News Summary for January 19, 2009
What do they see that we don´t….Michael Hayden, head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency said Mexico and Iran are more important than Iraq in terms of foreign policy for the United States, in view of the violence sparked by the drug cartels

.----U.S. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said that even though Mexico is threatened by violence, the United States has no plans to send land forces to this country, but rather to strengthen training of Mexican agents to make them more effective.

----Meanwhile here in Mexico, Senate Security Committee chairman PAN Senator Felipe González said the CIA report should serve so that neighbors to the north do what is their responsibility and control arms trafficking…

----The Attorney General’s Office asked for an extension of another 40 days of temporary detainment for former special organized crime investigations deputy attorney general Noé Ramírez Mandujano, who is accused of possible links to the Sinaloa cartel... According to Televisa, the former heads of Interpol Mexico are being investigated for links to the Cartels. ----

Criminal charges were filed against two police judicial sector police officers and 19 municipal police officers in Tijuana… The officers, accused of supporting and protecting the Arellano Félix drug cartel, were sent to a federal prison in Nayarit…

----At least 18 executions took place in different parts of Mexico over the weekend:

• six of the murders were in Guerrero;
• five in Chihuahua;
• three in Guanajuato;
• two in Nuevo León;
• one in Jalisco
• and the other in the State of Mexico...

----Federal agents arrested a woman at the Mexico City International Airport who was trying to leave the country, heading for Costa Rica, with nearly 90,000 dollars hidden in her clothes…


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