http://www.blacklistednews.com/China_in_closed_door_negotiations_to_purchase_Mexican_crude_oil_without_using_US_dollars/21618/0/0/0/Y/M.html
( Mexico turning their back on the US ? ? )
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/mexico-deploys-troops-to-outskirts-of-mexico-city/
Friday, September 21, 2012 | 
The newspaper Reforma on this Friday revealed that Barragan, son in law of Division General Felix Galvan Lopez, Secretary of National Defense during the Jose Lopez Portillo administration, offered to serve as intermediary between the cartel and the current Secretary of National Defense, General Guillermo Galvan, Attorney General Marisela Morales and General Genaro Robles, deputy director of Operations of the Estado Mayor de la Defensa (equivalent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the U.S. military).
According to investigations by the military and the PGR (Office of Attorney General) to which the newspaper had access, the Army received an anonymous tip on November 3, 2011, which warned that Barragan was meeting with criminals in his offices in Lomas de Sotelo, and was living a life of luxury.
"According to the military and the PGR investigations, in December, "Chapo" Guzman sent his representatives Humberto and Oscar Murguia Guerrero directly to Barragan's office to request his help in arranging a meeting with Secretary Guillermo Galvan."The capo's people asked that the meeting with the Secretary take place away from his office because there were surely microphones in place there.
"The message that the Murguia brothers delivered from Guzman was very specific: they wanted to negotiate an agreement with the Army that involved ending military operations against the Sinaloa Cartel in the northwest part of the country, and in particular, to cease the pursuit of the organization's leader, according to investigation (file) No.PGR/SIEDO/UEITA/004/2012," states the newspaper.
The offer to Galvan was protection for the Sinaloa Cartel in exchange for $140 million dollars.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
Zocalo, the popular Coahuila newspaper, reported that a man Identified as one of the Piedras Negras fugitives was found in Monclova, severally dehydrated. That is a driving distance of 150 miles.
( Mexico turning their back on the US ? ? )
China in closed door negotiations to purchase Mexican crude oil without using US dollars
September 21, 2012
Source: Indy Media - Von Helman
Over the past ten years with new trade agreements China has invested billions of dollars inside Mexico. China has helped the Mexican government create jobs and has financially supported investments in the privatization of ports and infrastructure throughout Mexico. Mexico continues to privatize large sectors of its economy and China is line to benefit from additional investments inside Mexico.
Since the 2009 global economic crisis Mexico's central bank has been quietly purchasing large quantities of gold. Mexico Central bank buys 100 tonnes of gold
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cbc02e10-7637-11e0-b4f7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz27287HHy0
Then again in May 2012 Mexico Central Bank boost gold holdings yet again and some of this gold purchased by Mexico’s Central bank has come from China.
http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=152096&sn=Detail
These large gold purchases by the Mexican Central bank and the successful restriction of the US dollar from use inside Mexico (as already reported) along with a closer relationship with China and speculation of secret petroleum deals that do not include using the US dollar are sure to raise new concerns in global markets as this story continues to unfold. These strategic moves on the part of Mexico’s Government and Mexico’s Central bank are said to be protective measures to shield Mexico from what it sees as the imminent and unavoidable devaluation of the US dollar. (In layman’s terms the collapse of the US Dollar)
Sources inside the Mexican government refuse to confirm that the Mexico government has been in secret negotiations with China over possible crude oil sales to China without using the US dollar.
China officials claim meetings held with the Mexican government and Petróleos Mexicanos (or Pemex) are for investment and economic growth inside Mexico. Crude oil purchases fall under this heading however officials on both sides in the past have stopped short of publicly discussing crude oil or any talks related to any special agreements relating to crude oil purchases. Sources inside Mexico claim this week that China has in fact brokered a secret deal with Pemex to purchase crude oil using currency means other than the US Dollar. The details of this agreement are still unknown at this time but China is expected to make a public announcement within the next few days.
China officials claim meetings held with the Mexican government and Petróleos Mexicanos (or Pemex) are for investment and economic growth inside Mexico. Crude oil purchases fall under this heading however officials on both sides in the past have stopped short of publicly discussing crude oil or any talks related to any special agreements relating to crude oil purchases. Sources inside Mexico claim this week that China has in fact brokered a secret deal with Pemex to purchase crude oil using currency means other than the US Dollar. The details of this agreement are still unknown at this time but China is expected to make a public announcement within the next few days.
Over the past ten years with new trade agreements China has invested billions of dollars inside Mexico. China has helped the Mexican government create jobs and has financially supported investments in the privatization of ports and infrastructure throughout Mexico. Mexico continues to privatize large sectors of its economy and China is line to benefit from additional investments inside Mexico.
