dismantling of the Disarmament Statute have always complained of a supposedly skewed PF position of denying the claims on the grounds that the "actual need" would not be proven.
The idea is to withdraw this power of analysis from the FP, making clear that it is enough for the interested party to meet the objective criteria of documentation to be entitled to possession of a weapon.
It will not be the first time gun control rules have been modified by presidential decree. President Michel Temer made a series of changes, based on decrees and ordinances, in the regulation of the Disarmament Statute. He extended the validity of possession of firearm from three to five years. By means of the decree, the measure does not have to be discussed by Congress and begins to apply after publication in the Official Gazette.
In another comment on Twitter, Bolsonaro says that deadlines and scope of the new measures will be discussed within the Executive, but that other actions will go through Congress.
"The temporal expansion will be of intermediation of the executive, however other forms of improvement also depend on the National Congress, being the involvement of all interested parties," he wrote.
PUBLICITY
Flexibilization of possession of weapons and other measures contrary to the Disarmament Statute is a long-standing claim of the bullet.
End
Saturday, December 29, 2018
AZMEX I3 UPDATE-2 29-12-18
AZMEX I3 UPDATE-2 29 DEC 2018.
Note: the photo of the perp. Also the quotes of democrat de Leon.
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Police killing suspect was fleeing to Mexico, sheriff says
Posted: 7:44 AM, Dec 29, 2018 Updated: 8:44 AM, Dec 29, 2018
By: Associated Press
Posted: 7:44 AM, Dec 29, 2018 Updated: 8:44 AM, Dec 29, 2018
By: Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man suspected of gunning down a California policeman was in the U.S. illegally and was captured while planning to flee to his native Mexico,
a sheriff announced as he all but blamed the state's sanctuary law for the officer's death.
A two-day statewide manhunt ended Friday with the arrest of Gustavo Perez Arriaga, who came out with his hands up
A two-day statewide manhunt ended Friday with the arrest of Gustavo Perez Arriaga, who came out with his hands up
as a SWAT team prepared to raid a home in Bakersfield, California.
That was about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of where Cpl. Ronil Singh was shot before dawn Wednesday.
Singh had stopped a suspected drunken driver in the town of Newman when he was fatally wounded and managed to fire back but didn't hit his attacker, authorities have said.
RELATED: Suspect wanted in Newman cop killing arrested near Bakersfield
Perez Arriaga was taken into custody using the slain officer's handcuffs, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said.
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, who led the investigation, blamed California's sanctuary law for preventing local authorities from reporting Perez Arriaga to U.S. immigration officials for deportation after two previous drunken driving arrests.
"We can't ignore the fact that this could have been preventable," Christianson told reporters,
Singh had stopped a suspected drunken driver in the town of Newman when he was fatally wounded and managed to fire back but didn't hit his attacker, authorities have said.
RELATED: Suspect wanted in Newman cop killing arrested near Bakersfield
Perez Arriaga was taken into custody using the slain officer's handcuffs, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said.
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson, who led the investigation, blamed California's sanctuary law for preventing local authorities from reporting Perez Arriaga to U.S. immigration officials for deportation after two previous drunken driving arrests.
"We can't ignore the fact that this could have been preventable," Christianson told reporters,
asking why the state was "providing sanctuary for criminals (and) gang members.
It's a conversation we need to have."
Christianson called for stricter laws at a news conference as Singh's brother wept beside him.
RELATED: New photos released in search for Newman Police officer's killer
Perez Arriaga crossed the border in Arizona several years ago and had worked a variety of jobs as a laborer, including at several dairies.
Christianson called for stricter laws at a news conference as Singh's brother wept beside him.
RELATED: New photos released in search for Newman Police officer's killer
Perez Arriaga crossed the border in Arizona several years ago and had worked a variety of jobs as a laborer, including at several dairies.
The 33-year-old had gang affiliations and multiple Facebook pages with different names, Christianson said.
The shooting came amid an intense political fight over immigration, with President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats
The shooting came amid an intense political fight over immigration, with President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats
at odds over funding for a border wall that has forced a partial government shutdown.
Trump tweeted about Singh's killing Thursday, saying it was "time to get tough on Border Security. Build the Wall!"
California's sanctuary law limits cooperation between local authorities and U.S. immigration officials and has drawn scorn from the Trump administration.
Trump tweeted about Singh's killing Thursday, saying it was "time to get tough on Border Security. Build the Wall!"
California's sanctuary law limits cooperation between local authorities and U.S. immigration officials and has drawn scorn from the Trump administration.
It includes more than 800 exceptions for violent crimes and felonies and bars police from asking people about their citizenship status.
Gov. Jerry Brown has said the law strikes a balance between protecting families and ensuring consequences for serious criminals.
Gov. Jerry Brown has said the law strikes a balance between protecting families and ensuring consequences for serious criminals.
His spokesman said Friday that if the suspect was a known gang member, police could have provided that information to federal authorities.
"California law fully permits the sharing of information on dangerous gang members," spokesman Evan Westrup said.
A federal judge upheld the law earlier this year after a challenge by the Trump administration.
Former state Sen. Kevin de Leon, the Democrat who wrote the legislation, said it's unfair to blame the law for the officer's death.
Christianson, who was at a meeting with Trump and slams California's law in a video posted by the White House in May,
"California law fully permits the sharing of information on dangerous gang members," spokesman Evan Westrup said.
A federal judge upheld the law earlier this year after a challenge by the Trump administration.
Former state Sen. Kevin de Leon, the Democrat who wrote the legislation, said it's unfair to blame the law for the officer's death.
Christianson, who was at a meeting with Trump and slams California's law in a video posted by the White House in May,
said the measure prohibited his department from sharing Perez Arriaga's gang ties, "other active warrants"
and past DUI arrests with federal immigration authorities. He didn't give details on the other warrants.
That suggests law enforcement could have apprehended Perez Arriaga previously, de Leon said.
"He should've been in the physical custody of law enforcement," de Leon said. To blame the law "is highly irresponsible."
De Leon also told KNX-AM radio in Los Angeles that the sheriff was politicizing a tragedy and actually harming police work.
"The type of tone and attitude that Sheriff Christianson has taken instills fear and panic in all immigrant communities"
That suggests law enforcement could have apprehended Perez Arriaga previously, de Leon said.
"He should've been in the physical custody of law enforcement," de Leon said. To blame the law "is highly irresponsible."
De Leon also told KNX-AM radio in Los Angeles that the sheriff was politicizing a tragedy and actually harming police work.
"The type of tone and attitude that Sheriff Christianson has taken instills fear and panic in all immigrant communities"
( illegal immigrants, not legal immigrants )
that could make people afraid to report crimes, de Leon said.
Authorities also arrested five other people, including Perez Arriaga's brother, 25-year-old Adrian Virgen, and a co-worker, 27-year-old Erik Razo Quiroz,
who lied to police to try to protect him, Christianson said.
Both men also were in the country illegally, he said.
Three people also were arrested at the home near Bakersfield for helping Perez Arriaga, Youngblood said.
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department later reported the additional arrests of Perez Arriaga's girlfriend, 30-year-old Ana Leyde Cervantes of Newman
Three people also were arrested at the home near Bakersfield for helping Perez Arriaga, Youngblood said.
The Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department later reported the additional arrests of Perez Arriaga's girlfriend, 30-year-old Ana Leyde Cervantes of Newman
and Perez Arriaga's brother, 34-year-old Conrado Virgen Mendoza of Chowchilla.
Cervantes was arrested in in Turlock, and Virgen Mendoza was arrested in Livermore.
The 33-year-old officer was an immigrant, too, arriving legally from his native Fiji to fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, authorities said.
The 33-year-old officer was an immigrant, too, arriving legally from his native Fiji to fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, authorities said.
Singh had a newborn son and joined the 12-officer Newman police force in 2011.
Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson called Singh a patriot.
"This is a man that loved his country. This is a man that worked hard for what he believed in.
Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson called Singh a patriot.
"This is a man that loved his country. This is a man that worked hard for what he believed in.
He believed in this community," the chief said at a community vigil Friday night honoring the officer.
Residents, friends, relatives and fellow officers held back tears as they eulogized Singh during the candlelight memorial.
RELATED: Sheriff: California officer's killer is in the US illegally
Residents, friends, relatives and fellow officers held back tears as they eulogized Singh during the candlelight memorial.
RELATED: Sheriff: California officer's killer is in the US illegally
RELATED: 'We're a family': Newman Police mourn loss of a fellow officer
end
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 29-12-18
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 29 DEC 2018
Note: photos, mug shots, etc. at link.
Comment: Consequences of a democrat controlled state & county. Protecting their criminal base.
Thx
6 people, including suspected killer, arrested in murder of Central Valley officer
POSTED 11:06 AM, DECEMBER 28, 2018, BY CNN WIRE,
UPDATED AT 05:31PM, DECEMBER 28, 2018
https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/12/28/suspect-arrested-in-shooting-death-of-central-valley-officer/
Police Arrest Central Valley Cop`s Suspected Killer
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A man suspected of killing police officer Ronil Singh this week in Newman, California, has been arrested, Deputy Blake Edwards with the Kern County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
The suspect was identified as Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, according to Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson. Arriaga was at a Kern County home upon being arrested, Christianson said. Kern County is about 200 miles south of where the shooting occurred.
Singh, 33, pulled over the suspect just before 1 a.m. Wednesday and a few moments later called out "shot fired" over the radio.
Other officers found Singh shot and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Singh was a native of Fiji and joined the force in July 2011.
RELATED STORY
Man who killed Central Valley cop was in the country illegally, sheriff says
https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/12/27/man-who-killed-central-valley-cop-was-in-the-country-illegally-sheriff-says/?utm_source=related_1
Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson said at a Friday news conference that this has never happened in the history of the 12-member department.
"This is new for our department," Richardson said.
The lead agency on the investigation, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department, was joined at the news conference by members of Singh's family. Singh's brother, Reggie, thanked officers through sobs.
"Ronil Singh was my older brother. Yes, he's not coming back, but there's a lot of people out there that misses him," Reggie said. Referring to the arrest, he said, "I was waiting for this to happen. I'd like to thank you working day and night to make this happen."
Officer Ronil Singh
(Photo: Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department)
Suspect was fleeing to Mexico, sheriff says
Arriaga came to the United States illegally and was believed to have been fleeing to Mexico, Christianson said. The sheriff elaborated on Arriaga's history, explaining that he was arrested twice previously for DUIs and has known gang affiliation.
Arriaga's brother, Adrian Virgen, 25, and coworker, Erik Razo Quiroz, 32, were arrested Thursday for accessory after the fact to a felony. Virgen was arrested in Hanford and Quiroz in Modesto, Christianson said. He said they were trying to protect Arriaga, who was trying to go to Mexico.
"That was his goal, to get across the border," he said. Christianson said Virgen and Quiroz were also in the United States illegally.
RELATED STORY
Manhunt underway for gunman who killed Central Valley cop during traffic stop
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said two men and a woman were arrested at the same home where Arriaga was found for aiding and abetting the suspect. The Kern County Sheriff's Office identified the three as Bernabe Madrigal Castaneda, 59; Erasmo Villegas, 36; and Maria Luisa Moreno, 57.
Youngblood said he could not confirm whether the three were in the country illegally.
Youngblood also added that handcuffs owned by Singh were used in Arriaga's arrest.
"Officer Singh's handcuffs were brought down, and they're on that guy for his trip home," Youngblood said.
Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, is suspected of killing a police officer in Newman, California
At the news conference Friday, Christianson had strong words about immigration and border security.
"We can't ignore the fact that this could've been preventable," he said,
adding that California Senate Bill 54 -- which became law last year -- prohibited his department "from sharing any information with ICE about this criminal gang member."
SB 54 bars law enforcement from detaining a person due to a hold request, responding to federal immigration enforcement's requests for notification or providing information about a person's release date unless that's already available publicly.
The bill contains some exceptions, allowing local agencies to transfer individuals to federal immigration authorities if there is a judicial warrant or if the person has been previously convicted of a violent felony. It also requires notification to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement of scheduled releases of people who have been convicted of violent felonies.
"This is a criminal illegal alien with prior criminal activity that should have been reported to ICE," Christianson said. "Law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws and that led to the encounter with Officer Singh. I'm suggesting that the outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn't restricted, prohibited or had their hands tied because of political interference."
Youngblood also chimed in about immigration legislation. He said he asked the county to declare Kern a non-sanctuary county.
"When you tie our hands and don't allow us to work with our federal partners and communicate with our federal partners about people who commit crimes and who are in this country illegally, we're going to have incidents like this, not just on police officers, but on the public that we serve and protect," he said.
END
Note: photos, mug shots, etc. at link.
Comment: Consequences of a democrat controlled state & county. Protecting their criminal base.
Thx
6 people, including suspected killer, arrested in murder of Central Valley officer
POSTED 11:06 AM, DECEMBER 28, 2018, BY CNN WIRE,
UPDATED AT 05:31PM, DECEMBER 28, 2018
https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/12/28/suspect-arrested-in-shooting-death-of-central-valley-officer/
Police Arrest Central Valley Cop`s Suspected Killer
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A man suspected of killing police officer Ronil Singh this week in Newman, California, has been arrested, Deputy Blake Edwards with the Kern County Sheriff's Office said Friday.
The suspect was identified as Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, according to Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson. Arriaga was at a Kern County home upon being arrested, Christianson said. Kern County is about 200 miles south of where the shooting occurred.
Singh, 33, pulled over the suspect just before 1 a.m. Wednesday and a few moments later called out "shot fired" over the radio.
Other officers found Singh shot and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Singh was a native of Fiji and joined the force in July 2011.
RELATED STORY
Man who killed Central Valley cop was in the country illegally, sheriff says
https://fox5sandiego.com/2018/12/27/man-who-killed-central-valley-cop-was-in-the-country-illegally-sheriff-says/?utm_source=related_1
Newman Police Chief Randy Richardson said at a Friday news conference that this has never happened in the history of the 12-member department.
"This is new for our department," Richardson said.
The lead agency on the investigation, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department, was joined at the news conference by members of Singh's family. Singh's brother, Reggie, thanked officers through sobs.
"Ronil Singh was my older brother. Yes, he's not coming back, but there's a lot of people out there that misses him," Reggie said. Referring to the arrest, he said, "I was waiting for this to happen. I'd like to thank you working day and night to make this happen."
Officer Ronil Singh
(Photo: Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department)
Suspect was fleeing to Mexico, sheriff says
Arriaga came to the United States illegally and was believed to have been fleeing to Mexico, Christianson said. The sheriff elaborated on Arriaga's history, explaining that he was arrested twice previously for DUIs and has known gang affiliation.
Arriaga's brother, Adrian Virgen, 25, and coworker, Erik Razo Quiroz, 32, were arrested Thursday for accessory after the fact to a felony. Virgen was arrested in Hanford and Quiroz in Modesto, Christianson said. He said they were trying to protect Arriaga, who was trying to go to Mexico.
"That was his goal, to get across the border," he said. Christianson said Virgen and Quiroz were also in the United States illegally.
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Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said two men and a woman were arrested at the same home where Arriaga was found for aiding and abetting the suspect. The Kern County Sheriff's Office identified the three as Bernabe Madrigal Castaneda, 59; Erasmo Villegas, 36; and Maria Luisa Moreno, 57.
Youngblood said he could not confirm whether the three were in the country illegally.
Youngblood also added that handcuffs owned by Singh were used in Arriaga's arrest.
"Officer Singh's handcuffs were brought down, and they're on that guy for his trip home," Youngblood said.
Gustavo Perez Arriaga, 33, is suspected of killing a police officer in Newman, California
At the news conference Friday, Christianson had strong words about immigration and border security.
"We can't ignore the fact that this could've been preventable," he said,
adding that California Senate Bill 54 -- which became law last year -- prohibited his department "from sharing any information with ICE about this criminal gang member."
SB 54 bars law enforcement from detaining a person due to a hold request, responding to federal immigration enforcement's requests for notification or providing information about a person's release date unless that's already available publicly.
