Attack on Mexican drug rehab center leaves 11 dead

The drug cartel war continues at a fevered pitch in Mexico as 11 people were killed in a violent attack on a drug rehab center just outside of Torreon, Mexico.

From the article at Reuters:

Armed gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation clinic in northern Mexico late on Sunday, leaving 11 people dead and at least 8 wounded almost a year to the day after a similar fatal attack nearby.

State police said the assault, part of a drug war widely estimated to have claimed more than 55,000 lives in less than six years, took place in the outskirts of Torreon, an industrial city in the border state of Coahuila. They could not immediately give more details.

In June last year, 13 people were killed at a rehab center in the same city.

One worker at a drug recovery center in the border town of Ciudad Juarez said recently that traffickers sometimes seek shelter at the centers, endangering other patients when their rivals seek them out.

Mexico's drug cartels have mainly focused on U.S. narcotics consumers but numbers of home-grown users are increasing, creating new turf wars that threaten to further stretch the country's security forces.

Just this past weekend, we did the Blog Talk Radio Show, The Awakening, regarding the rise of the most violent Mexican drug cartel, Los Zetas.  This shows how brazen the cartels are - how there is no place left to hide for rival cartel members and other targets.

2012 is on tap to be the year with the largest number of deaths in the cartel wars - just last year, over 16,000 people lost their lives in the drug cartel violence south of our border.

Attack on Mexican drug rehab center leaves 11 dead


(Reuters) - Armed gunmen burst into a drug rehabilitation clinic in northern Mexico late on Sunday, leaving 11 people dead and at least 8 wounded almost a year to the day after a similar fatal attack nearby.

State police said the assault, part of a drug war widely estimated to have claimed more than 55,000 lives in less than six years, took place in the outskirts of Torreon, an industrial city in the border state of Coahuila. They could not immediately give more details.

In June last year, 13 people were killed at a rehab center in the same city.

One worker at a drug recovery center in the border town of Ciudad Juarez said recently that traffickers sometimes seek shelter at the centers, endangering other patients when their rivals seek them out.

Mexico's drug cartels have mainly focused on U.S. narcotics consumers but numbers of home-grown users are increasing, creating new turf wars that threaten to further stretch the country's security forces.

Similar attacks have happened in other violent border cities.

In a 2010, two dozen men armed with automatic weapons stormed the "Faith and Life" drug clinic in the city of Chihuahua and killed 19 patients all under the age of 25.

With a presidential election less than a month away, a spate of gruesome drug-related murders - including the dumping last month of 49 decapitated bodies on a highway outside the major city of Monterrey - is shining an unwelcome spotlight on the country's security situation.

President Felipe Calderon is barred by law from running for another term, and his conservative party looks unlikely to win endorsement from an electorate increasingly disenchanted with his failure to get to grips with the spiraling violence.

The party's candidate, Josefina Vazquez Mota, is lagging in third place in the polls.

Opposition frontrunner Enrique Pena Nieto, from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, says Calderon' army-backed drug war has failed and promises to change the country's course if he wins the July 1 vote.

Pena Nieto is not offering a radical departure from Calderon's policies but polls show voters believe he will do a better job of curbing violence.

He proposes creating a military police force to fight drug gangs and wants to carry forward reforms to the justice system that aim to professionalize criminal investigators and courts.

Mexican Drug Cartels Threaten To Kill Bloggers, Tweeters and Facebookers If They Criticize the Cartels

Yep. You got it right...all you damn bloggers and social media people denouncing the Mexican drug cartels and those illegally crossing the U.S. border in the drug trafficking trade...consider yourself warned as the drug cartels send a rather clear message to all of you (ahem...us) just the other day.

Here's the warning, from CNN:

Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.

A woman was hogtied and disemboweled, her intestines protruding from three deep cuts on her abdomen. Attackers left her topless, dangling by her feet and hands from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. A bloodied man next to her was hanging by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply the bone was visible.

Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.

"This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet," one sign said. "You better (expletive) pay attention. I'm about to get you."

So, there you have it...the next time you're thinking about putting up a blogpost condemning Mexican drug cartels of kidnapping people in Phoenix, you might just end up getting disemboweled...I guess.

You know, it's not enough that these clowns are trying to take over our southwestern states but now they are trying to control American behavior on the damn internet. I guess this is the price we pay for putting a few border patrol agents on the border who have to keep their guns in their car and keep the covers on their binoculars.

I wonder, do you suppose the Mexican drug cartels would be issuing this warning if they had a Delta Force special ops team hunting them down? Do you suppose there would be this statement issued if U.S. Marine snipers were stationed along that border?

Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users


(CNN) -- Social media users who denounce drug cartel activities along the Mexican border received a brutal warning this week: two mangled bodies hanging like cuts of meat from a pedestrian bridge.

A woman was hogtied and disemboweled, her intestines protruding from three deep cuts on her abdomen. Attackers left her topless, dangling by her feet and hands from a bridge in the border city of Nuevo Laredo. A bloodied man next to her was hanging by his hands, his right shoulder severed so deeply the bone was visible.

