Posted on 04/30/2009 1:35:56 PM PDT by AuntB
[An assessment by the U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center dated October 31, 2006, regarding Prepaid Store Value Cards reported that the cards provide an ideal money laundering instrument to anonymously move money without fear of identification or seizure.]
El Universal (Mexico City) 4/28/09
Narcotraffickers are using prepaid value cards to send money from the US to Mexico because this financial instrument is not subject to the usual measures against money laundering, according to Arizona state Attorney General Terry Goddard. ”This is something that is happening on our border, cards that are being provided by a few financial institutions, not major banks, but those that operate at a lower level,” he said during an interview. The Prepaid Store Value Cards (as they are called in the US) are not defined as “monetary instruments” for money laundering and narcotraffic is taking advantage of that, knowing that the cards will not be inspected at the border. All who cross the border from the US to Mexico must declare if they are transporting more than $10,000 in cash. Such people can carry more than a million dollars in value cards and are not required to declare it because they are not breaking any law, Goddard emphasized. In his opinion, the cards should be inspected at the border and the amount contained in them deciphered electronically. If the cards could be regulated, it would be another blow to smugglers and narcotraffic. ”This money is the fuel that is feeding the violence,” he said.
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Arturo Mendicuti, president of the Chamber of Commerce Services and Tourism of Mexico City reported 777 million peso [56 million US] per day loss in the city’s businesses. Hotel occupancy is the lowest in the past 16 years, between 5 and 10 percent. The decline is attributed to the flu epidemic scare. Restaurants, however, are operating normally.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja California) 4/28/09
Coordinated attacks on municipal police in Tijuana left seven officers dead and others wounded. The attacks all happened at about 8 p.m. Four of the police officers were killed outside an auto service business. At about the same time, four more attacks occurred in different parts of the city in which another three policemen were killed. The hit men even entered police outstations in their attacks. The murders provoked an intense police operation in which four suspects were arrested. This led to the capture of a fifth suspect who was turned over to the Mexican Army.
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In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, the wave of violence left two more dead, raising the number of execution style murders to more than 500 since the beginning of this year.
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El Debate (Sinaloa) 4/28/09
Federal Police at the Tijuana airport intercepted four people smuggling packets of heroin taped to their bodies. The packets weighed a total of nearly eight kilos. The four, two men and two women arrived on a flight from Uruapan, Michoacán and two of them were over 70 years old. The drug was discovered with the help of a sniffer dog.
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Catholic Church to Champion Migratory Reform
Prensa Libre (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 4/29/09 - full transl.-
“Church will champion migratory reform” Guatemala’s Episcopal Conference (“CEG”) asked the United States government to correct the obsolete immigration system in order to remove millions of undocumented persons out of the shadows. Encouraged by U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent commitments about promoting immigration reform, the “CEG” yesterday announced that it will champion an integral migratory reform. It urged the Government of Guatemala, principally Guatemala’s National Migrant Affairs Council, to head lobbying groups focused on the White House, Congress and the House of Representatives. (sic) Mauro Verzeletti, of the Human Mobility Pastoral, stated that the Church made certain recommendations to the Government of the U.S., such as the regularization of the three types of migrants – temporary, provisional and permanent ones – the establishment of a feasible way to obtain legal residence, the creation of temporary jobs and legal mechanisms for family reunification, among other issues. (This article was accompanied by a photo which is attached. Its caption reads: “Daily, thousands of migrants board the familiar “train of death” which leads from Oaxaca to Mexico City, in order to later arrive in the U.S.”) train-riders - - - - - - La Hora (Guatemala City, Guatemala) 4/29/09
90 percent of undocumented Guatemalans deported from the United States have expressed their intention of returning to the U.S. within a period not longer than ninety days. This report was released by Mauro Verzeletti, “adjunct secretary of Guatemala’s Episcopal Conference”, and is based on that organization’s “Migrant House” interviews and records. - - - - - -
La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 4/29/09
A semi en route from Nicaragua to El Salvador was inspected by police near Managua, Nicaragua. It was found to be transporting 600 packages of cocaine hidden and mislabeled among a load of agricultural chemicals. The markings on the packages led police to believe the drug belonged to the Gulf Cartel. (The weight was not mentioned) - - - - - -
Correo (Leon, Guanajuato) 4/29/09
Only 1500 out of 3500 local area residents who were illegally in the United States and who returned to Mexico during the farm work off-season now plan to return to the U.S. to seek work as field hands, according to the “Direccion de Atencion al Migrante” (Migrants’ Affairs Bureau); this is because of the “armoring” of the border, the cost of the trip and because the smugglers charge so much to take people across due to the difficulty in crossing the border. - - - - - -
Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 4/29/09
* Mex. Military seized 1,996 kilos of weed, 93 kilos of cocaine, 6 “long barrel” firearms, 3 handguns, “AFI” (Mex. Equiv. to FBI) uniforms and headgear, and 10 armored vests. All this at an auto junkyard just outside Piedras Negras, Coahuila (-just across the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass, TX. As is commonplace, the thugs fled and avoided capture)
* 339 police officers at Torreon, Coahuila, have been suspended without pay for failure to appear to take a drug test. Torreon police is now operating with 40% fewer personnel.
