{"id":10697,"date":"2009-08-16T21:12:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T04:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2010-08-26T17:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T00:17:42","slug":"mexico-sacks-border-officers-brings-in-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/mexico-sacks-border-officers-brings-in-the-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Sacks Border Officers, Brings In The Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 700 customs officers at airports and land crossings have been replaced in Mexico in a crackdown on corrupt agents who allow drugs and weapons to flow across the country&#8217;s borders, a spokesman for the customs service said yesterday. Reforma newspaper had reported earlier that the contracts of 1,100 agents were allowed to expire on Saturday as part of a plan to modernise the customs service, according to tax and customs sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/aug\/16\/mexico-customs-officers-drugs-corruption\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704504204575445970398254874.html\">Shootout Near School Shocks Mexico<\/a> (online.wsj.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0%2C8599%2C2014003%2C00.html%3Fxid%3Drss-topstories&amp;a=23337371&amp;rid=3e13b387-acea-403a-a752-688ebf012585&amp;e=21b767b68d1af65be195d53f0f66671d\">The Mexican Massacre That Shook All of Latin America<\/a> (time.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/opinion\/leading-articles\/leading-article-mexicos-stark-reminder-of-the-cost-of-prohibition-2061932.html\">Leading article: Mexico&#8217;s stark reminder of the cost of prohibition<\/a> (independent.co.uk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=3e13b387-acea-403a-a752-688ebf012585\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 700 customs officers at airports and land crossings have been replaced in Mexico in a crackdown on corrupt agents who allow drugs and weapons to flow across the country&#8217;s borders, a spokesman for the customs service said yesterday. Reforma newspaper had reported earlier that the contracts of 1,100 agents were allowed to expire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[700],"tags":[1476,3510,220,4662,31,222,139,6312,462,950,1015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23226,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions\/23226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalterroralert.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}