http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=chiapas Sun, 26 May 2013 04:35:23 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=chiapas Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:40:09 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e24_1227868809 lasrever Rebel territory, in the south-west Mexican state of Chiapas, where the Zapatistas live and evade the Mexican Army. ... "In 1993, the Mexican Federal Government signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States, and, by implication, told the Mexicans that allowing unimpeded American business penetration of Mexico's economy would promote Mexico from the Third-World to the First-World. Disbelieving that, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation simultaneously arose in armed insurrection throughout Chiapas on New Year's Day 1994 - capturing four municipalities (25 per cent of the state); to date, Chiapas is economically and politically, socially and militarily unsettled. The nationalist EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) insurrection replies to the NAFTA-induced dollarisation, and consequent deeper impoverishment, of Mexico's economy; the NAFTA did not provide an analogous wage increase or prices decrease. Thus, Chiapas's indigenous Maya people said: "Basta! , we will take ourselves underground and wait to rise up, like corn". In Mayan traditional lore, the Maya are 'the people born from maize'. In 1994, the EZLN's indigenous Chiapanec soldiers marched from the jungle to the towns in armed insurrection to reclaim their land from the white folk minority. Thus did the Mexicans of the national Capital and of the provincial states awaken to a New Year 1994 loud with AK-47 gunfire. The EZLN seized six hundred and fifty private ranches that had displaced the native Chiapanecs; afterwards, they controlled a fourth of Chiapas. In behalf of the EZLN Indian leadership, Subcomandante Marcos (Sub-Commander Marcos) said in Spanish: "Today there were attacks on four municipalities in Chiapas. This is an insurrection led by our organization, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation". The Mexican Federal Army counter-attacked; meanwhile, demanding "Control over our lives and land", the Zapatistas published their social and land reform demands in the internet. In the event, after much ruthless fighting, the Mexican Army and the EZLN called an uneasy ceasefire and truce. The Mexican Army surrounded Zapatista communities, villages, and towns to hunt rebel commanders, as in the town of La Realidad; the Mexican Federal Army iterated its presence with twice-daily tank and truck patrols. Unforeseen by the right-wing, Neoliberal PRI (Mexico's seven-decade-rule party), the Mexican economy collapsed when the NAFTA allowed the importation of very low-priced American corn, depressing the Mexican Peso's value to negative exchange rate levels, thereby provoking Mexico's greatest economic bailout, by foreign (i.e., American) banks to date; U.S. President Clinton authorised $50 billion in loans; Mexico was in hock to foreigners. Moreover, in an official bank memorandum, the CHASE Manhattan Bank (a leading bailout financier) told the Mexican Federal Government to "get rid of the Zapatistas" in exchange for full bailout financing. With a U.S. bank ordering the Mexican PRI-Government about, the Zapatistas said "they have no idea with whom they are negotiating" - the lender or the borrower.... Who is owner of Mexico? For the Zapatistas, "El Encuentro" against Neoliberalism and for all of humanity, was a peaceful mode of obtaining international support and resistance aid. Director Wild considers it "a post-Glasnost revolutionary Woodstock, without the Acid". Three thousand people attended El Encuentro, among them Spanish and Italian communists, Latin American revolutionaries, Chiapanec Indians, and Superbarrio , the caped professional wrestler and social activist. The Encuentro demonstrates the importance of civilian support to the Zapatista national liberation movement, whose goals the civilians of the world understand. The Encuentro featured a dance wherein Zapatistas and guests dance "on the edge of romantic ideals and harsh politics, between those who can leave Mexico and those who cannot"; many Zapatista supporters could not reach the Encuentro of 1996. Yet, director Wild says:"A month before the Encuentro I encountered a group of people the revolution almost forgot. I followed dark rumours of fear and violence to the north of Chiapas, to Jomajl; here villages are deeply divided, between Zapatista supporters and villagers who work directly with the ruling party and profit from it". To wit, paramilitary mercenary groups named "Peace and Justice" fight the EZLN and its civil supporters; "Anyone who opposes them, they call 'Zapatistas'. In northern Chiapas, the paramilitary mercenaries have, at gun-point, forced out thousands of people from their villages, farms, and ranches, thus rendering those Mexicans refugees in their own country. Documentarist Wild questions: "If they go home can or will the Zapatistas help them?"; she comments: "My camera is framing the gap between rhetoric and reality". A month later, among three thousand people, she watches the horse-mounted Subcomandante Marcos appear from the jungle, holding a flagpole bearing a small red flag, he was "Reminiscent of the hapless Don Quixote - the fictional Spanish knight who fights for impossible dreams, and can't distinguish reality from what's inside his head". In press conference, the documentarist Nettie Wild asks Subcomandante Marcos what is the Zapatista plan for their supporters in the north; he replies offensively, but later halts peace talks with the Mexican Federal Government until the north Chiapas refugees are served real peace and justice. The documentary A Place Called Chiapas shows the startling reality of what is like to live in contemporary Chiapas, a relatively quiet war zone. The viewer must interpret and determine, for him- and herself, the true nature - social, political, military, of the Zapatista National Liberation Movement and its army, the EZLN." source *** RELATED: All of Lasrever's uploads on "Mexico" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e24_1227868809 lasrever (documentary) &quot;A Place Called <span class="highlight">Chiapas</span>&quot; (Part 4/4) a place called chiapas,chiapas,zapatistas,zapatista,mexican army,insurgents,insurgency,NAFTA,EZLN,Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional,Marcos,Subcomandante Marcos Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:42:00 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ebf_1227865320 lasrever Rebel territory, in the south-west Mexican state of Chiapas, where the Zapatistas live and evade the Mexican Army. ... "In 1993, the Mexican Federal Government signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States, and, by implication, told the Mexicans that allowing unimpeded American business penetration of Mexico's economy would promote Mexico from the Third-World to the First-World. Disbelieving that, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation simultaneously arose in armed insurrection throughout Chiapas on New Year's Day 1994 - capturing four municipalities (25 per cent of the state); to date, Chiapas is economically and politically, socially and militarily unsettled. The nationalist EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) insurrection replies to the NAFTA-induced dollarisation, and consequent deeper impoverishment, of Mexico's economy; the NAFTA did not provide an analogous wage increase or prices decrease. Thus, Chiapas's indigenous Maya people said: "Basta! , we will take ourselves underground and wait to rise up, like corn". In Mayan traditional lore, the Maya are 'the people born from maize'. In 1994, the EZLN's indigenous Chiapanec soldiers marched from the jungle to the towns in armed insurrection to reclaim their land from the white folk minority. Thus did the Mexicans of the national Capital and of the provincial states awaken to a New Year 1994 loud with AK-47 gunfire. The EZLN seized six hundred and fifty private ranches that had displaced the native Chiapanecs; afterwards, they controlled a fourth of Chiapas. In behalf of the EZLN Indian leadership, Subcomandante Marcos (Sub-Commander Marcos) said in Spanish: "Today there were attacks on four municipalities in Chiapas. This is an insurrection led by our organization, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation". The Mexican Federal Army counter-attacked; meanwhile, demanding "Control over our lives and land", the Zapatistas published their social and land reform demands in the internet. In the event, after much ruthless fighting, the Mexican Army and the EZLN called an uneasy ceasefire and truce. The Mexican Army surrounded Zapatista communities, villages, and towns to hunt rebel commanders, as in the town of La Realidad; the Mexican Federal Army iterated its presence with twice-daily tank and truck patrols. Unforeseen by the right-wing, Neoliberal PRI (Mexico's seven-decade-rule party), the Mexican economy collapsed when the NAFTA allowed the importation of very low-priced American corn, depressing the Mexican Peso's value to negative exchange rate levels, thereby provoking Mexico's greatest economic bailout, by foreign (i.e., American) banks to date; U.S. President Clinton authorised $50 billion in loans; Mexico was in hock to foreigners. Moreover, in an official bank memorandum, the CHASE Manhattan Bank (a leading bailout financier) told the Mexican Federal Government to "get rid of the Zapatistas" in exchange for full bailout financing. With a U.S. bank ordering the Mexican PRI-Government about, the Zapatistas said "they have no idea with whom they are negotiating" - the lender or the borrower.... Who is owner of Mexico? For the Zapatistas, "El Encuentro" against Neoliberalism and for all of humanity, was a peaceful mode of obtaining international support and resistance aid. Director Wild considers it "a post-Glasnost revolutionary Woodstock, without the Acid". Three thousand people attended El Encuentro, among them Spanish and Italian communists, Latin American revolutionaries, Chiapanec Indians, and Superbarrio , the caped professional wrestler and social activist. The Encuentro demonstrates the importance of civilian support to the Zapatista national liberation movement, whose goals the civilians of the world understand. The Encuentro featured a dance wherein Zapatistas and guests dance "on the edge of romantic ideals and harsh politics, between those who can leave Mexico and those who cannot"; many Zapatista supporters could not reach the Encuentro of 1996. Yet, director Wild says:"A month before the Encuentro I encountered a group of people the revolution almost forgot. I followed dark rumours of fear and violence to the north of Chiapas, to Jomajl; here villages are deeply divided, between Zapatista supporters and villagers who work directly with the ruling party and profit from it". To wit, paramilitary mercenary groups named "Peace and Justice" fight the EZLN and its civil supporters; "Anyone who opposes them, they call 'Zapatistas'. In northern Chiapas, the paramilitary mercenaries have, at gun-point, forced out thousands of people from their villages, farms, and ranches, thus rendering those Mexicans refugees in their own country. Documentarist Wild questions: "If they go home can or will the Zapatistas help them?"; she comments: "My camera is framing the gap between rhetoric and reality". A month later, among three thousand people, she watches the horse-mounted Subcomandante Marcos appear from the jungle, holding a flagpole bearing a small red flag, he was "Reminiscent of the hapless Don Quixote - the fictional Spanish knight who fights for impossible dreams, and can't distinguish reality from what's inside his head". In press conference, the documentarist Nettie Wild asks Subcomandante Marcos what is the Zapatista plan for their supporters in the north; he replies offensively, but later halts peace talks with the Mexican Federal Government until the north Chiapas refugees are served real peace and justice. The documentary A Place Called Chiapas shows the startling reality of what is like to live in contemporary Chiapas, a relatively quiet war zone. The viewer must interpret and determine, for him- and herself, the true nature - social, political, military, of the Zapatista National Liberation Movement and its army, the EZLN." source *** RELATED: All of Lasrever's uploads on "Mexico" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ebf_1227865320 lasrever (documentary) &quot;A Place Called <span class="highlight">Chiapas</span>&quot; (Part 3/4) a place called chiapas,chiapas,zapatistas,zapatista,mexican army,insurgents,insurgency,NAFTA,EZLN,Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional,Marcos,Subcomandante Marcos Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:25:55 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7df_1227864355 lasrever Rebel territory, in the south-west Mexican state of Chiapas, where the Zapatistas live and evade the Mexican Army. ... "In 1993, the Mexican Federal Government signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States, and, by implication, told the Mexicans that allowing unimpeded American business penetration of Mexico's economy would promote Mexico from the Third-World to the First-World. Disbelieving that, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation simultaneously arose in armed insurrection throughout Chiapas on New Year's Day 1994 - capturing four municipalities (25 per cent of the state); to date, Chiapas is economically and politically, socially and militarily unsettled. The nationalist EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) insurrection replies to the NAFTA-induced dollarisation, and consequent deeper impoverishment, of Mexico's economy; the NAFTA did not provide an analogous wage increase or prices decrease. Thus, Chiapas's indigenous Maya people said: "Basta! , we will take ourselves underground and wait to rise up, like corn". In Mayan traditional lore, the Maya are 'the people born from maize'. In 1994, the EZLN's indigenous Chiapanec soldiers marched from the jungle