MEXICO!: GM to invest extra $540 million in Mexico to build motors

Mexico issues rape arrest warrant for pop singer

AP – 2 hours 8 minutes agoA judge in Mexico’s Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo has issued an arrest warrant against Mexican pop singer Kalimba.

• GM to invest extra $540 million in Mexico to build motors

  AFP via Yahoo! News – Thu Jan 20, 12:08 pm ETUS giant General Motors will invest $540 million to produce two low-emission motors in central Mexico, the company announced here Thursday, accompanied by President Felipe Calderon.

• GM to build fuel-efficient engines in Mexico

  AP via Yahoo! Finance – Thu Jan 20, 4:22 pm ETGeneral Motors is investing $540 million to build fuel-efficient engines at its plant in central Mexico. Labor Secretary Javier Lozano says the plant in the city of Toluca will produce lower-emission 1.6 and 1.8-liter, 4-cylinder engines for export.

• Kimberly-Clark De Mexico 4Q Net MXN1.2 Billion Vs MXN1.28 Billion

  FOX Business – 1 hour 57 minutes agoMEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- Kimberly-Clark de Mexico SAB (KIMBER.MX, KCDMY) said its profits declined in the fourth quarter of 2010 despite record sales as the consumer-products company continued to face cost pressures for raw materials.

• Mexico striker Castillo back in Greece with Aris

  Reuters via Yahoo! Sports – Thu Jan 20, 5:01 am ETMexico striker Nery Castillo is aiming to resurrect his career in Greece with Aris Salonika after signing a six-month loan deal from Shakhtar Donetsk.

• UBS Upgrades Mexico’s Telmex To Buy From Neutral

  FOX Business – Thu Jan 20, 10:16 am ETMEXICO CITY -(Dow Jones)- UBS upgraded Mexican fixed-line phone company Telefonos de Mexico SAB (TELMEX.MX, TMX) to buy from neutral, saying there is “just sufficient upside” for the new rating.

• Mexico’s Sinaloa gang grows empire, defies crackdown

  Reuters via Yahoo! News – Wed Jan 19, 3:52 pm ETA decade after its leader escaped from prison, Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel is the most powerful organized crime gang in the Americas despite a multi-billion dollar U.S.-Mexico crackdown.

• GM to invest US$540 million to build fuel-efficient engines in Mexico

  Canadian Business – 2 hours 56 minutes agoMEXICO CITY – General Motors is investing US$540 million to build fuel-efficient engines at its plant in central Mexico.Labour Secretary

• Facebook ‘led to Mexico suspect’

  BBC News – 42 minutes agoMexican media say a Facebook post helped lead police to the suspect in the shooting of Paraguayan footballer Salvador Cabanas.

• GM to Invest $540 Million in Mexico to Build Motors

  Industry Week – Thu Jan 20, 2:00 pm ETCompany has four plants in Mexico, and has invested $5 billion since 2006

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Encobijado attack and throw hotel in Mazatlan

Thursday January 20, 2011 | Comments: 384 Comments

Durante la madrugada de hoy, las instalaciones del Hotel D´Gala ubicado en la Zona Dorada de Mazatlán fue rafagueado por un comando armado, quien después tiró en la entrada del lugar un cuerpo de un hombre encobijado.

The gunmen used goat horns to attack the site, while the run so far has not been identified, showed clear signs of torture, stripping of the eyes with masking tape, and tied hand and foot.

Personal del hotel y huéspedes sufrieron momentos de terror, señalando que los sicarios tomaron su tiempo para realizar sus acciones.

Also left a narcomensaje in which the debtor stated that doing the work of a hawk.

The 25 years or so, dressed in white shirt, jeans, and was wrapped in a blanket.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011 | Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs

Mexico’s ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Thrives 10 Years After Escape

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By Alexandra Olson and Martha Mendoza
Associated Press

In this June 10, 1993 file photo, Joaquin Guzman Loera, alias “El Chapo Guzman” is shown to the press after his arrest at the high security prison of Almoloya de Juarez, outskirts of Mexico City.

In the 10 years since he escaped from a high security federal prison in a laundry truck, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has transformed himself from a middling Mexican capo into arguably the most powerful drug trafficker in the world.

The boyish-looking kingpin, who made his storied prison break on Jan. 19, 2001, has seized ever greater control of Mexican territory in bloody battles with rivals.

His fortune has grown to more than $1 billion, according to Forbe’s magazine, which listed him among the “World’s Most Powerful People” and ranked him above the presidents of France and Venezuela. His tentacles now extend from Argentina to Australia.

