Drug cartel bloodbath on Mexican border claims 50 lives

Mexican drug cartel have internsified killing in the recent months and the increasing number of  civilians are becoming targets. The killing is part of the gang crime to control Tijuana, a key transit point for drugs trafficked to the United States.Tijuana is...

Cracking the "Mexican Gulf " cartel: more than 43 arrested in Atlanta

War against drugs needs coordination in both sides of the border, Mexican cartels have operation bases in the U.S. These arrests have hit those organizations quite hard." U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey...

6 Charred Drug-Murder Victims Dumped In Tijuana

Six shot and charred bodies, identified by local police as drug gang members were discovered dumped on a street in Tijuana, Mexico today. It seems the War on Drugs just keeps producing more bodies and does little to...

Canadian Gas Price Fixing Scam in Que.

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorOne can be certain Quebec is not the only province in Canada, or even in North America where Gas Price Fixing Scams are going on.  The USA gas prices jumped so much...

Shootout in western Mexico

At least five federal police officers and one suspected hit man are dead after a violent shootout in Western Mexico."Officials say the officers were killed when they came upon a group fleeing the fatal shooting of...

Five Killed in a 150-Mile Long Gunbattle

All photos courtesy of Nuevo Día newspaper Clearly, someone had insisted on murder. Four people died in a sporadic gunbattle that stretched for more than 150 miles, ending in Hermosillo, Sonora, yesterday. An entire family was targeted, heavies from Sinaloa...

In a Tense Air of Beheadings, Cop Murders; 3 Reporters Attacked

Three reporters for the Culiacán daily, El Debate, were attacked by federal preventive police yesterday. One of the reporters was forced into a police car and held for ten minutes with a gun to his head. The attack...

Clinton To Put Gravity Under Scrutiny

It was a matter of time before someone called Hillary on her ridiculous statements about OPEC and who better than Josh Marshall:"What is Hillary talking about? She's going to break up the OPEC oil cartel? Because...

Mexico drug gang clashes kill 15 in border city of Tijuana

"Gun battles between rival factions of a Mexican drugs cartel have left at least 15 people dead in the city of Tijuana, near the border with the US.Police said all the dead were from the Arellano Felix cartel, which has come under pressure from a rival gang.Two were wearing...

OFT accuses construction firms over bid-rigging

At last the Government agency has verified what we already knew..."Government agencies and local authorities are clients who may have overpaid on billions of pounds of building contracts, the Office of Fair Trading has warned, as it accused 112 construction companies of 'Bid...

Member of Arellano Felix cartel arrested in Baja 250 San Felipe off road race

Off road Class 1 on the news again?Read previous story; helicopter-crash-baja-road-race "New York, March 17, 2008—Mexican federal police arrested a member of the Arellano Félix drug cartel on Saturday on...

Mexico captures high level drug lieutenant in Cabo

"Mexico is claiming an important victory in the war against organised crime after it announced the capture of a US citizen it believes runs one of the country's leading drugs cartels.  Gustavo Rivera Martínez,...

Dollar at increased risk of losing status as a reserve currency

"Venezuela's Communist leader Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) summit in Riyadh, said they no longer want be paid in U.S. dollars for their petroleum, but in euros.The outspoken US political...

Gunmen steal body from morge

In a scene from the Godfather… Twenty heavily-armed drug hitmen snatched the body of a fellow trafficker from a morgue in northern Mexico after he died in a dramatic helicopter crash, police say. The gunmen killed two policemen as they took the corpse from the morgue in the...

OPEC's lost sway over oil prices

"Cairo - A rare meeting of the heads of state of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Saudi Arabia this weekend was predictably focused on prices. But the price most often discussed wasn't the cost of oil, but rather the plummeting US dollar. As oil...

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