The bill contains some exceptions, allowing local agencies to transfer individuals to federal immigration authorities if there is a judicial warrant or if the person has been previously convicted of a violent felony. It also requires notification to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement of scheduled releases of people who have been convicted of violent felonies.
"This is a criminal illegal alien with prior criminal activity that should have been reported to ICE," Christianson said. "Law enforcement was prohibited because of sanctuary laws and that led to the encounter with Officer Singh. I'm suggesting that the outcome could have been different if law enforcement wasn't restricted, prohibited or had their hands tied because of political interference."
Youngblood also chimed in about immigration legislation. He said he asked the county to declare Kern a non-sanctuary county.
"When you tie our hands and don't allow us to work with our federal partners and communicate with our federal partners about people who commit crimes and who are in this country illegally, we're going to have incidents like this, not just on police officers, but on the public that we serve and protect," he said.
END
Friday, December 28, 2018
AZMEX I3 UPDATE-2 28-12-18
Note: Photo blurred to protect the guilty.
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Sureños gang member suspected of illegal entry arrested
By: Crystal Bedoya
Posted: Dec 28, 2018 05:00 PM MST
Updated: Dec 28, 2018 05:00 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/surenos-gang-member-suspected-of-illegal-entry-arrested/954984593
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
CALEXICO, Calif. - Border Patrol agents arrested a Sureños gang member suspected of illegally entering the United States
Thursday morning east of the Calexico Port of Entry.
CBP officials said at approximately 9:17 a.m., agents patrolling five miles east of the port of entry found an individual,
suspected of illegally entering the country, and arrested him.
He was transported to the El Centro Station where a record check identified the man as a citizen of Mexico.
It was also revealed that he has an extensive criminal record.
The man admitted to authorities that he is a Sureños gang member out of Sacramento, Calif.
END
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Sureños gang member suspected of illegal entry arrested
By: Crystal Bedoya
Posted: Dec 28, 2018 05:00 PM MST
Updated: Dec 28, 2018 05:00 PM MST
https://www.kyma.com/news/surenos-gang-member-suspected-of-illegal-entry-arrested/954984593
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
CALEXICO, Calif. - Border Patrol agents arrested a Sureños gang member suspected of illegally entering the United States
Thursday morning east of the Calexico Port of Entry.
CBP officials said at approximately 9:17 a.m., agents patrolling five miles east of the port of entry found an individual,
suspected of illegally entering the country, and arrested him.
He was transported to the El Centro Station where a record check identified the man as a citizen of Mexico.
It was also revealed that he has an extensive criminal record.
The man admitted to authorities that he is a Sureños gang member out of Sacramento, Calif.
END
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 28-12-18
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 28 DEC 2018
ICE keeps dropping off busloads of migrants at Phoenix-area churches
BY KTAR.COM | DECEMBER 28, 2018 AT 2:45 PM
UPDATED: DECEMBER 28, 2018 AT 3:52 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2373597/ice-keeps-dropping-off-busloads-of-migrants-at-phoenix-area-churches/
PHOENIX – The steady flow of asylum seekers through Valley houses of worship continued Friday afternoon when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped off two busloads of migrants at a Phoenix church.
"If the churches don't open the door for this humanitarian crisis we will have people in the streets, sleeping in the streets," Magdalena Schwartz, a Mesa pastor who has been coordinating ICE drop-offs at a network of Valley churches, told KTAR News 92.3 FM before the buses arrived.
With Friday's drop-off of around 90 people at Monte Vista Baptist Church, Schwartz said the churches she works with have taken in more than 10,000 asylum seekers released by ICE in recent months.
"ICE drops the people in the church," she said. "We feed them. We give them a hot meal. They can take a shower."
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After arriving at Monte Vista Baptist, the men women and children from Central America hugged, cried, prayed and sang worship songs with pastors and volunteers.
"The plan is to have a lot of them leave today. We already are working on getting the tickets to leave," Pastor Israel Camacho said.
A 37-year-old father who came from Honduras with his daughter said he came to the United States to flee death threats from gang members.
The man, who asked not to be identified because he feared for his and his daughter's safety, said three men went looking for him at his house two days before he left Honduras.
"If I didn't come here, I would already be dead," he said in Spanish.
He added he had no choice but to come to the U.S. to seek safety.
"My dream is to be able to walk without the fear of a gun shooting at me," he said.
ICE didn't respond to a request for comment beyond an email saying the agency's public affairs officers aren't allowed to work during the government shutdown.
A day earlier, ICE dropped off around 50 men with children at a Phoenix Greyhound bus station because the churches were unable to take them.
"Some pastors in some churches … they wanted to take a break for a week, for two weeks, because it's overwhelming," Schwartz said.
It appeared the migrants would have to go to the bus station Friday, but Schwartz found a last-minute opening at Monte Vista Baptist.
"This is the result of united pastors working together for this beautiful, wonderful mission to help all these families who come from Central American," she said.
Schwartz and her colleagues have become proficient at setting up travel plans so the released migrants can quickly make their way to the homes of relatives in the United States.
She said all the people released at the Greyhound station Thursday were on to their next destination by the end of the day.
"We have very successful coordination," she said. "The relative buys the tickets, the same day or next day, so they don't stay longer here in Arizona."
Schwartz said her network is fully dependent on the community to provide the families with food, backpacks, shoes and clothing as well as cash to pay for medical supplies and other necessities.
"We are doing this mission with passion, with love and with mercy," she said. "Also by faith because we don't have any financial resources and we don't have any financial resources from our government. … And God provides, every single day."
KTAR News 92.3 FM's Griselda Zetino, Ali Vetnar and Nailea Leon contributed to this report.
END
ICE keeps dropping off busloads of migrants at Phoenix-area churches
BY KTAR.COM | DECEMBER 28, 2018 AT 2:45 PM
UPDATED: DECEMBER 28, 2018 AT 3:52 PM
http://ktar.com/story/2373597/ice-keeps-dropping-off-busloads-of-migrants-at-phoenix-area-churches/
PHOENIX – The steady flow of asylum seekers through Valley houses of worship continued Friday afternoon when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement dropped off two busloads of migrants at a Phoenix church.
"If the churches don't open the door for this humanitarian crisis we will have people in the streets, sleeping in the streets," Magdalena Schwartz, a Mesa pastor who has been coordinating ICE drop-offs at a network of Valley churches, told KTAR News 92.3 FM before the buses arrived.
With Friday's drop-off of around 90 people at Monte Vista Baptist Church, Schwartz said the churches she works with have taken in more than 10,000 asylum seekers released by ICE in recent months.
"ICE drops the people in the church," she said. "We feed them. We give them a hot meal. They can take a shower."
Related Links
Valley church network has helped over 4,000 migrants released by ICE
Phoenix church receiving donations after ICE dropped off immigrants
Large drop-off of immigrants by ICE strains resources of Phoenix church
Second group of immigrant families released by ICE in Phoenix
Immigrant families released by ICE arrive in Phoenix seeking asylum
After arriving at Monte Vista Baptist, the men women and children from Central America hugged, cried, prayed and sang worship songs with pastors and volunteers.
"The plan is to have a lot of them leave today. We already are working on getting the tickets to leave," Pastor Israel Camacho said.
A 37-year-old father who came from Honduras with his daughter said he came to the United States to flee death threats from gang members.
The man, who asked not to be identified because he feared for his and his daughter's safety, said three men went looking for him at his house two days before he left Honduras.
"If I didn't come here, I would already be dead," he said in Spanish.
He added he had no choice but to come to the U.S. to seek safety.
"My dream is to be able to walk without the fear of a gun shooting at me," he said.
ICE didn't respond to a request for comment beyond an email saying the agency's public affairs officers aren't allowed to work during the government shutdown.
A day earlier, ICE dropped off around 50 men with children at a Phoenix Greyhound bus station because the churches were unable to take them.
"Some pastors in some churches … they wanted to take a break for a week, for two weeks, because it's overwhelming," Schwartz said.
It appeared the migrants would have to go to the bus station Friday, but Schwartz found a last-minute opening at Monte Vista Baptist.
"This is the result of united pastors working together for this beautiful, wonderful mission to help all these families who come from Central American," she said.
Schwartz and her colleagues have become proficient at setting up travel plans so the released migrants can quickly make their way to the homes of relatives in the United States.
She said all the people released at the Greyhound station Thursday were on to their next destination by the end of the day.
"We have very successful coordination," she said. "The relative buys the tickets, the same day or next day, so they don't stay longer here in Arizona."
Schwartz said her network is fully dependent on the community to provide the families with food, backpacks, shoes and clothing as well as cash to pay for medical supplies and other necessities.
"We are doing this mission with passion, with love and with mercy," she said. "Also by faith because we don't have any financial resources and we don't have any financial resources from our government. … And God provides, every single day."
KTAR News 92.3 FM's Griselda Zetino, Ali Vetnar and Nailea Leon contributed to this report.
END
AZMEX UPDATE 28-12-18
AZMEX UPDATE 28 DEC 2018
Woman dies from swine flu in BC
By: Nicolle De León | 12/28/2018 13:18
https://www.lacronica.com/News/2018/12/28/1397763-Mujer-muere-por-influenza-porcina-en-BC.html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
A 32-year-old woman was the first fatal victim of the Influenza AH1N1 virus in Baja California, her contagion was local, confirmed the authorities of the Ministry of Health.
The also known as swine flu has been increasing throughout the country.
In Ensenada, the first death of the State occurred, 46 cases have been confirmed, said the head of the epidemiology department, Oscar Efrén Zazueta Fierro.
The female did not have the influenza vaccine, and she also had several co-morbidities such as diabetes, obesity and smoking; a combination of circumstances that promoted her death.
She presented the symptoms from December 4, but did not go until December 8 to a private clinic, on December 15 she died after treating her at the General Hospital, he said.
END
Woman dies from swine flu in BC
By: Nicolle De León | 12/28/2018 13:18
https://www.lacronica.com/News/2018/12/28/1397763-Mujer-muere-por-influenza-porcina-en-BC.html
MEXICALI, Baja California (GH)
A 32-year-old woman was the first fatal victim of the Influenza AH1N1 virus in Baja California, her contagion was local, confirmed the authorities of the Ministry of Health.
The also known as swine flu has been increasing throughout the country.
In Ensenada, the first death of the State occurred, 46 cases have been confirmed, said the head of the epidemiology department, Oscar Efrén Zazueta Fierro.
The female did not have the influenza vaccine, and she also had several co-morbidities such as diabetes, obesity and smoking; a combination of circumstances that promoted her death.
She presented the symptoms from December 4, but did not go until December 8 to a private clinic, on December 15 she died after treating her at the General Hospital, he said.
END
Thursday, December 27, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 27-12-18
AZMEX EXTRA 27 DEC 2018
Note: several interesting photos at the link. Town located on Pacific coast between Zihuatanejo and Acapulco.
Thx
DECEMBER 27, 2018
Armed confrontation in Petatlán leaves a dead civilian
Army personnel and state police repelled an armed aggression; in the place confiscated vehicles and weapons for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force
https://www.elsoldeacapulco.com.mx/policiaca/enfrentamiento-armado-en-petatlan-deja-saldo-de-un-civil-muerto-policiaca-inseguridad-guerrero-violencia-2850390.html
Army soldiers and state police officers were attacked by armed men with bullets, and after repelling the aggression in which one of the attackers died, they secured long and short firearms, magazines, cartridges for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force. tactical equipment, 11 vehicles and probable marijuana, in the municipality of Petatlán in the region of the Costa Grande de Guerrero.
The confrontation, which was confirmed by the Secretary of Public Security of the State, was reported on Wednesday, when they were conducting security trips in a dirt road in the vicinity of the communities of Potrerillos and Chaveta, in the municipality of Petatlán, they observed approximately 45 meters away on the same road, 10 trucks in which about 40 armed men traveled, who upon noticing the police presence, assaulted them with gunshots.
The soldiers and police officers repelled the attack, where one of the aggressors lost his life, together with the lifeless body they located a long gun of caliber fire .223-5.56; also, two vehicles and two long firearms were recovered in the place.
Later, around 06:45 on Wednesday afternoon, continuing to search for the aggressors, in a dirt road in the vicinity of the Ocote de Peregrino population, they located nine vehicles hidden among the brush and a four-wheel drive, the which participated in the aggression.
After a review, inside the units, the military and police located long firearms, tactical equipment and presumed marijuana.
In addition to a Nissan truck, type X-Trail, 2017, blue, license plates of the state of Guanajuato, with theft report dated August 16, 2017; the unit had bullet holes and in it they located one of the aggressors without life.
In a second Kia truck, Sorrento type, 2017, gray, with no theft report; A long firearm was located in the passenger seat.
Another Nissan truck, type X-Trail, white, plates of the state of Jalisco, 2017, without report of theft; and a fourth Jeep, Cherokee limited, black, license plates of the state of Guanajuato, 2017, without a report of theft.
Also, another Toyota truck, type HIGHLANDER LIMITED, gray, from the state of Guanajuato, 2016, without a report of theft; in addition to Dodge truck, type RAM 2500, green, plates of the state of Baja California Sur, 2003, without report of theft.
A Jeep Wrangler, black, 2008, plates of the State of Mexico, without a report of theft; Mazda CX-5 truck, gray, plates of the state of Morelos, 2016, with theft report of October 18, 2016.
As well as three more cars, one of them a Nissan truck, Frontier type, golden color, plates of the State of Mexico, without visible series, or registration; another Nissan van, type Frontier LE NP300, white, plates 2018, with theft report of September 17, 2018, and an Audi Q2 truck, plates GZP-610-C, white, without registration.
Also, a Honda quad bike, green with black, no license plates, no theft report.
In addition, a 7.62 caliber machine gun was secured, a long firearm caliber .223-5.56, this weapon was located on the side of the aggressor who lost his life by firearm and was assured by personnel of the State Attorney's Office.
In addition to a .223 caliber long firearm, it was located in the second van, at the scene of the confrontation and secured by personnel of the State Attorney General's Office; so a .308 caliber rifle; a 7.62x39 caliber rifle.
In addition to a rifle, a semi-automatic rifle, caliber .223, a shotgun caliber 12. A handgun, semiautomatic caliber 45, a handgun, semiautomatic , the caliber is unknown.
As well as 10 magazines caliber 308 with capacity for 25 cartridges, five magazines caliber .223 with capacity for 30 cartridges and one with capacity for 40.
Two 7.62X39 rifle magazines, one with capacity for 40 and another for five cartridges, a 9-millimeter magazine with capacity for seven cartridges; 636 223 caliber cartridges; 401 308 caliber cartridges; 90 cartridges 7.62x39 caliber; 12 cartridges caliber LC12 (cal.50); five 12 gauge cartridges, and 815 7.62x51 caliber cartridges.
The State and Military Police also secured two ballistic vests; 15 ballistic plates; four ballistic panels; a vest carrying plates; a camisole and trousers with the legend "POLICE FEDERAL" and two trimmings with nine porters; as well as approximately 200 grams of presumed marijuana.
It was reported that no police and soldiers were unharmed, while the State Prosecutor General's Office already opened a case file investigating the case to determine responsibilities.
The vehicles, firearms, magazines, cartridges and tactical equipment were recovered and made available to the Federal Public Ministry agency in Zihuatanejo.
End
Also: ( Spanish).
https://noticiasacapulconews.com/2018/12/27/aseguran-11-vehiculos-marihuana-y-armas-en-potrerillos-petatlan/
Note: photo at link.
Gracias
After chase arrest three alleged assassins
After carrying out detonations of a firearm against a man, three people were arrested by the Municipal Police, who confiscated two long weapons. Photo: Courtesy
By: Luis Gerardo Andrade | 12/27/2018 8:47
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
https://www.frontera.info/Policiaca/2018/12/27/1397426-Tras-persecucion-detienen-a-tres-supuestos-sicarios.html
After carrying out detonations of a firearm against a man, three people were arrested by the Municipal Police, who confiscated two long weapons.
