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by Michael Webster:
Investigative Reporter.
Jan 26,
2008 6:00PM PST
The U.S. and Mexican border cities has
jumped in gang-related killings since the
beginning of the year. The Mexican
government has described the violence as
revenge for President Felipe Calderón's
year-old crackdown on organized crime that
sent thousands of soldiers and federal
police into violence-plagued Mexican cities
bordering the United States.
The U.S. Government claims they are beefing
up our law enforcement capabilities as well.
The U.S. has added more Border Patrol
Agents, National Guard and Drug Enforcement
Agency to back up and support local border
cities, Police and Sheriff departments.
President George Bush during his final State of
the Union address said, he will double the
number of Border Patrol Agents before the
end of his term.
Mexican drug
cartels responsible for recent border
violence have also cemented ties to street
and prison gangs on the U.S. side. U.S.
gangs retail drugs purchased from Mexican
traffickers and often work as cartel
surrogates or enforcers on U.S. soil.
Intelligence suggests Los Zetas have hired
members of various gangs at different times
including the Mexican Mafia, Texas
Syndicate, MS-13, and Hermanos Pistoleros
Latinos to further their criminal endeavors.
Just this week
over a dozen people were either shot or
beaten to death in separate incidents in
Mexican border cities. Over the weekend in
Juárez Mexico, just across the Rio Grande
River which is all that separates Mexico
from the U.S. border city of El Paso Texas.
Also, in Juárez an 8-year-old girl at a road
side cafe was shot in the ribs apparently by
a stray bullet during a fight between street
gangs, officials said.
At about 2:20 a.m. Sunday, Juárez officials
said, Javier Leal Saucedo, 33, was found
dead near Zaragoza Boulevard and Rayon
Street. He had been beaten to death by
border gangs doing the dirty work for the
powerful Mexican Cartels.
Later the same day at about 9 a.m., the
bodies of two men were found shot in the
head in Ejido Jesus Carranza, a suburb of
Juárez. The victims have not been
identified, but authorities said, they found
two 9 mm shells near the bodies.
Also on Sunday, a 30- to 35-year-old man was
found dead in his car, the victim of still
another gangland type killing. The cause of
death and the name of the victim are not
known. The incident took place near Paseo de
la Plaza and Paseo de los Arcos streets in
downtown Juárez.
In January of this year in Tijuana
Mexico not far from the American city of San
Diego, officials said they found six
executed kidnapping victims inside a Tijuana
house where gunmen took refuge during a
chaotic three-hour shootout with Mexican
soldiers and police.
The victims, all male, were blindfolded and
gagged wrapped in blankets and had been shot
in the head,
although it was unclear if they were killed
before or during the gun battle.
said Edgar Millan, a spokesman with the
federal Public Safety Department.
According to Gen. Germán Redondo Azuara,
commander of the second military zone said
Mexican soldiers, state and local police
were sent in to help control the firefight
that began when federal agents prepared to
raid a house in the Tijuana neighborhood of
La Mesa. Police now say that it was a
shelter for a cell of the Arellano Felix
drug cartel.
Daniel de la Rosa Anaya, the state
secretary of public safety indicated to the
press that three nearby schools were
evacuated. Television showed police running
with small children in their arms while
shots rang out.
Edgar Millan
a top official
with Mexico's federal Public Security
Secretariat
said, the shootout killed two gunman and one
police officer and wounded three other
police officers, in the latest outbreak of
violence across the border from San Diego.
As a result of the Mexican Government siege
four gunmen were arrested – one is a well
known state police investigator and another
is a local Tijuana police officer.
The four arrested gunmen have been flown to
Mexico City for questioning.
Millan said officials recovered 11 automatic
rifles and three bulletproof vests inside
the house.
Rommel Moreño Manjarrez, Baja California's
attorney general said already this week,
gunmen shot and killed eight people in
Tijuana alone, including three local police
officers, as well as a district commander,
his wife and his 12-year-old daughter.
The gun battle shocked even crime-weary
Tijuana residents. Many argued President
Felipe Calderón should step up a yearlong
crackdown on gangs, drug traffickers and
other organized criminals that has sent
soldiers into cities across the nation.
The San Diego Tribune further reported, a
Mrs. Padilla spent the three-hour shootout
hiding in the closet with her 19-year-old
daughter. As they crouched in the dark, they
started to think they wouldn't escape alive.
Gunmen across the street shouted that they
would drop bombs unless police backed off.
“The gunfire was terrible,” she said. “It
made the walls shake. I really didn't think
we were going to get out.”
Less than two blocks down the street, police
were rushing children from a school
vulnerable to gunfire from men holed up on
the roof and top floors of the besieged
brick safe house.
Some of the children were carried by
officers who crouched and pressed themselves
up against the building to avoid the
bullets. Other children ran out onto the
sidewalk in groups under armed guard, their
eyes wide with terror.
“I could hear the hail of gunfire, and it
was really strong,” Rico Espinosa said. “I
didn't feel fear until we had evacuated all
65 kids that were under my care, and then my
legs started to shake.”
Rico and the children were all safely
removed from the school, but Rico's husband,
Jorge Espinosa, stayed in a back room to
take calls from worried parents.
“It was like being in Beirut,” he said.
Residents said soldiers, sent in to help
overwhelmed police, swarmed rooftops. The
gunmen refused to back down, shouting
obscenities at the police and taunting them.
Recently in the central Mexican state of
Hidalgo assailants killed the director of
public safety for the town of Tulancingo.
Jose Alvarado was shot more than 20 times,
Hidalgo state police director Ahuizotl
Figueroa said.
Many on both sides of the border have been
killed or wounded and the terror goes on
with authorities unable to control the gangs
that kill and traffic in drugs and humans
for the wealthy Mexican cartels.
