Meksiko

[StepanRudanskij]

Samanlaisia kleptokratioita molemmat niin varmaan tuntisivat olonsa kotoisaksi.

Joutuisivat venäläiset ottamaan moloa poskeen kartelleilta. Niitä ei politiikka kiinnosta vaan raha/valta ja aseet/huumeet.

 

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Joutuisivat venäläiset ottamaan moloa poskeen kartelleilta. Niitä ei politiikka kiinnosta vaan raha/valta ja aseet/huumeet.

Kiinalaisilla on aina ollut hyvät suhteet kartelleihin joten miksi Venäjä ei voisi tehdä samaa? 5:55 kohdilla kerrotaan miten asiat hoituvat.

 

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Tällä hetkellä liikkuu paljon huhuja joiden mukaan "El Mencho" olisi kuollut sydänkohtaukseen.

CJNG on muutenkin ahtaalla tällä hetkellä joten jos tuo huhu on totta kohtaan nähdään valtataisteluita kartellin eri ryhmittymien välillä.

 

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Opetusmateriaalia siitä miten homma hoidettiin/hoidetaan rajan toisella puolen. Mielenkiintoista on että hän tuo esille faktan että mafia perheet on järjestetty sotilashierarkian mukaan. Kartelleilla on käsittääkseni samanlainen hierarkia, tai se ei eroa paljon jenkkien mafia organisaatioista. Hän myös tuo esille sen faktan että raha on aina ollut ykkösprioriteetti perheille ja nykyisten lakien takia homma on hankala. Samaa analogiaa voi käyttää kartelliperheille, missä raha antaa heille valtaa. Voi kartellin ajaa alas jos inflaation puskee ylös ja raha menettää merkityksen?

 

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The Mexican army has taken control of the hometown of a powerful drug lord in the state of Michoacán, west Mexico.

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes - known as "El Mencho" - was born in the town of Naranjo de Chila, Aguililla, and is wanted in Mexico and the US.

Landmines planted by rival gangs in the surrounding area killed one person and injured others in recent weeks.

Army vehicles and landmine detection teams are patrolling the town.

"El Mencho", who leads the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), has been on the run for years.
His gang is one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico is believed to be behind attacks on Mexican security forces, such as a 2015 ambush in Jalisco which left 15 officers dead and the attempted assassination of Mexico City's police chief in 2020.

The cartel has spread from its original power base in the state of Jalisco to have an almost nationwide presence.

In the municipality of Aguililla, the CJNG has been fighting the rival Los Viagras Cartel for control of the area for years.

In the fight for control, drone-carrying explosives and landmines have been planted across the area, according to the Associated Press.

The landmines have proven deadly, after two devices exploded in the last few weeks. The first explosion injured a number of soldiers, and the second killed a local farmer.

In response to the explosions, Mexican troops entered the area, reports Spanish news agency EFE.
Michoacán state's seaport and smuggling routes mean that it is a coveted place for drug cartels.
Rival drug gangs fight over the control of illicit activities such as the production and trafficking of drugs.

Due to the violence and instability in the area, hundreds of families have left in the hope of migrating to the US.

Mexican army moves in on drug lord's home town

Landmines planted by rival gangs in the area killed one and injured others in recent weeks.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Mexicans have been left wondering what happened to about a dozen men who disappeared after they were seen lined up against a wall by drug cartel gunmen.

In a video apparently filmed by a resident of the town San José de Gracia in the western state of Michoacán and posted on social media, bursts of gunfire broke out and smoke covered the scene.

The camera cuts away, and most observers assumed all the men – perhaps as many as 17 – died.

But prosecutors said Monday that they cannot say how many were killed, because the attackers cleaned up the scene, washed the sidewalk and carted away any bodies. Investigators found only a bag full of brains and shell casings at the scene.

Bodies missing after Mexican drug cartel massacre caught on video

Prosecutors say they cannot determine how many were killed because attackers cleaned up the scene and removed any bodies

www.theguardian.com

Ei ruumiita, ei ongelmaa, kartelli logiikkaa. Tuohon on tultuva muutos.

