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Mexicos` Los Zetas Cartel Buying Heavy Weapons in Central America

Latin America Herald Tribune reports that according to the same sources, Mexican organized crime gangs still lack the training to use the heavy weapons in clashes with security forces.

(MONTERREY, Mexico ) - Los Zetas, Mexico’s most violent criminal organization, is purchasing heavy weapons in Central America for use in clashes with army soldiers, the Defense Secretariat says.

Sources from the 4th Military Region told Efe Thursday that Los Zetas and other criminal gangs are purchasing “anti-armored-vehicle rockets and armaments.”

Cele Castillo- American DEA Hero- Scapegoat for `Fast and Furious`?

America's habit of making enemies out of former allies turns inward with the conviction of a decorated DEA Agent in a crime the U.S. ATF itself committed.

(SALEM) - The conduct the U.S. is willing to commit to quiet its opponents is shocking. Retired DEA Agent Celerino "Cele" Castillo III was a front line agent for 12 years in the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Today he's serving a 37-month prison sentence, and the feds would not mind if Americans believed they convicted someone in connection with a crime the ATF is presently accused of.

Mexican Authorities Crack Down on Protests

In one case journalists were prevented from covering a raid on demonstrators.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Mexican authorities this past week suppressed two demonstrations in Chihuahua and Baja California, drawing sharp protests, and casting new doubt on Mexico's oft-stated commitment to uphold human rights standards.

(Un)occupying the Camino Real

As the clock ticked fast away to eviction time, Camp Coyote activist Sebastian Pais, announced he was going on a hunger strike.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Throughout the course of history, countless feet have treaded the long highway between the Valley of Mexico and Santa Fe.

Salem-News Reported U.S.-Mexico Inter-Military Task Force in 2010

Clarifying that the U.S. military was working on the Mexican side of the border is the point of this article. The fact that elements of the U.S. government are denying it is highly reprehensible.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Sadly, the last presidential administration taught us the lesson, that if you lie often enough, and the media carries it, almost anything can be conveyed to the public.

Well, one thing must be set straight, when it comes to the looming drug cartel violence south of the U.S. border; is that our agency and another, the narcosphere, knew that the U.S. military was involved in operations working inside of Mexico, and both agencies reported this more than a year ago, in September 2010.

Lingering Questions Haunt Old Border Smelter

The legacy of lead, arsenic and other metals contamination in a tri-state region traced to Asarco has long been documented, but questions linger over the complete nature and extent of the pollution.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In a few months, the skyline of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez is set for a dramatic transformation.

For generations the smokestacks of the American Smelting and Refining Company (Asarco) have towered hundreds of feet over the Rio Grande, first exemplifying and then symbolizing a bygone industrial economy powered by mineral and metals production.

Occupy Tijuana Tests Rights

“We are students, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists, artists, workers; we are the 99 percent" - Occupy Tijuana

(TIJUANA, B.C.) - Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement, a protest in Tijuana is shaping up to be a test between the right of citizens to assemble peacefully and the desire of authorities to maintain public order.

In the wee hours of the morning of Tuesday, October 18, dozens of state, municipal and possibly federal police officers raided Occupy Tijuana’s encampment in the border city’s Plaza Rio zone and arrested 27 people, mostly young professionals and students, for violating city ordinances.

Mexico Gives 1,000 Cops Walking Papers, Hoping to Reduce Corruption

More than 40,000 people have died since Mexico escalated its drug war in 2006.

(MEXICO CITY) - Drug cartels in Mexico have all but taken over the Gulf coast state of Veracruz which remains under a deadly siege.

Facing tall odds in their search for a viable solution, authorities have refocused efforts on getting rid of bad police officers.

Occupy Wall Street Movement Breaks Borders

Amid many fluttering American flags, a Che Guevara banner was draped across a bank fence while a nearby sign quoted the late comedian George Carlin on the American Dream.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - An unprecedented wave of protest against the international financial elite and prevailing economic policies swept the globe on October 15.

And New Mexico, Mexico and the greater US-borderlands were no exceptions. Protests were chalked up in San Diego, Tijuana, Las Cruces, Ciudad Juarez and Mexico City, among many other places. In El Paso, an encampment was announced beginning Monday, October 17, in the city’s downtown San Jacinto Plaza.

Genocide 101: World and Media Apathy

It is outlandish that we accept things today, that we knew were wrong a thousand years ago.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I don't know which troubles me more; the idea that Genocide still takes place today, or the fact that so few people know about it. This most ultimate barbaric crime is or has recently taken place in Palestine, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, and Mexico... these are the stories that occupy most of our time at Salem-News.com.

The lessons we should have learned during the European Holocaust, and in the killing fields of Cambodia, we conveniently ignore in the west today. The lesson is "never again", but not just for the Jews, it is for all of mankind.