By Allan Lengel ticklethwire.com As if the drug war in Mexico wasn’t violent enough. Now, the drug dealers, for the first time, have resorted to a car bomb in Mexico in the drug war, the El Paso Times and the Associated Press reported. Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz of Ciudad Juarez said traffickers set a deadly…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com JERUSALEM — Call it a case of very different worlds colliding. The top newspaper Haaretz here in Israel reports that Mexican authorities thwarted a plan by the Lebanese group Hezbollah to set up a network in Latin America and use Mexican Nationals with ties to Lebanon to go after Israel and…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a Mexican gang leader just south of the Texas border in connection with the March murder of a U.S. consulate employee and her husband in the border area of Juarez, the El Paso Times reported. Authorities said they arrested Jesus Ernesto Chavez Castillo ,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Another reminder of the lawlessness in Mexico reared its ugly head Monday when at least 10 federal police officers were killed and more than a dozen wounded in an ambush in an area a major drug organization calls home, the Los Angeles Times reported. The paper reported that the attacks took…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More than 2,200 people have been arrested in the past 22 months — 429 of them Wednesday — in a crackdown on Mexican drug trafficking organizations in the U.S. dubbed “Project Deliverance”, the Justice Department announced. Among those arrested was Carlos Ramon Castro-Rocha, the suspected leader of the Castro-Rocha drug trafficking…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent on a bicycle shot and killed a 15-year-old Mexican boy Monday at an international bridge near downtown El Paso during a rock throwing incident, authorities said, according to the Associated Press. According to authorities, agents had detained suspected illegal immigrants when some people started hurling rocks…
By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial PITTSBURGH — President Barack Obama’s decision to send 1,200 National Guard troops to bolster security along the porous U.S.-Mexico border should be seen for what it is — not a long-term solution but a reactive, political move that solves nothing over the long haul. The context is the recently passed anti-illegal…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — As Mexican president Felipe Calderon prepares to arrive in Washington, word has surfaced that Mexican authorities seized documents from a drug cartel listing Mexican federal agents and their phone numbers and intelligence information that originated from the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to the Associated Press. AP reported that the…
