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  • Old Stories Never Die; Even When its Characters Do

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    THE BORDER REPORT I first met Margarito Montes Parra two years ago, spring 2007 or so; his son had just been murdered in the little town of Cocorít, near Cd. Obregón, Sonora. It was a strange murder in a town notorious for its power structure and its involucrations to the world’s richest [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 11:56am EST
    by Michel Marizco

  • ¿Van por los Gringos?

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    THE BORDER REPORT Not really sure what to make of this warning from the U.S. Consulate offices in Juárez. Does State Department think yesterday was any more dangerous than any other day in this poor city? In short, the U.S. Consul in Juárez received information that cartels were going to start [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 4:39pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • What’s it Worth?

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    THE BORDER REPORT How hard up would you need to be to sell someone’s life for $2,000? The question came up over coffee with an old friend this morning. The answer, I guess, depends on your situation. One answer may be given during the corruption case against Richard P. Cramer, the high [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 11:56am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • ¿Dos Mil de Nuevo?

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    THE BORDER REPORT Mexican Army officials have detained four men in the killing of a state police commander in southern Sonora last week. But in addition to the four they’ve identified, the law enforcement community along the border is wondering if Francisco Hernandez Garcia, aka Dos Mil, was also arrested. (Thank [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 11:24pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Another Top Border Official Taken Down

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    THE BORDER REPORT For the second time in a month, a high level border official has been indicted, this time accused of shredding evidence for the Stanford Financial Group, a group busted by the Feds last year for bilking investors out of nearly $7 billion. Lesser known but arguably more profound, [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 11:01pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Attack on Army General in Chihuahua?

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    THE BORDER REPORT The unconfirmed rumor tonight is that Mexican Army Gen. Felipe deJesus Espitia Hernandez’s family was attacked in the state of Chihuahua moments ago. I do not know that the rumor is in fact true but I’m working the phones and trying to confirm something. Espitia Hernandez is the general [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Border agents in Arizona go on “Alert?”

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    THE BORDER REPORT The U.S. Border Patrol went to high alert last night after receiving undisclosed threats along the Arizona border during the Mexican Independence Day celebrations, sources say. Myself, I can’t fathom what they’d consider a “threat” given the context of the border these days. Last week, there was a rumor [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 1:53pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • ICE SAC Arrested

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    THE BORDER REPORT A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who headed a major Arizona office and then was assigned to work in Guadalajara for three years was arraigned in federal court Friday morning, accused of trafficking cocaine and selling information about law enforcement operations to a drug cartel. Richard Padilla Cramer [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 11:46am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Banderas Unidos

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    THE BORDER REPORT Assuming everyone was in on the job, you can imagine the back-end dealings that went into this quiet negotiation. The Space Shuttle Discovery that’s set to launch will be carrying at least two flags onboard, the green, blue and yellow of the U.S. Border Patrol and the red, [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 2:18pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Extradition in Reverse?

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    THE BORDER REPORT The Mexican government is trying to get the United States to drop its charges on a Phoenix kidnapper and send the man back to Mexico to stand trial there. It’s a bit of a reverse extradition and it grabbed my attention when I started looking at this case [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 9:48pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Question

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    THE BORDER REPORT Just came across a year old CISEN report on the Beltrán Leyvas: “Los hermanos Alfredo, Amberto y Carlos Beltrán Leyva utilizan los seudónimos “Arturo”, “Marco Arturo” y “Arturo de Culiacán”, bajo los cuales son buscados por la DEA por la introducción de droga a Estados Unidos a través de [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 4:55pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • ICE Agent in Hot Water?

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    THE BORDER REPORT Cd. Juárez – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is being investigated on possible corruption charges after running an informant network that has imploded throughout the El Paso law enforcement community, a Mexican law enforcement source in Juárez said this morning. The agent, who goes by the nickname [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 12:38pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Bola de Ratas

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    THE BORDER REPORT The Associated Press has a wrap-up story on corruption within the border law enforcement agencies that is billed as an investigation but does little more than touch on spot cases of rot within the ranks of border cops. On a closer inspection, the numbers The AP uses actually [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • ¿Asesinato?

