The Fraud of American University Accreditation....News&Opinion

The International Institute of Nonviolence By: Rev. Jermano There is a major problem in the United States with Accreditation. They claim they are legitimate but our current social condition and results have proven...

The U.S.-Mexico Pipeline

BorderReporter.com A quietly released narco-intelligence report shows some hard truths about the U.S.-Mexico border. Now, I’m starting to think we should dump the noun “border.”  Border implies...

In a Cartel Funeral, It's Who Doesn't Show Up That Tells the Most

BorderReporter.com“It’s the funerals,” my guy says. “Always watch the funerals. Whoever shows up to the funerals, that’s how we’re going to know what happens next.”He’s cocky but knowledgeable, this Justice Department agent who’s watched this border since...

$1.5 Billion, the Sex-Trafficking House and Its Investigator's Murder

BorderReporter.comArturo Beltrán Leyva’s become the new narco non grata and the Mexican government is trying to tie him to the murder of the acting federal police chief last week. But a year-old case involving another murdered high-level official raises some questions...

Mexico's Drug War: Crisis? Or Political Theatre?

The Border ReportCuliacán, Sinaloa – Go back to those high-profile assassinations last week in Mexico City; then wander over to Culiacán for a moment and take a look at this guy above, Alfredo Beltrán Leyva. Are...

What's Worth More, a Smuggled Migrant, or a Pound of Weed?

THE BORDER REPORTThis 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 state...

Five Killed in a 150-Mile Long Gunbattle

All photos courtesy of Nuevo Día newspaper Clearly, someone had insisted on murder. Four people died in a sporadic gunbattle that stretched for more than 150 miles, ending in Hermosillo, Sonora, yesterday. An entire family was targeted, heavies from Sinaloa...

In a Tense Air of Beheadings, Cop Murders; 3 Reporters Attacked

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 his head. The attack...

Five Killers of the Gulf Cartel Arrested at Mexico's Largest Copper Mine

Michel MarizcoBORDERREPORTER.COMA year after the bloodiest battle in Mexico’s drug wars, five gunmen of the brazo armado of the Gulf Cartel were arrested in the mining town of Cananea, Mexico's largest copper mine.Cananea sits about an hour south of the Arizona-Mexico...

Drug Lord Throws a Party in Mexico – From Inside a U.S. Prison

MICHEL MARIZCOBORDERREPORTER.COMFor 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...

How a Mexican Drug Lord Could Save the U.S. Newsaper Industry

BY MICHEL MARIZCOBORDERREPORTER.COMIf a drug lord like Amado Carrillo were in the business of journalism today, he would have every newspaper owner in the country systematically shot. The Lord of the Skies would call...

The Army General Who is Shaking Up Mexico's Biggest Drug Lords

MICHEL MARIZCOBORDERREPORTER.COMA 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;...

Did a major Mexican magazine slander a powerful border governor?

By Michel MarizcoBorderReporter.comThe 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....

A Mexican Army general is screaming about corruption, but is anyone paying at...

So call me a cynic. A Mexican Army general who has been methodically trashing the power structure of northwestern Mexico for the last two years is now raising hell in Baja California. But recent history shows that he’s denounced public officials in Mexican states before...

Another Mexican Journalist Kidnapped, A Second Threatened

BORDERREPORTER.COMThe rats are growing bolder in northern Mexico, specifically the major NAFTA city of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, where a radio reporter was released yesterday after being kidnapped the day before. Unknown abductors came for Laura Elena Ochoa Wednesday...

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