Femicide in Mexico

THE BORDER REPORT Only a fool would assume women don’t play a role in the splintering tensions of Mexico’s cartel woes but this year’s proving to be a particularly nasty one for femicide in northern Mexico. They’ve been strangled, dissolved in acid, one was thrown in...

For Sale: One-Week Old Issue of The New York Times – $25.00

THE BORDER REPORT I've been watching some major voices in the U.S. news media preening over the record copies of newspapers that were sold the day after last week's elections. News executives seem to believe last Wednesday's edition of their newspapers reached the heights of...

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...

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...

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...

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...