| Highest level travel alert should be issued On Mexico | | | | ratio of killings and yet the 2008 numbers they predict |
| now! | | | | will be even be higher. Approximately 100 of these |
| The question remains why have not the U.S. President | | | | victims were law enforcement personnel or other |
| George Bush ordered the State Dept. to issue the | | | | government officials. |
| Highest level travel alert in regards to Mexico for the | | | | Â |
| many dangers that are likely to confront Americans | | | | It further points out that between Jan.-July 2007 in |
| traveling in Mexico today. While the U.S. President | | | | Mexico: 1200 + drug trafficking-related executions have |
| meets with the leaders of both Canada and Mexico | | | | occurred …… of |
| today in New Orleans the dangers for American | | | | which at least |
| travelers are increasing each day. The President by | | | | 70+ occurred in Sonora…most in |
| not issuing the travel warning is putting American lives | | | | Hermosillo, a former "truce city"among traffickers of |
| at risk. The Laguna Journal has received | | | | the Sinaloa / Gulf DTO organizations. |
| documentation listing many of the horrors happening | | | | Â |
| just south of the border and on the American side as | | | | An unknown-- but significant-- number continues to |
| well. It shows what Americans can be exposed to in | | | | occur in the states of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas as |
| Mexico. The document is meant as a warning for law | | | | well as: Chihuahua, Baja California Norte, Tabasco, |
| enforcement and not indented for the eyes of citizens | | | | Guerrero, Michoacan, Veracruz, Sinaloa, Nayarit, |
| traveling to out of control Mexico. Mexican Drug | | | | Chiapas and Coahuila. |
| cartels using terrorist beheading tactics | | | | Â |
| Â | | | | All Mexico States are experiencing numerous law |
| Mexican Drug cartels are ordering decapitations blind | | | | enforcement deaths,as well as multiple kidnappings |
| folding and hooding victims before they shoot them. | | | | occurring regularly. |
| The Cartels are sending a chilling message to the | | | | As of 7/20/07 there have been 91 abductions in |
| Mexican President Felipe Calderon Administration by | | | | Tijuana alone since 01/01/07. Seven occurred in two |
| adopting methods of intimidation made notorious by | | | | days in July. |
| Middle Eastern terrorist groups. New Terrorist Bases | | | | Â |
| South Of The Border | | | | Domestic officer safety issues and types of targeted |
| Dozens of people have been decapitated in Mexico | | | | violence |
| so far this year, with heads stuck on fence posts, | | | | Were evaluated incident material showed there were |
| found in trash bags and heads being tossed onto a | | | | random kidnap for ransom with release, there were |
| nightclub dance floor for all to see. | | | | random kidnap for ransom and or information using |
| Dozens of U.S. citizens have been kidnapped, held | | | | torture with non-release involving body dumps or |
| hostage and killed by their captors in Mexico and many | | | | Acid/Lye "Pozole" elimination by putting dead bodies in |
| cases remain unsolved. Moreover, new cases | | | | sealed barrels filled with acid and lye. Others were |
| of disappearances and kidnap-for-ransom continue to | | | | kidnapped for information by torture, then killed, or |
| be reported yet no high level warning has been issued | | | | kidnapping by "Tax Collectors"-failure to pay. |
| to protect Americans against the world class violence. | | | | Â |
| Americans Being Kidnapped, Held and killed in Mexico | | | | Kidnappings as Warnings To government and other |
| Â | | | | enemies withspecific MESSAGES attached. And |
| SENSITIVE unclassified INTERNAL LAW | | | | Kidnappings of competitors for assassinations / |
| ENFORCEMENT DOCUMENT indicates Mexico is | | | | Murders. |
| now believed to be the No. 1 country in Latin America | | | | Â |
| for kidnappings. | | | | Structures of the kidnap gangs are former or current |
| Â | | | | law enforcement officers working as a team member |
| The government knows that a 1000 plus victims since | | | | with selective gangs, former Mid-level Traffickers |
| 2005 of which 43 have died in captivity surpasses | | | | resorting to kidnappings due to declining narcotics |
| Colombia which had been the world leader in | | | | access and high violence associated with Mexican |
| kidnappings and other violence attributed to drug | | | | drug cartel warfare. |
| traffickers and kidnappers. Who are often the same | | | | Â |
| people who may have been crossing the border into | | | | Others are disenfranchised or independent teams |
| US towns that are corridors for the Mexican drug | | | | acting randomly. |
| cartels smuggling routes-esp. Tijuana /San Diego, | | | | Still others are domestic or international gangs and |
| Juarez/El Paso Laredo/McAllen, Nogales/Nogales, | | | | others are teams using former military deserters |
| Palomus/Columbus and other U.S. Mexican border | | | | trained in extractions, assassinations, and assaults or |
| towns and cities. | | | | affiliated domestic US street gangs serving multiple |
| Â | | | | Mexican drug cartel hired as Independent contracted |
| Â | | | | Kidnap-assassination teams. |
| The document which is offensive to many goes on to | | | | Â |
| point out that 50 cross-border abductions accrued in | | | | Evaluated methods and types of Violence to murder |
| the Texas Rio Grande Valley with unknown numbers | | | | victims were: Physical beating, torture, release on |
| of unreported incidents. These Abductions occurred in | | | | street, or body dumped onstreet or lot torture involving |
| plain view in public places the victims were beaten, | | | | beating, tooth removal, appendage removal, death by |
| shoved in vehicles, and taken across the US-Mexico | | | | torture, strangulation, single shot to head and/ormultiple |
| border where beatings continued while victims' friends | | | | shots to head and body. |
| family are contacted to extort money. | | | | Other tactics were same as above with head and/or |
| Often after payment, victims are dumped and left to | | | | face fully or partially wrapped with duct tape or other |
| find their own way home or some just totally | | | | head wrappings or blind folds. Bodies often disposed |
| disappear. | | | | of by the alternate "Pozole" method. |
| Â | | | | Many were beheaded with or without written |
| The document warns US citizens or Mexican nationals | | | | messages on bodies or invehicles. |
| residing in the US that they may become vulnerable to | | | | Â |
| allied abductions by kidnapping teams operating out of | | | | Many kidnapped victims where held in jail like metal |
| Mexico or the US. | | | | cages in so called safe houses. |
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| The more kidnappings that gangs conduct, the finer | | | | Many Mexican law enforcement officers joined the |
| theyhone their craft. Eventually, they graduate to higher | | | | cartels or they themselves would become victims of |
| valuetargets in higher economic communities. | | | | there horror. |
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| The report says "Until a prominent US citizen is | | | | Many cashes of weapons of been located and |
| abducted, the problem will not receive much attention in | | | | confiscated by Mexican authorities most having come |
| the media or from the | | | | into the country trough the U.S. or smuggled in from |
| Public." | | | | Russia. |
| Â | | | | Â |
| The sensitive internal law enforcement document with | | | | Â |
| gruesome photo's show that an estimated 2000 to | | | | Warning before reviewing document many will find the |
| 3100 persons were victims of drug-related murders in | | | | text offensive and the photo's gruesome: |
| Mexico in 2006 and expect the year 2007 will surpass | | | | para_bsmc_2. |
| the numbers of 2006 fatalities based on the current | | | | |