Vacationing in Guatemala anytime soon?
Hey mister tourist would you like to buy some of my fresh picked Bananas and Mangos? Oh those aren't mangos... excuse the Human heads, the damn Kids these days.
Its about as nice as Mexico or say Afghanistan and Pakistan hell even Somalia and Yemen! Drug wars, Beheadings what a mess.
BBC
The decapitated bodies of at least 25 men and two women have been found near Guatemala's border with Mexico.
The bodies were discovered on a ranch in Peten province, 500km (310 miles) north of the capital.
Police said the killings could be linked to a battle between drug gangs fighting for control of the area.
Mexican cartels are increasingly moving into northern Guatemala, an important transit point for drugs smuggled from South America to the US.
"This is the worst massacre we have seen in modern times," police spokesman Donald Gonzalez told Reuters.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Headless bodies found in northern Guatemala
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Drug gang suspects threaten 'war' in Guatemala
The Zetas have begun controlling cocaine trafficking in the area since the gang killed Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon in 2008. They are blamed for numerous shootings in the region, plus the killing of five police officers in 2009, a confrontation that resulted in the confiscation of 500 grenades and other military weapons and ammunition.
Yeah, it is not a big problem.
Just pay no Attention.
Mexico will not let a war breakout.(sarc off)
Foxnews
Men claiming to belong to the Zetas drug gang forced radio stations to broadcast a threat of war in a northern Guatemalan province where the government declared a state of siege last week, authorities said Tuesday.
The men arrived at three radio stations in the northern city of Coban and threatened to burn the premises down and kill journalists and their families if the message was not broadcast, Interior Ministry spokesman Nery Morales said.
The message, which the radio broadcasters read out Monday, threatened violence if Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom does not fulfill unspecified promises. It said "war will start in this country, in shopping malls, schools and police stations."
Guatemala declared a monthlong state of siege Dec. 19 in the northern province of Alta Verapaz, a prime corridor for smuggling drugs from Honduras to Mexico and a bastion of Mexico's brutal Zetas drug gang.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Mexico can't control border
Not that border silly, Their southern border.
Mexico does not have a problem with their northern border, that is our problem.
El Paso Times
The Mexican government has no control of its 577-mile border with Guatemala, where arms, drugs and immigrant smugglers appear to have free rein, according to a U.S. diplomatic cable disclosed recently by WikiLeaks.
The document says that Mexico does not have enough resources to patrol the border.
"Limited resources also undermine the effort: while there are 30,000 U.S. CBP officers on the 1,926-mile Mexican/U.S. border, only 125 Mexican immigration officials monitor the 577-mile border with Guatemala," the document states.
"The weakness of the state (Guatemalan government), the pervasive violence, the widespread corruption, and the country's strategic location for drug trafficking are creating a very dangerous cocktail."
The state of lawlessness in Guatemala is such that residents rely on the Zetas instead of police to provide security, the released documents say. The Zetas, who formerly worked for the Gulf cartel, are reported to be making inroads in Chihuahua state.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Guatemala tries Mexican massacre suspects
Guatemalan police say the massacre is proof that the violence perpetrated by Mexican cartels is increasingly spilling into neighbouring countries.
And according to the Federal judge in Arizona This is not a problem !
We should keep the Borders open and let the Flood of Illegal Immigration Keep Flooding the United States .
You never know what it will take to get people to realize something needs to be done about Immigration , Billions of wasted tax Dollars , The Murders of U.S. Citizens , the raping of women in border states , robberies , The Thousands of tons of trash , millions of lost jobs ! ,
None of this matters anymore , regardless of the Fact that 2/3 to 3/4 of the U.S. LEGAL TAX PAYING CITIZENS , want a law like 1070 in place to PROTECT us , Obama and the FEDS are telling us different .
It is Anarchy at it's infancy , and it is only beginning .
BBC
The trial has opened in Guatemala of 14 alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas.
The men have been charged with the murder of 11 people in 2008.
Prosecutors say the killings were part of a turf war between Mexican and Guatemalan cartels.
Guatemalan police say the massacre is proof that the violence perpetrated by Mexican cartels is increasingly spilling into neighbouring countries.
US Drug Enforcement Administration officials say Guatemala has long been an important stop on the drugs smuggling route from the cocaine-producing South American countries of Peru, Bolivia and Colombia to the markets in the United States.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Guatemala nabs cocaine-stuffed submarine in Pacific
These guys are getting ballsier and ballsier , making their own submarines to transport their products !
To bad some of them just don't go legit , they could probably make a good living with their skills , and not have to worry about going to prison !
(Reuters) - Guatemala's navy captured a makeshift submarine loaded with five metric tons of cocaine bound for the United States, the Guatemalan military said on Sunday.