* There were eight homicides in Ciudad Juarez and one other in Chihuahua City, the state’s capital. Among the Juarez victims was the chief of the local prison’s guards. In Chihuahua City, the Internal Affairs commander of the State’s Dep’t. of Justice was gravely wounded after being shot out on the street. The Ciudad Juarez homicides “began early in the day”, were scattered and lasted until the afternoon. - - - - - -
El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/29/09
A group of 22 subjects, all of them Mexicans and carrying backpacks, crossed the border into the United States from Mexico near Nogales, AZ on Tuesday. U.S. Border Patrol Agents detained them and seized 1 ton, 12 kilos of weed, a .45 automatic and 2 clips for AK47 with 60 rounds. - - - - - -
El Informador (Guadalajara, Jalisco) 4/29/09
Mex. Army personnel seized “more than” 8 thousand doses of drugs, “more than” 6 million pesos and “an arsenal” during a search of a house in the northeast area of Reynosa, Tamaulipas. There were 2,300 bags of cocaine, 5,300 bags of crack, some weed, 5 rifles, 2 pistols, 2 frag. grenades, 849 rounds and 48 clips. The currency also included nearly 174 thousand dollars. (This is just across the Rio Grande from McAllen, TX, a few miles upriver from Brownsville) - - - - - -
El Sur (Acapulco, Guerrero) 4/29/09
A search by Mex. military of a house in Altamirano, Guerrero, yielded five “heavy caliber long firearms,” three handguns, 1,195 rounds of ammo, a hand grenade and 38 clips. Five subjects were arrested.
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The National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO) extracts and condenses the material that follows from Mexican and Central and South American on-line media sources on a daily basis. You are free to disseminate this information, but we request that you credit NAFBPO as being the provider.
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This report is the best news on this subject out there. I'm sorry it has to go in bloggers.
This is my favorite today.....I thought all the GUNS were coming from the US to Mexico.....say what Janet 'Nappin'- at-the-Alamo'?????
"El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/29/09
A group of 22 subjects, all of them Mexicans and carrying backpacks, crossed the border into the United States from Mexico near Nogales, AZ on Tuesday. U.S. Border Patrol Agents detained them and seized 1 ton, 12 kilos of weed, a .45 automatic and 2 clips for AK47 with 60 rounds."
It sounds like prepaid credit cards are a safer place to put your money than the US dollar.
and you can make all of the donations you want with unlimited names to the barack obama 2010 campaign you wish to with the same cards as well. His last campaign was awash with such cards for under the $200 reporting amount
Also used by Saudi Shieks to donate to the Obamessiah.
“and you can make all of the donations you want with unlimited names to the barack obama 2010 campaign you wish to with the same cards as well. His last campaign was awash with such cards for under the $200 reporting amount”
I’d forgotten that.
This is my favorite today.....I thought all the GUNS were coming from the US to Mexico.....say what Janet ‘Nappin’- at-the-Alamo’?????
“El Imparcial (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/29/09
A group of 22 subjects, all of them Mexicans and carrying backpacks, crossed the border into the United States from Mexico near Nogales, AZ on Tuesday. U.S. Border Patrol Agents detained them and seized 1 ton, 12 kilos of weed, a .45 automatic and 2 clips for AK47 with 60 rounds.”
NAFBPO bump!
Obama Got a Good chunck of his donations from Prepaid / Gift Visa Card untraceable..
Do you favor some sort of campaign finance reform?
That's what ping lists are for...
He even had donations literally coded from Gaza.
Obama Got a Good chunck of his donations from Prepaid / Gift Visa Card untraceable..
Do you favor some sort of campaign finance reform?
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This is a loophole foreigners can donate....
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