Sheriff: Man Killed by US Agent Hurled Large Rocks; How Mexican Police Captured Cartel Kingpin; The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night

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There are a lot of news items on Chapo’s arrest in Mexico.
It’s too soon to fully analyze the effect this may have, but I’ll be watching it and plan to have
another report out on Friday.

A. Ferguson, Editor

DOMESTIC

Sheriff: Man Killed by US Agent Hurled Large Rocks
http://tinyurl.com/q95fby9

Immigrant Killing By U.S. Border Agent Under Attack Reignites Use Of Deadly Force Controversy
http://tinyurl.com/metu2jo

US drone, phone taps used to hunt Mexican drug lord
http://tinyurl.com/ozv9m6u

Video: How Mexican Police Captured Cartel Kingpin
http://tinyurl.com/pzmotou

House panel chair seeks “El Chapo’s” extradition
http://tinyurl.com/mkcrhoz

How could cartel king ‘El Chapo’ fall off Forbes billionaires list?
http://tinyurl.com/p4g4l5y

DEA Applauds Arrest of Mexican Drug Lord But Distances Itself From Retired Agents’ Remarks
http://tinyurl.com/ngs64vw

Will Chapo’s Capture Change Anything?
http://tinyurl.com/pehyd7v

UNDER SIEGE: Fear on the Border in Fort Hancock, TX
http://youtu.be/DAhHE0G0mls

The Juarez Cartel Goes on Trial in El Paso
http://tinyurl.com/ogj4z8j

Harper, Mexican president dance around controversial visa imposition
http://tinyurl.com/o6dceep

Soros group triples its lobbying spending
“spending increase was…due to the…support for comprehensive immigration reform”
http://tinyurl.com/pdfa3dt

CA
Agents find 540 pounds of meth hidden in boat
http://tinyurl.com/qhcqgkn

GA. Nat’l. Guard provides ‘eyes in the sky’ for border control
http://tinyurl.com/plzhr7p

Border’s New Sentinels Are Robots, Penetrating Deepest Drug Routes
http://tinyurl.com/mpf6al9

Immigration Reform Part 2/Former INS Special Agent Michael Cutler
http://youtu.be/LzKtP7b0X4o

Stuck between two countries
http://tinyurl.com/mscqy8b

Others May Follow Calif. in Considering Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants
http://tinyurl.com/mcef6jk

Locked Away in Immigration Jails-Op/Ed NY Times
http://tinyurl.com/pnhjxtr

CO
Marijuana Legalization Raises Fears Of Drug Cartels
http://tinyurl.com/mxvdadj

Alleged FARC International Drug Contact Extradited from Guatemala
http://tinyurl.com/q6e6n6r

Undocumented migrants detained in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
http://tinyurl.com/o5z72f

Alleged Smugglers Sent Meth-Filled Mannequin Heads to Hawaii
http://tinyurl.com/lq2pgf3

MT
CSKT set to update tribal IDs
CBP would not accept the IDs, and any person trying to reenter the US faced problems.
http://tinyurl.com/oanb7bm

VA
Zero Tolerance by Dulles CBP
http://tinyurl.com/ldqb9az

ME
U.S. Border Patrol agent cleared for shooting at Canadian teens
http://tinyurl.com/plabujo

NM
Los Alamos man pleads guilty to bank robbery
tried to evade border patrol.
http://tinyurl.com/oxurfwc

MI
Border Patrol finds car reported stolen 40 years ago
http://tinyurl.com/pbmnehs

TX
Border Agents Stop Huge Load of Ammo from Crossing into Mexico
also more than $7.5 million worth of marijuana
http://tinyurl.com/qbbl3w4
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MEXICO

Sinaloa Cartel Chief ‘Chapo’ Guzman Arrested
http://tinyurl.com/ldreaf8

Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman charged in Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/o5xnwm2

How a Kingpin Above the Law Fell, Incredibly, Without a Shot
http://tinyurl.com/p7czcdl

Cartel leader’s capture may stir violence in Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/povfckd

With ‘El Chapo’ gone, Mexicans brace for drug cartel turf war
Along with the fear of more violence, some worry about the economic fallout of the arrest of Joaquin Guzman, whose operation pumped billions into Sinaloa state.
http://tinyurl.com/q5yol9m

After ‘El Chapo’ Guzman captured in Mexico, what’s next for Sonora?
http://tinyurl.com/k5p6fjz

The legend of ‘El Chapo’: Cartel chief cultivated Robin Hood image
http://tinyurl.com/k5v5eyx

Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán: the Mexican drug lord adept at playing the system-good read
http://tinyurl.com/obkjqv9

Joaquín Guzmán Loera-Wikipedia
http://tinyurl.com/ycfyqo5

US Marshal: Sinaloa cartel is not going away after ‘Chapo’ Guzman’s arrest
http://tinyurl.com/l3q6uwm

U.S. to seek extradition of Mexican drug kingpin Guzman
http://tinyurl.com/nckojxa

Guzman not likely to be in US court soon
http://tinyurl.com/pcyft7j

Factbox: Mexico’s cartel kingpins: dead, captured and wanted
http://tinyurl.com/pxmw8ps