Signs left near the bodies declared the pair, both apparently in their early 20s, were killed for posting denouncements of drug cartel activities on a social network.

"This is going to happen to all of those posting funny things on the Internet," one sign said. "You better (expletive) pay attention. I'm about to get you."

The gruesome scene sent a chilling message at a time when online posts have become some of the loudest voices reporting violence in Mexico. In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media. Sometimes even local authorities fear speaking out.

Bloggers who specialize in sharing news about trafficking have been threatened in the past, but this could be the first time users of such social networks have been targeted.

Investigator Ricardo Mancillas Castillo said he had not encountered a threat against Internet users in his four years based in Nuevo Laredo. But the signs of torture -- the cuts, the disembowelment -- were along the lines of what officials are used to seeing in drug-related violence.

In the case of the two victims on the bridge, their ears and fingers were mutilated, said Mancillas, who works for the public prosecutor's office.

There are no witnesses, and it is a nearly impossible task to identify the perpetrators, he said.

Thirty-six hours had passed since the bodies were found Tuesday morning, but no one had come to claim them and they remained unidentified, Mancillas said.

It will be nearly impossible to determine if the two victims actually posted anything about cartels on the Internet, as people don't usually use their real names online, he said.

The placards threatened those who report violent incidents through social media networks. It listed two blogs by name, Al Rojo Vivo and Blog del Narco.

They were signed "Z," a possible reference for the Zetas cartel, which operates in the area.

Blog del Narco is a website that deals exclusively with news related to drug violence in Mexico. Its creator remains anonymous.

On the Al Rojo Vivo forum, where citizens can make anonymous tips, one person wrote: "Don't be afraid to denounce. It's very difficult for them to find out who denounced. They only want to scare society."

One Twitter user echoed that sense of defiance in light of the threats.

"Enough! If we shut up today, we will have lost the ground that we have gained. This is the time to show what we are made of," the owner of the @QuestoyQuelotro Twitter account wrote.

In a statement sent to CNN, Blog del Narco said its site is not dedicated to denouncing crime, as are other sites.

"In addition, we are not in favor or against any criminal group, we only inform as things happen," the statement said.

More than 34,600 people have died in drug-related violence since Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced a crackdown on cartels in December 2006, according to government statistics. Other reports have listed a higher toll. The latest Mexican government tally was released in January.

Leader of Mexico's Most Violent Gang Arrested, Admits Ordering the Killings of 1500

Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, known as 'El Diego,' has been arrested in the Mexican city of Chihuahua and is now being held in Mexico City - this man represents one of the most violent gangs in all of Mexico and he has been reported to have admitted that he, personally, ordered the killings of upwards of 1500 people.

From the report at Sky News:

A man suspected of being the leader of one of Mexico's deadliest gangs has admitted ordering 1,500 killings.

There was a $1.2m (£730,000) bounty on offer for the 33-year-old's capture, which came after a gun battle between police and gang members.

Acosta, a former policeman, was paraded in front of the cameras in Mexico City following his arrest in the city of Chihuahua.

It is believed he was behind the attack in which an employee of the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, her husband and another man were killed last year.

The US has said they want to prosecute Acosta for their deaths and Mexican authorities say they expect to receive an extradition request.

You can see above that the U.S. definitely has a stake in the hide of Acosta but it will be interesting to see if Mexico will honor extradition.

Here's a bit more on how Acosta's La Linea gang fits into the drug cartel picture in Mexico:

La Linea is comprised of hit men and corrupt police officers who work as enforcers for the Juarez cartel, a notorious drug gang.

The Juarez cartel have been involved in a bloody three-year battle with the Sinaloa gang over the city's smuggling corridors.

You can see how Mexico is so messed up when you read that this monster is an ex-policeman and at the same time, you see that his gang is composed partly of corrupt policemen. Hell, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if this guy gets sprung from his jail cell or prison cell before the next few weeks.

Gang Boss 'Behind 1,500 Killings' Arrested


A man suspected of being the leader of one of Mexico's deadliest gangs has admitted ordering 1,500 killings.

Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, known as 'El Diego,' is believed to be the leader of La Linea gang.

There was a $1.2m (£730,000) bounty on offer for the 33-year-old's capture, which came after a gun battle between police and gang members.

Acosta, a former policeman, was paraded in front of the cameras in Mexico City following his arrest in the city of Chihuahua.

It is believed he was behind the attack in which an employee of the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, her husband and another man were killed last year.

The US has said they want to prosecute Acosta for their deaths and Mexican authorities say they expect to receive an extradition request.

Police said he also admitted ordering a car bombing and an attack on a birthday party in which 15 people died, most of them teenagers.

La Linea is comprised of hit men and corrupt police officers who work as enforcers for the Juarez cartel, a notorious drug gang.

The Juarez cartel have been involved in a bloody three-year battle with the Sinaloa gang over the city's smuggling corridors.

Juarez, which is close to the border with America, is Mexico's most violent city with more than 3,000 murders last year linked to the drug trade alone.

