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2010-07-30 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2010-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 More than made up for the slow day earlier in the week.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-07-30 08:31|| 2010-07-30 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Is it my imagination, or does the violence in Northern Mexico seem to be spreading?

The violence used to be concentrated in Juarez. Now it seems to be all along the border (and all the way south to Monterey).

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-07-30 11:15|| 2010-07-30 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 The violence is spreading as far north as Phoenix, my friend. Kidnap and Home Invasion capital of the U.S.A. I live in Tucson where home invasions are rampant, also. Dealers are naturally a wee bit hesitant to call the police when their stash, cash, and weaponry is stolen. The local constabulatory finds out via the ubiquitous gunshots involved in these cases. Things are messy here in Tucson, helicopter/searchlight overflights in my neighborhood most every night. No cops though, unless there is blood in the streets...

Posted by borgboy 2010-07-30 16:17|| 2010-07-30 16:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Is it my imagination, or does the violence in Northern Mexico seem to be spreading?

The violence used to be concentrated in Juarez. Now it seems to be all along the border (and all the way south to Monterey).

I haven't been reading and writing Mexican drug crime news long enough to answer your question cogently. Ask it again in a year and I may be able to provide an answer.

But what I do know is that the intergang violence is concentrated in four main areas: Juarez, Chihuahua; Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; and the Mexican Federal highway system that runs from Guerrero through Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa. Battle areas shift all the time according to what the Mexican Army does and what other gangs do.

For example, the intergang fight in Tubutama, Sonora earlier this July we later found out wasn't an intergang fight, but an ambush involving at least 150 gang members from Command X, a sub group of the Sinaloa cartel, and Los Zetas operating on behalf of the Beltran-Leyva Cartel.

What the hell Sinaloa Cartel was doing in central Sonora is anyone's guess, but they paid for their stupidity with at least 15 dead.

Now we find another intergang fight has taken place again near Saric ( roughly 10 kilometers north of Tubutama ) today. Details to follow later.

The upshot is that the battleground are shifting all the time with differing factors such as Mexican Federal intervention, such as Mexican Federal agents and the Mexican Army, drug operations and counter gang operations affecting where the next fight will be.

Ask me in another year.

Posted by badanov 2010-07-30 17:27|| 2010-07-30 17:27|| Front Page Top

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