The Municipal Public Security Secretariat (SSPM) reported that when patrolling on Boulevard Diaz Ordaz and Avenida Jauja, in La Joya neighborhood, officers heard gun shots.
The shots came from the street De las Joyas, where they observed a Toyota FJ Cruiser that was traveling at excessive speed and without respecting the traffic signs, so they made the stop of the driver, who had ignored it.
It was then that a chase was generated and the vehicle was intervened in the Vía Rápida Poniente at the Arboleda neighborhood, where José Ángel, 29, Guillermo Guadalupe, 20, and José Miguel, 23 years old, were arrested.
Two AR-15 assault rifles, caliber .223, were found in the vehicle, and in the parking lot of Motel La Joya, located a man who had bullet wounds and was taken to a hospital.
END
Note: several interesting photos at the link. Town located on Pacific coast between Zihuatanejo and Acapulco.
Thx
DECEMBER 27, 2018
Armed confrontation in Petatlán leaves a dead civilian
Army personnel and state police repelled an armed aggression; in the place confiscated vehicles and weapons for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force
https://www.elsoldeacapulco.com.mx/policiaca/enfrentamiento-armado-en-petatlan-deja-saldo-de-un-civil-muerto-policiaca-inseguridad-guerrero-violencia-2850390.html
Army soldiers and state police officers were attacked by armed men with bullets, and after repelling the aggression in which one of the attackers died, they secured long and short firearms, magazines, cartridges for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy and Air Force. tactical equipment, 11 vehicles and probable marijuana, in the municipality of Petatlán in the region of the Costa Grande de Guerrero.
The confrontation, which was confirmed by the Secretary of Public Security of the State, was reported on Wednesday, when they were conducting security trips in a dirt road in the vicinity of the communities of Potrerillos and Chaveta, in the municipality of Petatlán, they observed approximately 45 meters away on the same road, 10 trucks in which about 40 armed men traveled, who upon noticing the police presence, assaulted them with gunshots.
The soldiers and police officers repelled the attack, where one of the aggressors lost his life, together with the lifeless body they located a long gun of caliber fire .223-5.56; also, two vehicles and two long firearms were recovered in the place.
Later, around 06:45 on Wednesday afternoon, continuing to search for the aggressors, in a dirt road in the vicinity of the Ocote de Peregrino population, they located nine vehicles hidden among the brush and a four-wheel drive, the which participated in the aggression.
After a review, inside the units, the military and police located long firearms, tactical equipment and presumed marijuana.
In addition to a Nissan truck, type X-Trail, 2017, blue, license plates of the state of Guanajuato, with theft report dated August 16, 2017; the unit had bullet holes and in it they located one of the aggressors without life.
In a second Kia truck, Sorrento type, 2017, gray, with no theft report; A long firearm was located in the passenger seat.
Another Nissan truck, type X-Trail, white, plates of the state of Jalisco, 2017, without report of theft; and a fourth Jeep, Cherokee limited, black, license plates of the state of Guanajuato, 2017, without a report of theft.
Also, another Toyota truck, type HIGHLANDER LIMITED, gray, from the state of Guanajuato, 2016, without a report of theft; in addition to Dodge truck, type RAM 2500, green, plates of the state of Baja California Sur, 2003, without report of theft.
A Jeep Wrangler, black, 2008, plates of the State of Mexico, without a report of theft; Mazda CX-5 truck, gray, plates of the state of Morelos, 2016, with theft report of October 18, 2016.
As well as three more cars, one of them a Nissan truck, Frontier type, golden color, plates of the State of Mexico, without visible series, or registration; another Nissan van, type Frontier LE NP300, white, plates 2018, with theft report of September 17, 2018, and an Audi Q2 truck, plates GZP-610-C, white, without registration.
Also, a Honda quad bike, green with black, no license plates, no theft report.
In addition, a 7.62 caliber machine gun was secured, a long firearm caliber .223-5.56, this weapon was located on the side of the aggressor who lost his life by firearm and was assured by personnel of the State Attorney's Office.
In addition to a .223 caliber long firearm, it was located in the second van, at the scene of the confrontation and secured by personnel of the State Attorney General's Office; so a .308 caliber rifle; a 7.62x39 caliber rifle.
In addition to a rifle, a semi-automatic rifle, caliber .223, a shotgun caliber 12. A handgun, semiautomatic caliber 45, a handgun, semiautomatic , the caliber is unknown.
As well as 10 magazines caliber 308 with capacity for 25 cartridges, five magazines caliber .223 with capacity for 30 cartridges and one with capacity for 40.
Two 7.62X39 rifle magazines, one with capacity for 40 and another for five cartridges, a 9-millimeter magazine with capacity for seven cartridges; 636 223 caliber cartridges; 401 308 caliber cartridges; 90 cartridges 7.62x39 caliber; 12 cartridges caliber LC12 (cal.50); five 12 gauge cartridges, and 815 7.62x51 caliber cartridges.
The State and Military Police also secured two ballistic vests; 15 ballistic plates; four ballistic panels; a vest carrying plates; a camisole and trousers with the legend "POLICE FEDERAL" and two trimmings with nine porters; as well as approximately 200 grams of presumed marijuana.
It was reported that no police and soldiers were unharmed, while the State Prosecutor General's Office already opened a case file investigating the case to determine responsibilities.
The vehicles, firearms, magazines, cartridges and tactical equipment were recovered and made available to the Federal Public Ministry agency in Zihuatanejo.
End
Also: ( Spanish).
https://noticiasacapulconews.com/2018/12/27/aseguran-11-vehiculos-marihuana-y-armas-en-potrerillos-petatlan/
Note: photo at link.
Gracias
After chase arrest three alleged assassins
After carrying out detonations of a firearm against a man, three people were arrested by the Municipal Police, who confiscated two long weapons. Photo: Courtesy
By: Luis Gerardo Andrade | 12/27/2018 8:47
TIJUANA, Baja California (GH)
https://www.frontera.info/Policiaca/2018/12/27/1397426-Tras-persecucion-detienen-a-tres-supuestos-sicarios.html
After carrying out detonations of a firearm against a man, three people were arrested by the Municipal Police, who confiscated two long weapons.
The Municipal Public Security Secretariat (SSPM) reported that when patrolling on Boulevard Diaz Ordaz and Avenida Jauja, in La Joya neighborhood, officers heard gun shots.
The shots came from the street De las Joyas, where they observed a Toyota FJ Cruiser that was traveling at excessive speed and without respecting the traffic signs, so they made the stop of the driver, who had ignored it.
It was then that a chase was generated and the vehicle was intervened in the Vía Rápida Poniente at the Arboleda neighborhood, where José Ángel, 29, Guillermo Guadalupe, 20, and José Miguel, 23 years old, were arrested.
Two AR-15 assault rifles, caliber .223, were found in the vehicle, and in the parking lot of Motel La Joya, located a man who had bullet wounds and was taken to a hospital.
END
Monday, December 24, 2018
AZMEX I3 24-12-18
AZMEX I3 24 DEC 2018
A Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad .
Annunciation House full as ICE releases more than 200 migrants before Christmas
By: Peter Rothermel
Posted: Dec 24, 2018 07:07 AM MST
Updated: Dec 24, 2018 10:19 AM MST
https://www.kvia.com/news/border/annunciation-house-full-as-ice-releases-migrants-before-christmas/948769084
Migrants released in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas - Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, dropped 211 migrants off at the Greyhound Bus station at 6 p.m. Sunday night.
The 211 migrants are of all ages, with babies, children and adults being released.
Some were able to buy tickets and travel to their sponsors as they await asylum hearings, but many are staying in El Paso.
Many of the migrants are staying at Annunciation House, but they were not able to house all them because they are at full capacity. With Annunciation House full, many are staying in hotels, schools and hospitality centers. Annunciation House is paying for the shelter.
El Paso police and Sun Metro helped provide transportation to the shelters.
ICE provided the migrants with release forms and court dates for asylum hearings before dropping them off at the Greyhound station.
Annunciation House says they do not need monetary donations at this time, but volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, you can visit their website or call 915-545-4509.
End
A Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad .
Annunciation House full as ICE releases more than 200 migrants before Christmas
By: Peter Rothermel
Posted: Dec 24, 2018 07:07 AM MST
Updated: Dec 24, 2018 10:19 AM MST
https://www.kvia.com/news/border/annunciation-house-full-as-ice-releases-migrants-before-christmas/948769084
Migrants released in El Paso
EL PASO, Texas - Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, dropped 211 migrants off at the Greyhound Bus station at 6 p.m. Sunday night.
The 211 migrants are of all ages, with babies, children and adults being released.
Some were able to buy tickets and travel to their sponsors as they await asylum hearings, but many are staying in El Paso.
Many of the migrants are staying at Annunciation House, but they were not able to house all them because they are at full capacity. With Annunciation House full, many are staying in hotels, schools and hospitality centers. Annunciation House is paying for the shelter.
El Paso police and Sun Metro helped provide transportation to the shelters.
ICE provided the migrants with release forms and court dates for asylum hearings before dropping them off at the Greyhound station.
Annunciation House says they do not need monetary donations at this time, but volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, you can visit their website or call 915-545-4509.
End
Friday, December 21, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 20-12-18
AZMEX EXTRA 20 DEC 2018
Mexican police find guns, 6,000 rounds in American's truck
Associated Press
11:08 am
December 20, 2018
https://kvoa.com/ap-international-news/2018/12/20/mexican-police-find-guns-6000-rounds-in-americans-truck/
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's federal police say they have detained a U.S. citizen and two Mexican men after finding
shotguns, pistols and about 5,900 rounds of ammunition in the men's truck.
Federal police said they pulled the vehicle over near the town of Escuinapa in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, near the port of Mazatlan.
Police said Thursday they found six shotguns and four pistols, along with the ammunition,
hidden in a compartment in the back of the van under boxes containing roosters.
The U.S. citizen was driving the van, which had California plates.
He and the other two suspects were detained on possible illegal weapons possession charges.
Officials did not release his name.
Sinaloa is home to the drug cartel of the same name.
END
Mexican police find guns, 6,000 rounds in American's truck
Associated Press
11:08 am
December 20, 2018
https://kvoa.com/ap-international-news/2018/12/20/mexican-police-find-guns-6000-rounds-in-americans-truck/
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's federal police say they have detained a U.S. citizen and two Mexican men after finding
shotguns, pistols and about 5,900 rounds of ammunition in the men's truck.
Federal police said they pulled the vehicle over near the town of Escuinapa in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, near the port of Mazatlan.
Police said Thursday they found six shotguns and four pistols, along with the ammunition,
hidden in a compartment in the back of the van under boxes containing roosters.
The U.S. citizen was driving the van, which had California plates.
He and the other two suspects were detained on possible illegal weapons possession charges.
Officials did not release his name.
Sinaloa is home to the drug cartel of the same name.
END
AZMEX I3 UPDATE2 18-12-18
AZMEX I3 UPDATE2 18 DEC 2018
Note: from the left of media center Proceso.
Gracias
The migrant caravan, disillusioned and diluted
BY RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ DE CASTRO, DECEMBER 18, 2018 ESSAY
https://www.proceso.com.mx/564325/la-caravana-migrante-desilusionada-y-diluida
MEXICO CITY (Process) .- One month after the arrival of the migrant caravan to Tijuana (November 10), disillusionment is the general feeling among its members. Moreover, the caravan has been diluted and begins to become one of the groups of migrants that arrive in the border city, such as the Haitians (2016), the displaced people of Michoacán and Guerrero (since 2017) or the deportees who have been there. made by thousands every month for the past eight years.
The questions that floated in the air on October 12, when the caravan was organized in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and on the 19th of that month, when it crossed the Mexico-Guatemala border, were: Is it a spontaneous movement? Or is it an organized march with political motives?
The caravan is spontaneous to the extent that the socioeconomic profile and places of origin of its members are similar to the migrants who travel through our country to try an American dream.
According to the survey carried out by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef), the members of the caravan are overwhelmingly from the triangle of Central American north: 82% Hondurans, 9.6% Guatemalans and 7.3% Salvadorans. Less than 2% are from other latitudes. 76.9% were men, 23.2% women. The thick was young. Half are between 18 and 29 years old. Of low schooling; 65% of men and women were only six years old or younger. (Survey of 1,037 migrants, November 22, Unidad Deportiva Benito Juárez, Tijuana).
As on other occasions, migrant caravans are initially organized by specific groups and leaders. On this occasion there were political activists in Honduras who wanted to send a message to President Orlando Hernández - the people are fleeing in terror of poverty and violence.
People Without Borders, a non-governmental organization based in Chicago with radical overtones for the defense of migrants' rights, appeared once again to guide the caravan. This time, and thanks to social networks, there were hundreds of participants as often happens with caravans, but just over 7 thousand. Also it emphasizes that the own caravan in its transit had certain tints of self-government. For example, men were forbidden to drink at night and not sleep.
As he approached the border with the United States, a large group of American lawyers appeared intent on advising the migrants. Some of good heart; others with ambiguous purposes.
The conformity of Mexico
Abuses in national territory are so commonplace against migrants in transit, both criminal groups and authorities of the three levels of government, that the federal government "had no face" to enter into dialogue with the caravan.
The transition further weakened a weak government. The team of Enrique Peña Nieto did not want to act, because he felt that it was already the turn of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The officials already appointed, but not yet in office, refused to enter a particularly thorny subject. For example, the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Kirstjen Nielsen, visited the Tijuana-San Diego border on November 20 and no secretary of state of Peña - or the prospects of Andrés Manuel López Obrador - came to see her.
However, when Donald Trump meddled and used the convoy for electoral purposes - "it is full of terrorists and marauding savages" - and to demand that the Mexican government prevent its advance, it tied its hands to both the outgoing and incoming governments.
There was no way to do the dirty work to the White House tenant, who has no qualms about calling our migrants "rapists" and "criminals" and saying that Salvadorans "come from a shitty country."
In the face of the federal paralysis, the states and cities through which the caravan passed did what was best for them - to help them and take care of them, but above all to dispatch them quickly to the border.
Improvisation in Tijuana
Before what was expected, the members of the caravan began arriving in Tijuana (November 10). The federal government did not even try to dissuade them so that they will not all reach that city. In those amounts, they said, they generated dangers and, surely, social rejection.
The city was not ready. The first two contingents arrived at Playas de Tijuana, a residential area, which provoked an angry criticism from the neighbors. It was also surprising that they did not reach any of the 30 migrant shelters that the city has.
The leaders decided that they wanted to remain united. The local authority improvised a small sports unit, the Benito Juárez, in the North Zone, on November 14.
The leaders decided that they wanted to remain united. The local authority improvised a small sports unit, the Benito Juárez, in the North Zone, on November 14. It only had a closed space, the gym or a basketball court. Supposedly there would only be families. In fact, there was no separation. As they arrived, the migrants chose the least bad places. There came a time when even the baseball field was filled with tents and sleeping bags. Ironically, the court adjoins the corrugated iron fence that demarcates and shows an impenetrable border.
On November 25, after a protest by a group of approximately 300 members of the caravan in the El Chaparral checkpoint, a tense and dangerous situation was generated. Dozens of migrants ran into US territory, where they would be repelled with tear gas and rubber bullets. The images of children and mothers fleeing are terrible. However, an outpouring of blood was avoided. Trump had threatened to respond with bullets.
When the unit was full at the end of November, with more than 6 thousand people, the cold and the rain began; This is Tijuana at this time of year. Fear grew that human overcrowding could cause a health epidemic that would end in tragedy. Two days before the inauguration of López Obrador (November 29), a new camp was opened, El Barretal, a spectacle center abandoned far from the border ports.
The federal authority, the National Institute of Migration (Inami) rented the property, where there was order from the beginning. They separated families, unaccompanied children, men and women. Several federal government services were established in the entrance courtyard: an obviously well-endowed IMSS medical convoy and the visible presence of multilateral agencies, such as the Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Even to strengthen the control and security of the new camp, the Inami decided to register the members of the caravan and give them a credential with a photograph, which also had the effect of expelling vendors, smugglers and crooks who took advantage of the services. and food provided to the caravan.