Mexican Police Capture Kingpin of La Familia Drug Cartel

In the war against the vicious Mexican drug cartels, Mexican police have hit the jackpot in that they have captured Jose de Jesus Mendez who is the leader of the biggest drug cartel in the country, La Familia. This is huge.

From the report at Yahoo News:

Mexican police have captured the top boss of the notorious La Familia drug cartel in a raid on the central town of Aguascalientes, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

"The federal government has detained the top leader (of La Familia) Jose de Jesus Mendez," said security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

"This detention has destroyed the remaining command structure," he said, adding no shots had been fired in the raid that led to Mendez's capture.

Earlier, President Felipe Calderon sent a message on his personal Twitter account, saying: "A great blow by federal police against organized crime. One of the most wanted criminals captured. Congratulations."

La Familia is one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, and its stronghold is in Michoacan state where it has been battling the Los Zetas gang.

Now before we all put our feet up and rest easy, there are more drug cartels than you can shake a stick at and as can be expected, there's always going to be another to fill the vacuum but I think the overall excitement over this arrest is the fact that La Familia has been the largest and most organized. I gotta believe, however, that there is some sort of hierarchy in the organization which would leave someone else to head up La Familia but I'm not going to downplay what really is a significant win for the Mexican security forces.

(Hat Tip: Litehouse)

Mexican police capture top drug cartel boss


MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Mexican police have captured the top boss of the notorious La Familia drug cartel in a raid on the central town of Aguascalientes, a government spokesman said Tuesday.

"The federal government has detained the top leader (of La Familia) Jose de Jesus Mendez," said security spokesman Alejandro Poire.

"This detention has destroyed the remaining command structure," he said, adding no shots had been fired in the raid that led to Mendez's capture.

Earlier, President Felipe Calderon sent a message on his personal Twitter account, saying: "A great blow by federal police against organized crime. One of the most wanted criminals captured. Congratulations."

La Familia is one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, and its stronghold is in Michoacan state where it has been battling the Los Zetas gang.

The former head of La Familia, Nazario Moreno, was killed in December in a shootout with police. Classed among Mexico's seven major drug cartels, La Familia is considered the country's top producer of synthetic drugs.

It announced its arrival on the scene in October 2006, when its men walked into a bar and rolled five severed heads onto a dance floor.

La Familia was soon posing a direct challenge to the federal government, killing eight people in a grenade attack on a crowd celebrating Mexico's independence day on September 15, 2008.

In July 2009, it killed 16 police officers, 12 of whom were found in a heap on the side of a road.

The toll in suspected drug-related violence in Mexico has surpassed 37,000 since Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006.

33 People Killed In One Day In Northern Mexico

Authorities load the bodies of two bodyguards of the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon in Monterrey, Mexico on June 15. In total, 33 people were killed in the city in one day.


Just yesterday, 33 Mexicans were brutally murdered in the northern area of Mexico called Nuevo Leon (which includes the city of Monterrey). That's right...not a typo...33 people killed in ONE day. Hell, we have seen huge suicide bombings in Iraq and in Pakistan that don't kill that number of people in one day.

From the story at Breitbart:

Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon, home to the industrial city of Monterrey, saw 33 killings Wednesday, in the most violent day in recent history, officials said Thursday.

The prosperous region, home to many foreign companies, was until recently considered a safe haven as drug violence increased in parts of Mexico.

But a bloody turf war between the Gulf cartel and its former hitmen the Zetas has spilled into the state in less than two years, producing daylight shootouts, grenade attacks and a climate of fear.

A spokesman for Nuevo Leon government, who requested anonymity, said 33 violent killings were recorded in and around state capital Monterrey, an area of some four million, on Wednesday.

Many of Wednesday's killings bore the signs of drug gang vendettas, including the discovery of the mutilated corpses of two bodyguards of State Governor Rodrigo Medina, along with a message allegedly from the Gulf gang.

At what point in time is the situation in Mexico going to be labeled correctly? When will it be called by it's true name? An insurgency. This isn't a land of some spotty violence or gang fights...this is a campaign of terror and intimidation and death. And it will continue moving north. Yes...across our border.

33 killed in violent in Mexico's Nuevo Leon


Mexico's northern state of Nuevo Leon, home to the industrial city of Monterrey, saw 33 killings Wednesday, in the most violent day in recent history, officials said Thursday.

The prosperous region, home to many foreign companies, was until recently considered a safe haven as drug violence increased in parts of Mexico.

But a bloody turf war between the Gulf cartel and its former hitmen the Zetas has spilled into the state in less than two years, producing daylight shootouts, grenade attacks and a climate of fear.

A spokesman for Nuevo Leon government, who requested anonymity, said 33 violent killings were recorded in and around state capital Monterrey, an area of some four million, on Wednesday.

Before then, the highest number recorded were 18, on May 20, including 14 in a deliberate fire in a jail in Apodaca town.

Many of Wednesday's killings bore the signs of drug gang vendettas, including the discovery of the mutilated corpses of two bodyguards of State Governor Rodrigo Medina, along with a message allegedly from the Gulf gang.

