Posted on 12/09/2008 9:49:32 AM PST by SwinneySwitch
MEXICO CITY — Killings linked to Mexico's drug war have more than doubled this year compared with 2007 and are likely to grow even further before they begin to fall, Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora said Monday.
The prosecutor tied the sharp increase in deaths to a battle for control among cartels and a power vacuum created by a series of high-profile arrests and seizures.
The number of gangland killings reached 5,376 from the beginning of the year until Dec. 2, a 117 percent increase over the 2,477 killings in the same period in 2007, Medina-Mora said in a luncheon meeting with foreign correspondents.
The bulk of the killings have occurred in the border states of Chihuahua and Baja California, where traffickers have sought to wipe out rivals on the streets of Juarez and Tijuana, and in Sinaloa, where one of the country's most powerful cartels has its base.
"These criminal organizations don't have limits," said Medina-Mora, who previously served as Mexico's public safety director and spy chief. "They certainly have an enormous power of intimidation."
Even while acknowledging that there was a "significant increase" in drug-related homicides, Medina-Mora said the overall level of violence in Mexico remained moderate compared with that in other Latin American countries.
Mexico's overall homicide rate last year, 11 deaths per 100,000 people, was a small fraction of the rates in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Brazil, he said.
Even as he released the new statistics though, the number of killings in Mexico was climbing. At least 18 people were killed in two southern states on Sunday, The Associated Press reported. They include two people whose heads were left in plastic buckets near the office of the governor of Guerrero state, and 10 suspected drug traffickers and one soldier killed in a gun battle in Arcelia,...
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“Mexican officials complain that the guns that criminals use are coming from the U.S.”.....
That’s a good one!....and the drugs that addicts use are coming from Mexico....
If the Mexican “government” wouldn’t be helping their “people” cross our border, they wouldn’t be able to get American guns. Serves them right.
I also wanted to say. When this stuff starts spilling over into the US in a bigger way than it already is, thank Bush and Sutton.
Looks like a fair trade to me.
About a year ago Al Quada supposed to have moved some of their terrorist to Mexico. After they realized they can not win in Iraq. Is this the result?
Ping!
If you want on, or off this S. Texas/Mexico ping list, please FReepMail me.
Imagine what would happen if we built that fence. All them poor addicts screaming about the vastly inflated costs of illegal drugs. The extravagant cutting of strength of a dose of crack. Poor fellas, I would feel so sorry for them.
And remember to add our great congress that passed so many laws to end the problem and completed the fence and money for installing troops .....
“Earlier this year, Indian authorities caught Afghans en route to Mexico posing as Mexicans with real passports they allegedly bought from a Mexican Consulate office in Mumbai.”
http://www.toddbensman.com/Bensman/Afghanis_Pose_as_Mexicans.html
No, terrorists are nice compared to these pigs.
“Mexico’s overall homicide rate last year, 11 deaths per 100,000 people, was a small fraction of the rates in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Brazil, he said.”
That’s twice our homicide rate. The worst murder rate we’ve had since 1950 at least was in 1980 when we had 10.2 homicides per 100,000 of the population. Our homicide rate is falling and has been below 6 per 100,000 since 1998.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/totalstab.htm
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“Mexico’s overall homicide rate last year, 11 deaths per 100,000 people, was a small fraction of the rates in Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Brazil, he said.”
That’s twice our homicide rate. The worst murder rate we’ve had since 1950 at least was in 1980 when we had 10.2 homicides per 100,000 of the population. Our homicide rate is falling and has been below 6 per 100,000 since 1998.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/totalstab.htm";
If we stopped importing alien criminals, our homicide rate would drop dramatically.
“Imagine what would happen if we built that fence. All them poor addicts screaming about the vastly inflated costs of illegal drugs. The extravagant cutting of strength of a dose of crack. Poor fellas, I would feel so sorry for them.”
Some liberal has a bail out plan for them.
don’t report this kind of news. We need more Obama worship, and need to know more about Oprah’s weight and diets.
“If we stopped importing alien criminals, our homicide rate would drop dramatically.”
Maybe. It’s not much higher than it was in the fifties though. There was another article posted here within the past couple of days about how the “clearance rate” for homicides, the percentage solved, has gone way down. Gang killings are blamed and you know at least some of that has to be within the Hispanic community among illegals who are all afraid to talk to the cops.
Check this one out from my old hometown. The article doesn’t say if the perp is illegal, but when you go to the jail inmate website it shows (along with the MANY other charges :CUST/VIOL No Bail 12/08/2008 02/13/2009
In other words....Customs violation....either an illegal or a green carder who should have never been here in the first place.
MEDFORD, Or. — Police Monday arrested a walkaway from Jackson County’s work-release center after fingering him as the man who ran away from the scene of a four-car crash he caused Saturday evening in downtown Medford moments after eluding police nearby.
Detectives found Tory Ray Ramirez, 26, at about 6 p.m. at an apartment on the 800 block of Ellendale Avenue and arrested him on 26 charges, police said.
He was taken into custody on six counts of hit-and-run driving, four counts of third-degree assault, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, three counts each of first-degree and second-degree criminal mischief, 10 counts of reckless endangerment and reckless driving.
Ramirez, who has no available address, was lodged in the Jackson County Jail, where he was being held late Monday in lieu of $203,000 bail.
Medford police Sgt. Mike Budreau said investigators were relieved to have Ramirez in custody.
“He created a lot of damage and changed a lot of lives that night,” Budreau said. “We’re just lucky nobody was seriously hurt.”
Authorities said Ramirez on Saturday was behind the wheel of a stolen Honda Accord that ran a red light at the intersection of Riverside and Stewart avenues, striking three vehicles.
Ramirez fled the scene of the crash, which caused two people to seek hospital treatment for their injuries, police said. The intersection was littered with debris from the vehicles’ impacts.
The crash occurred moments after Phoenix police and Oregon State Police troopers attempted to pull that same red Accord over for speeding on South Pacific Highway.
Officers, however, called off that chase at South Stage Road when the car began to weave through heavy traffic.
Local police have been looking for Ramirez since Friday, when he violated his parole by walking away from the Jackson County Community Justice Transition Center in Phoenix, Budreau said.
Ramirez had been at the center since Dec. 2, serving out the repercussions for violating his parole on previous convictions of second-degree robbery and eluding police, Budreau said. He was serving on the Community Justice work crew during his stay at the center, Budreau said.
Based on his Friday walk-away from the center, Ramirez was already on police’s radar when Saturday’s crash occurred, Budreau said.
Descriptions of the suspect in the wreck matched that of Ramirez, and several witnesses have identified Ramirez as the suspect, Budreau said.
Ramirez was arrested at the apartment of an acquaintance, whom Budreau declined to identify.
Police did not plan to seek any charges against that person, Bureau said.
At the time of Monday’s arrest, Ramirez had minor injuries from the accident that did not require medical attention, Budreau said.
Ramirez was interviewed by police before he was jailed, Budreau said
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081209/NEWS/812090318
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