TIJUANA, Mexico, - Three Mexican police were abducted, killed and dumped on a heavily patrolled road near the U.S. border on New Year's Day despite an
influx of troops in the area, the state attorney general's office said on Thursday.
The policemen from the sprawling border city of Tijuana near San Diego, California -- one of them a senior city police officer -- were found wrapped
in sheets outside the nearby beach town of Rosarito on a highway with several army checkpoints.
"This looks like a response by organized crime to the military's increased presence here," said an official from the Baja California state attorney
general's office.
President Felipe Calderon has been using some 25,000 troops and federal police to battle powerful organized crime gangs and drug cartels since he came
to power a year ago.
The government sent hundreds more troops to Tijuana and Rosarito in late December and disarmed Rosarito's police force after a failed attempt to kill
the town's police chief raised suspicions it was infiltrated by drug gangs.
The police executions were the first drug-related murders in Baja California, Mexico's most violent state, this year.
In 2007, the state counted more than 400 drug-related killings as more than 2,500 people were killed nationwide in spite of the military assault on
traffickers. (Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz; Writing by Robin Emmott, Editing by Sandra Maler)Iflyfish - 1-4-2008 at 07:25 AM
Chilling!
Iflyfishsurfer jim - 1-4-2008 at 08:32 AM
New Year....but nothing has changed......CaboRon - 1-4-2008 at 09:52 AM
So, we went what, two or three days without a murder of a public official..... I´d say they are making real progress.
CAboRonDENNIS - 1-4-2008 at 01:21 PM
rdrrm8e...........
Where did you see this article?
The article
rdrrm8e - 1-4-2008 at 01:31 PM
Dennis
Yesterday I heard a rumor of this as I was getting ready to travel to La Salinas.
I Googled "Cops killed in Tijuana" and found this Reuters release:
[Edited on 1-4-2008 by rdrrm8e]Roberto - 1-4-2008 at 01:44 PM
Just FYI - if you just type in the url of the link you are interested in posting, the software may break it up, depending on the characters it
includes. In order to avoid this, wrap the link in url tags. I can't type them, because the software will hide them, but use <url></url>
but substitute [ and ] for < and >.
Thanks for posting the article.
[Edited on 1-4-2008 by Roberto]DENNIS - 1-4-2008 at 01:46 PM
Thanks rdr....I just got the San Diego paper so I'll look for it there. It's been strangely quiet here concerning this.DENNIS - 1-4-2008 at 04:16 PM
These abductions apparently took place the night of Dec. 30 according to a very small article in todays paper. I read the paper daily, except the
few occasions when it isn't brought down and I didn't see anything about it after it took place. I searched Sign On SD and found nothing. Unless I
completely missed it, the San Diego paper didn't report it.
This bothers me. Why would they be withholding news such as this? Could it be that Mexico is withholding news in order to avoid further damage to
their image?
Did anybody see anything in the San Diego paper about the on-going slaughter taking place in Baja?ELINVESTIG8R - 1-4-2008 at 04:38 PM
It is time for President Felipe Calderon to invoke Article 29 of the Mexican Constitution and suspend the constitution in areas of Mexico deemed
appropriate and move in 200,000 Federal Troops to hunt down each and every Narcotraficantes, hired assassin etc. It would take some "Cojones" to do it
but I think El Presidente should do so in selected areas. Once the Mexican Army has cleaned out the areas then they should move on to the next
restoring Democracy when they leave. During the cleanup they can prepare "Clean" Municipal State and Federal Police to keep the ground they cleaned
out.
Article 29 of the Mexican Constitution
Rough Translation:
In the cases of invasion, serious disturbance of public peace, or anything else that puts the society in serious danger or conflict, only the
President of the United States of Mexico, in agreement with Titulares of the Secretariats of State, the Administrative Departments and the General
Office of the judge advocate general of the Republic and with approval of the Congress of the Union, and, in the recess of this one, of the Permanent
Commission, will be able to suspend in all the country or certain place the guarantees which they were obstacles to do in front, fast and easily to
the situation; but it will have to do it by a limited time, by means of general prevention and without the suspension is contracted certain
individual. If the suspension took place being the reunited Congress, this one will grant the authorizations that it considers necessary so that the
Executive faces the situation, but he was verified in time of recess, will summon without delay the Congress so that he decides them.
What in the hell is he waiting for.surfer jim - 1-4-2008 at 04:41 PM
Doing so would be ...."bad for business".......fdt - 1-4-2008 at 11:34 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by DENNIS
rdrrm8e...........
Where did you see this article?
Dennis; If you'd listen to the radio show you would have heard this news story and others at least a day or two before they hit the board.
Keep informed daily SDRonni - 1-5-2008 at 10:58 AM
I'm confused. Were there actually FIVE bodies? Three found by the border fence and then three on Boulevard 2000???
Body 'presumably' that of abducted police official
UNION-TRIBUNE
January 4, 2008
ROSARITO BEACH: One of two bodies found yesterday in an unpopulated
area of Rosarito Beach may be that of a Tijuana police commander who
was abducted from his house Sunday, investigators said.
Francisco Javier Robles, director of the Baja California Ministerial
Police, said one of the bodies "presumably" was that of Jesús
Alberto Rodríguez Meraz, commander of a police substation near the
U.S.-Mexico border in the Otay Mesa district known as El Centenario.
A group of armed assailants grabbed Rodríguez, 35, and two other men
Sunday night at Rodríguez's residence in the Los Alamos section of
the city near the main bus terminal.
The bodies were found at 8 a.m. yesterday off an unpopulated stretch
of Bulevar 2000, a new thoroughfare that links eastern Tijuana with
Rosarito Beach. They had been shot repeatedly, according to the Baja
California Attorney General's Office.
Last week, the entire police force of Rosarito Beach was disarmed
days after armed assailants attacked the city's police station. The
weapons were to be returned to officers who pass federal background
checks. –S.D.SDRonni - 1-5-2008 at 11:00 AM
Oops, bad math. I mean the two in one place and three in the other....duh......DENNIS - 1-5-2008 at 11:31 AM
I think there were three abductions in Otay and two bodies found on Blvd. 2000.
are your shows archived?
kimberlee - 1-5-2008 at 03:16 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by fdt
Dennis; If you'd listen to the radio show you would have heard this news story and others at least a day or two before they hit the board.
Keep informed daily
can they be downloaded onto a flash card or an iPod?fdt - 1-5-2008 at 05:04 PM
They could and would as soon as Simone finds the time to put the archives up since we have recordings of all the shows since day one. Maybe I should
rebroadcast the following morning the show from the prevoius night.