The caravan, a milestone
After a month of being in Tijuana, the first contingents of the caravan, the migrant movement of about 7 thousand people, is disillusioned and diluted.
The illusion that they would enter the United States as they did in Mexico was shattered. They came across an impenetrable US border. Armored by corrugated steel fences, extremely well guarded sentry boxes and abundant military personnel, which had already prepared the terrain to avoid forced crossings.
The Colef survey shows that most of the members of the caravan have a fervent desire to enter the United States, but few had a clear idea of how to do it; much less a strategy about it. Half (51% males and 48% females) reported crossing into the United States as their main expectation. For less than a quarter (19.2% males and 24.4% females) the priority was to ask for asylum. Surprisingly, just over 20% said they wanted to stay in Tijuana and 6.7% of men and 5.5% of women responded not knowing what to do.
Of the more than 6,000 people who arrived to fill the Benito Juárez Sports Unit, there are still about 2,500 in El Barretal and approximately 400 remain in the street next to the Benito Juárez unit. Many, about a thousand, have decided to return to their places of origin, either with the help of the Mexican authorities or by their own resources. The young and fittest are taking advantage of the humanitarian visas offered by the government of Mexico and are working or looking for a job in Tijuana, where the construction industry is very dynamic. Those who have family in the United States and can access resources will try the way of coyotes and people smugglers. The more will wait to intern through the asylum resource; that is, they will wait in line until after a few months they go to the interview with the US authority. Most will be rejected.
When it is diluted, the caravan is normalizing and becoming another movement of migrants arriving in Tijuana. That is, it will behave like other contingents: some manage to cross; others stay; some more are returned.
However, the caravan of Hondurans will mark a before and after, as it opened the veil and exposed the intense causes of expulsion from the North Central American triangle: poverty and violence. It also showed that our country is, at least, negligent in the face of migration flows in transit.
The new government of López Obrador is forced to face migrants who transit through our country.
The idea of a massive development plan for the triangle of northern Central America and southern Mexico is excellent. But in the short term, and to make the plan viable, the López Obrador government has to stop playing a policy that oscillates between ostrich and police - many are allowed to pass and others are deported.
The passage of the caravan showed the need for coordination between the three levels of government; to make the protection of the rights of migrants a priority, and, finally, to bet on a regional vision that involves governments and civil society of the intense migration corridor that constitute Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico and the United States.
* Director of the Center for Mexico-United States Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the founder of the Department of International Studies of ITAM and was director of the magazine Foreign Affairs Latin America.
This essay was published on December 16, 2018 in the 2198 edition of Proceso magazine.
End
Note: from the left of media center Proceso.
Gracias
The migrant caravan, disillusioned and diluted
BY RAFAEL FERNÁNDEZ DE CASTRO, DECEMBER 18, 2018 ESSAY
https://www.proceso.com.mx/564325/la-caravana-migrante-desilusionada-y-diluida
MEXICO CITY (Process) .- One month after the arrival of the migrant caravan to Tijuana (November 10), disillusionment is the general feeling among its members. Moreover, the caravan has been diluted and begins to become one of the groups of migrants that arrive in the border city, such as the Haitians (2016), the displaced people of Michoacán and Guerrero (since 2017) or the deportees who have been there. made by thousands every month for the past eight years.
The questions that floated in the air on October 12, when the caravan was organized in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and on the 19th of that month, when it crossed the Mexico-Guatemala border, were: Is it a spontaneous movement? Or is it an organized march with political motives?
The caravan is spontaneous to the extent that the socioeconomic profile and places of origin of its members are similar to the migrants who travel through our country to try an American dream.
According to the survey carried out by El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (El Colef), the members of the caravan are overwhelmingly from the triangle of Central American north: 82% Hondurans, 9.6% Guatemalans and 7.3% Salvadorans. Less than 2% are from other latitudes. 76.9% were men, 23.2% women. The thick was young. Half are between 18 and 29 years old. Of low schooling; 65% of men and women were only six years old or younger. (Survey of 1,037 migrants, November 22, Unidad Deportiva Benito Juárez, Tijuana).
As on other occasions, migrant caravans are initially organized by specific groups and leaders. On this occasion there were political activists in Honduras who wanted to send a message to President Orlando Hernández - the people are fleeing in terror of poverty and violence.
People Without Borders, a non-governmental organization based in Chicago with radical overtones for the defense of migrants' rights, appeared once again to guide the caravan. This time, and thanks to social networks, there were hundreds of participants as often happens with caravans, but just over 7 thousand. Also it emphasizes that the own caravan in its transit had certain tints of self-government. For example, men were forbidden to drink at night and not sleep.
As he approached the border with the United States, a large group of American lawyers appeared intent on advising the migrants. Some of good heart; others with ambiguous purposes.
The conformity of Mexico
Abuses in national territory are so commonplace against migrants in transit, both criminal groups and authorities of the three levels of government, that the federal government "had no face" to enter into dialogue with the caravan.
The transition further weakened a weak government. The team of Enrique Peña Nieto did not want to act, because he felt that it was already the turn of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The officials already appointed, but not yet in office, refused to enter a particularly thorny subject. For example, the Secretary of Homeland Security of the United States, Kirstjen Nielsen, visited the Tijuana-San Diego border on November 20 and no secretary of state of Peña - or the prospects of Andrés Manuel López Obrador - came to see her.
However, when Donald Trump meddled and used the convoy for electoral purposes - "it is full of terrorists and marauding savages" - and to demand that the Mexican government prevent its advance, it tied its hands to both the outgoing and incoming governments.
There was no way to do the dirty work to the White House tenant, who has no qualms about calling our migrants "rapists" and "criminals" and saying that Salvadorans "come from a shitty country."
In the face of the federal paralysis, the states and cities through which the caravan passed did what was best for them - to help them and take care of them, but above all to dispatch them quickly to the border.
Improvisation in Tijuana
Before what was expected, the members of the caravan began arriving in Tijuana (November 10). The federal government did not even try to dissuade them so that they will not all reach that city. In those amounts, they said, they generated dangers and, surely, social rejection.
The city was not ready. The first two contingents arrived at Playas de Tijuana, a residential area, which provoked an angry criticism from the neighbors. It was also surprising that they did not reach any of the 30 migrant shelters that the city has.
The leaders decided that they wanted to remain united. The local authority improvised a small sports unit, the Benito Juárez, in the North Zone, on November 14.
The leaders decided that they wanted to remain united. The local authority improvised a small sports unit, the Benito Juárez, in the North Zone, on November 14. It only had a closed space, the gym or a basketball court. Supposedly there would only be families. In fact, there was no separation. As they arrived, the migrants chose the least bad places. There came a time when even the baseball field was filled with tents and sleeping bags. Ironically, the court adjoins the corrugated iron fence that demarcates and shows an impenetrable border.
On November 25, after a protest by a group of approximately 300 members of the caravan in the El Chaparral checkpoint, a tense and dangerous situation was generated. Dozens of migrants ran into US territory, where they would be repelled with tear gas and rubber bullets. The images of children and mothers fleeing are terrible. However, an outpouring of blood was avoided. Trump had threatened to respond with bullets.
When the unit was full at the end of November, with more than 6 thousand people, the cold and the rain began; This is Tijuana at this time of year. Fear grew that human overcrowding could cause a health epidemic that would end in tragedy. Two days before the inauguration of López Obrador (November 29), a new camp was opened, El Barretal, a spectacle center abandoned far from the border ports.
The federal authority, the National Institute of Migration (Inami) rented the property, where there was order from the beginning. They separated families, unaccompanied children, men and women. Several federal government services were established in the entrance courtyard: an obviously well-endowed IMSS medical convoy and the visible presence of multilateral agencies, such as the Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Even to strengthen the control and security of the new camp, the Inami decided to register the members of the caravan and give them a credential with a photograph, which also had the effect of expelling vendors, smugglers and crooks who took advantage of the services. and food provided to the caravan.
The caravan, a milestone
After a month of being in Tijuana, the first contingents of the caravan, the migrant movement of about 7 thousand people, is disillusioned and diluted.
The illusion that they would enter the United States as they did in Mexico was shattered. They came across an impenetrable US border. Armored by corrugated steel fences, extremely well guarded sentry boxes and abundant military personnel, which had already prepared the terrain to avoid forced crossings.
The Colef survey shows that most of the members of the caravan have a fervent desire to enter the United States, but few had a clear idea of how to do it; much less a strategy about it. Half (51% males and 48% females) reported crossing into the United States as their main expectation. For less than a quarter (19.2% males and 24.4% females) the priority was to ask for asylum. Surprisingly, just over 20% said they wanted to stay in Tijuana and 6.7% of men and 5.5% of women responded not knowing what to do.
Of the more than 6,000 people who arrived to fill the Benito Juárez Sports Unit, there are still about 2,500 in El Barretal and approximately 400 remain in the street next to the Benito Juárez unit. Many, about a thousand, have decided to return to their places of origin, either with the help of the Mexican authorities or by their own resources. The young and fittest are taking advantage of the humanitarian visas offered by the government of Mexico and are working or looking for a job in Tijuana, where the construction industry is very dynamic. Those who have family in the United States and can access resources will try the way of coyotes and people smugglers. The more will wait to intern through the asylum resource; that is, they will wait in line until after a few months they go to the interview with the US authority. Most will be rejected.
When it is diluted, the caravan is normalizing and becoming another movement of migrants arriving in Tijuana. That is, it will behave like other contingents: some manage to cross; others stay; some more are returned.
However, the caravan of Hondurans will mark a before and after, as it opened the veil and exposed the intense causes of expulsion from the North Central American triangle: poverty and violence. It also showed that our country is, at least, negligent in the face of migration flows in transit.
The new government of López Obrador is forced to face migrants who transit through our country.
The idea of a massive development plan for the triangle of northern Central America and southern Mexico is excellent. But in the short term, and to make the plan viable, the López Obrador government has to stop playing a policy that oscillates between ostrich and police - many are allowed to pass and others are deported.
The passage of the caravan showed the need for coordination between the three levels of government; to make the protection of the rights of migrants a priority, and, finally, to bet on a regional vision that involves governments and civil society of the intense migration corridor that constitute Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico and the United States.
* Director of the Center for Mexico-United States Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the founder of the Department of International Studies of ITAM and was director of the magazine Foreign Affairs Latin America.
This essay was published on December 16, 2018 in the 2198 edition of Proceso magazine.
End
Thursday, December 20, 2018
AZVEN UPDATE 20-12-18
AZVEN UPDATE 20 DEC 2018
Comment: a look at the price of socialism.
Venezuela was once the richest county in South America.
Until the socialists Chavez and el burro Maduro took over.
Bernie and Alexandria want to bring it to you.
Gracias
'No More Camps,' Colombia Tells Venezuelans Not To Settle In Tent City
By Rico - November 23, 20182774 0
http://todaycolombia.com/no-more-camps-colombia-tells-venezuelans-not-to-settle-in-tent-city/
Francis Montano sits on a cold pavement with her three children, all their worldly possessions stuffed into plastic bags, as she pleads to be let into a new camp for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
A Venezuelan migrant sweeps outside his tent in a makeshift camp in Bogota, Colombia November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
Behind Montano, smoke snakes from woodfires set amid the bright yellow tents which are now home to hundreds of Venezuelans, erected on a former soccer pitch in a middle-class residential area in the west of the city.
The penniless migrants, some of the millions who have fled Venezuela's economic and social crisis, have been here more than a week, forced by city authorities to vacate a makeshift slum of plastic tarps a few miles away.
The tent city is the first of its kind in Bogota. While authorities have established camps at the Venezuelan border, they have resisted doing so in Colombia's interior, wary of encouraging migrants to settle instead of moving to neighboring countries or returning home.
Its gates are guarded by police and officials from the mayor's office and only those registered from the old slum are allowed access.
"We'll have to sleep on the street again, under a bridge," said Montano, 22, whose children are all under seven years old. "I just want a roof for my kids at night."
According to the United Nations, an estimated 3 million Venezuelans have fled as their oil-rich country has sunk into crisis under President Nicolas Maduro. Critics accuse the Socialist leader of ravaging the economy through state interventions while clamping down on political opponents.
The exodus – driven by violence, hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicines – amounts to one in 12 of the population, placing strain on neighboring countries, already struggling with poverty.
Colombia, which has borne the brunt of the migration crisis, estimates it is sheltering 1 million Venezuelans, with some 3,000 arriving daily. The government says their total numbers could swell to 4 million by 2021, costing it nearly $9 billion a year.
Municipal authorities in Bogota say the camp will provide shelter for 422 migrants through Christmas. Then in mid January, it will be dismantled in the hope jobs and new lodgings have been found.
For most, that is unlikely. Residents say they cannot find permanent work, so scrape together a few pesos selling candies at traffic lights.
Donations of food and clothing are banned because officials do not want migrants to get accustomed to handouts as they did in the makeshift camp.
"Kind-hearted Bogotanos brought food, blankets and emergency supplies, so they didn't leave," said social director of the mayor's office, Liliana Pulido, adamant the tent city is temporary.
"There are no more camps."
Once the tent city closes in January, those without jobs and lodgings will simply return to the streets, they say.
"We're not asking for handouts, just work," said Carmen Castillo, 29, who shares a tent with five others after traveling 550 km (342 miles) from the border town of Cucuta with her husband and baby son three months ago.
REQUEST FOR AID
Colombian President Ivan Duque has asked for international aid to help shoulder the humanitarian crisis, including funding for vaccinations, schooling, water sanitation and housing.
The United States and European Union have sent tens of millions of dollars but Colombia, which is struggling to recover after a 2016 peace deal ended five decades of conflict with the Marxist FARC rebels, says much more is required.
And while most Colombians are sympathetic to the Venezuelans' plight, xenophobia has increased, especially in border areas. In Bogota, many residents complain about being asked for money and stepping over Venezuelans sleeping rough.
Migrants say they have been attacked and spat on.
"Colombians need to be more human, walk in our shoes," said Castillo.
Although a vast improvement on the filthy shanty dwellings that lined railway tracks near Bogota's bus terminal, migrants complain the tent facilities are not adequate.
The walled camp has just four shower units and 10 toilets for 65 tents. Migrants grumble they only get sandwiches, apples and fruit juice while frequent rain floods into their tents.
Scuffles broke out this week over food and 16 residents were expelled from the camp.
"There are sick people here … Children are underweight," said Agustin Perez, 52 whose tent houses seven family members and is draped with drying clothes. "It's humiliating." His wife, Esnedith Arroyo, 58, disagreed and said she is happy. Conditions and security are much better even without provisions.
Reuters.
Comment: a look at the price of socialism.
Venezuela was once the richest county in South America.
Until the socialists Chavez and el burro Maduro took over.
Bernie and Alexandria want to bring it to you.
Gracias
'No More Camps,' Colombia Tells Venezuelans Not To Settle In Tent City
By Rico - November 23, 20182774 0
http://todaycolombia.com/no-more-camps-colombia-tells-venezuelans-not-to-settle-in-tent-city/
Francis Montano sits on a cold pavement with her three children, all their worldly possessions stuffed into plastic bags, as she pleads to be let into a new camp for Venezuelan migrants in the Colombian capital, Bogota.
A Venezuelan migrant sweeps outside his tent in a makeshift camp in Bogota, Colombia November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
Behind Montano, smoke snakes from woodfires set amid the bright yellow tents which are now home to hundreds of Venezuelans, erected on a former soccer pitch in a middle-class residential area in the west of the city.
The penniless migrants, some of the millions who have fled Venezuela's economic and social crisis, have been here more than a week, forced by city authorities to vacate a makeshift slum of plastic tarps a few miles away.
The tent city is the first of its kind in Bogota. While authorities have established camps at the Venezuelan border, they have resisted doing so in Colombia's interior, wary of encouraging migrants to settle instead of moving to neighboring countries or returning home.