Parts of Mexico, particularly near the US border, have seen a rise in suspected drug violence, with more than 37,000 deaths blamed on drug gangs since the launch of a military crackdown on organized crime at the end of 2006.

Two U.S. Citizens Shot Dead At Mexican Border

Two American men, waiting on the Mexican side of the border at a California border crossing were shot dead while in their pickup truck yesterday. Let me make sure we are clear here...these two Americans were in their truck INSIDE MEXICO while waiting to cross back into their home country of America and were shot to death in their truck.

Here's some of the report at Yahoo News:

Two workers shot to death on Monday while waiting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States were American citizens, the U.S. State Department said.

The two men were riding in a pickup truck and about to cross into California at the San Ysidro border crossing point when they were gunned down on Monday afternoon, local authorities said.

Sergio Salcido Luna, 25, and Kevin Joel Romero, 28, were found dead in the vehicle having been shot several times. A small amount of marijuana was recovered from the scene, local law enforcement said.

"We can confirm that two U.S. citizens were shot to death at a Tijuana border crossing yesterday," the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

The two men worked for a beverage maintenance company in southern California, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

Apparently, the Mexicans are trying to blame this on drug cartels but twice in the story we see that the pair had only a very small amount of marijuana in the truck - so who the hell killed these two Americans? Is this dejavu in regards to the American shot in cold blood in Mexico by Mexican security forces? Or was this really drug cartels? And where is the news on this coming from the Federal government?

These two Americans were probably a football field away from American soil and are now dead and I'm not hearing much from our State Department or the DOJ or Homeland Security. What is the response from the Mexican government? Why isn't the death of two Americans in Mexico making news, people?

Two U.S. citizens killed at Mexico border


TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Two workers shot to death on Monday while waiting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States were American citizens, the U.S. State Department said.

The two men were riding in a pickup truck and about to cross into California at the San Ysidro border crossing point when they were gunned down on Monday afternoon, local authorities said.

Sergio Salcido Luna, 25, and Kevin Joel Romero, 28, were found dead in the vehicle having been shot several times. A small amount of marijuana was recovered from the scene, local law enforcement said.

"We can confirm that two U.S. citizens were shot to death at a Tijuana border crossing yesterday," the State Department said in a statement on Tuesday.

The two men worked for a beverage maintenance company in southern California, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

San Ysidro is the busiest border crossing in the world, handling 50,000 vehicles each day crossing north from Tijuana along with 25,000 people on foot.

It is also used by traffickers ferrying drugs and undocumented immigrants north while illegal weapons head south to armed bandits in Mexico's bloody drug war.

Baja California state prosecutors on Tuesday downplayed speculation that the slayings were linked to the drug trade, and said that a small packet of marijuana in Salcido Luna's possession was likely for personal use.

In September 2009, U.S. agents fired at three vans packed with about 70 illegal immigrants that tried to evade heavy security at the same crossing and pass into the United States. Three people in the vans and a motorist were wounded.

Don't Look Now But There's a Full Fledged Terrorist Insurgency Going On In Mexico

At some point in time, the Mexican terrorists...yes, I said terrorists...will start to spill over the U.S. border and when that happens, we are going to be loading dead Americans onto pickup trucks and THEN we'll see if Washington, D.C. feels they need to do their job.

Look at this portion of the story at Breitbart that talks about a hit on a house just south of the U.S. border in Mexico and tell me that you can describe this any other way than a full fledged insurgency of terror:

Gunmen burst into a home in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed a woman and her two teenage daughters, state officials said Tuesday.

Authorities said the armed group opened fire in the home and killed the woman, 40, and her daughters, aged 17 and 15. A 29-year-old man in the house was also seriously wounded.

In a separate incident late Monday, nine people were injured when a grenade was tossed into a shop in the northeastern Mexican city of Matamoros.

Police said an unknown person hurled the device into a clothing store in Matamoros, a border city that is the scene of a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas.

In the same region, 18 people were killed Monday in a series of attacks on a bus, a private car and public buildings.

Believe me, it's obvious...these aren't some sort of drug cartel hits - these are terror attacks. These are innocent people being mowed down by Mexican terrorists and if you think that the porous American border is going to stop these clowns, you're smoking something.

The Mexican government has lost control and the American government is shirking control and thus, the recipe for innocent lives on BOTH sides of the border is for death. Lots of death.

Woman, teen daughters slain in Mexico violence


Gunmen burst into a home in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed a woman and her two teenage daughters, state officials said Tuesday.

Authorities said the armed group opened fire in the home and killed the woman, 40, and her daughters, aged 17 and 15. A 29-year-old man in the house was also seriously wounded.

Ciudad Juarez is considered the most violent city in Mexico with some 3,100 murders last year, with 300 of the victims women, according to figures from Chihuahua state.

Most of the crimes are said to be due to turf battles between drug cartels fighting to control lucrative smuggling to the United States.

In a separate incident late Monday, nine people were injured when a grenade was tossed into a shop in the northeastern Mexican city of Matamoros.

