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"El Guero Palma has been transferred through Matamoros
As I posted yesterday, there was no official word that Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, 55, alias "El Guero Palma", had been delivered to Mexico, despite earlier indications and reports. Yesterday a couple...
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SEDENA an agent in charge of El Chapo found tortured and murdered
Lucio R. Borderland Beat material from La Prensa and DiarioThe blanket-wrapped body of a man was discovered on a dirt road near colonia Felipe Ángeles in Juarez, has been identified as Jorge Mauricio...
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"El Guero" Palma transferred to Altiplano No. 1 faces murder charges
Lucio R. Borderland Beat material from PGR“El Guero Palma” arrived in Mexico through the border city of Matamoros Tamaulipas, where he was greeted by Mexican officials, agents of the Mexican Navy, and...
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Alleged "Chapo's" goddaughter broadcast a family celebration video
Grecia Venegas Oviedo, daughter of Julian Venegas Guzmán, compadre of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, released a home video where the Sinaloa leader appears during a birthday celebration in 1992.The...
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150 Gunmen shoot up the home of El Chapo's mother, kill neighbors
Lucio R. Borderland Beat Material from El País-RioDoce and Facebook150 gunmen burst into the sanctuary of Guzman Loera, they killed three neighbors and ransacked maternal home.Testimonies collected by...
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Tamaulipas-Oaxaca: Two Journalists killed in less than 24 hours
Posted by DD Republished from in part from JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS Blog and ProcesoJournalist killed in Tamaulipas, Mexico is second journalist killed in that country in less than 24 hoursBy Teresa...
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Guerrero executions: 21 killed in two days
Posted by DD From Mexico News Daily and el Sur Thursday and Friday were bad days in Guerrero where 21 people, including three Federal Police officers, were reported assassinated as drug gang violence...
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Searching for missing daughter costs man his life
Posted by DD Republished from Mexico News DailyA man who spent much of the last five years searching for his missing daughter was killed Wednesday in the northern Veracruz city of Tuxpan.José Jesús...
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At 2 Years in Prison, Mireles Says He Hasn’t Lost Faith
Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat Almost two years after his arrest, José Manuel Mireles argues that the autodefensas didn’t have any other choice but to take up arms to fight against organized...
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A Judge in Jalisco Will Have To Determine in 48 Hours If Dr. Mireles Goes Free
Translated by Valor for Borderland BeatIgnacio Mendoza Jiménez, lawyer of the leader of the autodefensas in Michoacán, said that within 48 hours, a judge in the 7th Circuit Court must decide on his...
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Mexico Sees Most Violent Month Since Calderon Era
Posted by DD republished from InSight CrimeBy David GagneAnti-violence protesters in MexicoThe number of homicides in May reached levels unseen during the administration of Mexico President Enrique...
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"Mexico is massacring its citizens and nobody seems to have noticed"
Posted by DD republished from the Toronto StarBy John M. Ackerman* This time it is impossible to look the other way. The Mexican government is normally adept at managing public opinion so...
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Map:areas of Mexican poppy cultivation-worlds 3rd largest
Lucio R. Borderland Beat material from UNODC reportThe "Golden Triangle" consists of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Durango and Guerrero where the concentration of poppy crops exist in Mexico -a region, which...
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San Diego: An undercover op turns violent in Eastlake
Undercover op unravels in EastlakeThe suburban community of Eastlake, 10 minutes from the San Ysidro border hides many secrets, since the days of the Arellano Felix brothers, when some of their main...
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Mexico "suspends" Chapo's Extradition
Lucio R. Borderland BeatMuch is being made in the news, about the “suspension” of the extradition request of the United States for El Chapo, (Joaquín Guzmán Loera). Whereas it has been suspended, it...
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Ten Years Of War In Mexico: The Bloody Decade
A taxi driver is assassinated in a shopping center in Culiacán. Photo: Rashide Frias, CuartoscuroBy: Alejandro Páez Varela | Translated by Valor for Borderland BeatOn December 11, 2006, with the...
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Guerrero: Faced With Violence, 100 Business Owners Seek Permission to Bear Arms
Translated by Valor for Borderland BeatThe Confederación Patronal de la República Mexicana (COPARMEX) (Employers Confederation of the Mexican Republic), Chilpancingo delegation, said that at least 100...
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Dr. Mireles Will Remain In Prison
Translated by Valor for Borderland BeatIn early 2013, Dr. José Manuel Mireles Valverde took up arms to repel Los Caballeros Templarios in Michoacán. He helped the federal government by recovering...
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Tijuana: Two 'CJNG' lieutenants of 'El Gross' detained
Two of El Gross detainedPrior to a calm weekend in Tijuana, one with a rising number of tourists, two men, aligned with a cell responsible for many killings and atrocities in Tijuana, Colonia Sanchez...
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Padre Island beheaded body, a Mexican cartel and the border agent facing charges
Posted by DD republished from The Center for Investigative ReportingDD; Borderland Beat reported on this story in November 2015 posted by Texcoco de Mora. After months of investigation, as part of a...
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