AZMEX I3 22 OCT 2016
Note: Still very curious why the 7,000 mile trip to AZ or CA borders?
When Miami, FL. is about 700 miles away, and Key West, FL is about 730 miles from Port Au Prince. (Haiti)
Merci
Haitian migrants arrive in Nogales, Sonora after months-long journey
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International Updated 16 hrs ago (0)
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/haitian-migrants-arrive-in-nogales-sonora-after-months-long-journey/article_859edb06-97ed-11e6-8166-8f727c352eca.html
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
As many as 65 migrants were camped out on the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Friday, waiting for a chance to enter the United States.
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
Paulo JeanLouis, from Haiti, arrived to the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry on Wednesday, where he has been waiting to enter the United States.
Haitian migrants
Photo by Kendal Blust
Belongings from the nearly 65 Haitian migrants waiting on the Mexican side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry lined the wall on Friday morning.
A long row of backpacks and duffel bags brimming with quilts, clothes and the few other items belonging to of a group of about 65 Haitian migrants were piled along the wall separating incoming and outgoing border-crossers in Nogales, Sonora on Friday.
The would-be U.S. immigrants are part of a recent surge of Haitians who are seeking entry at the nation's southern border with Mexico.
The group Friday – all men – lined up outside the metal turnstile on the Sonoran side of the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry. Like thousands of other Haitian migrants who have been showing up along Mexico's northern border in Tijuana and other parts of Baja California in recent of months, they have come mainly from Brazil, an approximately 7,000-mile trek over land and sea.
"We came on foot, and sometimes we swam," said Paulo Jean-Louis, who said the journey through South and Central America took him five months. Several others said they made the trip in about two-and-a-half months.
Like many of the men who have been camped out at port for nearly three days now, Jean-Louis said he had lived and worked in Brazil for more than five years before leaving for the United States.
After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, many people fled the county, tens of thousands making their way to Brazil. But conditions in the South American nation have changed. Amid economic and political unrest, work has largely dried up, causing many Haitians to look north for better opportunities.
Sitting on bags or reclining on tattered blankets and thin blue mats, many of the Haitian men waiting outside the port don't want to leave, even to sleep at night, said Hilda Loureiro, who runs the Juan Bosco migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora.
"We've had about 10 Haitians come here since the night before last," she said, adding that the few who came left first thing in the morning, worried they might miss their turn for an interview with a U.S. immigration officer.
The migrants are being processed "on a case-by-case basis" and those without legal status "are placed in removal proceedings according to their situation," according to a statement by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in reference to the increasing number of Haitians arriving in Arizona.
During this fiscal year through Oct. 1, more than 5,000 Haitian immigrants have entered the United States without visas, up from 339 the year before, Reuters reported. Most of these immigrants have come through the ports from Tijuana and Mexicali and are asking for asylum.
Many of the Haitians who are trying to enter through ports in California have been waiting for weeks in Mexico, and so far the process for those in Arizona has also been slow. As of midday on Friday, some migrants who had been waiting south of the DeConcini port for more than two days had not had any interaction with U.S. officials and did not know what to expect or how long it would take.
"We can't enter like the others," said migrant Alex Givny, indicating to the line of border-crossers slowly filing past. "We have to wait for the police, for immigration to give us authorization to enter. But we have to wait right here."
Givny said that the line of men camped out in the tiled port passageway are trying to help their families, especially after the "catastrophe" two weeks ago when Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti, devastating the impoverished Caribbean nation and leaving many without access food or water.
"I have two children. My mom, my dad, brothers and sisters," he said. The most recent natural disaster has increased his desperation to send aid home.
The Haitian migrants waiting in Nogales, Sonora received permission to stay in Mexico for 25 days when they crossed the border from Guatemala earlier this month, but their time runs out next week, Givny said.
Sick and injured migrants are receiving treatment from the Red Cross and Grupos Beta, and the Kino Border Initiative, along with residents and businesses in Nogales, Sonora, are trying to help the waiting Haitians by bringing food, water, blankets and even clothes.
"They are humans just like us," said Sergio Urrea, who dropped off bags of fruit after hearing about the migrants during a Mass at his church. "Today it's them, but tomorrow it could be any of us."
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced on Oct. 4 that his previous decision to resume removals of Haitians in late September would be temporarily suspended in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Until those removals resume, Haitians entering the country without authorization will be placed in immigration detention, he said.
end
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Friday, October 21, 2016
AZMEX SPECIAL 21-10-16
AZMEX SPECIAL 21 OCT 2016
Appeals court considers Arizona cross-border shooting case
ASSOCIATED PRESS |
October 21, 2016 @ 9:23 am
http://ktar.com/story/1324830/appeals-court-to-hear-arizona-cross-border-shooting-case/
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014, file photo, a photo of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol near the Mexico-U.S border, leans against a podium on a church altar during a memorial mass in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The civil rights case against Agent Lonnie Swartz over the Rodriguez' death will go forward after U.S. District Court Judge Raner C. Collins denied a part of his motion to dismiss the case. (AP Photo/Valeria Fernandez, File)
PHOENIX — A government attorney argued Friday that the mother of a 16-year-old Mexican boy killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a cross border shooting should not be allowed to sue the agent because the boy lacked significant ties to the United States.
But a lawyer for the mother countered that the boy's grandmother cared for him while she was a legal permanent U.S. resident.
The arguments before a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stem from the October 2012 shooting of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez by Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, who opened fire from Arizona and hit Elena Rodriguez in Mexico.
A federal judge in Arizona decided that the lawsuit could go forward, but Swartz's attorney, Sean Chapman, appealed that decision.
The U.S. government is not part of the civil case but has filed court paperwork as an interested party and was allowed to argue before the three-judge appeals court panel.
In a separate case, Swartz is charged with second-degree murder, and has pleaded not guilty.
The appeals court said it will not make a decision until after the U.S. Supreme Court hears a similar case involving a Mexican teen shot by a Border Patrol agent at the Texas and Mexico border. The high court is scheduled to take up that case next year.
2012 SHOOTING
Elena Rodriguez was in the Mexican border town of Nogales, walking near the international border fence when Swartz shot him from Nogales, Arizona, on Oct. 10, 2012.
The Border Patrol has said Swartz was defending himself against rock-throwers. Elena Rodriguez's family says he was walking home after playing basketball with friends and did not throw anything.
An autopsy conducted in Mexico showed that Elena Rodriguez was hit about 10 times in the back. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refused to release surveillance camera footage of the incident.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of the boy's mother in July 2014 while the FBI continued to investigate the shooting.
Last year, Swartz was indicted for second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty, and his trial is scheduled for end of February.
Swartz is free pending trial and is on unpaid administrative leave from the agency. He was forced to surrender his Border Patrol pistol.
TEXAS CONNECTION
The case is similar to a 2010 incident when a Border Patrol agent in El Paso, Texas, fatally shot a teenager who was across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Authorities said agent Jesus Mesa Jr. was trying to arrest immigrants who had illegally crossed into the country when rock-throwers attacked him. Mesa fired across the Rio Grande river, striking 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca twice.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals originally said Hernandez Guereca's family could sue Mesa.
But the full court overturned that ruling, and the Supreme Court will review the case next year.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION POSITION
The U.S. Justice Department brought forward the criminal case against Swartz but also opposes the civil suit filed against him.
In court documents submitted in February, government attorneys argued Elena Rodriguez's family did not have a constitutional right to sue in part because it lacked "significant voluntary connections" to the United States.
At Friday's hearing, Department of Justice attorney Henry Whitaker argued that Elena Rodriguez had no significant connection to the United States because he never lived in the country.
THE ACLU'S TAKE
Lee Gelernt, an ACLU lawyer argued that Nogales in Mexico's Sonora state and Nogales in Arizona are closely intertwined and that Elena Rodriguez was often cared for by his grandmother, who lives in the United States.
She was a permanent legal resident in the U.S. while she cared for him and is now an American citizen, he said.
Gelernt said in an interview with The Associated Press that the criminal prosecution of Swartz should not be a substitute for a civil rights case.
"The executive branch cannot police itself. That is not in the interest of the country and is contrary to the basic principles underlying our constitution," Gelernt said.
END
Also: http://www.kgun9.com/newsy/us-border-patrol-joins-useofforce-data-collection-pilot-program
Appeals court considers Arizona cross-border shooting case
ASSOCIATED PRESS |
October 21, 2016 @ 9:23 am
http://ktar.com/story/1324830/appeals-court-to-hear-arizona-cross-border-shooting-case/
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014, file photo, a photo of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol near the Mexico-U.S border, leans against a podium on a church altar during a memorial mass in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The civil rights case against Agent Lonnie Swartz over the Rodriguez' death will go forward after U.S. District Court Judge Raner C. Collins denied a part of his motion to dismiss the case. (AP Photo/Valeria Fernandez, File)
PHOENIX — A government attorney argued Friday that the mother of a 16-year-old Mexican boy killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a cross border shooting should not be allowed to sue the agent because the boy lacked significant ties to the United States.
But a lawyer for the mother countered that the boy's grandmother cared for him while she was a legal permanent U.S. resident.
The arguments before a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stem from the October 2012 shooting of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez by Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, who opened fire from Arizona and hit Elena Rodriguez in Mexico.
A federal judge in Arizona decided that the lawsuit could go forward, but Swartz's attorney, Sean Chapman, appealed that decision.
The U.S. government is not part of the civil case but has filed court paperwork as an interested party and was allowed to argue before the three-judge appeals court panel.
In a separate case, Swartz is charged with second-degree murder, and has pleaded not guilty.
The appeals court said it will not make a decision until after the U.S. Supreme Court hears a similar case involving a Mexican teen shot by a Border Patrol agent at the Texas and Mexico border. The high court is scheduled to take up that case next year.
2012 SHOOTING
Elena Rodriguez was in the Mexican border town of Nogales, walking near the international border fence when Swartz shot him from Nogales, Arizona, on Oct. 10, 2012.
The Border Patrol has said Swartz was defending himself against rock-throwers. Elena Rodriguez's family says he was walking home after playing basketball with friends and did not throw anything.
An autopsy conducted in Mexico showed that Elena Rodriguez was hit about 10 times in the back. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refused to release surveillance camera footage of the incident.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of the boy's mother in July 2014 while the FBI continued to investigate the shooting.
Last year, Swartz was indicted for second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty, and his trial is scheduled for end of February.
Swartz is free pending trial and is on unpaid administrative leave from the agency. He was forced to surrender his Border Patrol pistol.
TEXAS CONNECTION
The case is similar to a 2010 incident when a Border Patrol agent in El Paso, Texas, fatally shot a teenager who was across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Authorities said agent Jesus Mesa Jr. was trying to arrest immigrants who had illegally crossed into the country when rock-throwers attacked him. Mesa fired across the Rio Grande river, striking 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca twice.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals originally said Hernandez Guereca's family could sue Mesa.
But the full court overturned that ruling, and the Supreme Court will review the case next year.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION POSITION
The U.S. Justice Department brought forward the criminal case against Swartz but also opposes the civil suit filed against him.
In court documents submitted in February, government attorneys argued Elena Rodriguez's family did not have a constitutional right to sue in part because it lacked "significant voluntary connections" to the United States.
At Friday's hearing, Department of Justice attorney Henry Whitaker argued that Elena Rodriguez had no significant connection to the United States because he never lived in the country.
THE ACLU'S TAKE
Lee Gelernt, an ACLU lawyer argued that Nogales in Mexico's Sonora state and Nogales in Arizona are closely intertwined and that Elena Rodriguez was often cared for by his grandmother, who lives in the United States.
She was a permanent legal resident in the U.S. while she cared for him and is now an American citizen, he said.
Gelernt said in an interview with The Associated Press that the criminal prosecution of Swartz should not be a substitute for a civil rights case.
"The executive branch cannot police itself. That is not in the interest of the country and is contrary to the basic principles underlying our constitution," Gelernt said.
END
Also: http://www.kgun9.com/newsy/us-border-patrol-joins-useofforce-data-collection-pilot-program
AZMEX SPECIAL 21-10-16
AZMEX SPECIAL 21 OCT 2016
Appeals court considers Arizona cross-border shooting case
ASSOCIATED PRESS |
October 21, 2016 @ 9:23 am
http://ktar.com/story/1324830/appeals-court-to-hear-arizona-cross-border-shooting-case/
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014, file photo, a photo of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol near the Mexico-U.S border, leans against a podium on a church altar during a memorial mass in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The civil rights case against Agent Lonnie Swartz over the Rodriguez' death will go forward after U.S. District Court Judge Raner C. Collins denied a part of his motion to dismiss the case. (AP Photo/Valeria Fernandez, File)
PHOENIX — A government attorney argued Friday that the mother of a 16-year-old Mexican boy killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a cross border shooting should not be allowed to sue the agent because the boy lacked significant ties to the United States.
But a lawyer for the mother countered that the boy's grandmother cared for him while she was a legal permanent U.S. resident.
The arguments before a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stem from the October 2012 shooting of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez by Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, who opened fire from Arizona and hit Elena Rodriguez in Mexico.
A federal judge in Arizona decided that the lawsuit could go forward, but Swartz's attorney, Sean Chapman, appealed that decision.
The U.S. government is not part of the civil case but has filed court paperwork as an interested party and was allowed to argue before the three-judge appeals court panel.
In a separate case, Swartz is charged with second-degree murder, and has pleaded not guilty.
The appeals court said it will not make a decision until after the U.S. Supreme Court hears a similar case involving a Mexican teen shot by a Border Patrol agent at the Texas and Mexico border. The high court is scheduled to take up that case next year.
2012 SHOOTING
Elena Rodriguez was in the Mexican border town of Nogales, walking near the international border fence when Swartz shot him from Nogales, Arizona, on Oct. 10, 2012.
The Border Patrol has said Swartz was defending himself against rock-throwers. Elena Rodriguez's family says he was walking home after playing basketball with friends and did not throw anything.
An autopsy conducted in Mexico showed that Elena Rodriguez was hit about 10 times in the back. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refused to release surveillance camera footage of the incident.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of the boy's mother in July 2014 while the FBI continued to investigate the shooting.
Last year, Swartz was indicted for second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty, and his trial is scheduled for end of February.
Swartz is free pending trial and is on unpaid administrative leave from the agency. He was forced to surrender his Border Patrol pistol.
TEXAS CONNECTION
The case is similar to a 2010 incident when a Border Patrol agent in El Paso, Texas, fatally shot a teenager who was across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Authorities said agent Jesus Mesa Jr. was trying to arrest immigrants who had illegally crossed into the country when rock-throwers attacked him. Mesa fired across the Rio Grande river, striking 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca twice.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals originally said Hernandez Guereca's family could sue Mesa.
But the full court overturned that ruling, and the Supreme Court will review the case next year.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION POSITION
The U.S. Justice Department brought forward the criminal case against Swartz but also opposes the civil suit filed against him.
In court documents submitted in February, government attorneys argued Elena Rodriguez's family did not have a constitutional right to sue in part because it lacked "significant voluntary connections" to the United States.
At Friday's hearing, Department of Justice attorney Henry Whitaker argued that Elena Rodriguez had no significant connection to the United States because he never lived in the country.
THE ACLU'S TAKE
Lee Gelernt, an ACLU lawyer argued that Nogales in Mexico's Sonora state and Nogales in Arizona are closely intertwined and that Elena Rodriguez was often cared for by his grandmother, who lives in the United States.
She was a permanent legal resident in the U.S. while she cared for him and is now an American citizen, he said.
Gelernt said in an interview with The Associated Press that the criminal prosecution of Swartz should not be a substitute for a civil rights case.
"The executive branch cannot police itself. That is not in the interest of the country and is contrary to the basic principles underlying our constitution," Gelernt said.
END
Also: http://www.kgun9.com/newsy/us-border-patrol-joins-useofforce-data-collection-pilot-program
Appeals court considers Arizona cross-border shooting case
ASSOCIATED PRESS |
October 21, 2016 @ 9:23 am
http://ktar.com/story/1324830/appeals-court-to-hear-arizona-cross-border-shooting-case/
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014, file photo, a photo of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, who was fatally shot by U.S. Border Patrol near the Mexico-U.S border, leans against a podium on a church altar during a memorial mass in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. The civil rights case against Agent Lonnie Swartz over the Rodriguez' death will go forward after U.S. District Court Judge Raner C. Collins denied a part of his motion to dismiss the case. (AP Photo/Valeria Fernandez, File)
PHOENIX — A government attorney argued Friday that the mother of a 16-year-old Mexican boy killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in a cross border shooting should not be allowed to sue the agent because the boy lacked significant ties to the United States.
But a lawyer for the mother countered that the boy's grandmother cared for him while she was a legal permanent U.S. resident.
The arguments before a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco stem from the October 2012 shooting of Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez by Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz, who opened fire from Arizona and hit Elena Rodriguez in Mexico.
A federal judge in Arizona decided that the lawsuit could go forward, but Swartz's attorney, Sean Chapman, appealed that decision.
The U.S. government is not part of the civil case but has filed court paperwork as an interested party and was allowed to argue before the three-judge appeals court panel.
In a separate case, Swartz is charged with second-degree murder, and has pleaded not guilty.
The appeals court said it will not make a decision until after the U.S. Supreme Court hears a similar case involving a Mexican teen shot by a Border Patrol agent at the Texas and Mexico border. The high court is scheduled to take up that case next year.
2012 SHOOTING
Elena Rodriguez was in the Mexican border town of Nogales, walking near the international border fence when Swartz shot him from Nogales, Arizona, on Oct. 10, 2012.
The Border Patrol has said Swartz was defending himself against rock-throwers. Elena Rodriguez's family says he was walking home after playing basketball with friends and did not throw anything.
An autopsy conducted in Mexico showed that Elena Rodriguez was hit about 10 times in the back. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has refused to release surveillance camera footage of the incident.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of the boy's mother in July 2014 while the FBI continued to investigate the shooting.
