News Reporters in Mexico, Violence Continues from Drug Cartels
John W. Slagle
March 02, 2006
On March 1, 2006, Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona reported on Lou Dobbs CNN program that violence was increasing along our borders. Shots have been fired at Agents from the Mexican side of the Border and there is a 108 percent increase in assaults.
Of those arrested, 15 per cent have serious criminal records including 148 felons held for Homicide charges. Senator Kyl was also concerned that foreign nationals from 120 nations had entered the United States and were arrested as illegal aliens.
The drug related violence from Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo to Arizona is a constant threat to both law enforcement officers as well as journalists. On February 6th, 2006, the El Manana newspaper office in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico was attacked by several masked, armed ?Thugs?. Two fragmentation hand grenades were tossed into the office, which exploded and critically wounded investigative reporter Jaime Orozco.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, four reporters have been murdered for Investigative news regarding Mexican drug cartels . Cartels in an attempt to censor, silence the news personnel in Mexico use physical threats to homicide.
Organized Narcotics Smugglers are responsible for the deaths of three Mexican Police Chiefs by ?gunfire? within the past year which is breaking news in the United States.
There is a ?Mordida System?in Mexico and bribes and corruption exists from the highest official to the lowest ?ruralie? constable.
There are also equally honest officials that try to uphold the criminal law from attorney generals to regional police chiefs. The people with integrity are a threat to criminal organizations and ?walk a very dangerous line? daily.
The greatest sources of news to current events for law enforcement officers on this side of the line was through ?El Alarma? and many other newspapers throughout Mexico and Central America. Long before the Computer age and internet, the printed news in Spanish was the only Link to what was ?transpiring? south of a U.S. Border Marker.
For those unfamiliar with the Southwest, a small upright concrete Marker is the actual Border of the United States and Mexico.
Inscribed on the concrete face are these words. Boundary of the United States?Treaty of 1853...Re-established by Treaties of 1882-1889. These small monuments extend from California to the Gulf Coast and many are?pock marked ? with obvious ? impacts from fired rounds.
Illegal Immigration, Crime, narcotics, homicides, human smuggling to corruption has been reported by many Mexican news reporters for many years accompanied with Photos and identities of perpetrators.
In any nation, a free press has the responsibility to convey the current events of the day and should not fear retaliation or death threats from any criminal organization.
Of those arrested, 15 per cent have serious criminal records including 148 felons held for Homicide charges. Senator Kyl was also concerned that foreign nationals from 120 nations had entered the United States and were arrested as illegal aliens.
The drug related violence from Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo to Arizona is a constant threat to both law enforcement officers as well as journalists. On February 6th, 2006, the El Manana newspaper office in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico was attacked by several masked, armed ?Thugs?. Two fragmentation hand grenades were tossed into the office, which exploded and critically wounded investigative reporter Jaime Orozco.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, four reporters have been murdered for Investigative news regarding Mexican drug cartels . Cartels in an attempt to censor, silence the news personnel in Mexico use physical threats to homicide.
Organized Narcotics Smugglers are responsible for the deaths of three Mexican Police Chiefs by ?gunfire? within the past year which is breaking news in the United States.
There is a ?Mordida System?in Mexico and bribes and corruption exists from the highest official to the lowest ?ruralie? constable.
There are also equally honest officials that try to uphold the criminal law from attorney generals to regional police chiefs. The people with integrity are a threat to criminal organizations and ?walk a very dangerous line? daily.
The greatest sources of news to current events for law enforcement officers on this side of the line was through ?El Alarma? and many other newspapers throughout Mexico and Central America. Long before the Computer age and internet, the printed news in Spanish was the only Link to what was ?transpiring? south of a U.S. Border Marker.
For those unfamiliar with the Southwest, a small upright concrete Marker is the actual Border of the United States and Mexico.
Inscribed on the concrete face are these words. Boundary of the United States?Treaty of 1853...Re-established by Treaties of 1882-1889. These small monuments extend from California to the Gulf Coast and many are?pock marked ? with obvious ? impacts from fired rounds.
Illegal Immigration, Crime, narcotics, homicides, human smuggling to corruption has been reported by many Mexican news reporters for many years accompanied with Photos and identities of perpetrators.
In any nation, a free press has the responsibility to convey the current events of the day and should not fear retaliation or death threats from any criminal organization.
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