Since the 2009 global economic crisis Mexico's central bank has been quietly purchasing large quantities of gold. Mexico Central bank buys 100 tonnes of gold
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cbc02e10-7637-11e0-b4f7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz27287HHy0Then again in May 2012 Mexico Central Bank boost gold holdings yet again and some of this gold purchased by Mexico’s Central bank has come from China.
http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=152096&sn=DetailThese large gold purchases by the Mexican Central bank and the successful restriction of the US dollar from use inside Mexico (as already reported) along with a closer relationship with China and speculation of secret petroleum deals that do not include using the US dollar are sure to raise new concerns in global markets as this story continues to unfold. These strategic moves on the part of Mexico’s Government and Mexico’s Central bank are said to be protective measures to shield Mexico from what it sees as the imminent and unavoidable devaluation of the US dollar. (In layman’s terms the collapse of the US Dollar)
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/mexico-deploys-troops-to-outskirts-of-mexico-city/
Mexico deploys troops to outskirts of Mexico City
Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:33 GMT
* Deployment follows murder of local politician
* Mexico City urban area largely unaffected by drug violence
MEXICO CITY, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Mexico has sent soldiers to patrol a suburb of Mexico City for the first time to combat a rise in drug-related violence that is beginning to encroach on the capital.
From late Wednesday, a combined force of around 1,000 soldiers, federal police and local police took to the streets of Nezahualcoyotl on Mexico City's eastern flank, which has suffered from a dispute between two rival drug cartels.
President Felipe Calderon's fight against drug gangs has overshadowed his administration, and the deployment in Nezahualcoyotl brings the conflict into the home state of his successor Enrique Pena Nieto, who takes office in December.
The local government's request for troops in the sprawling municipality in the State of Mexico follows the murder there this weekend of Jaime Serrano, a local state congressman and member of Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Some Nezahualcoyotl residents told Reuters they had been extorted by criminals identifying themselves as members of the La Familia drug gang.
"Things are getting worse and worse here," said one local man, who asked not to be named. "People here have got used to paying these people (the cartels). If you don't, they say they're going to kill you and your family."
Mexico City and its immediate surroundings have been among the areas least affected by the bloody turf wars between drug gangs and their clashes with security forces, which have killed around 60,000 people over the past six years.
The national death toll from the drug violence has eased somewhat in 2012, according to a tally by newspaper Reforma.
But the bloodletting has crept up in Mexico City and the neighboring State of Mexico, where just over half of the population of the capital's urban area live.
Reforma data showed deaths related to the drug war had reached 550 in the two regions by mid-September, putting the toll on course for a jump of around 15 percent from last year.
Kidnappings in Mexico City and the State of Mexico were also up in the first eight months of 2012, police figures show.
At the heart of the violence in Nezahualcoyotl is a fight for control of a growing market for narcotics and illegal goods between the Zetas and La Familia cartels, said Alberto Islas, a security expert at consultancy Risk Evaluation.
Miguel Angel Mancera, the mayor-elect of Mexico City, told reporters on Thursday he did not expect the security crackdown to send criminals running for cover into the capital, causing what he called a "cockroach effect." The city would take all the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of crime, he said.
However, the reinforcement of Nezahualcoyotl, where more than 1 million people live, was unlikely to yield positive results, Islas said, arguing that the armed forces were not equipped to tackle the sources of the problem.
"The military won't be able to stop the drug-dealing, they won't stop the piracy and they won't stop the impunity that exists in Nezahualcoyotl," he said.
Hours after the patrols began, police found the decapitated bodies of two men in Valle de Chalco, another Mexico City suburb close to Nezahualcoyotl. Earlier this week, officers also found the dismembered bodies of two people there.
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http://www.borderlandbeat.com/
Mexican General tries to bribe Defense Secretary
Friday, September 21, 2012 | Proceso.
9-21-2012
Translated for Borderland Beat by un vato
MEXICO, D.F. (proceso.com.mx)-- Brigadier General Juan Manuel Barragan Espinosa asked the Sinaloa Cartel leaders for two gold watches and ten million dollars in exchange for arranging a private meeting with the highest levels of the Public Security cabinet.The newspaper Reforma on this Friday revealed that Barragan, son in law of Division General Felix Galvan Lopez, Secretary of National Defense during the Jose Lopez Portillo administration, offered to serve as intermediary between the cartel and the current Secretary of National Defense, General Guillermo Galvan, Attorney General Marisela Morales and General Genaro Robles, deputy director of Operations of the Estado Mayor de la Defensa (equivalent to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the U.S. military).