 

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Bodies missing after Mexican drug cartel massacre caught on video

Prosecutors say they cannot determine how many were killed because attackers cleaned up the scene and removed any bodies

www.theguardian.com

Ei ruumiita, ei ongelmaa, kartelli logiikkaa. Tuohon on tultuva muutos.

Meksiko tarvitsisi oman Mussolinin, hän sai Sisilian mafian hoidettua mitättömäksi aina liittoutuneiden maihinnousuun saakka jolloin se alkoi taas nousta. Toiminta oli sitten aika raakaa mutta muukaan ei taida toimia...

 

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Sen perusteella mitä on noista Etelä-Amerikan huumekartelleista ja niiden toimintatavoista kuullut niin ainoa oikea ratkaisu on koota kartellistit ns. radanvarteen ja ampua konekiväärillä. Kaikki. Joukossa saattaa mennä joku Hoseekin joka vaan vaihteli öljyjä pomon autoihin mutta se on pieni hinta siitä että noista saastoista päästään. Sitten kun jäljellä on enää rippeet jossain vuoriluolissa niin sitten päästäisiin normaaliin poliisityöhön ja ihmiset uskaltaisivat puhua.

 

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Donald Trump's wall is even flimsier than previously realized, with smuggling gangs sawing through it 3,272 times in just three years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's unpublished records obtained by The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act.

And it doesn't take high-tech tools to break through — cheap angle grinders and demolition saws from your local hardware store are all you need to rip that sucker open.

Yes, this is the same "beautiful" wall that Trump bragged about and spent $11 million in taxpayer funds to build, according to The Washington Post, even though he promised Mexico would pay for it. And then the US government spent another $2.6 million from the fiscal years of 2019–2021 to repair the busted mess.

Trump's wall was sawed through 3,272 times in the last 3 years with cheap tools

Donald Trump's wall is even flimsier than previously realized, with smuggling gangs sawing through it 3,272 times in just three years, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's unpublished records…

boingboing.net

 

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Mexico’s government has lashed out at the “corruption, lies and hypocrisy” of the European parliament after its members urged its populist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to rein in his media-bashing rhetoric after the murders of at least six Mexican journalists.

Mexico’s press corps has been plunged into mourning this year by a succession of killings targeting media workers in what was already one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists.

On Thursday more than 600 MEPs overwhelmingly backed a resolution condemning the murders and voicing concern over López Obrador’s use of populist rhetoric “to denigrate and intimidate independent journalists, media owners and activists”.

Such behaviour was contributing to “an atmosphere of relentless unrest towards independent journalists”, the MEPs claimed, calling for “concrete, prompt and effective” steps to halt violence against human rights defenders and journalists.

The resolution appears to have infuriated López Obrador who – like his fellow regional populists Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro – is notorious for hectoring journalists and bristles at questioning from the press.

In a peculiar and cantankerous declaration, the Mexican government hit back, telling the European parliament: “Do not forget that we are no longer anyone’s colony. Mexico is a free, independent, and sovereign country.

“If we were in the situation you describe in your pamphlet, our president would not be supported by 66% of citizens,” added the statement, calling MEPs the “sheep” of the “reactionary coup-mongers” allegedly trying to derail López Obrador’s government.

On Friday morning López Obrador, or Amlo as he is known, continued the offensive, blaming the “slanderous” European resolution on conservative politicians “with a colonialist mindset”.

Mexico’s president, who said he had helped compose the pronouncement, also appeared to play down the recent killings of Mexican journalists, two of whom were shot dead outside their homes.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...the-crosshairs-regina-martinez-cartel-project
“Regrettably, about 5,000 Mexicans have been murdered in the first two and a half months of this year – and of these 5,000, five were journalists,” the 68-year-old nationalist told his daily morning press conference.

Mexican president lashes out at EU ‘lies’ over his media-bashing rhetoric

Andrés Manuel López Obrador was urged to tone down his rhetoric by MEPs after a spate of journalist murders – he did the opposite

www.theguardian.com

The Mexican president’s stance has drawn growing international criticism, with the Washington Post recently slamming Amlo’s “brazen attempt to discredit and intimidate” Loret de Mola and denouncing the recent killings.

