Two men hung from bridge in Atizapán, Edomex
Borderland BeatThe bodies of two men were found hanging Saturday morning from an overpass located between Ignacio Zaragoza Boulevard and Lechería-Chamapa Highway, in the neighborhood of Las Torres de...
View ArticleThe Texas Department of Public Safety Releases its “Threat Overview” for...
Borderland Beat According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Mexican drug cartels pose “the most significant organized crime threat to the state.” That’s according to the Texas Public Safety...
View ArticleKIDNAPPED: ”I Prayed to God and Left Myself in His Hands”
Borderland BeatTestimony #2: ”I Prayed to God and Left Myself in His Hands”Héctor Gordoa was supposed to write about a murder that was posted as a clip on Youtube. He was about to face the same fate...
View Article"La Barbie": An American Druglord
A Borderland Beat post revisit especially informative for newbies and a good read for all, even if it is a re-read VANESSA GRIGORIADIS AND MARY CUDDEHEOn a warm morning in May a few years ago, Edgar...
View ArticleHis Life Threatened: "ValorXTamaulipas" Disappears from Facebook and Twitter
Borderland Beat: Written and Submitted by Tijuano This past February the organized crime offered 600 thousand Mexican Pesos(about 50000 USD) to anyone who gave information about the creator of Valor...
View ArticleSinaloa:CDG Alliance Over BLO Again Allied
Borderland Beat The alliance of Gulf Cartel and CDS (The Federation) has ended; that is a rumor that is growing and recent events indicate. At the beginning of the rupture between CDG and Zetas, the...
View ArticleEaster Week Ends With 72 Deaths In Four Days
Human head found in Ciudad Juárez, ChihuahuaSince the past “Holy Thursday” until the evening of Easter Sunday, at least 72 people were killed in different parts of the country, according to a new...
View ArticleINFILTRATION: Mexican Cartels Move Agents Deep Inside US Borders
Borderland BeatMexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an...
View ArticleWas this child a killer?
Proceso (4-2-13)[Background: Jorge Armando Moreno, 13 years old, was killed on February 27, 2013. His body was found with five other bodies on the side of the highway between Morelos and Vetagrande,...
View ArticleBloody readjustments: the view from Washington
Proceso/El Diario de Coahuila (4-1-13)Jesus EsquivelTranslated by un vato for Borderland BeatDespite the daily confrontations and murders in northern Mexico, the U.S. military and a drug trafficking...
View ArticleMessage From Chapo to Z40
Borderland BeatAt least two narco banners, appeared today early morning on two pedestrian bridges of Nuevo Laredo, the banners were quickly removed by personnel of the Police.The messages that were...
View ArticleLos Zetas and MS-13 team up in Central America
"Tijuano" for Borderland Beat The Salvadoran Mara has become a major link in the human and drug smuggling chains that Los Zetas have in Central America.The services that these Centro American gang...
View ArticleMexico's Blog del Narco Author is Revealed as a Young Woman
Borderland BeatVaya Con Dios, "Lucy!" y Blog del Narco!This story was produced in partnership with the Guardian, where a version of this story also appears.Guardian version Rory Carroll , Texas...
View ArticleCJNG Releases New Video
Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat A new video in which Cartel of Jalisco New Generation (C.J.N.G) sends a narco communiqué directed to the citizens of Jalisco.Seen on the video are more than 70 armed...
View ArticleMexican Army seizes 5 tons from Chapo in BCS
Tijuano for Borderland Beat Almost 5 tons of Marijuana were seized in a check point in San Ignacio, BCS.The first investigations regarding this seizure of almost 5 tons of drugs in a checkpoint in San...
View ArticleMexican Army detains El Pipo in Zacatecas state
By Chris CovertRantburg.comNumerous Mexican federal police and army counternarcotics operations taking place in the center of Zacatecas state has yielded the detention of a Gulf Cartel plaza boss,...
View Article"EL Mayo's Bad Night and The Proceso Interview
Borderland Beat "El Mayo's Bad Night and The Proceso Zambada Interview"Translated by "Chumuko212" and previously posted on BBHe felt the Army close, "right over my head" Said el Mayo , but was able to...
View ArticleJavier Torres Felix aka "El JT": Released? New Photo
Chivis Martinez Borderland BeatAt left is the photo said to be the first after his release-on the right an older photoAccording to an article published by the publication “La Pared” and posted on BB...
View ArticleWhen Mexico chose not to capture El Chapo Guzman
El Diario de Coahuila/Proceso (4-6-2013)J. Jesus EsquivelTranslated by un vato for Borderland Beat[I have translated two articles that appeared in Proceso and other sources yesterday and today. In my...
View ArticleMexican government seals cartel information for twelve years
Proceso (4-7-2013)Translated by un vato for Borderland BeatMEXICO, DF. (proceso.com.mx).--The Mexican Office of Attorney General (PGR: Procuraduria General de la Republica) has decided to restrict...
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