According to investigations by the military and the PGR (Office of Attorney General) to which the newspaper had access, the Army received an anonymous tip on November 3, 2011, which warned that Barragan was meeting with criminals in his offices in Lomas de Sotelo, and was living a life of luxury.
"According to the military and the PGR investigations, in December, "Chapo" Guzman sent his representatives Humberto and Oscar Murguia Guerrero directly to Barragan's office to request his help in arranging a meeting with Secretary Guillermo Galvan."The capo's people asked that the meeting with the Secretary take place away from his office because there were surely microphones in place there.
"The message that the Murguia brothers delivered from Guzman was very specific: they wanted to negotiate an agreement with the Army that involved ending military operations against the Sinaloa Cartel in the northwest part of the country, and in particular, to cease the pursuit of the organization's leader, according to investigation (file) No.PGR/SIEDO/UEITA/004/2012," states the newspaper.
The offer to Galvan was protection for the Sinaloa Cartel in exchange for $140 million dollars.
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PIEDRAS NEGRAS: Zetas Likely Behind Mass Prison Break
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 |
Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat
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| Tunnel prisoners use for their escape (PGR photo) |
Authorities suspect Zetas are likely behind the Piedras Negras mass prison break announced on Monday. The number of 132 dropped to 129 yesterday when three women suspected of escaping were found hiding in the prison. The number again amended late Tuesday when two prisoners not included in the original fugitive list were confirmed to have escaped. The Tally stands at 131.
Reportedly the prisoners escaped through a clandestine tunnel. However other reports say it would be impossible for 132 escapees to pass through the tunnel in a short timeframe without being detected, a more likely scenario is that they escaped over a period of several days. Piedras Negras is a border town directly adjacent to Eagle Pass Texas. The escape tunnel was 21 feet in length and 4 foot in diameter, subsequently passing through the tunnel prisoners cut through a chain link fence to freedom.
Jorge Luis Moran, public safety secretary of Coahuila, told the AP “inmates inside the prison reported that those who plotted the escape were Zetas members and that some prisoners not in the cartel were forced to go along”.
"Clearly, the Zetas are behind this escape," said Moran.
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| Photo of the two fugitives captured in shootout |
Mileno reported late Tuesday; Moran announced two of the inmates were captured after a shooting with state police. They were armed in an SUV driving about 40 miles away from the prison.
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There were a number of stolen and abandoned passenger buses found in various regions that may be connected to the escape and used to transport some of the fugitives out of the area.
A Red Alert was imposed along the border in cities in proximity to Piedras, cities such as Acuna, 55 miles west of Piedras Negras, have soldiers and police at the cities entrances inspecting vehicles entering and exiting.
When the prison break was discovered, a reactionary unit was deployed immediately to Piedras Negras from Saltillo, approximately a four hour drive. During the drive the unit was intercepted by a group of gunmen with high caliber weapons with the obvious intent of disrupting the journey of the special unit.
A shootout commenced that resulted in four of the sicarios being killed.
“The killed individuals were not part of the escapees, but clearly, they are part of the criminal group of the Zetas, which we presumed were the ones that organized the prison break in the CERESO of Piedras Negras, and they attacked the reactionary unit with the purpose of stopping them”, stated Moran.
The General Attorney of Justice of Coahuila (PGJE), Homero Ramos, revealed that the majority of the 129 inmates that escaped belonged to the criminal group of the Zetas and that 86 of them were sentenced for federal offenses, which are linked to drug trafficking.
Officials of the U.S. border reported being on high alert, and Eagle Pass Police Chief Tony Castaneda said his department had received the list of the escaped federal inmates.
The prison housed 734 inmates, but is woefully understaffed having only 12 guards. On Monday, federal Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire said that only 180,000 of the country's 430,000 city and state police officers had been vetted and checked and that about 65,000 of those tested had failed the tests.
Moran complained that Coahuila's attempts to comply with the vetting process may have been responsible for the low number of guards on duty at the Piedras Negras prison when the jailbreak occurred. Also attributed to the cause of the low number, is the recent number of guards and officials were dismissed after failing background checks, he said.
“The prison break of the State penitentiary of Piedras Negras is deplorable.(The) Vulnerability of the state institutions of the states needs to be corrected”, Tweeted Felipe Calderon.
Mass prison breaks are not uncommon in Mexico; however Monday’s prison break is the largest since December 2010 in Nuevo Laredo when 141 inmates escaped from the penitentiary in the Tamaulipas city.
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