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The Warriors Jalisco Cartel New Generation
Borderland BeatCartel de Jalisco threatens the Knight TemplarTranslation by El_Cuatro_Veinte from the Borderland Beat forumThe New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) transmits this communication to the...
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"Tony Tormenta" evaded the FBI and DEA
Borderland Beat From the Borderland Beat forum posted by BjeffCredit sources at bottom From the shootout that killed Tony TormentaA decade before he became one of the three leaders of the powerful Gulf...
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Slain Drug Cartel Lawyer Was U.S. Informant
Southlake attorney gunned down last week worked with U.S. agentsBy Scott Gordon5 NBCDFWJuan Guerrero Chapa, 43, was gunned down at about 7 p.m. May 22 at the Southlake Town Square by a masked man who...
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The war for Tijuana, a 20+ year conflict. PART 2
Tijuano for Borderland BeatThe war for Tijuana is not a new war, nor has it ended. In part 1 of this article we explored the history behind the war for Tijuana, we saw how the Arellano Felix brothers...
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The War In Michoacan: Peña Nieto's Version
By: José Gil OlmosMay 26 2013Coalcomán, MichoacánThe mayor’s words strongly thundered like rockets on Sunday, May 19 setting the public on alert when the military arrived to try to disarm the...
View ArticleRage and helplessness; "Los desaparecidos"
El Diario de Coahuila/Proceso (June 2, 2013)Marcela TuratiTranslated by un vato for Borderland BeatMothers and fathers have confronted the administrative disorder of morgues and cemeteries, where...
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Mayhem in Monterrey: 12 die
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of 12 individuals have been killed in ongoing drug and gang related violence in or around Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, including a lynching in Monterrey, according to...
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New Juarez Cartel leader identified: "Ugly Betty".
Borderland BeatNarco Banner signed by the New Juarez CartelMexico D.F. (PROCESO).- At the end of last century, after the death of Amado Carrillo, leader of the Juarez Cartel, the leadership of the...
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7 die in Tamaulipas
A total of seven unidentified individuals were found dead in southern Tamaulipas state last week, according to Mexican news reports.A news report which was posted on the online edition of Grupo...
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La Wera Loka
Borderland BeatMundo Narco or Blog del Narco uploaded a video where four females are interrogated and; ultimately decapitated and dismembered alive. All four are kneeling, three are exposed breast from...
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Mexican Army rescues 165 migrants in Tamaulipas
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of 165 migrants from central and south America were rescued Monday by a Mexican Army unit in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, according to Mexican news and...
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Michoacán Citizens Speak: Caught in the Crossfire
Borderland Beat On April 28th, 2013, just before 5AM, a convoy of 30 trucks travelled on the Los Reyes Highway, through the town Buenavista, Tomatlán. The armed men in the trucks were members of the...
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Bar Heaven Mass Kidnapping: The Tepito 12
Borderland Beat Posted on BB Forum by "K" MennemWritten by K.MennemTwelve young Mexico City citizens disappeared in the morning hours from the Zona Rosa district on Sunday, May 26. It is believed the...
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8 die in Chihuahua state
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of six unidentified individuals were found Friday in a series of graves in Rosales municipality in Chihuahua, according to Mexican news reports.A Notimex wire...
View ArticleMexico City residents disarm
Mexico City residents have swapped personal firearms for consumer products in a program political and social leaders have termed a success, according to Mexican news reports.In a wire dispatch from El...
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Bar Heaven Mass Kidnapping Audio: Witness Account Translated
Chivis Martinez Borderland BeatThe following is the translation of a recorded testimony given by a witness who was a patron at the Bar Heaven, when 12 people were taken in a mass kidnapping in Tepito...
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Mayhem in Ciudad Juarez: 7 die
By Chris CovertRantburg.comThree unidentified individuals were shot to death in front of a bar in Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua state early Monday morning, according to Mexican news accounts.According to...
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Mexican Policia Federal seize 1.4 tons of pot
By Chris CovertRantburg.comMexican Policia Federal units seized 1.4 metric tons of marijuana in two seizures in northern Mexico according to Mexican news accounts.According to a news report which...
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Confronting The Knights Templar
Borderland BeatFrom a desk overlooking the shady plaza of his backwater mountain town, Mayor Rafael Garcia recounts how he and other citizens finally mustered the nerve to take on the gangsters...
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Mexican Army dispatches 2 armed suspects
By Chris CovertRantburg.comSeveral shootouts between rival drug gangs, and with Mexican federal security forces have taken place Monday, leaving two dead in Matamoros in Tamaulipas state, according to...
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