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Air-conditioned drugs smuggling tunnel discovered on US-Mexico border.

Mexican police have arrested eight men after discovering a sophisticated drug smuggling tunnel complete with air conditioning and a lift being dug into the United States.

Dramatic footage shows the moment a submarine carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $165 million was intercepted by the US coast guard in September, 2019.

In 2017, authority discovered mass grave with 255 skulls.

In 2018, at least 166 skulls and 140 Id cards have been found in a mass grave in Mexico where drug cartels are known to dump their victims' bodies.

2019, Mexican investigators confirm at least 44 mutilated bodies were found in a mass grave after residents reported a foul smell.

The dismembered remains were stuffed inside 119 black bags and buried in a well outside the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco.


Thousands of unidentified bodies have been discovered in mass graves across Mexico.

American-born Edgar Valdez Villareal, or 'La Barbie,' of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, was arrested in August 2010 in Mexico, and smiled as he was paraded in front of the press.

The Zetas cartel was blamed for setting fire to the Casino Royale in Monterrey, Mexico, killing 52 people.

A murder victim lays in the street in the city of Guadalajara, a short distance from where the truck ended up being dumped.

In September, 2018, a truck filled with the rotting bodies of 157 murder victims ended up dumped in a field in Mexico as the country struggles to cope with a record number of murders.

The bodies were loaded on to the refrigerated lorry in Jalisco state after morgues ran out of space, before it ended up behind a residential building.

Two bodies hang from a bridge in Mexico.

Cartels have developed reputations for sickening brutality seeming to kill for pleasure.

They behead, dismember with chainsaw, skin alive their victims.

Killing is not problem, but the killing method and numbers of families/relatives/friends that will be cleared along side.



Queenpin apprehended by Mexican authority.

Mexican army soldiers display $15 million in Mexico City.

The money was seized from alleged members of the Guzman Loera drug cartel during a raid in the border town of Tijuana, Mexico.



In 2007 Mexican authorities made the largest cash seizure in history when they discovered $205 million in the home of a cartel Lord.

The cartels arm themselves heavily. Here, Mexican Federal Police display a large cache of high-powered weapons, grenades, ammunition and 2 kilos of cocaine, all seized from the Zetas cartel.

Mexican Federal Police stand guard over 105 tons of marijuana seized in Tijuana, Mexico, in October 2010. Smuggling remains a booming business.

For example, south of the border it costs $2,000 to produce a kilo of cocaine from leaf to lab, according to the DEA. In America, a kilo's street value is significantly higher.

Timeline:

December 11, 2006 - Newly elected Mexican President Felipe Calderon deploys more than 6,500 Mexican soldiers to the state of Michoacán to battle drug traffickers.
2006 - In the first few weeks of the government crackdown on drug trafficking, 62 people were killed. (Mexican government, April 2010)

February 2007 - More than 20,000 Mexican soldiers and federal police are spread out across Mexico as part of President Calderon's drug war.

June 25, 2007 - President Calderon fires 284 federal police commanders to weed out corruption.

20007 - In the first full year of the drug war, 2,837 people were killed. (Mexican government, April 2010)

May 8, 2008 - Edgar Eusebio Millan Gomez, Mexico's federal police chief, and two bodyguards are killed in Mexico City.

May 9, 2008 - The commander of Mexico City's investigative police force, Esteban Roble Espinosa, is killed outside his home.

November 1, 2008 - The acting head of Mexico's Federal Police, Victor Gerardo Garay, resigns under suspicion of corruption.

In 2008, 6,844 people are killed in Mexico's drug war. (Mexican government, April 2010).

The Mexican government reports 9,635 deaths in 2009 in the drug war. (Mexican government, April 2010)

August 25, 2010 - The bodies of 72 migrants from South and Central America are discovered on a ranch in Tamaulipas state. It is believed the 58 men and 14 women were kidnapped by the Los Zetas cartel and killed for refusing to traffic drugs.

January 2011 - The Mexican government says that 34,612 citizens have been killed during the four-year drug war.

March 5, 2011 - Alleged Los Zetas drug cartel member Mario Jimenez Perez is arrested in connection with Zapata's murder.

April 2011 - Several mass graves holding 177 bodies are discovered in Tamaulipas, the same area where the bodies of 72 migrants were discovered in 2010.

May 29, 2011 - Ten police officers, including a police chief, are arrested on charges of protecting the Los Zetas drug cartel.

July 27, 2011 - Edgar Jimenez Lugo, known as "El Ponchis" or "The Cloak," a 14-year-old American citizen with suspected drug cartel ties, is found guilty of beheading at least four people. He is sentenced to three years, the maximum for a juvenile, in a Mexican correctional facility.

