2-15-2011 -

A U.S. immigration agent who was killed Tuesday in a part of central Mexico increasingly under the influence of drug traffickers has been identified as Jaime J. Zapata. Zapata was shot to death and another special agent was wounded when they were apparently ambushed by gunmen at a fake roadblock, the type often used by traffickers and their henchmen.

U.S. Immigration and Customs officials said Wednesday that Zapata was a native of Brownsville, Texas, and four-year veteran of the department on loan from the Laredo, Texas, ICE office. He and the second agent, whose name was not released, were attached temporarily to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.

The pair were driving from Mexico City toward the northern city of Monterrey when they were attacked in the state of San Luis Potosi

2011-02-11
The News Headlines nearly always read the same....Murder and Chaos in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Late Thursday evening masked gunmen stormed into a bar in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez and opened fire killing seven women and one man, authorities said. Three other people were wounded at the "Las Torres" bar and were in critical condition.

2011-02-09
Feb. 7, 2011 Cathedral High .. EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Three teens, at least two of them American, died in a hail of gunfire while browsing used cars in Ciudad Juarez. A fourth young man also was with the teens and survived the shooting.

1-26-2011 -
U.S. missionary fatally wounded by gunmen - Missionary Nancy Davis is rushed back across the border by her husband but dies in a hospital in McAllen. He says gunmen tried to stop the couple and shot at them when they sped up.

1-15-2011 -
14 killed in army raid in Mexico's Veracruz state - The shooting, in which 12 suspects and two soldiers were killed, spanned at least two neighborhoods in the normally quiet Veracruz state capital of Xalapa, Mexico news reports say.

1-9-2011 -
25 bodies found in Acapulco, 15 decapitated - Messages attached to some of the bodies reportedly claim responsibility on behalf of the Sinaloa drug cartel and accuse the dead men of being extortionists.

1-4-2011 -
Female kidnapping suspect 'The Redhead' was found tortured and hanging from an overpass after being sprung from prison. Observers wonder if it was a gang hit or even vigilante 'justice.'



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Aug 26, 2011 -

President Felipe Calderon declared three days of mourning on Friday after drug cartel men torched a casino in Monterey Mexico, killing at least 52 people.

The drug war has killed some 41,000 people since 2006, when the government launched a military crackdown against powerful, feuding drug cartels.

Armed men, believed to be from either the Zetas or Gulf cartel, emptied tanks full of flammable liquid and set fire to the Casino Royale in the northeastern city of Monterrey.

Trapped as the vast building went up in flames, victims hid in bathrooms and offices instead of heading to the emergency exits. Many died of smoke inhalation in the ensuing panic, unable to escape the raging inferno.



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9-21-2011


35 human bodies were found in a roadway during rush-hour traffic in the Mexican coastal state of Veracruz Tuesday, the state attorney general said.

Police in the eastern state found two trucks carrying the bodies near a shopping mall in the municipality of Boca del Rio, Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said.

The dead included 12 women and 23 men. Their bodies showed signs of violence, Escobar said.

After blocking traffic, the two trucks were abandoned in the middle of the road, witnesses said. Their gates were left open, allowing bodies to fall out.



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Sounds like the wild west all over again where life has a very small price,and the gun is the main language.Makes you want to bear arms for sure.