Its gates are guarded by police and officials from the mayor's office and only those registered from the old slum are allowed access.
"We'll have to sleep on the street again, under a bridge," said Montano, 22, whose children are all under seven years old. "I just want a roof for my kids at night."
According to the United Nations, an estimated 3 million Venezuelans have fled as their oil-rich country has sunk into crisis under President Nicolas Maduro. Critics accuse the Socialist leader of ravaging the economy through state interventions while clamping down on political opponents.
The exodus – driven by violence, hyperinflation and shortages of food and medicines – amounts to one in 12 of the population, placing strain on neighboring countries, already struggling with poverty.
Colombia, which has borne the brunt of the migration crisis, estimates it is sheltering 1 million Venezuelans, with some 3,000 arriving daily. The government says their total numbers could swell to 4 million by 2021, costing it nearly $9 billion a year.
Municipal authorities in Bogota say the camp will provide shelter for 422 migrants through Christmas. Then in mid January, it will be dismantled in the hope jobs and new lodgings have been found.
For most, that is unlikely. Residents say they cannot find permanent work, so scrape together a few pesos selling candies at traffic lights.
Donations of food and clothing are banned because officials do not want migrants to get accustomed to handouts as they did in the makeshift camp.
"Kind-hearted Bogotanos brought food, blankets and emergency supplies, so they didn't leave," said social director of the mayor's office, Liliana Pulido, adamant the tent city is temporary.
"There are no more camps."
Once the tent city closes in January, those without jobs and lodgings will simply return to the streets, they say.
"We're not asking for handouts, just work," said Carmen Castillo, 29, who shares a tent with five others after traveling 550 km (342 miles) from the border town of Cucuta with her husband and baby son three months ago.
REQUEST FOR AID
Colombian President Ivan Duque has asked for international aid to help shoulder the humanitarian crisis, including funding for vaccinations, schooling, water sanitation and housing.
The United States and European Union have sent tens of millions of dollars but Colombia, which is struggling to recover after a 2016 peace deal ended five decades of conflict with the Marxist FARC rebels, says much more is required.
And while most Colombians are sympathetic to the Venezuelans' plight, xenophobia has increased, especially in border areas. In Bogota, many residents complain about being asked for money and stepping over Venezuelans sleeping rough.
Migrants say they have been attacked and spat on.
"Colombians need to be more human, walk in our shoes," said Castillo.
Although a vast improvement on the filthy shanty dwellings that lined railway tracks near Bogota's bus terminal, migrants complain the tent facilities are not adequate.
The walled camp has just four shower units and 10 toilets for 65 tents. Migrants grumble they only get sandwiches, apples and fruit juice while frequent rain floods into their tents.
Scuffles broke out this week over food and 16 residents were expelled from the camp.
"There are sick people here … Children are underweight," said Agustin Perez, 52 whose tent houses seven family members and is draped with drying clothes. "It's humiliating." His wife, Esnedith Arroyo, 58, disagreed and said she is happy. Conditions and security are much better even without provisions.
Reuters.
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
AZMEX UPDATE 19-12-18
AZMEX UPDATE 19 DEC 2018
Note: No, did not make this up. Photo of perp at link. There should be some questions about security at Luke AFB.
Thx
PD: Illegal immigrant found setting fire on hangar roof at Luke AFB
Posted: 12:35 PM, Dec 19, 2018 Updated: 41 minutes ago
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-illegal-immigrant-found-setting-fire-on-hangar-roof-at-luke-afb
knxv Francisco Manzano.jpg
GLENDALE, AZ — An illegal Immigrant was caught by security forces after reportedly starting a fire on top of the roof of a hangar at Luke Air Force Base.
Glendale police report that around 8:30 p.m. on December 12, they were contacted by security at the base after they had detained a man near a hangar.
Police say 33-year-old Francisco Manzano jumped the security fence and climbed onto a hangar roof.
He then allegedly used his shoes and a spray deodorant to start a fire on the rooftop.
Manzano reportedly told police that he was being chased by several men, however, police say there were no other people found in the area.
Court documents reveal that Manzano, who is in the U.S. illegally, admitted to "using numerous types of drugs," including cocaine and meth.
Manzano has been charged with criminal trespassing on a military base.
End
Note: No, did not make this up. Photo of perp at link. There should be some questions about security at Luke AFB.
Thx
PD: Illegal immigrant found setting fire on hangar roof at Luke AFB
Posted: 12:35 PM, Dec 19, 2018 Updated: 41 minutes ago
By: Joe Enea
https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-illegal-immigrant-found-setting-fire-on-hangar-roof-at-luke-afb
knxv Francisco Manzano.jpg
GLENDALE, AZ — An illegal Immigrant was caught by security forces after reportedly starting a fire on top of the roof of a hangar at Luke Air Force Base.
Glendale police report that around 8:30 p.m. on December 12, they were contacted by security at the base after they had detained a man near a hangar.
Police say 33-year-old Francisco Manzano jumped the security fence and climbed onto a hangar roof.
He then allegedly used his shoes and a spray deodorant to start a fire on the rooftop.
Manzano reportedly told police that he was being chased by several men, however, police say there were no other people found in the area.
Court documents reveal that Manzano, who is in the U.S. illegally, admitted to "using numerous types of drugs," including cocaine and meth.
Manzano has been charged with criminal trespassing on a military base.
End
AZ-VEN UPDATE 17-12-18
AZ - VEN UPDATE 17 DEC 2018
Comment: the Brownshirts are back? Despite El Burro, doubt very much anyone wants to invade.
Danke
Maduro says Venezuela's civil militia grows to 1.6 million members
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-militia/maduro-says-venezuelas-civil-militia-grows-to-1-6-million-members-idUSKBN1OH01P
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday the country's civil militia had grown to 1.6 million members - more than tripling in size from the beginning of the year - and that its mission was to defend the country against external aggression.
Maduro's speech to militia members, broadcast on state television, came less than a week after the socialist leader, without offering evidence, accused the United States of plotting to invade the South American country, which is experiencing a severe economic crisis.
"We will arm the Bolivarian militia to the teeth," Maduro said, without detailing how many of the militia members were actually armed. "An invading imperialist force may enter a part of our fatherland, but the imperialists should know that they will not leave here alive."
The National Bolivarian Militia is a reserve force composed of civilian volunteers, founded by former President Hugo Chavez in 2008 to assist the armed forces.
Maduro noted on Monday that he had given an order in April to boost the size of the reserve force to 1 million members.
At the time, he said the militias had "nearly 400,000" members.
END
Comment: the Brownshirts are back? Despite El Burro, doubt very much anyone wants to invade.
Danke
Maduro says Venezuela's civil militia grows to 1.6 million members
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-militia/maduro-says-venezuelas-civil-militia-grows-to-1-6-million-members-idUSKBN1OH01P
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday the country's civil militia had grown to 1.6 million members - more than tripling in size from the beginning of the year - and that its mission was to defend the country against external aggression.
Maduro's speech to militia members, broadcast on state television, came less than a week after the socialist leader, without offering evidence, accused the United States of plotting to invade the South American country, which is experiencing a severe economic crisis.
"We will arm the Bolivarian militia to the teeth," Maduro said, without detailing how many of the militia members were actually armed. "An invading imperialist force may enter a part of our fatherland, but the imperialists should know that they will not leave here alive."
The National Bolivarian Militia is a reserve force composed of civilian volunteers, founded by former President Hugo Chavez in 2008 to assist the armed forces.
Maduro noted on Monday that he had given an order in April to boost the size of the reserve force to 1 million members.
At the time, he said the militias had "nearly 400,000" members.
END
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
AZMEX BAD POLICY 18-12-18
AZMEX BAD POLICY 18 DEC 2018
Comment: A very bad idea.
The money goes to the ruling class, politicians, bureaucrats, and other thieves, not the people.
Thx
US pledges $10.6B aid for Central America, southern Mexico
By MARK STEVENSON
5 minutes ago
https://apnews.com/0fcda32812024680ad98676379c47233
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico.
The U.S aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not have to emigrate.
The plan was announced in a joint U.S.-Mexican statement released by the State Department and read aloud by Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard in the Mexican capital. "In sum I think this is good news, very good news for Mexico," Ebrard said.
Newly inaugurated President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waxed poetic about the plan to provide jobs so people won't have to emigrate. "I have a dream that I want to see become a reality ... that nobody will want to go work in the United States anymore," Lopez Obrador said at a morning news conference before the announcement.
The combination of public and private investment for the stay-at-home effort doesn't require congressional approval, unlike Trump's signature project to stem illegal immigration — a border wall.
The U.S. State Department issued a simultaneous statement saying "The United States is committing $5.8 billion through public and private investment to promote institutional reforms and development in the Northern Triangle," a term that refers to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Lopez Obrador's administration has said it is also interested in agricultural, forestry and tourism projects in southern Mexico, and the U.S. said it will contribute to those efforts.
The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation "is prepared to invest and mobilize $2 billion in additional funds for projects in southern Mexico that are viable and attract private sector investment," according to the statement. "This amount is in addition to the $2.8 billion in projects for Mexico through OPIC's current investment pipeline."
Ebrard said "The commitments established here signify more than doubling foreign investment in southern Mexico starting in 2019."
Southern states like Chiapas and Oaxaca are home to many of Mexico's poorest communities. Lopez Obrador, who took office Dec. 1, has sought to make development in that region a priority, including plans for a "Mayan train" stretching from touristy parts of the Yucatan Peninsula down to Chiapas.
It was unclear if Mexico would give anything in return.
A planned announcement about Mexico's migration policy was postponed until Wednesday.
The United States has reportedly wanted Mexico to allow migrants seeking asylum in the United States to remain in Mexico while their applications are processed.
Ebrard had previously suggested that about $25 billion in U.S. investment would be an appropriate figure for what Mexicans and Central Americans have dubbed "The Alliance for Prosperity" in the region.
END
Comment: A very bad idea.
The money goes to the ruling class, politicians, bureaucrats, and other thieves, not the people.
Thx
US pledges $10.6B aid for Central America, southern Mexico
By MARK STEVENSON
5 minutes ago
https://apnews.com/0fcda32812024680ad98676379c47233
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico.
The U.S aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries and not have to emigrate.
The plan was announced in a joint U.S.-Mexican statement released by the State Department and read aloud by Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard in the Mexican capital. "In sum I think this is good news, very good news for Mexico," Ebrard said.
Newly inaugurated President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waxed poetic about the plan to provide jobs so people won't have to emigrate. "I have a dream that I want to see become a reality ... that nobody will want to go work in the United States anymore," Lopez Obrador said at a morning news conference before the announcement.
The combination of public and private investment for the stay-at-home effort doesn't require congressional approval, unlike Trump's signature project to stem illegal immigration — a border wall.
The U.S. State Department issued a simultaneous statement saying "The United States is committing $5.8 billion through public and private investment to promote institutional reforms and development in the Northern Triangle," a term that refers to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
Lopez Obrador's administration has said it is also interested in agricultural, forestry and tourism projects in southern Mexico, and the U.S. said it will contribute to those efforts.
The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation "is prepared to invest and mobilize $2 billion in additional funds for projects in southern Mexico that are viable and attract private sector investment," according to the statement. "This amount is in addition to the $2.8 billion in projects for Mexico through OPIC's current investment pipeline."
Ebrard said "The commitments established here signify more than doubling foreign investment in southern Mexico starting in 2019."
Southern states like Chiapas and Oaxaca are home to many of Mexico's poorest communities. Lopez Obrador, who took office Dec. 1, has sought to make development in that region a priority, including plans for a "Mayan train" stretching from touristy parts of the Yucatan Peninsula down to Chiapas.
It was unclear if Mexico would give anything in return.
A planned announcement about Mexico's migration policy was postponed until Wednesday.
The United States has reportedly wanted Mexico to allow migrants seeking asylum in the United States to remain in Mexico while their applications are processed.
Ebrard had previously suggested that about $25 billion in U.S. investment would be an appropriate figure for what Mexicans and Central Americans have dubbed "The Alliance for Prosperity" in the region.
END
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 18-12-18
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 18 DEC 2018
Note: photos, etc. at link.
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People smugglers arrested in several Latin American countries
2 hours ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46606667
A crackdown on migrant smuggling networks across the Americas has resulted in 49 arrests.
The operation was co-ordinated by Interpol which said organised crime networks were helping to smuggle South Asian migrants into the US.
Nearly $2m (£1.6m) has been recovered during anti-smuggling operations across 11 countries, Interpol says.
The arrests come amid rising tensions over US immigration policy along its southern border.
They also highlight how the US-Mexico frontier is still a major entry point for illegal immigration from outside the continent.
Interpol's four-day Operation Andes was co-ordinated across nearly a dozen countries in South America and the Caribbean,
including Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
Migrants from India, Nepal and Bangladesh were reportedly paying between $15,000 and $30,000 for each journey into the United States.
Chilean authorities also found Bangladeshi migrants trying to obtain temporary visas by posing as crew members of a shipping company with the help of smugglers.
Interpol says 22 African and Haitian migrants were also rescued in Nicaragua after being "left to their fate in the mountains" by smugglers.
"With another 13 investigations opened across the region, what we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg," said Jürgen Stock, the agency's Secretary General.
A migrant surrenders to US border patrol officers after crossing the Mexico-US border fence
Immigration, especially across the US southern border, has been a central issue of Donald Trump's presidency.
Last month, Mr Trump sent nearly 6,000 troops to the US-Mexico border to help authorities deter
what became known as a caravan of migrants trying to enter from South America. (Central America )
He also signed a proclamation denying asylum for migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally.
The decision was later blocked temporarily by a federal judge.
This week, the US government faces a potential shutdown during national budget talks as Democrats hope to block plans to build a border wall with Mexico.
In a tweet, President Trump said illegal immigration costs the United States more than $200bn (£158bn) a year, adding: "How is this allowed to happen?"
Also:
Democrats refuse funds for Trump wall
US 'bans Yemen mum from visiting dying toddler in California'
US migrant caravan: Trump's asylum ban halted by judge
END
Note: photos, etc. at link.
Thx
People smugglers arrested in several Latin American countries
2 hours ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46606667
A crackdown on migrant smuggling networks across the Americas has resulted in 49 arrests.
The operation was co-ordinated by Interpol which said organised crime networks were helping to smuggle South Asian migrants into the US.
Nearly $2m (£1.6m) has been recovered during anti-smuggling operations across 11 countries, Interpol says.
The arrests come amid rising tensions over US immigration policy along its southern border.
They also highlight how the US-Mexico frontier is still a major entry point for illegal immigration from outside the continent.
Interpol's four-day Operation Andes was co-ordinated across nearly a dozen countries in South America and the Caribbean,
including Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
Migrants from India, Nepal and Bangladesh were reportedly paying between $15,000 and $30,000 for each journey into the United States.
Chilean authorities also found Bangladeshi migrants trying to obtain temporary visas by posing as crew members of a shipping company with the help of smugglers.
Interpol says 22 African and Haitian migrants were also rescued in Nicaragua after being "left to their fate in the mountains" by smugglers.
"With another 13 investigations opened across the region, what we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg," said Jürgen Stock, the agency's Secretary General.
A migrant surrenders to US border patrol officers after crossing the Mexico-US border fence
Immigration, especially across the US southern border, has been a central issue of Donald Trump's presidency.
Last month, Mr Trump sent nearly 6,000 troops to the US-Mexico border to help authorities deter
what became known as a caravan of migrants trying to enter from South America. (Central America )
He also signed a proclamation denying asylum for migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally.
The decision was later blocked temporarily by a federal judge.
This week, the US government faces a potential shutdown during national budget talks as Democrats hope to block plans to build a border wall with Mexico.
In a tweet, President Trump said illegal immigration costs the United States more than $200bn (£158bn) a year, adding: "How is this allowed to happen?"