“The escalating violence is a stain on Mexico’s democratic record,” the newspaper’s editorial board said last month, urging the Biden administration to stand up for the free press.

Asked about such criticism, Amlo laughed.

 

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The murder crisis gripping Mexican journalism has claimed another life after a journalist was gunned down in the conflict-stricken state of Michoacán just six weeks after he announced the murder of a colleague.

Armando Linares López, the director of a news website called Michoacán Monitor, was reportedly shot at least eight times on Tuesday afternoon outside his home in the city of Zitácuro. He is the eighth Mexican journalist to be killed in 2022, compared with nine in the whole of last year.

Eighth Mexican journalist to be killed in 2022 is shot outside his home

Armando Linares López gunned down six weeks after mourning the murder of a colleague in the same city in Michoacán state

www.theguardian.com

 

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Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed.

The village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area.

As gunmen from two rival cartels – armed with .50-calibre sniper rifles and improvised tanks – fought pitched battles for El Limoncito’s dusty streets, locals fled, leaving behind everything they had. “It was all-out war,” remembered one former resident, who asked not to be named for fear of being killed.

Battle-scarred ghost town bears mute witness to Mexico’s drug wars

The army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe cartels’ bloody reign has ended

www.theguardian.com

pitkä artikkeli

 

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Mexican authorities have confirmed that 20 people were killed when a group of gunmen stormed a cockfight, in a small town in the western state of Michoacán.

Officials and witnesses described a choreographed massacre in which assailants in military uniforms arrived just after 10.30pm on Sunday night and opened fire with assault rifles at the crowds of primarily middle-aged men.

Massacre at cockfight in Mexico leaves 20 dead

Gunmen with assault rifles burst into event in western state of Michoacán long plagued by violence between drug cartels

www.theguardian.com

Two small trucks, one of them branded with the logo for Sabritas, a potato chip company, were used to block the highway leading to the cockfighting arena.

Video filmed by witnesses nearby captured the sound of machine gun fire, which could be heard several miles away.

Photos leaked to social media showed the aftermath of the massacre, with barriers and chairs knocked over, and bodies scattered inside and outside the building.

Mexican police told local media they found 19 bodies – 16 men and three women. Another victim died en route to the hospital. More than 100 shells from 7.62 caliber rifles littered the ground.

The police also seized 15 cars that were on the scene.

Mexican army and national guard troops were deployed on Monday morning to capture the assailants, but it remained unclear which of the region’s many organized crime groups they belonged to.

Cockfighting, while illegal in many areas, remains a popular pastime in parts of Mexico, though the fights between roosters are usually held clandestinely.

Las Tinajas is a tiny pueblo of about 10 streets, close to Michoacán’s eastern borders with two other states, Guanajuato and Estado de México.

 

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Mexico’s armed forces knew that 43 student teachers who disappeared in 2014 were being kidnapped by criminals, then hid evidence that could have helped locate them, according to a report released on Monday by a special investigation.

A former Colombian prosecutor, Angela Buitrago, said the group of independent experts found evidence that authorities withheld or falsified evidence from the start of the search.

“It was falsified from the first day to the last day,” said Buitrago, who is part of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights group supporting the investigation.

Buitrago said investigators, prosecutors and military personnel altered crime scenes and records. A government drone video obtained by the experts showed marines and police climbing around the area where the students were allegedly killed with little control.

The students from a radical teachers’ college were abducted by local police in southern Guerrero state who presumably killed them and burned their bodies.

But the students were under surveillance because their college, which has strong ties to leftwing social movements in Mexico, was viewed as a hotbed of subversion, the experts.

Mexico armed forces knew fate of 43 disappeared students from day one

Military hid evidence that student teachers who went missing in 2014 were kidnapped by criminals, independent report finds

www.theguardian.com

 

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Attacks against the press in Mexico have increased by 85% since President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office, making it the most deadly period for journalists since records began, according to a new report.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists with 1,945 attacks – including 33 murders – between 2019 and 2021, according to the press freedom group Article 19. Another eight have been killed so far this year.

In 2021, there were 664 documented attacks – the equivalent of one every 14 hours – including online threats, harassment, arbitrary criminal charges and seven murders. Government officials were linked to 274 of the incidents, while organised crime accounted for about 42.