to the towns in armed insurrection to reclaim their land from the white folk minority. Thus did the Mexicans of the national Capital and of the provincial states awaken to a New Year 1994 loud with AK-47 gunfire. The EZLN seized six hundred and fifty private ranches that had displaced the native Chiapanecs; afterwards, they controlled a fourth of Chiapas. In behalf of the EZLN Indian leadership, Subcomandante Marcos (Sub-Commander Marcos) said in Spanish: "Today there were attacks on four municipalities in Chiapas. This is an insurrection led by our organization, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation". The Mexican Federal Army counter-attacked; meanwhile, demanding "Control over our lives and land", the Zapatistas published their social and land reform demands in the internet. In the event, after much ruthless fighting, the Mexican Army and the EZLN called an uneasy ceasefire and truce. The Mexican Army surrounded Zapatista communities, villages, and towns to hunt rebel commanders, as in the town of La Realidad; the Mexican Federal Army iterated its presence with twice-daily tank and truck patrols. Unforeseen by the right-wing, Neoliberal PRI (Mexico's seven-decade-rule party), the Mexican economy collapsed when the NAFTA allowed the importation of very low-priced American corn, depressing the Mexican Peso's value to negative exchange rate levels, thereby provoking Mexico's greatest economic bailout, by foreign (i.e., American) banks to date; U.S. President Clinton authorised $50 billion in loans; Mexico was in hock to foreigners. Moreover, in an official bank memorandum, the CHASE Manhattan Bank (a leading bailout financier) told the Mexican Federal Government to "get rid of the Zapatistas" in exchange for full bailout financing. With a U.S. bank ordering the Mexican PRI-Government about, the Zapatistas said "they have no idea with whom they are negotiating" - the lender or the borrower.... Who is owner of Mexico? For the Zapatistas, "El Encuentro" against Neoliberalism and for all of humanity, was a peaceful mode of obtaining international support and resistance aid. Director Wild considers it "a post-Glasnost revolutionary Woodstock, without the Acid". Three thousand people attended El Encuentro, among them Spanish and Italian communists, Latin American revolutionaries, Chiapanec Indians, and Superbarrio , the caped professional wrestler and social activist. The Encuentro demonstrates the importance of civilian support to the Zapatista national liberation movement, whose goals the civilians of the world understand. The Encuentro featured a dance wherein Zapatistas and guests dance "on the edge of romantic ideals and harsh politics, between those who can leave Mexico and those who cannot"; many Zapatista supporters could not reach the Encuentro of 1996. Yet, director Wild says:"A month before the Encuentro I encountered a group of people the revolution almost forgot. I followed dark rumours of fear and violence to the north of Chiapas, to Jomajl; here villages are deeply divided, between Zapatista supporters and villagers who work directly with the ruling party and profit from it". To wit, paramilitary mercenary groups named "Peace and Justice" fight the EZLN and its civil supporters; "Anyone who opposes them, they call 'Zapatistas'. In northern Chiapas, the paramilitary mercenaries have, at gun-point, forced out thousands of people from their villages, farms, and ranches, thus rendering those Mexicans refugees in their own country. Documentarist Wild questions: "If they go home can or will the Zapatistas help them?"; she comments: "My camera is framing the gap between rhetoric and reality". A month later, among three thousand people, she watches the horse-mounted Subcomandante Marcos appear from the jungle, holding a flagpole bearing a small red flag, he was "Reminiscent of the hapless Don Quixote - the fictional Spanish knight who fights for impossible dreams, and can't distinguish reality from what's inside his head". In press conference, the documentarist Nettie Wild asks Subcomandante Marcos what is the Zapatista plan for their supporters in the north; he replies offensively, but later halts peace talks with the Mexican Federal Government until the north Chiapas refugees are served real peace and justice. The documentary A Place Called Chiapas shows the startling reality of what is like to live in contemporary Chiapas, a relatively quiet war zone. The viewer must interpret and determine, for him- and herself, the true nature - social, political, military, of the Zapatista National Liberation Movement and its army, the EZLN." source *** RELATED: All of Lasrever's uploads on "Mexico" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7df_1227864355 lasrever (documentary) &quot;A Place Called <span class="highlight">Chiapas</span>&quot; (Part 2/4) a place called chiapas,chiapas,zapatistas,zapatista,mexican army,insurgents,insurgency,NAFTA,EZLN,Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional,Marcos,Subcomandante Marcos Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:26:21 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d9_1227785181 lasrever Rebel territory, in the south-west Mexican state of Chiapas, where the Zapatistas live and evade the Mexican Army. ... "In 1993, the Mexican Federal Government signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States, and, by implication, told the Mexicans that allowing unimpeded American business penetration of Mexico's economy would promote Mexico from the Third-World to the First-World. Disbelieving that, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation simultaneously arose in armed insurrection throughout Chiapas on New Year's Day 1994 - capturing four municipalities (25 per cent of the state); to date, Chiapas is economically and politically, socially and militarily unsettled. The nationalist EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) insurrection replies to the NAFTA-induced dollarisation, and consequent deeper impoverishment, of Mexico's economy; the NAFTA did not provide an analogous wage increase or prices decrease. Thus, Chiapas's indigenous Maya people said: "Basta! , we will take ourselves underground and wait to rise up, like corn". In Mayan traditional lore, the Maya are 'the people born from maize'. In 1994, the EZLN's indigenous Chiapanec soldiers marched from the jungle to the towns in armed insurrection to reclaim their land from the white folk minority. Thus did the Mexicans of the national Capital and of the provincial states awaken to a New Year 1994 loud with AK-47 gunfire. The EZLN seized six hundred and fifty private ranches that had displaced the native Chiapanecs; afterwards, they controlled a fourth of Chiapas. In behalf of the EZLN Indian leadership, Subcomandante Marcos (Sub-Commander Marcos) said in Spanish: "Today there were attacks on four municipalities in Chiapas. This is an insurrection led by our organization, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation". The Mexican Federal Army counter-attacked; meanwhile, demanding "Control over our lives and land", the Zapatistas published their social and land reform demands in the internet. In the event, after much ruthless fighting, the Mexican Army and the EZLN called an uneasy ceasefire and truce. The Mexican Army surrounded Zapatista communities, villages, and towns to hunt rebel commanders, as in the town of La Realidad; the Mexican Federal Army iterated its presence with twice-daily tank and truck patrols. Unforeseen by the right-wing, Neoliberal PRI (Mexico's seven-decade-rule party), the Mexican economy collapsed when the NAFTA allowed the importation of very low-priced American corn, depressing the Mexican Peso's value to negative exchange rate levels, thereby provoking Mexico's greatest economic bailout, by foreign (i.e., American) banks to date; U.S. President Clinton authorised $50 billion in loans; Mexico was in hock to foreigners. Moreover, in an official bank memorandum, the CHASE Manhattan Bank (a leading bailout financier) told the Mexican Federal Government to "get rid of the Zapatistas" in exchange for full bailout financing. With a U.S. bank ordering the Mexican PRI-Government about, the Zapatistas said "they have no idea with whom they are negotiating" - the lender or the borrower.... Who is owner of Mexico? For the Zapatistas, "El Encuentro" against Neoliberalism and for all of humanity, was a peaceful mode of obtaining international support and resistance aid. Director Wild considers it "a post-Glasnost revolutionary Woodstock, without the Acid". Three thousand people attended El Encuentro, among them Spanish and Italian communists, Latin American revolutionaries, Chiapanec Indians, and Superbarrio , the caped professional wrestler and social activist. The Encuentro demonstrates the importance of civilian support to the Zapatista national liberation movement, whose goals the civilians of the world understand. The Encuentro featured a dance wherein Zapatistas and guests dance "on the edge of romantic ideals and harsh politics, between those who can leave Mexico and those who cannot"; many Zapatista supporters could not reach the Encuentro of 1996. Yet, director Wild says:"A month before the Encuentro I encountered a group of people the revolution almost forgot. I followed dark rumours of fear and violence to the north of Chiapas, to Jomajl; here villages are deeply divided, between Zapatista supporters and villagers who work directly with the ruling party and profit from it". To wit, paramilitary mercenary groups named "Peace and Justice" fight the EZLN and its civil supporters; "Anyone who opposes them, they call 'Zapatistas'. In northern Chiapas, the paramilitary mercenaries have, at gun-point, forced out thousands of people from their villages, farms, and ranches, thus rendering those Mexicans refugees in their own country. Documentarist Wild questions: "If they go home can or will the Zapatistas help them?"; she comments: "My camera is framing the gap between rhetoric and reality". A month later, among three thousand people, she watches the horse-mounted Subcomandante Marcos appear from the jungle, holding a flagpole bearing a small red flag, he was "Reminiscent of the hapless Don Quixote - the fictional Spanish knight who fights for impossible dreams, and can't distinguish reality from what's inside his head". In press conference, the documentarist Nettie Wild asks Subcomandante Marcos what is the Zapatista plan for their supporters in the north; he replies offensively, but later halts peace talks with the Mexican Federal Government until the north Chiapas refugees are served real peace and justice. The documentary A Place Called Chiapas shows the startling reality of what is like to live in contemporary Chiapas, a relatively quiet war zone. The viewer must interpret and determine, for him- and herself, the true nature - social, political, military, of the Zapatista National Liberation Movement and its army, the EZLN." source *** RELATED: All of Lasrever's uploads on "Mexico" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d9_1227785181 lasrever (documentary) &quot;A Place Called <span class="highlight">Chiapas</span>&quot; (Part 1/4) a place called chiapas,chiapas,zapatistas,zapatista,mexican army,insurgents,insurgency,NAFTA,EZLN,Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional,Marcos,Subcomandante Marcos Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:37:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b4_1255387468 leadfoot072 Oct/12/09...-Chiapas, Mex,,Hundreds of grenades, over 17,000 rounds of various caliber, assault rifles and hand guns, among other stuff, were seized by state and federal authorities in a raid in which three people were arrested in Chiapas, Mexico, in the municipality of Comalapa. The mexican Army and combined forces of the Attorney General of the State (PGJE) and the Ministry of Security and Civil Protection (SSyPC) participated in the operation. The state government reported the following seized items: -306 Grenades for 40 mm attachment - 22 RPG rounds - 4 high explosive charges (TNT) - 8 propelling rockets for grenade - 1 7.62 x 51 cal rifle - 18 AK-47 assault rifles - 21 AR-15 assault rifle - 1 9mm rifle - 3 super .38 caliber pistols, -1 45 and 1- 9 mm, one of them inlaid with precious stones on the grips - 17,212 rounds of different calibers - Several communication equipment sets, bulletproof vests and tactic apparel - 9 vehicles with license plates from the states of Chiapas, Veracruz and Mexico City, one of them bullet proof and fitted out as a "tank" - 1 trailer - 2 Quarter mile racing horses http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b4_1255387468 leadfoot072 Mexican military and federal police seizes arsenal in southern Mexico. mexican army,weapons,explosives,mexico,drug war,chiapas,federal forces,seizing Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:53:20 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c8f_1236122397 Uncensored_Drexau Interview with Subcomandante Marcos http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c8f_1236122397 Uncensored_Drexau Subcomandante Marcos y la Cuarta Guerra Mundial Mexico,Freedom,Marcos,EZLN,Revolucion,Revolution,Freiheit,Chiapas Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:36:29 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a3a_1356657025 Cartel Distrito Federal-- Despite the death of the absolute ruler of Los Zetas , Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, " El Lazca ", this criminal organization was not affected. On the contrary, its cells continue in operation and are multiplying, and they are the bloodiest in the country. In over half of Mexico, they have a presence in activities related to drug trafficking, human trafficking, fuel theft and extortion, despite the blows struck against the organization in the past six years. The United Nations classifies this criminal group as the most violent in the Americas, which not only seeks control of the drug market at the national and international level, but also of the whole spectrum of illegal activities. Officials of the PGR (Mexican Attorney General) and the SSP (Secretariat of Public Security) commented that the "strengthening" of the criminal group is the result of the leadership of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, El Z-40 , who now occupies El Lazca's position. This person's rise to power broke the pattern of the group, which had always been led by Army deserters. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a3a_1356657025 Cartel Zeta's Grow Stronger Despite Lazca's Death... mexico, zeta, cartel, death, lazca Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:23:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa0_1346030137 aleihs Zapotec human remains discovered in a stunning red jug with face carving, at the Atzompa archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico. Full Story: Archaeologists in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca last week unearthed the tomb of a high-ranking Zapotec figure at the Atzompa archaeological site. The tomb is located in a 1,100 year old burial complex that was discovered in July. Three rooms were found. Although the first two were largely empty, in the third room was a stunning red jar with a carved face, which held human remains. There was also jewelery, pottery and a skull fragment thought to have been left as an offering. : "We have the things that we've recently found in the third room, which consist, as of now, of two urns, one individual, and a small offering in a tubular bowl." Historians believe that the burial complex was intended for distinguished members of the local society. : "This was a funerary building. In a manner similar to the tomb of Pakal (in Palenque, Chiapas), there is an inscriptions room. That allows us to more or less understand the significance of the funeral mound, that was built to contain these three rooms." Experts consider the Atzompa site, founded between 650 and 900 AD, to be a satellite city of the larger archaeological site of Monte Alban, one of the earliest and most important cities of Mesoamerica. Atzompa was first excavated in 2009, revealing several large shrines and elaborate structures, as well as a 45-meter ball court used to play an ancient Mesoamerican ballgame. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa0_1346030137 aleihs Ancient Jug Discovered in Mexico Ancient tomb, mexico, relic Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:38:53 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7a4_1332547550 Rubicon_Cube - - CHIAPAS, MEXICO (North America) Locals say that the beheaded body found in a pasture is that of an independent marijuana seller who lives in the same town, most likely killed for selling pot without permission from the area drug cartel. - - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7a4_1332547550 Rubicon_Cube Man Lays Dead After Being Beheaded With A Chainsaw By Drug Cartel drug cartel Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:47:07 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0d0_1330039169 HydrogenEconomy Video: mexican uses a car jack to breach the "border fence" + islamist lobby co-opts the FBI (essam abdallah/investigativeproject.org) - tried to run down a cop and pedestrians, ICE lets him go... http://www.limitstogrowth.org/articles/2012/02/23/middle-eastern-airplane-disturber-update/ Middle Eastern Airplane Disturber Update There is more information coming out about the Middle Eastern man who caused a Continental flight to return to Portland on Tuesday because of his disruption, violence and yells of "Allah is great" after being asked to put out his electronic cigarette. Persons getting off the plane spoke in terms of a terrorist attack and how it was thwarted by resistance from passengers. See my blog Diversity in Travel which includes a video of passenger descriptions. The man in question is a 19-year-old Saudi student, Yazeed Mohammed Abunnayan (pictured). He was traveling with a friend to Houston, but was arrested after the pilot thought his violent behavior warranted a return to Portland. Saudi teen arrested again after disrupting flight , Ashland Daily Tidings , Feb 22 2012 A man who led Ashland police on a car-crashing chase through town Sunday night has been arrested again, this time on a federal charge of interfering with flight crew members on a plane out of Portland. He had refused to turn off an electronic cigarette "yelling profanities and swinging his fist at the flight attendant, hitting or attempting to hit several passengers, and speaking or singing about Usama bin Laden and his hatred of women," a federal indictment said. His action caused the flight attendant to deviate from safety protocols by unbuckling her restraints and leaving her seat during takeoff, thereby forcing the flight to alter its route and return to Portland, the indictment said. On Sunday, Abunayyan reportedly was spinning circles in a car on Siskiyou Boulevard, driving erratically, and trying to run over pedestrians . He led police on a 20-minute chase back and forth through town, ramming two police cars before high-centering his car on a dirt embankment at the dead end of Clear Creek Drive. He was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of intoxicants, reckless driving, eluding police, two charges of first-degree criminal mischief, three charges of hit and run, six charges of reckless endangerment, and two charges of assault on an officer, but posted 10 percent on his $65,000 bail. Another article noted that Yazeed was studying English prior to enrolling as a college student at Sonoma State. Saudi students are known for bad driving and co-ed harassment , not to mention the bent toward terrorism. Apparently the full tuition checks are a big enough enticement for universities to overlook the extreme negatives of such dangerous characters. However the universities' irresponsibility endangers public safety when they see only the dollars that foreigners bring. - http://www.oregonlive.com/gresham/index.ssf/2012/02/two_teens_accused_of_robbing_a.html Two teenagers accused of robbing another at knifepoint at a Gresham transit station Saturday night were arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court today. CesarVillano-Salazar, 19, and Pedro Gonzalez-Lopez, 18, each face allegations of first-degree robbery, second-degree robbery and unlawful use of a weapon. - http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Man-attacked-at-TriMet-bus-shelter-then-helper-attacked-too-140019353.html 2 arrested for attacks on MAX platform Officers arrived and arrested Aklilu Beyene Girum and Conrad Milow, both 25-years old. They were booked into the Multnomah County Jail on robbery charges. Millow has a record of 19 arrests in Portland since November 2010. Just the day before, a Good Samaritan trying to help a woman who was being mugged at a TriMet bus shelter was shot at, police said. - Another Anti-2A Obama Nominee Confirmed to the Bench Last week, we alerted you to a radical anti-gun nominee President Obama named to the federal bench, Jesse Furman. To no one's surprise, Furman is cut from the same judicial cloth as other Obama nominees such as Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. For instance, in an article published a number of years ago-but from which Furman has not distanced himself-he writes that: "Probably the best explanation for the amount of violent crime in the United States is its fascination with guns." GOA members flooded the Senate with emails, and many Senators voted against Furman. But Majority Leader Harry Reid kept every single Democrat in lock-step with the Obama agenda, and Furman was confirmed to a lifetime appointment to the bench on a vote of 62-34. Republicans Jon Kyl and John McCain (AZ), Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander (TN), Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe (ME), Jeff Sessions (AL), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Scott Brown (MA), and Lindsey Graham (SC) joined all Democrats in voting for Furman. This vote serves to highlight the difficulty in protecting the courts from anti-Second Amendment nominees who come before the Congress. Obama will continue to nominate far left gun grabbers, and Harry Reid will be his go-to guy for confirmation votes. And if Obama wins a second term, his agenda will become only more brazen. That's why a top goal of GOA in 2012 is to help elect as many truly pro-gun friends as we can to the U.S. Senate. It is crucial that Harry Reid does not retain the gavel next year. But it is not enough to just elect members of the opposing party. We need to elect strong candidates who understand the Constitution and who will not bow to pressure from the White House-whoever the occupant may be-or from the leadership of either party in the Congress. - http://jpfo.org/kirby/kirby-cw2.htm Is Race War In America Inevitable? "History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen." Enoch Powell, ex-member of the British Parliament. "Apparently, multi-cultural, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic democracies don't last very long, if they even get started in the first place. The minute a single race, religion or ethnic group loses a large majority in a nation, that nation begins to undergo internal fracture." - Thus opens Thomas Chittum's disturbing book Civil War II. With chilling precision, Chittum outlines the realization that America is headed the way of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia ... Balkanization, or, as the subtitle to the book proclaims, The Coming Breakup of America. If our illustrious President wants us to "dialogue" about race, we'd better face the lessons of history that Chittum identifies in this book. You may not agree with Chittum's conclusions, but every American, of any race, should be familiar with the disturbing similarities between the bloody paths other nations have followed and the path America seems to be blundering along. Chittum is a military analyst who has had hands-on experience with war, specifically civil wars. He fought for the U.S. Army in Vietnam in the '60s, the Rhodesian Territorials in the '70s, and with the Croatian Army in the '90s. Apparently, multi-cultural, multi-racial, and multi-ethnic democracies don't last very long, if they even get started in the first place. The minute a single race, religion or ethnic group loses a large majority in a nation, that nation begins to undergo internal fracture. Chittum points out that the fall of the Soviet Union had as much to do with an incredible growth of Islamic forces in the various conglomerates of the Soviet Empire as did the arms race with the West. In the case of America, we shouldn't "celebrate diversity," we should fear it. Civil War II will start in the American Southwest. Actually, it has already begun. It is called the "Reconquista," or in English, the Reconquest. An estimated two million illegal aliens, mostly Mexicans, have now infiltrated and occupied a huge swath of American soil that stretches from Los Angeles to New Orleans and up into New Mexico. Mexican and Latino radicals have already given this nation-to-be a name: "Aztlan." A beachhead has been established. Mexico will erupt into a revolution within the next 20 years. This revolution will either be brutally put down, as in the recent Chiapas uprising, or it will succeed and a new, likely Marxist, government will take over. In either case, further millions of Mexicans, attempting to escape the bloodshed and even more depressing poverty, will flee north across the American border and into the Southwest. The conflict between the whites and the Hispanics will be exacerbated by the fact that one group speaks English and the other Spanish. One group is brown and the other is white. The inevitable "them vs. us" division will occur because the opposing forces can be immediately identified by skin color and/or language. So re-draw your map of 21st Century North America with "Aztlan" occupying the territory (plus a little extra) that was once Northern Mexico before the "Gringos" stole it. Toss in Southern Florida, because the Cubans are there to stay. Malcom X, and now Louis Farrakan, have called for a "Black Homeland." Demographics are beginning to outline the shape of this second nation-to-be. Middle class and working class blacks are moving back to the Old South in increasing numbers. As the Reconquista progresses, blacks in Southern California will be stuck between a rock and a hard place; a growing resentment against the Hispanic tidal wave will be mixed with the age-old resentment against the white race. Patience and compassion go out the window when social misery meets ethnic and racial diversity. This is simply a pragmatic, coldly realistic lesson of history. All liberal, social engineering mumbo jumbo aside, when the fecal matter hits the fan, people prefer to be with their "own kind." So draw in "New Africa" on your map of 21st Century America. This will be most of the deep South. North of New Africa and Aztlan will be an all-white nation stretching to the Canadian border or perhaps blended with several provinces of Canada. In 1992, the white race was 75% of the American population. If one were to travel through only the rural Northern U.S.A., one would likely assume that this is a nation of exclusively white people. Minorities have historically occupied enclaves in cities in the North. In 2050 the white race is expected to have been reduced to 52% of all Americans. Non-white immigration and the greater birth rate of blacks and Hispanics are fueling this trend. There is a problem that prevents this demographic transition from remaining peaceful. The Mexicans want that land back. They will take it back, not simply ask. Black and white property owners in the fermenting nation of Aztlan will not likely relinquish their property without a fierce struggle. Likewise, southern whites, some of the most irascible critters on Earth, will not gently surrender their property to waves of black refugees. As the bloodshed against whites by blacks and against blacks by whites increases in the South, the black enclaves in Northern American cities (i.e., ghettos) will erupt into street warfare. The armies are already in place. Our federal government estimates that 500,000 young men, predominantly black and Hispanic, are members of street gangs. These fellows have guns, money and a highly-organized hierarchy, because, as Chittum