The navy, which was working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on the operation, stopped the 55-foot (17-meter) vessel on Friday off Guatemala's Pacific coast and arrested four Colombian men on board.
"There was a sleeping compartment, another (compartment) for the engine, and a third for cargo which was full of cocaine," armed forces spokesman Byron Gutierrez told a news conference.
The four men were taken into custody by DEA agents.
Drug cartels ship hundreds of metric tons of cocaine from Latin America to the United States every year.
In October 2009, a similar submersible was found 108 miles off the Guatemalan coast, packed with 10 metric tons of cocaine.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Mexican drug cartels expand abroad
A little Business expansion going on within the Cartels ! By way of Grenades , Assault rifles and Killing those in their way !
Associated press / NPR....
Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of attackers ambushed his entourage with grenades and assault rifles, killing Leon and 10 others in a brazen demonstration of power.
Mexican drug traffickers are branching out as never before — spreading their tentacles into 47 nations, including the U.S., Guatemala and even Colombia, long the heart of the drug trade in Latin America.
The expansion comes amid a military crackdown in Mexico and the arrests of major Colombian suppliers and poses a new challenge for efforts to stop the flow of drugs into the United States.
In dozens of interviews with officials and experts in seven countries, The Associated Press found that the Mexican mobs increasingly buy directly from the cocaine-producing Andes and have begun using countries as distant as Argentina to obtain the raw material for methamphetamine. Mexican gangsters have been arrested as far away as Malaysia as they seek new markets for cocaine and "meth" supply sources.
"There are more Mexican drug traffickers in South America today than at any time ever, period," said Jay Bergman, the Andean regional director for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Guatemala finds Mexico drug smuggler training camp
Sounds like the cartels have been paying Attention to Al Qaida and their training methods , or is this just how Terrorists training camps are run ?
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan security forces have discovered a camp run by Mexico's most violent drug gang where traffickers trained dozens of gunmen, police said on Friday.
Security forces were tipped off about suspicious activity at a ranch in Quiche, in the central highlands, by residents who said men in ski masks were asking villagers to join their ranks, police chief Marlene Blanco said at a news conference.
Two commanders of the Zetas, the armed wing of Mexico's Gulf cartel, and 37 recruits fled the camp before the police and army arrived, leaving behind 500 grenades, six rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, Blanco said.
The spiraling violence of Mexico's drug war, where rival cartels have resorted to savage tactics in their struggle for territory, killed more than 6,200 people last year and has stoked increasing concern from both ordinary Mexicans and the country's neighbors.
"They wanted to recruit young men. They offered training in the use of certain weapons and said they had jobs," Blanco said.
Guatemalan authorities, helped by personnel from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, also found an illegal airstrip, an obstacle course and equipment for practicing shooting at moving targets.
"We are facing a war against drug trafficking and you can see what kind of weapons they have waiting for us," Blanco said.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed tens of thousands of soldiers in a bid to crack down on the violence.
Police believe a series of attacks on buses in Guatemala City in the past week were orchestrated by the Zetas to distract attention from the border where they had been shipping illegal arms and drugs into and out of the country.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Mexican drug gang menace spreads in Guatemala
Like any business , the trafficking of drugs is all about money ! The cartels will always try to expand their turf , to make more money ! when they are met with resistance , they fight and kill their way through it ! When things are looking tough ( Like when the U.S. ,Says it may Step in to help !) They will move on !
Does that mean the cartels are done through out northern Mexico ? Hell no , it's more likely their back up plan !
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemala, scarred by years of civil war and rampant street gang crime, is suffering a new scourge as violent Mexican drug traffickers put down deep roots in the country.
A Mexican army crackdown has driven some cartels to seek a haven for their operations across the border in Guatemala, attracted by endemic corruption, weak policing and its position on the overland smuggling route north for Colombian cocaine.
That is a headache for President Alvaro Colom as the cartels employ the same violent tactics that have sown terror in Mexico.
"They are moving in because Guatemala is a paradise for drug traffickers. It's a poor country with a lot of corruption and the judicial system is very weak," Guatemalan Vice President Rafael Espada told Reuters in a recent interview.
Scores of Mexican traffickers are operating in Guatemala, including members of the Sinaloa cartel run by top fugitive Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman and the rival Gulf cartel's armed "Zetas" wing, officials say.
"It's the biggest challenge for Colom's government," said Guatemalan political analyst Manuel Villacorta.
Colom's security forces lack money, recruits, equipment, guns and intelligence to face the Mexicans, he said. "It's impossible for Guatemala, with the resources it has, to be able to address the problem."
