By "Radical" Russ Belville on July 16, 2008
Drug war mayhem instills a new fear – Los Angeles Times CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — Scooped up by gunmen as she walked near her home, 12-year-old Alexia Moreno hardly had a chance. The gangsters were driving straight into a shootout. Within minutes, she was dead, shot in the head as she cowered in the back [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT | Tagged Ciudad Juarez, Juarez, Mexico, Sinaloa
By "Radical" Russ Belville on June 27, 2008
Reyes relative kidnapped; U.S. helps secure release – El Paso Times A woman who reportedly is a relative of Congressman Silvestre Reyes was kidnapped in Juárez, then released with the help of U.S. law enforcement agencies. Reyes, D-Texas, declined to comment. The kidnapping was first reported on the Narcosphere Web site, which attributed the report [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM | Tagged Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, Rep. Silvestre Reyes
By "Radical" Russ Belville on June 17, 2008
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-06-17 Did you see the one about how marijuana is twice as potent now as it was then? Every year, the ONDCP likes to trumpet the results of the Potency Monitoring Project to try and scare uneducated parents about marijuana’s potency. NORML’s Paul Armentano joins us to thoroughly [...]
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged Canada, Mexico, Paul Armentano
By "Radical" Russ Belville on June 17, 2008
Examining the US-Mexico Gun Trade – International Business News – Portfolio.com When Americans think about the border, they tend to picture undocumented workers or clandestine river crossings. They don’t think about war. But what’s happening in Mexico now is a war—no other word seems suitable—and the most gruesome battles are taking place within miles of [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT | Tagged guns, Mexico, narcotrafficantes
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 12, 2008
The U.S. Role in a Mexico Assassination – WSJ.com American nonchalance about drug use stands in sharp contrast to what is happening across the border in Mexico. There lawmen are taking heavy casualties in a showdown with drug-running crime syndicates. On Thursday the chief of the Mexican federal police, Edgar Millán Gómez, was assassinated by [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT | Tagged Mexico
By "Radical" Russ Belville on May 7, 2008
Mexican Drug Cartels Making Audacious Pitch for Recruits – washingtonpost.com NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — The job offer was tempting. It was printed on a 16-foot-wide banner and strung above one of the busiest roads here, calling out to any “soldier or ex-soldier.” “We’re offering you a good salary, food and medical care for your families,” [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT | Tagged Mexico
By "Radical" Russ Belville on April 8, 2008
BBC NEWS | Americas | Mexico gang had ‘James Bond’ car Police in Mexico have come across a new weapon being used by the country’s drug cartels – a James Bond-style vehicle complete with gadgets designed to deter arrest. The car was abandoned by the gang members after a shoot-out. The police and army sent [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM | Tagged drug dealer car, Mexico, Spy Hunter
By "Radical" Russ Belville on February 22, 2008
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (AP) — Marijuana is now the biggest source of income for Mexico’s drug cartels and the U.S. is committed to cracking down harder on traffickers, U.S. drug czar John Walters said Thursday. Walters made the comments following a meeting with Mexican officials who want the U.S. to prosecute marijuana cases more zealously [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, SOCIETY | Tagged John Walters, Mexico, ONDCP
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