Also:
Democrats refuse funds for Trump wall
US 'bans Yemen mum from visiting dying toddler in California'
US migrant caravan: Trump's asylum ban halted by judge
END
AZMEX POLICY 18-12-18
AZMEX POLICY 18 DEC 2018
If Congress does not endorse the National Guard, the military will return to the barracks": Durazo
https://www.frontera.info/Nacional/2018/12/18/1395663-Si-Congreso-no-avala-Guardia-Nacional-militares-volveran-a-cuartel-Durazo.html
By: El Universal | 12/18/2018 10:22 AM.
The Secretary of Public Safety and Citizen Protection, (Seguridad Pública y Protección Ciudadana) Alfonso Durazo Montaño, declared that,
if Congress did not approve the creation of the National Guard, in order to regulate the use of military elements for public security,
the government would return them to the barracks, completely.
"We have to take the step to the constitution of the National Guard to regularize the presence of these elements in public security tasks,
and if eventually the Congress will take the decision, we hope it is not, but we, in that circumstance, would withdraw the Army completely to the barracks, "he said.
In a meeting with the members of the Constitutional Points Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, Durazo Montaño stressed that returning the military to the barracks "would be irresponsible" because "in the current circumstances of violence in the country we can not afford that luxury."
The deputy coordinator of Morena's parliamentary group, Tatiana Clouthier, maintained that Durazo's statements about returning the military elements to the barracks
"is a threat" that makes her worried.
"I had many doubts, and now I have mortifications [...] ( very bothered / worried ) The question is why so soon and why in the constitution? […]
They threaten us that they will take away the military and it becomes a worrying part," he said. .
The same accused the deputy Raul Grace (PAN) and stated that the head of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena),
General Luis Cresentio Sandoval Gonzalez, should be seated at the table.
"When we heard about the opinion, we were afraid, but when we heard you, we panicked," said the PAN deputy.
In response, Durazo said that "it is not a threat, it is a reality, if you do not create the National Guard, it would be a pity,
it would be unfortunate that the government could not have a body of this nature to face the problem "
For her part, Deputy Martha Tagle (Movimiento Ciudadano) questioned Durazo that, if the intention of removing the Army from the streets
"is not a threat and is not a blackmail," then assure us that the military commanders are not threatening the new federal government.
END
If Congress does not endorse the National Guard, the military will return to the barracks": Durazo
https://www.frontera.info/Nacional/2018/12/18/1395663-Si-Congreso-no-avala-Guardia-Nacional-militares-volveran-a-cuartel-Durazo.html
By: El Universal | 12/18/2018 10:22 AM.
The Secretary of Public Safety and Citizen Protection, (Seguridad Pública y Protección Ciudadana) Alfonso Durazo Montaño, declared that,
if Congress did not approve the creation of the National Guard, in order to regulate the use of military elements for public security,
the government would return them to the barracks, completely.
"We have to take the step to the constitution of the National Guard to regularize the presence of these elements in public security tasks,
and if eventually the Congress will take the decision, we hope it is not, but we, in that circumstance, would withdraw the Army completely to the barracks, "he said.
In a meeting with the members of the Constitutional Points Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, Durazo Montaño stressed that returning the military to the barracks "would be irresponsible" because "in the current circumstances of violence in the country we can not afford that luxury."
The deputy coordinator of Morena's parliamentary group, Tatiana Clouthier, maintained that Durazo's statements about returning the military elements to the barracks
"is a threat" that makes her worried.
"I had many doubts, and now I have mortifications [...] ( very bothered / worried ) The question is why so soon and why in the constitution? […]
They threaten us that they will take away the military and it becomes a worrying part," he said. .
The same accused the deputy Raul Grace (PAN) and stated that the head of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena),
General Luis Cresentio Sandoval Gonzalez, should be seated at the table.
"When we heard about the opinion, we were afraid, but when we heard you, we panicked," said the PAN deputy.
In response, Durazo said that "it is not a threat, it is a reality, if you do not create the National Guard, it would be a pity,
it would be unfortunate that the government could not have a body of this nature to face the problem "
For her part, Deputy Martha Tagle (Movimiento Ciudadano) questioned Durazo that, if the intention of removing the Army from the streets
"is not a threat and is not a blackmail," then assure us that the military commanders are not threatening the new federal government.
END
AZMEX EXTRA 17-12-18
AZMEX EXTRA 17 DEC 2018
Note: from the good guys at Borderland Beat. Photos at link.
Thx
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Arsenal seized in Tecámac EDM
Posted on Forum by Stevectpa from VXT
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/12/arsenal-seized-in-tecamac-edm.html#more
Investigative Agents of the Special Affairs Prosecutor's Office FAE of the Edoméx [Estado de Mexico]
Prosecutor's Office conducted a search of a building in Tecámac,
where 26 firearms and more than 7,000 cartridges of various calibers were located.
As a result of the complaint, the Agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office requested that a search warrant be issued for that property.
At the site they located:
14 .22 rifles of various brands,
.1. 9 mm caliber rifle
2 16 gauge shotguns,
1 48 gauge shotgun,(?)
2 7 mm caliber rifles,
1 double barreled shotgun, caliber 28 (?)
1 firearm .44 semi-automatic,
1 .50 pistol (?)
1 .32 pistol,
1 .22 caliber revolver,
1 caliber 38 revolver,
5,400 caliber 5.56 rounds used for AR15 weapon,
1,889 caliber .223 rounds,
160 caliber 7.62 rounds.
The property was secured, while the investigations continue in order to locate people related to these events.
End
Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis Posted at 9:34 AM
Note: from the good guys at Borderland Beat. Photos at link.
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Saturday, December 15, 2018
Arsenal seized in Tecámac EDM
Posted on Forum by Stevectpa from VXT
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/12/arsenal-seized-in-tecamac-edm.html#more
Investigative Agents of the Special Affairs Prosecutor's Office FAE of the Edoméx [Estado de Mexico]
Prosecutor's Office conducted a search of a building in Tecámac,
where 26 firearms and more than 7,000 cartridges of various calibers were located.
As a result of the complaint, the Agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office requested that a search warrant be issued for that property.
At the site they located:
14 .22 rifles of various brands,
.1. 9 mm caliber rifle
2 16 gauge shotguns,
1 48 gauge shotgun,(?)
2 7 mm caliber rifles,
1 double barreled shotgun, caliber 28 (?)
1 firearm .44 semi-automatic,
1 .50 pistol (?)
1 .32 pistol,
1 .22 caliber revolver,
1 caliber 38 revolver,
5,400 caliber 5.56 rounds used for AR15 weapon,
1,889 caliber .223 rounds,
160 caliber 7.62 rounds.
The property was secured, while the investigations continue in order to locate people related to these events.
End
Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis Posted at 9:34 AM
AZMEX POLICY 14-12-18
AZMEX POLICY 14 DEC 2018
Note: interesting oped .
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Why Democrats really fear Trump's wall
U.S. Customs and Border Protections told Congress that 3,029 people were apprehended at the southern border in one day this month. (Associated Press photograph) more >
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times -
Thursday, December 13, 2018
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/13/inside-beltway-why-democrats-fear-trump-wall/
Why should the U.S. build a better wall on the southern border? House Majority Whip Steve Scalise offered a clear and candid rationale during a Fox News appearance this week, telling host Mark Levin that 10 known terrorists are captured each day trying to breach the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protections also informed Congress that 3,029 people were apprehended in one day this month — deeming the occurrence a crisis.
Meanwhile, 21 percent of all potential migrants — an astonishing 158 million people — would like to come live in America if they could, according to a Gallup analysis, which found that the U.S. has remained the No. 1 destination for the last decade.
There is a viable rationale for border improvement. The wall, however, has become a showcase for President Trump's foes, who wrap their opposition in humanitarian concerns — even though they have walls and barriers of every description around their own homes.
Talk radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh points out that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are part of this group — and appear motivated by political concerns rather than moral calling.
"They could never, ever sign on to and assist in the funding and construction of a wall. You know why? Because walls work. These people that we're talking about put walls around their homes and their estates. They know that walls work, and that's precisely why there isn't going to be one on the southern border, because if there ever is a wall, guess what? We finally will have control over who gets into this country and who doesn't," Mr. Limbaugh told his 14 million listeners.
"The wall is the single greatest obstruction to the future of the Democrat Party. They do not want a wall. They will not support a wall. A wall would bring about the end of the Democrat Party. They'll argue about money, government shutdowns. But they can't survive as a party if that wall is ever built. That's their permanent underclass that would not be permitted to enter the country," he continued.
Yes, it's a political thing.
"No matter what they say, no matter how understanding they appear to be in conversations about border security, they cannot afford there to be a wall. It would bring an immediate end to their primary constituency, which is the great unwashed and permanent underclass," Mr. Limbaugh noted.
"This is what President Trump's up against. Now, Trump wants to build a wall to save America, the culture, and basically to enforce existing federal law. All he wants to do is enforce the law. It's why he wants to enforce the law the Democrats can't permit. As far as they're concerned, Donald Trump is trying to make sure that future Democrats don't get to register to vote."
END
And, don't forget, from the recent Mexican Foreign Minister:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Note: interesting oped .
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Why Democrats really fear Trump's wall
U.S. Customs and Border Protections told Congress that 3,029 people were apprehended at the southern border in one day this month. (Associated Press photograph) more >
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times -
Thursday, December 13, 2018
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/13/inside-beltway-why-democrats-fear-trump-wall/
Why should the U.S. build a better wall on the southern border? House Majority Whip Steve Scalise offered a clear and candid rationale during a Fox News appearance this week, telling host Mark Levin that 10 known terrorists are captured each day trying to breach the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protections also informed Congress that 3,029 people were apprehended in one day this month — deeming the occurrence a crisis.
Meanwhile, 21 percent of all potential migrants — an astonishing 158 million people — would like to come live in America if they could, according to a Gallup analysis, which found that the U.S. has remained the No. 1 destination for the last decade.
There is a viable rationale for border improvement. The wall, however, has become a showcase for President Trump's foes, who wrap their opposition in humanitarian concerns — even though they have walls and barriers of every description around their own homes.
Talk radio kingpin Rush Limbaugh points out that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are part of this group — and appear motivated by political concerns rather than moral calling.
"They could never, ever sign on to and assist in the funding and construction of a wall. You know why? Because walls work. These people that we're talking about put walls around their homes and their estates. They know that walls work, and that's precisely why there isn't going to be one on the southern border, because if there ever is a wall, guess what? We finally will have control over who gets into this country and who doesn't," Mr. Limbaugh told his 14 million listeners.
"The wall is the single greatest obstruction to the future of the Democrat Party. They do not want a wall. They will not support a wall. A wall would bring about the end of the Democrat Party. They'll argue about money, government shutdowns. But they can't survive as a party if that wall is ever built. That's their permanent underclass that would not be permitted to enter the country," he continued.
Yes, it's a political thing.
"No matter what they say, no matter how understanding they appear to be in conversations about border security, they cannot afford there to be a wall. It would bring an immediate end to their primary constituency, which is the great unwashed and permanent underclass," Mr. Limbaugh noted.
"This is what President Trump's up against. Now, Trump wants to build a wall to save America, the culture, and basically to enforce existing federal law. All he wants to do is enforce the law. It's why he wants to enforce the law the Democrats can't permit. As far as they're concerned, Donald Trump is trying to make sure that future Democrats don't get to register to vote."
END
And, don't forget, from the recent Mexican Foreign Minister:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
10 March, 2017
Monday, December 17, 2018
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 17-12-18
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 17 DEC 2018
Note: as usual, AP and the left is rabidly anti free enterprise.
As private enterprise can be far more cost efficient than any govt. operation.
Comment: should the costs be deducted from any foreign aid to these countries?
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US & World
Deported immigrants get their last flight on 'ICE Air'
By: By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ANGELIKI KASTANIS, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 17, 2018 01:15 PM MST
Updated: Dec 17, 2018 01:15 PM MST
https://www.kvia.com/news/us-world/deported-immigrants-get-their-last-flight-on-ice-air-/937959315
HOUSTON (AP) - Shackled at their ankles and wrists and their shoelaces removed, a long line of men and women waited on the tarmac as a team of officers patted them down and checked inside their mouths for anything hidden.
Then one by one, they climbed a mobile staircase and onto a charter plane the size of a commercial aircraft.
This was a deportation flight run by ICE Air. The chains would be removed and the shoelaces returned when the plane landed in El Salvador.
An obscure division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates hundreds of flights each year to remove immigrants. Deportation flights are big business: The U.S. government has spent approximately $1 billion on them in the last decade, and the Trump administration is seeking to raise ICE's budget for charter flights by 30 percent.
ICE Air Operations transports detained immigrants between American cities and, for those with final removal orders, back to their home countries. About 100,000 people a year are deported on such flights.
While Mexican immigrants are generally flown to southern U.S. cities and then driven to the border so they can cross over, Central Americans have to be transported by air. And the large numbers of Mexicans who used to cross the border have largely been replaced by migrants from three impoverished Central American countries: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
According to flight-tracking data, deportation flights to Guatemala and Honduras have sharply increased this year. And ICE's budget request for charter flights increased 30 percent last year compared to the year before.
The agency estimated last year that it spends about $7,785 per hour on the flights.
ICE shifted to chartering private planes about a decade ago after previously using a government service with the U.S. Marshals. The agency says moving to private flights saves about $25 million a year and gave it more flexibility. Charter flights also avoid putting large numbers of deported immigrants on commercial planes, which requires buying tickets for deportation officers accompanying them, or holding them in the U.S. for longer than necessary and tying up space in detention centers.
"I don't want to elongate anybody's detention with us," said Pat Contreras, director of enforcement and removal for ICE's Houston field office. "If a judge says you need to be removed, we should be expeditiously working to execute that order so that person does not spend any longer in detention than necessary."
But migrant advocacy groups say ICE Air is an example of how tougher immigration enforcement - from detention to tracking to removal - enriches private companies.
"The way you would save money on ICE Air is by deporting fewer people, not by privatizing the industry," said Bob Libal, director of Grassroots Leadership, which opposes immigration detention.
"ICE is a largely privatized agency," Libal said. "In many ways, it's been captured by the industries that profit from deportation and detention."
The Associated Press observed a deportation flight being loaded last month at a private terminal of Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
The Boeing 737 had no markings suggesting it was a deportation flight. Instead, it had the insignia of Swift Air, a private company that also flies charters for political campaigns and professional sports teams, including the NHL's Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks. In this case, Swift Air had been hired by Classic Air Charters, a Huntington, New York-based company that won ICE's deportation flights contract last year.
Classic Air has been paid $51 million this year by ICE, according to federal spending records. The previous contractor, CSI Aviation of New Mexico, was paid $906 million by ICE's removals division since 2010, when ICE privatized its flights.
When the plane landed in Houston, about 30 Salvadoran immigrants were already on board, flown in from Alexandria, Louisiana, an ICE Air hub. They peered out the windows as the plane sat on the tarmac.
Two buses arrived, carrying 45 men and five women. Their few belongings were in red mesh bags that workers sorted on the tarmac.
Officers checked each detainee before letting them board, a process that took about 20 minutes.
According to the agency, 29 of the 50 people who boarded the plane in Houston had been arrested on criminal charges, including four who were wanted in El Salvador for attempted murder or homicide, the agency said.
The remaining 21 were considered non-criminal, meaning they were being deported for immigration violations.
Twenty of the 50 had been deported before.
ICE would not let AP reporters view the inside of the plane, but officials said the flights are orderly and quiet. A meal is served, and a doctor is on board. But all detainees - even those considered non-criminal - remain shackled until the plane lands.
"We try and be as humane as we can with everything that we do," Contreras said. "We try to make them safe. We want to make sure that not one individual does anything wrong."
End
Not to forget from the recent FM of Mexico:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
End
Note: as usual, AP and the left is rabidly anti free enterprise.
As private enterprise can be far more cost efficient than any govt. operation.
Comment: should the costs be deducted from any foreign aid to these countries?
