Mexican mayor gunned down inside own office

[Black Flash]

(CNN) -- The mayor of El Naranjo, Mexico, in the central state of San Luis Potosi was gunned down and killed inside his office Wednesday, officials said.

Witnesses say that four armed and hooded men stepped out of a white truck at city hall, the San Luis Potosi government said in a statement. Two of the men posted themselves outside, and two went inside and to the top floor of the building, where they entered the mayor's office and shot him, the statement said.

The attack happened in broad daylight, at about 1:30 p.m. (2:30 p.m. ET), and was brazen even by the standards of Mexico's violent drug cartel wars.

At least seven mayors in various Mexican states have been assassinated in 2010. :blink:

"The federal government reiterates that it will continue working for the security of the citizens, with all the available resources of the state," Calderon said.

Alexander Lopez Garcia assumed office in October of last year as a candidate for an alliance between the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), and the Ecologist Green Party.

Source:CNN

[Darth Laidher]

Mexico is out of control.

[Wanderermy]

Machete?

[Darksoft]

Similar and yet different to where Colombia was not so long ago. :pinch:

edit: I mean the situation in the country due to drugs.

[clotz2000]

And yet they still don't give up on the Drug Cartels, i guess 10-20 more mayors will need to die before they figure it out...?

[Solid Knight]

They need to drop bombs from planes.

[Joseph B]

Shocking, I had no idea this was going on... Insane, I had no idea Mexico was THIS bad...

[Shad0w480]

México is really f'ed up, assaults, killings, rapes everything is going reaaally bad... i live on a quiet city called Apizaco and in this week one lady was found dead stabbed on her house and one taxi driver got shooted with all passengers on it... last month a guy 21 years old killed a old man 64 years old he stabbed the old man several times, ripped of his clothes and then the guy took it to a ride hanging on a rope like 5 blocks and then he left the body at a supermarket called "Soriana" pretty bad going on the guy was mentally insane... my town was quiet now it's getting bad and insecure... but well the president is the 1st cause of this... he just do NOTHING... just blah blah blah even it's the president supporter cuz the real president ran away when the town got mad about a bad move he did with our money... this is bad bad bad

[BoredBozirini]

They need to drop bombs from planes.

They have the army fighting the cartels.

[Rudy]

Not a good time to be a mayor in a Mexican city?

[Quattrone]

Mexico and Irak is almost the same ****, in both countries, the killers don't give a damn to kill 50 people and beheaded like peace of chicken.

[Lucas]

Some of you have obviously have no idea of what you're talking about, and I'm not Mexican or live there anymore. This is simply drug dealers counter-attack at the government since they are firing people involved in the government plus cutting off past deals the government used to do with them to keep the supposed "peace". It's a lot more complicated, it's not just about shotting and being a gangster.

[Growled Member]

Not a good time to be a government official in Mexico.

[Singh400]

It's a lot more complicated, it's not just about shotting and being a gangster.

Sure seems like that to the outside world. Sounds like the place is about to implode anyday.

[Tha Bloo Monkee]

Mexico has its problems but so does many other countries. There's always this hate for Mexico on Neowin I found... and stupid comments like comparing Iraq to Mexico.

[morebaker]

Crap i am going to Cabo San lucas in late October. Oh well the tequila will probably get me first. :wacko:

[TrueMonolith]

Theres a lot of problems in mexico that are really the US's fault.

They cant control the flow of weaponry thanks to the US, and the US's war on drugs have handed billions of dollars from organized crime in the US to the drug cartels.

This isn't going to be pleasant time for Mexico.

[Darth Laidher]

Theres a lot of problems in mexico that are really the US's fault.

They cant control the flow of weaponry thanks to the US, and the US's war on drugs have handed billions of dollars from organized crime in the US to the drug cartels.

This isn't going to be pleasant time for Mexico.

Lol :laugh: :laugh: did someone take some of the Calderon kool aid

http://www.infowars.com/calderon-says-us-arms-drive-drug-violence/

Can there be any doubt that the cartels, who are the worlds experts at moving contraband through international borders, will always have exactly as many weapons of any type that they wish?

Even if we could instantly stop the 17% of the weapons in his country that allegedly come from America, the cartels would simply begin getting shipping containers full of AK-47s through their heroin contacts in the Middle East.

By the way, we now know that the full-auto American weapons are being corruptly sold out of South American military and police agencies, not US gun shops, but then Calderon and Obama know that. No reason to let mere embarrassing facts get in the way of a good propaganda strategy.

The US government supplied the South American military's and police for dozens of years, so even the 17% of weapons that do apparently originate in the US, aren't coming from stateside gun shops. Let's not forget that even the 17% figure was adjusted from the inflated 90% number originally reported in the media.