Last year, Swartz was indicted for second-degree murder. He has pleaded not guilty, and his trial is scheduled for end of February.
Swartz is free pending trial and is on unpaid administrative leave from the agency. He was forced to surrender his Border Patrol pistol.
TEXAS CONNECTION
The case is similar to a 2010 incident when a Border Patrol agent in El Paso, Texas, fatally shot a teenager who was across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Authorities said agent Jesus Mesa Jr. was trying to arrest immigrants who had illegally crossed into the country when rock-throwers attacked him. Mesa fired across the Rio Grande river, striking 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca twice.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals originally said Hernandez Guereca's family could sue Mesa.
But the full court overturned that ruling, and the Supreme Court will review the case next year.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION POSITION
The U.S. Justice Department brought forward the criminal case against Swartz but also opposes the civil suit filed against him.
In court documents submitted in February, government attorneys argued Elena Rodriguez's family did not have a constitutional right to sue in part because it lacked "significant voluntary connections" to the United States.
At Friday's hearing, Department of Justice attorney Henry Whitaker argued that Elena Rodriguez had no significant connection to the United States because he never lived in the country.
THE ACLU'S TAKE
Lee Gelernt, an ACLU lawyer argued that Nogales in Mexico's Sonora state and Nogales in Arizona are closely intertwined and that Elena Rodriguez was often cared for by his grandmother, who lives in the United States.
She was a permanent legal resident in the U.S. while she cared for him and is now an American citizen, he said.
Gelernt said in an interview with The Associated Press that the criminal prosecution of Swartz should not be a substitute for a civil rights case.
"The executive branch cannot police itself. That is not in the interest of the country and is contrary to the basic principles underlying our constitution," Gelernt said.
END
Also: http://www.kgun9.com/newsy/us-border-patrol-joins-useofforce-data-collection-pilot-program
Thursday, October 20, 2016
AZMEX I3 20-10-16
AZMEX I3 20 OCT 2016
Note: very interesting change.
Mexico to grant residency to undocumented migrants
KRISTIAN HERNANDEZ | STAFF WRITER
19 hrs ago
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/mexico-to-grant-residency-to-undocumented-migrants/article_f7dce5a8-9574-11e6-b0f4-d7508ea44df9.html
Starting next year, the government of Mexico will grant legal temporary residency status at no cost to any undocumented migrant that entered the country before January 2015, according to a Monday news release.
Last week, the Mexican immigration officials announced the revival of the country's Temporary Program for the Regularization of Migrants, which will begin Jan. 9, 2017.
"The main objective of this program is to guarantee that the human rights of all migrants are respected and to help in the implementation of a more effective immigration policy," reads a statement from Mexico's Office of Human Rights and Democracy.
Foreigners who entered the country before Jan. 9, 2015, and can prove they've been earning the national minimum wage of about $4 per day will receive a four-year residency card along with a work permit. After the four years, all migrants who have met a set of requirements will be granted permanent residency, the release states.
The program clearly establishes documents that must be presented for consideration by immigration authorities, including a form of identification and financial statements but they are also allowing alternative forms of proof, including witness statements and certain kinds of purchase receipts and non-official documents.
"It is important to point out that any foreigner who goes into any INM office for information or to start their solicitation can be certain they will not face persecution by immigration authorities, deportation, and will not have to cover any costs associated with the application," INM officials stated in the Monday news release.
The Temporary Program for the Regularization of Migrants was first created in January 2015 and expired later that year. The new expiration date is set for Dec. 19, 2017.
khernandez@themonitor.com
Haitians seeking a better life
Details Published on Thursday October 20, 2016,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80474
Nogales.
A group of 23 migrants arrived yesterday at the border to enter the United States.
A second group of migrants from Haiti arrived yesterday afternoon to Nogales, hoping to cross into the United States and improve their quality of life, with work and better living conditions. A first group arrived last Tuesday.
The young Adrien Chiroux, who was part of the second group of 23 migrants Wednesday awaiting their entry into the gates of the gatehouse Dennis DeConcini, explained that it was the second set of Haitians who came to this border, after Tuesday when crossed six people .
"I'm looking for a better life," he said in Spanish with difficult pronunciation.
He said that not seeking political asylum, they want a visa or work permit, to help his family, because in their country of origin there is no work, there are many people who want to do things wrong, but they do not want seek work and a better life.
Therefore, let it pass expect to move forward, get a job and continue with their lives.
They have not ruled out any US city as a destination, because where there is work, there to stay.
"I'm going there to work, any work I do to improve my life. In Haiti there is no work, no, if you want to work, you have to seek a visa to go elsewhere, "he added.
The young migrant also reported that entered Mexican territory by Guatemala, crossed almost ten countries to reach Nogales, more than three weeks ago have traveled all by the bus.
Other groups of Haitians chose to cross other borders, just by Nogales they begin to arrive, as they learned that it is easier to access than other borders as Tijuana, where there are more than four thousand refugees in recent weeks.
"We were treated well, now expect to enter and get a job, to improve our lives."
While staying at the gates of the DeConcini gatehouse, the group received food and clothing that were brought to them by volunteers from the Kino Initiative.
end
Note: very interesting change.
Mexico to grant residency to undocumented migrants
KRISTIAN HERNANDEZ | STAFF WRITER
19 hrs ago
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/mexico-to-grant-residency-to-undocumented-migrants/article_f7dce5a8-9574-11e6-b0f4-d7508ea44df9.html
Starting next year, the government of Mexico will grant legal temporary residency status at no cost to any undocumented migrant that entered the country before January 2015, according to a Monday news release.
Last week, the Mexican immigration officials announced the revival of the country's Temporary Program for the Regularization of Migrants, which will begin Jan. 9, 2017.
"The main objective of this program is to guarantee that the human rights of all migrants are respected and to help in the implementation of a more effective immigration policy," reads a statement from Mexico's Office of Human Rights and Democracy.
Foreigners who entered the country before Jan. 9, 2015, and can prove they've been earning the national minimum wage of about $4 per day will receive a four-year residency card along with a work permit. After the four years, all migrants who have met a set of requirements will be granted permanent residency, the release states.
The program clearly establishes documents that must be presented for consideration by immigration authorities, including a form of identification and financial statements but they are also allowing alternative forms of proof, including witness statements and certain kinds of purchase receipts and non-official documents.
"It is important to point out that any foreigner who goes into any INM office for information or to start their solicitation can be certain they will not face persecution by immigration authorities, deportation, and will not have to cover any costs associated with the application," INM officials stated in the Monday news release.
The Temporary Program for the Regularization of Migrants was first created in January 2015 and expired later that year. The new expiration date is set for Dec. 19, 2017.
khernandez@themonitor.com
Haitians seeking a better life
Details Published on Thursday October 20, 2016,
Written by Marco A. Flores
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80474
Nogales.
A group of 23 migrants arrived yesterday at the border to enter the United States.
A second group of migrants from Haiti arrived yesterday afternoon to Nogales, hoping to cross into the United States and improve their quality of life, with work and better living conditions. A first group arrived last Tuesday.
The young Adrien Chiroux, who was part of the second group of 23 migrants Wednesday awaiting their entry into the gates of the gatehouse Dennis DeConcini, explained that it was the second set of Haitians who came to this border, after Tuesday when crossed six people .
"I'm looking for a better life," he said in Spanish with difficult pronunciation.
He said that not seeking political asylum, they want a visa or work permit, to help his family, because in their country of origin there is no work, there are many people who want to do things wrong, but they do not want seek work and a better life.
Therefore, let it pass expect to move forward, get a job and continue with their lives.
They have not ruled out any US city as a destination, because where there is work, there to stay.
"I'm going there to work, any work I do to improve my life. In Haiti there is no work, no, if you want to work, you have to seek a visa to go elsewhere, "he added.
The young migrant also reported that entered Mexican territory by Guatemala, crossed almost ten countries to reach Nogales, more than three weeks ago have traveled all by the bus.
Other groups of Haitians chose to cross other borders, just by Nogales they begin to arrive, as they learned that it is easier to access than other borders as Tijuana, where there are more than four thousand refugees in recent weeks.
"We were treated well, now expect to enter and get a job, to improve our lives."
While staying at the gates of the DeConcini gatehouse, the group received food and clothing that were brought to them by volunteers from the Kino Initiative.
end
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 17-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 17 OCT 2016
Note: as always, numbers suspect.
DHS reports 400,000 arrests on southwest border in 2016, up from last year
BY KTAR.COM |
October 17, 2016 @ 3:39 pm
http://ktar.com/story/1319632/border-patrol-reports-400000-arrests-on-southwest-border-in-2016/
PHOENIX — The Border Patrol arrested more than 400,000 people on the southwestern United States border with Mexico this fiscal year, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.
In a statement, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said the 408,870 arrests were up from about 331,000 reported last fiscal year. However, it is lower than the amount of arrests in the fiscal years of 2013 and 2014.
Johnson said the Border Patrol has seen a notable drop in the number of both Mexican and single adults attempting to cross the border. Instead, more children and families attempting to flee poverty and violence in Central America are trying to illegally enter the United States.
This trend began in 2014, when more Central Americans were caught at the border than Mexicans. The same thing happened in 2016.
Johnson said the changing dynamics along the border are presenting a new challenge to the American immigration system.
"We are determined to treat migrants in a humane manner," he said. "At the same time, we must enforce our immigration laws consistent with our enforcement priorities. This has included, and will continue to include, providing individuals with an opportunity to assert claims for asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief."
Johnson said the U.S. is working with Central American nations — both diplomatically and financially — to reduce the causes that push people to consider illegally crossing the border.
Earlier this month, an report commissioned by DHS said slightly more than half of the people who centered the country illegally in 2015 were caught.
In terms of people, 170,000 eluded capture during the 2015 fiscal year, 210,000 the previous year, and 1.7 million in 2005.
The number of people who eluded capture is larger when including those who escaped detection at border crossings or who entered by sea, which is the responsibility of Homeland Security agencies outside the Border Patrol. Adding those, 200,000 people got away last year, 260,000 in 2014, and 1.9 million in 2005.
The huge drop in illegal entries over the last decade coincides with major increases in security spending, which has reached $14 billion annually. The report notes more serious consequences imposed on illegal crossers during that period, which include jail time.
end
Note: the rest mostly local interest, not responsible for content. Mostly computer "english"
Seek to curb proliferation of zika and chikungunya
Details Published on Saturday October 15, 2016,
Written by Editorial / El Diario
http://eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80225
The Government of the State of Sonora through its Committee on Ecology and Sustainable Development (Cedes) works on building projects with the federal governments of Mexico and the United States as well as the state of Arizona, to curb the spread of vector-borne diseases.
Luis Carlos Romo Salazar, head of Cedes, visited Nogales to be part of a symposium held at the Technology, with the issue of diseases caused by climate change
He explained that due to the convening of the working group Frontera 20-20 to discuss the issue of diseases and related health problems mentioned global phenomenon.
He highlighted the participation of federal authorities in the Mexican and US governments, as well as the states of Sonora and Arizona in a group that performs works and projects since 2012, which originated from the Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA) following a agreement between the presidents of both countries
"The work you are all related in developing projects for the benefit of the environment and to prevent proliferation of diseases related to climate change," he said.
It that concern for health authorities, are Zika and chikungunya, which developed from climate change in different regions, which has risen from the southern hemisphere to North America.
"The idea of working in this forum, is that academics and health authorities, supported by environmental authorities, find ways to develop projects to avoid the proliferation of vectors of these diseases, such as mosquitoes," said Romo Salazar .
He added that there are other vectors more diseases such as bedbugs, which are also diseases that appear from these changes in climate, it is the focus of this working group forum.
end
Army seizes 22 kilograms of cocaine precursors in Sonora
Details Published on Saturday October 15, 2016,
Written by Editorial / The Journal
http://eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80228
Mexican Army seized 22 kilograms of cocaine precursor at the military security post "Querobabi" in Opodepe, Sonora.
The incident occurred on Friday 14 October, when military personnel revisions, used X-rays and gamma rays in a tractor-trailer and found that showed an anomaly to be inspected in detail found a box with several packages containing a white powder; On performing a chemical test itl was found that precursors for the production of cocaine.
The driver and drugs and tractor trailer were made available to the appropriate authorities.
end
They were carrying 45 migrants in a truck Photo: Writing ElImparcial
By: Manuel Jimenez | 10.17.2016 6:21
NOGALES, Sonora (GH)
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Sonora/17102016/1139892-Llevaban-a-45-migrantes-dentro-de-un-camion.html
The illusion of reaching the United States led to 45 Central Americans to travel in a unhealthy, unsafe and in a tight manner in a vehicle owned by a parcel delivery company, though they were secured in position military inspection located between Agua Prieta and Janos reveal sources feds.
The sad face of undocumented immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua said it all, as they lost money and failed to reach their target.
Elements of the 45th military zone in coordination with authorities of the National Immigration Institute retained for review a truck with cargo box of the company that was led by David G. A. name, according to reports.
Upon inspection in the case of the unit located 46 people packed aboard, most of them elderly who lacked documentation for legal stay in Mexico.
The group of Central Americans informed the authorities that they came from the State of Chihuahua and were bound for Sonoyta, where they were to cross illegally to the neighboring country.
Soldiers who carried out the inspection made available to the INM 45 people for the formalities and the driver was retained for the preliminary investigation PGR
end
More coming from Africa, etc. (spanish)
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/10/16/preven-arribo-de-15-mil-africanos-y-haitianos-en-chiapas
end
Note: as always, numbers suspect.
DHS reports 400,000 arrests on southwest border in 2016, up from last year
BY KTAR.COM |
October 17, 2016 @ 3:39 pm
http://ktar.com/story/1319632/border-patrol-reports-400000-arrests-on-southwest-border-in-2016/
PHOENIX — The Border Patrol arrested more than 400,000 people on the southwestern United States border with Mexico this fiscal year, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.
In a statement, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said the 408,870 arrests were up from about 331,000 reported last fiscal year. However, it is lower than the amount of arrests in the fiscal years of 2013 and 2014.
Johnson said the Border Patrol has seen a notable drop in the number of both Mexican and single adults attempting to cross the border. Instead, more children and families attempting to flee poverty and violence in Central America are trying to illegally enter the United States.
This trend began in 2014, when more Central Americans were caught at the border than Mexicans. The same thing happened in 2016.
Johnson said the changing dynamics along the border are presenting a new challenge to the American immigration system.
"We are determined to treat migrants in a humane manner," he said. "At the same time, we must enforce our immigration laws consistent with our enforcement priorities. This has included, and will continue to include, providing individuals with an opportunity to assert claims for asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief."
Johnson said the U.S. is working with Central American nations — both diplomatically and financially — to reduce the causes that push people to consider illegally crossing the border.
Earlier this month, an report commissioned by DHS said slightly more than half of the people who centered the country illegally in 2015 were caught.
In terms of people, 170,000 eluded capture during the 2015 fiscal year, 210,000 the previous year, and 1.7 million in 2005.
The number of people who eluded capture is larger when including those who escaped detection at border crossings or who entered by sea, which is the responsibility of Homeland Security agencies outside the Border Patrol. Adding those, 200,000 people got away last year, 260,000 in 2014, and 1.9 million in 2005.
The huge drop in illegal entries over the last decade coincides with major increases in security spending, which has reached $14 billion annually. The report notes more serious consequences imposed on illegal crossers during that period, which include jail time.
end
Note: the rest mostly local interest, not responsible for content. Mostly computer "english"
Seek to curb proliferation of zika and chikungunya
Details Published on Saturday October 15, 2016,
Written by Editorial / El Diario
http://eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80225
The Government of the State of Sonora through its Committee on Ecology and Sustainable Development (Cedes) works on building projects with the federal governments of Mexico and the United States as well as the state of Arizona, to curb the spread of vector-borne diseases.
Luis Carlos Romo Salazar, head of Cedes, visited Nogales to be part of a symposium held at the Technology, with the issue of diseases caused by climate change
He explained that due to the convening of the working group Frontera 20-20 to discuss the issue of diseases and related health problems mentioned global phenomenon.
He highlighted the participation of federal authorities in the Mexican and US governments, as well as the states of Sonora and Arizona in a group that performs works and projects since 2012, which originated from the Free Trade Agreement, (NAFTA) following a agreement between the presidents of both countries
"The work you are all related in developing projects for the benefit of the environment and to prevent proliferation of diseases related to climate change," he said.
It that concern for health authorities, are Zika and chikungunya, which developed from climate change in different regions, which has risen from the southern hemisphere to North America.
"The idea of working in this forum, is that academics and health authorities, supported by environmental authorities, find ways to develop projects to avoid the proliferation of vectors of these diseases, such as mosquitoes," said Romo Salazar .
He added that there are other vectors more diseases such as bedbugs, which are also diseases that appear from these changes in climate, it is the focus of this working group forum.
end
Army seizes 22 kilograms of cocaine precursors in Sonora
Details Published on Saturday October 15, 2016,
Written by Editorial / The Journal
http://eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=80228
Mexican Army seized 22 kilograms of cocaine precursor at the military security post "Querobabi" in Opodepe, Sonora.
The incident occurred on Friday 14 October, when military personnel revisions, used X-rays and gamma rays in a tractor-trailer and found that showed an anomaly to be inspected in detail found a box with several packages containing a white powder; On performing a chemical test itl was found that precursors for the production of cocaine.
The driver and drugs and tractor trailer were made available to the appropriate authorities.
end
They were carrying 45 migrants in a truck Photo: Writing ElImparcial
By: Manuel Jimenez | 10.17.2016 6:21
NOGALES, Sonora (GH)
http://www.elimparcial.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Sonora/17102016/1139892-Llevaban-a-45-migrantes-dentro-de-un-camion.html
The illusion of reaching the United States led to 45 Central Americans to travel in a unhealthy, unsafe and in a tight manner in a vehicle owned by a parcel delivery company, though they were secured in position military inspection located between Agua Prieta and Janos reveal sources feds.
