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California`s Law Enforcement Capability has been Compromised; Precursor to big Change in Mexico

State budget cuts will likely eliminate 55 state-led task forces that coordinate the response to California's growing gang problem.

(SACRAMENTO) - I congratulate Governor Jerry Brown and the Legislature for their success in passing California's budget bill.

However, I join California law enforcement leaders in expressing serious concerns over the passage yesterday of $71 million in cuts to the Division of Law Enforcement budget.

Migrants and a Crucial Mexican Election

Next Sunday’s election is widely viewed as a harbinger for the 2012 presidential election.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In the closing days of the campaign for the key 3 July gubernatorial election in Mexico’s most populated state, migration reemerged as one of the local issues.

At a 23rd June meeting in the Mexico state town of Tonatico, center-left candidate Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez agreed to a five-point action plan on migrant-related issues if he is elected governor.

Is Los Zetas Military Cartel Planning a Bloody Revolution in Mexico?

Massive numbers of strategically stashed high impact weapons and uniform caches; intelligence breakdowns; a cartel that evolved from Mexican Special Forces. Mexico's in trouble, the U.S. is in trouble

(COLOMBUS, N.M.) - This article is a description of events over the last three years on both sides of the U.S./Mexican border that reveal covert relationships between the two country's armed forces, and also the needless challenges the Mexican government faces against the deadly cartels.

Mexico would prefer to fight this war without assistance from the U.S. government that is fully undermined.

Salem-News Photojournalist with Army Task Force 7 in Mexico threatened with arrest by U.S. Border Patrol

Mr. Plumlee has provided, “sensitive, detailed” information for this article.

(COLUMBUS, N.M.) - Over 40,000 civilians have been killed in the drug cartel wars in Mexico. There’s little likelihood that the killings will stop anytime soon.

Despite the intervention of the Mexican Army and Marines, the killings, terror attacks and mutilations of humans continue and human rights groups, world wide, do not seem to care...

Raided Mexican Ranch Linked to U.S. Drug War Corruption

Former CIA Asset Claims U.S. Special Forces Assisted Mexican Soldiers In Assault on Stash Site.

(COLUMBUS, N.M.) - The recent raid of a stash site on the Mexican side of the border suspected of containing a cache of guns and/or drugs is drawing attention once again to the U.S. border town of Columbus, N.M.

This is where 11 people, including the mayor, police chief and a village trustee, were recently indicted on gun-running charges.

Security News: Equal Opportunity Hit Squads

Young women were arrested following a pair of shootouts with police in Jalisco that left six suspected Zetas dead

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In Mexico, young girls and women work as look-outs and even soldiers for criminal syndicates.

El Grito de El Paso (The Cry of El Paso)

Defending Mexican refugees has emerged as a big issue in El Paso and other places.

(EL PASO) - On Memorial Day, Albuquerque resident Michael Brown embarked on a run of more than 260-miles to the US-Mexico border.

The long-distance runner began his marathon at the spot where the bodies of 11 murdered women were found on Albuquerque’s West Mesa back in February 2009. Headed south, the US Navy veteran stopped at a grave site to honor his fallen military brethren and then visited the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Truth or Consequences, NM.

Jimmy Carter Calls for End of Global Drug War in NY Times Op-Ed

Carter calls for an end to the mostly U.S. fueled madness that has driven, rather than reduced, drug use globally.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I never fail to be impressed with the man I consider to be the best U.S. president in recent history.

I believe former U.S. President James 'Jimmy' Carter has a heart of gold and while he walks a difficult mile and ha faltered along the way, he remains dedicated toward locating this elusive thing called world peace.

Love, Struggle and Memory in Ciudad Juarez

Magdalena Garcia, widow of disappeared architect Ricardo Gatica, said: “I want justice!”
“You are not alone!” the crowd roared back.

(CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico) - Completing an epic journey across Mexico, the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity arrived late last week to a tumultuous welcome in Ciudad Juarez.

It's the place where the beleaguered border city poet and caravan organizer Javier Sicilia calls Mexico’s “epicenter of pain.”

Ciudad Juarez: The Long (and Bloody) Road to June 10

A trip back in history reveals a trajectory that leads straight to Ciudad Juarez.

(CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico) - On June 10, hundreds if not thousands of people from Mexican NGO's will gather to sign to halt to the so-called drug war and put Mexico on a new road.

The date, June 10, is an important one in the Mexican memory. On June 10, 1971, goons known as the halcones, trained and coordinated by the Mexican military, viciously attacked pro-democracy students in Mexico City, killing dozens