The Art of War...For Narcos!!

That is all we need. A special edition of the "Art of War" by Sun Tzu, for drugtraffickers and organized crime!  It is actually very interesting reading. If you are a "frequent" reader of Sun Tzu, you need to get a copy of "El Arte de la Guerra para Narcos" Click here.

Money Laundering in Mexico: Column, TV Report and Treasury list.

Existe una lista negra del Gobierno de  los EU, donde identifican mediante labores de inteligencia a personas  que se dedican a lavar dinero alrededor del mundo, para apoyar a  terroristas y narcotraficantes. En este momento se encuentran en esta  lista más de 200 personas y empresas mexicanas, que según el  Departamento del Tesoro, estarían apoyando a los grupos del crimen  organizado en el país.

Hay varios aspectos interesantes de esta  lista.  En primer lugar, la decisión de incluir a un individuo o una  empresa en esta lista depende exclusivamente de  los Estados Unidos, es  decir no es un trabajo propiamente colaborativo, haciendo uso de  información de inteligencia de diversas agencias norteamericanas compila  paquetes de pruebas. No hay un proceso penal, ni un juicio, pero una  vez que una persona o empresa entra en esta lista, aunque sea por error,  el proceso para salir de ella es difícil y terriblemente engorroso.

Algunos  expertos en México han dicho que debido que EU toma la decisión de  integrar esta lista en una forma unilateral, sin consultar con  autoridades de otros países, esto sería una violación a la soberanía  nacional y a los derechos constitucionales de los ciudadanos afectados. Columna continua haciendo click aquì.

Para ver el reportaje completo sobre la lista negra de SEGURIDAD TOTAL TV en Proyecto 40, hacer click aqui. 
  
Para accesar el famosa lista de lavadores de dinero del Departamento del Tesoro hacer click aquì.

Summary of the most important news in Mexico for August 1st to 6th, 2011

• In a surprise and historic decision, on Friday afternoon S&P downgraded US long term debt.  The impact of this decision on Mexico is being debated by analyst and politicians.  Sunday at 10:00 am (central) political and financial analyst Jose Luis Romero Hicks will join me on Living in Mexico and will provide initial reactions. (www.imagen.com.mx)

• This week Finance Secretary Ernesto Cordero said that this year more than 425,000 jobs were created reaching a record number of workers enrolled in the IMSS of more than 15.3 million. And Economy Secretary Bruno Ferrari said the federal government would maintain a policy of prevention to face turbulence in world stock markets. (Comments:  he sounds a bit optimistic.)

News Summary for August 5th, 20111

++ Poet Javier Sicilia, who heads the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, broke off talks with Congress, accusing them of betrayal after having given the initial go ahead to the National Security draft bill. Sicilia read a press release outside the Congressional building in which he demanded a clear sign from Congress that it would move forward towards truly a humanistic legislation in security (Comment: Whatever that means?)  PAN caucus leader at the Chamber of Deputies Josefina Vázquez Mota denied that lawmakers have failed in their agreements with Sicilia since she said no initial draft document has been approved on the floor and the law of course has yet to be approved.(Comment: Also, don`t forget that she is running for President…)

++ After two municipal police were murdered in Ascensión, Chihuahua, the entire police force resigned in fear of also being targeted by organized crime.

This is sooo rude... But soooo funny...

Humor is the best gift... This is rude, but very very funny! 

News Summary for August 4th, 2011

++ Nine field workers for two polling firms who had disappeared in Apatzingán, Michoacán, have been freed. The six Consulta Mitofsky and three Parametría employees are safe and sound, both pollsters said. It was unclear how they were kidnapped, where they were held and who was to blame for the abductions. The Attorney General’s Office will take statements from the field workers to decide whether the investigations remains at the local level or the case is upgraded to the federal level. Michoacán Attorney General Jesús Montejano Ramírez said that in order to avoid the disappearance or kidnapping of polling firm workers in Michoacán, authorities will work together with pollsters. Chamber of Deputies speaker Jorge Carlos Ramírez Marín said the disappearance of the nine polling firm field workers is a sign that criminal organizations are going to intervene in the 2012 election campaigns. 

