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MEXICO AND SOUTHERN BORDER STATES



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MEXICO AND SOUTHERN BORDER STATES




    1. SWAT Teams Dispatched As Gun Battle Unfolds near Escobares (TX)

8 November 2011

The Monitor
Gunmen crossed the Rio Grande into the United States near a firefight between the Mexican military and a group of gunmen was taking place.
Several area SWAT teams responded about 1330 hours Tuesday to a ranch near Escobares, just across the U.S.-Mexico border, where a firefight broke out south of the Rio Grande.
The shootout reportedly began shortly after noon but details were not immediately available. Residents on the U.S. side reported seeing members of the U.S. Border Patrol and Starr County Sheriff’s Office securing the area near the border.
A Border Patrol spokeswoman said agents had been tracking a suspected drug load near La Rosita and pushed it back to Mexico.
Border Patrol alerted Mexican authorities of the suspected load and then found an injured Mexican national on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, the spokeswoman said. Emergency crews rushed the man to an area hospital. His condition remains unknown.
The man, a suspected cartel gunman, had been shot by Mexican authorities, a separate U.S. law enforcement official said.
The official confirmed a group of as many as 15 gunmen had crossed the Rio Grande, though it remained unclear whether they were Mexican soldiers or cartel gunmen.
“We don’t know who they are,” the official said. “We haven’t gotten that information yet.”
Local authorities in Hidalgo County provided backup support along the Rio Grande as Border Patrol dispatched additional agents from the McAllen area to the incident in rural Starr County.
The experience was a bit unnerving for one man, whose brother owns La Prieta Ranch in La Rosita. He was overseeing the ranch hands shortly after noon when they noticed that the roads near the property became quickly swarmed with authorities.
“Yeah, you worry when that happens,” he said. “We all went back inside the house. It looks like there was something going on over there (Mexico); we heard four or five shots from the helicopter. It looks like the (Mexican military) helicopter was shooting at the people on the ground over there.”
While he heard the shots, the man’s property soon swarmed with more than 100 law enforcement officials from various agencies.
“We saw them take one guy in an ambulance,” he said. “He looked in bad shape.”
Source: [www.themonitor.com/news/escobares-56422-swat-teams.html]

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    1. Mexican Gunmen Flee into Starr County, One Wounded (TX)

8 November 2011

Valley Central
American officials were put on alert in Starr County after reports of gunmen involved in a gun battle on the Mexican side of the border fleeing into the United States.
Law enforcement officials were mobilized to the rural Starr County community of La Rosita early Tuesday afternoon.
Investigators told Action 4 News that paramedics rushed a Mexican national with a gunshot wound to a local hospital.
Authorities reported that the man was pulled from the waters of the Rio Grande River with a gunshot wound to his shoulder.
It's not clear who shot the man but authorities said it all started with a gun battle between the Mexican military and drug traffickers across the border.
La Rosita is located between Rio Grande City and Roma.
Past Incursions
This is not the first time that Mexican gunmen have fled a battle and crossed into rural areas of Starr County.
A gun battle forced at least eight gunmen into another area between Rio Grande City and Roma back on 6 October.
Most of the eight gunmen reportedly fled back in Mexico where they were reportedly arrested by the Mexican military.
Source: [www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=684138#.TrqEX7I1SSo]

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    1. Illegal Alien in Tyler, TX Gets Prison Time for Dealing Cocaine (TX)

8 November 2011

KETK NBC TV
A 47-year-old illegal alien living in Tyler, Texas, has been sentenced to federal prison for distributing cocaine in the Eastern District of Texas, announced a U.S. Attorney today.
Manuel Venegas Gomez pleaded guilty on 25 Mar. 2011, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and distribution of cocaine and was sentenced to 121 months in federal prison today by a U.S. District Judge. Gomez was also ordered to forfeit $106,380 in cash and a judgment in the amount of $50,000.
According to information presented in court, up until 18 Dec. 2010, Gomez conspired with others to distribute more than 15 kilograms of cocaine throughout East Texas. Gomez and co-defendants were arrested packaging over $100,000 in cash to send to Mexico for cocaine sales. They were also in possession of two kilos of cocaine, methamphetamine and a firearm.
Source: [www.ketknbc.com/news/illegal-alien-in-tyler-gets-prison-time-for-dealing-cocaine]

