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Meza Flores Group: Closing in on Chapito Isidro
Borderland Beat Posted by Siskiyou_kid translation by SpikeElements of the Navy of Mexico unleashed an onslaught against the organization led by Fausto Meza Isidro Flores in the north. With the support...
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11 Year old Child; "She was the First" Part 1
Borderland Beat by Sanjuana Martínez for Nexos, translation by Chivís“I would rather walk with my people. When there was food we all ate the same, when there was illness there was a brotherhood so...
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US is Expanding Training of Mexican Military Forces
The United States is quietly expanding its training of Mexico's armed forces, helping to reverse decades of mistrust that made Mexico's military reluctant to cooperate with its northern neighbor.The...
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Residents of Buenavista Detain Police; Demand Release of Detained Autodefensas
Residents of Buenavista Tomatlán, Michoacán have detained (since Monday night, July 14) 12 policemen; 10 of them federal and two ministerial, demanding the release of their relatives and fellow...
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Government Leaders: The Gravediggers
Borderland Beat It is the war's worst slaughter. In Coahuila in 2011 Los Zetas disappeared 400 people. The PRI [Party of the Institutional Revolution, Peña Nieto's party] state government investigated...
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Cutting Deals with informants for US visas
Borderland Beat: by lorne matalon for fronterasDeskOn March 13, 2010, gunmen deployed by the Juárez cartel took up their positions as guests filtered out from a child’s birthday party.Many of the...
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Mexican Consulate Employee Busted Hauling 100 lbs Of Cocaine Into U.S.
Borderland Beat posted by Topher On the morning of April 25, Jose Moreno Serrano pulled his Dodge SUV into a border checkpoint in Arizona, ostensibly on his way to work at the Mexican Consulate in...
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Tx Sheriff Sentenced to 5 Years for Money Laundering
Borderland BeatFormer Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño will spend the next five years in federal prison.He is currently out on bond pending his prison assignment and has already filed an appeal to...
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"El Alemán": Another CDG Leader falls in Tamaulipas
Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat Through a special operation conducted on Wednesday, July 16 at the Rio Bravo-Reynosa highway onthe junction to Matamoros, elements of State Police, Ministry of...
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Chapo and La Barbie Supposedly Initiated a 1000 Inmate Hunger Strike
Borderland Beat Chivis MartinezJoaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, arrested in February, is in solitary confinement at Altiplano Maximum Security Prison. Édgar Valdez Villarreal, aka "La Barbie" is in the same...
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After 10 Days of the Feds Operation: Chapito Isidro Vanishes
Borderland Beat: Republished from RioDoce posted on forum by Siskiyou_KidA gray Black Hawk helicopter rose from the grass at the Ángel Flores baseball park, while on the ground Marine Corps commands...
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Legislature Asked to Rescind "Bullet Act" After 12 Year Old Boy Killed
Borderland BeatPuebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle sent an initiative to the State Legislature that it might on Tuesday repeal the Law to Protect Human Rights and Regulate the Legitimate Use of Force,...
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In Video: "Mayor of Chilapa is linked to Los Rojos"
Borderland BeatA video was posted on Youtube of a man who was kidnapped, while being detained by men armed with AK-47s,accuses the mayor of Chilapa de Alvarez, Francisco Havier Garcia Gonzalez (at...
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La Tuta's lieutenant arrested in BC served as police chief in Michoacan
Borderland BeatTijuana: On Monday following the capture of regional leader of the Caballeros Templarios , Juan Carlos Almazan Mendoza, 35, the Attorney General of Baja California (PJEBC) reported that...
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Shootouts erupt in Nuevo Progresso, Reynosa and Rio Bravo Tamaulipas
Borderland BeatAt Least 10 dead in Nuevo Progreso including "El Pantera" Violence erupted tonight the result of clashes between cells of organized crime in the town of Nuevo Progreso, resulting in a...
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Sentencing in the Zetas Money Laundering Trial Bribery Case
By Chivis Martinez for Borderland BeatSentencing was handed down to two men, with ties to Los Zetas, for attempting to bribe the federal judge presiding over the Los Zetas money laundering trial. The...
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Federal Commissioner Alfredo Castillo, An Anachronism and Horror
Proceso: Javier Sicilia*Translated by Jorge A. Borrel-GuzmanIn The Communicating Vessels of Tradition and the Return of the Sinister (Los vasos comunicantes de la tradición y el retorno de lo...
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Possibly 30 Years for Canadian Narco with ties to Sinaloa Cartel and the Mafia
By Chivís Martínez for Borderland BeatCanadian Drug Kingpin , Jimmy Cournoyer, with Ties to the Rizutto and Bonanno Crime Families, the Hells Angels and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel Plead Guilty in 2013...
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More Signs we are Losing the Drug War
Borderland Beat republished this article from My San Antonio The signs abound that the war on drugs has been reeling in more than the usual suspects, and that the battle requires some rethinking.In...
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The Deception of Dr. Mireles' Former Wife
Chivis Martinez for Borderland BeatIt is unfortunate that the private life of Dr Mirles has become public fodder, it should be the business of no one. But in this instance, it may become an important...
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