Warning, graphic content!

Remember the shootout on March 6 between sicarios and the military in Anahuac? Eight sicarios and two soldiers were reported as killed. Well I received anonymously pictures from the scene. Remember some of these photos are graphic depicting violence as the result of the shootout.

Two sicarios, a male in the middle of the street and the female next to the car.

The male next to an AR-15. What I find rare on this photo is that I would think that someone would have moved that rifle away from his hand until they knew for certain that the sicario was dead. Unless they placed it back for the picture.

The female sicario that had been reported as being armed to the teeth. Although there has been instances of females in drug cartels, it is rare for a female to be a sicario and be involved in a shootout.

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Two Police Commanders Slain in Southern Mexico.

Chilpancingo, Mexico – Two command-level police officers were killed here Wednesday, bringing to eight the number of law enforcement agents slain over the past five days in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.

Heraclio Rodriguez and Reynaldo Martinez were fatally shot while driving through Chilpancingo, the state capital, the Guerrero Attorney General’s Office said.

Six police officers were gunned down last weekend in several separate incidents in the Guerrero municipalities of Petatlan and Ciudad Altamirano.

Drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva’s death last December in a shootout with Mexican marines ignited a fierce battle for control of his organization and much of the violence has taken place in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero.

More than 17,000 people have died nationwide since December 2006 in violence arising from the cartels’ internecine struggles and the efforts of the Mexican police and armed forces to crush the drug traffickers.

31 women on list of drug smugglers sought by DEA and FBI in U.S.

El Paso Times

Thirty-one female drug smugglers are among the fugitives being sought by the DEA and FBI in U.S. border states.

They are among 385 people in border regions wanted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Federal agents described five of the women as "armed and dangerous."

U.S. lists do not include an alleged kingpin that Mexican authorities identified as Enedina Arrellano Felix of the Tijuana drug cartel, Another woman -- Sandra Avila Beltran, "Queen of the Pacific cartel" -- is in custody in Mexico.

Arrellano, along with a son, is suspected of taking over the Tijuana cartel. Like Arrellano, Avila had relatives in the drug trade. She is awaiting extradition to the United States on drug charges.

According to prosecution witnesses' testifying in the running El Paso trial of Fernando Ontiveros-Arambula, at least four women were involved in drug-trafficking.

Sylvia "Burra" Carbajal, one of the witnesses, testified that she and her sister, Yvonne Carbajal, smuggled marijuana in the El Paso-Juárez region. She said she also ferried money forOntiveros-Arambula, and that both she and her sister were romantically involved with the defendant.

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From the archives.
BBC

Violence is running out of control in Mexico as rival drug cartels battle over the smuggling routes to America. Mexico's president has declared war on the gangsters but the only result appears to be an escalation of the killings.

Katya Adler journeys deep into the heart of a shocking conflict, uncovering the human stories behind the seemingly random and disturbing violence. She asks whether the continuing freedom of the world's most powerful drug runner, Joaquin 'Chapo' Guzman, is evidence that the Government's war is toothless.

Mexican federal police present four suspected members of the Norte del Valle de Colombia cartel and packets of cash in U.S. dollars during a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City. Police seized $2.7 million.

The suspects were presented to the media at the command center of the Federal Police, they are headed by José Luis Ladaga Lopez, a native of Mexico City, and the alleged financial operator o fthe Cártel del Norte. He is responsible for laundering large amounts of foreign currency to international financial markets.

Besides Ladaga Lopez the others were Milciades Báez López and Ernesto Ramírez Trujillo, both Columbian, and Ricardo Casasola Chávez.

Mexican federal police present packets of cash in U.S. dollars seized a four suspected members of the Norte del Valle de Colombia cartel during a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City March 9, 2010. Police said was seized $2.7 million.

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