Mexico – Failed State

‘Welcome to America!’ Captured Drug Lords Choose: Snitch or Suffer

Under pressure from the Trump administration, Mexico turned over 55 cartel leaders in a pair of cloak-and-dagger missions

MEXICO CITY—Dozens of Mexico’s most dangerous prisoners, cuffed hand and foot, boarded army jets under heavy guard this year, a rogue’s gallery of cartel leaders responsible for smuggling tons of heroin, fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine to insatiable U.S. buyers.

The men were rousted from prisons, where money and corruption provided them with weapons, cocaine, booze, women and phones to run their lucrative underworld empires from behind bars, coordinating drug shipments as well as ordering killings and kidnappings, U.S. and Mexican officials said.

The prisoners had no idea of their destination.

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Seven bodyguards arrested over Mexican mayor’s murder

Seven bodyguards have been arrested over their alleged involvement in the murder of a popular Mexican mayor, authorities have said.

Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan and an outspoken critic of cartel violence, was shot dead on 1 November at a public event marking the Day of the Dead.

The office of the attorney general of Michoacán state said in a brief statement that the public servants had been detained “for their probable participation in the crime of aggravated homicide, in commission by omission” in relation to Manzo’s killing.

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At least 120 hurt in gen Z protests over corruption and drug violence in Mexico

At least 120 people were injured as thousands of gen Z protesters took to the streets of Mexico City and across the country to voice their anger at corruption and the drug violence that claims tens of thousands of Mexican lives each year.

​Saturday’s rallies, which took place in dozens of cities from Tijuana in the north to Oaxaca in the south drew large crowds, with some demonstrators carrying the One Piece pirate flag that has become a global symbol of the youth movement.

“We need more security,” said Andres Massa, 29, a business consultant who was among those carrying the flag.

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Gen Z protests against Mexico president turn violent amid anger over mayor’s death

Mexico – One Piece Flag

At least 120 people, mostly police officers, were injured as thousands marched through Mexico City to protest against the government of Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum.

The demonstration on Saturday was organised by members of generation Z, but ended with strong backing from older supporters of opposition parties.

“For many hours, this mobilisation proceeded and developed peacefully, until a group of hooded individuals began to commit acts of violence,” said Pablo Vázquez, the security chief for Mexico City.

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Mexico about to blow …

“Sombrero Skull Flag” or “Mexican Skull Flag,” of the resistance.

Good vid links

NEXT UP OTTAWA.

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Trudeau Liberals Opened The Door To Mexican Cartels With Visa Removal

In December 2016, despite intelligence warnings that lifting visas would “facilitate travel to Canada by Mexicans with criminal records,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ended the visa requirement for Mexican visitors.

They would include “drug smugglers, human smugglers, recruiters, money launderers and foot soldiers,” the Canada Border Services Agency’s Intelligence Section wrote in a report dated April 2016, two months before Trudeau announced the visa exemption.

h/t SC

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This Mexican city had one of the world’s highest homicide rates — so it fired most of its police

CELAYA, Mexico — On a sunny spring day last year, a young attorney named Gisela Gaytán kicked off her campaign for mayor in this gritty Mexican city.

Under her blouse she wore a ballistic vest.

Celaya had become the epicenter of a bloody cartel war, with one of the highest homicide rates in the world, and a local police force that appeared powerless to stop it.

“We must recover the security that we so long for,” Gaytán, 38, wrote on social media before setting out that day.

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HUNTER: Drug cartel civil war has deadly implications for Canada

Four decapitated corpses hanging from a bridge are the latest symbol of a civil war tearing apart the violent global drug powerhouse, the Sinaloa Cartel.

And the bloodshed has dire implications for Canada, where the cartel has been allowed to fester and grow in a twisted branch plant endeavour to fuel the world with fentanyl.

20 bodies found in Mexico after horrific cartel violence — including 4 headless corpses hanging from bridge

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Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor

Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas in the latest deadly attack on local officials.

Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli García Ramírez.

Two municipal police officers were also injured in the attack.

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Bags of Cash From Drug Cartels Flood Teller Windows at U.S. Banks

Chinese money-launderers allegedly made six-figure deposits at Chase, Bank of America and Citibank branches across Los Angeles County

On a hazy Southern California morning, undercover police officers watched Jiayong Yu step out of a Range Rover in a strip-mall parking lot and walk into a Chase bank with a black-leather backpack full of cash.

At the teller window, Yu pulled out stacks of bills and waited while a woman fed them into a cash-counting machine. After Yu left, an officer asked the teller if he had deposited more than $10,000, the threshold requiring banks to flag transactions to federal regulators.

More like $100,000, the teller said. By then, Yu was already on his way to Chase and Bank of America branches in Claremont, Calif., about 35 miles away.

Federal authorities allege that Yu worked for an underground banking network that bought dollars at a discount from Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel and sold them at a premium, largely to Chinese nationals in the U.S.

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Media Focused on South While Cartels Move to the Northern Border

The southern border breakdown was permitted. Will we allow the same forces to break through from the north?

Borders are not abstractions. They are security infrastructure. They are economic lifelines. And when left unguarded, they become the entry points for chaos. While America’s political establishment clings to the southern border narrative, a quieter, more calculated breach is advancing from the north. The U.S.–Canada line — long mythologized as polite and uneventful — is now a preferred corridor for the same criminal cartels that have turned Mexico into a narco-state.

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Mexico’s Descent Into Cartel Hell

Did the government turn a blind eye to a gangster training-camp in Jalisco?

On a sunny Saturday afternoon last week, the cafes here were crowded and the Jose Cuervo distillery bustled with visitors. As evening fell, the sidewalks and the main cobblestone thoroughfare filled with young people in cowboy hats mingling to strains of ranchera music. A full moon rose over red rooftops. Mexico was living up to its folkloric image.

But some 12 miles away, the other Mexico had raised its ugly head again. On March 5, in the municipality of Teuchitlán, burned human remains and piles of personal items belonging to perhaps hundreds of missing persons were discovered on an abandoned ranch. The find was made not by local officials or the National Guard but by a nongovernmental organization known as the Warrior Searchers of Jalisco.

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‘Provocative’; CBS’s J6 Reporter Pooh-Pooh’s Trump Admin Tagging Drug Cartels Terrorists

Sinaloa Cartel

With January 6 cases having evaporated, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane has been looking for a new area to channel himself and being the Justice correspondent (i.e. Deep State liaison) has suited him well. But Thursday’s CBS Evening News showed MacFarlane dismissing the Trump administration’s labeling of drug cartels as terror groups, denouncing it as a “controversial,” “provocative,” and potentially harmful.

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Ovens and bone fragments – BBC visits Mexican cartel ‘extermination’ site

The gates to the Izaguirre Ranch look much like any others you might find in the state of Jalisco. Two prancing horses on the front perhaps a nod to the surrounding cattle-grazing and sugarcane fields.

Yet what lies behind the black iron doors is allegedly evidence of some of Mexico’s worst drug cartel violence of recent times.

Following a tip-off about the possible location of a mass grave, an activist group of relatives of some of Mexico’s thousands of disappeared people went to the ranch, hoping to find some sign of their missing loved ones.

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Texas rancher killed by suspected cartel IED on Mexican border as authorities warn of ‘growing threat’

A Texas border rancher was killed near the border by a suspected cartel IED earlier this month, the Texas Department of Agriculture told The Post Tuesday — as officials issued an urgent safety warning for the Rio Grande Valley.

Rancher Antonio Céspedes Saldierna, 74, who worked on both sides of the border, along with Horacio Lopez Peña, were killed in the blast in Tamaulipas, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas. Lopez’s wife, Ninfa Griselda Ortega, was hospitalized with injuries.

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