He has done all this with a $7 million bounty on his head and while evading thousands of law enforcement agents from the U.S. and other countries devoted to his capture and the destruction of his Sinaloa cartel.
“We have personnel dedicated strictly to Chapo Guzman. That’s the importance we have placed on getting him,” said a top DEA official in Mexico who cannot be identified for security reasons. “If you totaled up U.S law enforcement and foreign law enforcement stretching through Central America, South America, certainly thousands of law enforcement personnel are exclusively focused on the entire Sinaloa operation.”

Guzman, 53, keeps authorities running with the support of many locals in his home in northwestern Sinaloa state, where he reportedly uses his wealth to help the poor and his drug-trafficking business to keep many employed. He is thought to be hiding out in the mountains of the “Golden Triangle” straddling Sinaloa and Durango states – territory so remote and lawless that housewives grow opium poppies for decoration and it can take police hours to reach the scene of shootings.
One U.S. diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks quoted Mexican Defense Gen. Guillermo Galvan Galvan as saying that Guzman moves between 10 to 15 locations to avoid arrest and has a security detail of up to 300 men.

“With Chapo, he’s got the whole Robin Hood thing going,” the DEA official told The Associated Press. “People in close proximity to him might not be motivated to turn him in.”

Guzman’s escape from a prison in Guadalajara was a major embarrassment for then-Mexican President Vicente Fox, triggering persistent allegations that the Sinaloa cartel is protected by Fox’s National Action Party, or PAN. Those rumors haunt President Felipe Calderon, Fox’s successor also of the PAN.

“It’s an obvious stain on the PAN governments,” said Manuel Clouthier, a PAN federal congressman who angered his party last year by accusing the government of failing to seriously pursue El Chapo’s cartel, or the local politicians and police who protect it in Sinaloa state.

“In Sinaloa, I have no doubt that organized crime rules,” said Clouthier, who represents Sinaloa. “There are whole neighborhoods controlled by criminals. Every day, there are more luxury homes built where we know they live without fear.”

Calderon, who has intensified the fight against drug cartels more than any other previous Mexican leader, vehemently denies favoring the Sinaloa gang, also known as the Pacific cartel.

“The Pacific criminal organization is being hit in its leadership in a very systematic way,” government security spokesman Alejandro Poire said at a recent news conference, ticking off the names of Sinaloa traffickers who have been killed or captured since Calderon deployed tens of thousands of troops four years ago to fight drug gangs in their strongholds.

The biggest strike against Sinaloa was the death of Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel, the cartel’s reputed No. 3 capo, who was killed in a July 2010 gunfight with soldiers in Guadalajara.

But top government security officials have also been caught taking bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, fueling speculation that some in Mexican law enforcement want to let the gang thrive while destroying its rivals. Among them is former drug czar Noe Ramirez, arrested in 2008 for allegedly taking $450,000 from Sinaloa’s then-ally, the Beltran Leyva cartel.

Born poor in the small town of Badiraguato in Sinaloa state, Guzman started out with the Guadalajara cartel in the 1980s, then run by Mexican godfather Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo.

After Felix Gallardo was arrested in 1989, the gang split, and Guzman took over Sinaloa’s operations, controlling trafficking routes through Arizona and battling the Arellano Felix cartel for the border city of Tijuana.

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Massacre-In-The-Making Interrupted, One Victim Dead

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By Nick Valencia
CNN

Mexican federal police interrupted a weekend massacre-in-the-making in a Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, motel and captured two hit men working for a major cartel in the city, a spokesman for the federal police told CNN Monday.

“We received an anonymous tip that these men were sequestering a group of 11 in a motel,” federal police spokesman Ramon Salinas said. “We acted on the tip and were able to catch them in the act of a massacre at a motel party.”

The men were planning to kill a group of 11 youths and managed to kill one of them before police arrived, according to Salinas, who described the 11 only as young people, without specifying ages or sexes.

Police said they arrested two hit men who were working for La Linea, known in the Juarez area as the enforcement arm for the Juarez drug cartel. The group is mainly comprised of corrupt police officers and members of local gangs who have pledged allegiance to the Juarez Cartel.

“They had a group of young people ready to execute and we stopped them,” Salinas said. “This is a big victory for the police and for the citizens of Juarez who are sending our department information about organized criminals,” he added.

In January of 2010, 15 youths at a party in southern Juarez were killed after gunmen acting on bad intelligence opened fire on the group.

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2 Car bombs explode in NL

Tuesday, January 18, 2011 | Borderland Beat Reporter Smurf

Milenio/El Norte

Linares, NL.- The SSP announced that a car bomb exploded this afternoon. According to eyewitness accounts, three women jumped out a vehicle that blew up only minutes after they left the scene.

Although there were no injuries, there was extensive property damage. Two nearby vehicles withstood the blast; a gray Nissan Sentra and a Chevy Cavalier, both of which belonged to a local police official.