Police said an unknown person hurled the device into a clothing store in Matamoros, a border city that is the scene of a turf battle between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas.

In the same region, 18 people were killed Monday in a series of attacks on a bus, a private car and public buildings.

More than 34,600 people have died in drug violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon deployed soldiers and federal police in a widespread crackdown on the illegal cartels.

American Border Patrol Agent Survives Iraq War, Is Killed On American Soil By Mexican Invaders

It's beyond ironic to me that a young American soldier can fight through the deadly battles of the Iraq War, come home, begin work as a Border Patrol agent and subsequently lose his life, while he stands on American soil, to invading drug cartel terrorists from Mexico. But it's there for all of us to see. Border agent Brian Terry is dead because we have a Congress and a U.S. President who refuse to adequately protect the American people.

From the account of the story at Family Security Matters:

A decorated agent of the U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday night was shot and killed on the U.S. side of the Arizona-Mexico border while attempting to apprehend suspects who regularly victimize illegal immigrants, according to the leader of National Border Patrol Council Local 2544, the union that represents agents.

Border agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was on a stakeout with three other agents in a remote area north of Nogales when a gun battle erupted with the armed suspects, reported National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner. No other agents were injured, but one of the suspects was wounded in the shootout.

The Federal Bureau of Investigating is assisting in the investigation of the shooting. Investigators said that they have four suspects in custody and are searching for a fifth.

A Border Patrol agent for about three years, Terry also served in the military and had been deployed to Iraq. He died early Wednesday.

"It's amazing that Agent Terry survived a full-blown war, but was killed in his own country by foreign bandits," said former New York Detective Mike Snopes, who also served in military intelligence.

Let's cut through the bullshit here - we have drug cartel terrorists who simply are no different than al Qaeda. The likes of al Qaeda murder because Mo and allah tell them to while drug cartel terrorists murder because of money and power. What would the headlines of this story been if a national guard troop had been killed in Arizona by an al Qaeda assassin? But this story never even saw the light of day on the MSM.

Not only is our Federal government covered in the blood of Brian Terry, the MSM is complicit in covering up that government's negligence.

Let me play President for a moment. I would call a meeting with the President of Mexico. I would bring a photo of the dead body of Brian Terry and I would tell the Mexican leader that from this point forward, the U.S. will employ all military equipment and forces to kill every Mexican cartel member that sets one foot or one tire inside of the sovereign nation of America. And to that point, there more than likely will be citizens of Mexico killed in the process that are confused as invading drug cartel members. And finally, America demands the authority to send covert operations personnel INTO Mexico to subvert the activities of the cartels along the U.S. border.

Simple as that.

The message to Barack Hussein Obama and the Congress has to be be hammered home - NOT ONE MORE DROP OF AMERICAN BLOOD WILL BE TOLERATED. Has our President asked the Mexican President to station Mexican troops at the border to halt drug cartels from entering America? Has our President decided to assist the border patrol with national guard troops equipped to fight? Hell no. This is not a U.S. President - this is a spineless bumbling fool who is willing to shed American blood in hopes of securing a voting block for 2012.

Border Patrol Agent Murdered in Arizona


A decorated agent of the U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday night was shot and killed on the U.S. side of the Arizona-Mexico border while attempting to apprehend suspects who regularly victimize illegal immigrants, according to the leader of National Border Patrol Council Local 2544, the union that represents agents.

Border agent Brian A. Terry, 40, was on a stakeout with three other agents in a remote area north of Nogales when a gun battle erupted with the armed suspects, reported National Border Patrol Council President T.J. Bonner. No other agents were injured, but one of the suspects was wounded in the shootout.

The Federal Bureau of Investigating is assisting in the investigation of the shooting. Investigators said that they have four suspects in custody and are searching for a fifth.

A Border Patrol agent for about three years, Terry also served in the military and had been deployed to Iraq. He died early Wednesday.

"It's amazing that Agent Terry survived a full-blown war, but was killed in his own country by foreign bandits," said former New York Detective Mike Snopes, who also served in military intelligence.

Bandits have long roamed border areas, robbing and sexually assaulting illegal immigrants as they cross into the country, according to police sources in Arizona.

"This is a sign that the politicians and bureaucrats are overly optimistic in their assessment that the borders are more secure now than at any point in our history. It showed just the opposite," Bonner said.

"Ironically, the biggest operation by the Obama Administration in Arizona is a lawsuit against the state's new law that was passed in order to fight the crime and violence perpetrated by illegal aliens," said Snopes.

"While distorting the results of his administration's actions regarding border security, President Obama appears more aggressive towards law enforcement officials like Sheriff Joe Arpaio [of Maricopa County, AZ]," he added.

Unfortunately, the Department of Homeland Security’s latest failure to protect the United State is a costly program to place crucial electronic surveillance systems along the U.S.-Mexico border that is years behind schedule. The security project is grossly over budget because Secretary Janet Napolitano's agency hasn’t adequately managed the contractor doing the work, according to a Washington, DC watchdog group.

