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Drug Prohibition War Forces Flight from Mexican Town

Localização: 
Ciudad Mier, TAM
Mexico
Around 300 people have abandoned the town of Ciudad Mier, fleeing drug prohibition violence from traffickers who were threatening residents. The town, one of numerous cities on borderlands believed to be in dispute by two rival organizations, is a stone's throw from the border of Texas. More than 60 people have been killed in the town of about 6,000 people this year.
Publication/Source: 
The Wall Street Journal (NY)
URL: 
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703848204575608990334970362.html

Drug Trafficking Organization Interferes with Boulder Rescue Squad

Localização: 
Boulder, CO
United States
Life-saving equipment, including a special extraction device, is now sitting on the floor inside the Boulder Emergency Squad because delivery to Mexico faces setbacks due to drug traffickers. The items were supposed to be delivered to Mante, Mexico, one of Boulder’s sister cities where the need for the gear is great. Delivery is impossible at the moment as the squad is being told that the traffickers have taken over many of the roads between the border and the city.
Publication/Source: 
KMGH (CO)
URL: 
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/25767123/detail.html

Mexico Drug Prohibition Violence Costs $350K Daily in Natgas Losses

Localização: 
Mexico
Prohibition-caused threats and violence by drug trafficking organizations are preventing some government oil workers from reaching installations in northern Mexico and costing state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos about $350,000 every day in lost production. That amounts to about $10.5 million per month, or about 2.3 percent of Mexico's $450 million per month average in monthly natural gas revenues.
Publication/Source: 
ABC News (US)
URL: 
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12126283

Mexico Finds Killing Drug Kingpins Can Add to Mayhem

Localização: 
Mexico
Last week's killing of the top drug lord in the Gulf Cartel marked the second takedown of a major capo in Mexico in a little over two months. Experts in Mexico and the United States say the strategy has a real downside.
Publication/Source: 
Miami Herald (FL)
URL: 
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/11/1920346/mexico-finds-killing-drug-kingpins.html

Drug Prohibition War Prompts Text Message Alert System at UT-Brownsville

Localização: 
Brownsville, TX
United States
The University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College is planning an emergency text messaging system as part of its strategy to alert students and faculty to dangers amid the drug prohibition war raging across the Rio Grande. One recent intelligence alert had campus police knocking on dorm doors in the middle of the night to warn students to stay indoors.
Publication/Source: 
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
URL: 
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/education/drug_war_prompts_text_message_alert_system_at_ut-brownsville_107093873.html

Drug Prohibition Violence Causes Church Crisis in Northern Mexico

Localização: 
TAM
Mexico
Low attendance and a drop in donations have caused a financial crisis for the northeastern Mexican Diocese of Nuevo Laredo, which is located in an area plagued by drug prohibition violence. Weekly collections are no longer sufficient to pay for basic services, such as water and electricity.
Publication/Source: 
Latin America Herald Tribune (Venezuela)
URL: 
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=376523&CategoryId=14091

Drug Trafficking Organizations Disrupt Basic Services in Mexico

Localização: 
Mexico
With killings and disappearances to assert their authority, Mexico's prohibition-created drug trafficking organizations are beginning to interfere with everyday government activities in pockets of the country, keeping workers off their turf and interrupting some of the most basic services. Not only do they maintain checkpoints and kill police or mayors to control territory, they now try to keep everyone from mid-level officials to delivery truck drivers and meter readers out of rural areas they use to transport drugs, stash weapons and kidnap victims, and hide from authorities. In the process, they are blocking deliveries of gasoline, pension checks, farm aid and other services to Mexicans.
Publication/Source: 
The Monitor (CA)
URL: 
http://www.themonitor.com/articles/mexico-44287-disrupt-drug.html

Deadly Weekend: At least 20 Slain in Ciudad Juárez

Localização: 
Ciudad Juárez, CHH
Mexico
It was another bloody weekend in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where at least 20 people were killed in drug prohibition violence.
Publication/Source: 
Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TX)
URL: 
http://blogs.star-telegram.com/crime_time/2010/11/deadly-weekend-at-least-20-slain-in-ciudad-juarez.html

Killing of a Top Mexican Drug Lord May Boost Rival Zetas Organization

Localização: 
Mexico
Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, also known as 'Tony Tormenta,' the highest-profile leader of a powerful drug trafficking organization, was gunned down by Mexican government forces this weekend, but signs that the death will lead to more violence and turf battles have terrified residents.
Publication/Source: 
The Christian Science Monitor (MA)
URL: 
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/1107/Killing-of-top-Mexico-drug-lord-Tony-Tormenta-may-boost-rival-Zetas-cartel

5th US Citizen Killed in Mexico's Drug Prohibition War This Week

Localização: 
Ciudad Juárez, CHH
Mexico
A University of Texas-El Paso student died from a shooting attack on a car in Ciudad Juarez, making him the fifth American slain in the violent border city this week.
Publication/Source: 
KHOU (TX)
URL: 
http://www.khou.com/news/5th-US-citizen-killed-in-Mexico-this-week-106686723.html

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