15-03-2009, 05:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 15-03-2009, 05:42 AM by Tosh Plumlee.)
March 14,2009 given to AFP and AP..... direct download, (pictures and interview)
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) – At least five bodies were found in an unmarked grave in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico's Chihuahua state, where four more people were found executed, police said Saturday.
"A hidden grave was found with at least five lifeless male bodies that had been shot by armed men who had taken them hostage earlier," the office of public security in Ciudad Juarez said.
Police did not rule out the possibility of uncovering more bodies near the grave, located in the outskirts of this city of 1.3 million, which has emerged as the country's most violent with upwards of 1,600 killings in 2008.
More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in suspected drug attacks amid the government's crackdown on warring cartels, particularly in and around Ciudad Juarez, a major distribution center for drugs bound for the United States.
Last year saw more than 5,300 drug-related killings in Mexico.
The grisly violence flared after President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels nearly two years ago, prompting armed resistance from drug barons and setting off a turf warfare between rival gangs.
Meanwhile in Mexico's easternmost Yucatan peninsula, soldiers captured a senior leader of the notorious Gulf drug cartel in the popular seaside resort Cancun, authorities said Saturday.
Napoleon de Jesus Mendoza, accused of involvement in the killing of two soldiers in February, was captured Thursday in possession of about 700,000 dollars.
Since December 2006 Mexico has deployed more than 36,000 soldiers throughout the country to battle the cartels. (end)
Does anybody really see what is hapening here?... or does anyone really care? ... This has become a United States Security matter regardless where we admit it or not.
Our elected oficials, in Washington D.C., seem to have their fingers up their nose and picking their butts and wondering what to do. (or just plain covering their past sins)
(more to come... I am in Juarez MX, as I type this... Sat night live......... later) Tosh
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) – At least five bodies were found in an unmarked grave in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico's Chihuahua state, where four more people were found executed, police said Saturday.
"A hidden grave was found with at least five lifeless male bodies that had been shot by armed men who had taken them hostage earlier," the office of public security in Ciudad Juarez said.
Police did not rule out the possibility of uncovering more bodies near the grave, located in the outskirts of this city of 1.3 million, which has emerged as the country's most violent with upwards of 1,600 killings in 2008.
More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in suspected drug attacks amid the government's crackdown on warring cartels, particularly in and around Ciudad Juarez, a major distribution center for drugs bound for the United States.
Last year saw more than 5,300 drug-related killings in Mexico.
The grisly violence flared after President Felipe Calderon declared war on drug cartels nearly two years ago, prompting armed resistance from drug barons and setting off a turf warfare between rival gangs.
Meanwhile in Mexico's easternmost Yucatan peninsula, soldiers captured a senior leader of the notorious Gulf drug cartel in the popular seaside resort Cancun, authorities said Saturday.
Napoleon de Jesus Mendoza, accused of involvement in the killing of two soldiers in February, was captured Thursday in possession of about 700,000 dollars.
Since December 2006 Mexico has deployed more than 36,000 soldiers throughout the country to battle the cartels. (end)
Does anybody really see what is hapening here?... or does anyone really care? ... This has become a United States Security matter regardless where we admit it or not.
Our elected oficials, in Washington D.C., seem to have their fingers up their nose and picking their butts and wondering what to do. (or just plain covering their past sins)
(more to come... I am in Juarez MX, as I type this... Sat night live......... later) Tosh