What’s Worth More, a Smuggled Illegal Immigrant or a Pound of Marijuana?
Region: United StatesYou'd be surprised. This story’s about a week old, but I like it because it sums up nicely just how entrepreneurial migrant smuggling has become on the U.S.-Mexico border. An anonymous tipster notified Sonoran stat... more
Views: 477Beheadings, Cop Murders and 3 Reporter Attacks
Region: MexicoTHE BORDER REPORT Three reporters for the Culiacán daily, El Debate, were attacked by federal preventive police yesterday. One of the reporters was forced into a police car and held for ten minutes with a gun to hi... more
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Drug Lord Throws Party in Mexico From Inside US Prison Cell
Region: Mexico
THE BORDER REPORT For years, Mexico’s narco-traffickers have feared one thing more than any: extradition to the United States. In the U.S. prison system, the thinking goes, these guys are rendered impotent, ... more
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Another Mexican Journalist Kidnapped, A Second Threatened
Region: Mexico
BORDERREPORTER.COM The rats are growing bolder in southern Sonora, specifically the major NAFTA city of Ciudad Obregón, where a radio reporter was released yesterday after being kidnapped the day before. Unknown ab... more
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Army General Denounces Rampant Organized Crime in Mexico
Region: MexicoBORDERREPORTER.COM Mexico's battle with the drug lords is looking much like the U.S.'s war in Iraq two years ago – lots of good ideas being roundly ignored. A Mexican Army general who has been methodically trashing... more
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Did a Major Magazine Slander a Powerful Mexican Border Governor?
Region: MexicoBorderReporter.com The governor of the Mexican state that borders Arizona is suing a major Mexico magazine for defamation after a story appeared accusing the governor of ties to the Sinaloa cartels. Before I get into thi... more
Views: 320THE ARMY GENERAL WHO IS SHAKING UP MEXICO
Region: MexicoA Tijuana news Web site is reporting 15 dead in at least two different shootouts in Tijuana this morning. One of the victims was wearing a federal police uniform, the paper says; though that means nothing since cops work f... more
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How a Mexican Drug Lord Would Save the Newspaper Industy
Region: United StatesIf a drug lord like Amado Carrillo were in the business of journalism today, he would have every newspaper owner in the country shot like dogs. The Lord of the Skies would call them what they are, grinning mira putas who ... more
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Murder and Photographs in a Small Town in Mexico
Region: Mexico
The hit, when it went down, was perfect. The photographer was shot five times, with a tiro de gracia to the head. He collapsed by the torta stand, his five-year-old son in shock, clutching the dead body. No motive was eve... more
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Photojournalist's Killers Get 11 years
Region: MexicoA judge has sentenced the former police chief of a small Sinaloan town to 11 years in prison for the murder of a newspaper photographer gunned down three years ago, the photographer's paper reported today. The sentence is ... more
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