Thx
US & World
Deported immigrants get their last flight on 'ICE Air'
By: By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ANGELIKI KASTANIS, Associated Press
Posted: Dec 17, 2018 01:15 PM MST
Updated: Dec 17, 2018 01:15 PM MST
https://www.kvia.com/news/us-world/deported-immigrants-get-their-last-flight-on-ice-air-/937959315
HOUSTON (AP) - Shackled at their ankles and wrists and their shoelaces removed, a long line of men and women waited on the tarmac as a team of officers patted them down and checked inside their mouths for anything hidden.
Then one by one, they climbed a mobile staircase and onto a charter plane the size of a commercial aircraft.
This was a deportation flight run by ICE Air. The chains would be removed and the shoelaces returned when the plane landed in El Salvador.
An obscure division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates hundreds of flights each year to remove immigrants. Deportation flights are big business: The U.S. government has spent approximately $1 billion on them in the last decade, and the Trump administration is seeking to raise ICE's budget for charter flights by 30 percent.
ICE Air Operations transports detained immigrants between American cities and, for those with final removal orders, back to their home countries. About 100,000 people a year are deported on such flights.
While Mexican immigrants are generally flown to southern U.S. cities and then driven to the border so they can cross over, Central Americans have to be transported by air. And the large numbers of Mexicans who used to cross the border have largely been replaced by migrants from three impoverished Central American countries: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
According to flight-tracking data, deportation flights to Guatemala and Honduras have sharply increased this year. And ICE's budget request for charter flights increased 30 percent last year compared to the year before.
The agency estimated last year that it spends about $7,785 per hour on the flights.
ICE shifted to chartering private planes about a decade ago after previously using a government service with the U.S. Marshals. The agency says moving to private flights saves about $25 million a year and gave it more flexibility. Charter flights also avoid putting large numbers of deported immigrants on commercial planes, which requires buying tickets for deportation officers accompanying them, or holding them in the U.S. for longer than necessary and tying up space in detention centers.
"I don't want to elongate anybody's detention with us," said Pat Contreras, director of enforcement and removal for ICE's Houston field office. "If a judge says you need to be removed, we should be expeditiously working to execute that order so that person does not spend any longer in detention than necessary."
But migrant advocacy groups say ICE Air is an example of how tougher immigration enforcement - from detention to tracking to removal - enriches private companies.
"The way you would save money on ICE Air is by deporting fewer people, not by privatizing the industry," said Bob Libal, director of Grassroots Leadership, which opposes immigration detention.
"ICE is a largely privatized agency," Libal said. "In many ways, it's been captured by the industries that profit from deportation and detention."
The Associated Press observed a deportation flight being loaded last month at a private terminal of Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.
The Boeing 737 had no markings suggesting it was a deportation flight. Instead, it had the insignia of Swift Air, a private company that also flies charters for political campaigns and professional sports teams, including the NHL's Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks. In this case, Swift Air had been hired by Classic Air Charters, a Huntington, New York-based company that won ICE's deportation flights contract last year.
Classic Air has been paid $51 million this year by ICE, according to federal spending records. The previous contractor, CSI Aviation of New Mexico, was paid $906 million by ICE's removals division since 2010, when ICE privatized its flights.
When the plane landed in Houston, about 30 Salvadoran immigrants were already on board, flown in from Alexandria, Louisiana, an ICE Air hub. They peered out the windows as the plane sat on the tarmac.
Two buses arrived, carrying 45 men and five women. Their few belongings were in red mesh bags that workers sorted on the tarmac.
Officers checked each detainee before letting them board, a process that took about 20 minutes.
According to the agency, 29 of the 50 people who boarded the plane in Houston had been arrested on criminal charges, including four who were wanted in El Salvador for attempted murder or homicide, the agency said.
The remaining 21 were considered non-criminal, meaning they were being deported for immigration violations.
Twenty of the 50 had been deported before.
ICE would not let AP reporters view the inside of the plane, but officials said the flights are orderly and quiet. A meal is served, and a doctor is on board. But all detainees - even those considered non-criminal - remain shackled until the plane lands.
"We try and be as humane as we can with everything that we do," Contreras said. "We try to make them safe. We want to make sure that not one individual does anything wrong."
End
Not to forget from the recent FM of Mexico:
Luis Videgaray: Mexico decides who enters our country
Detalles Publicado el Viernes 10 de marzo de 2017
Http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=87134
"the decisions of who enters Mexico, are made by Mexico and only Mexico"
Luis Videgaray Caso, Mexican Foreign Minister
End
Friday, December 14, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 13-12-18
AZMEX POLICY 13 DEC 2018
National Guard "does not guarantee justice": CNDH
Enrique Méndez and Roberto Garduño |
Thursday, 13 Dec 2018 15:23
https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/12/13/guardia-nacional-201cno-garantiza-justicia201d-cndh-7709.html
Implementing the National Guard would weaken the civil and democratic institutions, said the president of the CNDH, Luis Raúl González Pérez. Photo Cristina Rodríguez / Archive
Mexico City.
Implementing the National Guard would weaken the civil and democratic institutions, because as it has been stated, "it does not guarantee justice, in any case dissuasion and generates a great risk of human rights violations being presented or propitiated", denounced the president of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH), Luis Raúl González Pérez.
When going to the Commission of Constitutional Points of the House of Representatives to state the position of the CNDH, around the initiative of constitutional reform promoted by Morena to create the National Guard the ombudsman reproached such claim, because it will be an integrated instance almost in its totality by personnel of the Army and the Navy, which will act according to its own military order and discipline schemes:
END
National Guard "does not guarantee justice": CNDH
Enrique Méndez and Roberto Garduño |
Thursday, 13 Dec 2018 15:23
https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/12/13/guardia-nacional-201cno-garantiza-justicia201d-cndh-7709.html
Implementing the National Guard would weaken the civil and democratic institutions, said the president of the CNDH, Luis Raúl González Pérez. Photo Cristina Rodríguez / Archive
Mexico City.
Implementing the National Guard would weaken the civil and democratic institutions, because as it has been stated, "it does not guarantee justice, in any case dissuasion and generates a great risk of human rights violations being presented or propitiated", denounced the president of the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH), Luis Raúl González Pérez.
When going to the Commission of Constitutional Points of the House of Representatives to state the position of the CNDH, around the initiative of constitutional reform promoted by Morena to create the National Guard the ombudsman reproached such claim, because it will be an integrated instance almost in its totality by personnel of the Army and the Navy, which will act according to its own military order and discipline schemes:
END
Thursday, December 13, 2018
AZMEX EXTRA 13-12-18
AZMEX EXTRA 13 DEC 2018
Note: interesting photo at link. Si, it is a AR, not a AK.
Thx
They arrest four people with "goat horns" in the Eusebio Kino colony; one of them minor
Photo: Copywriting / GH
By: Drafting / GH | 12/13/2018 8:08
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
https://www.elimparcial.com/Policiaca/2018/12/13/1394482-Det-a-cuatro-personas-con-cuernos-de-chivo-en-la-colonia-Eusebio-Kino-uno-de- them-minor-of-age.html
With three long weapons, two of them "cuerno de chivo", a 9 mm short weapon and three ballistic vests, four people were arrested,
one of them a minor, last night in the Eusebio Kino neighborhood, reported Municipal Public Safety.
At 21:06 hours the Municipal Police responded to a report to the emergency number
indicating that there were armed persons on board a vehicle on Carlos Caturegli and Yécora streets.
When arriving at the place the policemen saw a vehicle type pick up, white, approached by four people,
to which the reason of the investigation, ignoring the police indications, the statement explains.
One of the agents realizes that they had firearms in their possession, with the support of police officers coming immediately.
This is how they managed to stop the four traffickers, who respond to the names of Daniel, 34, Saimons José, 24, Juan Daniel, 20, and Víctor, 17,
two from the state of Sinaloa and the last two from Sonora
When checking the interior of the vehicle, three long weapons were found, two of them known as the "Goat Horn",
as well as a handgun caliber .9 mm and three ballistic vests.
The arrested persons, as well as the minor, weapons and ballistic vests were placed at the disposal of the corresponding authority for the investigation of the case.
End
Note: interesting photo at link. Si, it is a AR, not a AK.
Thx
They arrest four people with "goat horns" in the Eusebio Kino colony; one of them minor
Photo: Copywriting / GH
By: Drafting / GH | 12/13/2018 8:08
HERMOSILLO, Sonora (GH)
https://www.elimparcial.com/Policiaca/2018/12/13/1394482-Det-a-cuatro-personas-con-cuernos-de-chivo-en-la-colonia-Eusebio-Kino-uno-de- them-minor-of-age.html
With three long weapons, two of them "cuerno de chivo", a 9 mm short weapon and three ballistic vests, four people were arrested,
one of them a minor, last night in the Eusebio Kino neighborhood, reported Municipal Public Safety.
At 21:06 hours the Municipal Police responded to a report to the emergency number
indicating that there were armed persons on board a vehicle on Carlos Caturegli and Yécora streets.
When arriving at the place the policemen saw a vehicle type pick up, white, approached by four people,
to which the reason of the investigation, ignoring the police indications, the statement explains.
One of the agents realizes that they had firearms in their possession, with the support of police officers coming immediately.
This is how they managed to stop the four traffickers, who respond to the names of Daniel, 34, Saimons José, 24, Juan Daniel, 20, and Víctor, 17,
two from the state of Sinaloa and the last two from Sonora
When checking the interior of the vehicle, three long weapons were found, two of them known as the "Goat Horn",
as well as a handgun caliber .9 mm and three ballistic vests.
The arrested persons, as well as the minor, weapons and ballistic vests were placed at the disposal of the corresponding authority for the investigation of the case.
End
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 12-12-18
AZMEX I3 UPDATE 12 DEC 2018
Note: No, did not make this up. "DEMAND" !!!
Thx
Migrants demand entry or $50,000 during march to US Consulate in Tijuana
Posted: 9:46 AM, Dec 12, 2018 Updated: 56 minutes ago
By: KGTV.com staff
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/migrants-demand-entry-or-50-000-during-march-to-us-consulate-in-tijuana
TIJUANA — More members of the migrant caravan walked through the streets of Tijuana Tuesday morning, this time heading to the U.S. Consulate instead of the border.
Scripps station 10News learned the group reached their destination at around 11 a.m. after a nearly two-hour trek.
The migrants, who had police escorts, made it clear their intentions were peaceful.
The group members held various banners as they marched, including one that read:
"You got it wrong, Trump. We asked for jobs and you responded with weapons.
That is not polite.
If asking for work is troublesome, then I am totally confused. La Caravana."
A source told 10News the migrants dropped off a petition asking the consulate to allow everyone in the caravan entry into the U.S.
The migrants requested a response within 72 hours.
Additionally, the migrants said they want the U.S. government to provide $50,000 for their trips back to their respective home countries
if they aren't allowed asylum in the United States.
After delivering the petition, the migrants returned to their shelters.
It is unknown what the migrants plan to do if they do not receive a response within 72 hours.
The migrants' journey to the U.S. Consulate came as President Trump reinforced his desire to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The president, during a Tuesday meeting in the Oval Office with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer,
said he was not afraid to shut down the government if $5 billion in funding for border security was not approved.
"I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck.
Because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country.
I will take the mantle, I will be the one to shut it down.
And I'm going to shut it down for border security," Trump said.
During the meeting, Trump reiterated the importance of securing the border, even suggesting an idea to have the military build the wall.
An agreement must be made before the Dec. 21 deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
End
Note: No, did not make this up. "DEMAND" !!!
Thx
Migrants demand entry or $50,000 during march to US Consulate in Tijuana
Posted: 9:46 AM, Dec 12, 2018 Updated: 56 minutes ago
By: KGTV.com staff
https://www.abc15.com/news/national/migrants-demand-entry-or-50-000-during-march-to-us-consulate-in-tijuana
TIJUANA — More members of the migrant caravan walked through the streets of Tijuana Tuesday morning, this time heading to the U.S. Consulate instead of the border.
Scripps station 10News learned the group reached their destination at around 11 a.m. after a nearly two-hour trek.
The migrants, who had police escorts, made it clear their intentions were peaceful.
The group members held various banners as they marched, including one that read:
"You got it wrong, Trump. We asked for jobs and you responded with weapons.
That is not polite.
If asking for work is troublesome, then I am totally confused. La Caravana."
A source told 10News the migrants dropped off a petition asking the consulate to allow everyone in the caravan entry into the U.S.
The migrants requested a response within 72 hours.
Additionally, the migrants said they want the U.S. government to provide $50,000 for their trips back to their respective home countries
if they aren't allowed asylum in the United States.
After delivering the petition, the migrants returned to their shelters.
It is unknown what the migrants plan to do if they do not receive a response within 72 hours.
The migrants' journey to the U.S. Consulate came as President Trump reinforced his desire to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The president, during a Tuesday meeting in the Oval Office with Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer,
said he was not afraid to shut down the government if $5 billion in funding for border security was not approved.
"I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck.
Because the people of this country don't want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country.
I will take the mantle, I will be the one to shut it down.
And I'm going to shut it down for border security," Trump said.
During the meeting, Trump reiterated the importance of securing the border, even suggesting an idea to have the military build the wall.
An agreement must be made before the Dec. 21 deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
End
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
AZMEX POLICY 4-12-18
AZMEX POLICY 4 DEC 2018
Note: Very large amounts of the necessary chemicals were shipped from China to Mexico.
Enabling the opioid trafficking
Comment: We are supposed to believe that the authoritarian communist Chinese government can't control chemical production?
Or just a part of a long term strategy? Look up the Opium Wars.
thx
'Game changer': China agrees to crack down on fentanyl after pressure from Trump
In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. Acting United States DEA ... more >
By Laura Kelly and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Monday, December 3, 2018
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/3/china-declares-fentanyl-illegal-amid-trump-pressur/
One week before the midterm elections, seven members of Congress jetted to China with specific marching orders from the Trump administration and Ambassador Terry Branstad:
Urge Beijing to crack down on fentanyl, the No. 1 killer in the U.S. overdose crisis.
Trade was also on the agenda, said Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican,
but every meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, state police and Politburo members began by asking the Chinese government to make all forms of the synthetic opioid illegal.
Mr. Branstad and the White House wanted the delegation to act as table-setters for President Trump,
the self-styled dealmaker in chief, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this weekend on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Argentina.
The delegation's lobbying campaign appears to have worked.
The White House said Mr. Xi over the weekend agreed at the summit to control all forms of fentanyl as both countries try to improve relations
and end a thorny trade war. Officials said the change, if implemented swiftly and firmly, will fill a critical enforcement gap.
"If they get caught, they have the highest level of punishment," Mr. Trump said while returning to the U.S. on Air Force One.
"That could be a game changer."
Roughly 30,000 Americans died last year from overdoses traced back to fentanyl, which is far more deadly than regular heroin.
The drug is smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico or even mailed directly through the U.S. Postal Service — but invariably is traced back to China.
Chinese authorities have made other efforts at crackdowns by banning 25 compounds,
but crafty traffickers riffed on formulas to duck authorities and continue shipping their products.
"Chinese weren't yet convinced it was that important to us," Mr. Alexander told The Washington Times.
"They don't have an opioid problem in China." ( See the "Opium Wars" ?)
Mr. Alexander and other lawmakers hailed the weekend's developments, saying the crackdown is a long time coming
and should work hand in hand with a new law that forces the U.S. Postal Service to demand advanced electronic data on all Chinese packages
so customs agents can root out illegal drugs.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, said the change will save an "untold number of lives in the United States."
There is a lot at stake. The U.S. opioids problem shifted in the past few years from pain pills and heroin to fentanyl.
Drug dealers cut their heroin supply with the potent drug, delivering a major high that keeps some customers coming back
and killing others who don't realize what they are injecting into their bodies.
Illicit fentanyl was responsible for more than 40 percent of the 70,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year and 60 percent of opioid-related deaths.
