Secret Government Study Exposes Infiltration Attempts by Mexican Drug Cartels

bordeland beat The Examiner A government study kept under wraps for more than a year describes at least 15 attempts by Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency. An internal study for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security describes 15 incidents in which known associates of Mexican drug cartels tried to inflitrate the U.S. Customs...

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First Gendarmaria Nacional forces deploy to western Chihuahua

By Chris Covert Rantburg.com A new security operation set to begin in 30 days in western Chihuahua will include elements of the new Gendarmaria Nacional police, according to Mexican news accounts. Foto: Twitter According to a news story posted on the website of El Mexicano news daily Chihuahua governor Cesar Duarte Jacquez announced Thursday that a large security operation...

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Gangs rob at least five buses in Durango

By Chris CovertRantburg.comAt least five buses have been robbed at gunpoint near a northeast Durango municipality near La Laguna since last Sunday, according to Mexican enws accounts.A news report which appeared last Monday on the website of El Mexicano news daily said that a group of athletes from Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juarez (UACJ) were stopped by armed suspects in Cuencame de Ceniceros municipality, and stripped of cell phones and cash.Cuencame...

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Police on the Run in Mexico

borderland beat For more than 48 hours armed men held the entire town of Marcos Castellanos hostage, killing two people and kidnapping a police officer. After the attack most of the police force resigned - poorly paid police throughout the country are often victims of the violence they themselves try to battle. Lack of training and equipment means they are no match for criminal gangs. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reports from Castellanos, Mexic...

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Durango governor claims La Laguna violent crime down 40 percent

By Chris Covert Rantburg.com Less than 10 days after most of their police force were eliminated, the municipalities of the Durango side of La Laguna are beginning to restart their security programs, even as political concerns about security in Durango and Coahuila states are being aired, according to Mexican news accounts. A news report posted on the website of El Siglo...

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Kombo Kolombia: Possible Link to Zetas, CDG Accused of the Killings

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat The video below for Reporte Indigo, was released yesterday.  The video is in Spanish so I have pulled facts from the video to create an overview in English.  If you are English only I would recommend you view the video anyway as it contains an influx of video and still footage. The second video is an interview by  María Julia...

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Police Agencies in La Laguna support El Chapo

Proceso (1-29-2013) Patricia Davila Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat A "diagnostic" (sic) report prepared by the coordinators of the Secure Laguna Operation (Operativo Laguna Segura) details the modus operandi of the criminal group led by Daniel Garcia Avila in the Lagunera Region, and the way the Cabreras -- Chapo Guzman's allies in the area -- have been driving them into a corner with the suspected complicity of the local police agencies....

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More Mantas Appear in Acuña and Piedras Negras

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat   Manta in Acuña photo credit TexPatNMex  Three mantas were discovered today in the municipality of Acuña, the Coahuila state that is adjacent to Del Rio Texas. The issue as stated in the mnatas surround the appointment by the governor, Rueben Moreira, of Jose Antonio Camp Arredondo to head a newly formed agency yet to be...

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Proposal advances in Mexico to limit preventative detentions to 8 days

By Chris Covert Rantburg.com A new law is advancing in the Mexican national legislature which could limit preventative detentions to eight days, according to Mexican news accounts. A news report which appeared on the website of El Sol de Mexico news daily last Saturday said that Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) deputy coordinator of the senate, Arturo Zamora Jimenez,...

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The end of the Coronel clan

Rio Doce (January 28, 2013) Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat On Saturday, January 19, Jose Angel Carrasco Coronel was arrested by the Army, and his detention dims the Canelas, Durango, lineage that, under the leadership of Ignacio Coronel Villareal, at one time controlled large swaths of drug trafficking in Mexico. He was on the run. Pursued by the federal...

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Mexican government reduces violence by not reporting it

Foto: Wikipedia Thanks to Jennifer Sawiki of Rantburg.com for translation help By Chris Covert Rantburg.com Unreported until last Saturday is the unwritten agreement between the newly elected Mexican federal government and the states that part of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy will be to reduce the number of reports on violent incidents, according...

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The Death of M4 Shrouded in Secrecy

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat The Peña administration makes changes in policy of reporting on the narco war, making it difficult to know what is fact and what is fiction.  M4 is a case in point......   On January 14th rumors were inundating social networks on the pages of Mexican drug war reporting, that Hector Delgado aka “M4” was dead.  On the 15th...

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Bodies of Kombo Kolombia Band Found, a Captive Escaped

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  UPDATE AT BOTTOM   16 Members and 4 others went missing Thursday at least 8 bodies found   Authorities of Nuevo Leon state performed an intense mobilization in the municipality of Mina on Sunday afternoon after an anonymous call alerted  the whereabouts of the members of the musical group Kombo Kolombia. The group...

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