As a result, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars will be wasted and the porous southern border will continue to be vulnerable despite the Obama Administration’s assurances that it’s as secure as it’s ever been. So far the troubled project, known as Secure Border Initiative Network, has cost the government $672 million although it’s nowhere near completion, according to Judicial Watch, a public-interest group that investigates political corruption.

After years of debates, congressional votes, government studies and political posturing by lawmakers, the so-called "virtual fence" continues to cause more problems than it solves, according to testimony at a session of the House Homeland Security Committee.

In a compromise that met with disappointment by those who advocate tighter border security, instead of walls or chain link fencing, the U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security Department created the concept of virtual fence security that includes surveillance cameras, motion or heat sensing detectors, radar, and supposed state-of-the-art control towers designed to detect and prevent illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States.

According to a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police, the security contractor -- Boeing Co. -- is installing the hi-tech physical security system. The original plan called for a completion date by December 2009 at a cost of $1.1 billion for a virtual fence. According to the report obtained by NACOP, Boeing requested that completion date to be amended by seven years.

Physical security experts told this writer it should surprise no one that a relatively simple project would become complicated and unmanageable given that fact that most of the decision-makers probably have no law enforcement, security or engineering background.

The Obama initiative aims to enhance border security by designing technological tools that enable Border Patrol agents to detect and respond to incursions along unmanned stretches of the 2,000-mile Mexican border. This includes installing unattended ground sensors, radars and cameras. The so-called virtual fence was supposed to be completed by 2011, but Homeland Security officials recently pushed the date up to 2014, well after Obama's 2012 reelection campaign.

That’s because the agency has failed to properly oversee the project’s prime contractor, resulting in costly rework, numerous delays and lots of extra money. In fact Homeland Security officials stood by as the contractor provided information that was “replete with unexplained anomalies, thus rendering the data unfit for effective contractor management and oversight,” congressional investigators found.

Leader of La Familia Drug Cartel Gunned Down and Killed By Mexican Federal Police

Wow. This is pretty big news as La Familia is one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico - this is gonna send some shockwaves across the cartels in Mexico and might just create a chaos in the whole vacuum. A real shame to see this pig end up full of bullet holes, now isn't it?

From the story at Breitbart:

The eccentric leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel is believed to have been killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican state, the government said Friday.

The death of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez—nicknamed "The Craziest One"—would be a major blow to a drug cartel that burst into national prominence four years ago by rolling severed heads into a nightclub and declaring that its mission was to protect Michoacan state from rival gangs and petty criminals.

Police have received information that the 40-year-old Gonzalez—also known as "El Chayo" or "The Doctor"—was killed in clash Thursday between cartel gunmen and federal police, said Alejandro Poire, the government spokesman for security issues.

Cartel gunmen have been fleeing with their causalities, and police believe that Moreno was among the dead, Poire said. He said police recovered the bodies of three other suspected La Familia members and detained three others.

Of course we all know what this means...the La Familia people will now go on a murder spree and basically assassinate about a dozen police officials in Mexico in retribution.

And so it is in Mexico. Drugs, poverty, blood. And all of these cartels looking to bring this to America. I have to ask the question - at what point are we going to see the U.S. military in aggressive attack on the cartels inside of American and five miles south of our border?

La Familia cartel chief believed killed in Mexico


MEXICO CITY (AP) - The eccentric leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel is believed to have been killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen that terrified civilians across a western Mexican state, the government said Friday.

The death of Nazario Moreno Gonzalez—nicknamed "The Craziest One"—would be a major blow to a drug cartel that burst into national prominence four years ago by rolling severed heads into a nightclub and declaring that its mission was to protect Michoacan state from rival gangs and petty criminals.

Police have received information that the 40-year-old Gonzalez—also known as "El Chayo" or "The Doctor"—was killed in clash Thursday between cartel gunmen and federal police, said Alejandro Poire, the government spokesman for security issues.

Cartel gunmen have been fleeing with their causalities, and police believe that Moreno was among the dead, Poire said. He said police recovered the bodies of three other suspected La Familia members and detained three others.

Five officers and three civilians—including an 8-month-old baby and a teenage girl—were also killed in the shootouts, which began Wednesday night, when La Familia gunmen attacked federal officers in the city of Apatzingan and fired on cars.

The gunmen torched vehicles across Michoacan and used them as barricades, even blockading all entrances into its capital of Morelia to prevent federal police from sending reinforcements.

Moreno is considered the ideological leader of La Familia, setting a code of conduct for its members that prohibits using hard drugs or dealing them within Mexican territory. He purportedly has written a religiously tinted book of values for the cartel, sometimes known as "The Sayings of the Craziest One."

The U.S. government added Moreno and six other reputed La Familia leaders to its "Kingpin Act" list in February, a move that prohibits American citizens and firms from having any business dealings with them and freezes any U.S. assets they may have.

Poire said Moreno emerged as the leader of La Familia in 2006, when the gang—then known as "The Business"—broke off from the Gulf cartel and declared its independence by rolling the severed heads into a disco in the mountain town of Uruapan.

