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Sun Nov 23

• Journalists Marked For Death In Mexican Town : NPR: ocal reporters braced themselves for what many feared would come next. On the morning of Nov. 13, a gunman opened fire on a 40-year-old journalist named Armando Rodriguez as he sat in his car, shooting him in his driveway as he waited to take his daughter, Ximena, to school. "El Choco," or Chocolate, so nicknamed because of his dark skin, was the crime reporter at El Diario de Juarez for more than a decade.

Tue Nov 18

• Weekday: THE VIOLENT SPIRAL OF MEXICO'S DRUG WAR (with Ioan Grillo): Drug wars between rival cartels in Mexico have kicked off a downward spiral of violence and bloodshed. The border town of Juarez alone had over 1000 killings in a year. With all the violence, is there any end in sight? We'll look at Mexico's drug war today on Weekday.

Mon Nov 17

• La Quinta Columna - Proceso - Hasta lo más alto...: A raíz de la captura de Jesús Zambada García, El Rey, su hijo Jesús Zambada y otros miembros del cártel de Sinaloa, dos de los colaboradores de García Luna: Víctor Gerardo Garay Cadena y Luis Cárdenas Palominos, comisionado interno de la PFP y coordinador de inteligencia de la SSP, respectivament e, fueron interrogados por elementos de la Subprocuradurí a de Investigación Especializada en Delincuencia Organizada (SIEDO) por la presunta protección a los sicarios de esa organización.
• The Saturday Profile - Protecting Herself as Much as Her Drug Lord Clients - Biography - NYTimes.com: Ms. Raquenel can rattle off the exact dates of the various attempts on her life as though they were holidays. There was May 13, 1998, when an explosive went off at the front door of her office. And March 23, 2000, when she was hit by gunfire when entering a Mexico City hotel with her client, a police commander charged with working for traffickers on the side. Then came Aug. 31, 2000, when someone stormed into her office and shot her eight times, and Nov. 13, 2001, when someone fired at her on the courthouse steps in Monterrey.

Sun Nov 16

• Mexico drug wars spill across the border - Los Angeles Times: The arrests were part of Project Reckoning, an 18-month investigation that tracked criminal activity in the U.S. by the Mexican cartels. All told, Project Reckoning authorities have arrested 507 people and seized more than $60 million in cash, 16,000 kilograms of cocaine, half a ton of methamphetamin e, 19 pounds of heroin and 51 pounds of marijuana.
• Mexico Crash Inquiry Points to Pilot Error in Turbulence - NYTimes.com: The government asked investigators from the United States Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board, and from Britain?s Air Accidents Investigation Branch, to assist in the investigation. The United States ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, said Wednesday that American investigators had found no evidence of sabotage, prompting angry responses from Mexican legislators who said he had spoken out of turn.

Fri Nov 14

• Letter from Mexico: Days of the Dead: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker: ?In the end, it?s all absurd,? Froylán Enciso, a friend of mine who is a historian specializing in the drug trade, remarked the other day. ?The class solidarity between the troops and the growers is far greater than the soldiers? need to obey orders. They bargain: ?I need a statistic and you need to survive in this environment, so let?s deal.?
• Morelia Case: Confessions "Under Torture" | | the narcosphere: Through confessions obtained ?under torture? and with multiple irregularities , the Federal Attorney General?s office (PGR in its Spanish initials) maintains the three alleged culprits under arrest in the September 15 terrorist attack in Morelia, Michoacan?whic h left eight people dead and 106 injured?even though many family members and neighbors assure that the accused were in Lazaro Cardenas [250 miles south of Morelia] the moment the attacks occurred.

Sun Nov 9

• VOA News - Mexico Plane Crash Deals Blow to Anti-Crime Fight: Peter Zeihan is Vice President of Analysis for the Austin, Texas-based private intelligence and analysis company Stratfor. He says there is reason to suspect Mexico's powerful drug trafficking organizations were behind the plane crash. "We cannot rule out that it was a mechanical failure," said Zeihan. "But considering the identity of the people on board, I think it is pretty obvious that the cartels are in some way responsible for this." Ziehan says sources Stratfor has contacted within Mr. Calderon' s government say officials there believe the crash was caused by the drug traffickers. "The information that we are getting out of the Mexican government is absolute fury," he said. "We are seeing the elites of Mexico in a state of anger that we have never seen before."

Wed Nov 5

• Mexico interior minister killed in plane crash - Los Angeles Times: Mouriño, 37, who had broad authority over many aspects of Mexico's government, was a rising star in the conservative National Action Party. His name had been floated as a possible heir apparent to the conservative president, who took office in 2006 for a six-year term. Mouriño was named interior minister in January. He oversaw a wide array of government functions, including domestic security and immigration, and was Calderon' s liaison to Congress.

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