Shouting In Michoacán: Voices Against The Surrender Part 1
Note from the editor: “Shouting in Michoacán: Voices against the surrender” is a journalistic work that goes into social networks to give a voice to the victims of violence in that state. It is by...
View Article3 more homes torched in Choix, Sinaloa
By Chris CovertRantburg.comArmed suspects entered the far northern Sinaloa state municipality of Choix firing rifles and incinerating homes, according to Mexican news reports.A wire dispatch which...
View Article6 die in southern Chihuahua
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of six individuals were murdered or were found dead in southern Chihuahua state municipalities since last last Thursday, according to Mexican news accounts.According...
View ArticleDecapitated in Coyuca de Benitéz
Borderland BeatAuthorities were alerted by an anonymous call to 066 that "La Limpiadora" left a head in the pueblo of San Isidro in the municipality of Coyuca de Benitéz. Police hustled to the...
View ArticleThe Juarez Cartel Sinks into Oblivion Since the Death of Rodolfo Carrillo...
Posted on Borderland Beat by Siskiyou_kid Chapo Guzman ordered the killing of Rodolfo Carrillo, the brother of Amado Carrillo, marking the split absolute between the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels....
View ArticleMore details on the Choix attacks
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of 20 armed suspects crossed by boat to Presa de Los Leones and shot at an unarmed civilian and torched one home Monday, according to various news accounts posted in...
View ArticleBar Heaven: Suspect Reveals the Tepito 13 Were Decapitated Alive
Borderland BeatThe 13 bodies were found on this ranch, all had been killed by decapitation and buried in shallow graves Pedro Francisco Paz Lopez, “El Mariguano”(stoner/pothead), one of the last...
View ArticleMexican Cartel's Pandemonium in Panama
Borderland Beat Panama • Local media said today Mexican drug trafficking groups operating in Panama are using the country as a base for trafficking cocaine from Colombia to Mexico and the United...
View ArticleZetas Flood Tamaulipas wIth Narcomantas
Chivis Martínez for Borderland BeatOn Wednesday, narcomantas (narco message banners) flooded various parts of Tamaulipas, signed by " Los Zetas " and directed against the Cartel del Golfo (CDG) and...
View ArticleKidnapping and extortion increases in Mexico
By Chris CovertRantburg.comKidnappings and extortion reports increased by double digits in the first eight months of the Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto's administration, according to a news...
View ArticleAnother son of "Los Lorenzana" family captured linked to El Chapo in Guatemala
Borderland BeatGUATEMALA. - on Tuesday The Guatemala security forces captured Waldemar Lorenzana Cordón, son of Waldemar Lorenzana Lima, alias "El Patriarca," alleged leader of a local cartel...
View Article“Don’t Find Me Hanging From A Bridge” Part 2
By: Óscar BalderasEditor's Note: “Shouting in Michoacán: Voices against the surrender” is a journalistic work that goes into social networks to give a voice to the victims of violence in that state....
View Article4 die in southern Chihuahua
A total of four individuals were killed, or were found dead, and two were wounded in ongoing drug and gang violence in southern Chihuahua municipalities, according to Mexican news reports.A man in his...
View ArticleHomicide Prosecutor of Attorney General (PGJE) of Guanajuato Executed
Borderland BeatA prosecutor specializing in homicide for the Office of the Guanajuato Attorney General (PGJE) was executed last night in Leon, Guanajuato. Jose Antonio Guerrero Salazar, was shot to...
View ArticleCJNG Makes All out Move into Michoacán
Chivis Martinez for Borderland BeatNew photos of Nemesio Oseguera aka El Mencho, have been making the rounds. There is no way to verify the authenticity that they are in fact Mencho, the premier...
View ArticleGulf Cartel distributes tons of supplies to victims of hurricane ingrid
Proceso (9-22-13) (www.proceso.com.mx/?p=353468)Translated by un vato for Borderland BeatTAMPICO, Tamaulipas (proceso.com.mx).-- Faced with the lack of response from federal and state governments in...
View Article10 die in northern Chihuahua massacre
Updated with new information Updated, again with updated death toll and new information A total of ren unidentified individuals were massacred in northern Chihuahua, according to a Mexican news...
View ArticleTwo more police officers detained for el bar Heaven
Borderland BeatTwo police officers of the Secretariat of Public Security of the Federal District were detained for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of 13 people which occurred on May 26 in...
View Article4 more die in Chihuahua state
A total of four unidentified individuals were killed or were found dead in southern Chihuahua since Sunday, according to Mexican news accounts.Two unidentified armed suspects were killed in an armed...
View ArticleSEGOB Osorio Chong to face queries on police certifications
SEGOB Miguel Osorio ChongBy Chris CovertRantburg.comMexico's Secretaria de Gobernacion (SEGOB), or interior minister, Miguel Osorio Chong is expected to meet with Mexican national deputies Friday to...
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