Gen. Germán Redondo Azuara says he believes
many of
the drugs raised in Afghanistan, finds its
way via smuggling routes into markets in
both Europe and the United States where they
are peddled by gang members. In turn
millions of dollars and Eros are used to
fund terrorist and their terror activities
not only in Afghanistan but around the
world. Most of these same terrorist drug
organizations, that fuel the terror network
also help to fund the Taliban attacks in
Afghanistan. Part of this illicit cash
provides operating capital for international
terrorist Osama Bin Laden and others.
The Columbian
and Mexican drug cartels now believed to be
working with international terrorist is the
most pervasive organizational threat to the
United States according to one D.E.A. agent.
murder money & mexico: tijuana cartel
These new
combined international drug trafficking
organizations are complex organizations with
highly defined command-and-control
structures that produce, transport, and/or
distribute large quantities of Afghanistan
illicit drugs.
Global Terrorist And Drug
Trafficking Cartels
A high ranking
ICE official claims the Mexican Drug
Trafficking Organizations (DTO’s) are
perfect for the terrorist because they are
active in every region of the country and
dominate the illicit drug trade in every
area in both Mexico and the United States.
Because of this new alliance Mexican DTOs
are expanding their operations dramatically
in order to gain a larger share of the drug
market. Colombian DTOs are dominant cocaine
and heroin traffickers, particularly in the
Northeast; however, they are increasingly
relinquishing control to Mexican DTOs in
order to shield themselves from law
enforcement detection. The Mexican DTOs are
already major transporters and distributors
of cocaine and South American heroin into
the U.S. They also distribute cocaine and
other drugs to numerous other DTOs and
criminal groups that are also active in the
United States, the world’s largest users of
cocaine and heroin.
Other
reasons the terrorist have chosen the
Mexican DTOs is they control the
transportation and wholesale distribution of
most illicit drugs in every area of the
western hemisphere, exerting unrivaled
control over transportation and wholesale
distribution of cocaine, Mexican heroin,
Mexican marijuana, and ice methamphetamine.
Their established overland transportation
routes and entrenched distribution networks
enable them to supply primary and secondary
drug markets throughout these regions.
Mexican DTOs are further expanding their
influence throughout the world.
The drug
distribution is even involving gangs in
America and they in turn sale to the street
dealers. The street dealers than get the
products to the smaller dealers to
distribute to our neighbors. All of this
creates an atmosphere of fear and
intimidation. And that is exactly what the
terrorist want.
In a recently released FBI report on gangs
operating both in Mexico and the U.S which
was meant for law enforcement eyes only
says and we quote:
That these gangs
on both sides of the border perpetrate
violence—from assaults to homicides, using
firearms, machetes, or blunt objects—to
intimidate rival gangs, law enforcement, and
the general public. They often target middle
and high school students for recruitment.
And they form tenuous alliances...and
sometimes vicious rivalries...with other
criminal groups, depending on their needs at
the time.
Who are they?
Members of Mara Salvatrucha, better known as
MS-13, who are mostly Salvadoran nationals
or first generation Salvadoran-Americans,
but also Hondurans, Guatemalans, Mexicans,
and other Central and South American
immigrants. And according to the FBI's
recent national threat assessment of this
growing, mobile street gang, they could be
operating in your community...now or in the
near future.
Based on information from their own
investigations, from state and local law
enforcement partners, and from community
organizations, FBI concluded that while the
threat posed by MS-13 to the U.S. as a whole
is at the "medium" level, membership in
parts of the country is so concentrated that
they have labeled the threat level there
"high."
Here are some other highlights from the FBI
threat assessment:
MS-13 operates in at least 42 states and the
District of Columbia and has about
6,000-10,000 members nationwide.
Currently, the threat is highest in the
western and northeastern parts of the
country, which coincides with elevated
Salvadoran immigrant populations in those
areas. In the southeast and central regions,
the current threat is moderate to low, but
recently, FBI see's an influx of MS-13
members into the southeast, causing an
increase in violent crimes there.
MS-13 members engage in a wide range of
criminal activity,
including drug distribution, murder, rape,
prostitution, robbery, home invasions,
immigration offenses, kidnapping,
carjackings/auto thefts, and vandalism. Most
of these crimes, you'll notice, have one
thing in common—they are exceedingly
violent. And while most of the violence is
directed toward other MS-13 members or rival
street gangs, innocent citizens often get
caught in the crossfire.
MS-13 is expanding its membership at an
"alarming" rate
through recruitment and migration. Some
MS-13 members move to get jobs or to be near
family members—currently, the southeast and
the northeast are seeing the largest
increases in membership. MS-13 often
recruits new members by glorifying the gang
lifestyle (often on the Internet, complete
with pictures and videos) and by absorbing
smaller gangs.
Speaking of employment, MS-13 members
typically work for legitimate businesses by
presenting false documentation. They
primarily pick employers that don't
scrutinize employment documents, especially
in the construction, restaurant, delivery
service, and landscaping industries.
Right now, according to the FBI MS-13 has no
official national leadership structure.
MS-13 originated in Los Angeles, but when
members migrated eastward, they began
forming cliques that for the most part
operated independently. These cliques,
though, often maintain regular contact with
members in other regions to coordinate
recruitment/criminal activities and to
prevent conflicts. The FBI believes that Los
Angeles gang members have an elevated status
among their MS-13 counterparts across the
country, a system of respect that could
potentially evolve into a more organized
national leadership structure.
The FBI, says through its MS-13 National
Joint Task Force and field investigations,
remains committed to working with local,
state, national, and international partners
to disrupt and dismantle this violent gang.
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