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Things Are So Crappy Under Trudeau That Human Smugglers Are Moving Mexicans From Canada To The USA

The Swanton Sector

I bet Trudeau gets a cut.

Shortly before sunset, in the parking lot of a Montreal hotel, the smuggler asked Yazuri Martinez-Alvarez to pay the remaining $3,000 in cash while she sat in the back of a four-door pickup truck with three other men.

Her final payment was due only when the journey ended. But she didn’t argue. Instead, she handed over the money and watched the smuggler count it.

She remained in the truck until the sky darkened and the smuggler told her to leave her backpack behind. She could only carry her passport and cellphone. Baggage would make too much noise when they moved through the brush and might alert border police, the smuggler told her.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Human Trafficking, Mexico, USA

Feds Pinpoint Nearly 30K Mexican Passport Holders With Middle Eastern Names in Fraud Investigation

Federal law enforcement officials have identified a high number of individuals with Middle Eastern names traveling with Mexican passports, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Since the beginning of 2022, nearly 30,000 Mexican passport holders were flagged as part of the investigation into passport fraud, the memo states, adding that each identified individual will be further evaluated. A senior official at DHS who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the agency will likely investigate whether any of the individuals have traveled to the United States and whether there are any other patterns in their travel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, Mexico - Failed State

Mexico Arrests Top Prosecutor in Case of Missing Students and Issues 80 Warrants

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s former attorney general was arrested Friday in connection with the violent abduction and likely massacre of 43 students in 2014, a significant breakthrough in one of the most notorious atrocities in modern Mexican history.

He is the first high-level official to be detained in connection to the case, and the authorities said Friday that they had also issued more than 80 arrest warrants related to it, including for military officers, police officers and cartel members.

It was not immediately clear if any of those warrants had led to other arrests, but their sudden announcement came just a day after the Mexican government said an official inquiry had found the disappearance of the students to be a “crime of the state” involving every layer of government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Oxxos burning: Cartel terrorists demonstrate their firepower

For many, last week’s narco-terror hit close to home—literally. What’s next?

If I go out my front door in San Luis Potosí and walk in any direction — north, south, east or west — I’ll hit an Oxxo convenience store in five minutes,10 max. According to Google maps, there are 15 Oxxos within a 1.5-kilometer radius of my address. It may be I live in an especially Oxxo-rich corner of the country, but with more than 20,000 of them nationwide, I’m no outlier.

Interesting slice of life.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico

Mexico prison cartel clash spills on to streets of border city leaving 11 dead

A prison confrontation between members of two rival cartels spilled on to the streets of the border city Ciudad Juárez, where alleged gang members have killed nine more people, including four employees of a radio station.

The violence began on Thursday, when Los Chapos, members of the infamous Sinaloa cartel formerly led by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, clashed with the local group Los Mexicles, in a Juárez prison, the deputy security minister, Ricardo Mejía, said.

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Two Canadians hiding out in Mexico, one an Interpol fugitive, killed at Playa del Carmen resort

MEXICO CITY, June 21 (Reuters) – Two Canadian citizens, a man and a woman, have been killed at the beach resort of Playa del Carmen on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said on Tuesday.

The killings in the state of Quintana Roo follow the fatal shooting in January of two Canadians with criminal records in nearby Cancun.

A senior state official told Reuters the man, whose identity has not been made public, was wanted by Interpol.

Had their throats cut. I wonder what flavour of Canadian they were.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Crime, Mexico, WTF?

Mexico: The Venezuela Next Door?

COULD MEXICO under the leadership of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador plunge into the political and economic tailspin which we associate with Venezuela under Hugo Chávez, Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega, or Argentina under the Kirchners? Over three years into his six-year term, Lopez Obrador—universally known by his initials as AMLO—has displayed many similar statist and authoritarian instincts. But sufficient countervailing forces may exist so that Mexico avoids the worst, and with it, collateral damage to the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, Mexico - Failed State

Fighting Pancho Villa’s Ghost

Remembering a time when common criminals gained dominion over Mexico, and the Americans who failed to chase them out.