perceptively points out, the leadership of gangs is decided by cunning, street-smart business acumen (the drug trade), and a merciless willingness to eliminate rivals for power. The leadership of street gangs is Darwinian, while the leadership of our police and military agencies has to do more with whose ass you kiss than whose as you kick. Given equal armament, the street gangs are potentially better warriors. Don't get mad at Thomas Chittum for his pragmatic insight. His book is controversial and opinionated, but it is not a racist screed. You just might as well get mad at the weatherman who tells you a hurricane is coming. Instead, read the book. Read it as soon as you can, and think long and hard about what is said. Civil War II is available from American Eagle Publications ($16.95, priority post and handling included), POB 1507, Show Low, Arizona 85901, 800-719-4957. Or order it from your local book store (ISBN#0-929408-17-9). - http://www.investigativeproject.org/3453/islamist-lobbies-washington-war-on-arab Islamist Lobbies' Washington War on Arab and Muslim Liberals by Essam Abdallah The Cutting Edge News February 16, 2012 A note from Investigative Project on Terrorism Executive Director Steven Emerson: Please take the time to read this very important story written by a courageous Egyptian liberal intellectual about the Islamist and Muslim Brotherhood lobbies in Washington and the Obama Administration's secret collaboration with these pro-terrorist, anti-Western, anti-women, anti-American and anti-Semitic organizations. This is one of the most important articles I have read in years. It was just revealed two days ago that FBI Director Mueller secretly met on February 8 at FBI headquarters with a coalition of groups including various Islamist and militant Arabic groups who in the past have defended Hamas and Hizballah and have also issued blatantly anti-Semitic statements. At this meeting, the FBI revealed that it had removed more than 1000 presentations and curricula on Islam from FBI offices around the country that was deemed "offensive." The FBI did not reveal what criteria was used to determine why material was considered "offensive" but knowledgeable law enforcement sources have told the IPT that it was these radical groups who made that determination. Moreover, numerous FBI agents have confirmed that from now on, FBI headquarters has banned all FBI offices from inviting any counter-terrorist specialists who are considered "anti-Islam" by Muslim Brotherhood front groups. The February 8 FBI meeting was the culmination of a series of unpublicized directives issued in the last three months by top FBI officials to all its field offices to immediately recall and withdraw any presentation or curricula on Islam throughout the entire FBI. In fact, according to informed sources and undisclosed documents, the FBI directive was instigated by radical Muslim groups in the US who had repeatedly met with top officials of the Obama Administration to complain, among other things, that the mere usage of the term of "radical Islam" in FBI curricula was "offensive" and 'racist." And thus, directives went out by Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Mueller to censor all such material. Included in the material destroyed or removed by the FBI and the DOJ were powerpoints and articles that defined jihad as "holy war" or presentations that portrayed the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization bent on taking over the world-a major tenet that the Muslim Brotherhood has publicly stated for decades. During the next several months, the IPT will be releasing a series of major investigative reports revealing the secret infiltration by and collaboration with radical Islamic organizations by the Obama administration that has spread to the National Security Council, the Dept of Justice, the FBI, the Dept of Homeland Security, the CIA and the State Department as well as local law enforcement. ------- The most dramatic oppression of the region's civil societies and the Arab Spring is not by means of weapons, or in the Middle East. It is not led by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Bin Ali, Saleh, or Assad. It is led by the powerful Islamist lobbies in Washington DC. People may find my words curious if not provocative. But my arguments are sharp and well understood by many Arab and middle eastern liberals and freedom fighters. Indeed, we in the region, who are struggling for real democracy, not for the one time election type of democracy have been asking ourselves since January 2011 as the winds of Arab spring started blowing, why isn't the West in general and the United States Administration in particular clearly and forcefully supporting our civil societies and particularly the secular democrats of the region? Why were the bureaucracies in Washington and in Brussels partnering with Islamists in the region and not with their natural allies the democracy promoting political forces? Months into the Arab Spring, we realized that the Western powers, and the Obama Administration have put their support behind the new authoritarians, those who are claiming they will be brought to power via the votes of the people. Well, it is not quite so. The Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Nahda of Tunisia, the Justice Party of Morocco and the Islamist militias in Libya's Transitional National Council have been systematically supported by Washington at the expense of real liberal and secular forces. We saw day by day how the White House guided carefully the statements and the actions of the US and the State Department followed through to give all the chances to the Islamists and almost no chances to the secular and revolutionary youth. We will come back to detail these diplomatic and financial maneuvers which are giving victory to the fundamentalists while the seculars and progressives are going to be smashed by the forthcoming regimes. In the US, there are interests that determine foreign policy. And there are lobbies that put pressure to get their objectives met in foreign policy. One of the most powerful lobbies in America under the Obama Administration is the Muslim Brotherhood greater lobby, which has been in action for many years. This lobby has secured many operatives inside the Administration and has been successful in directing US policy towards the Arab world. Among leading advisors sympathetic to the Ikhwan is Daliah Mogahed (Mujahid) and her associate, Georgetown Professor John Esposito. Just as shocking, there is also a pro-Iranian lobby that has been influencing US policy towards Iran and Hezbollah in the region. One of the most important activities of the Islamist lobby in the US is the waging of political and media wars on the liberal Arabs and Middle Eastern figures and groups in America. This battlefield is among the most important in influencing Washington's policies in the Arab world. If you strike at the liberal and democratic Middle Eastern groups in Washington who are trying to gain support for civil societies in the region, you actually win a major battle. You will be able to influence the resources of the US Government to support the Islamists in the Middle East and not the weak democrats. This huge war waged by the Islamist lobbies in America started at the end of the Cold war and continued all the way till the Arab spring. The two main forces of this lobby are the Muslim Brotherhood fronts and the Iranian fronts. According to research available in the US, the Ikhwan fronts such as CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), led by Hamas supporter Nihad Awad, as well as the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America, and others waged their political war to block the representatives of Arab liberals and Muslim moderates from making their case to the American public. The Iranian lobby, exemplified by the National Iranian American Committee (NIAC), led by Trita Parsi, has been hitting at Iranian exiles. Since the 1990s CAIR and its allies have attacked Copts, Southern Sudanese, Lebanese, Syrian reformers, Assyrians and Chaldeans, and Muslim dissidents in the United States. The Ikhwan of America demonized any publication, book, article, or interview in the national media or local press raising the issue of secular freedoms in the Middle East. The Islamists wanted to eliminate the liberal cause in the Arab world and replace it with the cause of the Islamists. What is also shocking is that CAIR and its allies stood by the oppressive regimes and visited them, claiming they speak on behalf of the peoples. CAIR and the Brotherhood fronts in America destroyed systematically every project that would have defended the seculars and liberals originating from the Middle East. The notorious and well-funded Islamists of the US allowed no book, documentary, or show on the liberals in Arab civil societies to see the light. Thanks to this powerful lobbying campaign, the American public was not given a chance to learn about the deep feelings on the youth in the region. Americans were led to believe that all Muslims, all Arabs and all Middle Easterners were a strange species of humans who cannot appreciate freedom. Instead, the American Islamists, helped by apologists on the petrodollars payrolls, convinced the mainstream media that the Arab world has authoritarians and Islamists only. Dr Shawki Karas, president of the American Coptic Association, told me in the late 1990s how he was harassed by Islamist activists for speaking up against the Mubarak regime and the Muslim Brotherhood in America. He was threatened with losing his job at the college where he taught. Reverend Keith Roderick, who has assembled a coalition of more than 50 group rights from the Muslim world, was severely attacked by the Islamists and was threatened to be removed from his church position. Muslim American leaders who are conservative and secular, such as Dr Zuhdi Jasser, were crucified by CAIR and the Brotherhood for daring to challenge the Party line of the Isl.amists in America and claiming that the Jihadists are the problem in the region. Muslim liberal dissidents such as Somali Ayan Hirsi Ali, Saudi Ali al Yammi, Syrian Farid Ghadri, Iranian Manda Ervin, and many others were trashed by the Islamist lobbies to block them from defending the causes of secular liberty in the US. Egyptian liberals as well as seculars and democracy activists from Iraq, Sudan, Syria, and other countries have been attacked by CAIR and allies. The pro-Iranian lobby targeted most Iranian-American groups and tried to discredit them, particularly with the rise of the Green Revolution in Iran. By smearing the Muslim liberal exiles, the Islamists were trying to destroy their causes in the mother countries. In the 1990s and the years that followed 9/11 the region's dictators supported the efforts by Islamist lobbies to crush the liberal exiles. The Mubarak, Bashir, Gaddafi, Assad, and Khomeinist regimes fully supported the so-called Islamophobia campaign waged by CAIR and its Iranian counterpart NIAC against dissidents for calling for secular democracy in the region. The dissidents were accused of being pro-Western by both the Islamists and the dictators. The Islamist lobbies also severely attacked members of the US Congress such as Democrats Tom Lantos, who has since passed away, Eliot Engel, Howard Berman, Gary Ackerman, and Joe Lieberman as well as Republicans Frank Wolfe, Chris Smith, Trent Franks, John McCain, Rick Santorum, and Sam Brownback for their efforts in passing legislative acts in support for democracy and liberty in the Middle East. CAIR and NIAC heavily savaged President Bush's speeches on Freedom Forward in the Middle East, deploying all the resources they had to block US support to liberal democrats in the region. Islamist lobbies in Washington are directly responsible for killing any initiative in the US Government to support Darfur, southern Sudan, Lebanon, the Kurds, liberal women in the Muslim world, and true democrats in the Arab world and Muslim Africa. In the think tank world, CAIR and its allies aggressively attacked scholars who raised the issue of persecution against seculars or minorities in the Arab world and Iran. Among those attacked were Nina Shea and Paul Marshal from the Hudson Institute and the founder of an anti-slavery group, Dr Charles Jacobs, who was exposing the Sudan regime for its atrocities. Last but not least is the Islamists' relentless campaign to stirke at top scholars who advise Government and appear in the media to push for democratic liberation in the region. The vast and vicious attacks leveled against Professor Walid Phares-initially by CAIR's Nihad Awad and then widened by pro-Hezbollah and Muslim Brotherhood operatives online-has revealed to Arab and Middle Eastern liberal and seculars how ferocious is the battle for the Middle East in the US. Phares's books, particularly the latest one, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (2010), hit the Islamist agenda hard by predicting the civil society revolts in the Middle East and then predicting how the Islamists would try to control them. Phares was attacked by an army of Jihadist militia online like no author since Samuel Huntington in the 1990s. As a freedom activist from the Middle East, Mustafa Geha, wrote, Phares is a hero to Muslim liberals. Along with dissidents, lawmakers, experts, and human rights activists, Phares is a force driving for a strategic change in US foreign policy towards supporting secular democracies in the region. This explains why the Islamists of America are fighting the battle for the forthcoming regimes with all the means they have. Dr. Essam Abdallah is an Egyptian liberal intellectual who teaches at Ain Shams University and writes for the leading Arab liberal publication Elaph. Did you know that the military victims of Islamic jihad terrorism at Ft. Hood and the Little Rock Recruitment Center are not eligible for the Purple Heart? The reason is that our Defense Department is defining these acts as "criminal" acts rather than as acts of "war." In fact, the Ft. Hood massacre was classified as "workplace violence!" This is in keeping with the Obama administration position that terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, are not "enemy combatants" but "alleged criminals." Not only do we strongly disagree with this designation, we find it outrageous and completely unacceptable that those in our armed forces killed by jihadists on our soil are not eligible for the Purple Heart. Do you agree? Would you like to help us correct this injustice? Then log on here and add your name to the Open Letter we will be sending to the chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. In the letter, we urge them to pass H.R. 1142, introduced by Rep. Allen West. Here's an excerpt from this letter: H.R. 1142, the Global Combat Zone Recognition Act, was introduced by Congressman Allen West and would assure that a member of the Armed Forces killed or wounded in a terrorist attack is afforded the same protections and treatments as one killed or wounded in a traditional active "combat zone." Help us pour tens of thousands of names behind this letter into the Armed Services Committees of both the House and Senate. Let them know the American people are outraged at this injustice and that we expect action!! This is a chance for us to do more than "honor and support our troops" with our words. The FBI has been co-opted http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0d0_1330039169 HydrogenEconomy saudi goes full GTA in Ashland, ICE lets him make bail - 2 mexicans rob MAX passenger saudi,terrorist,flight,continental,ice,mexicans,MAX,train,portland,robbery,stabbing Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:00:27 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=206_1327463160 vjiced The most significant developments of 2011 and updated profiles of the country's powerful criminal cartels as well as a forecast for 2012. The report is a product of the coverage of The U.S. consulting firm specialized in security, Stratfor As they noted in last year's annual cartel report, Mexico in 2010 bore witness to some 15,273 deaths in connection with the drug trade. The death toll for 2010 surpassed that of any previous year, and in doing so became the deadliest year ever in the country's fight against the cartels. But in the bloody chronology that is Mexico's cartel war, 2010's time at the top may have been short-lived. Despite the Mexican government's efforts to curb cartel-related violence, the death toll for 2011 may have exceeded what had been an unprecedented number. According to the Mexican government, cartel-related homicides claimed around 12,900 lives from January to September -- about 1,400 deaths per month. While this figure is lower than that of 2010, it does not account for the final quarter of 2011. The Mexican government has not yet released official statistics for the entire year, but if the monthly average held until year's end, the overall death toll for 2011 would reach 17,000. Though most estimates put the total below that, the actual number of homicides in Mexico is likely higher than what is officially reported. At the very least, although we do not have a final, official number -- and despite media reports to the contrary -- we can conclude that violence in Mexico did not decline substantially in 2011. Indeed, rather than receding to levels acceptable to the Mexican government, violence in Mexico has persisted, though it seems to have shifted geographically, abating in some cities and worsening in others. For example, while Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, was once again Mexico's deadliest city in terms of gross numbers, the city's annual death toll reportedly dropped substantially from 3,111 in 2010 to 1,955 in 2011. However, such reductions appear to have been offset by increases elsewhere, including Veracruz, Veracruz state; Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state; Matamoros, Tamaulipas state; and Durango, Durango state. Over the past year it has also become evident that a polarization is under way among the country's cartels. Most smaller groups (or remnants of groups) have been subsumed by the Sinaloa Federation, which controls much of western Mexico, and Los Zetas, who control much of eastern Mexico. While a great deal has been said about the fluidity of the Mexican cartel landscape, these two groups have solidified themselves as the country's predominant forces. Of course, the battle lines in Mexico have not been drawn absolutely, and not every entity calling itself a cartel swears allegiance to one side or the other, but a polarization clearly is occurring. Geography does not encapsulate this polarization. It reflects two very different modes of operation practiced by the two cartel hegemons, delineated by a common expression in Mexican vernacular: "Plata o plomo." The expression, which translates to "silver or lead" in English, means that a cartel will force one's cooperation with either a bribe or a bullet. The Sinaloa Federation leadership more often employs the former, preferring to buy off and corrupt to achieve its objectives. It also frequently provides intelligence to authorities, and in doing so uses the authorities as a weapon against rival cartels. Sinaloa certainly can and does resort to ruthless violence, but the violence it employs is merely one of many tools at its disposal, not its preferred tactic. On the other hand, Los Zetas prefer brutality. They can and do resort to bribery, but they lean toward intimidation and violence. Their mode of operation tends to be far less subtle than that of their Sinaloa counterparts, and with a leadership composed of former special operations soldiers, they are quite effective in employing force and fear to achieve their objectives. Because ex-military personnel formed Los Zetas, members tend to move up in the group's hierarchy through merit rather than through familial connections. This contrasts starkly with the culture of other cartels, including Sinaloa. Status of Mexico's Major Cartels Sinaloa Federation The Sinaloa Federation lost at least 10 major plaza bosses or top lieutenants in 2011, including its security chief and its alleged main weapons supplier. It is unclear how much those losses have affected the group's operations overall. One Sinaloa operation that appears to have been affected is the group's methamphetamine production. After the disintegration of La Familia Michoacana (LFM) in early 2011, the Sinaloa Federation clearly emerged as the country's foremost producer of methamphetamine. Most of the tons of precursor chemicals seized by Mexican authorities in Manzanillo, Colima state; Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco state; Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan state; and Los Mochis and Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, likely belonged to the Sinaloa Federation. Because of these government operations -- and other operations to disassemble methamphetamine labs -- the group apparently began to divert at least some of its methamphetamine production to Guatemala in late 2011. In addition to maintaining its anti-Zetas alliance with the Gulf cartel, Sinaloa in 2011 affiliated itself with the Knights Templar (KT) in Michoacan, and to counter Los Zetas in Jalisco state, Sinaloa affiliated itself with the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). Sinaloa also has tightened its encirclement of the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes (VCF) organization in the latter's long-held plaza of Ciudad Juarez. There are even signs that it continues to expand its control over parts of Juarez itself. Los Zetas By the end of 2011, Los Zetas eclipsed the Sinaloa Federation as the largest cartel operating in Mexico in terms of geographic presence. According to a report from the Assistant Attorney General's Office of Special Investigations into Organized Crime, Los Zetas now operate in 17 states. (The same report said the Sinaloa Federation operates in 16 states, down from 23 in 2005.) While Los Zetas continue to fight off a CJNG incursion into Veracruz state, they did not sustain any significant territorial losses in 2011. Los Zetas moved into Zacatecas and Durango states, achieving a degree of control of the former and challenging the Sinaloa Federation in the latter. Both states are mountainous and conducive to the harvesting of poppy and marijuana. They also contain major north-south transportation corridors. By mid-November, reports indicated that Los Zetas had begun to assert control over Colima state and its crucial port of Manzanillo. In some cases, Los Zetas are sharing territories with cartels they reportedly have relationships with, including the Cartel Pacifico Sur (CPS), La Resistencia and the remnants of LFM. But Los Zetas have a long history of working as hired enforcers for other organizations throughout the country. Therefore, having an alliance or business relationship with Los Zetas is not necessarily the equivalent of being a Sinaloa vassal. A relationship with Los Zetas may be perceived as more fleeting than Sinaloa subjugation. On the whole, Los Zetas remained strong in 2011 despite losing 17 cell leaders and plaza bosses to death and arrest. Los Zetas also remain the dominant force in the Yucatan Peninsula. However, the CJNG's mass killings of alleged Zetas members or supporters in Veracruz have called into question the group's unchallenged control of that state. In response to the mass killings in Veracruz, Los Zetas killed dozens of CJNG and Sinaloa members in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, and Culiacan, Sinaloa state. Aided by La Resistencia, these operations were well-executed, and the groups clearly invested a great deal of time and effort into surveillance and planning. The Gulf Cartel The Gulf cartel (CDG) was strong at the beginning of 2011, holding off several Zetas incursions into its territory. However, as the year progressed, internal divisions led to intra-cartel battles in Matamoros and Reynosa, Tamaulipas state. The infighting resulted in several deaths and arrests in Mexico and in the United States. The CDG has since broken apart, and it appears that one faction, known as Los Metros, has overpowered its rival Los Rojos faction and is now asserting its control over CDG operations. The infighting has weakened the CDG, but the group seems to have maintained control of its primary plazas, or smuggling corridors, into the United States. (CDG infighting is detailed further in another section of this report.) La Familia Michoacana LFM disintegrated at the beginning of 2011, giving rise to and becoming eclipsed by one of its factions, the Knights Templar (KT). Indeed, by July it was clear the KT had become more powerful than LFM in Mexico. The media and the police continue to report that LFM maintains extensive networks in the United States, but it is unclear how many of the U.S.-based networks are actually working with LFM rather than the KT, which is far more capable of trafficking narcotics. It appears that many reports regarding LFM in the United States do not reflect the changes that have occurred in Mexico over the past year; many former LFM leaders are now members of the KT. Adding to the confusion was the alleged late-summer alliance between LFM and Los Zetas. Such an alliance would have been a final attempt by the remaining LFM leadership to keep the group from being utterly destroyed by the KT. LFM is still active, but it is very weak. The Knights Templar In January 2011, a month after the death of charismatic LFM leader Nazario "El Mas Loco" Moreno, two former LFM lieutenants, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez and Enrique Plancarte, formed the Knights Templar due to differences with Jose de Jesus "El Chango" Mendez, who had assumed leadership of LFM. In March they announced the formation of their new organization via narcomantas in Morelia, Zitacuaro and Apatzingan, Michoacan state. After the emergence of the KT, sizable battles flared up during the spring and summer months between the KT and LFM. The organization has grown from a splinter group to a dominant force over LFM, and it appears to be taking over the bulk of the original LFM's operations in Mexico. At present, the Knights Templar appear to have aligned with the Sinaloa Federation in an effort to root out the remnants of LFM and to prevent Los Zetas from gaining a more substantial foothold in the region through their alliance with LFM. Independent Cartel of Acapulco The Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA) has not been eliminated entirely, but it appears to have been severely damaged. Since the capture of CIDA leader Gilberto Castrejon Morales in early December, the group has faded from the public view. CIDA's weakness appears to have allowed its in-town rival, Sinaloa-affiliated La Barredora, to move some of its enforcers to Guadalajara to fend off the Zetas offensive there. The decreased levels of violence and public displays of dead bodies in Acapulco of late can be attributed to the group's weakening, and we are unsure if CIDA will be able to regroup and attempt to reclaim Acapulco. Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion After the death of Ignacio "El Nacho" Coronel in July 2010, his followers suspected the Sinaloa cartel had betrayed him and broke away to form the CJNG. In spring 2011, the CJNG declared war on all other Mexican cartels and stated its intention to take control of Guadalajara. However, by midsummer, the group appeared to have been reunited with its former partners in the Sinaloa Federation. We are unsure what precipitated the reconciliation, but it seems that the CJNG was somehow convinced that Sinaloa did not betray Coronel after all. It is also possible CJNG was convinced that Coronel needed to go. In any case, CJNG "sicarios," or assassins, in September traveled to the important Los Zetas stronghold of Veracruz, labeled themselves the "Matazetas," or Zeta killers, and began to murder alleged Zetas members and their supporters. By mid-December, the CJNG was still in Veracruz fighting Los Zetas while also helping to protect Guadalajara and other areas on Mexico's west coast from Zetas aggression. Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization/Juarez Cartel The VCF, aka the Juarez cartel, continues to weaken. A Sinaloa operative killed one of its top lieutenants, Francisco Vicente Castillo Carrillo -- a Carrillo family member -- in September 2011. The VCF reportedly still controls the three main points of entry into El Paso, Texas, but the organization appears unable to expand its operations or move narcotics en masse through its plazas because it is hemmed in by the Sinaloa Federation, which appears to have chipped away at the VCF's monopoly of the Juarez plaza. The VCF is only a shadow of the organization it was a decade ago, and its weakness and inability to effectively fight against Sinaloa's advances in Juarez contributed to the lower death toll in Juarez in 2011. Cartel Pacifico Sur The CPS, headed by Hector Beltran Leyva, saw a reduction in violence in the latter part of 2011 after having been very active in the first third of the year. We are unsure why the group quieted down. The CPS may be concentrating on smuggling for revenue generation to support itself and assist its Los Zetas allies, who provide military muscle for the CPS and work in their areas of operation. Because of their reputation, Los Zetas receive a great deal of media attention, so it is also possible that the media attributed violent incidents involving CPS gunmen to Los Zetas. Arellano Felix Organization The November arrest of Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, the AFO's chief enforcer, was yet another sign of the organization's continued weakness. It remains an impotent and reluctant subsidiary of the Sinaloa Federation, unable to reclaim the Tijuana plaza for its own. 2011 Forecast in Review In our forecast for 2011, we believed that the unprecedented levels of violence from 2010 would continue as long as the cartel balance of power remained in a state of flux. Indeed, cartel-related deaths appear to have at least continued apace. Much of the cartel conflict in 2011 followed patterns set in 2010. Los Zetas continued to fight the CDG in northeast Mexico while maintaining their control of Veracruz state and the Yucatan Peninsula. The Sinaloa Federation continued to fight the VCF in Ciudad Juarez while maintaining control of much of Sonora state and Baja California state. We forecast that government operations and cartel infighting and rivalry would expose fissures in and among the cartels. This prediction held true. The Beltran Leyva Organization no longer exists in its original form, its members dispersed among the Sinaloa Federation, the CPS, CIDA and other smaller groups. As noted above, fissures within LFM led to the creation of two groups, LFM and the KT. The CDG also now consists of two factions competing for control of the organization's operations. We also forecast that the degree of violence in the country was politically unacceptable for Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his ruling National Action Party. Calderon knew he would have to reduce the violence to acceptable levels if his party was going to have a chance to continue to hold power after he left office in 2012 (Mexican presidents serve only one six-year term). As the 2012 presidential election approaches, Calderon is continuing his strategy of deploying the armed forces against the cartels. He has also reached out to the United States for assistance. The two countries shared signals intelligence throughout the year and continued to cooperate through joint intelligence centers like the one in Mexico City. The U.S. military also continues to train Mexican military and law enforcement personnel, and the United States has deployed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Mexican airspace at Mexico's behest. The Mexican military was in operational command of the UAV missions. As we have noted the past few years, we also believed that Calderon's continued use of the military would perpetuate what is referred to as the three-front war in Mexico. The fronts consist of cartels against rival cartels, the military against cartels, and cartels against civilians. Indeed, in 2011 the cartels continued to vie for control of ports, plazas and markets, while deployments of military forces increased to counter Los Zetas in the states of Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Veracruz; to combat several groups waging a bloody turf war in Acapulco, Guerrero state; and to respond to conflicts arising between the Sinaloa Federation and Los Zetas and their affiliate groups in Nayarit and Michoacan states. While Los Zetas were hit hard in 2011, the Mexican government's offensive against the group was unable to damage it to the extent we believed it would. Despite losing several key leaders and plaza bosses, as noted previously, the group maintains its pre-eminence in the east. This is largely due to the ease with which such groups can replenish their ranks. Resupplying Leadership One of the ways in which Mexico's cartels, including Los Zetas, replenish their ranks is with defected military personnel. Around 27,000 men and women desert the Mexican military every year, and about 50 percent of the military's recruiting class will have left before the end of their first tour. In March 2011, the Mexican army admitted that it had "lost track of" 1,680 special forces personnel over the past decade (Los Zetas were formed by more than 30 former members of Mexico's Special Forces Airmobile Group). Some cartels even reportedly task some of their own foot soldiers to enlist in the military to gain knowledge and experience in military tactics. In any case, retention is clearly a serious problem for the Mexican armed forces, and deserting soldiers take their skills (and oftentimes their weapons) to the cartels. In addition, the drug trade attracts ex-military personnel who did not desert but left in good standing after serving their duty. There are fewer opportunities for veterans in Mexico than in many countries, and understandably many are drawn to a lucrative practice that places value on their skill sets. But deserters or former soldiers are not the only source of recruits for the cartels. They also replenish their ranks with current and former police officers, gang members and others (to include Central American immigrants and even U.S. citizens). 2012 Forecasts by Region Northeast Mexico Northeast Mexico saw some of the most noteworthy cartel violence in 2011. The primary conflict in the region involved the continuing fight between CDG and Los Zetas, who were CDG enforcers before breaking away from the CDG in early 2010. Los Zetas have since eclipsed the CDG in terms of size, reach and influence. In 2011, divisions within the CDG over leadership succession came to the fore, leading to further violence in the region, and we believe these divisions will sow the group's undoing in 2012. The CDG began to suffer another internal fracture in late 2010 when the Mexican army killed Antonio "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas Guillen, who co-lead the CDG with Eduardo "El Coss" Costilla Sanchez, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state. After Cardenas Guillen's death in November 2010, Costilla Sanchez assumed full control of the organization, passing over Rafael "El Junior" Cardenas Vela, the Cardenas family's heir apparent, in the process. This bisected the CDG, creating two competing factions: Los Rojos, loyal to the Cardenas family, and Los Metros, loyal to Costilla Sanchez. In late 2011, several events exacerbated tensions between the factions. On Sept. 3, authorities found the body of Samuel "El Metro 3" Flores Borrego, Costilla Sanchez's second-in-command, in Reynosa, Tamaulipas state. Then on Sept. 27, gunmen in an SUV shot and killed a man driving a vehicle on U.S. Route 83, east of McAllen, Texas. The driver, Jorge Zavala of Mission, Texas, was connected to Los Metros. The Mexican navy reported the following month that Cesar "El Gama" Davila Garcia, the CDG's head finance officer, was found dead in Reynosa. Davila previously had served as Cardenas Guillen's accountant. Then on Oct. 20, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Cardenas Vela after a traffic stop near Port Isabel, Texas. We believe Los Metros tipped off U.S. authorities about Cardenas Vela's location. (Los Metros have every reason to kill Los Rojos leaders, including Cardenas Vela, but cartels rarely conduct assassinations on U.S. soil for fear of U.S. retribution.) On Oct. 28, Jose Luis "Comandante Wicho" Zuniga Hernandez, believed to be Cardenas Vela's deputy and operational leader in Matamoros, reportedly turned himself in to U.S. authorities without a fight near Santa Maria, Texas. Finally, Mexican federal authorities arrested Ezequiel "El Junior" Cardenas Rivera, Cardenas Guillen's son, in Matamoros on Nov. 25. By December, media agencies reported that Cardenas Guillen's brother, Mario Cardenas Guillen, was the overall leader of the CDG. But Mario was never known to be very active in the family business, and his reluctance to involve himself in cartel operations appears to have continued after his brother's death. In addition, Costilla Sanchez is reclusive, choosing to run his organization from several secluded ranches. That he is not mentioned in media reports does not mean he has been removed from his position. Given his reclusiveness and Mario Cardenas Guillen's longstanding reticence to involve himself in cartel activity, it seems unlikely that Costilla Sanchez would be replaced. Because Los Metros seemingly have gained the upper hand over Los Rojos, we anticipate that they will further expand their dominance in early 2012. However, while Los Metros may have defeated their rival for control of the CDG, the organizational infighting has left the CDG vulnerable to outside attack. Of course, any group divided is vulnerable to attack, but the CDG's ongoing feud with Los Zetas compounds its problem. Fully aware of the CDG's weakness, we believe Los Zetas will step up their attempts to assume control of CDG territory. If Los Zetas are able to defeat the Los Metros faction -- or they engage in a truce with the faction -- they may be able to redeploy fighters to other regions or cities, particularly Veracruz and Guadalajara. Reinforcements in Veracruz would help counter the CJNG presence in the port city, and reinforcements in Guadalajara would shore up Los Zetas' operations and presence in Jalisco state. Likewise, a reduction in cartel-on-cartel fighting in the region would free up troops the Mexican army has stationed in Tamaulipas state -- an estimated force of 13,000 soldiers -- for deployment elsewhere. Southeast Mexico Some notable events took place in southeast Mexico in 2011. On Dec. 4 the Mexican army dismantled a Zetas communications network that encompassed multiple cities in Veracruz, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi and Coahuila states. In addition, Veracruz state Gov. Javier Duarte on Dec. 21 fired the city's municipal police, including officers and administrative employees, and gave the Mexican navy law enforcement responsibilities. By Dec. 22, Mexican marines began patrols and law enforcement activities, effectively replacing the police much like the army replaced the police in Ciudad Juarez in 2009 and in various cities in Tamaulipas state in August 2011. We anticipate that fighting between the CJNG and Los Zetas will continue in Veracruz for at least the first quarter of 2012. We expect security conditions on the Yucatan Peninsula to remain relatively stable in 2012 because there are no other major players in the region contesting Los Zetas' control. Southwest Mexico In the southern Pacific coastal states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, we expect violence to be as infrequent in 2012 as it was in 2011. Chiapas and Oaxaca have been transshipment zones for Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Federation for several years; as such, clashes and cargo hijackings occasionally take place. However, direct and sustained combat does not occur regularly because the two groups tend to use different routes to transport their shipments. The Sinaloa Federation prefers to move its product north on roads and highways along the Pacific coast, whereas Los Zetas' transportation lines cross Mexico's interior before moving north along the Gulf coast. Pacific Coast and Central Mexico As many as a dozen organizations, ranging from the KT to local criminal organizations to newer groups like La Barredora and La Resistencia, continue to fight for control of the plazas in Guerrero, Michoacan and Jalisco states. Acapulco was particularly violent in 2011, and we believe it will continue to be violent through 2012 unless La Barredora is able to exert firm control over the city. Acapulco has been a traditional Beltran Leyva stronghold, and the CPS may attempt to reassert itself there. If that happens, violence will once again increase. Security conditions worsened in Jalisco state at the end of 2011, and Stratfor anticipates violence there will continue to increase in 2012, especially in Guadalajara, a valued transportation hub. In November, Los Zetas struck the CJNG in Guadalajara in response to the mass killings of Los Zetas members in Veracruz state. The attacks are significant because they demonstrated an ability to conduct protracted cross-country operations. Should Los Zetas establish firm control over Guadalajara, the Sinaloa Federation's smuggling activities could be adversely affected, something Sinaloa obviously cannot permit. Given an increased Zetas presence in Zacatecas, Durango and Jalisco states, and Sinaloa's operational need to counter that presence, we expect to see violence increase in the region in 2012. Unless a significant military force is somehow brought to bear, we do not expect to see any substantive improvement in the security conditions in Guerrero or Michoacan states. Northwest Mexico The cross-country operations performed by Los Zetas indicate that the group's growth and expansion has been more profound than we expected in the face of the government's major operations specifically targeting the organization. Such expansion will pose a direct threat not only to the Sinaloa Federation's supply lines but to its home turf, which stretches from Guadalajara to southern Sonora state. In northwest Mexico, specifically Baja California, Baja California Sur and Chihuahua states (and most of Sonora state), the Sinaloa Federation either directly controls