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AFP - Thirteen retirees were gunned down at a Mexican detoxification center near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP.




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Old 10-25-10, 04:01 AM   #2
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TIJUANA, Mexico – Armed men burst into a drug rehab center in the Mexican border city of Tijuana and police said at least 10 people were killed in a city where officials had been celebrating a seeming drop in drug gang terror. A client at the center and local media reports Monday put the number of deaths at 13.

A witness, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Jesus, for fear of reprisals, said he had stepped out for something to eat when the attacked occurred late Sunday.

When he returned, his fellow clients told him the attackers made the addicts lie on the floor, and then sprayed them with bullets, killing 13. Other clients sleeping upstairs in the center also survived. There are normally about 45 clients at the center.

Prosecutors had not yet confirmed the number of dead. Police at the scene said at least 10 were killed.

It was the second massacre of the weekend in Mexico: 14 people were killed Friday night when gunmen stormed a birthday party in another border city, Ciudad Juarez.

The attack on the ramshackle, privately run center in Tijuana is the first such mass killing at a rehab center in the city, praised by some for its anti-gang efforts.

Several such attacks have killed dozens of recovering addicts Ciudad Juarez, and a voice was heard over a police radio frequency later saying "this is a taste of Juarez."

Just two weeks ago, President Felipe Calderon touted Tijuana as a success story in his nearly four-year-old drug war, noting during a festival to promote the city's industries that homicides are down from a peak in 2008.

Since his visit, drug gangs have resumed gruesome tactics not seen in the Tijuana for months, beheading rivals and hanging bodies from bridges. Some residents have expressed fear that the cartels are deliberating intensifying the violence to undermine Calderon's message.

The attack also comes about week after the government's record Oct. 18 seizure of 148 tons (134 metric tons) of marijuana in Tijuana.

While police have not identified the motive in the Tijuana slayings, drug gangs have attacked such centers before to target rival gang members.

In Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said three municipal police officers were found shot to death outside their patrol vehicle on Sunday.

And in the southern Pacific coast state of Guerrero on Sunday, state police found the bound, executed bodies of six men on a highway outside the resort city of Acapulco.

The men had been blindfolded, their hands and feet bound, and shot to death with assault rifles, the state Public Safety Department reported.

The killers left three handwritten messages with bodies, a tactic frequently employed by Mexico's drug gangs to threaten their rivals or authorities, but police routinely do not reveal the contents of such messages.

Nationwide, more than 28,000 people have been killed in drug gang violence since December 2006, when Calderon deployed soldiers to battle the cartels in their strongholds in northern Mexico and along the Pacific coast.

While the government says most of the dead were involved in the drug trade, innocent bystanders have also died, like three people killed in the crossfire of a shootout between gunmen, police and soldiers in northern Coahuila state Sunday.

The victims were a 14-year-old boy and two women aged 18 and 47, according to a statement by the state prosecutors' office.

The statement said gunmen traveling in two vehicles opened fire on a convoy of federal police officers and soldiers in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila. The officers and soldiers returned fire.

It was not clear who fired the shots that killed the bystanders, but the state attorney general's office said it was investigating and expressed condolences to the victims' families.

"They are civilians who unfortunately died in the exchange of gunfire," it said, describing a running series of confrontations between police and assailants who allegedly fired shots into the air to clear bystanders from their path at one point.

In Ciudad Juarez, meanwhile, the death toll from a birthday party massacre late Friday rose to 14 when an 18-year-old man died of his wounds.

Nineteen people were wounded in the attack on two private homes where about four dozen partygoers had gathered for a teenager's birthday.

The dead identified so far were 13 to 32 years old, and the majority of the victims were high school students, a survivor said.

While investigators said they have not yet identified the perpetrators or a motive, police found 70 bullet casings from assault weapons typically used by drug gangs at the scene of the shootings. Cartel violence has killed more than 2,000 people so far this year in the city, which is across from El Paso, Texas.

Drug gangs have increasingly attacked private parties they believe members of rival gangs might be attending; innocent partygoers are often killed in such attacks.

On Sunday, prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is located, said they were searching for a man known only by his nickname, "The Mouse," who was apparently the target of the gunmen.

