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Drug-War Homicides Spiking Under Mexican President Peña Nieto
Posted by Bill Conroy - April 14, 2013 at 7:59 pmMexico-based Private Security Firm’s Intelligence Shows Big Jump in Murders, Political Assassinations Since December 2012
The administration of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has made it a priority to divert the media’s focus from the drug war and toward his economic efforts to bring the Latin American nation in closer alignment with the international corporate agenda of assuring a cheap supply labor and nearly risk-free return on investment.
US Prosecutors Turned a Blind Eye to Drone Code Piracy
Posted by Bill Conroy - March 16, 2013 at 9:47 pmThey Chose Instead to Strap Digital Visionary Aaron Swartz to Their Buzzsaw
Aaron Swartz, a 26-year-old Internet activist and the co-developer of popular web tools like RSS feeds and Reddit, ended his life earlier this year at the end of a long battle with federal prosecutors in Boston — who had accused him of engaging in digital piracy.
US Training of Mexican Troops Has Escalated in Step With Mexico’s Murder Rate
Posted by Bill Conroy - February 17, 2013 at 10:53 pmBoots-On-The-Ground Instruction Carried Out by US Military in Mexico City, Campeche and Chiapas — Home of the Zapatistas
US training of Mexican military forces spiked in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, coinciding with a sharp rise in drug-war homicides in Mexico, an analysis of records made public under the Foreign Assistance Act show.
Big Media Discovers US Special Ops are Targeting Mexican Crime Organizations
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 21, 2013 at 2:30 pmUnlike Wine, Old News Doesn’t Improve With Age
Earlier this week, the Washington Post and a series of other mainstream media outlets breathlessly reported that the Pentagon has set up a US-based special operations center that is focused on helping the Mexican government track down “cartels.”
The real nut-graph of the Post story, however, is buried at the end of the article:
Fast and Furious Blurs the Line Between Cops and Crooks
Posted by Bill Conroy - January 6, 2013 at 4:22 pmATF Supervisor’s Questionable Gun Purchases Appear to Be Business As Usual
Two guns of interest were found in late November of last year near the scene of a gun battle in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The battle, waged between the Mexican military and alleged drug traffickers, left five people dead, including a Mexican soldier and a beauty queen named Maria Susana Flores Gamez.
Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
Posted by Bill Conroy - December 1, 2012 at 9:00 pmBig Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Mexico’s New President Set to Empower a “Devil’s Cartel”
Posted by Bill Conroy - November 10, 2012 at 5:50 pmCIA Operative Claims Corrupt Colombian Law Enforcer Now Advising Peña Nieto Is Sign Of That Danger Ahead
Baruch Vega, a long-time CIA operative, has raised a red flag over the incoming president of Mexico’s decision to employ the former head of the Colombian National Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, as his security advisor in the war on drugs.
Murder of Miami’s ‘Cocaine Queen’ Offers Teaching Moment
Posted by Bill Conroy - October 6, 2012 at 5:24 pmThe Truth of the Drug War Won’t Be Found in Hollywood or the Mainstream Media — Which Both Work From the Same Tired Script
Mexican Special Forces Employed as Death Squads in Drug War, Email Records Released by WikiLeaks Reveal
Posted by Bill Conroy - September 17, 2012 at 9:37 pmSpecially Trained Troops Conducted “Surgical” Strikes on Narco-Trafficking Cells, Gangs and Addicts
Ciudad Juarez earned the reputation as the most dangerous city in the world as its murder rate ramped up exponentially between 2008 and 2011, with some 10,000 murders attributed to a “cartel” turf war being waged in the Mexican border community of some 1.2 million just south of El Paso, Texas.
Romney’s Bain Woes Boil Down To A Paper Trail That Doesn't Add Up
Posted by Bill Conroy - July 15, 2012 at 12:53 amOfficial Records Show Presidential Candidate’s Federal Filings Contradict Filings Made With the State of Massachusetts
The mainstream media reports now zeroing in on presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s role at Bain Capital entities after 1999 can be a bit confusing and seem to focus primarily on whether he said one thing publicly yet was doing something quite different behind the scenes.