or regularly uses the smuggling corridors and points of entry into the United States. Security conditions in the plazas under firm Sinaloa control have been relatively stable. Indeed, as Sinaloa tightened its control over Tijuana, violence there dropped, and we expect to see the same dynamic play out in Juarez as Sinaloa consolidates its control of that city. Stability could be threatened, however, if Los Zetas attempt to push into Sinaloa-held cities. Outside of Mexico As we noted in the past three annual cartel reports, Mexico's cartels have been expanding their control of the cocaine supply chain all the way into South America. This eliminates middlemen and brings in more profit. They are also using their presence in South America to obtain chemical precursors and weapons. Increased violence in northern Mexico and ramped-up law enforcement along the U.S. border has made narcotics smuggling into the United States more difficult than it has been in the past. The cartels have adapted to these challenges by becoming more involved in the trafficking of cocaine to alternative markets in Europe and Australia. The arrests of Mexican cartel members in such places as the Dominican Republic also seem to indicate that the Mexicans are becoming more involved in the Caribbean smuggling routes into the United States. In the past, Colombian smuggling groups and their Caribbean partners in places like Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic used these routes. We anticipate seeing more signs of Mexican cartel involvement in the Caribbean, Europe and Australia in 2012. Government Strategy in 2012 There is no indication of a major shift in the Mexican government's overarching security strategy for 2012; Calderon will continue to use the military against the cartels throughout the year (a new president will be elected in July, but Calderon's term does not conclude until the end of 2012). This strategy of taking out cartel leaders has resulted in the disruption of the cartel balance of power in the past, which tends to lead to more violence as groups scramble to fill the resultant power vacuum. Mexican operations may further disrupt that balance in 2012, but while government operations have broken apart some cartel organizations, the combination of military and law enforcement resources has been unable to dislodge cartel influence from the areas it targets. They can break specific criminal organizations, but the lucrative smuggling corridors into the United States will continue to exist, even after the organizations controlling them are taken down. And as long as the smuggling corridors exist, and provide access to so much money, other organizations will inevitably fight to assume control over them. Some 45,000 Mexican troops are actively involved in domestic counter-cartel operations. These troops work alongside state and federal law enforcement officers and in some cases have replaced fired municipal police officers. They are spread across a large country with high levels of violence in most major cities, and their presence in these cities is essential for maintaining what security has been achieved. While this number of troops represents only about a quarter of the overall Mexican army's manpower -- troops are often supplemented by deployments of Mexican marines -- it also represents the bulk of applicable Mexican military ground combat strength. Meager and poorly maintained reserve forces do not appear to be a meaningful supplemental resource. In short, if the current conditions persist, it does not appear that the Mexican government can redeploy troops to conduct meaningful offensive operations in new areas of Mexico in 2012 without jeopardizing the gains it has already made. The government cannot eliminate the cartels any more than it can end the drug trade. The only way the Mexican government can bring the violence down to what would be considered an acceptable level is for it to allow one cartel group to become dominant throughout the country -- something that does not appear to be plausible in the near term -- or for some sort of truce to be reached between the country's two cartel hegemons, Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Federation. Such scenarios are not unprecedented. At one time the Guadalajara cartel controlled virtually all of Mexico's drug trade, and it was only the dissolution of that organization that led to its regional branches subsequently becoming what we now know as the Sinaloa Federation, AFO, VCF and CDG. There have also been periods of cartel truces in the past between the various regional cartel groups, although they tend to be short-lived. With the current levels of violence, a government-brokered truce between Los Zetas and Sinaloa will be no easy task, given the level of animosity and mistrust that exists between the two organizations. This means that it is unlikely that such a truce will be brokered in 2012, but we expect to see more rhetoric in support of a truce as a way to reduce violence. sources : http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/polarization-and-sustained-violence-mexicos-cartel-war http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=206_1327463160 vjiced Mexican Cartels Report -2012- mexican , war on drugs , failure , usa , mexico ,drugs , cocaine , trafficker , dealer Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:42:58 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c0_1326935476 vjiced President Felipe Calderon recognizes only 11 criminal organizations in 2011 but in reality they are 28 and they are divided and fighting for control in the 32 states. They Know each other, they kill and denounce each other.they were armed wings, are dedicated to all sorts of crimes: the movement of drugs, domestic sales in Mexican municipalities, kidnapping, extortion and trafficking of people, without the big mafias being able to control them. The federal government that heavily hits the drug cartels have caused its reorganization, admitted in May 2008 the President of the Republic, Felipe Calder'on. Indeed, since December 2006, each time you stop a Boss, three or 10 come to try to replace him. This multiplier effect has generated a lot of cell operations, usually assassins, ambition and betrayal that end up as little signs to put in their struggle for territorial control and the expansion of drug trafficking. Besides the large cartels, recognized by the Attorney General's Office (PGR), as the Arellano Felix, Colima, the Juarez, Sinaloa, the Gulf, el de milenio and Pedro Diaz Parada. Now the authorities and society must face the kidnapping extortion, drug trafficking, people and murders committed by thugs with power ambitions The truth is that of the 28 registered drug gangs , Calderon only recognized 11 cartels: Golfo, Zetas, La Familia, Pac'ifico, C'artel de Jalisco Nueva Generaci'on, La Resistencia, Beltr'an Leyva, Arellano F'elix, Ju'arez, Caballeros Templarios y Barbie. The President wont assume the REALITY ! THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A FAILURE !!! This fragmentation of Mexican organized crime, which has encouraged the expansion of cartelitos, which are most extensions of the Sinaloa cartel, Juarez, Gulf and Los Zetas, arrived in Tijuana. HERE IS THE LIST 1. Arellano F'elix. 2. C'artel de Colima. 3. C'artel de Ju'arez. 4. C'artel de Sinaloa. 5. C'artel del Golfo. 6. C'artel del Milenio. 7. C'artel de Pedro D'iaz Parada. 8. Los Zetas. 9. Los Matazetas. 10. C'artel de Acapulco. 11. Gente Nueva. 12. C'artel del Pac'ifico Sur. 13. C'artel de Acapulco. 14. C'artel de Guadalajara. 15. C'artel del Centro Narco. 16. C'artel de Jalisco Nueva Generaci'on. 17. La Resistencia. 18. La Familia Michoacana. 19. Los Caballeros Templarios. 20. Los Pelones. 21. Los G"ueros. 22. La Barredora. 23. Los Aztecas. 24. La L'inea In Baja California, Los Teos and independent groups of Guadalajara and Los Aboytes in the State of Mexico and the Anthrax in Sinaloa, and a number of criminal groups that the PGR announced in 2011, are on the verge of annihilation Baja California and the CAF This fragmentation of Mexican organized crime, which has encouraged the expansion of cartelitos, most extensively the Sinaloa cartel, Juarez, Gulf and Los Zetas, arrived in Tijuana. First, Eduardo Garcia Simental revealed "El Teo", chief of the armed wing of the Arellano Felix Cartel (CAF), which since 2006 Fernando Sanchez Arellano "The Engineer" remained in charge after the capture of Javier Arellano Felix alias "EL Tigrillo" . With the support of Jos'e Soto "El Tigre" which came from the Sinaloa Cartel, the transfer of marijuana goes big, start a fight against the nephew of the Arellano, born "Los Teos" and the arrival Sinaloa cartel based in Mexicali, Alfredo Arteaga and / or Arzate, in late 2009, early 2010, Sinaloa won the Plaza de Tijuana, becoming drug supplier of all cells of the CAF, and a kind of independent dealers cartel headed by Ismael "El Mayo "Zambada and Joaquin" El Chapo "Guzman. Also arise "The Achilles", which operate directly for the dealer and opens the door for the arrival of other lieutenants of Sinaloa, as Gustavo Inzunza, "El Sergio" and Cenobio Flores "El Checo". Precisely in the midst of the struggle generated from 2008 and before or up to the weakening of the CAF, in the last two years, the presence of La Familia Michoacana in the state increased, showing an increase in captures. In fact, during the first half of 2010 ( ZETA edition 1877), the authorities detected the presence in Tecate of Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, better known as "El Chango", who had his headquarters no more and no less than in The Rumorosa. He was arrested in Aguacalientes, June 2011 as leader of the family allied to los Zetas. In the coastal zone of Baja California, paid plaza "The Engineer", but the thugs of "Achilles" began to kill and were denounced by the authorities. Another presence that has been highlighted is that of independent groups Cartel de Guadalajara, they also pay plaza and to CAF and operate with low-key, sheltered by Manuel L'opez N'u~nez "Don Balas." During 2011, only the State Preventive Police (PEP) captured 304 criminals from Jalisco, Michoacan and Sonora. As tenants and concessioners of the Sinaloa cartel, oat least seven cells that are accountable to Fernando Sanchez Arellano still operating in the coastal zone of Baja California, led by "Pelioni", "The Kieto", "El Mostro", "Chikako "Manuel N'u~nez L'opez" "Don Balas" "Mario Montes de Oca" El Mario "," El Turbo,", " El Bibi " and Melvin Gutierrez Quiroz" "El Melvin ", besides" "El Camacho "or" "El Marino ". Pacific Cartel or Sinaloa: Strengthened Currently regarded as the richest and most powerful drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman heads this cartel with Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, whose presence was reported this year by U.S. authorities, in Central and South America and Europe. "The Mexican cartels have become transnational organizations with the power to influence U.S. elections and are the new face of organized crime, worse than the Italian mafia," as Joaquin Guzman "is the world's most dangerous criminal, and probably the richest, with unsurpassed power to influence, corrupt and kill" They will be noticed this month and last month by the news agency EFE ,the director of the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in Chicago, Jack Riley. The criminal group was born in the late 80s, when Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo distributed the Pacific route after his capture. As armed services who subsequently began operations as little cartelitos, have : Gente Nueva After the death of "Nacho" Coronel in Zapopan, on July 29, 2010 and the subsequent emergence of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion independent of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, fought Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generacion and Los Zetas through the criminal group known as Gente Nueva. Gente Nueva operates in Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Jalisco and Veracruz, where "El Chapo" disputes the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, for control of the coveted port of Veracruz and Boca del Rio. In fact, the killing of 35 people in Boca del Rio, September 20, 2011, was attributed (through narcobanners firms with the bodies) to this group. Los Artistas Asesinos and los Mexicles In Chihuahua, particularly Ciudad Juarez, Noe Salgueiro, one of the founders of Nueva Gente, until last October led to groups of thugs and Mexicles identified as AA and Mexicles, who heads some 20 000 young people under 20 years, integrated murderous gangs that control the drug smuggling routes and transporting. Los Gueros Identified since early 2000, the brothers Rodriguez Olivera, originating in Jalisco, operating with Sinaloa from Cancun to Texas and are currently targets of the Department of the Treasury of the United States as drug cartel leaders of money laundering. Cartel de Juarez Founded by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, "The Lord of skies" is one of the most powerful in the country. It is dedicated to the traffic of cocaine and marijuana, but allows the passage of heroin through its territory in exchange for shares of narcotics. Separated from the Sinaloan Cartel, this cartel has also had its tentacles across the country and has presence in over 21 the almost 32 states, through the various little cartelitos: La Linea and Los Aztecas In Ciudad Juarez is the armed wing of the Juarez Cartel, which has allowed them to retain the criminal plaza, composed of tens of thousands of youths from Juarez, originally an offshoot from the El Paso prison gang, Barrio Azteca . They are enemies of Los Artistas Asesinos and operate on both sides of the border. Los Beltran Leyva and Cartel del Pacifico Sur They began as operators of the Juarez Cartel. In the beginning of millennium, they were protected by Guzman Loera , but since 2004 they began to operate semi-independently. In 2008 they split from the Sinaloa cartel because "El Chapo's" people betrayed Alfredo Beltran Leyva "EL Mochomo" and he was captured. In December 2009, after the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva, the