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BORDER COALITION WANTS $6 BILLION: SAN FERNANDO GETS 600 SOLDIERS
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By<b> Juan Montoya</b><br />On the same day that The Mexican military has announced it’s sending an additional 600 troops to the border region of the troubled state of Tamaulipas across the border from the Rio Grande Valley, a coalition of border mayors want President Obama to fork over $6 billion.<br />The additional troops will join the 2,700 that were sent this summer to the state which has been plagued by a cartel war since early last year. The Mexican military said the new units will be concentrated on the border and will combat organized crime and take part in community outreach.Tamaulipas has been the battleground for some of the heaviest conflict and high-profile incidents involving the drug traffic and the turf war between cartels and organized crime since the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas split..<br />These incidents include the killing of a U.S. tourist, the assassination of the PRI gubernatorial candidate who was a shoo-in in the elections, and the gruesome discovery of mass graves numbering some 350 victims. <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04Is3sLMcUT8ZOwFMu2ocuR5yro43Hw3igGLb8XGqyPYjr53UKmU8f952PBzT-S9NYrxA8PjTa16MbYwL_QfTpgwWXbSTX174OfnmNsB6m77WuNp5WgKx7maIsHWjYG9-O2feanrasZ0/s1600/troops.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04Is3sLMcUT8ZOwFMu2ocuR5yro43Hw3igGLb8XGqyPYjr53UKmU8f952PBzT-S9NYrxA8PjTa16MbYwL_QfTpgwWXbSTX174OfnmNsB6m77WuNp5WgKx7maIsHWjYG9-O2feanrasZ0/s400/troops.jpg" width="400" /></a>The military has taken over the police duties in many of the cities in Tamaulipas with mixed results.Reports of military abuses . But there have been numerous reports of military abuses with the handing over of police duties.<br />There have been, however, some victories in the war for the government. The Zeta plaza boss in Nuevo Laredo was killed and the military also arrested a man accused of running the Cartel del Golfo's operations in Miguel Aleman.<br />The Texas Border Coalition, meanwhile, has written a letter to President Barack Obama asking for an additional $6 billion to help local communities secure the border.<br />In a letter issued to the media today, it states that the organization's "white paper" urges that the government<br />"needs to provide another $6 billion in funding for infrastructure and technology and an additional 6,000 customs inspection agents to protect America's borders and promote legitimate trade and tourism with Mexico.<br />"We ask you to adopt these recommendations in your February budget submission to Congress," the group wrote.<br />"Our study shows that with apprehension rates of 90 percent for undocumented persons seeking to cross the frontier, we have won the border security fight between designated U.S.-Mexico border crossings. We are losing the battle at the legal border crossings, where the drug cartels are smuggling their drugs, cash and firearms because apprehension rates are only 28 percent caused by underfunding infrastructure and technology, and not hiring the appropriate amount of Customs and Border Protection inspectors...<br />"One out of 24 jobs in the United States depends on trade with Mexico," the letter continues. "Needless to say, closing the final security gap will depend on reforming immigration policies to provide sufficient visas for the workers our economy demands and that foreign nationals are supplying."<br />The letter is signed by Eagle Pass Mayor Ramsey Cantu, president of the TBC.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-2412598271147044824?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/01/border-coalition-wants-6-billion-san.html
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SHERIFF LUCIO CASHES IN ON MONETARY (AND POLITICAL) WINDFALL
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br />It's the kind of publicity that you just can't buy.<br />A border sheriff haunched over a microphone announcing to the world that the Cameron County Sheriff's Dept. will get $5.9 million in cash confiscated from the capo de capos of the Gulf Cartel.<br />The lawman, our own Sheriff Omar Lucio, said the money is meant to be used by his department as required by federal regulations to "hiring more officers, paying more overtime, or buying equipment."<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8sPAijx4gPCXGF7J28LtP_vKnnlevKbd7whMbHZFPr8KFvap12Cvf9RhtZXiXCYjOgED-n1S5F5WxSK-1resjTFv2x-GVpKRYzXoxSkyzh6TxNs36maJwCd9mkiYP_q1JWu7QHnxj_Q/s1600/luciodrugs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW8sPAijx4gPCXGF7J28LtP_vKnnlevKbd7whMbHZFPr8KFvap12Cvf9RhtZXiXCYjOgED-n1S5F5WxSK-1resjTFv2x-GVpKRYzXoxSkyzh6TxNs36maJwCd9mkiYP_q1JWu7QHnxj_Q/s320/luciodrugs.jpg" width="320" /></a>That bonanza was part of the county's share of the $50 million in cash and goods forfeited that was part of the judgement against Gulf Cartel head Osiel Cardenas Guillen. Some $30 million in cash were also seized.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Lucio added a little spice to the press conferecne by claiming he had heard taped recordings of Cardenas Guillen where he had ordered a "hit" on his Cameron County undercover investigator after he was shortchanged some $50,000 in a drug deal in Houston and the money never came back to him. In another confidential recording, Lucio said that he heard the Cartel capo threaten a Mexican citizen's family if the man did not help authorities capture the informant.