The man was reportedly wounded in the Friday shooting, but has disappeared. Investigators said they believe he can provide information on who was trying to kill him.

Memorial services were held Sunday for some of the victims of Friday's attack, and prosecutors said guards had been provided to protect the services.


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Old 10-25-10, 05:45 AM   #3
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Default Re: 13 retirees gunned down at Mexican detox center (AFP)

Would appear some here were "spot on" with the prediction that TJ, would not escape any longer.. from being much the same as Juarez, can Mexicali be far behind...

Had wondered how this turf which moves one hell of a lot of stuff... had been so stable for so long...

A real shame for Mexico, the "trade" has always been dangerous, but mostly from going to jail and/or getting ripped off ... not mass executions .. seems to be a new method of getting attention.. which I really don't understand ... there is only one way this will end... for a lot of folks
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Default Re: Witness: Attack at Mexico rehab center kills 13 (AP)

"...some law enforcement officials suggested Sunday's killings might have been connected to this event...

...Radio communications intercepted after the massacre linked it with the drug seizure, police sources said..."



"...Trascendió que por la frecuencia de radio policíaca, se lanzaron advertencias en el sentido de que “esto apenas empieza”..."

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"..."la fiesta apenas va comenzando"..."

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In other related news...

"...se había acumulado la enorme cantidad de droga debido a que desde hace tres meses las bandas del crimen organizado no pueden introducirla a Estados Unidos.

Lo anterior, porque se comenta que por alguna razón se rompieron los acuerdos que tenían con algunos representantes de corporaciones policíacas del vecino país, por lo que de momento lo que ingresa es por cuenta propia y riesgo de quien se atreve..."

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Why you should learn Spanish and do your own reading:
Quote:
Google: "...he broke the agreement they had with some representatives from neighboring law enforcement agencies..."

Actual: ...they broke the agreements they had with police from the neighboring country...
A bit different.

Further: "...minutos después se escuchó en la frecuencia de radio de la Secretaría de Seguridad Pública Municipal de forma puntual un "somos del Cártel de Juárez y la fiesta apenas va empezando".

Pero también un "esto es sólo una probadita de lo que va a pasar" y adelantar los sicarios que ajusticiarán a 136 personas en los próximos días en la ciudad de Tijuana..."
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Default Re: 13 retirees gunned down at Mexican detox center (AFP)

Oh my, this could get ugly - on both sides of the border. Would be nice if they would print names/faces of those representantes de corporaciones policíacas del vecino país who had been helping them...
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Old 10-25-10, 10:16 AM   #6
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Default Re: 13 retirees gunned down at Mexican detox center (AFP)

Having had some experince in the Drug and Alchol treatment doing volunteer work in tretment centers in Mexico and the U.S. The ones i have experinced in Mexico are downwright scarey. The clients are relegated to begging on the streets for their substance.and the consuling they recive is minimual at best. the people you see there range from the severley mental to street savy slick talking hoodlums. I can see where it would be a good recuting ground for the Cartel.Kill a few and the rest fall in line.
But i fail to see what it has to do with the pensioners or retirees
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Default Re: 13 retirees gunned down at Mexican detox center (AFP)

I'm guessing that the original Yahoo story suffered from the issue Marty mentioned about inaccuracies with auto translate software.

That said, the mention of a link to the drug seizure could mean a couple of different things. Could be just a retaliatory move. Tit for tat. Or, could be a whistle blower was staying there. I the latter was true, I'd have to believe the authorities could have taken better care of someone in such a precarious predicament.
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I'm guessing that the original Yahoo story suffered from the issue Marty mentioned about inaccuracies with auto translate software.

That said, the mention of a link to the drug seizure could mean a couple of different things. Could be just a retaliatory move. Tit for tat. Or, could be a whistle blower was staying there. I the latter was true, I'd have to believe the authorities could have taken better care of someone in such a precarious predicament.
Maybe so but you cant even begin to compare the living conditions in those places here to the silk sheet treatment centers in the States. If i blew the whistle I would expect better
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AFP - Armed men killed 13 recovering drug addicts at a Mexican rehab center near the border city of Tijuana in an attack officials blamed on the country's warring drug gangs.




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