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"Mexico Is a Contradictory Situation-Economy is doing Well, BUT....."
Borderland Beat A Forbes reporter "Looking Back at 2012: A Year of #Mexico #Drugwar Tweets"this post is popping with information and great links- hashtags take you to the tweet, without # takes you to...
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Full Length Video "Reportero": 74 Journalists Killed in Mexico in 11 Years
Borderland BeatThis documentary was released yesterday on POV. It is a factual, in depth account of the danger of narco reporting in Mexico. Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz is Mexico born and immigrated to...
View Article4 die in Zacatecas state
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of three armed suspects were killed in armed confrontations with Mexican Policia Federal agents Monday, as intergang firefights continue in Zacatecas and Fresnillo...
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Saltillo: 3 Men Executed and Casa Migrante Death Threats Continue
Borderland BeatTwo unrelated stories but both from Saltillo. The first is a report of the execution of 3 men. The second is one I touched on in my comments in the past few days. It is in regards to...
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"It Will Be an Eye For an Eye" Guerrero Community Takes Action
Borderland Beat Translated by 'J' the MoverThumbs up all around as citizen police set up check points at all entrances and exits Community members anticipate "it will be an eye for an eye" in...
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Citizens Warn Criminals "We Will Lynch You"
Borderland BeatHere is another story of citizens becoming fed up, then used a page from the book of narco terrorism to deliver their warnings...and it's working..Residents of Xochimilco are worried...
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Monterrey: Homicides Down 31% in 2012- But Now Rising
Borderland BeatBloody StartMonterrey • Nuevo León has had a violent start of year, after registering in its first nine days, 44 executions, returning to standard indexes of criminality of bloody...
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9.4 Tons of Marijuana Confiscated Was Chapo's Loss
Borderland BeatThe discovery occurred in an abandon mechanic workshop on the TJ street of Tehuacan in the colonia Ejido Francisco Villa.The 9.4 tons of marijuana confiscated by the State Preventive...
View Article9 die in Zacatecas and Jalisco
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of 9 unidentified individuals have been killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in Jalisco and Zacatecas states since last Friday, according to Mexican news...
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3 Asian Organized Crime Groups Supply Chapo With Precursor
Borderland BeatThe powerful Chinese Organized Criminal Group the centuries old "Triads", get a cut of all trafficking of each group. They operate a structure that gives them a cut of each layer of...
View ArticleDeath squads; Soldiers with a license to kill
Proceso (1-12-13)Jorge Carrasco Araizaga Translated by un vato for Borderland BeatSince last September, the Nation's Supreme Court ruled that the case of the Ojinaga "death squad" should go to a civil...
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January 13th Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin
by Chris CovertRantburg.comSince December 11th, 2012, Mexican Army units throughout Mexican have seized 11,488.275 kilograms of marijuana, 99 kilograms of marijuana seeds,147.2 kilograms of crystal...
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The 150 Million Dollar Seizure
Casa de BermudezBy ACI - Borderland Beathttp://armchairsborderwars.blogspot.com/The year was 2007 and Mexico was in the process of ramping up its war against the cartels. A strange feeling overtook...
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Freed Child Assassin Resumes Old Habits
Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat When El Ponchis is released I think we can say we can expect much of the same as this thug, only as an American citizen Ponchis is free to “come home” to the United...
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El Chapo's Wicked Web Weaved-Tentacles Revealed
Borderland BeatMexico City (January 14, 2013). - The tentacles of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's network infiltrated deep into to the Armed Forces, the PF, and PGR during the six year administration of...
View Article39 die in central Mexico since Sunday
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of 39 unidentified individuals have been murdered or have been found dead in Mexico state and in Mexico's capital since Sunday, according to Mexican news accounts.A...
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Policia Federal to reinforce Zacatecas
By Chris CovertRantburg.comMexican Policia Federal units will continue to patrol the roads and highways of Zacatecas and more reinforcements are coming, according to Mexican news reports.Miguel Alonzo...
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Drug Cartel Connection Not Ruled Out in Brownsville Mail Bomb
Borderland BeatSix people hospitalized including 5 year old that some reports say opened the package only 1 explosive detonated, the family is not cooperating with police. in another story I am looking...
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Security Chief and Family Executed and 2 Wounded
Borderland BeatMother killed shielding five year old daughter When arriving home in Iztapalapa a police chief of the Secretariat of Citizen Safety (SSC) of the State of Mexico was murdered in an attack...
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Alliance Between El Chapo, Canadian Mafia, Bikers, Fueled NY's Drug Trade
Borderland BeatI provided two versions of this story. One I translated from Proceso today, and the other is the original 'technicolor' New York Post version. Relish the different journalism styles. I...
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