The sad face of undocumented immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua said it all, as they lost money and failed to reach their target.
Elements of the 45th military zone in coordination with authorities of the National Immigration Institute retained for review a truck with cargo box of the company that was led by David G. A. name, according to reports.
Upon inspection in the case of the unit located 46 people packed aboard, most of them elderly who lacked documentation for legal stay in Mexico.
The group of Central Americans informed the authorities that they came from the State of Chihuahua and were bound for Sonoyta, where they were to cross illegally to the neighboring country.
Soldiers who carried out the inspection made available to the INM 45 people for the formalities and the driver was retained for the preliminary investigation PGR
end
More coming from Africa, etc. (spanish)
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/10/16/preven-arribo-de-15-mil-africanos-y-haitianos-en-chiapas
end
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
AZWORLD SPECIAL 16-10-16
AZWORLD SPECIAL 16 OCT 2016
Note: illegal drug trade and terrorism inseparable. Not to forget the taliban finance their terror activities with opium sold in Europe.
The drug war in Mexico and Central America being financed by the "american" doper.
The drug money buys weapons and politicians.
A example; Unknown at this time if the St. Cloud, MN attacker was on one of these drugs.
thx
Spain seizes drugs shipment destined to fund terrorism
Published: 12 Oct 2016 08:26 GMT+02:00
https://www.thelocal.es/20161012/spain-seizes-drugs-shipment-to-libya-in-global-operation
Spanish police said on Tuesday that a boat carrying nearly 20 tonnes of hashish to Libya was seized as part of a global operation targeting the financing of armed groups in North Africa and the Middle East.
With the help of Europe's police agency Europol, information from French customs and air support from Italian police, Spanish forces intercepted the boat registered under the Panamanian flag off Spain's southeastern coast on September 23rd.
They said all crew members were detained - 11 Ukrainians and one Uzbek - in what a spokesman for French customs said was "one of the biggest seizures of hashish" ever in Europe.
Hashish seized on a ship off the coast of Spain. Photo: Guardia Civil
The Guardia Civil police force said the boat was intercepted as part of an operation launched in 2013 by Spanish, Moroccan, French, Italian and Greek authorities, with additional support from the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
Some 100 tonnes of hashish have been seized in the multi-country operation and 109 people detained -- with a majority being nationals of Syrian, Moroccan and Spanish.
"This trafficking is being used to finance insurgents in existing conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East," Javier Rogero, lieutenant colonel at the Guardia Civil, told reporters.
He would not be drawn on which groups the drugs and weapons were benefiting, but said police were "convinced... that they also finance jihadist terrorism."
Captagon pills seized
Rogero described the Mediterranean Sea as "a sort of highway for illicit trafficking."
A total of seven boats have been caught as part of the operation - two of them carrying weapons and five full of hashish, believed to be used to buy arms.
The boats had all departed from Turkey. In the case of those carrying drugs, though, the hashish - which came from Morocco - was loaded on board in the Atlantic ocean.
In the case of the two boats carrying weapons, the arms were already on board when they left Turkey.
One of them was intercepted last year, and another in February.
Altogether, they carried 11,400 long guns, more than a million cartridges and ten tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which can be used to make explosives.
One of the boats, which was registered in Togo, was heading to Misrata on Libya's northwestern coast.
The intended recipients are unclear but Misrata is home to powerful militias who were among the forces that seized the capital Tripoli in 2014 and forced the government to flee further east.
But they are now fighting alongside forces from a UN-backed unity government formed earlier this year - and re-established in Tripoli - to oust the Islamic State group from nearby Sirte.
Rogero said that the exchange of information with other countries also allowed the Egyptian navy to intercept a shipment of 1.2 million Captagon pills, an amphetamine popular in Gulf and other Middle Eastern countries that is also believed to play a crucial part in Syria's civil war.
The production of this synthetic stimulant provides income for the warring factions and also keeps fighters awake and energised over long periods.
end
Note: illegal drug trade and terrorism inseparable. Not to forget the taliban finance their terror activities with opium sold in Europe.
The drug war in Mexico and Central America being financed by the "american" doper.
The drug money buys weapons and politicians.
A example; Unknown at this time if the St. Cloud, MN attacker was on one of these drugs.
thx
Spain seizes drugs shipment destined to fund terrorism
Published: 12 Oct 2016 08:26 GMT+02:00
https://www.thelocal.es/20161012/spain-seizes-drugs-shipment-to-libya-in-global-operation
Spanish police said on Tuesday that a boat carrying nearly 20 tonnes of hashish to Libya was seized as part of a global operation targeting the financing of armed groups in North Africa and the Middle East.
With the help of Europe's police agency Europol, information from French customs and air support from Italian police, Spanish forces intercepted the boat registered under the Panamanian flag off Spain's southeastern coast on September 23rd.
They said all crew members were detained - 11 Ukrainians and one Uzbek - in what a spokesman for French customs said was "one of the biggest seizures of hashish" ever in Europe.
Hashish seized on a ship off the coast of Spain. Photo: Guardia Civil
The Guardia Civil police force said the boat was intercepted as part of an operation launched in 2013 by Spanish, Moroccan, French, Italian and Greek authorities, with additional support from the US Drug Enforcement Agency.
Some 100 tonnes of hashish have been seized in the multi-country operation and 109 people detained -- with a majority being nationals of Syrian, Moroccan and Spanish.
"This trafficking is being used to finance insurgents in existing conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East," Javier Rogero, lieutenant colonel at the Guardia Civil, told reporters.
He would not be drawn on which groups the drugs and weapons were benefiting, but said police were "convinced... that they also finance jihadist terrorism."
Captagon pills seized
Rogero described the Mediterranean Sea as "a sort of highway for illicit trafficking."
A total of seven boats have been caught as part of the operation - two of them carrying weapons and five full of hashish, believed to be used to buy arms.
The boats had all departed from Turkey. In the case of those carrying drugs, though, the hashish - which came from Morocco - was loaded on board in the Atlantic ocean.
In the case of the two boats carrying weapons, the arms were already on board when they left Turkey.
One of them was intercepted last year, and another in February.
Altogether, they carried 11,400 long guns, more than a million cartridges and ten tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which can be used to make explosives.
One of the boats, which was registered in Togo, was heading to Misrata on Libya's northwestern coast.
The intended recipients are unclear but Misrata is home to powerful militias who were among the forces that seized the capital Tripoli in 2014 and forced the government to flee further east.
But they are now fighting alongside forces from a UN-backed unity government formed earlier this year - and re-established in Tripoli - to oust the Islamic State group from nearby Sirte.
Rogero said that the exchange of information with other countries also allowed the Egyptian navy to intercept a shipment of 1.2 million Captagon pills, an amphetamine popular in Gulf and other Middle Eastern countries that is also believed to play a crucial part in Syria's civil war.
The production of this synthetic stimulant provides income for the warring factions and also keeps fighters awake and energised over long periods.
end
Monday, October 17, 2016
AZMEX SPECIAL 16-10-16
AZMEX SPECIAL 16 OCT 2016
Supreme Court action in shooting case could have broad implications
Sara Sanchez , El Paso Times 4
:33 p.m. MDT October 15, 2016
http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/national/2016/10/15/us-supreme-court-decision-shooting-case-could-have-far-reaching-implications/92098318/
Law enforcement officials and constitutional law experts will be watching closely as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in an El Paso case that involves the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
The court's decision, according to legal scholars, could have far-reaching implications as justices could decide whether a constitutional amendment that guards against the unjustified use of deadly force also encompasses border areas patrolled by federal agents, leaving them subject to lawsuits.
The nation's highest court announced this week that it would hear the case, which stems from a 2010 incident in which U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa Jr. shot and killed 15-year-old Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca.
A date for the hearing has not been set for the case that could highlight three key questions: Do the Fourth Amendment's protections against unlawful seizures and unjustified use of deadly force extend beyond the country's borders? Is Mesa immune from being sued since he was unaware that Hernández was not a U.S. citizen? And, can a 1971 case known as Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which states that federal agents can be sued if they act unlawfully while carrying out their duties, be used as a basis for a lawsuit against the border patrol agent?
"It could be one of the biggest cases (of the term), depending upon how the court rules, and perhaps a crucial test for when private citizens can sue federal officers for damages, as well," said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas at Austin professor who specializes in constitutional law.
Hernández was unarmed when Mesa shot him on June 7, 2010. The teenager, and several men, were in a levee along the Rio Grande, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to the FBI, Mesa, who was on a bicycle, was detaining someone when the group of men ran into Mexico and began throwing rocks. Mesa fired his gun after the men ignored his order that they stop, officials said.
In a 2010 interview with the El Paso Times, Hernández's family disputed the account. They said that their son was not part of the group throwing rocks.
The fallout from the incident was immediate and received responses from both sides of the border.
Then-Mexican President Felipe Calderón said the shooting was a "disproportionate use of force."
On the U.S. side, the Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation into the incident, which was closed in 2012 because of "insufficient evidence." An internal investigation by the Border Patrol also ended with no action taken against Mesa.
In 2011, Hernández's parents sued Mesa. Last year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, decided against the Hernandez family, who then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Attorneys for both sides say the Supreme Court's ruling could influence how federal agents respond to incidents in the areas they patrol.
Steve Shadowen, one of the lawyers for the Hernández family, said this case, and the area in which it occurred, represents a "black hole" in terms of legal protection.
"If Sergio had been in the U.S., his family would be entitled to judicial review of the killing," Shadowen said. "If he had been a U.S. citizen in Mexico, there would be judicial review. But for some reason the Obama administration thinks there's an exception to judicial review if it turns out the person is a Mexican national. We think that's silly."
Randolph Ortega, the lawyer representing Mesa, argues that the biggest issue surrounding the case is extraterritorial jurisdiction, or the legal ability of governments to patrol beyond their defined borders. He said that a ruling in favor of the Hernández family could blur lines.
"If you're using a handgun and a person is 40 yards away and across an international border — if the Supreme Court finds in favor of the appellate, then where is the line drawn? Is it 40 yards, 400 yards, 400 miles; where does it stop?" Ortega said. "That creates a peculiar and dangerous situation not only for law enforcement but for the entire United States."
This is not the first El Paso case to reach the Supreme Court.
Two U.S. Supreme Court cases filed by Lawrence Nixon, an African American physician, were instrumental in the fight for voting rights for minorities in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s.
The court in 1927 also weighed in on a dispute in El Paso that determined the boundary between Texas and New Mexico. In 2004, justices decided a case that determined whether a Mexican man could sue the Drug Enforcement Administration after he was acquitted in a case that accused him of torturing and murdering a DEA agent. The agency had hired Mexican nationals to kidnap the man from his home in Mexico and bring him to the United States to stand trial.
Rory Little, a law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said people who are looking to the court to find justice for Hernández may not find what they are seeking in this case because the justices will have a narrow focus.
"It seems wrong for the federal agent to shoot, but the question the court is going to address is: How does the Constitution apply on, outside, or at all on the border?," Little said. "They're not going to rule on the question of did the agent do the right thing."
Supreme Court experts say it's hard to predict an outcome for the case.
One of the nine seats on the Supreme Court remains vacant after Justice Antonin Scalia's death in February. President Barack Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the court but Senate Republicans have refused to hold a hearing on the nomination.
Since the case asks three key questions, the implications are also hard to predict, Little said.
The first question that must be answered is whether Bivens v. Six Unknown can be used as a basis for a lawsuit against Mesa, Little said.
If it's determined that the Bivens case can be used, then the court has to answer how far the protections of the Fourth Amendment extend. After they've answered that question, the court then has to determine if Mesa has qualified immunity, which protects federal officials from civil damages.
"Even if the court says the Fourth Amendment extends, the question is: Was it firmly established during the shooting? Are they immune because it wasn't established as he shot Hernández?," Little said.
The Supreme Court may not be the final stop in this case, especially for the family of Hernández.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Hernández, the case will be kicked back down to lower courts, where the lawsuit against Mesa will proceed.
"It's a fool's errand to try to handicap the result at this stage," said Vladeck. "But if nothing else, the fact that the Supreme Court took the case at all is a good sign for Hernández, and suggests that at least four of the eight Justices are not completely satisfied with the Court of Appeals' ruling."
Ortega said that Mesa, his client, remains optimistic. Mesa is still employed by the Border Patrol.
"He (Mesa) remains confident that the legal system will find that it's justified and there's no recourse," Ortega said.
Cristobal Galindo, the Hernández family attorney, said the family was relieved when they heard the case was headed to the Supreme Court.
"They were so disenchanted with the process because they believed nothing was happening," Galindo said. "Now that they finally got the day in court, they feel like there's a chance."
Galindo said that if the case does come back to the lower courts, the trial would be in El Paso and would begin as soon as the Supreme Court decision is issued.
"We still have a lot of work to do. It's not over, and the family knows that," Galindo said. "It's a long haul."
Sara Sanchez can be reached at 546-6147; ssanchez@elpasotimes.com; @siempresarita on Twitter. Times librarian Trish Long contributed to this story.
END
Supreme Court action in shooting case could have broad implications
Sara Sanchez , El Paso Times 4
:33 p.m. MDT October 15, 2016
http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/national/2016/10/15/us-supreme-court-decision-shooting-case-could-have-far-reaching-implications/92098318/
Law enforcement officials and constitutional law experts will be watching closely as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in an El Paso case that involves the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
The court's decision, according to legal scholars, could have far-reaching implications as justices could decide whether a constitutional amendment that guards against the unjustified use of deadly force also encompasses border areas patrolled by federal agents, leaving them subject to lawsuits.
The nation's highest court announced this week that it would hear the case, which stems from a 2010 incident in which U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa Jr. shot and killed 15-year-old Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca.
A date for the hearing has not been set for the case that could highlight three key questions: Do the Fourth Amendment's protections against unlawful seizures and unjustified use of deadly force extend beyond the country's borders? Is Mesa immune from being sued since he was unaware that Hernández was not a U.S. citizen? And, can a 1971 case known as Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which states that federal agents can be sued if they act unlawfully while carrying out their duties, be used as a basis for a lawsuit against the border patrol agent?
"It could be one of the biggest cases (of the term), depending upon how the court rules, and perhaps a crucial test for when private citizens can sue federal officers for damages, as well," said Stephen Vladeck, a University of Texas at Austin professor who specializes in constitutional law.
Hernández was unarmed when Mesa shot him on June 7, 2010. The teenager, and several men, were in a levee along the Rio Grande, which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border.
According to the FBI, Mesa, who was on a bicycle, was detaining someone when the group of men ran into Mexico and began throwing rocks. Mesa fired his gun after the men ignored his order that they stop, officials said.
In a 2010 interview with the El Paso Times, Hernández's family disputed the account. They said that their son was not part of the group throwing rocks.
The fallout from the incident was immediate and received responses from both sides of the border.
Then-Mexican President Felipe Calderón said the shooting was a "disproportionate use of force."
On the U.S. side, the Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation into the incident, which was closed in 2012 because of "insufficient evidence." An internal investigation by the Border Patrol also ended with no action taken against Mesa.
In 2011, Hernández's parents sued Mesa. Last year, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, decided against the Hernandez family, who then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Attorneys for both sides say the Supreme Court's ruling could influence how federal agents respond to incidents in the areas they patrol.
Steve Shadowen, one of the lawyers for the Hernández family, said this case, and the area in which it occurred, represents a "black hole" in terms of legal protection.
"If Sergio had been in the U.S., his family would be entitled to judicial review of the killing," Shadowen said. "If he had been a U.S. citizen in Mexico, there would be judicial review. But for some reason the Obama administration thinks there's an exception to judicial review if it turns out the person is a Mexican national. We think that's silly."
Randolph Ortega, the lawyer representing Mesa, argues that the biggest issue surrounding the case is extraterritorial jurisdiction, or the legal ability of governments to patrol beyond their defined borders. He said that a ruling in favor of the Hernández family could blur lines.
"If you're using a handgun and a person is 40 yards away and across an international border — if the Supreme Court finds in favor of the appellate, then where is the line drawn? Is it 40 yards, 400 yards, 400 miles; where does it stop?" Ortega said. "That creates a peculiar and dangerous situation not only for law enforcement but for the entire United States."
This is not the first El Paso case to reach the Supreme Court.
Two U.S. Supreme Court cases filed by Lawrence Nixon, an African American physician, were instrumental in the fight for voting rights for minorities in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s.
The court in 1927 also weighed in on a dispute in El Paso that determined the boundary between Texas and New Mexico. In 2004, justices decided a case that determined whether a Mexican man could sue the Drug Enforcement Administration after he was acquitted in a case that accused him of torturing and murdering a DEA agent. The agency had hired Mexican nationals to kidnap the man from his home in Mexico and bring him to the United States to stand trial.
Rory Little, a law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said people who are looking to the court to find justice for Hernández may not find what they are seeking in this case because the justices will have a narrow focus.
"It seems wrong for the federal agent to shoot, but the question the court is going to address is: How does the Constitution apply on, outside, or at all on the border?," Little said. "They're not going to rule on the question of did the agent do the right thing."
Supreme Court experts say it's hard to predict an outcome for the case.
One of the nine seats on the Supreme Court remains vacant after Justice Antonin Scalia's death in February. President Barack Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the court but Senate Republicans have refused to hold a hearing on the nomination.
Since the case asks three key questions, the implications are also hard to predict, Little said.
The first question that must be answered is whether Bivens v. Six Unknown can be used as a basis for a lawsuit against Mesa, Little said.
If it's determined that the Bivens case can be used, then the court has to answer how far the protections of the Fourth Amendment extend. After they've answered that question, the court then has to determine if Mesa has qualified immunity, which protects federal officials from civil damages.