group responsible for Valdez Edgar "La Barbie" and the Beltran left as head of what has since been identified as the South Pacific Cartel, a group blamed for the murder of son the poet Javier Sicilia. Central Cartel They were part of the armed group Pacific Cartel, to weaken and separate from "Barbie", become independent and integrated into two groups that control the criminal activity in the center of the country: one led by Adrian Ramirez "El Hongo" and Jose Jorge Balderas Garza "JJ"; the other Oscar by Osvaldo Garcia Montoya "El Compayito", the same as they who call themselves The Hand with Eyes. All are arrested, but supplemented by other gunmen who were eagerly awaiting their chance to finally become bosses. Los Negros Independent of Edgar Valdez, were a group of thugs who until August 2010 operated mainly in Morelos and Guerrero, when their leader was captured. Then again divide: Los Negros were under the command of the father of "Barbie", Carlos Montemayor Gonzalez "El Charro", arrested in November. Cartel Independient de Acapulco (CIDA) The armed group led by Isidro Juarez Solis "El Kirry" Gilberto Morales Castrejon "Commander Gil" and Benjamin Flores "El Padrino", created the Cartel de Acapulco identified as responsible for the kidnapping and murder of 20 tourists from Michoacan. Their main enemy of Cartel del South Pacifico and La Barredora. La Barredora Another group that emerged from the division of cartel "La Barbie", self-identified as La Barredora, led by Eder Jair Carbajal Sosa "El Cremas," Christian Tarin Hernandez "The Chris" and Victor Manuel Rivera Galeana "El Gordo", all captured and supplied to the end of this year. This group arose because Moses Montero, Carlos Barragan and Isidro Juarez Solis, attempted to kill "El Chris". The original cartel operated from 60s to late 80s, headed by Rafael Caro Quintero and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo , sharing in the early 90s, giving rise to the cartels operating in the Pacific and center of the county.Until July 29, 2010, when Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel was killed in Jalisco, he led the cartel de Guadalajara, then it came under the charge of Beltran Uriarte. Currently detained in this wing of organized crime are identified as independent, but has emerged as a rebel group known as: Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion After abatement by the military in Zapopan on July 29, 2010 in "Nacho" Coronel (leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Jalisco), opened up the emergence of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) of the hand of Margarito Soto Reyes "El Tigre", the successor of Colonel. During the second half of 2010, the CJNG accustomed to displaying narcomantas on the streets of Guadalajara to make themselves known. The criminal cell La Resistencia de Jalisco dispute la plaza.. It has lost its leaders: the nephew of "Nacho" Coronel, Mario Carrasco Coronel, "El Gallo", killed July 30, 2010, Margarito Soto Reyes, who was arrested by the army on September 27 of that year on July 10 2011, another nephew of "Nacho" Coronel, Colonel Martin Beltran "El Aguila".was arrested by the military in Zapopan Currently Nemesio Oseguera" "El Mencho" directs the CJNG, still legacy of "Nacho" Coronel and some relatives of the latter. La Resistencia The depletion by the military in Zapopan, on July 29, 2010, by Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel (leader of the Sinaloa cartel in Jalisco) and the extradition of Oscar Orlando Nava Valencia (leader of Cartel de Milenio), Jalisco became in a war zone between the Jalisco Cartel and La Resistance. In turn, the resistance is made up of Cartel del Milenio, La Familia Michoacana and the Gulf Cartel. The resistance was led by Victor Manuel Torres Garc'ia "The Papirr'in", arrested on February 28, 2011 by the Federal Police. La Resistancia was currently operates in Jalisco, Michoacan, Mexico State and Federal District. It is headed by Elpidio Mojarro "Don Pilo" and "El Melon" and aims to "align and clean the place" of the invasion of Los Zetas. Neither the state government PAN nor President Felipe Calderon, can bring order to Jalisco: 2 000 535 executions in the current federal six-year period. Cartel del Golfo Cartel de Gulfo (CDG) is one of the oldest criminal organizations in Mexico, having its heyday in the 80s and 90s, when it was led by kingpin Juan Garcia Abrego in the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Veracruz, After his arrest on January 14, 1996, Osiel Cardenas Guillen takes the lead until his arrest, which occurred on March 14, 2003, since then his brother, Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, has led the criminal organization. During Felipe Calderon's war against organized crime, Ezequiel Cardenas, was killed in Matamoros on November 5, 2010 was killed by members of the Navy. Jorge Eduardo Costilla S'anchez "El Coss" assumed control of the Gulf Cartel. Los Rojos and Los Metros After the separation of the Zetas from the Gulf Cartel in December 2009, The latter, CDG, was armed with two branches: The Reds, very close to the Cardenas family (Rafael Cardenas, a nephew of Osiel and Ezekiel) and The Meters, faithful to Eduardo Costilla. Recently, on November 30, Ezequiel Cardenas Rivera, 23, scion of Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, was arrested by the Navy in Matamoros. Los Zetas An extremely bloody cartel, Los Zetas originally were the enforcement arm of Gulf Cartel, led by Osiel Cardenas Guillen, however, according to the arrested assassins while reporting to the Attorney General in December 2009, they broke with allies because of differences in the control of markets and routes. Led by former military man, Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano "The Lazca", Los Zetas were disputing and vying for control of the routes of transfer of cocaine from Colombia, originally controlled by the Gulf Cartel. In the clash between "Zetas" and "CDG" in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Veracruz, ZETA has documented 4,767 deaths between 2010 and 2011, ie 7.8 percent of executions of a total of 60,420 in which ranging from six years of President Calderon, have occurred in these three areas. Currently Los Zetas fight not only for dominance in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Veracruz, but has become the second largest criminal organization in the country, disputing control in most of the country the Sinaloa Cartel. Los Matazetas Hoods and military fronts, armed with "goat horns", dressed in black. The Matazetas refer to themselves. The paramilitary group officially came to half of the administration of President Felipe Calderon in 2009, when an anonymous call to the Offices of Special Investigations into Organized Crime (SIEDO) warned: "Cancun and Veracruz, and begin to remove Zetas, because citizens are fed up with crime. " The emergence of Matazetas coincidentally matches in the same year that the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas were divided. Undoubtedly, the fact that marked a watershed event in the identification of the paramilitary group was when, in a video posted on YouTube, Los Matazetas claimed the killing of 35 people found Sept. 20 in Boca del Rio, Veracruz. The paramilitary group calling itself the "armed wing of the people" or "faceless warriors," issued in the video: "Only fighting on equal terms can we eradicate the roots of the cartel Los Zetas. And for this we ask the authorities to support us to stop ... and that society we do not rely on extortion not kidnap or affected property. " They say: "Our focus is on Los Zetas, we respect the armed forces and powers of the state." To date, mysteriously the neither intelligence apparatus of the states nor the government of President Felipe Calderon, has led to the arrest of any paramilitary Los Matazetas. La Familia Michoacana Originally, from 2006 LFM was an armed group of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas in the state of Michoacan to fight the Cartel del Milenio of the Valencia Brothers or the Purepecha land of Milenio. After Felipe Calderon won the presidency of the Republic on July 2, 2006, a month of taking office in November of that year, LFM, working for the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, declared their independence. From then on, they used to send messages to their adversaries and the authorities, through banners in public places in Michoacan cities, even in the midst of the same "Operation Michoac'an", launched for six years alongside the president of the country. La Familia Michoacana leadership emerged Esteban Gonz'alez "M5", Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas "El Chango M'endez" Arnoldo Rueda "La Minsa" (detained on July 11, 2009), Enrique Plancarte "La Chiva" Servando Gomez "La Tuta" and Nazario Moreno "El Chayo" (killed by the army on December 9, 2010). On the death of "El Chayo" followed the emergence of another cartel in Michoacan. Los Caballeros Templarios A month after the death of Nazario Moreno, Servando Gomez "La Tuta" and Enrique Plancarte , the Knights Templar criminal group, formed in January 2011 due to the differences they had with "El Chango M'endez". It was released through narcobanners in various cities in Michoacan, among them Morelia, Zitacuaro and Apatzingan. The Knights Templar signed: " We inform the society, Michoacan society and make it known that from today (March 2011) we're here performing altruistic activities previously performed by the La Familia Michoacana." Some of the goals embodied in the Knights Templar narcobanners, are similar to those of Matazetas: "save and keep order, prevent theft, kidnappings, extortions, the fact that the government of President Calderon can not guarantee security in the country." Cartel del Milenio In the decade of the 70s, Jose Valencia bored by avocados cultivation was looking for better inroads into the more prosperous marijuana business back in the fertile Aguillas municipality, in Michoacan which he found. The cartel reached its peak in the 80s and 90s, due to its links with former Medellin Cartel in Colombia. At the beginning of the first decade of the new millennium, the SIEDO considered the cartel as a "lower band" due to the arrest of its leader, Armando Valencia, August 16, 2003. The Cartel del Milenio lost the hands of the Gulf Cartel to one of their leaders, Ventura Valencia Valencia on April 17, 2007. Later, Oscar Nava Valencia "El Lobo" was arrested on October 28, 2010 by the Army and extradited to the U.S. on January 29 this year. Finally, on May 6th, the army also arrested Jose Luis Nava Valencia, who said his name was Francisco Javier Orozco Villasenor and Victor Hugo Nava Lopez. Despite the killings and arrests, the government of President Calderon can not stop the cartel goals, on the contrary, now it is led by Eric Valencia and Salvador Urena Revueltas, among other killers. Cartel de Oaxaca Also known as the Cartel of the Diaz Parada, Oaxaca Cartel or the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, was founded in the 80s by Pedro Diaz Parada "El Cacique Oaxaqueno", arrested on January 17, 2007 by soldiers and federal police . Barely 6 May, the federal government announced the arrest of a woman and two men from the Diaz Panoja, from the Pedro Diaz Parada family. According to the PGR, the Cartel de Oaxaca operates in that state Oaxaca and Guerrero, and their areas of influence extends to Veracruz, Chiapas, Tamaulipas, Durango, Chihuahua and Mexico City. Cartel de Colima Established by Jose de Jesus and Adan Amezcua Contreras in the late 80s, while all cartels were entertained by the culture of marijuana and cocaine transport, this pair of brothers wasted no time and since at least 1988, chose to enter in the business of the modern production of synthetic drugs: ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and phenylpropanolamine. They earned the nickname "Kings of Ecstasy." and were arrested in 2004. The port of Manzanillo is the largest recipient of anti-influenza precursors from Asia and Europe for the production of synthetic drugs for export. Like the Tijuana Cartel, in that behind the nickname Arellano is Enedina Arellano, the Colima Cartel is led by Patricia Amezcua, incidentally, the sister of Jose de Jesus and Adan. Finally, both within the Sinaloa Cartel, Juarez Cartel, Gulf Cartel, Cartel de Milenio, Cartel de Oaxaca and Cartel de Colima, provides its armed divisions. The trend is clear: cells led by relatives of the founders of the cartels against armed wings of the same, but who are not their relatives. A clear example is the Gulf Cartel, its armed, the red (close to the family C'ardenas Guill'en) and meters (led by Eduardo Costilla) are antagonistic groups and are about to split, so we see that the number of cartels soon grow to more than 28 during the last year of President Felipe Calderon. In addition to the multiplication of groups, neither have the captures affected the flow of drugs. The number of marijuana users in over 12 years in the United States grew from 14 million in 2007 to over 17 million in 2010, according to a national survey in that country. In Mexico, the percentage of users of the herb has quadrupled in the last 12 years, according to a report issued in February 2011 by the Secretary of Federal Public Safety, Genaro Garcia Luna, the Congress, based on the World Drug Report of the Organization United Nations (UN), which records 3 million Mexicans who use this drug. The truth is that, while President Felipe Calderon recognizes only 11 criminal organizations, the reality is that Zeta has registered 28 separate criminal groups. That is, if in 2006 the PGR recognized seven cartels and in 2011 the weekly notices 28 criminal organizations, the average annual rise of "little cartelitos" is 4.2 percent. If criminal division is still happening and keeping the same pace, by the end of his sixth year, Mexico will have more than 30 separate criminal organizations. SOURCES : http://www.zetatijuana.com/2012/01/02/28-carteles-en-mexico/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0c0_1326935476 vjiced List of the 28 Mexican Cartels ( President Says They are only 11 ) war on drugs , cartels , list , war on drugs ,failure