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    1. Anonymous Considers Identifying Drug Cartel Supporters despite Death Threats (VER/NL)

8 November 2011



All Headline News
Some members of the computer hacker group Anonymous are saying they plan to publish the names of Mexican drug cartel affiliates despite death threats.
Others announced this week they are backing out of the plan, saying the risk of a deadly gangland reprisal is too great.
The group is trying to get people associated with the notorious Zetas drug cartel arrested or at least publicly identified because of their criminal actions.
The Zetas are reputed to be one of Mexico’s most vicious drug cartels, responsible for perhaps thousands of assassinations, bribery and intimidation of public officials and attacks on police.
Anonymous consists of social activists who join anonymously in interfering with computer networks of organizations that have sparked their outrage. They have targeted MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and the Church of Scientology.
In their effort against drug cartels, called OpCartel, they have gathered the names of Zetas gang members from official and unofficial sources throughout Mexico. They planned to publish them on publicly accessible websites.
Initially, they planned to publish the names on Nov. 5.
However, death threats from the Zetas delayed the publication to an unspecified date, if ever.
On Nov. 4, a website claiming to be the official site of Anonymous in Latin America advised its members not to release any information on the Zetas for now.
“A message has been sent to us, that if Anonymous reveals a name related with the cartel, the family of the kidnapped Anonymous member will suffer the consequences, for every cartel name that is revealed, 10 people will be put to death,” the website said. “The collective Anonymous has decided by consensus that the information that we have available will not be revealed for the time being, now that we understand that we cannot avoid the threats that involve innocent civilians that don’t have anything to do with our actions.”
The “kidnapped Anonymous member” mentioned on the website referred to a computer hacker reportedly kidnapped in Veracruz by the Zetas.
Other Mexican computer hackers responded by posting an online video warning that the names, addresses and photographs of Zetas supporters would be posted on the Internet if the kidnapped Anonymous member was not released. The video warning was presented by a masked man.
On 4 Nov. another video from Mexican Anonymous members said the kidnapped computer had been released “bruised … [but] alive and well.”
Anonymous has no official leader and no headquarters. It consists of varying numbers of computer hackers who join their efforts temporarily to use the Internet for social activism.
Despite the threats, a Dallas man who described himself as a former Anonymous member said he would publish the information himself.
Since then, he has had thousands of names and identifying information of Zetas members e-mailed to him.
The 30-year-old man posted a YouTube message that shows him saying, “I’ve decided to support the operation, which I understand is controversial for a number of reasons. In this case, there are lives hanging in the balance, in that those who are identified are likely to be killed.”
He said he learned about OpCartel from Mexican Anonymous members participating in an online chat room.
“It’s Mexicans themselves who started this operation, who conceived it,” he says. “It’s not a bunch of stereotypical computer geeks sitting somewhere else in safety. These are people on the ground.”
The man said he would search through the e-mails identifying Zetas gang members with assistance from a professional journalist to ensure the information was accurate. Afterward, he would publish the information.
He shook off concerns for his own safety during an interview with CNN.
“I should have the right and the ability as someone who is a fairly public person to work to ID criminals in a foreign country without having to worry about being murdered,” he reportedly said.
He did not say when he would publish the identifying information, only that it would be soon.
Since then, other Mexican Anonymous members have posted Internet messages saying they also plan to publish information identifying drug cartel members and their activities. None of the people who posted the messages identified themselves.
Source: [www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90064337?Anonymous%20considers%20identifying%20drug%20cartel%20supporters%20despite%20death%20threats]

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