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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
... bands or with the government. Notable among these are the banners that appeared in the city of Culiacán blaming the Mexican army for supporting drug traffickers. Similarly, there was a banner that appeared in Monterrey directed at the president of Mexico, informing him that federal police and members of the military were protecting drug trafficking groups. These messages began as signs on...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
... that McDaniel was getting his shipments from Estela "Monica" Elenes, a supplier based in Culiacan, Mexico. She mailed pound packages, sealed inside the gaudy, oversized porcelain dolls, to Ben's Shoes on Market Street near 2nd, where McDaniel would pick them up, Corbett said.Authorities are still investigating what role employees of Ben's Shoes may have had in the operation. McDaniel did...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
... enforcement officials say she was one of 19 people murdered by drug cartels that weekend in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa.After Congress in 2005 placed restrictions on the availability of the chemicals needed to make meth, cartels in places such as Mexico created "superlabs" to manufacture bulk amounts of the drug to be smuggled into the United States, said Timothy J. Ogden, special agent...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Mexico's 2nd biggest cash haul September 19 2008 at 01:31PM Mexico City - The Mexican army seized $26,2-million (about R216-million) from a house in northwestern Sinaloa state in the second largest cash haul in the country's history, a defence ministry official said on Thursday.The army found 890 packets of cash in a house during a routine patrol in Culiacan, the state capital, general Luis...
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The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
What does the artistic and creative hit man do for an encore? Michael Marizco reviews Mexican gangland’s greatest hits (The News 2-Sep-08 ): Everybody´s jumping onboard with the head chopping. In Culiacán, the headless corpse was found with a message to Arturo Beltrán Leyva to get out of town. Then 12 more materialized in Yucatán. The Get Shorty [...]
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Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... 2-0 and 5-2 leads. In what promised to be a very festive occasion for a pitcher from the town of Culiacán - it was Mexican Night at Shea - Perez struggled just as much as the Nationals' pitcher from Long Beach (by way of Chaminade High), John Lannan.By the time the fifth rolled around, both starters were gone and the score was 7-7. It was a festive night - for the hitters.During one of the...
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New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... 2-0 and 5-2 leads. In what promised to be a very festive occasion for a pitcher from the town of Culiacan -- it was Mexican Night at Shea -- Perez struggled just as much as the Nationals' pitcher from Long Beach (by way of Chaminade High), John Lannan.By the time the fifth rolled around, both starters were gone and the score was 7-7. It was a festive night -- for the hitters.During one of...
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The Mex Files (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... Yet another denunciation for robbery and damages has been filed aginst soldiers participating the Culiacán-Navolato joint operation. Ana Lucía Gastélum, a retail clothier, returned home from a five day business trip at 12:30 at night to find military vehicles with their license plates covered over with duct tape and soldiers sitting in her bedroom. The house is located at calle Juan de la...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
... decline was principally due to
a reduction in traffic on the routes to Guadalajara, Mexico City, Culiacan,
Guanajuato, Morelia, Hermosillo, Aguascalientes, La Paz, Monterrey, Los
Cabos, Acapulco, Uruapan, Los Mochis, Ciudad Juarez, Tepic and Colima.
These decreases were mainly due to the decline in operations from Aviacsa,
Aeromexico, Mexicana and Avolar on routes to and from the
previously-mentioned...
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FIBA (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
CANCUN (Centrobasket) - Puerto Rico won Gold at the 2008 Centrobasket Tournament by defeating US Virgin Islands 87-70 in the final game of the 2008 Centrobasket Tournament. This was their ninth title and their third in the last five editions. All three of them were in Mexican territory. In 2001 Puerto Rico won in Toluca and 2003 in Culiacan. Now they won ...
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Journal (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
(h/t ColtsFan) Works just like you'd expect : - As part of Joint Operation Culiacán-Navolato, the Mexican military, searching an uninhabited house in Culiacán, discovered and seized an arsenal consisting of 8 rifles, 18 pistols, 21 ammo clips for pistols, 9 ammo clips for AK-47s, R-15s and M-16s as well as drum cartridge loaders and 1,283 cartridges of different calibers. Five of the...
