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July 8th Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin
Post Article 41 Edition By Chris CovertRantburg.comMexican Army and naval units since June 26th have seized in several counternarcotics operations a total of 7884.942 kilograms of marijuana, 4.53...
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PGR's DNA testing capability deficient
Marcos MuedanoEl Universal. 7-8-2012. The lack of coordination between the state prosecutorial agencies and the Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR; Office of Attorney General), added to the...
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Drug cartels are fighting over the Tehuantepec isthmus, warns Solalinde
The defender of migrants' rights believes that this zone has become a strategic bridge for human and weapons trafficking. "I'm returning to one of the most dangerous areas," he says.El Universal....
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Galloping corruption
Ana Maria Salazar El Universal. 07-13-2012.Another case of government officials' corruption came to light in the U.S.: the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) revealed Tuesday that the medical...
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Feds target $20M No. Cal Medical Marijuana Dispensary
Borderland Beat<><><>>SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal prosecutors have filed civil forfeiture actions against an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's...
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Sinaloa Cartel, the Threat to Arizona
The Sinaloa cartel is the largest drug trafficking criminal organization that threatens more counties in Arizona that traditionally has large problems with drug trafficking. This has been the case...
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Knights Templar Dismembered by CJNG in Guerrero
Note: This is an old video that has been seen before, but recently translated from unknown source in the site "Best of Gore" and posted in the Borderland Beat forum by user Kaddafi. We are posting it...
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4 Murdered at Food Stall in Colima - One of CJNG Leaders Dead
Posted in Borderland Beat forum by HavanaFour people were killed and six others were injured this morning in Cerro de Ortega , part of Tecoman , Colima , when heavily armed stormed a food establishment...
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The Drug War Beween Los Zetas and Sinaloa Cartel
The Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas wage a bloody and brutal war in various parts of Mexico, but mainly in the land of nobody (not governed by any singular capo), Tamaulipas.
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Mexican Cartel Structure
The Mexican drug cartel structure is constantly changing, everything in Mexico is so fluid. Just when one thinks one particular cartel has been dismantled, it emerges out of the ashes. Or new ones...
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Widows and abandoned women take on field work in the Valle
El Diario.mx. 7-15-2012. Guadalupe., D.B.-- She moves the hoe with dexterity. Coquettishly, she tucks a rebellious lock of hair behind one ear, then she wipes the sweat from her face. It's Maria del...
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July 15th Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin
By Chris CovertRantburg.comMexican Army and naval personnel since July 7th have seized 11,182.1 kilograms of marijuana, 335 kilograms of unprocessed marijuana, 94 kilograms of marijuana seeds, 21.02...
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Mexican Army reinforces La Laguna
By Chris CovertRantburg.comAn additional 746 Mexican Army troops have been dispatched to the La Laguna region of Mexico, accoriding to an official announcement by the Mexican Secretaria de Defensa...
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Police ambushes, history repeats itself
debate.com. 7-15-2012.Guasave, Sinaloa.-- International Highway and 19th Street, Guasave Municipality. Friday afternoon, July 15, 2011. Inert bodies of uniformed officers on the asphalt. One can still...
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Narco Convoys: Power in Numbers
By ACI for Borderland BeatThey moved in on the small town of Creel in the early hours of March 15, 2010. A convoy of three luxury SUV’s pull off one of the main drags. Through tinted windows gunmen...
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The details of the massacre
Rio Doce. 7-16-2012Tetamboca, El Fuerte, Sin.-- In this ranch area, there is still the echo of the more than 2,000 shots that were fired in a bloody clash between an elite group of State Ministerial...
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The displaced: the agony of losing everything
El Universal. 7-16-2012. (estados@eluniversal.com.mx) According to researchers, there is an indiscriminate persecution taking place in the Sinaloa mountains, as if in a war zone; they estimate that...
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Texas Gas Drilling: New Energy Roads Help Narcos Bypass Border Stops
Borderland BeatGas drilling is a boom for traffickers too....Paz, ChivisThe road where the drugs were found was one of many that have been leased to energy companies./ U.S. Border PatrolEnergy...
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"Los Zetas" are Divided, the Infighting, Narcoreportaje
For a while there has been rumors of a division within the Zetas leaderhip, primarily Trevino Z-40 and Lazca, and as is the case, such rumos many times are hard to confirm but I found interesting a...
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HSBC Allowed Narcos To Launder Billions
Borderland Beat (AP)Europe's largest bank had lax controls that allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder billions of dollars through its U.S. operations for seven years, a Senate investigation...
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