</div>Now, there is no way that any reporter or neutral observer can verify any of this intriguing information divulged by Lucio to the media> But if it is true that the investigator had joined the department in 1994, it would be simple enough for someone to find out who he was by doing simple rpresonnel records search.<br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">But that was probably just a red herring of thrilling condiment to wow the readers.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">It would seem that the only people profiting from the drug trade and the violence that is besieging the residents on both sides of the border are the drug dealers and now, law enforcement. Lucio's deputies now know that there is money for overtime at the bridge detail or for patrolling the remote areas of the county. Will there be enough to address the guard-to-prisoner ratio at the jails so that the county taxpayers won't have to foot the bill?</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">If there is, then it's a win-win-win situation for the sheriff as he seeks re-election. Not only does he take money away from the drug dealer and announces it in press conference with an oversized check, but he also assures his deputy force that there eis money in the kitty for overtime, a nice bone to throw out at election time.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">On top of that, if he can promise tax payers that part of the money will be used to lighten the load on their wallets, you can't beat this kind of election-time propaganda with a nightstick.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">When the cartel bosses lose money, they have to make it up by smuggling yet more drugs across the border to cut their losses. That means that the supply of drugs never ends.</div>When law enforcement gets a cut of the forfeited money taken from drug lords, they get more pay and goodies. And the spiral continues. Seems just about everybody wins here except for the people on both sides of the river who have to put up with the violence and social dysfunction that results from the give and take of resources by both sides.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-7778282721455640185?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/01/sheriff-lucio-cashes-in-on-monetary-and.html
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WE BEEN ROBBED (HACKED) ! THIS IS LONDON...NOT!
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By <strong>Juan Montoya</strong><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1elkfGTrn-Jt5NkgnKlQ3G0-g-6dXQrusEW3WMY5MvJ7_ktpgBFMZfRp9Qi_bQwySbYLtIlZQQMpYlgtGFeYEgOSVoy6SjsJ9K_AErWEs_XW7rPhw91heOpjjvm-i05yo_XdBcOFA08o/s1600/175px-Murrow_This_is_london.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" nfa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1elkfGTrn-Jt5NkgnKlQ3G0-g-6dXQrusEW3WMY5MvJ7_ktpgBFMZfRp9Qi_bQwySbYLtIlZQQMpYlgtGFeYEgOSVoy6SjsJ9K_AErWEs_XW7rPhw91heOpjjvm-i05yo_XdBcOFA08o/s1600/175px-Murrow_This_is_london.jpg" /></a>They say it's bound to happen sooner or later if you work on the Internet or use the Email.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Well, it's happened to me.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">If you get an Email from the address<strong> </strong><a href="mailto:j_montoya_1@hotmail.com"><strong>j_montoya_1@hotmail.com</strong></a>, please disregard it. It has been hacked by God knows who and messages are being sent by someone purporting to be me who is stranded in London (England, never been there) and is desperately asking for a helping had from his friends on his contact list. (Now, that I have done, I must confess.)<br />This is the message you will get. <br /><em>Hi,</em><br /><em>How are you doing today?.I am really sorry to bother you with this email but i just want you to know what i am facing right now.I am sorry that i didn't inform you about my traveling to London UK for a Seminar,i am presently in London now but unfortunately for me i lost my wallet which contains my money and other valuable things in a taxi.I can easily access the internet for now but i do not have access to phone.I want you to assist me urgently with a loan of $850 to sort-out my hotel bills and to get myself back home. I have spoken to the embassy here but they are not responding to the matter effectively,i promise i will pay you back as soon as i return.Kindly let me know if you can be of help so that i can send you the details you will use to send the money to me here in London.</em> <br /> <br />I'm guessing none of you have sent the 200 or 300 pounds of British Sterling to get me out of the predicament so this is just an exercise of caution lest you hurry to the bank and wire me off the cash in London.</div>There is no telling what other mischief may be caused by the hackers wherever they may be. May a thousand bed bugs torment them in their lairs and lightning bolts strike them as they cross a street near Big Ben.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6016803033174468094-1336366167787675083?l=rrunrrun.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
LINK: http://rrunrrun.blogspot.com/2012/01/we-been-robbed-hacked-this-is-london.html
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