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"El Ricalde" Arrested
Carlo Alessandro Ricalde Barosio, alias "El Ricalde", was arrested October 8 in the Las Plazas Outlet commercial plaza in the municipality of Lerma, México state along with Juan Uriel Hernández...
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Government buildings in Chilpancingo are burning
RioDoce (October 13, 2014)Translated by un vato for Borderland BeatOctober 13, 2014: Guerrero Government offices in Chilpancingo are in flames. Chilpancingo municipal president, Mario Moreno, reports...
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Guerreros Unidos Leader Commits Suicide in Clash Avoiding Arrest in...
Juitepec, Morelos: Benjamin Mondragón Peredo , 'El Benjamon' leader of Guerreros Unidos who died this morning during a confrontation with the federal police, actually committed suicide with a self...
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Mexico A.G.: Bodies from Iguala graves are not missing students
Chivis Martinez for Borderland BeatAs I reported over the weekend, Guerrero's governor Aguirre began making statements that some of the tested remains, presumably those of missing normalistas, were...
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Veracruz Newspaper publishes notice in memory of “El Lazca”
Borderland Beat posted by Computer JA and Feynman from ProcesoThe Newspaper La Opinion of Poza Rica- the one of greater influence in the North of Veracruz- in last Sunday’d edition published an...
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Mayor's Wife Responsible For Massacre?
The motive for the abduction and murder of students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School still remains a mystery. It is hard to believe that a group of local municipal police took it on themselves to...
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Guachochi: 5 Tortured and Killed after refusing to work with criminal groups
Borderland Beat posted by pilotThe five peoplewho werefound deadon thepathtoGuachochiTonachiwere cruellytortured. One was in his seventhsemesterofEngineering inSustainable AgricultureTechnological...
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Tamaulipas Tuitera/ Blogger Kidnapped and Killed
Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat thank you "AC"A blogger who used the user name, "Miut3" was kidnapped and killed in Reynosa Tamaulipas. She was a "Tuitera" with the over 41k followers on her...
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Iquala Doctor; "I saw the injury, but did not treat him because it was not my...
I am at a loss as to what to say. As tragic as the happenings in Iguala were, I understand reasons for the actions of most of the players involved. There was corruption, greed, craving for power,...
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What is Guerreros Unidos?
With the massacre in Iguala, Guerrero and the resulting fallout, the organization known as Guerreros Unidos has been frequently mentioned on Borderland Beat and other media. Nevertheless, good...
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Guerrero Autodefensas found 7 More Iguala Graves
Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat Autodefensas are finding the graves, not feds or the state Autodefensas of Guerrero discovered seven additional clandestine graves (fosas) today in Iguala, so far...
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The saddest, loneliest dorm in Ayotzinapa
Proceso (October 14, 2014)By Marcela Turati, translated by un vato for Borderland BeatRaul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers School at AyotzinapaAYOTZINAPA, Gro. (apro).-- Every day, they try to make...
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Dozens of Bodies Found in Sewage Canal Outside Mexico City - More Femicide in...
By DD for Borderland BeatAuthorities have recovered up to 21 bodies from the canal since June. Neighbors say there are more than 46.At least 21 bodies have been recovered from a sewage canal in...
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Iguala: Banner Message to President Peña, signed by "El Choky"
Chivis Martinez for Borderland BeatA manta was found hanging on display in the city of San Jose, a city in close proximity to Iguala. The manta was addressed to President Enrique Peña Nieto, in which...
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Premier Leader of Guerreros Unidos Captured
The Attorney General's Office announced the capture yesterday on the Mexico-Toluca highway, of Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, identified by federal authorities as Premier leader of the criminal...
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FBI Informant Met Drug Lord El Chapo Guzmán In Mexican Mountains
Borderland Beat republished from ForbesMexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera, imprisoned leader of one of the most powerful criminal empires, met with a confidential FBI informant in 2010,...
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Mexican Teachers set up tent city in support of missing normalistas
Borderland Beat republished from Fusion by Manuel Rueda-heads up from "Jeff" Big Thanks!"43 Normalistas are dead, many were burned alive".....said Father Alejandro Solalinde Guerra, the...
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Who are the Normalistas? Radicals? Revolutionaries? Communists?
A Normalista ProtesterThe Government has tried to spin a perception that the students from the Escuela Normal of Ayotzinapa fall into one of the categories above; “Radical, Revolutionaries, or...
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"El Tucán" of Los Caballeros Templarios Arrested
Members of the Federal Police arrested Mario Alberto Romero Rodríguez, alias “El Tucán” and also known as Efraín Isaac Rosales, before dawn on Saturday, October 18. “El Tucán”, who is 48 years old, is...
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Rurales Commander who said "We were Better Off with Autodefensas", Ambushed...
By Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat-with info provided by PepeA Rurales commander who gave an interview to the press saying Michoacán was better off with autodefensas, has been killed. Yesterday the...
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