A new social networking web site, BarackBook.com, launched today and offers a platform upon which many of Barack Obama’s notable associations are highlighted.Among the associations highlighted are his relationships with convicted felon Tony Rezko and his shady friend Nadhmi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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;...
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....
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...