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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Attacks against Monterrey cops continue: 3 die |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A staged car wreck in Juarez municipality in Nuevo Leon may have led to the death of three traffic cops |
Thursday, April 25, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | 6 die in Reynosa |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A total of six individuals have been killed in separate incidents in Reynosa, Tamaulipas Monday |
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | 10 die in Tamaulipas state |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A total of ten unidentified individuals were killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in Tamaulipas since last Friday according to Mexican private and official news sources |
Thursday, March 21, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Los Zetas' grip on Zacatecas slips as fighting shifts to the cities |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | An anonymous correspondent living in Zacatecas state says that last weekend's shootings and gunfights in Zacatecas municipality were the worst violence so far |
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | 5 prison inmates die in Nuevo Laredo |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | The CEDES in Nuevo Laredo has seen a large increase in the number of prison inmates as prisoners from two separate prisons in Tamaulipas state were closed |
Friday, March 1, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Bloody Zacatecas: 11 die |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A total of 11 individuals have been killed in ongoing grug and gang related violence in Zacatecas state since Tuesday |
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | 2 more grenades detonate in Nuevo Laredo, one wounded |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | Two more grenades were detonated in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas Monday evening, -- one near a local college -- wounding one unidentified individual late Monday morning |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | 5 armed suspects die in Reynosa |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A total of at least five armed suspects were killed in an armed encounter with a Policia Federal road patrol in Reynosa, Tamaulipas Monday |
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Proposal advances in Mexico to limit preventative detentions to 8 days |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | Current law permits Mexico's Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) or national attorney general to detain suspected criminals for up to 40 days without charge or trial |
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican government reduces violence by not reporting it |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | What the new focus on information could do is to create a situation where states that do have transparency laws will be reporting crime and appear to have a crime problem, while those that do not will appear to have less crime |
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican Marines bag five, detain four in firefight in Veracruz |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A total of ten individuals including five municipal police officers have been killed in two separate gun fights in Veracruz state Tuesday |
Monday, July 16, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican Army reinforces La Laguna |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | La Laguna, which represents the area that includes Torreon, Coahuila, Ciudad Lerdo and Gomez Palacio, Durango has been the site of one of the heaviest concentrations of federal, and Coahuila and Durango state security forces. |
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican security forces kill 7 in Veracruz state |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A total of seven armed suspects were killed in a firefight with a joint Mexican security road patrol late Sunday night in central Veracruz state. |
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Kidnapping, Public Security |
| Title: | Mexican Marines rescue 12, bust 10 in Nuevo Laredo |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | The marine unit had been dispatched to the location based on an anonymous complaint, had been patrolling the general area and found a residence where 11 men and one women were being held hostage. |
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Mexico, Public Security |
| Title: | 10 die in Coahuila |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | A total of five unidentified individuals were found in a grave in a remote area of Coahuila state and five others were killed or were found dead over the weekend in the La Laguna region of Coahuila state. |
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Politics And Security, Public Security |
| Title: | Change of command in southern Chihuahua state |
| Author/Source: | Chris Covert Borderland Beat |
| Brief: | The 42nd Military Zone maintains both rifle company sized bases as well as road patrols in the area on the Chihuahua state side of the battle area, but apparently failed to intervene when armed suspects were said to be crossing into Chihuahua. |