Attacks on press in Mexico hit record level during López Obrador’s presidency

Report paints bleak picture of journalist safety under leader who often criticises media and downplays violence against reporters

www.theguardian.com

Reporters who cover corruption and politics continue to face the highest risks, followed by breaking news reporters covering shootings, accidents and other disasters. Journalists who cover migration were also targeted with 20 documented attacks, which were often linked to immigrations officials and the national guard.

 

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Nine in 10 Mexicans voting in an unprecedented recall election engineered by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have backed him to stay in office, underlining his domination of a polarised political agenda.

Critics and supporters had viewed his victory as a foregone conclusion in a ballot that had fed speculation it could open the door to extending presidential term limits, now limited to a single six-year period.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/mexico-amlo-recall-election-referendum
Between 90.3% and 91.9% of voters were predicted to have supported López Obrador, a preliminary estimate from the National Electoral Institute showed on Sunday night.

Unleashing a string of barbs at adversaries, López Obrador hailed the referendum result as “historic”, and compared his tally favourably with the number of votes won by rivals he defeated to win the presidency, and in other elections.

“We don’t have a king in Mexico,” he said in a video address. “It’s a democracy, and the people are in charge.”

Mexico president López Obrador wins recall referendum amid low turnout

Nine in 10 voters back leader to stay in office in poll viewed as foregone conclusion by critics and supporters

www.theguardian.com

Turnout in the vote was forecast at 17-18.2%, the National Electoral Institute said, well below a threshold of 40% for it to be binding, and lower than some polls.

Opposition leaders had discouraged supporters from voting, with many condemning the plebiscite as a propaganda exercise and a costly distraction from Mexico’s real problems.

Turnout had been expected to range between 16% and 25% in a poll published by El Financiero newspaper this month.

Eli alle 20 prosenttia äänestäjistä äänesti ja 90 prosenttia heistä äänesti diktatuurin puolesta, kun 80 prosenttia oli hiljaa. Näin se homma etenee.

 

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Corrupt state officials and organized crime factions are to blame for Mexico’s soaring number of enforced disappearances, whose victims increasingly include children – some as young as 12, according to a new UN investigation.

Just over 95,000 people were registered as disappeared at the end of November 2021. Of those, 40,000 were added in the past five years, according to the new report by the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances.

“Organized crime has become a central perpetrator of disappearance in Mexico, with varying degrees of participation, acquiescence or omission by public servants,” said the UN delegation. During their 11-day visit last November, 112 disappearances were added to the registry.

Organized crime and corrupt officials responsible for Mexico’s disappearances, UN says

Number of young people disappeared is increasing as total number of cases exceeds 95,000, very few of which are solved

www.theguardian.com

“Impunity in Mexico is a structural feature that favours the reproduction and cover-up of enforced disappearances and creates threats and anxiety to the victims, those defending and promoting their rights, public servants searching for the disappeared and investigating their cases, and society as a whole,” the UN committee said on Tuesday.

While men between 15 and 40 years old remain the most common victims, figures from the national registry show a significant increase in disappearances of boys and girls, as well as of adolescents and women. This has worsened since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with victims most likely trafficked for sexual exploitation or other criminal purposes – a trend also reported in neighbouring Guatemala.

Civil society groups and reporters trying to expose wrongdoing are also being targeted. Of the 30 or more journalists who disappeared between 2003 and 2021, none has been located. Some human rights defenders have been disappeared because of their participation in searches and fighting against disappearances.

The UN delegates visited 13 states, and heard allegations of disappearances that occurred in prisons and migration centres. In some cases, migrants were illegally detained at secret locations and had their mobile phones taken by perpetrators who then demanded money from families, sometimes with the support or consent of public officials.

The report also highlights the forensic crisis facing the country. According to official figures, more than 52,000 unidentified deceased persons are lying in mass graves, forensic service facilities, universities and forensic storage centres.

The national search plan lacks resources and coordination, resulting in inadequate searches and investigations.