"Even if the court says the Fourth Amendment extends, the question is: Was it firmly established during the shooting? Are they immune because it wasn't established as he shot Hernández?," Little said.
The Supreme Court may not be the final stop in this case, especially for the family of Hernández.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Hernández, the case will be kicked back down to lower courts, where the lawsuit against Mesa will proceed.
"It's a fool's errand to try to handicap the result at this stage," said Vladeck. "But if nothing else, the fact that the Supreme Court took the case at all is a good sign for Hernández, and suggests that at least four of the eight Justices are not completely satisfied with the Court of Appeals' ruling."
Ortega said that Mesa, his client, remains optimistic. Mesa is still employed by the Border Patrol.
"He (Mesa) remains confident that the legal system will find that it's justified and there's no recourse," Ortega said.
Cristobal Galindo, the Hernández family attorney, said the family was relieved when they heard the case was headed to the Supreme Court.
"They were so disenchanted with the process because they believed nothing was happening," Galindo said. "Now that they finally got the day in court, they feel like there's a chance."
Galindo said that if the case does come back to the lower courts, the trial would be in El Paso and would begin as soon as the Supreme Court decision is issued.
"We still have a lot of work to do. It's not over, and the family knows that," Galindo said. "It's a long haul."
Sara Sanchez can be reached at 546-6147; ssanchez@elpasotimes.com; @siempresarita on Twitter. Times librarian Trish Long contributed to this story.
END
Saturday, October 15, 2016
AZMEX EXTRA 15-10-16
AZMEX EXTRA 15 OCT 2016
Note: did not make this up.
See "editors note" at end. Tells you more about the media than the BP.
Thx
Agent's assault rifle at checkpoint raises alarm
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International Updated Oct 14, 2016
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/agent-s-assault-rifle-at-checkpoint-raises-alarm/article_0d80ceca-923b-11e6-a3c0-07059dacdb26.html
All Border Patrol agents, including those working at checkpoints, have the option of carrying "long arms" to the field, a spokesman said.
Robert Kimball said he was shocked when he rolled up at the Border Patrol checkpoint near Sonoita on Wednesday morning to the sight of an agent toting a large military-style gun.
"I drove up and the guy that's standing there two feet from my window has an assault rifle, a big, black assault rifle strapped across chest," he said.
The agent didn't greet him or smile, and Kimball said his first thought was to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Kimball, a resident of Patagonia, passes through the checkpoint on northbound State Route 83 almost weekly on his way to Tucson and has never seen agents holding military-style weapons before this week, he said.
"Normally what you're used to seeing is a guy, he has a pistol on his belt. We're used to seeing that. And they often have a drug dog. We're used to seeing that," he said, expressing incredulity that heavy-duty weapons would be necessary at an interior checkpoint where most of the traffic comes from local residents.
"I can think of no reason," he said.
CBP spokesman John Lawson said that all agents have the option of carrying "long arms" to the field. And while "there is no present threat other than what you see on the news every day," he said that "agents are prepared for the worst."
Lawson admitted that agents with assault riffles are not a "'traveler-friendly' image" and said it is an understandable concern amid the discussion of the increasing militarization of the border. However, agents on duty don't always think about it that way, he said.
"The purpose is not to intimidate – it is to protect the public from threats to their life and safety, and be able to respond quickly if a serious threat emerges," he wrote in an emailed response.
But for Kimball, who said the vast majority of agents he encounters at the checkpoint are pleasant, the sight of an assault rifle on an everyday drive to Tucson was alarming.
"Actually, my first thought as I drove away was, 'Are we being tested to see what we will put up with?'" he said. "I've been exposed to a lot of stuff, and I didn't expect to see this."
(Editor's note: Robert Kimball is the former publisher of the Nogales International.)
end
Note: did not make this up.
See "editors note" at end. Tells you more about the media than the BP.
Thx
Agent's assault rifle at checkpoint raises alarm
By Kendal Blust
Nogales International Updated Oct 14, 2016
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/agent-s-assault-rifle-at-checkpoint-raises-alarm/article_0d80ceca-923b-11e6-a3c0-07059dacdb26.html
All Border Patrol agents, including those working at checkpoints, have the option of carrying "long arms" to the field, a spokesman said.
Robert Kimball said he was shocked when he rolled up at the Border Patrol checkpoint near Sonoita on Wednesday morning to the sight of an agent toting a large military-style gun.
"I drove up and the guy that's standing there two feet from my window has an assault rifle, a big, black assault rifle strapped across chest," he said.
The agent didn't greet him or smile, and Kimball said his first thought was to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Kimball, a resident of Patagonia, passes through the checkpoint on northbound State Route 83 almost weekly on his way to Tucson and has never seen agents holding military-style weapons before this week, he said.
"Normally what you're used to seeing is a guy, he has a pistol on his belt. We're used to seeing that. And they often have a drug dog. We're used to seeing that," he said, expressing incredulity that heavy-duty weapons would be necessary at an interior checkpoint where most of the traffic comes from local residents.
"I can think of no reason," he said.
CBP spokesman John Lawson said that all agents have the option of carrying "long arms" to the field. And while "there is no present threat other than what you see on the news every day," he said that "agents are prepared for the worst."
Lawson admitted that agents with assault riffles are not a "'traveler-friendly' image" and said it is an understandable concern amid the discussion of the increasing militarization of the border. However, agents on duty don't always think about it that way, he said.
"The purpose is not to intimidate – it is to protect the public from threats to their life and safety, and be able to respond quickly if a serious threat emerges," he wrote in an emailed response.
But for Kimball, who said the vast majority of agents he encounters at the checkpoint are pleasant, the sight of an assault rifle on an everyday drive to Tucson was alarming.
"Actually, my first thought as I drove away was, 'Are we being tested to see what we will put up with?'" he said. "I've been exposed to a lot of stuff, and I didn't expect to see this."
(Editor's note: Robert Kimball is the former publisher of the Nogales International.)
end
Friday, October 14, 2016
AZMEX SPECIAL 14-10-16
AZMEX SPECIAL 14 OCT 2016
Note: The Armed Citizens of Cheran, Michoacan. Something you won't see in the corrupt "US" media. Also very surprising to see something like this in the UK media, especially the BBC. Somebody sure to be demoted. Some good lessons for us all. Several photos, etc.
Gracias
Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters
By Linda Pressly
BBC News, Cheran
13 October 2016
From the section Magazine
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37612083
People of Cheran town
In Mexico, organised crime reaches everywhere, even into the smallest village - except for one small town in the state of Michoacan. Led by local women, the people of Cheran rose up to defend their forest from armed loggers - and kicked out police and politicians at the same time.
The women met in secret to make their plans. They were sickened by the killings and kidnaps that had become routine and angered by the masked men who roamed their town demanding extortion payments from small businesses. And for more than three years they had watched, indignant, as truck after truck trundled past their homes piled high with freshly cut logs.
Mexico's cartels once focused mainly on the drugs trade, but they have diversified their business model, and now seek to dominate any lucrative industry - including timber, the foundation of Cheran's economy.
By 2011, the loggers were getting close to one of Cheran's water springs.
"We were worried," remembers Margarita Elvira Romero, one of the conspirators. "If you cut the trees, there's less water. Our husbands have cattle - where would they drink if the spring was gone?"
Map of Mexico, with Cheran marked in red
A forest guard, and map of Cheran (in red), in Michoacan, Mexico
A group of women went into the forest to try and reason with the armed men. They were verbally abused and chased away. So their plan evolved. Now they knew it was too dangerous to confront the loggers in the forest at the spring, they determined to stop the trucks in town where they would have the support of their neighbours.
Early on Friday 15 April 2011, Cheran's levantamiento, or uprising, began. On the road coming down from the forest outside Margarita's home, the women blockaded the loggers' pick-ups and took some of them hostage. As the church bells of El Calvario rang out and fireworks exploded in the dawn sky alerting the community to danger, the people of Cheran came running to help. It was tense - hotheads had to be persuaded by the women not to string up the hostages from an ancient tree outside the church.
Find out more
You can hear Linda Pressly's full report, Mexico - The Town that Said, "No", on the World Service's Assignment programme from 03:30 BST on Thursday 13 October or catch up afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.
"Everyone in the streets was running around with machetes," says Melissa Fabian, who was then 13 years old. "Ladies were running around. They all covered their faces. You could hear people screaming, and the bells of the church just ringing out all the time."
The municipal police arrived with the mayor, and armed men came to free their hostage-friends. There was an uneasy stand-off between the townspeople, the loggers and the police. It ended after two loggers were injured by a young man who shot a firework directly at them. And Cheran - a town of some 20,000 people - began its journey towards self-government.
"It makes me want to cry remembering that day," says Margarita. "It was like a horror movie - but it was the best thing we could have done."
Margarita
The police and local politicians were quickly driven out of town because the people suspected they were collaborating with the criminal networks. Political parties were banned - and still are - because they were deemed to have caused divisions between people. And each of the four districts of Cheran elected representatives to a ruling town council. In many ways, Cheran - a town populated by the indigenous Purepecha people - returned to its roots: to the ancient way of doing things, independent of outsiders.
Meanwhile armed checkpoints were established on the three main roads coming in to town.
Today, five years later, those checkpoints still exist. They are guarded by members of the Ronda Comunitaria - a militia or local police force made up of men and women from Cheran. Every vehicle is stopped, its occupants questioned about where they have come from and where they are going.
Cheran's militia rehearse for a parade
"We've learnt a lot," says Heriberto Campos, one of the founders and the co-ordinator of the Ronda Comunitaria whose nickname is "Diablo" or "Devil". "In those early days, we didn't know anything about using guns. But now we know how to fight, and if the criminals come back, we're ready for them."
Parade rehearsal in Cheran
Cheran dispenses its own justice for minor offences. Many of those are alcohol-related. On a September Sunday morning, 18 young men are sobering up behind bars at the Ronda's headquarters after being picked up for drinking in the streets or driving under the influence of alcohol.
Penalties include fines and community work - such as litter-picking.
Youths in jail
Serious law-breaking is referred to the attorney general. But in the last year there have been no murders, kidnaps or disappearances.
If you live somewhere unaccustomed to rampant, violent crime, you might not find this surprising. But Michoacan is one of Mexico's bloodiest states - where severed heads have been rolled across dance floors and grenades have been lobbed into crowded plazas. In July, there were over 180 murders in the state - the highest number for nearly a decade. And in the communities around Cheran - not even 10km away - stories of kidnap, extortion and murder are commonplace.
"In Cheran, I feel safe because I can walk the streets at night, and I don't fear that something's going to happen," says Melissa, who's now an 18-year old bio-medical student at a college just outside Cheran.
Melissa Fabian
It is not just the streets of Cheran that are secure. The pine forest - a sea of green that tumbles down the hills to the town below - was ravaged by the loggers. Now its perimeter is patrolled daily by the officers from the Ronda Comunitaria. Land in Cheran is mostly held in common - families manage it but they don't own it. With the criminals gone, rules are strictly enforced - anyone who wants to fell a tree must secure permission from the authorities.
Man and horse dragging wood
And slowly, the forest is being regenerated. It is estimated that over half the town's 17,000 hectares of forest were devastated by organised crime. Some 3,000 hectares have so far been re-planted in the five years since the uprising, the seedlings nurtured in the town's own tree nursery.
Cheran is not completely independent - it still has state and federal funding. But its autonomy as an indigenous Purepecha community is recognised and underwritten by the Mexican government. Its ban on political parties, meanwhile, has been upheld by the courts, which have confirmed its right not to participate in local, state or federal elections.
In the state of Michoacan, Cheran has become an oasis of hope - its peace and security a stark contrast to the fear that still dominates neighbouring communities. So why has it succeeded - thrived even - in such a cruel but beautiful region? Margarita, Melissa and Heriberto will give you the same one-word answer: solidaridad - solidarity.
Parade rehearsal in Cheran
Cheran's militia rehearse for a parade
Most people who live in Cheran are from the town. Social mores dictate that locals marry locals - there are very few outsiders here. Families are large, and they are close. Everyone knows everyone else. And that is the foundation of the town's unity.
With violence again on the rise in Mexico, there is anxiety in Cheran about the future - a worry that the cartels could gain a foothold once more. Other towns have tried to copy Cheran's example, but without the same success. Melissa is optimistic, and she is prepared to go out on the streets to fight for what has been achieved.
"As long as there's at least one person that wants to keep this up, we will all stand behind them. We all feel proud because we stopped something, and did something that none of the other communities dared to do."
Insecurity dominates the lives of millions of Mexicans. Caught between the murderous drug cartels and absent or corrupt law enforcement, communities are taking the law into their own hands. In 2013, in the state of Guerrero, Linda Pressly met a fledgling vigilante force that grew into an organisation numbering thousands.
Mexico's vigilante law enforcers http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22066082
end
Note: The Armed Citizens of Cheran, Michoacan. Something you won't see in the corrupt "US" media. Also very surprising to see something like this in the UK media, especially the BBC. Somebody sure to be demoted. Some good lessons for us all. Several photos, etc.
Gracias
Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters
By Linda Pressly
BBC News, Cheran
13 October 2016
From the section Magazine
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37612083
People of Cheran town
In Mexico, organised crime reaches everywhere, even into the smallest village - except for one small town in the state of Michoacan. Led by local women, the people of Cheran rose up to defend their forest from armed loggers - and kicked out police and politicians at the same time.
The women met in secret to make their plans. They were sickened by the killings and kidnaps that had become routine and angered by the masked men who roamed their town demanding extortion payments from small businesses. And for more than three years they had watched, indignant, as truck after truck trundled past their homes piled high with freshly cut logs.
Mexico's cartels once focused mainly on the drugs trade, but they have diversified their business model, and now seek to dominate any lucrative industry - including timber, the foundation of Cheran's economy.
By 2011, the loggers were getting close to one of Cheran's water springs.
"We were worried," remembers Margarita Elvira Romero, one of the conspirators. "If you cut the trees, there's less water. Our husbands have cattle - where would they drink if the spring was gone?"
Map of Mexico, with Cheran marked in red
A forest guard, and map of Cheran (in red), in Michoacan, Mexico
A group of women went into the forest to try and reason with the armed men. They were verbally abused and chased away. So their plan evolved. Now they knew it was too dangerous to confront the loggers in the forest at the spring, they determined to stop the trucks in town where they would have the support of their neighbours.
Early on Friday 15 April 2011, Cheran's levantamiento, or uprising, began. On the road coming down from the forest outside Margarita's home, the women blockaded the loggers' pick-ups and took some of them hostage. As the church bells of El Calvario rang out and fireworks exploded in the dawn sky alerting the community to danger, the people of Cheran came running to help. It was tense - hotheads had to be persuaded by the women not to string up the hostages from an ancient tree outside the church.
Find out more
You can hear Linda Pressly's full report, Mexico - The Town that Said, "No", on the World Service's Assignment programme from 03:30 BST on Thursday 13 October or catch up afterwards on the BBC iPlayer.
"Everyone in the streets was running around with machetes," says Melissa Fabian, who was then 13 years old. "Ladies were running around. They all covered their faces. You could hear people screaming, and the bells of the church just ringing out all the time."
The municipal police arrived with the mayor, and armed men came to free their hostage-friends. There was an uneasy stand-off between the townspeople, the loggers and the police. It ended after two loggers were injured by a young man who shot a firework directly at them. And Cheran - a town of some 20,000 people - began its journey towards self-government.
"It makes me want to cry remembering that day," says Margarita. "It was like a horror movie - but it was the best thing we could have done."
Margarita
The police and local politicians were quickly driven out of town because the people suspected they were collaborating with the criminal networks. Political parties were banned - and still are - because they were deemed to have caused divisions between people. And each of the four districts of Cheran elected representatives to a ruling town council. In many ways, Cheran - a town populated by the indigenous Purepecha people - returned to its roots: to the ancient way of doing things, independent of outsiders.
Meanwhile armed checkpoints were established on the three main roads coming in to town.
Today, five years later, those checkpoints still exist. They are guarded by members of the Ronda Comunitaria - a militia or local police force made up of men and women from Cheran. Every vehicle is stopped, its occupants questioned about where they have come from and where they are going.
Cheran's militia rehearse for a parade
"We've learnt a lot," says Heriberto Campos, one of the founders and the co-ordinator of the Ronda Comunitaria whose nickname is "Diablo" or "Devil". "In those early days, we didn't know anything about using guns. But now we know how to fight, and if the criminals come back, we're ready for them."
Parade rehearsal in Cheran
Cheran dispenses its own justice for minor offences. Many of those are alcohol-related. On a September Sunday morning, 18 young men are sobering up behind bars at the Ronda's headquarters after being picked up for drinking in the streets or driving under the influence of alcohol.
Penalties include fines and community work - such as litter-picking.
Youths in jail
Serious law-breaking is referred to the attorney general. But in the last year there have been no murders, kidnaps or disappearances.
If you live somewhere unaccustomed to rampant, violent crime, you might not find this surprising. But Michoacan is one of Mexico's bloodiest states - where severed heads have been rolled across dance floors and grenades have been lobbed into crowded plazas. In July, there were over 180 murders in the state - the highest number for nearly a decade. And in the communities around Cheran - not even 10km away - stories of kidnap, extortion and murder are commonplace.
"In Cheran, I feel safe because I can walk the streets at night, and I don't fear that something's going to happen," says Melissa, who's now an 18-year old bio-medical student at a college just outside Cheran.
Melissa Fabian
It is not just the streets of Cheran that are secure. The pine forest - a sea of green that tumbles down the hills to the town below - was ravaged by the loggers. Now its perimeter is patrolled daily by the officers from the Ronda Comunitaria. Land in Cheran is mostly held in common - families manage it but they don't own it. With the criminals gone, rules are strictly enforced - anyone who wants to fell a tree must secure permission from the authorities.