January 11, 2012 - The office of Mexico's Attorney General releases a statement saying that nearly 13,000 people were killed in drug violence between January and September 2011.

February 22, 2014 - A US official tells CNN that Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the boss of one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking operations, has been arrested in Mexico.

July 11, 2015 - "El Chapo" escapes through a hole in his cell block that led to a tunnel nearly a mile long. Guzman previously escaped from prison in 2001 in a laundry cart and eluded authorities for more than a dozen years until his capture in 2014.

January 8, 2016 - Mexican security forces arrest Guzman in Sinaloa. While on the run, he met with actor Sean Penn in October for an interview published in Rolling Stone.

January 19, 2017 - Mexico's Foreign Ministry turns Guzman over to US authorities.

February 12, 2019 - Guzmán is convicted of 10 counts in a New York federal court. He faces a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for leading a continuing criminal enterprise, and a sentence of up to life imprisonment on drug counts. His attorneys say they plan to file an appeal on a number of issues.

August 8, 2019 - Mexican police find 19 bodies in Mexico City. Nine of the bodies are found hanging from an overpass alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rival cartels.

Sinaloa Cartel - Considered to be the dominant drug trafficking organization in Mexico.

It was founded and led by Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was arrested in 2014, escaped in July 2015, and rearrested in January 2016.

He was convicted in a US federal court in February 2019. The cartel may now be operating "with a more horizontal leadership structure than previously thought," according the US DEA report.

Major Cartels:

Beltran Leyva - Founded by the four Beltran Leyva brothers, Arturo, Carlos, Alfredo and Hector. Formerly aligned with the Sinaloa cartel.

All of the brothers have been killed or arrested, but "remnants" of the group continues to operate in parts of Mexico, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency's 2018 National Drug Threat Assessment.

The subgroups rely on alliances with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the Juarez Cartel and Los Zetas.

Gulf Cartel - Based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, it started in 1920. It split with its enforcers, Los Zetas, by 2010, and the fallout between the two groups has been called the "most violent in the history of organized crime in Mexico," according to a 2018 Congressional Research Service report. The cartel is now splintered into small, competing gangs.

Jalisco New Generation - Split from the Sinaloa Cartel in 2010, it is "one of the most powerful and fastest growing in Mexico and the United States," according to the DEA assessment. The Mexican government has warned it's one of the most dangerous cartels in the country, especially after it shot down a military helicopter in May 2015. Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," is believed to be the group's leader.

Juarez Cartel - Formerly aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, then began fighting it for control of Ciudad Juarez and the state of Chihuahua.

La Familia Michoacana - Based in the Michoacan state. Possibly defunct as of 2011. It announced it would disband in 2010, but some cells are still active in Guerrero and Mexico states, according to the Congressional Research Service report.

Los Zetas Cartel - Comprised of former elite members of the Mexican military. Initially they worked as hit men for the Gulf Cartel, before becoming independent.

The group has a reputation for being particularly savage and is known for massacres, killing civilians, leaving body parts in public places and posting killings on the internet.

The group's main asset is not drugs, but organized violence, including theft, extortion, human smuggling and kidnapping, according to the Congressional Research Report.


Tijuana/Arellano Felix Cartel - Based in Tijuana. Most of the Arellano Felix brothers have been apprehended or killed.

Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 billion and $39 billion annually from drug sales in the US.

Facts:

Enrique Peña Nieto, who was president from 2012 to 2018, continued the fight started by President Felipe Calderon against the cartels and drug-related violence.

A huge victory for his administration was the 2014 arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the boss of one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking operations, the Sinaloa cartel.

According to a 2018 Congressional Research Service report, "many sources indicate" that about 150,000 intentional homicides since 2006 were organized crime-related.


Over 500 servicemen killed and 137 missing.

4,020 Federal, State, and Municipal Police killed.

2006 till date....



The Mexican government has been fighting a war with drug traffickers since December 2006.

At the same time, drug cartels have fought each other for supremacy, power, and control of territory.




A skull of someone thought to be a victim of drug violence lies on the ground in Ciudad Juarez.

The border city of Juarez has been racked by violent drug-related crime, making it one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico's war on drugs.

According to figures released on January 11 by the Mexican government, 12,903 people were killed in drug-related violence in the first nine months of 2011.




https://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/02/world/americas/mexico-drug-war-fast-facts/index.html?no-st=9999999999
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Final Destination Plot.


A Georgia driver is lucky to be a alive after a terrifying collision with a logging truck that saw his SUV impaled front-to-back by dozens of felled trees.