“In order for disappearance to cease to be the paradigm of the perfect crime in Mexico, prevention must be at the heart of national policy for the prevention and eradication of enforced disappearances”, the committee concluded.

 

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Mexican truck drivers have blockaded bridges at the border with the United States for a second day to protest against an order by the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, to increase safety inspections that has snarled traffic at ports of entry and led business groups to warn of supply chain disruptions.

“Yesterday it took me 17 hours to cross into the United States and return,” said Raymundo Galicia, a Mexican driver participating in a protest at the Santa Teresa bridge connecting San Jerónimo, Chihuahua, to Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/05/trump-border-wall-south-texas-mexico
It is the third bridge in the bustling Ciudad Juárez-El Paso area to be blockaded by drivers who have seen their pay plummet since lengthy wait times began last week.

Traffic at a fourth bridge connecting Reynosa to Pharr, Texas, was also halted on Tuesday by drivers who parked their trucks and began barbecuing on the Mexican side of the port of entry, according to photos sent to Reuters.

“I get paid the same whether it takes me an hour or 10 hours to cross, so this is affecting us a lot,” Galicia said, noting he and his co-workers would target more bridges if delays continued.

The slowdowns began after Abbott, a Republican, ordered officials last week to conduct vehicle safety inspections at entry ports to uncover smuggling of people and contraband.

The new measures have infuriated industry groups, which have warned of shortages of perishable products over the Easter holiday weekend.

“This plan is … exacerbating our already disrupted supply chain, and will cripple an economy that relies so heavily on cross-border trade,” the US representative Veronica Escobar, a Democrat whose district includes most of El Paso, tweeted on Tuesday.

Mexico’s National Chamber of Freight Transportation estimated the delays at the Pharr bridge alone caused economic losses of $8m a day and called on Abbott to withdraw the order to prevent a “collapse in international cross-border trade”.

Mexican truckers blockade border crossings over Texas inspection delays

Business groups warn of supply chain disruptions after Governor Greg Abbott orders checks for people and contraband smuggling

www.theguardian.com

 

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Mexico has officially nationalized its lithium industry. On April 21, the bill, proposed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), that modified the mining law to give the state the exclusive right to explore, exploit and use the valuable metal entered into force. According to the law, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, the executive or the president now has 90 days to create a decentralized state company that will deal with all lithium-related matters.

The reform was approved in a record time in both houses of the Congress. President AMLO presented it in the Chamber of Deputies on April 18. The same day, the lower house discussed the reform, voted on it and passed it with 275 votes in favor, 24 against and 187 abstentions. The next day, on April 19, the Senate also debated the reform and sanctioned it with 87 votes in favor, 20 against and 16 abstentions.

The head of state sent the measure to the legislature after the electricity reform that he was prioritizing failed to garner the two-thirds majority in the lower house on Sunday, April 17. The electricity reform presented by AMLO sought to nationalize Mexico’s energy industry by rolling back the process that opened it up to foreign and private investment in 2013. It contained a provision to nationalize lithium. In the face of the right-wing opposition’s explicit refusal to back it, AMLO vowed to protect lithium and indicated that he would send a mining reform to secure the country’s lithium resources in case electricity reform didn’t get required votes.

The new mining law recognizes lithium as a heritage of the nation, and reserves it for the benefit of the people of Mexico. It elevates lithium to the category of “strategic mineral”, and prohibits granting concessions, licenses, contracts, permits, assignments or authorizations for its exploitation to private corporations.

Mexico nationalizes lithium industry : Peoples Dispatch

A newly passed mining reform recognizes lithium as a national heritage and grants the state the exclusive right to explore, exploit and use the valuable metal

peoplesdispatch.org

 

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Mexico nationalizes lithium industry : Peoples Dispatch

A newly passed mining reform recognizes lithium as a national heritage and grants the state the exclusive right to explore, exploit and use the valuable metal

peoplesdispatch.org

Hmm:
"There is only one lithium mine in Mexico, operated by Chinese firm Ganfeng Lithium, which is slated to produce 35,000 tonnes of the metal per year starting in 2023. In the coming days, it will be discussed if that will be taken over by the government."

"According to data from the US Geological Survey, Mexico has 1.7 million tons of lithium mining reserves."