Man and horse dragging wood
And slowly, the forest is being regenerated. It is estimated that over half the town's 17,000 hectares of forest were devastated by organised crime. Some 3,000 hectares have so far been re-planted in the five years since the uprising, the seedlings nurtured in the town's own tree nursery.
Cheran is not completely independent - it still has state and federal funding. But its autonomy as an indigenous Purepecha community is recognised and underwritten by the Mexican government. Its ban on political parties, meanwhile, has been upheld by the courts, which have confirmed its right not to participate in local, state or federal elections.
In the state of Michoacan, Cheran has become an oasis of hope - its peace and security a stark contrast to the fear that still dominates neighbouring communities. So why has it succeeded - thrived even - in such a cruel but beautiful region? Margarita, Melissa and Heriberto will give you the same one-word answer: solidaridad - solidarity.
Parade rehearsal in Cheran
Cheran's militia rehearse for a parade
Most people who live in Cheran are from the town. Social mores dictate that locals marry locals - there are very few outsiders here. Families are large, and they are close. Everyone knows everyone else. And that is the foundation of the town's unity.
With violence again on the rise in Mexico, there is anxiety in Cheran about the future - a worry that the cartels could gain a foothold once more. Other towns have tried to copy Cheran's example, but without the same success. Melissa is optimistic, and she is prepared to go out on the streets to fight for what has been achieved.
"As long as there's at least one person that wants to keep this up, we will all stand behind them. We all feel proud because we stopped something, and did something that none of the other communities dared to do."
Insecurity dominates the lives of millions of Mexicans. Caught between the murderous drug cartels and absent or corrupt law enforcement, communities are taking the law into their own hands. In 2013, in the state of Guerrero, Linda Pressly met a fledgling vigilante force that grew into an organisation numbering thousands.
Mexico's vigilante law enforcers http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22066082
end
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 12-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 12 OCT 2016
Note: A bit interesting that it CA, not FL which is several thousand miles closer?
They are seeking asylum in the United States more than 11 thousand migrants
Antonio Heras, correspondent | Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:05
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/12/alrededor-de-11-mil-300-personas-pediran-asilo-en-eu
Nearly 600 Haitians found in the Alpha and Omega hostel, also in the SC. Afp photo
Tijuana, BC. Around 11,300 people, mostly Haitians have come to Baja California to seek political asylum in the United States.
Of the total, remaining in the state are between four and five thousand migrants, according to the National Institute of Migration (Inami).
The Mexican government has delivered 14,800 transit permits to these migrants is estimated that about eight thousand have crossed into California, after making application for asylum.
This population is in shelters and support centers for migrants in Mexicali and Tijuana, but according to the delegation of Inami in Baja California, you can not specify the exact number, "because it changes every day."
Gallery: Deplorable conditions of migrants in Tijuana
In Tijuana there is an indefinite number of migrants occupying a single room housing in the downtown, why they pay $ 20 (USD) per day, while waiting for their appointment in the office of Migration in San Ysidro, California.
The so-called "rooming houses" are meeting places where migrant families live, since most women and children sleep and take some of the daily food in shelters of civil society, especially in the "Breakfast room of Father Chava".
In Mexicali, about 600 Haitian migrants are in the Alpha and Omega hostel also in civil society.
The migration delegate Rodolfo Figueroa clarified that this population has not remained in the state (BC); It is a population movement, in transit, and the intention is to respect their human rights so that consulted the experience of the International Organization for Migration (OIM, for its acronym in English).
Official statistics Tuesday 11 October point to a record of 3,521 Haitian migrants; of them, 221 children, 140 women and 81 men.
During the course of the OIM for Tijuana it was determined to find resources to increase the capacity of social organizations and accelerate the number of people who can cross the border, as 110 appointments a day are granted by the San Ysidro and Calexico.
Mexico representative for the IOM, Christopher Gascon, this quickening not worrying, because they have not exceeded the capacity in Mexico, so far.
He said we need to discuss with the US authorities attention to migrants to lessen the burden on the border of Mexico, because it is a "humanitarian support; our job is to help organize and get "economic resources for it, in addition to identifying structures and organizations to improve and adapt.
He explained that most of these migrants left Haiti after the earthquake of 2010, to go to Brazil where they obtained work visas, but now seek to reach the United States.
The regional Inami delegate commented that this atypical migration will not end tomorrow and will continue to grow, but hoped it to conclude soon and Mexico is "a transit" for migrants.
He said there is flexibility in Inami for migrants who have exit documents, whose validity is 30 days, be regularized and to attend your appointment at the US ports of entry.
He said it is a decision of Haitians, "if you want to take to stay" in Mexico.
END
Also:
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/12102016/1138500-Dara-INM-residencia-temporal-a-haitianos.html
Note: A bit interesting that it CA, not FL which is several thousand miles closer?
They are seeking asylum in the United States more than 11 thousand migrants
Antonio Heras, correspondent | Wednesday, October 12, 2016 11:05
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2016/10/12/alrededor-de-11-mil-300-personas-pediran-asilo-en-eu
Nearly 600 Haitians found in the Alpha and Omega hostel, also in the SC. Afp photo
Tijuana, BC. Around 11,300 people, mostly Haitians have come to Baja California to seek political asylum in the United States.
Of the total, remaining in the state are between four and five thousand migrants, according to the National Institute of Migration (Inami).
The Mexican government has delivered 14,800 transit permits to these migrants is estimated that about eight thousand have crossed into California, after making application for asylum.
This population is in shelters and support centers for migrants in Mexicali and Tijuana, but according to the delegation of Inami in Baja California, you can not specify the exact number, "because it changes every day."
Gallery: Deplorable conditions of migrants in Tijuana
In Tijuana there is an indefinite number of migrants occupying a single room housing in the downtown, why they pay $ 20 (USD) per day, while waiting for their appointment in the office of Migration in San Ysidro, California.
The so-called "rooming houses" are meeting places where migrant families live, since most women and children sleep and take some of the daily food in shelters of civil society, especially in the "Breakfast room of Father Chava".
In Mexicali, about 600 Haitian migrants are in the Alpha and Omega hostel also in civil society.
The migration delegate Rodolfo Figueroa clarified that this population has not remained in the state (BC); It is a population movement, in transit, and the intention is to respect their human rights so that consulted the experience of the International Organization for Migration (OIM, for its acronym in English).
Official statistics Tuesday 11 October point to a record of 3,521 Haitian migrants; of them, 221 children, 140 women and 81 men.
During the course of the OIM for Tijuana it was determined to find resources to increase the capacity of social organizations and accelerate the number of people who can cross the border, as 110 appointments a day are granted by the San Ysidro and Calexico.
Mexico representative for the IOM, Christopher Gascon, this quickening not worrying, because they have not exceeded the capacity in Mexico, so far.
He said we need to discuss with the US authorities attention to migrants to lessen the burden on the border of Mexico, because it is a "humanitarian support; our job is to help organize and get "economic resources for it, in addition to identifying structures and organizations to improve and adapt.
He explained that most of these migrants left Haiti after the earthquake of 2010, to go to Brazil where they obtained work visas, but now seek to reach the United States.
The regional Inami delegate commented that this atypical migration will not end tomorrow and will continue to grow, but hoped it to conclude soon and Mexico is "a transit" for migrants.
He said there is flexibility in Inami for migrants who have exit documents, whose validity is 30 days, be regularized and to attend your appointment at the US ports of entry.
He said it is a decision of Haitians, "if you want to take to stay" in Mexico.
END
Also:
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/12102016/1138500-Dara-INM-residencia-temporal-a-haitianos.html
AZMEX UPDATE 8-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 8 OCT 2016
'Encuentro at the Border' under way in Nogales
• Nogales International
• Updated 1 hr ago
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/encuentro-at-the-border-under-way-in-nogales/article_3f0a6d46-8d83-11e6-81fc-7f2d7d3d58ad.html
A group that for 25 years protested a Department of Defense facility in Georgia that provides military training to Latin American governments made its debut in Nogales on Saturday morning with a protest march kicking off a weekend of activities.
Hundreds of people walked down Grand Avenue from the Quality Hotel Americana to the international boundary, waving banners and chanting slogans as part of SOA Watch's first "Encuentro at the Border." And while SOA Watch has focused its efforts on closing a military training facility, participants in Saturday's march represented a broad range of progressive political causes, including demilitarizing the border, fair wages, Black Lives Matter and compassion for refugees.
A schedule of events includes concerts, workshops, a march and interfaith ceremony at the border fence.
The goals of the event, SOA Watch says on its website, are to "highlight U.S. intervention in Latin America as one of the root causes of migration," and "stage protests, cultural events, and nonviolent direct action against racism, xenophobia and U.S. militarization at home and abroad."
The activities are scheduled on both sides of Ambos Nogales, as well as Tucson. The four-day rally kicked off Friday with a protest outside an immigration detention center in Eloy.
SOA Watch, founded by Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois, first began protesting the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Columbus, Ga., now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, in 1990. Founded in 1946, by the 1960s the SOA had become a "counterinsurgency" training center for Latin American dictatorships friendly to the United States, with a number of its graduates accused of human rights violations.
The school was rebranded the WHISC in 2001 as part of an effort to bring more transparency and human rights accountability to its operations. Even so, SOA Watch has continued to call for the institute to be closed, saying the changes "are almost entirely cosmetic."
However, according to the Columbus, Ga.-based Ledger-Enquirer, the number of people participating in the annual protest there had dwindled from more than 20,000 to fewer than 2,000.
end
'Encuentro at the Border' under way in Nogales
• Nogales International
• Updated 1 hr ago
http://www.nogalesinternational.com/news/encuentro-at-the-border-under-way-in-nogales/article_3f0a6d46-8d83-11e6-81fc-7f2d7d3d58ad.html
A group that for 25 years protested a Department of Defense facility in Georgia that provides military training to Latin American governments made its debut in Nogales on Saturday morning with a protest march kicking off a weekend of activities.
Hundreds of people walked down Grand Avenue from the Quality Hotel Americana to the international boundary, waving banners and chanting slogans as part of SOA Watch's first "Encuentro at the Border." And while SOA Watch has focused its efforts on closing a military training facility, participants in Saturday's march represented a broad range of progressive political causes, including demilitarizing the border, fair wages, Black Lives Matter and compassion for refugees.
A schedule of events includes concerts, workshops, a march and interfaith ceremony at the border fence.
The goals of the event, SOA Watch says on its website, are to "highlight U.S. intervention in Latin America as one of the root causes of migration," and "stage protests, cultural events, and nonviolent direct action against racism, xenophobia and U.S. militarization at home and abroad."
The activities are scheduled on both sides of Ambos Nogales, as well as Tucson. The four-day rally kicked off Friday with a protest outside an immigration detention center in Eloy.
SOA Watch, founded by Maryknoll priest Fr. Roy Bourgeois, first began protesting the U.S. Army School of the Americas in Columbus, Ga., now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, in 1990. Founded in 1946, by the 1960s the SOA had become a "counterinsurgency" training center for Latin American dictatorships friendly to the United States, with a number of its graduates accused of human rights violations.
The school was rebranded the WHISC in 2001 as part of an effort to bring more transparency and human rights accountability to its operations. Even so, SOA Watch has continued to call for the institute to be closed, saying the changes "are almost entirely cosmetic."
However, according to the Columbus, Ga.-based Ledger-Enquirer, the number of people participating in the annual protest there had dwindled from more than 20,000 to fewer than 2,000.
end
Monday, October 10, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 6-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 6 OCT 2016
Border Patrol agents assaulted in 2 incidents
Carmen Duarte Arizona Daily Star Updated 12 hrs ago
http://tucson.com/news/local/border/border-patrol-agents-assaulted-in-incidents/article_f8bb9e38-8b60-11e6-ad55-5f068180c5a2.html
Border Patrol agents were assaulted in two separate incidents while attempting to arrest Mexican nationals last week, authorities said.
In the first incident, an agent suffered a dislocated shoulder, and in the second incident an agent was punched in the throat and torso, according to a Customs and Border Protection news release.
On Sept. 28, agents working in a remote area west of Tucson, encountered two individuals armed with rifles.
One ran and when an agent caught up with the person, they struggled and a second agent helped in subduing the person, states the release. One agent dislocated a shoulder during the struggle.
Both individuals were arrested and four weapons were seized.
On Sept. 29, agents stationed in Douglas encountered two people in the country illegally, and while making the arrest one person resisted and punched an agent before being subdued, authorities said.
Both people were taken into custody.
END
Note: No it never stops.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol seizes nearly $1M in drugs
By James Gilbert, @YSJamesGilbert Updated Oct 3, 2016
http://www.yumasun.com/news/yuma-sector-border-patrol-seizes-nearly-m-in-drugs/article_1a0432ec-89dd-11e6-baed-63676b037e17.html
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents found nearly 48 pounds of methamphetamine, worth more than $142,000, hidden in the quarter panels of a vehicle attempting to pass through the immigration checkpoint on Interstate 8 on Friday in one of two separate weekend incidents.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents seized more than 1,700 pounds of drugs, valued at nearly $1 million dollars, during two separate weekend incidents.
According to a news release issued by agent Richard Withers, of the Yuma Sector Public Affairs Office, the most recent of the two incidents happened Sunday along the Upper Colorado River.
While he did not provide a specific location where the incident initially began, Withers said agents observed a vehicle cross the river from Mexico into the United States and they immediately gave chase.
Withers said agents briefly pursued the vehicle before the driver doubled back to the river, where the occupants bailed out and returned to Mexico.
When agents searched the vehicle they found almost 1,700 pounds of marijuana, worth more than $840,000, hidden within it.
In the second incident, which happened on Friday, agents apprehended two women who were attempting to smuggle drugs through the Border Patrol's Immigration Checkpoint on Interstate 8, which is east of Yuma.
Wither said that after a canine detection team alerted to their vehicle agents searched it and found nearly 48 pounds of methamphetamine, worth more than $142,000, hidden in the quarter panels of their vehicle.
The detained women – one who is a permanent resident and the other a U.S. citizen – vehicles and drugs will be processed per Yuma Sector guidelines, according to Withers.
Yuma County residents can help the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection by calling 1-866-999-8727 toll-free to report suspicious activity. Callers can remain anonymous.
END
Border agents patrolling mountain arrest 7, seize marijuana
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AZ_BORDER_ARRESTS_AZOL-?SITE=AZCAS&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
TACNA, Ariz. (AP) -- A group of Mexican nationals is accused of trying to smuggle marijuana into Arizona by traversing a mountainous wildlife refuge.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say agents assigned to the Wellton Border Patrol Station arrested seven people and seized 200 pounds of marijuana Tuesday.
The agents, who are part of a field training unit, learned that Border Patrol agents were tracking the group nearby on the Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge..
Authorities say the agents found one suspect hiding at the foot of the mountain.
They then hiked roughly 1,700 feet up the side of the peak and found the remaining six suspects.
They say a search turned up six backpacks filled with marijuana valued at $100,000.
Officials say all seven suspects and the drugs are being processed.
end
Border Patrol agents assaulted in 2 incidents
Carmen Duarte Arizona Daily Star Updated 12 hrs ago
http://tucson.com/news/local/border/border-patrol-agents-assaulted-in-incidents/article_f8bb9e38-8b60-11e6-ad55-5f068180c5a2.html
Border Patrol agents were assaulted in two separate incidents while attempting to arrest Mexican nationals last week, authorities said.
In the first incident, an agent suffered a dislocated shoulder, and in the second incident an agent was punched in the throat and torso, according to a Customs and Border Protection news release.
On Sept. 28, agents working in a remote area west of Tucson, encountered two individuals armed with rifles.
One ran and when an agent caught up with the person, they struggled and a second agent helped in subduing the person, states the release. One agent dislocated a shoulder during the struggle.
Both individuals were arrested and four weapons were seized.
On Sept. 29, agents stationed in Douglas encountered two people in the country illegally, and while making the arrest one person resisted and punched an agent before being subdued, authorities said.
Both people were taken into custody.
END
Note: No it never stops.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol seizes nearly $1M in drugs
By James Gilbert, @YSJamesGilbert Updated Oct 3, 2016
http://www.yumasun.com/news/yuma-sector-border-patrol-seizes-nearly-m-in-drugs/article_1a0432ec-89dd-11e6-baed-63676b037e17.html
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents found nearly 48 pounds of methamphetamine, worth more than $142,000, hidden in the quarter panels of a vehicle attempting to pass through the immigration checkpoint on Interstate 8 on Friday in one of two separate weekend incidents.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents seized more than 1,700 pounds of drugs, valued at nearly $1 million dollars, during two separate weekend incidents.
According to a news release issued by agent Richard Withers, of the Yuma Sector Public Affairs Office, the most recent of the two incidents happened Sunday along the Upper Colorado River.
While he did not provide a specific location where the incident initially began, Withers said agents observed a vehicle cross the river from Mexico into the United States and they immediately gave chase.
Withers said agents briefly pursued the vehicle before the driver doubled back to the river, where the occupants bailed out and returned to Mexico.
When agents searched the vehicle they found almost 1,700 pounds of marijuana, worth more than $840,000, hidden within it.
In the second incident, which happened on Friday, agents apprehended two women who were attempting to smuggle drugs through the Border Patrol's Immigration Checkpoint on Interstate 8, which is east of Yuma.
Wither said that after a canine detection team alerted to their vehicle agents searched it and found nearly 48 pounds of methamphetamine, worth more than $142,000, hidden in the quarter panels of their vehicle.
The detained women – one who is a permanent resident and the other a U.S. citizen – vehicles and drugs will be processed per Yuma Sector guidelines, according to Withers.
Yuma County residents can help the Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection by calling 1-866-999-8727 toll-free to report suspicious activity. Callers can remain anonymous.
END
Border agents patrolling mountain arrest 7, seize marijuana
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AZ_BORDER_ARRESTS_AZOL-?SITE=AZCAS&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
TACNA, Ariz. (AP) -- A group of Mexican nationals is accused of trying to smuggle marijuana into Arizona by traversing a mountainous wildlife refuge.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say agents assigned to the Wellton Border Patrol Station arrested seven people and seized 200 pounds of marijuana Tuesday.
