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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The ex-Governor from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo was extradited to the U.S. on charges of accepting million of dollars in bribes to help the violent Juarez Cartel dump tons of cocaine into the U.S. , and of laundering $19 million in drug proceeds through Lehman Brothers accounts, the U.S….
While the U.S. fights battles in Afghanistan and Iraq, another war far closer threatens the safety of people in the U.S. — the drug war in Mexico where murder of police is common place. Now the war there is spreading. The money is too good for it to simply die off. More needs to be…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The drug war in Mexico just got more complicated. The Associated Press reports that the Gulf and La Familia drug cartels in Mexico, which were bitter rivals, have joined forces in the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas to try and eliminate a gang of hitmen known as the Zetas gang. The…