Chilling photos posted on Facebook by the Whitfield County Fire Department in October show a black 2003 Nissan Xterra pierced clear through by a bundle of logs.

According to officials, the driver of the SUV was bending to pick up a cup of coffee he had dropped when he smashed into the back of the truck transporting logs.


Firefighters had to use chainsaws to cut their way through the logs and extricate the victim.





https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7597733/amp/Miraculous-escape-driver-car-impaled-logs-crash.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44

The Catholic Church has launched an investigation after two missionary nuns became pregnant while working in Africa.

The two women, who belonged to separate religious orders in Sicily, are now expecting children despite their vows of chastity.

One of them, a mother superior, found she was several weeks pregnant while the other woman discovered the news when she complained of stomach pain.

Both nuns are now facing an uncertain future in their profession and the scandal has caused 'consternation' among the clergy.

'They both breached strict rules of chastity but the welfare of their children is uppermost.'

The nuns may now choose to give up their monastic life altogether and focus on raising their children.

The Catholic Church, headed by Pope Francis (pictured at the Vatican yesterday), has launched a probe after the two nuns became pregnant.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7650503/amp/Catholic-Church-investigates-two-missionary-nuns-pregnant.html

Mr Chelsea after the transplants.

Dr Bondah Pomahac (left), the plastic surgeon who led the transplant team said that Chelsea has recovered extremely quickly despite being the oldest person ever to receive a new face.

In July, 2018, it took a team of 45 doctors and nurses 18 hours of surgeries and skin grafts to save Chelsea's life and the tissue of his lips, left ear, part and part of his nose died, leaving his face disfigured for the last six years.

A California man has become the first African American to receive a face transplant after waiting six years to find skin that matched his own.

Robert Chelsea told Time that he turned down the first face that doctors found for him in 2018 because the donor was fairer than him and he didn't want to become a 'totally different looking person.'

At long last, Chelsea got a new face in July in 2019.

In August, 2013, Chelsea was waiting for his overheated car to cool down on the side of a Los Angeles freeway in when a drunk driver swerved into the left-hand shoulder where Chelsea was sitting in his vehicle.

Chelsea's car was instantly engulfed in flames.

About half of his body was covered in third-degree burn.

Chelsea pictured with daughter before the accident and after.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7610017/amp/California-father-black-man-face-transplant.html

Youngsage:
Your point is well understood and I'm not disputing that the schools of other countries there are also the standard in the respective countries.

Now, would you say that the picture of 'Nigeria' up there, is also the standard of public schools in Nigeria?
If not, is it fair to have it up there on a public forum as this?

You're dissapointed because you don't comprehend.

That first two photos are not representing all public schools in Nigeria, there are far better public schools even here in my local town(Not to talk of Lagos/Abuja).

But as rich as Nigeria is, despite the Billions allocated annually for education most especially in the North, these kids don't deserve this treatment.


You cannot see a public school in this condition in the US/UK/Canada/Europe. Even in their rural/village setting(Use google).

This picture is an Elementary school In Albany, a village in Wisconsin, US. The population of this location is 1000.

atimadesign:
There is no country without rural areas with lower class citizens and villagers; We have fantastic breakfast halls in Nigeria's private schools.

You're right bro, but do something for me. Google villages in US states or in the UK/Europe, then search for elementary schools in your results.

You will see yourself.

Photos of kids in different public schools, different countries, eating launch.


This is so heartbreaking, government of a state/country treating leaders of tomorrow like animals.

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vincentjk:
So what are you now?

sorry to ask

Smiles.....Civil servant.

folake4u:
Ever since I was a child I always wanted to be either an accountant, paediatrician, or a nutritionist.
But Maths show me shege! .

Currently pursuing my career to secure an LL.B in the bag!.

Lol..... Mathematics and fund stopped me from flying planes.

AsapKen:
I'm touched explorers is viewing my thread

Serious buyer should view your thread o. Me just feeding eyes ni o

Nice ride, happy sale.

To be a Pilot, but didn't come true.

The 36-year-old was found unresponsive on the floor Wednesday night with the reticulated python wrapped loosely around her neck.

Total of 140 snakes were found in the home in Oxford, Missouri police said.

Police say a mother has been found dead with an 8-foot-long (2.4-meter-long) python wrapped around her neck at a snake-laden home in northern Indiana.

Authorities said Laura Hurst could have been squeezed to death where 140 snakes were kept.




https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7636585/amp/Indiana-woman-dead-8-foot-python-neck.html
Lalasticlala, Mynd44