A message left with the heads declared: "La Familia doesn't kill for money, doesn't kill women, doesn't kill innocents. Only those who deserve to die will die."

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who was born in Michoacan, responded by deploying tens of thousands of soldiers to the state to crush the cartel—an increasingly bloody fight that has since expanded to other drug trafficking hotspots across the country. More than 28,000 people have been killed in drug-gang violence since.

La Familia has since become one of the biggest methamphetamine traffickers to the United States. Meanwhile, the cartel has proclaimed in banners and even newspaper advertisements that it is trying to protect Michoacan from other cartels and common criminals.

The government claims that that La Familia has been severely weakened after four years of fighting off its rivals and security forces.

Several leading La Familia traffickers have been arrested in recent months. One of those suspects, Sergio Moreno Godinez, said under police interrogation last month that the cartel is in decline.

He confirmed the authenticity of a letter, e-mailed to journalists and dropped on the streets of several towns, saying the cartel is willing to disband if the government can improve security for Michoacan.

"What we have seen in the last days is a criminal organization repudiated by the population, and which has been significantly weakened," Poire said. "This is demonstrated by its false calls for a truce and the confessions of its members."

Mexican authorities put a $2 million bounty on Moreno's head in March 2009. His official wanted poster—featuring a fuzzy photograph of a middle-aged man with a thin face and a mustachio—accuses him of drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder.

In 2006, El Universal newspaper said it had interviewed two La Familia leaders, identifying one as "The Craziest One." He was quoted as saying: "There is a new policy: We are going to expose those who sell drugs, to those who steal, to those who kidnap, anybody who is out of line. This is the policy of The Business."

According to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration profile, La Familia members are believed to undergo a three- to six-month training camp in Michoacan.

"They believe they are doing God's work, and pass out Bibles and money to the poor," the profile says. "La Familia Michoacana also gives money to school and local official."

Mexican authorities believe La Familia operates "by means of an executive council" compromised of both drug traffickers and government officials, according to the DEA.

In 2009, the Calderon government arrested more than 30 Michoacan state and local officials—including 12 mayors—accused of protecting La Familia in a highly touted sweep meant to show no politicians are immune from prosecution. The cases have since unraveled for lack of evidence in one of the biggest setbacks of Calderon's drug war. Only one of the officials—a former mayor—remains in prison.

The other reputed La Familia leader is former school teacher Servando Gomez. He is described as the operational chief of the cartel in an October 2009 Justice Department indictment for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine to the United States.

The indictment says Gomez is in charge of acquiring weapons for the cartel and may be behind the murder of 12 Mexican federal law enforcement officers whose bodies were found in July 2009 following the arrest of another La Familia leader.

Drug Cartel Assassins Ambush and Kill 10 Mexican Police

And Americans on the Left can't figure out why Arizona wants to enforce a law that is meant to keep illegal aliens, LIKE DRUG CARTEL HITMEN, out of the state of Arizona? Well, in western Mexico, there are 10 dead policemen today - at the hands of the same types of illegals that are coming into America.

I am telling you this now. If the Federal government doesn't take action soon to secure the border in the southwest United States, there is going to be a damn war in those states and it probably isn't going to be just border patrol and national guard firing - the fact of the matter is there are a lot of bad guys coming in and U.S. citizens are going to have one choice - kill them before we get killed.

Here's the story from Breitbart:

Ten police killed in Mexico ambush

Gunmen ambushed police Monday in Mexico's crime-infested western state of Michoacan, killing 10 officers and wounding several others, authorities said.
The early morning attack took place in the western town of Zitacuaro and several assailants were killed in the exchange of gunfire, officials from Mexico's Public Security Ministry said.

"During the assault, federal police returned fire, killing several of the attackers, and injuring others," a press release said.

Michoacan is the headquarters for the notorious "La Familia" cartel, known as one of Mexico's deadliest drug-trafficking organizations, which has a history of violent confrontations with the federal police.

The ambush occurred as uniformed police officers traveled by car through the town of Zitacuaro en route to the Mexican capital.

After the assault, soldiers and fedsral police cordoned off the area and launched a manhunt for the surviving attackers, who remain at large.

Police said the attackers succeeded in removing the dead and wounded from the scene before fleeing.

The attack occurred around 7:30 am local time (1230 GMT) and was followed by other violent exchanges and skirmishes near the ambush scene.

"La Familia," which is said to be the top producer of synthetic drugs in Mexico, unleashed a similar bloody assault against police last July that led to the deaths of 16 officers.

In another recent attack, the drug cartel kidnapped 12 federal police officers, decapitating their captives before dumping the bodies on a busy highway.

Michoacan is the home province of President Felipe Calderon, and is the province where he launched his nationwide crackdown against drug-trafficking, deploying some 50,000 police across Mexico nearly four years ago.

The government's ramped-up efforts against illegal drugs, launched in December 2006, have led to waves of violence that have wracked Mexico ever since, especially along its northern border with the United States, and claimed more than 22,700 lives so far.