Mexico’s Drug War
http://tinyurl.com/onvva7e

Made-in-Mexico Fit Caps Honda Bid for North America-Built Lineup
http://tinyurl.com/phyfvtm

Mexico’s drug cartels are standing in the way of a fracking bonanza
http://tinyurl.com/mmx28wm

Philippines raid reveals Mexican drug cartel presence in Asia
http://tinyurl.com/opeoom7

Study of 2010 Mexico Murder Trends Offers Important Policy Clues
http://tinyurl.com/qje4p7d
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Milenio Mexico City 2/23/14

The following is a portion of an opinion article by Roman Revueltas. It’s titled “Obama’s evident lack of interest” and deals with the recent meeting of the heads of state of Canada, U.S. and Mexico. The main issue of the article is about NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) but the first paragraph concerns immigration.
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Obama’s Evident Lack of Interest

The U.S. press emphasizes that he spent more hours playing golf the previous weekend in California than what he dedicated to his State visit in Toluca. The one who took enough time and showed due attention was Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister.

It seems that we Mexicans love Obama. That is, he seems like a nice fellow. However, Mexico would be, let’s say, in the next-to-last place in his list of priorities. The U.S. press emphasizes that he spent more hours playing golf the previous weekend in California than what he dedicated to his State visit in Toluca. However, when a collaborator shows up to bring to the table the issue of illegal immigration, then for sure, his reply is immediate, blunt and persuasive; of the 368 thousand persons who were deported in 2013 by his Administration 241 thousand were Mexicans. He is not to blame, of course, that his country is such an attraction for those millions of our fellow citizens who not only dream to set down stakes in Texas, Illinois, Oklahoma or California but declare it so openly; according to various public opinion polls four out of ten citizens of the United States (of Mexico) would prefer to live in the United States (of America.) Neither can he be reproached for taking on such concrete responsibilities as the inviolability of his borders, no matter that our neighbor country’s economy is thirsty for cheap manual labor (one of our classics already said it: “The Mexicans are willing to take on work that not even the blacks want to do.”)

http://tinyurl.com/lx99y6u (Spanish)
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CENTRAL AM

3 Mexicans, 6 Guatemalans guilty in drug massacre
http://tinyurl.com/qaunzkd
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Proceso Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2/24/14

The link below is to an article that describes the apprehension of twenty Ecuadoreans being transported by five Hondurans northbound in two vehicles toward the Honduran border with Guatemala. Its location makes Honduras a bridge for emigrants and drugs.

http://tinyurl.com/nh3j5mj (Spanish)
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Proceso Tegucigalpa, Honduras 2/22/14

The headline states that individual monetary remittances to Honduras grew 9% in 2013. Full translation follows:

Individual monetary remittances sent by Honduran immigrants who live abroad, mainly in the U.S., grew by 9% in relation to 2012 and totaled 3.225 billion dollars, according to an official source.
A report from the Central Bank of Honduras specified that last year the amount of remittances was 267 million dollars (9%) larger in comparison with the 2.958 billion received in 2012.

In December alone the remittances were 257,7 million dollars, 7.3% more than the same month in 2012, when they reached 240,2 million.

According to the document, remittances are the main source of foreign currency for Honduras, above that of coffee exports, assembly factories and shrimp, and represent 16.4 % of the country’s gross domestic product.

79.3% of the remittances that reached the country last year originated in the United States, where a bit more than a million Hondurans reside according to official estimates. Aside from the United States, the remittances came from Spain (6.1%), Central America (5.5%), Mexico (2.2%) among other countries.

According to official figures, U.S. and Mexican immigration officials deported 72,679 undocumented Honduran immigrants in 2013. A total of 38,080 Hondurans were expelled from the United States last year, while those from Mexico totaled 34,599 according to date from the Migration Bureau.
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(In July of 2013 Honduras, about the size of Tennessee, had a population estimated at 8 1/2. It also has the world’s highest murder rate. (Per CIA World Fact Book) )

http://tinyurl.com/pvueacz
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SOUTH AMERICA

The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night – and the International Media Is Asleep At the Switch
http://tinyurl.com/od4qwoh

Venezuela sends troops to border region as violence escalates
http://tinyurl.com/pr8tbtb

Venezuelan police and opposition activists clash in Caracas
http://tinyurl.com/ozq4p83

Peru’s PM resigns after spat with first lady, finance minister
http://tinyurl.com/ktp7s9m

Attackers fire at convoy of Colombia presidential candidate
http://tinyurl.com/q7obqfv

Argentina Admits It Has a Drug Problem
http://tinyurl.com/ptt6wa9
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CARIBBEAN

Jamaica Anti-Gang Bill Approved by House Amid Controversy
http://tinyurl.com/nk7yh9v

Guyana Call for Help Shows Limited Capacity to Combat Drug Threat
http://tinyurl.com/p65gxyn
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ELSEWHERE

Human Smuggling and Trafficking into Europe: A Comparative Perspective
http://tinyurl.com/noeh5dc
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