280 Mexican Immigration Officers fired for corruption

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 EL DIARIO – CD. JUAREZ, CHIH. – 06/25/09

 The Secretary of Immigration of the Department of the Interior, Alejandro Poiré, informed that 280 Mexican Immigration Officers have been punished and/or fired for being involved in presumed acts of corruption.

In a press conference he said that the phenomena of corruption or extortion in which the officials participate are inexcusable.  Therefore, since more than a month ago, they have undergone trustworthiness tests and we have applied punishment.

FRONTERA – TIJUANA – 06/25/09

 Two armored vehicles apparently belonging to “El Teo” are seized:  A red panel truck appearing to be a Calafia and a patrol vehicle from the Rosarito Municipal Police were found to be armored within and conditioned for armed encounters.

Agents of the Federal Police informed that the vehicles were seized Tuesday night on Blvd. Diaz Ordaz near the subdelegation Los Piños.  The two men who were driving the vehicles were detained.

The interiors of the vehicles were found to be reinforced with metal plates that practically converted them into tanks.  Also, the back doors had hatch-type slits where a person could shoot while being protected.  According to the federal agents, the vehicles without a doubt were designed to participate in armed encounters.  Up to ten armed persons could fit in the cab.  With the apparent markings of official vehicles they could pass unnoticed.

Extra-officially the agent mentioned that the detainees gave the names Juan Diego Rodriguez and Rodolfo Villa Castro, who very likely could belong to an organized crime cell.

According to the authorities, the vehicles had not been used, they appeared to be new.  Also no bullet holes were noted and the interior showed no signs of attack.

 EL DIARIO – CD. JUAREZ, CHIH. – 06/25/09

 The Secretary of Immigration of the Department of the Interior, Alejandro Poiré, informed that 280 Mexican Immigration Officers have been punished and/or fired for being involved in presumed acts of corruption.

In a press conference he said that the phenomena of corruption or extortion in which the officials participate are inexcusable.  Therefore, since more than a month ago, they have undergone trustworthiness tests and we have applied punishment.

 CUARTO PODER – MEXICO, D.F. – 06/25/09

 Manilo Fabio Beltran, president of the Senate Council on Political Coordination, that the government act to stop the trade of human beings.  The Mexican Government is not carrying out the minimum standards to eliminate the trade of persons, even though it has made some efforts to perform them, he maintains in a proposal of understanding.  Therefore he proposes that the Permanent Commission exhort President Calderon to formally install an Inter-secretarial Commission for the prevention and punishment of Human Trade.

 CRITICA – SONORA – 06/25/09

 Mexican soldiers at the Querobabi, Sonora military checkpoint, with headquarters in Hermosillo, seized 83 plaster masks which contained a total of 129.6 kilos of marijuana. 

According to a report from the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) the action took place at 9:10 p.m. on Saturday night.

The drug was being transported in a white Kenworth trailer belonging to the “Paquteria Castores” company and was driven along the Mazatlan-Ensenada route by Lucio Cervera Torres, from Guanajuato. 

By applying gamma rays the soldiers detected three wooden and cardboard boxes which contained 83 plaster masks of the face of Buddha in the closed box of the trailer.  In said masks the soldiers located 83 packages which contained a total of 129.6 kilos of marijuana.

 DIARIO – Cd. Juarez – 06/25/09

 1. Businesses in Vera Cruz attacked with grenades.  A discotheque and a restaurant located in Boca del Rio were machine-gunned with AK-47 assault rifles.

2. Soldiers find four dismembered bodies near the Lazaro Cardenas-Zihuatanejo highway.

3. A ton and one half of cocaine seized in Colombian waters.  A boat was transporting the drugs headed for Central America.  Authorities presume the vessel had the U.S. as its destination.

 EL FINANCIERO – MEXICO – 06/25/09

 Today the U.S. and Venezuela reestablished full diplomatic relations with an agreement that respective ambassadors return to their capitals, the Dept.of State informed.

the measure will help to promote the interests of the U.S. by improving bi-lateral communication with Venezuela, said the State Dept. spokesman.

 EL IMPARCIAL – NOGALES, SONORA – 06/25/09

 This morning in Colonia Lomas Nogales Dos, along this border, a confrontation between an armed group and federal police took place.

The results were one triggerman dead and nine others detained, two wounded, who were transported to the General Hospital by Red Cross personnel.  The identities of the dead man nor the others were revealed. 

According to witnesses in the aforementioned colonia, everything started at 6:15 p.m. when the armed subjects were traveling in a gold colored van,  Apparently they bumped into the federal police and, attempting to escape, a gunfight began along Calle Juan Navarete.

 FRONTERA – CULIACAN, SINALOA – 06/25/09

 Three civilians and a retired Army general who were transporting 12 tons of “gold concentrate” from a mine are “disappeared” as of a week ago.  The Judicial Authorities are investigating this incident since the relatives of the “disappeared ones”, who work at the Real de Cosala mining company state that the last time they had telephonic communication with them was on June 16. 

According to the investigations, the retired general and the three civilians left from Cosala bound for Torreon, Coahuila aboard two vehicles, one of them loaded with 12 tons of “gold concentrate.”

The three civilians and the retired general, along with the load, which has an estimated value of $100,000 dollars, disappeared at a point in the mountainous area between the municipalities of Concordia and the neighboring state of Durango.  According to relatives of one of the men, they have knowledge that on June 18 in the state of Durango the police detained two persons traveling in a Torton truck without cargo.  The two detainees, whose identities have not been revealed, when intercepted on the highway that leads to Sombrerete, Zacatecas, state that they were contracted to transfer the truck to Sombrerete without cargo.

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