Kidnappings in Mexico Send Shivers Across Border

Jan. 5, 2009 FELIPE ANGELES, Mexico:Four hooded men smashed in the door to the adobe home of an 80-year-old farmer here in November, handcuffing his frail wrists and driving him to a makeshift jail. They released him after relatives and friends paid a $9,000 ransom, which included his life savings. A deserted street in Felipe Angeles, Mexico, where people with relatives in the United States are facing threats of kidnapping. (Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times) The kidnapping was a dismal story of cruelty and heartbreak, familiar all across Mexico, but with a new twist: the daughter of this victim lived in the United States and was able to wire money to help assemble his ransom, the farmer, who insisted that he not be identified by name, said in an interview.. » read more

"Living Under the Trees"

Thursday 25 December 2008   About 30 million Mexicans survive on less than 30 pesos per day - not quite $3. The minimum wage is 45 pesos per day. The Mexican federal government estimates that 37.7 percent of its 106 million citizens - 40 million people - live in poverty. Some 25 million, or 23.. » read more

Urgent Statement By Anti-Zionist Jews Worldwide -

11-28-8 How long will Jewish and non-Jewish leaders who claim the mantle of civilization and morality remain silent in the face of the ongoing state terrorism practiced by the Zionist state against the Palestinian People, most visibly today in Gaza, where the Zionists believe they can starve the Palestinians into submission in violation of all tenets of international law, all religious values in general, INCLUDING the values of the Jewish faith???!! HOW LONG WILL THIS BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE?? WE URGENTLY PLEA TO THE WORLD COMMUNITY AND WORLD LEADERS TO PUT AN END TO ZIONIST STATE TERRORISM!! IN THE NAME OF G-D! IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY! The terrorist regime of the State of Israel has been repressing, expelling and persecuting Palestinians for 60 years, and expects the Palestinians to simply sit with their arms folded while this goes on! Are the Palestinians supposed to be collaborators in their own destruction? Are they simply supposedly to surrender in order to compensate the Zionists for what happened during World War II thousands of miles away? It is time for leaders with a sense of morality and courage to stand up and finally declare ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! The State of Israel must no long be granted a blank check to commit crimes! This wicked rogue ethnocratic state must be dismantled and the rights of the Palestinians restored! We pray that our appeal will find its way into the hearts and minds of those who have the power to put an end to the madness unleashed by the State of Israel, which is armed to teeth with the most sophisticated weaponry used on the Palestinians, and held over the rest of the Middle East as the Zionists demand the entire world surrender to their agenda! The Zionists know that their state is on the threshold of disintegration, and they are prepared to take millions of Jews and non-Jews down with them!! The world is in grave danger if the Zionists are not stopped!! May G-d in Heaven hear our prayer! Rabbi Meir Hirsh rense.com/general84/antiz.htm. » read more

State Department warns against travel to Mexico

Oct. 16, 2008 Deadliest drug zone invites Americans to tour 'land of encounters' GA_googleFillSlot("WND_NWS_C0100"); _GA_googleAdEngine.createDOMIframe('google_ads_div_WND_NWS_C0100' ,'WND_NWS_C0100'); INVASION USA State Department warns against travel to Mexico Deadliest drug zone invites Americans to tour 'land of encounters' Posted: October 15, 2008 12:15 am Eastern By Chelsea Schilling © 2008 WorldNetDaily   Ciudad Juarez. in Mexican state of Chihuahua (courtesy: Greater Works) More than 1,100 people have been slaughtered in a bloodbath of drug-related violence in one city just south of the U.S.. » read more

Oaxaca's Government Land Grab

Tuesday 08 July 2008 In villages across Oaxaca, where land has been owned communally for centuries, paramilitary groups are doing their bloody part to change the scene.     Oaxaca and Chicago - On April 30, in the small village of Santo Domingo Ixcatlan, in Oaxaca, Mexico, a group of armed men from the paramilitary group the "White Guards" pulled over the car of carpenter Gustavo Castaneda Hernandez, a villager and vocal opponent of the sale of Santo Domingo's communal land. The group, led by Freddy Eucario Morales Arias, the ex-mayor of Santo Domingo, rapidly blocked off the entrance and exit to the road with pickup trucks. The men began beating Hernandez, still trapped in his vehicle. They then set the car on fire.. » read more

Mexican law panics South Texas car dealers

Marh 2, 2008 Beginning Monday only used cars made in 1998 can be imported HIDALGO, Texas - Some are dented, scratched and rusty. Others rattle and belch under faded paint jobs. But the "'98" soaped onto their windshields and a surprise change in Mexican import rules have turned a single year's worth of used cars into pick of the used-car lot. Beginning Monday, only cars built in 1998 — none older and none newer — can be legally imported into Mexico. Car dealers were given notice only a month ago.. » read more

37 Die in Mexico Truck Blast

Vehicle was packed with dynamite, police say; 150 people injuredPIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico - A dynamite-laden truck exploded after colliding with another vehicle on a busy highway in northern Mexico’s coal country, killing at least 34 people, including three reporters at the scene, state and federal officials said.Authorities said the two vehicles crashed into each other Sunday evening, drawing a crowd of curious onlookers as well as a small army of police, soldiers, emergency officials and journalists.Shortly after the crowd arrived, the wreckage caught fire, and the dynamite exploded, sending a ball of fire into the sky that consumed nearby cars and left a 10-by-40 foot crater in the concrete, said Maximo Alberto Neri Lopez, a federal police official.He said more than 150 people were injured.The force of the explosion blew out the windows of a passenger bus a quarter-mile away.. » read more

U.S. Truckers Jobs On Chopping Blocks

Via President Bush and Congress’ “Mexican Truck Pilot” program, American trucking will change: for the worse.Thousands of Mexican drivers without formal driving standards, without drug testing and without legal passports to identify them to us—shortly will invade America’s freeways.They lack the ability to write and read in English, jeopardizing safety checks and logbook protocol. To top it off, they lack experience driving in snow and major metropolitan gridlock traffic.As a former United Van Lines truck trainer and safety officer, I charge President Bush and Congress for contempt of American truckers and American jobs.. » read more

Special Report: Mexico Plans To Send Trucks Across Border this Month !

Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 – A Mexican publication that covers Mexico’s transportation industry reported Wednesday that the Secretariat of Communications and Transportes said that the cross-border pilot program is coming by the end of this month.Despite continued opposition from Mexican trucker group – CANACAR – the country’s transportation secretary claims the plan is on the move, according to the transportation publication T21.In a business meeting on Tuesday, Mexican Transportation Secretary Luis Tellez Kuenzler announced that “necessary conditions” in Mexico are a reality. He also said he had been informed by the U.. » read more

20 Dead In Sonora Shootouts

Stan and Holly, (Deyo)The following article appeared on the front page of the major Tucson Daily this morning.The drug runners are getting better organized and more aggressive as the days and weeks and months and years go by. The whole border country is slowly and quietly turning into a war zone and no-mans land.I have been advised by National Park Rangers not to camp in National Monuments, because the smugglers control them at night.Life in the cities and shopping malls continue as usual, only to be punctuated with stories like this.. » read more

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