Insurgents Attack Security Convoy Killing 4...So, Was it In Iraq? Pakistan? Afghanistan? Nope....Mexico

If anyone living in America doesn't see the similarities between the world of radical islamic terror revolution going on in the world and the revolution of violence in Mexico, they are certainly blind. Let's face it, America's southern border and the land of Mexico which lies below it, has become a blood fest of terrorism, death and destruction. And it is high time to realize that the "nuisance" of illegal aliens entering into America is about to evolve into a wave of armed insurgents swarming into our country seeking the same violence and anarchy here that they have created in Mexico.

From the report at Breitbart:

Gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a convoy carrying the top security official of the western state of Michoacan on Saturday, killing four and wounding 10 in Mexico's second brazen ambush in as many days.
Public Safety Secretary Minerva Bautista was among the wounded but was recovering from non-life-threatening injuries, said an official at the state attorney general's office who was not authorized to be quoted by name. Bautista was traveling in a bullet-resistant sport utility vehicle.

Bautista was returning from the inauguration of a fair when her three-vehicle convoy was stopped just after midnight by a truck the attackers apparently used to block the road.

Several hours later, assailants tossed a hand grenade at a police station in the Michoacan state capital, Morelia, about 30 yards (meters) from the state public safety department's headquarters. The explosion damaged three vehicles, but nobody was hurt.

At what point does the Obama administration wake the hell up and recognize that it is only a matter of time before the wars in Mexico spread to Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas? How many Americans are going to end up dead when the Obama administration realizes that secure borders with Mexico aren't there just to keep illegal workers out? And at what point does the Obama administration recognize that their plans to stack the 2012 elections with newly citizenized Mexican illegals may just lead to a war in our Southwest?

But, as is becoming painfully obvious, the Obama administration ignores a Mexican insurgency flooding over our borders, it looks the other way concerning the al Qaeda cells operating inside of America....oh no, the ONLY thing that the Obama administration seems to zero in on is a confederate flag and NRA and "Live Free or Die" bumper stickers on a pickup truck of a white American.

Mexico security official's convoy ambushed, 4 dead


MORELIA, Mexico (AP) - Gunmen armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked a convoy carrying the top security official of the western state of Michoacan on Saturday, killing four and wounding 10 in Mexico's second brazen ambush in as many days.
Public Safety Secretary Minerva Bautista was among the wounded but was recovering from non-life-threatening injuries, said an official at the state attorney general's office who was not authorized to be quoted by name. Bautista was traveling in a bullet-resistant sport utility vehicle.

The dead included two of her bodyguards and two bystanders. Of the other nine people wounded, five were bystanders—including two girls ages 2 and 12—and four were part of Bautista's security detail.

There was no immediate information on the identity of the attackers, who numbered about 20, or on a possible motive. However, drug violence is common in Michoacan, the home base of the drug cartel known as La Familia.

Mexican drug cartels have been known to target security officials. The acting federal police chief was shot dead in May 2008 in an attack attributed to drug traffickers lashing back at a nationwide crackdown on organized crime.

Bautista was returning from the inauguration of a fair when her three-vehicle convoy was stopped just after midnight by a truck the attackers apparently used to block the road.

Several hours later, assailants tossed a hand grenade at a police station in the Michoacan state capital, Morelia, about 30 yards (meters) from the state public safety department's headquarters. The explosion damaged three vehicles, but nobody was hurt.

Farther south, in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, the dismembered bodies of three men were found in plastic bags inside a home outside the resort of Acapulco on Saturday.

Guerrero state police said a message was found at the scene. Mexican police generally do not release the contents of such messages, but local media said the hand-lettered sign blamed the three dead men for an April 14 shooting that killed six people on Acapulco's main boulevard.

That daylight shooting in Acapulco's balmy tourist zone killed a mother and her 8-year-old child, a taxi driver, a federal police officer and two other men.

One of the suspects detained in that shooting is described as an associate of Texas-born Edgar Valdez Villarreal, nicknamed "La Barbie," who Mexican federal authorities believe is battling Hector Beltran Leyva for control of the Beltran Leyva cartel. There was no indication which gang the three dismembered men belonged to.

On Friday, gunmen ambushed two police vehicles at a busy intersection in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, killing seven officers and a 17-year-old boy caught in the crossfire. Two more officers were seriously wounded.

Authorities said the officers had stopped to talk to a street vendor who flagged them down for help. Gunmen suddenly opened fire from behind, then fled in three vehicles.

Hours after the attack, a painted message directed to top federal police commanders and claiming responsibility for the attack appeared on a wall in downtown Ciudad Juarez. It was apparently signed by La Linea, the enforcement arm of the Juarez drug cartel. The Juarez cartel has been locked in a bloody turf battle with the Sinaloa cartel, led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

"This will happen to you ... for being with El Chapo Guzman and to all the dirtbags who support him. Sincerely, La Linea," the message read. The authenticity of the message could not be independently verified.

More than 22,700 people have been killed in Mexico's drug war since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against the cartels.