The agents, who are part of a field training unit, learned that Border Patrol agents were tracking the group nearby on the Cabeza Prieta Wildlife Refuge..
Authorities say the agents found one suspect hiding at the foot of the mountain.
They then hiked roughly 1,700 feet up the side of the peak and found the remaining six suspects.
They say a search turned up six backpacks filled with marijuana valued at $100,000.
Officials say all seven suspects and the drugs are being processed.
end
AZMEX EXTRA 7-10-16
AZMEX EXTRA 7 OCT 2016
Comment: The Mexican people trying to bring back their Human & Constitutional Rights, taken from them by corrupt governments. Under the pretense of "fighting crime". But actually to prevent another successful revolution. Much as the promotion of illegal emigration being used as a "safety valve". It has been a long standing position of the ASR&PA, that a free, safe, and prosperous Mexico is very much in our interest also. A step in the right direction.
Gracias
Present initiative for citizens to carry weapons outside the home
Organizacion Editorial Mexicana
October 6, 2016
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4297450.htm
(With information from Gabriel Xantomila and Notimex)
PAN Senator Jorge Luis Preciado, presented an initiative to amend the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives that any person who does not have a criminal record, may have a firearm not only at their home, but also in their business and vehicle for self-protection and defense of their family.
In conference, the legislator from Colima revealed today that these legal changes, especially given the very serious figures of crime, burglary of dwellings, autos and business: 1 million 16 thousand 675 crimes so far this January to October 2016, and not only on the issue of theft, must also include threats, murder, aggravated assault, and rape.
The "dark figure" of crime on theft reaches 93 percent when adding crimes that are "unreported" noted PAN.
Given the rise in crime and armed robbery in commercial establishments, public roads and recently motorists on main avenues of the city, the legislature introduced the initiative so that every citizen can possess a pistol or rifle, even away from home.
In an interview with MVS News, PAN senator, Jorge Luis Preciado, spoke on this proposal to bear arms in private and commercial cars.
"We propose that may have weapons that are not exclusive to the army (...) would have a precise record of who has them," he said.
Currently, the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives only allows a Mexican citizen may own handguns or rifles at home for security and defense (Articles 15 and 16).
The Draft Decree on Constitutional Reform Article 10 states that all over 18 may possess firearms, except for the weapons for exclusive use of the Army.
End excerpt
Comment: The Mexican people trying to bring back their Human & Constitutional Rights, taken from them by corrupt governments. Under the pretense of "fighting crime". But actually to prevent another successful revolution. Much as the promotion of illegal emigration being used as a "safety valve". It has been a long standing position of the ASR&PA, that a free, safe, and prosperous Mexico is very much in our interest also. A step in the right direction.
Gracias
Present initiative for citizens to carry weapons outside the home
Organizacion Editorial Mexicana
October 6, 2016
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4297450.htm
(With information from Gabriel Xantomila and Notimex)
PAN Senator Jorge Luis Preciado, presented an initiative to amend the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives that any person who does not have a criminal record, may have a firearm not only at their home, but also in their business and vehicle for self-protection and defense of their family.
In conference, the legislator from Colima revealed today that these legal changes, especially given the very serious figures of crime, burglary of dwellings, autos and business: 1 million 16 thousand 675 crimes so far this January to October 2016, and not only on the issue of theft, must also include threats, murder, aggravated assault, and rape.
The "dark figure" of crime on theft reaches 93 percent when adding crimes that are "unreported" noted PAN.
Given the rise in crime and armed robbery in commercial establishments, public roads and recently motorists on main avenues of the city, the legislature introduced the initiative so that every citizen can possess a pistol or rifle, even away from home.
In an interview with MVS News, PAN senator, Jorge Luis Preciado, spoke on this proposal to bear arms in private and commercial cars.
"We propose that may have weapons that are not exclusive to the army (...) would have a precise record of who has them," he said.
Currently, the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives only allows a Mexican citizen may own handguns or rifles at home for security and defense (Articles 15 and 16).
The Draft Decree on Constitutional Reform Article 10 states that all over 18 may possess firearms, except for the weapons for exclusive use of the Army.
End excerpt
Thursday, October 6, 2016
AZMEX F&F EXTRA 7-10-16
AZMEX F&F EXTRA 7 OCT 2016
Note: "Fast & Furious" MEXICAN LIVES DIDN'T MATTER.
Also, any .50 is now known as a "Barrett".
From the Gulf War to Mexican narcos ... the Barrett .50
It emerged in the 80s; its creator Ronnie Barrett perfected it; It is part of the military armament in 40 countries and ... the narcos call on it to down helicopters
10/06/2016 15:13 ANGEL SALINAS
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/10/06/1120982
MEXICO CITY
From an early hour, on September 21 they began operating in Sinaloa. It was 10 am and a detained person was found in possession of three handguns. There was something 'hot' in the ejido of Tecolotes in Benito Juarez, Mexicali.
Ninety minutes later it was confirmed: A Cessna aircraft with registration number XB-MUY flew over the area at low altitude to avoid radar.
Coordination of the 150 troops was crucial, they waited for the plane descended low enough, but the pilot noticed an unusual move and tried to rise again; however, an Army truck hit one of the wings of the aircraft and prevented escape.
Five people arrested, including the pilot, were made available to the Attorney General's Office (PGR). After the ministerial proceedings, it was learned that detainees would meet with the children of Joaquin Guzman Loera, 'El Chapo'. Four AK-47 rifles, money and a .50 caliber Barrett rifle, the favored weapon of criminal groups were inside the aircraft and seized.
The power of a gun
The Barret .50 is capable of bringing down aircraft and can penetrate advanced armor; it is more lethal than the AK-47; both in the US market it can cost between 11 and 12 thousand dollars each. The Magazines for it have cost between 130 and 150 dollars; each shot costs $ 6.(USD)
An analysis by the Center of Social Studies and Public Opinion of the Chamber of Deputies, calculated in 2015 the existence of 15 million guns, of which around 13 000 were acquired illegally. (in Mexico)
Among the seizures from criminal groups were found antiarmor missiles, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, but continue to draw attention to drug cartel "artillery", creation of Ronnie Barrett.
This semiautomatic rifle emerged in the 80s, in the hands of gunmen, it has become a lethal weapon. Proven in war, it was adopted by the Swedish army in 1989 and has been refined to such a degree that in the Gulf War was a protagonist.
The SASR (Special Applications Scoped Rifle) serving with the U.S. Marines is part of the armament of at least 40 militaries in the world, with an approximate weight of 11 kilograms, has an output speed of 854 m / s, is ie its rate of fire is 70 impacts per minute and has a range up to 2,500 meters.
A fast and furious 'El Chapo'
It's a Barrett .50 !, yes, Joaquin Guzman Loera had one in the safe house January 8, the day of his recapture.
Months later, the Bureau of Alcohol, Snuff, Firearms and Explosives, US (ATF by name) confirmed that the gun was part of the 2,500 were sold covertly as an failed operation ' fast and Furious' between 2009 and 2011.
How did it come to 'El Chapo?
According to the Center for Public Integrity, the rifle could have entered via the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state.
Guesses as to the entry of weapons, this one specificly, possibly by any of the narcotúneles that have been found in the region. In June 2010, the Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier, offered to the media information of a passageway below the Rio Grande.
Through the hole 70 centimeters in diameter and 40 meters long, (28 inches x 44 yds) traffic in weapons, drugs and undocumented immigrants done.
On the armament of 'Fast and Furious' as of March 2016, they had recovered 94 of the 2,500 weapons that were sold covertly; One of them, the Barrett .50 of 'El Chapo'.
asc
Note: "Fast & Furious" MEXICAN LIVES DIDN'T MATTER.
Also, any .50 is now known as a "Barrett".
From the Gulf War to Mexican narcos ... the Barrett .50
It emerged in the 80s; its creator Ronnie Barrett perfected it; It is part of the military armament in 40 countries and ... the narcos call on it to down helicopters
10/06/2016 15:13 ANGEL SALINAS
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/10/06/1120982
MEXICO CITY
From an early hour, on September 21 they began operating in Sinaloa. It was 10 am and a detained person was found in possession of three handguns. There was something 'hot' in the ejido of Tecolotes in Benito Juarez, Mexicali.
Ninety minutes later it was confirmed: A Cessna aircraft with registration number XB-MUY flew over the area at low altitude to avoid radar.
Coordination of the 150 troops was crucial, they waited for the plane descended low enough, but the pilot noticed an unusual move and tried to rise again; however, an Army truck hit one of the wings of the aircraft and prevented escape.
Five people arrested, including the pilot, were made available to the Attorney General's Office (PGR). After the ministerial proceedings, it was learned that detainees would meet with the children of Joaquin Guzman Loera, 'El Chapo'. Four AK-47 rifles, money and a .50 caliber Barrett rifle, the favored weapon of criminal groups were inside the aircraft and seized.
The power of a gun
The Barret .50 is capable of bringing down aircraft and can penetrate advanced armor; it is more lethal than the AK-47; both in the US market it can cost between 11 and 12 thousand dollars each. The Magazines for it have cost between 130 and 150 dollars; each shot costs $ 6.(USD)
An analysis by the Center of Social Studies and Public Opinion of the Chamber of Deputies, calculated in 2015 the existence of 15 million guns, of which around 13 000 were acquired illegally. (in Mexico)
Among the seizures from criminal groups were found antiarmor missiles, rocket launchers, grenade launchers, but continue to draw attention to drug cartel "artillery", creation of Ronnie Barrett.
This semiautomatic rifle emerged in the 80s, in the hands of gunmen, it has become a lethal weapon. Proven in war, it was adopted by the Swedish army in 1989 and has been refined to such a degree that in the Gulf War was a protagonist.
The SASR (Special Applications Scoped Rifle) serving with the U.S. Marines is part of the armament of at least 40 militaries in the world, with an approximate weight of 11 kilograms, has an output speed of 854 m / s, is ie its rate of fire is 70 impacts per minute and has a range up to 2,500 meters.
A fast and furious 'El Chapo'
It's a Barrett .50 !, yes, Joaquin Guzman Loera had one in the safe house January 8, the day of his recapture.
Months later, the Bureau of Alcohol, Snuff, Firearms and Explosives, US (ATF by name) confirmed that the gun was part of the 2,500 were sold covertly as an failed operation ' fast and Furious' between 2009 and 2011.
How did it come to 'El Chapo?
According to the Center for Public Integrity, the rifle could have entered via the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state.
Guesses as to the entry of weapons, this one specificly, possibly by any of the narcotúneles that have been found in the region. In June 2010, the Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier, offered to the media information of a passageway below the Rio Grande.
Through the hole 70 centimeters in diameter and 40 meters long, (28 inches x 44 yds) traffic in weapons, drugs and undocumented immigrants done.
On the armament of 'Fast and Furious' as of March 2016, they had recovered 94 of the 2,500 weapons that were sold covertly; One of them, the Barrett .50 of 'El Chapo'.
asc
AZMEX UPDATE 3-10-16
AZMEX UPDATE 3 OCT 2016
San Luis RC
Discount migration crisis with African migrants
Over a hundred people from the Republic of Congo who have come to this city temporarily, in order to seek political asylum in the United States.
Tribuna de San Luis
October 1, 2016
By Joel Olea Galindo
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4293811.htm
In recent days, this city has perceived the presence of families of color from the Republic of Congo, and aimed to give continuity to their trip to the cities of Tijuana and Mexicali trip across the United States, so some of them have seen the opportunity to enter the neighboring country (US) via the Port of San Luis Frontier, because here is less people of the same origin seeking asylum and the wait is less.
TRIBUNE OF SAN LUIS could verify the humanitarian aid that is offered to these people, because just yesterday at the migrant home "Divine Providence", the were given assistance and accommodation fourteen people of Congolese origin, who a day later they resumed their journey to cross the border.
Manuel de Jesus Cordova Bravo, president of the board of the institution, explained that indeed these individuals, men, women and children from Haiti and the Republic of Congo, have come to this city for two reasons.
He explained that one of them is because they have exhausted their resources to continue their trip to Baja California and the other, because they have seen the opportunity to cross into the United States through the Border Port of San Luis, requested political asylum, because here it is less people of the same origin and faster entry.
Cordova Bravo denied that there is a "humanitarian crisis" because the house the migrant has sufficient capacity so far to provide assistance and accommodation to these migrants.
Meanwhile, according consulted unofficial sources, details that are already more than a hundred individuals who have crossed the border, all from the Republic of Congo, which have been attended by the Custom Border Protection's Border at the Port San Luis and funneled later to the appropriate bodies, "where each case is reviewed in particular to determine the possibility of granting political asylum or refuge."
In conclusion, according to a note published in the SOL DE TIJUANA, the Citizens Committee for the Defense of Naturalized and Afro-Mexicans, revealed that some migrants had to pay criminal trafficking organizations $1,500 up to $2,000 (USD) to show the path and the process to reach this northwestern border and the consequences have begun to come to light.
END
San Luis RC
Discount migration crisis with African migrants
Over a hundred people from the Republic of Congo who have come to this city temporarily, in order to seek political asylum in the United States.
Tribuna de San Luis
October 1, 2016
By Joel Olea Galindo
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4293811.htm
In recent days, this city has perceived the presence of families of color from the Republic of Congo, and aimed to give continuity to their trip to the cities of Tijuana and Mexicali trip across the United States, so some of them have seen the opportunity to enter the neighboring country (US) via the Port of San Luis Frontier, because here is less people of the same origin seeking asylum and the wait is less.
TRIBUNE OF SAN LUIS could verify the humanitarian aid that is offered to these people, because just yesterday at the migrant home "Divine Providence", the were given assistance and accommodation fourteen people of Congolese origin, who a day later they resumed their journey to cross the border.
Manuel de Jesus Cordova Bravo, president of the board of the institution, explained that indeed these individuals, men, women and children from Haiti and the Republic of Congo, have come to this city for two reasons.
He explained that one of them is because they have exhausted their resources to continue their trip to Baja California and the other, because they have seen the opportunity to cross into the United States through the Border Port of San Luis, requested political asylum, because here it is less people of the same origin and faster entry.
Cordova Bravo denied that there is a "humanitarian crisis" because the house the migrant has sufficient capacity so far to provide assistance and accommodation to these migrants.
Meanwhile, according consulted unofficial sources, details that are already more than a hundred individuals who have crossed the border, all from the Republic of Congo, which have been attended by the Custom Border Protection's Border at the Port San Luis and funneled later to the appropriate bodies, "where each case is reviewed in particular to determine the possibility of granting political asylum or refuge."
In conclusion, according to a note published in the SOL DE TIJUANA, the Citizens Committee for the Defense of Naturalized and Afro-Mexicans, revealed that some migrants had to pay criminal trafficking organizations $1,500 up to $2,000 (USD) to show the path and the process to reach this northwestern border and the consequences have begun to come to light.
END
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 30-9-16
AZMEX UPDATE 30 SEP 2016
Monitor health of Africans passing through Chiapas
Health authorities installed service modules for migrants at various points along the border with Guatemala.
Organizacion Editorial Mexicana
September 30, 2016
South Journal
Eduardo Torres
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4293091.htm
Tapachula, Chis. (OEM-INFORMEX) .- The Ministry of Health of Chiapas reinforced sanitary inspections to prevent contagion and epidemics due to the risk of the passage of foreigners from Central America, Caribbean and Africa mainly by Mexico's southern border.
Modules located at various points along the border with Guatemala, provide medical consultations, inspection of vital signs, detection and control of diabetes, HIV, anemia, cervical cancer; also they maintain control pregnancy , counseling and nutrition control.
Health brigades arise as a measures to address and prevent diseases that foreigners could carry from their home countries.
The health jurisdiction Nr. 7 on the southern border, said the basic vaccination schedule for combating hepatitis B, measles, rotavirus, smallpox, among other ailments is done.
The migrants, mostly from South America, through several countries and this makes them susceptible to epidemics, so to get into Mexico a medical history is done to know in detail the health status of each of them, however there are still people who refuse to such medical checks.
"We were informed that there was an epidemic, a bacteria from Haiti bacteria and so much fever, I was in Honduras and I got kidney infection," said Luis Ramirez, a Cuban citizen who received a tetanus shot.
end
Note: Some complaints in TJ, that not enough space for Mexicans in shelters as the Africans taking the space.
original article at link:
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/sociedad/2016/09/29/preocupa-la-sre-aumento-de-nuevos-flujos-migratorios
Mexico Is Worried About An Influx Of African And Asian Immigrants
ALEX PFEIFFER
Reporter
8:44 AM 09/30/2016
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/30/mexico-is-worried-about-an-influx-of-african-and-asian-immigrants/
Jonas Despinasse (C), from Haiti, stands as he waits with other migrants for the Custom and Border Protection agents to seek for asylum in the United States, on the Mexican side of the San Isidro Port of Entry on May 26, 2016, in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico. On the past couple of weeks some 600 hundred migrants, mainly from Haiti and some African countries, arrived to Tijuana to try to ask for asylum to the U.S. government through the local points of entry. / AFP / GUILLERMO ARIAS (Photo credit should read GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images) ∧
Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is concerned about an influx of immigrants into the country from African and Asian countries, according to a report Thursday in El Universal.
"Many of them will have to return to their home countries," Socorro Flores, undersecretary of Latin America and the Caribbean for the Mexican Foreign Ministry, said to El Universal.
The Mexican government is now trying to deal with this influx of immigrants by setting up shelters and working with the countries of origin of the immigrants on deportations.
Flores said regarding this immigration that, "yes there is a concern because the flows have increased and there is also a concern because they need to cross many countries to get to their intended destinations."
