Just prior to shooting him, Iguala Mayor tells activist: 'I will take...
The body of social activist, who witnesses testified was assassinated by Iguala Mayor AbarcaI was asked to consider re-posting post. It was written on October 8, 2014, a week after the Iguala attacks...
View ArticleActivist is beaten, her brother killed and her house burned by mayor and...
Borderland Beat posted and translated by DD republished from Sin EmbargoDD note; It doesn’t just happen in Guerrero.The home of activist Elisa Zepeda was burned. On Dec. 14th, In the municipality...
View ArticleCastillo gets rid of the Apatzingan rural police
El Diario.mx (December 23, 2014) Source: Reforma. Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat Self defense forces occupy Apatzingan government buildingAPATZINGAN.- Only a few months after starting...
View ArticleHappy Christmas to all Borderland Beat Readers
Spike for Borderland BeatJust wishing all readers , forum posters , and BB reporters , happy holidays and a wonderful Christmas with a happy and prosperous new year. For Mexico and Mexicans in...
View ArticleAttacks on Priest Continues
Missing Priest, Rev. Gregorio Lopez GorostietaBorderland Beat posted by DD from AP, and ABC News and Sin EmbargoDozens of Roman Catholic priests and hundreds of parishioners marched through the...
View ArticleMerry Chrismas but Lest We Forget, MEXICO STILL MOURNS
Borderland Beat by DD with material from Mexico VoicesI join Spike in wishing everyone A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and WONDERFUL NEW YEAR. But in this time of celebration and brotherly love for our fellow...
View Articlestopping by sending you the best holiday wishes....
chivisTwo of my all time favorite posada photos. Santa always arrives on a firetruck, and the foto below is a shot of a lil guy in a wheelchair when he spots Santa and the...
View ArticleChiquillo Antrax gunned down in Culiacán
Lucio Borderland Beat Information from Noroeste and YouTube Antonio Avendaño, "El Chiquillo Ántrax", of the Sinaloa Cartel,enforcer group Antrax was gunned down in the Sinaloa city of Culiacan in...
View ArticleOmar Espejo from CJNG Detained
Tanslated from a Milenio article by Spike for Borderland BeatOmar Espejo Flores aka " El Toro" now confined in El Rincon prison in NayaritThe Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) , in coordination...
View ArticleUPDATE; Lifeless Body of Father Gregorio Lopez Found (other photo and...
Posted by DD material from Excelsior, Proceso, and Diario de CoahulaAs I reported yesterday, Christmas Day, Father Gregorio Lopez Gorosheta was kidnapped from the Seminary in Altamirano, Guerrero early...
View ArticleGuerreros Unidos kidnapped and murdered Guerrero Fr. Gregorio López
Lucio Borderland Beat information from:Michoacán Tres Punto Cero & BB ArchivesSecond priest from Altamirano, Guerrerokilled in two months by Guerreros Unidos"I am outraged by the cowardly and vile...
View ArticleMiscellaneous News from Coahuila
Around 8:30 PM on Monday, December 22, 36 year old Irma Esparza Rivera was shot to death on Ocampo street, across the street from the bus station, in Ciudad Acuña. Witnesses report a vehicle passing...
View Articlecall claims cartel kidnapped USBP agent in Tx border town
Lucio Borderland Beat with material from Reuters, AP, and KRGVThe U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into a claim made in a call to a Texas border town police department that a Mexican...
View ArticleLa Paz: Seido Target Hitmen ( El Grande ) in BCS part 2
Translated by Spike for Borderland Beat Seido now target El GrandeCruz Alonso Lozoya Uriarte "El Grande".Seido is now targeting "El Grande". After the capture of Víctor Barraza Martínez "28" and his...
View Article“Priests Demand Protection From Violent Extortionist; Except Padre Pistolas....
Borderland Beat by DD A reader posted a comment posted on one of the stories I posted this week about the kidnapping and murder of Father Gregerio Lopez and in the comment said “Padre get ur guns”....
View ArticleHipólito Mora Confirms He’ll Hand Himself Over On Saturday; H-3 Have Him...
Translated by Valor for Borderland BeatBuenavista, Michoacán.- Hipólito Mora Chávez, founder of the autodefensas of La Ruana, confirmed that he’ll testify before a judge this Saturday for the...
View Article18 Murders in Sinaloa-Bloodiest Christmas in Six Years-
lucio Borderland Beat material from el debate posted by siskiyoukid on forum5 taken in BadiraguatoCuliacán, Sinaloa-A total of 18 intentional homicides, five vehicle thefts, four people dead in traffic...
View ArticleHipólito Mora And His 26 Men Are Arrested
Translated by Valor for Borderland BeatHipólito Mora Chávez, founder of the autodefensas of La Ruana, arrived in the city of Morelia after having been detained and was taken to the prison “David Franco...
View ArticleMexican democracy is a "green dog"
Proceso (December 21, 2009) By Denise Dresser, translated by un vato for Borderland BeatTranslator's note: Proceso published this analysis by Denise Dresser almost exactly five years ago. Another year...
View ArticleWitnesses describe the massacre at Tlatlaya
El Diario.mx (December 28, 2014) Source: Reforma. Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat. Soldiers guarding execution siteDistrito Federal.-- The military intrusion triggered an uproar inside the...
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