A recent U.S. government report identified China as the top supplier to the U.S. of illegal fentanyl and criticized the Chinese government
for being "slow and ineffective" at keeping up with numerous variations of the drug that are more potent and deadly.
American officials said previous Chinese efforts to schedule a set of fentanyl compounds resulted in a sharp and immediate decrease in those chemicals entering the U.S.
"China has already listed 25 forms of fentanyl as illegal, but then the crooks are creative and they create a new form of fentanyl that is not illegal,"
Mr. Alexander said. "We persuaded them to take the handcuffs off the Chinese police and say every form of fentanyl is illegal."
China is copying the U.S. in a way.
The Drug and Enforcement Administration decided this year to take all forms of fentanyl without accepted medical use
and place them in the Schedule I list denoting the highest risk of abuse.
"China has now done the same thing, so anyone who possesses, imports, distributes or manufactures any illicit fentanyl analogue
will be subject to criminal prosecution in the same manner as for fentanyl and other controlled substances," DEA spokesman Melvin Patterson said.
"This will make it easier for Chinese law enforcement and prosecutors to prosecute traffickers of all forms of fentanyl-related substances."
In a statement, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed that China "has decided to list all the fentanyl-like substances as controlled substances"
and agreed to take "proactive steps to strengthen cooperation on law enforcement and combating illicit drugs."
Mr. Alexander said the deal is an important breakthrough for two countries trying to work through a thorny trade war.
"People can disagree, but it helps to have a good relationship when you're working out a problem," Mr. Alexander said.
He also said it's an image-booster for China.
"This will turn China from being world's leading supplier of fentanyl," he said, "to the world's leading country doing something about it."
END
Background ( Spanish )
https://www.noroeste.com.mx/publicaciones/view/asegura-la-semar-50-toneladas-de-crystal-en-escondites-de-cartel-del-pacifico-1138780
http://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/08/17/asegura-semar-2018narcolaboratorio2019-en-el-coyonqui-culiacan-9022.html
https://riodoce.mx/policiaca/localizan-narcolaboratorio-en-culiacan
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/metropoli/policia/hallan-en-sonora-y-bc-dos-narcolaboratorios
Unlike many other countries, China seems to learn from history.
https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/mexico-seizes-32-tons-of-chinese-precursor-chemicals/
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/opiumwars/opiumwars1.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Opium_Wars.aspx
Also: AZMEX SPECIAL 18 AUG 2018
End
Note: Very large amounts of the necessary chemicals were shipped from China to Mexico.
Enabling the opioid trafficking
Comment: We are supposed to believe that the authoritarian communist Chinese government can't control chemical production?
Or just a part of a long term strategy? Look up the Opium Wars.
thx
'Game changer': China agrees to crack down on fentanyl after pressure from Trump
In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. Acting United States DEA ... more >
By Laura Kelly and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Monday, December 3, 2018
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/3/china-declares-fentanyl-illegal-amid-trump-pressur/
One week before the midterm elections, seven members of Congress jetted to China with specific marching orders from the Trump administration and Ambassador Terry Branstad:
Urge Beijing to crack down on fentanyl, the No. 1 killer in the U.S. overdose crisis.
Trade was also on the agenda, said Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican,
but every meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, state police and Politburo members began by asking the Chinese government to make all forms of the synthetic opioid illegal.
Mr. Branstad and the White House wanted the delegation to act as table-setters for President Trump,
the self-styled dealmaker in chief, who met with Chinese President Xi Jinping this weekend on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Argentina.
The delegation's lobbying campaign appears to have worked.
The White House said Mr. Xi over the weekend agreed at the summit to control all forms of fentanyl as both countries try to improve relations
and end a thorny trade war. Officials said the change, if implemented swiftly and firmly, will fill a critical enforcement gap.
"If they get caught, they have the highest level of punishment," Mr. Trump said while returning to the U.S. on Air Force One.
"That could be a game changer."
Roughly 30,000 Americans died last year from overdoses traced back to fentanyl, which is far more deadly than regular heroin.
The drug is smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico or even mailed directly through the U.S. Postal Service — but invariably is traced back to China.
Chinese authorities have made other efforts at crackdowns by banning 25 compounds,
but crafty traffickers riffed on formulas to duck authorities and continue shipping their products.
"Chinese weren't yet convinced it was that important to us," Mr. Alexander told The Washington Times.
"They don't have an opioid problem in China." ( See the "Opium Wars" ?)
Mr. Alexander and other lawmakers hailed the weekend's developments, saying the crackdown is a long time coming
and should work hand in hand with a new law that forces the U.S. Postal Service to demand advanced electronic data on all Chinese packages
so customs agents can root out illegal drugs.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, said the change will save an "untold number of lives in the United States."
There is a lot at stake. The U.S. opioids problem shifted in the past few years from pain pills and heroin to fentanyl.
Drug dealers cut their heroin supply with the potent drug, delivering a major high that keeps some customers coming back
and killing others who don't realize what they are injecting into their bodies.
Illicit fentanyl was responsible for more than 40 percent of the 70,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year and 60 percent of opioid-related deaths.
A recent U.S. government report identified China as the top supplier to the U.S. of illegal fentanyl and criticized the Chinese government
for being "slow and ineffective" at keeping up with numerous variations of the drug that are more potent and deadly.
American officials said previous Chinese efforts to schedule a set of fentanyl compounds resulted in a sharp and immediate decrease in those chemicals entering the U.S.
"China has already listed 25 forms of fentanyl as illegal, but then the crooks are creative and they create a new form of fentanyl that is not illegal,"
Mr. Alexander said. "We persuaded them to take the handcuffs off the Chinese police and say every form of fentanyl is illegal."
China is copying the U.S. in a way.
The Drug and Enforcement Administration decided this year to take all forms of fentanyl without accepted medical use
and place them in the Schedule I list denoting the highest risk of abuse.
"China has now done the same thing, so anyone who possesses, imports, distributes or manufactures any illicit fentanyl analogue
will be subject to criminal prosecution in the same manner as for fentanyl and other controlled substances," DEA spokesman Melvin Patterson said.
"This will make it easier for Chinese law enforcement and prosecutors to prosecute traffickers of all forms of fentanyl-related substances."
In a statement, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi confirmed that China "has decided to list all the fentanyl-like substances as controlled substances"
and agreed to take "proactive steps to strengthen cooperation on law enforcement and combating illicit drugs."
Mr. Alexander said the deal is an important breakthrough for two countries trying to work through a thorny trade war.
"People can disagree, but it helps to have a good relationship when you're working out a problem," Mr. Alexander said.
He also said it's an image-booster for China.
"This will turn China from being world's leading supplier of fentanyl," he said, "to the world's leading country doing something about it."
END
Background ( Spanish )
https://www.noroeste.com.mx/publicaciones/view/asegura-la-semar-50-toneladas-de-crystal-en-escondites-de-cartel-del-pacifico-1138780
http://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2018/08/17/asegura-semar-2018narcolaboratorio2019-en-el-coyonqui-culiacan-9022.html
https://riodoce.mx/policiaca/localizan-narcolaboratorio-en-culiacan
https://www.tribunadesanluis.com.mx/metropoli/policia/hallan-en-sonora-y-bc-dos-narcolaboratorios
Unlike many other countries, China seems to learn from history.
https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/mexico-seizes-32-tons-of-chinese-precursor-chemicals/
http://www.britannica.com/topic/Opium-Wars
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/empire/opiumwars/opiumwars1.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Opium_Wars.aspx
Also: AZMEX SPECIAL 18 AUG 2018
End
Monday, December 3, 2018
AZMEX MEDIA SPECIAL 3-12-18
AZMEX MEDIA SPECIAL 3 DEC 2018
Comment: interesting that nobody in the "mainstream" media seems to care. But then it wouldn't undermine any U.S. alliances.
BTW, Tepic has not been a good place for a long time.
Thx
Journalist Killed in Western Mexico — 18th in 2018
Murdered Mexican JournalistFacebook Jesus Alejandro Marquez
3 Dec 2018
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/12/03/journalist-killed-in-western-mexico-18th-in-2018/
A print journalist who covered public safety issues in Nayarit, Mexico, is dead after authorities found his remains off a dirt road.
He was shot execution-style.
This is the 18th Mexican journalist killed in 2018 and the first under the new presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Authorities confirmed the murder of Jesus Alejandro Marquez, an independent journalist who routinely collaborated with various outlets
and was the founder and director of a local publication, Orion Informativo.
Marquez was also an activist for Mexico's new ruling party, MORENA, started by President Lopez Obrador.
Mexico's Excelsior reports that Marquez left his home in Tepic over the weekend after receiving a phone call and went missing
until authorities recovered his body off a dirt road near the city.
Marquez marks the 18th murdered journalist in Mexico.
The homicide comes little more than a moth after a team of gunmen killed radio reporter Gabriel Soriano Kuri in Acapulco, Guerrero.
Other Journalists Murdered in 2018
October 3 – Sergio Martinez Gonzalez, an online print journalist in Chiapas who exposed public corruption in the State of Chiapas.
Martinez claimed he received threats prior to his murder.
September 28 — Arturo Porcallo Eguiluz, a radio journalist an DJ in Guerrero for Radio y Television de Guerrero (RTG).
A motive for his murder has not been released.
September 21—Mario Leonel Gomez Sanchez, a political journalist for El Heraldo de Chiapas.
He had been the target of threats in 2016 after reporting on embezzlement by public officials in the state.
August 29 — Javier Rodriguez Valladares was a cameraman and TV journalist for Canal 10 in Cancun, Quintana Roo.
He was shot along one of the main avenues in the tourist hotspot.
August 8 — Rodolfo Garcia Gonzalez was a freelance photographer who often worked with Semanario7.
He was shot and killed in Guanajuato.
July 24 — Ruben Pat Cauich was a veteran journalist who founded the online outlet La Playa News in Quintana Roo, not far from Cancun.
He had been previously threatened and was ultimately killed at a bar in the tourist hotspot of Playa Del Carmen.
July 3 — José Guadalupe Chan Dzib was a crime reporter for La Playa News, Aqui y Ahora, and other local outlets near Cancun, Quintana Roo.
He was gunned down outside of a local bar in Playa Del Carmen.
May 29 — Hector Gonzales Antonio was a national correspondent for Excelsior and worked in various local outlets.
He was kidnapped, tortured, and dumped in a vacant lot.
May 24 — Alicia Diaz Gonzalez, a financial writer for one of Mexico's largest publications,
was found beaten to death in her home in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
May 14 — Juan Carlos Huerta Martínez, a reporter and broadcast host, was killed by a team of gunmen outside his home in Tabasco. (AMLO's hometown)
March 21 — Leobardo Vázquez Atzin ran the online news site Enlace Informativo Regional in Veracruz who reported on a local mayor tied to an illicit property grab
and was killed by a team of gunmen.
February 14 — Pedro Damián Gómez Bonifaz, director-owner of the Panorama Político, was found dead with obvious signs of trauma
caused by a sharp-edged weapon at his home in Tijuana, Baja California.
February 5 — Leslie Ann Pamela Montenegro del Real, a popular YouTube satirist and blogger who used the pseudonym "La Nana Pelucas,"
was gunned down while eating dinner at a restaurant in Acapulco.
January 21 — Agustín Silva Vásquez, a freelance police reporter from El Sol del Istmo, disappeared in Matías Romero, Oaxaca,
according to his family members who reported his kidnapping. Silva Vásquez is presumed dead.
January 13 — Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez was ambushed and killed by a team of assassins in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas,
who stabbed him to death in front of his family. Authorities arrested a relative of the former mayor of Nuevo Laredo
and several other individuals allegedly linked to the case.
January 6 — José Gerardo Martínez Arriaga, an editor with El Universal, was purchasing toys for his family in Mexico City
when he was robbed and killed at gunpoint.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon.
You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon.
Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
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Comment: interesting that nobody in the "mainstream" media seems to care. But then it wouldn't undermine any U.S. alliances.
BTW, Tepic has not been a good place for a long time.
Thx
Journalist Killed in Western Mexico — 18th in 2018
Murdered Mexican JournalistFacebook Jesus Alejandro Marquez
3 Dec 2018
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/12/03/journalist-killed-in-western-mexico-18th-in-2018/
A print journalist who covered public safety issues in Nayarit, Mexico, is dead after authorities found his remains off a dirt road.
He was shot execution-style.
This is the 18th Mexican journalist killed in 2018 and the first under the new presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Authorities confirmed the murder of Jesus Alejandro Marquez, an independent journalist who routinely collaborated with various outlets
and was the founder and director of a local publication, Orion Informativo.
Marquez was also an activist for Mexico's new ruling party, MORENA, started by President Lopez Obrador.
Mexico's Excelsior reports that Marquez left his home in Tepic over the weekend after receiving a phone call and went missing
until authorities recovered his body off a dirt road near the city.
Marquez marks the 18th murdered journalist in Mexico.
The homicide comes little more than a moth after a team of gunmen killed radio reporter Gabriel Soriano Kuri in Acapulco, Guerrero.
Other Journalists Murdered in 2018
October 3 – Sergio Martinez Gonzalez, an online print journalist in Chiapas who exposed public corruption in the State of Chiapas.
Martinez claimed he received threats prior to his murder.
September 28 — Arturo Porcallo Eguiluz, a radio journalist an DJ in Guerrero for Radio y Television de Guerrero (RTG).
A motive for his murder has not been released.
September 21—Mario Leonel Gomez Sanchez, a political journalist for El Heraldo de Chiapas.
He had been the target of threats in 2016 after reporting on embezzlement by public officials in the state.
August 29 — Javier Rodriguez Valladares was a cameraman and TV journalist for Canal 10 in Cancun, Quintana Roo.
He was shot along one of the main avenues in the tourist hotspot.
August 8 — Rodolfo Garcia Gonzalez was a freelance photographer who often worked with Semanario7.
He was shot and killed in Guanajuato.
July 24 — Ruben Pat Cauich was a veteran journalist who founded the online outlet La Playa News in Quintana Roo, not far from Cancun.
He had been previously threatened and was ultimately killed at a bar in the tourist hotspot of Playa Del Carmen.
July 3 — José Guadalupe Chan Dzib was a crime reporter for La Playa News, Aqui y Ahora, and other local outlets near Cancun, Quintana Roo.
He was gunned down outside of a local bar in Playa Del Carmen.
May 29 — Hector Gonzales Antonio was a national correspondent for Excelsior and worked in various local outlets.
He was kidnapped, tortured, and dumped in a vacant lot.
May 24 — Alicia Diaz Gonzalez, a financial writer for one of Mexico's largest publications,
was found beaten to death in her home in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
May 14 — Juan Carlos Huerta Martínez, a reporter and broadcast host, was killed by a team of gunmen outside his home in Tabasco. (AMLO's hometown)
March 21 — Leobardo Vázquez Atzin ran the online news site Enlace Informativo Regional in Veracruz who reported on a local mayor tied to an illicit property grab
and was killed by a team of gunmen.
February 14 — Pedro Damián Gómez Bonifaz, director-owner of the Panorama Político, was found dead with obvious signs of trauma
caused by a sharp-edged weapon at his home in Tijuana, Baja California.
February 5 — Leslie Ann Pamela Montenegro del Real, a popular YouTube satirist and blogger who used the pseudonym "La Nana Pelucas,"
was gunned down while eating dinner at a restaurant in Acapulco.
January 21 — Agustín Silva Vásquez, a freelance police reporter from El Sol del Istmo, disappeared in Matías Romero, Oaxaca,
according to his family members who reported his kidnapping. Silva Vásquez is presumed dead.
January 13 — Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez was ambushed and killed by a team of assassins in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas,
who stabbed him to death in front of his family. Authorities arrested a relative of the former mayor of Nuevo Laredo
and several other individuals allegedly linked to the case.
January 6 — José Gerardo Martínez Arriaga, an editor with El Universal, was purchasing toys for his family in Mexico City
when he was robbed and killed at gunpoint.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon.
You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas.
He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon.
Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
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