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Weekly InSight | 4 October 2013

This Week's Analysis

Narco-Islands: Panama's Drug Trafficking Paradise Throughout the isthmus underworld, an island is worth more than 1,000 kilometers of road. It is not surprising then that Panama's islands have few authorities and many traffickers.  Cattle Rustling Menaces Rural LatAm Communities In early September, Costa Rica's Security Minister Mario Zamora announced a multi-agency strategy involving security forces, the Public Ministry and the Judicial Investigation Organization. But he wasn't targeting drug trafficking or violence; he was striking out at cattle theft. How Tijuana's Criminal Virtuous Cycle Has Reduced Violence Narco-Islands: The Honduras-Belize Tourist Bridge Narco-Islands: Mexico Ends One Journey, Starts Another

News

Rio Slum Pacification Police Accused of Torture, Murder Peru Arrests Reveal Shining Path's Links to the Drug Trade FBI Busts Caribbean's 'Most Powerful' Drug Trafficking Group Report Shows Growing Importance of European Cocaine Market Former Panama Policeman Is a FARC Leader: Officials Venezuela No.1 Trafficker in LatAm: Anti-Drugs Official More News

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Map of new routes used to traffic drugs from Latin America to Europe shows Brazil as a departure hub. Map of major drug seizures and arrests in Central America, manyalong the coasts.

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Borderland Beat

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Newspaper in Monterrey under extortion threat Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:00 PM PDT Employees of El Norte news daily in Nuevo Leon state were threatened with "consequences" if the newspaper failed to pay MEX $3,000 a month in protection money, according to Mexican news accounts. A Thursday news article featured inAnimalPolitico.com said that a truck driven by a distributor carrying 800 copes of the newspaper was stopped Tuesday by armed suspects who apparently hit the driver, pointed weapons and left the message of the demand. El Norte, as with many newspapers in northeastern Mexico, are under near constant threat of harm from organized crime, crime including threats of harm if information is published to extortion, a crime which is the most pervasive in Mexico. Drug war news in Tamaulipas is at a premium due to threats from organized crime, especially in Nuevo Laredo, the home of Los Zetas drug cartel. According to the AnimalPolico.com article, El Norte offices was attacked three times last July, two of them on July 10th including attacks using hand grenades in their La Silla and Linda Vista offices in Monterrey  Almost three weeks later, the offices for the Sierra Madre edition was firebombed. Newspapers are not the only victims of organized crime. Offices of Televisa and other television stations have been attacked in the past in Monterrey as well as in Tamaulipas' border cities. The threat issued to El Norte specifically demanded payment of protection money to continue distributing newspapers in northern Monterrey. Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburgcom andBorderlandbeat.com. His latest work of non-fiction, the Wounded Eagle, Volume 2, can be found at Smashwords and Amazon.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com

3 die in Matamoros Posted: 03 Oct 2013 09:00 PM PDT Three armed suspects were shot to death in an armed confrontation with Mexican security forces in Matamoros, Tamaulipas Wednesday night, according to official government news sources. According to a news release posted on the state government website of Tamaulipas, the incident took place at 2100 hrs near the intersection of  Avenida Division del Norte and Calle Republica de Cuba in Modelo colony where a Mexican Army road patrol had observed an then signaled a number of armed suspects who were traveling aboard a Chevrolet pickup truck. The armed suspects fired on the army patrol which returned fire killing all three men. One of the dead was identified as Juan Antonio Sanchez Lumbreras, 22, of Matamoros. After the confrontation ended army troops seized three rifles, an undisclosed number of weapons magazine and ammunition.  The suspects were wearing bulletproof vest and according to the news release, had military style haircuts. Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com andBorderlandbeat.com. His latest work of non-fiction, the Wounded Eagle, Volume 2, can be found at Smashwords and Amazon.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com.

New post on dcclothesline.com #SHUTDOWN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: OBAMA SENDS EXTRA SECURITY TO BLOCK WWII VETS, THREATENS ARREST (Geller, Atlas Shrugs) by Pamela Geller Bravo to the WWII vets This is consistent with Obama's pattern to punish the American people. Time and time again, when the petulant president doesn't get it his way and his way only, he strikes out at the American people.

New post on dcclothesline.com

(Geller, Atlas Shrugs) by Pamela Geller Bravo to the WWII vets This is consistent with Obama's pattern to punish the American people. Time and time again, when the petulant president doesn't get it his way and his way only, he strikes out at the American people. Read more of this post

POMPOUS ASS...

 

Yet another example of “CHANGE” that is needed to speak to 8 yr olds.

 

Ya gotta love it!

 

Just look at the paraphernalia this pompous ass carries into a school to speak to small children. 


He still needs a podium, teleprompters, lights, black boxes, and the secret service guy in back to be on the look-out for any terrorist type 8-year-olds with Tea Partying parents.



Here's what the last guy needed.

You remember...the 'dumb' one.

 

 

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Talent is God-given.  Be humble. 

Fame is man-given.  Be grateful.

Conceit is self-given.  Be careful.

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Interesting...Who voted for this IDIOT?

 

 

When we get 100,000,000, that's one hundred million willing Christians to BOND together, voice their concerns and vote, we can take back America with God's help, Become one of the One hundred million, then let's get 200 million. It can be done by sending this email to your friends. Do the math. It only takes a willing heart and a fed up soul. God Bless America and Shine your light on Her..

In 1892 The Supreme Court determined and declared the United States was indeed a Christian Nation In 1952 President Truman established one day a year as a "National Day of Prayer."  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In 1988 President Reagan designated the First Thursday in May of each year as the National Day of Prayer.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In June 2007 (then) Presidential  Candidate Barack Obama declared that the USA "Was no longer a  Christian nation."  ---------------------------------------------------------------  This year President Obama canceled the  21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse  Of "not wanting to offend anyone"  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  BUT... on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was Held on Capitol Hill,  Beside the White House. There were over 50,000 Muslims in D.C. that day.  HE PRAYS WITH THE MUSLIMS!  I guess it Doesn't matter if "Christians" Are offended by this event -  We obviously Don 't count as "anyone" Anymore.  The direction this country is headed  should strike fear in the heart of every Christian, especially knowing that the  Muslim religion believes that if Christians cannot be converted, they should be annihilated.  This is not a Rumor - Go to the website  To confirm this info: http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/capitolislam.asp .

 

 

Did Billy Goat bring something home to Hillary ?

Donald Trump’s Hillary Clinton question: Her health - Patrick Gavin - POLITICO.com
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-health-97789.html

Even the Iranians Refuse to Waste Time on the Obambo ...

Iran's Rouhani Boasts: I Rejected Obama Five Times
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/10/03/Iran-s-Rouhani-Boasts-I-Rejected-Obama-Five-Times