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Border Patrol Interview: how a logical question can stump BP spokesman
Chivis Martínez for Borderland BeatOn BB forum, I posted a number of clips from the just released movie "Narco Cultura", Buggs also posted about the movie and a couple of trailers. Photojournalist...
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CDG Hangs two Young Girls with Message to Z
Borderland BeatFrom the ArchivesOn November 25, 2013 a horrific scene unfolded early in the morning in Fresnillo Zacatecas when two bodies were seen ganging on a pedestrian bridge. A narco message was...
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La Tuta Implicates La Cocoa
Borderland BeatServando Gomez "La Tuta" leader and founder of the La Familia Micoacana and now the Knights Templar released a video on November 27 in which he states that in November of 2006 in...
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Borderland BeatFrom the archivesIn this video, making its rounds on Youtube, shows several unidentified gunmen with a man that is blindfolded and his hands tied behind his back. They make fun of him...
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Update or "re-Wake up Call" on Mexican Cartels and Mining in Mexico
Borderland BeatMEXICO CITY -- Mexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the...
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At what moment did our country become what it is today?
Borderland Beat La Jornada: By Simón Vargas AguilarAt what moment did our country become what it is today? Why has organized crime acquired such power and influence, factors that have permitted it to...
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Drugs, Guns and Bling
Borderland BeatNote: A couple of months ago, I viewed this Ioan Grillo's video of the narco museum (at bottom of this post) and this post from Small Wars Journal provides some interesting...
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"Cholo Ivan" of CDS asks Peña Nieto for help and blames General on former...
Borderland BeatA year after the death of beauty queen Maria Susana Flores in a shootout with the Mexican Army, several banners were left in the municipalities of Culiacan, Salvador Alvarado and...
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Michoacán: "Blood Avocados"
Borderland BeatNote:Michoacán is the leading producer of avocados in the world accounting for half of the world market. Conditions in Michoacán are ideal for production of the preferred Haas avocado,...
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EPN's First Year Notable Criminal Capture Report
Borderland BeatThe Mexican Federal Government feel they have hit the outer circles, nearer to the inner circular bullseye of 'El Chapo.' In the first year of Peña Nieto's presidency, they have captured...
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Leader of The Community Police In Guerrero Detained
The leaderof the Community Policein the village ofEl Paraiso, municipality of Ayutla, ArturoCampos (with microphonein hand).By: Ezequiel Flores ContrerasDecember 1, 2013-Chilpancingo, Guerrero—The...
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Emergence of a New "Revolutionary" Armed Group in Guerrero?
Armed Revolutionary Forces-People’s LiberationBy: Ezequiel Flores ContrerasChilpancingo, Guerrero— The group, Armed Revolutionary Forces-People’s Liberation (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionaras-Liberación...
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Mexican Priests: Danger Persists, 2 Killed in Veracruz, Chapo's Message
Borderland BeatCardinal Rivera gives mass at Santa Martha prison heavily guarded by a ring of policeCatholic Priests in hot areas of Mexico have spoken out against cartels, and the government allowing...
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Update:: truck stolen containing radioactive materials found but unclear if...
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The “Niños Sicarios” Who Behead, Use Drugs and Work for the Narcos
Members of the South Pacific Cartel, most of who are aged 12 to 23 By: Hugo Guzmán RambaldiBetween 2012 and 2013, only the Mexican Army detained 473 minors, 61 of them girls, for being part of drug...
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Caro Quintero asks Peña Nieto for "Justice, not vengeance".
Borderland Beat(Jorge Carrasco Araizaga/PROCESO) With a possible extradition to the United States in the horizont, Rafael Caro Quintero is asking president Enrique Peña Nieto not to be pressured by...
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Fewer Homicides Reported In Michoacán Towns with Self-Defense Groups
A self-defense checkpoint in Tancítaro, MichoacánPhoto: Eduardo MirandaBy: Francisco Castellanos J.Morelia, Michoacán (December 2)—Despite emerging measures implemented so far by the federal...
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Mexican Fugitive Wanted for Massacre of City Officials Arrested in Sacramento
Borderland BeatMore than 13 years ago, Genaro Olaguez-Rendon moved with his four children to the Sacramento area from his home state of Sinaloa, Mexico.In the years since, the 53-year-old Mexican...
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Mexico City: Kidnapped as Police Stand by, Caught on Video
Borderland BeatPolice stood by as a man and woman is kidnapped, one can hear people excitedly screaming, multiple times, “Are they kidnapping?” “Are they kidnapping?”This occurred yesterday in broad...
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6 Radiactive Material Thieves are Held in Hospital
Borderland BeatHere is the latest "story" from Mexico. Remembering first reports of empty truck, later "tampered truck but material inside", then "found the material in an isolated farm", today...
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