Wants it both ways:

When it comes to drugs, Calderon wants to blame the demand-side of the problem (America). But with weapons, it is the supply side who is responsible. Guess whose fault he thinks that is, too? Right, America's.

Isn't it fascinating that neither solution involves him accepting any responsibility for the worst internal problems in Mexico? It all America's fault.

[sanctified Veteran]

Mexico has its problems but so does many other countries. There's always this hate for Mexico on Neowin I found... and stupid comments like comparing Iraq to Mexico.

However, as a mexican living in Mexico thats not very far from the truth. I lived for 11 years in Sonora, one of the places where violence is at its peak. In all those years I've seen beheadings, multiple firegun fights, rapes (yes), even grenades thrown at public places for ****s sake.

[Argote]

Crap i am going to Cabo San lucas in late October. Oh well the tequila will probably get me first. :wacko:

You really don't have much to worry about other than getting too drunk and boning some ugly chick, haha.

As for the news in question, I think the cartels are turning to desperate tactics as they lose their ability to do business and they fight each other for the increasingly harder to get slice of the pie (the pie, of course, is still there, it's just harder to get).

[Black Flash]

At Least 24 People Killed Within 3 Hours In Juarez

JUAREZ, Mexico -- Thursday night was one of the bloodiest nights in Juarez.

Officials there say at least 24 people were killed in five shootings throughout the city.

In one instance, eight people were gunned down, 16 others were killed in four separate shooting.

KFOX has been told some of those killed were children.

Officials also say the shootings may be tied to a message that was supposedly left on a wall by the Juarez drug cartel.

The letter warned it would attack family members of the Sinaloa drug cartel if a kidnapped child was not returned.

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Canada's 'prince of pot' gets five years in U.S. prison

(CNN) -- The man once known as Canada's "prince of pot" is now a federal inmate in the U.S. system after a judge in Washington sentenced him Friday to five years in prison.

Marijuana activist Marc Emery pleaded guilty in May in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, to a single count of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana after an 18-month investigation into the seed-selling business Emery operated from his head shop in Vancouver, British Columbia.

By imposing the five-year sentence, which includes four years of supervised probation, U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez honored a plea deal that Emery, 52, entered into with U.S. authorities to avoid a lengthier sentence.

"There is no question your actions were illegal and criminal and your actions ensured that others broke the law and suffered the consequences," the judge told Emery during the hearing.

Dozens of Emery's supporters gathered outside Seattle's federal courthouse to protest the sentence, which marks the end of a five-year legal battle against a man once described by U.S. authorities as one of its most wanted international drug trafficking targets -- and the only one from Canada.

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Only a few kids died today, and a seed-seller was sentenced to jail, chalk that up as another good day in the Drug War.

[Black Flash]

US Citizen, Kidnapped by Drug Gang, Found Dead in Ciudad Juarez

Updated: Saturday, 11 Sep 2010, 10:09 AM PDT

Published : Saturday, 11 Sep 2010, 10:09 AM PDT

NEWSCORE - A U.S. citizen who was kidnapped in late August by a suspected drug gang in the violence-plagued Ciudad Juarez was found dead, AFP reported Saturday.

The discovery of Saul de la Rosa, his body riddled with bullet wounds and showing apparent signs of torture, made him the fifth U.S. citizen murdered so far this year in northern border city, and brings the total to 30 since January 2009, according to an AFP count based on official data.

De la Rosa, a 27-year-old Mexican-American who lived in El Paso, Texas, was visiting family members in Mexico August 28 when he was kidnapped. His abductors also killed two of his Mexican relatives, men aged 41 and 21 years, state officials said.

His body was found alongside two other men Sept. 2, identified Thursday and the deputy attorney's office for Chihuahua state told reporters late Friday.

Ciudad Juarez is considered the most violent city in Mexico, with more than 2,150 killings so far this year, attributed mostly to a turf war between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels for control of lucrative drug trafficking routes into the United States.

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Car loaded with explosives disabled in Mexico

(Reuters) - Mexican police used a controlled explosion early on Saturday to eliminate the threat from a car packed with explosives in this violent city near the border with the United States, local officials said.

Local police responding to a call late on Friday that a person had been executed in an industrial sector of Ciudad Juarez discovered a car full of explosives near the body, federal police said in a statement.

Specialists removed most of the explosives from the car and then used a controlled explosion to eliminate any other threat, the police said. No one was injured in the operation, police said.

Mexican drug gangs often target security forces in their bloody campaign to control smuggling routes but incidents involving explosives in cars have become increasingly common.

Four people were killed in July in Ciudad Juarez by a bomb planted in a car, the first such attack since President Felipe Calderon took office in December, 2006.

There were two more small-scale attacks in August that investigators said likely used commercial explosives and were detonated remotely.

More than 28,000 people have died in drug violence since Calderon launched his war on drugs in late 2006 with much of that violence concentrated along the northern border.

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