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Los Zetas to Priest: "So You Don't Think We Can Kill you"?
Borderland Beat“They thought that they were going to find information that will demolish my moral authority, but they will not find anything else than the word of Jesus. Hope it is useful”….Stated by...
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Federal Police: "Zetas and CDG are the Two Cartels Engaging in Kidnapping"
Borderland BeatTamaulipas is the hot spot and number "1" for kidnappings....(Proceso)Los Zetas and the Gulf cartels are the two groups of organized crime that the Federal Police (PF) has identified as...
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Mexican Prison’s Security Chief Gunned Down
The security chief of the prison in Culiacan, the capital of the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, was gunned down, police said.Alejandro Osuna Rios was murdered on Friday in front of his house,...
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July 30th Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin
By Chris CovertRantburg.comSince July 11th Mexican Army and naval forces have seized a total of 3,979.22 kilograms of marijuana, 160.454 kilograms of methamphetamine, 1,120 liters of liquid...
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They're planting drugs on federal lands
Luz del Carmen SosaEl Diario. 7-30-2012. Namiquipa, Chih. Drug traffickers in the State of Chihuahua plant marijuana even on federal lands. Cultivation of the drug on the fertile lands in some...
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The Tarahumara Mountains: The Narco, tales of terror
Patricia MayorgaChihuahua, Chih. 7-27-2012 (apro). - Stories of terror in Guadalupe y Calvo Municipality, located in the Tarahumara Mountains, repeat themselves day after day, without municipal, state...
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Mexican Marines bag five, detain four in firefight in Veracruz
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of ten individuals including five municipal police officers have been killed in two separate gun fights in Veracruz state Tuesday according to Mexican news...
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Mexican federal judge orders arrests of five Mexican Army officers
By Chris CovertRantburg.comFive Mexican Army officers have been ordered to detention by an unidentified Mexican federal district judge, according to Mexican news accounts.According to an article posted...
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Mexico: As Many as 50,000 Children, Ages 9-17 Are Involved in Organized Crime
Borderland BeatEl Ponchis-The notorious American born teen assassin By Eng. Raul Ponce de LeonIn Mexico, 30 to 50 thousand children are involved with organized crime, according to organizations that...
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Shamed Mexican Generals Transferred to Prison
Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat New diggs for the shamed men, Altiplano PrisonThe office of PGR (Attorney General) released a statement announcing the Third District...
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Illegal Cuotas
Francisco Ortiz Bello After I read Chivis' excellent post, I decided to post this editorial, which appeared in today's El Diario de Juarez, to illustrate just one of the many problems facing Mexican...
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Panic in La Laguna
TORREON, COAHUILA (Proceso). 8-1-2012. At the Specialists Hospital Number 71 of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), doctors, nurses, patients and insureds went into a panic the afternoon of...
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Death in Durango: 7 die
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA total of seven unidentified individuals have been killed or were found dead in drug or gang related violence in Durango state.Two unidentified armed suspects were killed...
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2,893 criminals killed during this administration: Sedena
Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat, El Diario. 8-1-2012Distrito Federal. In the war against drug trafficking and organized crime, during this (president's) administration, the Army has killed...
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A family torn apart in three days
Borderland Beat Patricia Davila (Translated by un vato of Borderland Beat)From Sunday, June 17, to Tuesday, June 19, the Porras Gonzalez family saw how two of it members were murdered and how the mafia...
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Nogales: The Narco Tunnel Capital of The Southwest
Borderland BeatSince 1995 more than 90 illicit underground passageways have been discovered in various states of completion in the two-mile stretch of urban frontier that separates Nogales, Ariz., from...
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There were 83,000 murders during the last six years
Luz del Carmen Sosa Translated by un vato for Borderland BeatEl Diario. 8-4-2012. Despite the fact that for months there has been talk of 60,000 homicides during the current federal administration, the...
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Zetas Narco Banners: "We Are Not Dividing"
Chivis Martinez for Borderland BeatNarco Mantas (banners) signed by the Los Zetas cartel appeared over the week end in multiple states. The message on the mantas is essentially the same; refuting the...
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Mexican Supreme Court mulls fate of Colonel Arias Agredano
By Chris CovertRantburg.comA Mexican Army colonel's fate awaiting a decision by the Mexican Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion (SCJN) or Mexican Supreme Court, will have to wait longer, according...
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The Zetas: The new fourth estate(*)
Eduardo Guerrero Gutierrez(Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat)Mexico, D.F. Proceso. 8-7-2012. In July, attacks against communications media facilities in Monterrey increased. The daily El Norte...
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