Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Mexico Drug Cartel War News Updates -- June 1, 2011

Special Report: If Monterrey Falls, Mexico Falls -- Yahoo News/Reuters

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Mario Ramos thought it was a bad joke when he received an anonymous email at the start of this year demanding $15,000 a month to keep his industrial tubing business operating in Monterrey, Mexico's richest city and a symbol of progress in Latin America.

Sitting in his air-conditioned office looking across at sparkling office blocks dotting the mountains on that morning in January, he casually deleted the email as spam.

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More News On Mexico's Drug Cartel War

Monterrey’s drug war madness cripples model city -- Reuters
The Nation: Military Help A Regret in Monterrey -- NPR/The Nation
Mexico's Future Hinges on Monterrey's Cartel Plight -- Newser

FACTBOX-Security developments in Mexico, May 23-29 -- Alertnet

Battles, Tanks, Missiles, but no Insurgency in Mexico -- Insight
Clash Between Police, Cartel Hit Men in Mexico Leaves 11 Dead -- Latin American Herald Tribune
Mexican cops storm drug cartel ranch killing 11 -- Ground Report
Mexico detains nearly 50 members of 2 drug gangs -- CBS news
Mexico: 15 drug cartel members killed during operation, 36 arrested -- Channel 6 News
6 People gunned down in northern Mexico -- FOX News/EFE
Police arrests 15 Zetas cartel members, 10 police who aided them in central Mexico -- Washington Post
Mexico arrests police chief, soldiers for gang ties -- AFP
Mexican police chief, officers charged with helping cartels -- CNN
Mexican Police Chief, Officers Arrested for Aiding Drug Cartel -- FOX News/AP

Reporting Mexico's murder capital: 'Death threats are part of daily life' -- The Guardian
U.S. drug war aid slow to reach Mexico -- UPI
High-powered weapons prized by Mexican cartels -- My San Antonio
Mexico president says drug war not hurting tourism -- Yahoo News/AP

Mexican Cartels Spread Violence To Central America
-- NPR
Mexico's southern border awash in crime and violence -- Miami Herald/McClatchy News
El Salvador: Mexico cartels seeking army weapons -- AP
El Salvador Fears Ties Between Cartels, Street Gangs -- NPR
El Salvador Grapples With Upswing In Drug Traffic -- NPR

Is Guatemala becoming a narco-state? -- Christian Science Monitor
Analysis: Mexico needs more defense spending to fight cartels -- Reuters

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