News Summary for August 3rd, 2011

++ Alleged drug trafficker Vicente Zambada, who goes by the nickname "El Vicentillo," accused the U.S. government of granting immunity to the leaders of the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo Guzmán" and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, in exchange for information on rival drug gangs.

++ The U.S. Senate confirmed diplomat Earl Anthony Wayne as Washington’s new ambassador to Mexico.

++ Michoacán Attorney General’s Office agents were searching for nine pollsters who disappeared, apparently abducted by local criminal elements… Six of the pollsters are with Consulta Mitofsky and three with Parametría.  Parametría confirmed that three of its field workers had disappeared in the La Cofradía community.Parametría director Francisco Abundis said the disappearance of three of the polling firm employees could be a mistake on the part of criminals since the group had never received any threats.  National Security Council spokesman Alejandro Poiré said he regretted the disappearance of the polling firm field workers and said the Attorney General’s Office was willing to help Michoacán authorities with the investigation.

Mexican Tianguis in the US!

By Patricia Leigh Brown for the New York Times:
MADERA, Calif. — Every Sunday, Juan Enriquez, a former farm worker from Mexico, shows off his culinary art, sculpting sweet white meat from young coconuts with a knife and briskly sprinkling it with salt and lime.

“It is better than working in the fields,” said Mr. Enriquez, of his new job as a vendor at the Madera Flea Market. “Here at least there is shade.”
In the Latino communities along Highway 99, the agricultural artery of the San Joaquin Valley, the grand tradition of the Sunday flea market — fly swatters, car parts, plastic Betty Boop purses and all — has been transformed into a tianguis, the famed open-air bazaar that is a fixture of daily life throughout Mexico. For more Click here

Fast and Furious: "US policy is to send guns to Mexico"?

For the Miami Herald by Tim Johnson: While a gunrunning sting known as Fast and Furious draws criticism in Congress for losing track of weapons that were smuggled into Mexico, Mexicans say the controversy confirms their conviction that the U.S. gun industry profits off of bloodshed south of the border. As new details of the U.S. undercover operation emerged last week in congressional hearings in Washington, many Mexicans said the scandal demonstrates how easily crime gangs obtain large quantities of assault weapons from U.S. gun shops near the border.
Fast and Furious - the code name given by the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to its gun-smuggling investigation - allowed an estimated 2,000 weapons to enter Mexico unobstructed. That, however, accounts for only one-tenth of the weapons found at Mexican crime scenes in recent years that originated in the United States, according to available statistics.
The bureau's acting director, Kenneth Melson, wrote in a recent letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., that of the 29,284 weapons recovered in Mexico in 2009 and 2010 and submitted for tracing, 20,504, or 70 percent, came from the United States.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/31/2339173/for-mexicans-fast-and-furious.html#ixzz1Ttk5fq9w

President of Colombia in Mexico

Juan Manuel Santos is on an official visit to Mexico. I interviewed him two yearas ago, before he was a presidential candidate.  I used this interview for a report broadcast on Seguridad Total TV.  Watch the two part report at www.anamariasalazar.com

News Summary for August 2d, 2011

++ Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos congratulated Mexican President Felipe Calderón on his fight against drug trafficking and called on him to continue on the same path even though the cost might be very high.

++ The Attorney General’s Office confirmed that 21 state representatives resigned last Friday as part of a purge within the agency.  Attorney General Marisela Morales Ibáñez said the resignation of state representatives allows the agency to cleanse the institution and create what the people need with the results the population demands.

News Summary for August 1st, 2011

Can`t believe that we are now starting August.  The summer is almost over!  Following is a summary of the most important news for August 1st, 2011: 

An explosion Saturday in the Miguel Hidalgo refinery in Tula, Hidalgo state killed three people… An investigation was launched into the causes of the accident…

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 Authorities captured José Antonio Acosta Hernández, known as “El Diego,” who is accused of being one of the chief operatives of the Juárez cartel and allegedly to blame for the murders of more than 1,500 people… among them the young peoples shot to death in Salvárcar district in Ciudad Juárez…

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Aeroméxico was set to carry out its first flight using biofuel… The flight would be taking off from Mexico City bound for Madrid…

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