Transit and State police have set up roadblocks at strategic points in the city to prevent the suspects from escape. They are using every means possible to find the people responsible for this attack.

Local mayor Francisco Medina confirmed the attack took place between 17:00 and 17:30 hours.

“A car bomb detonated in our town. At this time we have little information of the type of explosive that was used. Please rest assured that we have experts who have arrived and are working on the case at this very moment.”

The SSP also said there was a second bar bomb that was detonated in front of a police station in San Nicholas between 17:40 and 19:20 hours.

The bomb in San Nicolás was in a car that was abandoned only minutes before it blew up. A single man dressed in black clothing exited the vehicle prior to the explosion.

The car was a white Jetta, license plate number SCS 1867 from Nuevo León. It was left in front of a muni-police station on Jorge González Camarena avenue, and had been left in the reserve space of a high ranking department official.

Three people were wounding in the second attack. Most people who saw the man exit the car and begin running, took their queue from him and backed away from the car.

Police have no suspects in custody at this time.

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Zeta Sicario Leader dies in Cancun

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This is one I find particularly interesting because I just translated an article about El Memin yesterday. Quite frankly he was a ruthless narco from the description I read and his death comes as no surprise.

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El Nacional – The jefe of sicarios for Los Zetas in Cancún Bernardo González Castillo, alias “El Memín”, died yesterday during a confrontation with police. Six other sicarios of the organization were captured, according to authorities in the Caribbean state of Mexico.

The general prosecutor for the state of Quintana Roo, Francisco Alor, explained that during the gunfire, the leader of sicarios died in a hale of bullets.

Alor confirmed that the operation that lasted over 5 hours. During that time, the army and members of the federal police were called in. The aftermath left the infamous Zeta dead along with one person who was seriously injured. 10 other suspects that were arrested.

“We were on the trail of “El Memin” for several days. We knew he was involved with several executions last week. He was also responsible for an attack on a high ranking police official who was shot in the head. But that is only one of the crimes he was being sought for,” said the official.

The spokesman for the state police also confirmed that the Zeta leader was spotted as he was boarding a taxi. When he noticed he was being tailed, EL Memin opened fire on police and the ensuing gunfight cost him his life.

Alor explained that the gang that was led by El Memin “was full of members of the municipal police, among them 3 women who were detained for their participation as Halcones (lookouts) for the criminal organization about the movements of fellow police officers.”

That evening, 4 Muni-police were arrested on the suspicion of having ties with El Memin’s group.

Excerpt that mentioned El Memin (read the whole article on Borderland Beat)

El Javi confirmed a man named El Chilango was murdered by a member of Los Zetas, El Memín, on the orders of Comandante Pelón and El Mayuyo.

He explained this person was killed because he came from Ciudad Juárez, with the intent of forming his own criminal group. El Chilango would hustle drugs through a system of taxi drivers working in the hotel district, and he did this without the approval of the local Zeta boss.

“He was abducted and we transferred him to a house in a neighborhood called Residencial Las Américas. El Memín took a butcher knife and beheaded El Chilango while he was still alive,” said El Javi, quien añadió: “I watched him as he did it. Afterwords, he stuck the blade into the the body and kicked it repeatedly.”

They had also tortured Chilango before killing him, asking him for the name and location of his supplier.

Shootout between gunmen and transits in Acapulco

Thursday January 20, 2011 | Comments: 159 Comments

Gunmen aboard a white Jetta car, arrived at the home of Miguel Angel Martinez, commander of traffic in the port of Acapulco, Guerrero.

The gunmen began firing at the house with AK-47 and 9 mm, this colony in Real Estate.

The commander and his son who also works in the corporation as road police, began to defend themselves from the subjects, their firearms.

Tras el hecho, los sicarios decidieron huir, abandonando el Jetta para después bajar a un taxista de su vehículo y huir en él, mientras que otros pistoleros viajaban en otro taxi.

The two policemen got into the car road that the attackers had fled and began a chase.

9 men die in Guadalupe, Nuevo León

Thursday January 20, 2011 | Comments: 110 Comments After the execution of two items Police Municipal Guadalupe, Nuevo León, violence no let, and four gunmen were killed around 18:30 hours yesterday.
A strong personal confrontation between the Mexican Army and gunmen, took place in streets of Xochimilco and Vaquerías colonies.
Los pistoleros viajaban a bordo de una camioneta Jeep Patriot, la cual quedó abollada por los impactos de bala, dentro de ella los cadáveres de los hombres.
In fact also could ensure three AK-47, an AR-15, a square type gun 45 mm ; Cartridges, boots, bulletproof vests, communication radios, among other things.
Hasta el momento los cuatro delincuentes permanecen como no identificados, y sus cuerpos se encuentran en el anfiteatro del Hospital Universitario.
For Thursday morning, another violent incident shook the town, shortly before 08:00 am, when many children were already in school, strong detonations caused terror.

