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The War to Our South – Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Death Toll in Mexico Tops 31,000 – The War to Our South
A Record 79 Americans Killed in Mexico – 2009
Yes We Get Earthquakes in Oklahoma
Magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Oklahoma this morning | NewsOK.com
When I travel and tell people stories about the weather in Oklahoma, most find it hard to believe earthquakes occur in the state.
This post is further evidence that I am not joking about earthquakes in Oklahoma.
I think the “big one” is coming.
Getting Closer – The War to Our South (Texas)
The War to Our South – 10/2/2010
The War in Mexico 08.21.10
The brutality of the conflict is escalating. Alleged gang hit men broke into the home of a Chihuahua state policeman this week and strangled to death his 4-year-old brother, authorities said. Across the country, mutilated and decapitated bodies turn up virtually every day, sometimes hanging from bridges.
And Yet Another Reason Why The War in Mexico Bothers Me
Gunmen Kill 17 at Party in Mexico – NYTimes.com
Across northern Mexico, there have been increasing reports of mass shootings at parties, bars and rehab clinics.
In the worst such massacre this year, gunmen raided a drug-rehab center in the northern city of Chihuahua and killed 19 people last month. In January, gunmen barged into a private party in the border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed 15, many of them high school or university students. Relatives say the January attack was a case of mistaken identity, while state officials claim someone at the party was targeted, although they have not said who it was.
The killings in Torreon came three days after the first successful car bombing by drug cartels, an attack that introduced a new threat to Mexico’s raging drug war.
War Dead Nearly 25,000 in Mexico
Mexico car bomb: ‘Colombianization’ of Mexico nearly complete – CSMonitor.com
Mexico had already overtaken Colombia in terms of kidnappings. The public has long gotten accustomed to a censored press, threats to politicians, and grisly violence that includes decapitation and bodies hanging from highway overpasses. Now, it appears, Mexico has moved even closer to the kind of violence that plagued the South American nation in its darkest days.
A well-orchestrated car bomb exploded in Ciudad Juarez late Thursday, across from El Paso, Texas, killing at least three and sparking panic among the Mexican population. It is the first known use of a car bomb against authorities and the local population, and marks a troubling new level of violence as traffickers seeking to control the drug trade battle one another and Mexican authorities.
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