The government official added, "right now they are coming from many countries in Asia and Africa and that increases regional migration."
Central America has recently been dealing with an influx of immigrants from abroad. It was recently reported that Guatemala has caught 56 times more African immigrants in 2016 than they did in all of 2015. These immigrants frequently have the goal of heading to the United States and seeking asylum.
Flores said that tackling this immigration issue will take time and cooperation among Central American countries.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/30/mexico-is-worried-about-an-influx-of-african-and-asian-immigrants/#ixzz4LlNSkyxi
More: ( in Spanish)
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/30092016/1133990-Llevan-a-370-migrantes-mexicanos-a-albergues.html
Note: CAMEX "Three of the men had prior immigration and criminal convictions"
Border Patrol officer assaulted, 4 men arrested
POSTED 9:56 AM, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016, BY FOX 5 DIGITAL TEAM,
UPDATED AT 11:47AM, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/09/30/border-control-officer-assaulted-4-men-apprehended/
DULZURA, Calif. — A border control agent was assaulted early Wednesday while trying to apprehend an undocumented migrant with prior convictions for illegally crossing into the country and having sexual contact with a child, authorities said.
The attack happened Wednesday morning as agents were searching for five people suspected of illegally entering the U.S. in a remote area on Otay Mountain.
Agents located the group around 9 a.m. on a mountain ridge. As agents approached, the five people fled in different directions. Agents quickly located two men hiding in brush. One man freely turned himself in to authorities.
A second man reportedly became combative when approached by agents in a gully. The man grabbed the agent's arm, pulled him down the hill forcefully, then threw an elbow strike at the agent and attempted to flee, officials said.
The agent managed to follow the man and complete the arrest, but later needed to have treatment at the hospital. The man has prior immigration and felony convictions, including sexual contact with a child.
"Most of the illegal entries in the Brown Field area are attempted on foot through remote, rugged terrain. This not only endangers our agents when subjects become combative, but endangers those entering illegally as well," Brown Field Station Patrol Agent in Charge Mickey Valdez said.
A border patrol K-9 alerted to an area where a third man was hiding in brush. Several hours later, a fourth man was arrested. He was suffering from a knee injury and dehydration.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection responded to the scene and airlifted all four to the hospital. Three of the men had prior immigration and criminal convictions, authorities said.
After being treated for their heat-related illness, three suspects were turned over to agents for immigration and criminal violations. The fourth man remains in the hospital. A fifth person fled and was not located.
To report suspicious activity to the U.S. Border Patrol, contact San Diego Sector at (619) 498-9900.
END
Monitor health of Africans passing through Chiapas
Health authorities installed service modules for migrants at various points along the border with Guatemala.
Organizacion Editorial Mexicana
September 30, 2016
South Journal
Eduardo Torres
http://www.oem.com.mx/tribunadesanluis/notas/n4293091.htm
Tapachula, Chis. (OEM-INFORMEX) .- The Ministry of Health of Chiapas reinforced sanitary inspections to prevent contagion and epidemics due to the risk of the passage of foreigners from Central America, Caribbean and Africa mainly by Mexico's southern border.
Modules located at various points along the border with Guatemala, provide medical consultations, inspection of vital signs, detection and control of diabetes, HIV, anemia, cervical cancer; also they maintain control pregnancy , counseling and nutrition control.
Health brigades arise as a measures to address and prevent diseases that foreigners could carry from their home countries.
The health jurisdiction Nr. 7 on the southern border, said the basic vaccination schedule for combating hepatitis B, measles, rotavirus, smallpox, among other ailments is done.
The migrants, mostly from South America, through several countries and this makes them susceptible to epidemics, so to get into Mexico a medical history is done to know in detail the health status of each of them, however there are still people who refuse to such medical checks.
"We were informed that there was an epidemic, a bacteria from Haiti bacteria and so much fever, I was in Honduras and I got kidney infection," said Luis Ramirez, a Cuban citizen who received a tetanus shot.
end
Note: Some complaints in TJ, that not enough space for Mexicans in shelters as the Africans taking the space.
original article at link:
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/nacion/sociedad/2016/09/29/preocupa-la-sre-aumento-de-nuevos-flujos-migratorios
Mexico Is Worried About An Influx Of African And Asian Immigrants
ALEX PFEIFFER
Reporter
8:44 AM 09/30/2016
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/30/mexico-is-worried-about-an-influx-of-african-and-asian-immigrants/
Jonas Despinasse (C), from Haiti, stands as he waits with other migrants for the Custom and Border Protection agents to seek for asylum in the United States, on the Mexican side of the San Isidro Port of Entry on May 26, 2016, in Tijuana, northwestern Mexico. On the past couple of weeks some 600 hundred migrants, mainly from Haiti and some African countries, arrived to Tijuana to try to ask for asylum to the U.S. government through the local points of entry. / AFP / GUILLERMO ARIAS (Photo credit should read GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP/Getty Images) ∧
Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is concerned about an influx of immigrants into the country from African and Asian countries, according to a report Thursday in El Universal.
"Many of them will have to return to their home countries," Socorro Flores, undersecretary of Latin America and the Caribbean for the Mexican Foreign Ministry, said to El Universal.
The Mexican government is now trying to deal with this influx of immigrants by setting up shelters and working with the countries of origin of the immigrants on deportations.
Flores said regarding this immigration that, "yes there is a concern because the flows have increased and there is also a concern because they need to cross many countries to get to their intended destinations."
The government official added, "right now they are coming from many countries in Asia and Africa and that increases regional migration."
Central America has recently been dealing with an influx of immigrants from abroad. It was recently reported that Guatemala has caught 56 times more African immigrants in 2016 than they did in all of 2015. These immigrants frequently have the goal of heading to the United States and seeking asylum.
Flores said that tackling this immigration issue will take time and cooperation among Central American countries.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/30/mexico-is-worried-about-an-influx-of-african-and-asian-immigrants/#ixzz4LlNSkyxi
More: ( in Spanish)
http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/30092016/1133990-Llevan-a-370-migrantes-mexicanos-a-albergues.html
Note: CAMEX "Three of the men had prior immigration and criminal convictions"
Border Patrol officer assaulted, 4 men arrested
POSTED 9:56 AM, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016, BY FOX 5 DIGITAL TEAM,
UPDATED AT 11:47AM, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
http://fox5sandiego.com/2016/09/30/border-control-officer-assaulted-4-men-apprehended/
DULZURA, Calif. — A border control agent was assaulted early Wednesday while trying to apprehend an undocumented migrant with prior convictions for illegally crossing into the country and having sexual contact with a child, authorities said.
The attack happened Wednesday morning as agents were searching for five people suspected of illegally entering the U.S. in a remote area on Otay Mountain.
Agents located the group around 9 a.m. on a mountain ridge. As agents approached, the five people fled in different directions. Agents quickly located two men hiding in brush. One man freely turned himself in to authorities.
A second man reportedly became combative when approached by agents in a gully. The man grabbed the agent's arm, pulled him down the hill forcefully, then threw an elbow strike at the agent and attempted to flee, officials said.
The agent managed to follow the man and complete the arrest, but later needed to have treatment at the hospital. The man has prior immigration and felony convictions, including sexual contact with a child.
"Most of the illegal entries in the Brown Field area are attempted on foot through remote, rugged terrain. This not only endangers our agents when subjects become combative, but endangers those entering illegally as well," Brown Field Station Patrol Agent in Charge Mickey Valdez said.
A border patrol K-9 alerted to an area where a third man was hiding in brush. Several hours later, a fourth man was arrested. He was suffering from a knee injury and dehydration.
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection responded to the scene and airlifted all four to the hospital. Three of the men had prior immigration and criminal convictions, authorities said.
After being treated for their heat-related illness, three suspects were turned over to agents for immigration and criminal violations. The fourth man remains in the hospital. A fifth person fled and was not located.
To report suspicious activity to the U.S. Border Patrol, contact San Diego Sector at (619) 498-9900.
END
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
AZMEX UPDATE 28-9-16
AZMEX UPDATE 28 SEP 2016
Note; photos at link.
Border Patrol agents seize nearly $119K in heroin, meth
Ashley Wallinger
12:07 PM, Sep 28, 2016
5 hours ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/border-patrol-agents-seize-nearly-119k-in-heroin-meth
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
NOGALES, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) - Customs and Border Protection agents seized nearly $119,000 worth of heroin and methamphetamine, and arrested two Mexican nationals who were attempting to smuggle the drugs through the Port of Nogales.
On September 24, officers working with a CBP canine at the Mariposa crossing located three pounds of meth, worth about $8,300, on a 26-year-old man driving a Chevrolet sedan.
On September 26, officers stopped a 38-year-old man trying to cross the border with $110,000 worth of meth and heroin in the heater core of his Volkswagen.
The drugs and vehicles were seized, and both men were taken into custody.
end
Note: Map, etc. at link. Mostly computer english.
Research claims Jalisco New Generation Cartel is now the most important
by: Narcodata on September 28, 2016
http://riodoce.mx/narcotrafico-2/asegura-investigacion-que-cartel-jalisco-nueva-generacion-es-el-mas-importante
New Generation Jalisco Cartel grew during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, becoming the largest in the country, according to a investigation of Narcodata Political Animal.
On the webpage it states that the criminal group was hardly recognized as drug cartel, with national and international trafficking in 2011, and in five years has become the criminal group with more presence in the country, even above the Sinaloa cartel.
"It has operations in 14 states and surpasses even the Sinaloa Cartel, which has historically dominated the drug business," he says.
"It's first operations occurred in Jalisco, Nayarit and Colima, where it emerged as a criminal organization. But then spreads to Michoacan, Guanajuato, Veracruz, Guerrero, Morelos, San Luis Potosi, State of Mexico and even in 2014 the Office reported its presence in the Federal District ".
The latest information from Mexican and US authorities on its operations in June 2016, indicates that the CJNG already has a presence also in Aguascalientes, Baja California and reached the coasts of the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas in southeastern Mexico.
Currently it is the only criminal organization with a presence in both the Gulf states of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, from the northern border and the southern border.
"The DEA and the United States Department of the Treasury agree that a key factor in its rapid expansion is sharing operations with the criminal group Los Cuinis, experts in trafficking cocaine and methamphetamines but especially in washing money, "says the text.
"The leader of the Cuinis, Abigael González Valencia -before member of the now disappeared Millennium Cartel arrested in Mexico in February 2015, is brother of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho".
The Office for the Control of Foreign Assets (OFAC) of the Department of the Treasury, he included both in April 2015 in its list of major drug traffickers under the most important law in the United States on the commission of drug offenses (Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act).
In the investigation it mentioned that the cartel has used to rocket launchers to shoot down helicopters and reacts violently whenever criminals of their organization are detained.
"On May 1, 2015 CJNG changed the paradigm of the struggle of four decades between the Mexican state and organized crime: used a rocket launcher to shoot down a helicopter of the Mexican Army. Before that, the drug cartels had shown that their combat power was able to resist, but not exceed, the federal government, "he says.
The Mexican armed forces acknowledged that they had never before suffered such an attack, in which eight soldiers died.
But shoot down a helicopter in Guadalajara, Jalisco, was not the only one to this day the criminal group that just in 2011 had been included as one of the nine drug cartels operating in the country: the Cartel Jalisco New Generation also installed 39 blockades in 20 municipalities in three states to stop the federal forces, armed with four matches staged police and military and, most importantly, prevented the arrest of its leader and founder Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho.
It was not the first time that cartel reacted with such a level of violence and to an operating strategy of the federal government. A month earlier they had made an ambush on police: the April 7, 2015 members of the One Force, the police force of Jalisco, was returning from a community on the coast of the state when a vehicle blocked the road in the village of Soyatán . Gunmen shot and killed 15 policemen and wounded five others.
The state Commissioner of Public Security, Alejandro Solorio Arechiga said the ambush was a reaction to an operation in which they arrested Heriberto Acevedo Cardenas, El Gringo, one of the ringleaders in the region of Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Local authorities have had to recognize that whenever there is an arrest or death of a senior member, the cartel responds with violence.
But not only that: never before has a criminal organization had grown as quickly in Mexico. Large drug cartels that dominated the business in the 1980s and 1990s in the country advanced during three presidential administrations.
While records of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) indicate that since 2011, when New Generation Jalisco emerged, it has most of its operations in the Mexican Pacific -Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English) and the Treasury Department identified the presence from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific; and border to border: from southeast to northwest.
Information and Mexican authorities realize this cartel activities in 14 states, almost half of the national territory.
Origin and transformation
Ignacio Nacho Coronel, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in Jalisco, died on July 29, 2010, during an operation of the Mexican Army. In addition to controlling that area of the Pacific, in his later years he devoted himself to forming an armed group dedicated to preventing the entry of the group Los Zetas, a criminal organization with greater progress in national territory during the presidency of Felipe Calderon, after separation Gulf Cartel, in its area of influence.
This armed group of Nacho Coronel was known as Los Mata Zetas.
Mexican authorities identified in the beginning only as a criminal cell of the Sinaloa cartel, but a year after the death of Nacho Coronel, in 2011, its independence was recognized and appeared in official records as the ninth criminal organization with a presence in the country (along with Tijuana cartels, Juarez, Sinaloa, Gulf, Beltran Leyva, Los Zetas, La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templar).
Javier Valdez Cardenas, writer and specialist in drug-trafficking journalist, the consolidation of the cartel had the key moment the death of Colonel: "That void was occupied by Jalisco New Generation with their leaders, with their own routes and new partners, but taking advantage of the structure that already had the Sinaloa Cartel, which stood aimlessly in the region. "
The journalist says that as an independent force, Jalisco New Generation made pacts with the Sinaloa Cartel to prevent Jalisco area became a battlefield and even the Mencho traveled to Sinaloa to strengthen these commitments.
49 bodies were abandoned on the streets of Boca del Rio, Veracruz, with hands and feet tied and signs of torture: the September 24, 2011, the Mata Zetas are behind one of the worst massacres during the administration of Felipe Calderon.
Nemesio Oseguera The Mencho and the leader of the Cuinis, Abigael González Valencia and founded the New Generation Jalisco Cartel, born of the armed wing of Nacho Coronel and the remains of the Millennium Cartel or Valencia. It operated as an ally of the Sinaloa Cartel since the 1980s and during the presidency of Vicente Fox when its founder, Armando Valencia Cornelio Maradona, was arrested in 2003 and the federal government gave the organization disappeared.
According to the DEA, the advance of Jalisco New Generation Cartel began in 2011 with the taking of territories in Michoacan and Veracruz, which formerly belonged to the Knights Templar and Los Zetas, respectively.
Alejandro Hope, an expert on security issues, said that at least two times the action or inaction of the authorities has led the consolidation of the cartel.
The first was between 2011 and 2013 when in Veracruz Los Mata Zetas Los Zetas faced: "There was an official tolerance to them to hit Los Zetas, who had become an extremely violent group."
"The fall of the Knights Templar cartel after the federal offensive is another fact to note he adds. That was their rival cartel territory in the area of Michoacan and Jalisco, as well as in the market for methamphetamines. The weakening after 2014 of the Knights Templar has strengthened the Cartel de Jalisco. To all this the capture of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, which also can be used by Jalisco New Generation for expansion "is added.
The DEA warns that while cartels including that of Sinaloa focused on repelling the federal forces in the War on Drugs, Jalisco New Generation advanced in the country.
Last March, the General US Consulate in Tijuana said in its report on Crime and Security in northwest Mexico, which in the quest to master the main trafficking routes for drugs, Jalisco New Generation is facing in the northern border the old cartels.
Tijuana is an area historically dominated by the cartel of the Arellano Felix brothers, but also with the presence of other organizations has been disputed by groups like the Sinaloa Cartel or Juarez, as the step towards a major trafficking route both land and by sea.
The strongest?
"CJNG has used violence and corruption to become one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in Mexico," in September 2015 said John E. Smith, director of the Office for the Control of Foreign Assets Department US Treasury.
Seven months later, the official said that his country makes every effort to dismantle the network of money laundering "the powerful" criminal organization.
Javier Olea regard, professor and researcher at the Faculty of Political Sciences at UNAM and National Security expert says that this cartel has been strengthened by recruiting members of Knights Templar and La Familia Michoacana.
In less than five years Jalisco New Generation entered the "black list" of the United States as one of the most important drug trafficking organizations. With the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, detained since January 2016, its leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes Mencho is now a priority.
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end
Note: Today 1 peso = 0.051USD or 1 USD = 19.35 pesos.
Thousands of rounds in the brush, in Petatlan
The arsenal was stocked with more than three thousand cartridges of different calibers, as well as a AK magazine
09/28/2016 8:38 DRAFTING / Quadratín
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/09/28/1119447
Photo: Quadratín
MEXICO CITY.
Mexican Army and State Police located thousands of cartridges hidden in the undergrowth at a dairy farm located in the town of Petatlan.
The discovery occurred at 15:00 pm on Tuesday when troops conducted tours of a dirt road in Cotter community.
In total 275 found 3,000 .223 caliber cartridges, 962 of 7.62mm and a magazine for AK-47, with capacity for 30 cartridges.
BLACK LIST OF INSECURITY
According to a report based on the National Survey of Victimization and Perception of Public Safety
(Envipe) 2016, insecurity and crime cost the Mexicans 236,800 million pesos a year,
equivalent to 5,905 pesos per person affected. (305 USD)
Measures against insecurity: change or add locks on doors or windows and erect gates or fences.
Specifies that to protect themselves, Mexicans spent 77,900 million pesos, an increase of 17.7 percent in 2015.
According to the survey conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the State of Mexico and Guerrero lead the crime rate in our country.
In the State of Mexico's main crime is robbery or assault in the street and / or public transport, followed by extortion and fraud, while in Guerrero, the most common crime is extortion, followed by theft or assault in the street and / or public transportation and fraud.
The rate of unreported crime or that derived no preliminary investigation was 93.7 percent nationwide during 2015, while in 2014 it was 92.8 percent.
end
Note; photos at link.