Photos of the body of Bernardo González “El Memin” Chief Z Q. Roo

Thursday January 20, 2011 | Comments: 748 Comments

Blog del Narco presenta las siguientes imágenes que muestran el cuerpo de Bernardo González, conocido en vida como El Memín, quien se desempeñaba como líder de Los Zetas en Quintana Roo.

En el cadáver destaca un tatuaje marcado con la leyenda “Jefe Zeta”, también la Santa Muerte lo acompañaba en su cuerpo.

The deceased criminal, died when he tried to confront the military.

Leonardo Vasquez dies ‘The Pachis’ in shooting of Poza Rica

Wednesday January 19, 2011 | Comments: 910 Comments

Moments ago Secretariat de Seguridad Pública dio a conocer que durante los enfrentamientos ocurridos esta tarde en Poza Rica, Veracruz, elementos de Police Federal Leonardo Vazquez could bring down, better known as The Pachis.
El Pachis pertenecía a la organización delictiva denominada Los Zetas, siendo líder de plaza, esto en los municipios de Tres Valles, Ciudad Isla, Ángel Cabada, Alvarado, y Cosamaloapan en Veracruz, así como Tuxtepec en Oaxaca.
Desde hace unas semanas la violencia en el estado de Veracruz se ha incrementado, con el hecho ocurrido la tarde de hoy, las autoridades esperan que la ciudadanía se encuentre más tranquila.
Members of various social networks reporting on what happened in the case of a confrontation between authorities and gunmen.

Video shooting in Torreon, Coahuila

Wednesday January 19, 2011 | Comments: 502 Comments

Blog del Narco presente el siguiente video de una balacera ocurrida en la ciudad de Torreón, Coahuila.
Police elements are in a situation of risk, and to this call for reinforcements, in the video with almost seven minutes long, you can hear the chaos caused by the blasts, officials trying to communicate what is happening.
The gunmen began firing their guns, heavy detonations are clear, also used grenades.
En la grabación los policías reportan diferentes puntos en donde los pistoleros se encuentran atacando.

After shooting four gunmen were shot dead in Guerrero

Wednesday January 19, 2011 | Comments: 692 Comments At dawn on Tuesday of the Mexican Army clashed with four men dead, that in the municipality of Coyuca de Catalán, Guerrero.

Los sicarios viajaban en una camioneta Jeep Liberty en color verde, desde donde disparaban a los soldados, quienes rápidamente se defendieron.

After the shooting, the four gunmen were killed, later to be identified by a neighbor.

Identified as Victor Aguirre Nieto, 35 years old; Orbelina Aguirre Núñez, 30 years old, Pedro Peñaloza Maldonado, 28 years old, and Peñaloza Rogelio Navarro, 29 years old.

Sources say the brother of Victor Aguirre, had turned beheaded and hung on the bridge Adolfo Lopez Mateos, in recent times.

• Leeds students learn about Mexico

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• Mexico’s Sinaloa gang grows empire

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• Mexico’s La Excelencia Band Members Killed After Refusing Encore

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• Mexican Pop Star Kalimba’s Rape Allegations Grip Mexico

  The Huffington Post – Thu Jan 20, 11:56 am ETMEXICO CITY, Mexico — Grisly details of the case fill prime-time Mexican television; risque jokes on it are splashed across front pages; gossip about it flows from coffee shops to street corners.

• Sea turtles released into the Gulf of Mexico

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• 242 sea turtles released into the Gulf of Mexico

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• B.C. man shot in Mexico recalls attack

  Vancouver Sun – Thu Jan 20, 2:32 pm ETMike DiLorenzo, 69, was struck by a stray bullet while on vacation in Mazatlan, Mexico on Monday. The Penticton man and his wife are considered witnesses in the shootout and are being kept under constant watch.

• Company secures contracts for Bakken pipeline spur

  AP via Yahoo! News – Thu Jan 20, 12:36 pm ETTransCanada Corp. says it has secured enough contracts with U.S. oil shippers to allow capacity on its proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

• Lady Hawks upend Mexico in Centralia Tournament

  Boonville Daily News – Thu Jan 20, 1:35 pm ETEven though the LSE Lady Hawks basketball team will have to wait another day to play in the Centralia Middle School Classic, the opening round Tuesday against the Mexico Lady Bulldogs was definitely a step in the right direction.

• Helix Inks Agreements for Deepwater Containment System in the Gulf of Mexico

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