There are all kinds of Mexican food in the United States. Arizona features Sonoran-style cooking. New Mexico debates red and green chilies. Cal-Mex mastered Baja’s seafood. My favorite, Tex-Mex, contributes chili con carne and more than one helping of beef and cheese. Wherever it may be, and whatever variation of Mexico’s cuisine is on the menu, patrons will encounter a portrait of Pancho Villa on the restaurant’s wall.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico

Mexico’s fight to sue US gun manufacturers for $10bn

Mexico claims that half a million guns flow south from the US every year. Can a lawsuit against American gun manufacturers stem the tide?

Just before sunrise on a warm Friday morning in June 2020, gunmen were waiting for Omar Garcia Harfuch, the city’s then 38-year-old security head, in Mexico City’s upscale Lomas de Chapultepec neighbourhood.

What happened next would be captured on CCTV and the mobile phone cameras of terrified onlookers: the rat-a-tat-tat of bullets as dozens of heavily armed gunmen, some dressed as road workers, blocked his path with a truck and opened fire.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Mexican football match descends into BLOODBATH: ‘Up to 17’ fans killed

At least 22 people were brutally injured – two of them seriously – after a football match descended into carnage in central Mexico yesterday.

Unconfirmed reports are circulating that up to 17 people could have died attending the game between the host Queretaro and Atlas from Guadalajara – the reigning league champion.

The match was suspended in the 62nd minute when multiple fights suddenly broke out in the stands – with men seen tearing off the jerseys of their rivals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, WTF?

Bodies missing after Mexican drug cartel massacre caught on video

Mexicans have been left wondering what happened to about a dozen men who disappeared after they were seen lined up against a wall by drug cartel gunmen.

In a video apparently filmed by a resident of the town San José de Gracia in the western state of Michoacán and posted on social media, bursts of gunfire broke out and smoke covered the scene.

The camera cuts away, and most observers assumed all the men – perhaps as many as 17 – died.

Not to make light of the Ukraine but more are killed daily in Sunny Mexico.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Cannibal Cartel

A viral video showing a man eating a human heart in Mexico is shedding light on the disturbing practices recruits must undergo at cartel “terror schools.”

A member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel—his stomach straining against a black sleeveless vest—is crouching over the body of a mutilated foot soldier from a rival crime group. The fallen man’s hands are bound and his chest looks like it has been torn open.

Shocking cellphone footage—captured in broad daylight—shows the hitman tearing large bites from the dead man’s heart. The cameraman continues to film as the hitman mocks the fallen sicario by pretending to offer him a taste of his no-longer-beating heart. In the background of the twisted scene, another body is partly visible, as is the shadow of someone hacking away at it.

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Third Mexican journalist killed this year as press corps faces murder crisis

Three years ago reporter Lourdes Maldonado López stood up before Mexico’s president at a press conference and told him: “I fear for my life.”

On Sunday she was gunned down in the city of Tijuana – the third Mexican journalist to be killed this year in what is a deepening murder crisis facing the country’s press corps and its populist leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Maldonado, a former journalist for Mexico’s biggest network, Televisa, was reportedly shot in her car outside her home at about 6.20pm.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexican drug cartels, Mexico, Mexico - Failed State

Two Canadians killed at Mexican beach resort hotel

Gunman shoots three Canadians in Playa del Carmen, with foreigners again caught up in drug cartel violence

The state prosecutor’s office later tweeted that a second Canadian had died of their injuries.

The first person who died – identified as ATCH – “had a criminal record: drug trafficking, use of a false identity, among other things”, the office said.

ATCH “was considered a very dangerous person in Canada”, state prosecutor Óscar Montes de Oca Rosales told Radio Fórmula.

The second deceased victim, RJD, “also had a criminal history”, according to the prosecutor’s office.

Looks like a drug deal gone bad. In Mexico. I’m shocked.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Mexican drug cartels, Mexico

3 Canadians shot, 1 killed, at Mexican resort: local officials

 

The Quintana Roo state prosecutor’s office said on Twitter that the suspect in the shooting also was apparently a guest. It said it had been informed by Canadian police that the suspect has a history of robbery, drug and weapons offenses.

One Canadian has been killed and two others injured in a shooting at a Mexican resort near Playa del Carmen on Friday, local officials have reported.

Quintana Roo state security secretary Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez confirmed the triple shooting on Twitter.

The shooting took place at a hotel in Xcaret, Mexico. All three of those injured were identified as Canadian and Gutiérrez said they were immediately transferred to hospital, where one died.

That’s great, we’re exporting crime to Mexico!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inMexico, Mexico - Failed State