Border Patrol agents seize nearly $119K in heroin, meth
Ashley Wallinger
12:07 PM, Sep 28, 2016
5 hours ago
http://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/border-patrol-agents-seize-nearly-119k-in-heroin-meth
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
NOGALES, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) - Customs and Border Protection agents seized nearly $119,000 worth of heroin and methamphetamine, and arrested two Mexican nationals who were attempting to smuggle the drugs through the Port of Nogales.
On September 24, officers working with a CBP canine at the Mariposa crossing located three pounds of meth, worth about $8,300, on a 26-year-old man driving a Chevrolet sedan.
On September 26, officers stopped a 38-year-old man trying to cross the border with $110,000 worth of meth and heroin in the heater core of his Volkswagen.
The drugs and vehicles were seized, and both men were taken into custody.
end
Note: Map, etc. at link. Mostly computer english.
Research claims Jalisco New Generation Cartel is now the most important
by: Narcodata on September 28, 2016
http://riodoce.mx/narcotrafico-2/asegura-investigacion-que-cartel-jalisco-nueva-generacion-es-el-mas-importante
New Generation Jalisco Cartel grew during the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto, becoming the largest in the country, according to a investigation of Narcodata Political Animal.
On the webpage it states that the criminal group was hardly recognized as drug cartel, with national and international trafficking in 2011, and in five years has become the criminal group with more presence in the country, even above the Sinaloa cartel.
"It has operations in 14 states and surpasses even the Sinaloa Cartel, which has historically dominated the drug business," he says.
"It's first operations occurred in Jalisco, Nayarit and Colima, where it emerged as a criminal organization. But then spreads to Michoacan, Guanajuato, Veracruz, Guerrero, Morelos, San Luis Potosi, State of Mexico and even in 2014 the Office reported its presence in the Federal District ".
The latest information from Mexican and US authorities on its operations in June 2016, indicates that the CJNG already has a presence also in Aguascalientes, Baja California and reached the coasts of the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas in southeastern Mexico.
Currently it is the only criminal organization with a presence in both the Gulf states of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, from the northern border and the southern border.
"The DEA and the United States Department of the Treasury agree that a key factor in its rapid expansion is sharing operations with the criminal group Los Cuinis, experts in trafficking cocaine and methamphetamines but especially in washing money, "says the text.
"The leader of the Cuinis, Abigael González Valencia -before member of the now disappeared Millennium Cartel arrested in Mexico in February 2015, is brother of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho".
The Office for the Control of Foreign Assets (OFAC) of the Department of the Treasury, he included both in April 2015 in its list of major drug traffickers under the most important law in the United States on the commission of drug offenses (Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act).
In the investigation it mentioned that the cartel has used to rocket launchers to shoot down helicopters and reacts violently whenever criminals of their organization are detained.
"On May 1, 2015 CJNG changed the paradigm of the struggle of four decades between the Mexican state and organized crime: used a rocket launcher to shoot down a helicopter of the Mexican Army. Before that, the drug cartels had shown that their combat power was able to resist, but not exceed, the federal government, "he says.
The Mexican armed forces acknowledged that they had never before suffered such an attack, in which eight soldiers died.
But shoot down a helicopter in Guadalajara, Jalisco, was not the only one to this day the criminal group that just in 2011 had been included as one of the nine drug cartels operating in the country: the Cartel Jalisco New Generation also installed 39 blockades in 20 municipalities in three states to stop the federal forces, armed with four matches staged police and military and, most importantly, prevented the arrest of its leader and founder Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho.
It was not the first time that cartel reacted with such a level of violence and to an operating strategy of the federal government. A month earlier they had made an ambush on police: the April 7, 2015 members of the One Force, the police force of Jalisco, was returning from a community on the coast of the state when a vehicle blocked the road in the village of Soyatán . Gunmen shot and killed 15 policemen and wounded five others.
The state Commissioner of Public Security, Alejandro Solorio Arechiga said the ambush was a reaction to an operation in which they arrested Heriberto Acevedo Cardenas, El Gringo, one of the ringleaders in the region of Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Local authorities have had to recognize that whenever there is an arrest or death of a senior member, the cartel responds with violence.
But not only that: never before has a criminal organization had grown as quickly in Mexico. Large drug cartels that dominated the business in the 1980s and 1990s in the country advanced during three presidential administrations.
While records of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) indicate that since 2011, when New Generation Jalisco emerged, it has most of its operations in the Mexican Pacific -Colima, Jalisco and Nayarit, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English) and the Treasury Department identified the presence from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific; and border to border: from southeast to northwest.
Information and Mexican authorities realize this cartel activities in 14 states, almost half of the national territory.
Origin and transformation
Ignacio Nacho Coronel, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in Jalisco, died on July 29, 2010, during an operation of the Mexican Army. In addition to controlling that area of the Pacific, in his later years he devoted himself to forming an armed group dedicated to preventing the entry of the group Los Zetas, a criminal organization with greater progress in national territory during the presidency of Felipe Calderon, after separation Gulf Cartel, in its area of influence.
This armed group of Nacho Coronel was known as Los Mata Zetas.
Mexican authorities identified in the beginning only as a criminal cell of the Sinaloa cartel, but a year after the death of Nacho Coronel, in 2011, its independence was recognized and appeared in official records as the ninth criminal organization with a presence in the country (along with Tijuana cartels, Juarez, Sinaloa, Gulf, Beltran Leyva, Los Zetas, La Familia Michoacana and the Knights Templar).
Javier Valdez Cardenas, writer and specialist in drug-trafficking journalist, the consolidation of the cartel had the key moment the death of Colonel: "That void was occupied by Jalisco New Generation with their leaders, with their own routes and new partners, but taking advantage of the structure that already had the Sinaloa Cartel, which stood aimlessly in the region. "
The journalist says that as an independent force, Jalisco New Generation made pacts with the Sinaloa Cartel to prevent Jalisco area became a battlefield and even the Mencho traveled to Sinaloa to strengthen these commitments.
49 bodies were abandoned on the streets of Boca del Rio, Veracruz, with hands and feet tied and signs of torture: the September 24, 2011, the Mata Zetas are behind one of the worst massacres during the administration of Felipe Calderon.
Nemesio Oseguera The Mencho and the leader of the Cuinis, Abigael González Valencia and founded the New Generation Jalisco Cartel, born of the armed wing of Nacho Coronel and the remains of the Millennium Cartel or Valencia. It operated as an ally of the Sinaloa Cartel since the 1980s and during the presidency of Vicente Fox when its founder, Armando Valencia Cornelio Maradona, was arrested in 2003 and the federal government gave the organization disappeared.
According to the DEA, the advance of Jalisco New Generation Cartel began in 2011 with the taking of territories in Michoacan and Veracruz, which formerly belonged to the Knights Templar and Los Zetas, respectively.
Alejandro Hope, an expert on security issues, said that at least two times the action or inaction of the authorities has led the consolidation of the cartel.
The first was between 2011 and 2013 when in Veracruz Los Mata Zetas Los Zetas faced: "There was an official tolerance to them to hit Los Zetas, who had become an extremely violent group."
"The fall of the Knights Templar cartel after the federal offensive is another fact to note he adds. That was their rival cartel territory in the area of Michoacan and Jalisco, as well as in the market for methamphetamines. The weakening after 2014 of the Knights Templar has strengthened the Cartel de Jalisco. To all this the capture of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, which also can be used by Jalisco New Generation for expansion "is added.
The DEA warns that while cartels including that of Sinaloa focused on repelling the federal forces in the War on Drugs, Jalisco New Generation advanced in the country.
Last March, the General US Consulate in Tijuana said in its report on Crime and Security in northwest Mexico, which in the quest to master the main trafficking routes for drugs, Jalisco New Generation is facing in the northern border the old cartels.
Tijuana is an area historically dominated by the cartel of the Arellano Felix brothers, but also with the presence of other organizations has been disputed by groups like the Sinaloa Cartel or Juarez, as the step towards a major trafficking route both land and by sea.
The strongest?
"CJNG has used violence and corruption to become one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in Mexico," in September 2015 said John E. Smith, director of the Office for the Control of Foreign Assets Department US Treasury.
Seven months later, the official said that his country makes every effort to dismantle the network of money laundering "the powerful" criminal organization.
Javier Olea regard, professor and researcher at the Faculty of Political Sciences at UNAM and National Security expert says that this cartel has been strengthened by recruiting members of Knights Templar and La Familia Michoacana.
In less than five years Jalisco New Generation entered the "black list" of the United States as one of the most important drug trafficking organizations. With the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, detained since January 2016, its leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes Mencho is now a priority.
This entry was posted in and tagged Ensures Drug Trafficking research Jalisco New Generation Cartel is the most important by Roxana Vivanco. Bookmark the permalink.
end
Note: Today 1 peso = 0.051USD or 1 USD = 19.35 pesos.
Thousands of rounds in the brush, in Petatlan
The arsenal was stocked with more than three thousand cartridges of different calibers, as well as a AK magazine
09/28/2016 8:38 DRAFTING / Quadratín
http://www.excelsior.com.mx/nacional/2016/09/28/1119447
Photo: Quadratín
MEXICO CITY.
Mexican Army and State Police located thousands of cartridges hidden in the undergrowth at a dairy farm located in the town of Petatlan.
The discovery occurred at 15:00 pm on Tuesday when troops conducted tours of a dirt road in Cotter community.
In total 275 found 3,000 .223 caliber cartridges, 962 of 7.62mm and a magazine for AK-47, with capacity for 30 cartridges.
BLACK LIST OF INSECURITY
According to a report based on the National Survey of Victimization and Perception of Public Safety
(Envipe) 2016, insecurity and crime cost the Mexicans 236,800 million pesos a year,
equivalent to 5,905 pesos per person affected. (305 USD)
Measures against insecurity: change or add locks on doors or windows and erect gates or fences.
Specifies that to protect themselves, Mexicans spent 77,900 million pesos, an increase of 17.7 percent in 2015.
According to the survey conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the State of Mexico and Guerrero lead the crime rate in our country.
In the State of Mexico's main crime is robbery or assault in the street and / or public transport, followed by extortion and fraud, while in Guerrero, the most common crime is extortion, followed by theft or assault in the street and / or public transportation and fraud.
The rate of unreported crime or that derived no preliminary investigation was 93.7 percent nationwide during 2015, while in 2014 it was 92.8 percent.
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AZMEX EXTRA 24-9-16
AZMEX EXTRA 24 SEP 2015
Sinaloa: Cessna stopped carrying weapons to Los Chapitos
Borderland Beat Guest reporter Siskiyoukid From Riodoce
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2016/09/sinaloa-cessna-stopped-carrying-weapons.html#more
BB Note: The war between the Chapitos and Beltran Leyva presented itself in June, when the home of El Chapo's mother came under attack. It was largely assumed that the perpetrators were Beltran Leyva. Since that date the conflict has heated up to a full struggle for power and control of the region. The theory is Beltran Leyva initiated the attack to force a "show down" with El Chapo's people and gain greater control of territory in the region. Each group is from the region and has controlled areas. This week Chapitos took control of Huixiopa in Badiraguato, which was controlled by Beltrn Leyva.
Because of the money seized, (the amount of money they concede was in the plane) and the few quantity of weapons, it is more likely that the shipment was already dropped and was stopped after the delivery.....Article begins below
A military operation in Culiacan resulted in the confiscation of weapons slated for Los Chapitos, group of organized crime operating in this city.
The delivery was tracked from its departure point identified as Mexicali, Baja California. Around 150 soldiers, members of five reaction teams, participated in tracking and seizing the shipment.
General Alfonso Duarte Mugica confirmed that at 10:00 on Wednesday, they arrested the first civilian, who was driving a Chevy Silverado Pickup truck and from whom they secured three short weapons [pistols].
The Commander of the third Military Region said that this was the first indication of a delivery that was coming in.
At 11:30 Wednesday morning the Cessna small plane, registration XB-MUG, white with blue stripes, was intercepted at a landing strip in the town of Benito Juárez.
At the time of being encircled by the military, the pilot tried to take off, but one of the military trucks intercepted it, hitting one of the wings, destabilizing it and stopping it from fleeing.
With this maneuver two soldiers ended up with injuries and burns. The injuries sustained are not considered serious.
The pilot and four crew members were arrested and placed at the disposal of the PGR [Attorney General's Office], as well as weapons that were seized, consisting of a Barrett rifle 50 caliber rifle, four AK47 automatic rifles, and five packages of 500 Peso bills that were sealed in plastic, totaling 700 thousand pesos. (35k USD)
Official sources claim that the conspirators intended to enter Culiacan with weapons and money, for work with the sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera, El Chapo.
The detainees were identified as Hector "n", who is from Angostura and who showed his pilot's license.
The crew were identified as Daniel "N" and Marco Antonio "N", both originating of Culiacan, as well as Carlos Martin "N", originally of Caborca, Sonora and Jose "N", of Altar, Sonora.
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Decomisa PGR 7 avionetas en aeródromo de Navolato
22 septiembre, 2016
por Redacción
http://riodoce.mx/noticias/policiaca/decomisa-pgr-7-avionetas-en-aerodromo-de-navolato
La Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) aseguró siete aeronaves en el aeródromo del municipio de Navolato.
De acuerdo con un informe de la Procuraduría, al aseguramiento de las avionetas se le suman 14 armas.
La mañana del miércoles, el Ejército llevó a cabo un operativo con al menos 150 elementos, que impidieron el arribo de cuatro civiles con armas, equipo de comunicación y paquetes de dinero, que sumaban 700 mil pesos.
Fuentes oficiales confirmaron que los detenidos declararon que habían llegado a Culiacán, procedentes de Mexicali, Baja California, para hacer un trabajo a los hijos de Joaquín Guzmán Liera, el Chapo.
La operación militar concluyó con la detención de los civiles, el aseguramiento de las armas y el dinero, los cuales fueron puestos a disposición de la PGR.
Respecto al decomiso de las siete aeronaves, fuentes militares informaron que no son parte del operativo realizado ayer, sino producto de investigaciones de la Procuraduría en el mismo aeródromo localizado en la Sindicatura de Villa Juárez.
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Sinaloa: Cessna stopped carrying weapons to Los Chapitos
Borderland Beat Guest reporter Siskiyoukid From Riodoce
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2016/09/sinaloa-cessna-stopped-carrying-weapons.html#more
BB Note: The war between the Chapitos and Beltran Leyva presented itself in June, when the home of El Chapo's mother came under attack. It was largely assumed that the perpetrators were Beltran Leyva. Since that date the conflict has heated up to a full struggle for power and control of the region. The theory is Beltran Leyva initiated the attack to force a "show down" with El Chapo's people and gain greater control of territory in the region. Each group is from the region and has controlled areas. This week Chapitos took control of Huixiopa in Badiraguato, which was controlled by Beltrn Leyva.
Because of the money seized, (the amount of money they concede was in the plane) and the few quantity of weapons, it is more likely that the shipment was already dropped and was stopped after the delivery.....Article begins below
A military operation in Culiacan resulted in the confiscation of weapons slated for Los Chapitos, group of organized crime operating in this city.
The delivery was tracked from its departure point identified as Mexicali, Baja California. Around 150 soldiers, members of five reaction teams, participated in tracking and seizing the shipment.
General Alfonso Duarte Mugica confirmed that at 10:00 on Wednesday, they arrested the first civilian, who was driving a Chevy Silverado Pickup truck and from whom they secured three short weapons [pistols].
The Commander of the third Military Region said that this was the first indication of a delivery that was coming in.
At 11:30 Wednesday morning the Cessna small plane, registration XB-MUG, white with blue stripes, was intercepted at a landing strip in the town of Benito Juárez.
At the time of being encircled by the military, the pilot tried to take off, but one of the military trucks intercepted it, hitting one of the wings, destabilizing it and stopping it from fleeing.
With this maneuver two soldiers ended up with injuries and burns. The injuries sustained are not considered serious.
The pilot and four crew members were arrested and placed at the disposal of the PGR [Attorney General's Office], as well as weapons that were seized, consisting of a Barrett rifle 50 caliber rifle, four AK47 automatic rifles, and five packages of 500 Peso bills that were sealed in plastic, totaling 700 thousand pesos. (35k USD)
Official sources claim that the conspirators intended to enter Culiacan with weapons and money, for work with the sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera, El Chapo.
The detainees were identified as Hector "n", who is from Angostura and who showed his pilot's license.
The crew were identified as Daniel "N" and Marco Antonio "N", both originating of Culiacan, as well as Carlos Martin "N", originally of Caborca, Sonora and Jose "N", of Altar, Sonora.
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Decomisa PGR 7 avionetas en aeródromo de Navolato
22 septiembre, 2016
por Redacción
http://riodoce.mx/noticias/policiaca/decomisa-pgr-7-avionetas-en-aerodromo-de-navolato
La Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) aseguró siete aeronaves en el aeródromo del municipio de Navolato.
De acuerdo con un informe de la Procuraduría, al aseguramiento de las avionetas se le suman 14 armas.
La mañana del miércoles, el Ejército llevó a cabo un operativo con al menos 150 elementos, que impidieron el arribo de cuatro civiles con armas, equipo de comunicación y paquetes de dinero, que sumaban 700 mil pesos.
Fuentes oficiales confirmaron que los detenidos declararon que habían llegado a Culiacán, procedentes de Mexicali, Baja California, para hacer un trabajo a los hijos de Joaquín Guzmán Liera, el Chapo.
La operación militar concluyó con la detención de los civiles, el aseguramiento de las armas y el dinero, los cuales fueron puestos a disposición de la PGR.
Respecto al decomiso de las siete aeronaves, fuentes militares informaron que no son parte del operativo realizado ayer, sino producto de investigaciones de la Procuraduría en el mismo aeródromo localizado en la Sindicatura de Villa Juárez.
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