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Captured Zetas "Piracy Czar" linked to Sicario Group
Borderland Beat Send by email:Stop the piracy czar'''' linked to a group of assassinsEmail:To:From:Message:Recipient Email [required] In his statements to authorities, Villanueva said that the profits...
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Victor Baez, Kidnapped Crime Reporter, Found Murdered In Veracruz
MEXICO CITY, June 14 (Reuters) - Assailants kidnapped and killed a reporter who covered the crime beat in Mexico's Veracruz state, officials said on Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks on...
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Police arrest 52 alleged Zetas in Nuevo Leon
Police arrested 52 suspected employees of the notoriously violent Los Zetas drug cartel in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, officials said Wednesday.The detainees include two municipal police...
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New Mexico Mayor is Sentenced for Smuggling Guns to La Linea
Borderland BeatRead a BB related post of Buggs HEREAshley Meeks Reuters The ousted mayor of a small New Mexico border town who helped run nearly 200 firearms to a violent Mexican drug cartel was...
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Mexico's Cartels and How it Got to This
By ACI for Borderland Beat How it happen….The war began before Calderon, but no one could have known what lay in store. It was so unlikely; most thought that some arrangements would be made, life...
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“Vigorous” Background Checks, Nor “Open Secret” Kept Zetas From Horse Racing...
Borderland BeatAT The "Zetas' Stable"; Hiding in plain sight“Vigorous” Background Checks, Nor “Open Secret” Kept Zetas From Horse Racing Business. Stable workers now disclose the stables were referred...
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"El Quico", alleged Zeta leader of Nuevo Laredo and Nephew of Z-40, arrested...
Mexican authorities have announced the arrest of "El Quico", alleged Zeta leader of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas and nephew of Miguel Treviño Morales, Z-40.According to reports, Juan Francisco Treviño...
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The Cover Up of the Cadereyt 49
By ACI for Borderland BeatOn May 13, 2012, 49 mutilated bodies turned up, outside the small village of San Juan. The bodies were piled up on the side of the highway leading to Reynosa. But before we...
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"Chapo Now Controls Juarez and Western Texas
Borderland BeatThe US report affirms that the Sinaloa Cartel has the ability to produce a big scale of methamphetamine in Mexico and is gaining territory to distribute in El Paso-Juarez The...
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Decrease in Homicides Proof of El Chapo Control
Diario de Juarez. 6-15-2012. The decrease in homicides in Ciudad Juarez is an indicator that an organized crime group already has territorial control over drug smuggling, because it's in the interest...
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Another Blow to Z-40, his Financial Operator El Cucho Arrested
Posted in the Borderland Beat Forum by HavanaSource: ProcesoThe federal and state police of Nuevo Leon today dealt a huge blow to Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, El Z-40, second in command of Los Zetas...
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How the Sinaloa Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions
BorderlandBeat By PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE FOR NYTThe American Birth of EL Chapo's Daughters Chapo's wife Emma Coronel, is the nice of Nacho CoronelOne afternoon last August, at a hospital on the...
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Horse Ranch in Zetas Cartel Case Raised Suspicions
More on the Zetas Tervino laundering scheme in horse racing.The Associated PressIf associates of a reputed Mexican drug cartel leader had wanted to lay low while laundering money at an American horse...
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Useless Expense and Failed strategy
Useless Expense and Failed StrategyBy the staff reporters at El Diario de JuarezEl Diario. 6-17-12. Once again the futility of President Calderon's war against drugs was made evident; not even the...
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The Mystery of Knights Templar
By ACI for Borderland Beat In December 2010 the streets of Michoacan were set ablaze, burning vehicles blocked the highways. Black smoke could be seen from miles away, it was a war zone. The smell...
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World Leaders Meet In "A Mexico" Now Giving Brazil a Run For Their Money
Borderland Beat"Are you better off than you were five years ago?", asks President Calderon of his citizens. In 2011 Mexico's economy incresed at a faster pace than the Latin American economic gem,...
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Mexican security forces kill 7 in Veracruz state
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of seven armed suspects were killed in a firefight with a joint Mexican security road patrol late Sunday night in central Veracruz state, according to Mexican news...
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Despite FBI Warning His Life is in Danger, Trevino's Horse Trainer is Released
Borderland Beat Chivis MartinezOnly time will tell who was in the right with this man. Or if he skips town. First the backstory then the decision by the judge.Paz, Chivis An FBI agent says a Texas...
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How to Report on Cartels.....and Live
Borderland Beat Adam Martin It's been a big week for reporting on Mexican drug cartels in The New York Times, where reporters on two stories kept themselves safe by replacing direct danger with lots...
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10 Tons of Marijuana Dumped Off California Coast and 2 Tons off Ensenada
6.20.12 UPDATE: Read the report from the US Navy, details HEREBorderland Beat: reports are all over the place 10, or 12 or 19 tons....whatever, alota mota...and in the waters off of Ensenada, Baja...
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