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    THE BORDER REPORT Mexico is abuzz this morning with news of the capture of a group of Sinaloans who were planning to kill Pres. Felipe Calderón. Let’s ignore the Guadalara summit for the moment and dismiss as completely ridiculous the idea that this arrest was manufactured to coincide with Pres. Obama’s visit [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 11:57am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • “Que vean que la tierra No se trago cualquier cosa”

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    THE BORDER REPORT As you’ve plainly been able to see, I’ve pulled back on BorderReporter throughout much of the past two months. There’s a few reasons for this, some good, some not so much. No, I’m not asking you for money, relax. I started this Web site about four years ago now [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:01pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Pobre de Peñasco

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    THE BORDER REPORT Yeah, yeah, spare me, I know. Much on the plate right now, but the situation’s under control. Familial obligations, deadlines and the general desmadre of life. That said, we’re gonna be having a Come to Jesus conversation soon. Look for it on Friday or thereabouts. But for now, there’s [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 8:21pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • El Narco-Pacto

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    THE BORDER REPORT You know, it’s been about a dozen years since someone publicly tried to form a pact with the Mexican government; the question is did it work then and will it work now? The leader of La Familia, Servano Goméz La Tuta, supposedly made the call yesterday, in to a [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 11:22am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • El Show Es Over

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    THE BORDER REPORT The Mexican Senate has put forward a measure that will eliminate the Army’s roving of Juárez’s streets in light of a nasty spat of rights abuses in that poor city at the hands of soldiers. Plenty of good and bad here to consider. First of all, what choice did [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:46am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • So Much for Duck Hunt

    THE BORDER REPORT As far as border enforcement ideas, it was amongst the most hare-brained; set up web-cams along the Texas border and let citizens log in and report any illegal activity they saw. It reduced what should have been a serious issue, monitoring a border gone awry, into a perversion [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 12:01am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Gavilan Taken Out

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    THE BORDER REPORT Leonel Páez Benitez, aka El Gavilan, was killed a little while in Caborca after a gunfight outside the city. That’s a good hit, something akin to El Ingeniero or JT being taken out. I’m still making calls but we’ll have more information in a while. Páez has been wanted [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2009, 6:01pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Feds Taking Fire Again?

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    THE BORDER REPORT I’m hearing that a pair of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rangers were shot at again in the Buenos Aires refuge southwest of Tucson. That’s the second incident in a month’s time; the first happened in June, pair of men firing a nine-millimeter at rangers on ATVs. Don’t know [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 7:36pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • A Right to Kill?

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    THE BORDER REPORT The government of Chihuahua seems to find it appropriate to turn its Anglo residents into weapon-toting vigilantes and let them deal with any future kidnappings or murders that come down on the Mormon communities in the state. The attorney general stepped up to offer training in the polygamist community [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 7:11pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • The Gate

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    THE BORDER REPORT Out on a totally unrelated assignment down on the Ambos Nogales border when a friend suggested I take a drive down the federal border road that runs east of the twin cities. I hadn’t been out here in some time, not enough reason to justify the road-trip really, but [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 9:15am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • ¿Como Se Dice, “Split?”

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    THE BORDER REPORT So, yeah okay. I was gone. Some of you apparently noticed; bola de culeros. Spent my birthday camping up in the Chiricahua Mountains on the Arizona/New Mexico/Sonora border. Pine trees and rain and rare steak and sake. My cell didn’t get any service, didn’t even take a camera with [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:18pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • ¿Coup?

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    drift: That’s it!!! Im taking action here guys…..forget Honduras were going to hold a coup here!!!! UCTI - The United Chismosos of The Internet Who’s signing up? i got the staff chosen out: Drift - President Vincent Hannah - Vice President Illegal - Secretary of Defense Move - Public Relations zzzzzzzzzzzzz - Ambassador to the UN im [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 3:05pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Vigilantes and the State

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    THE BORDER REPORT The white militant accused in a murder job that left a nine-year old girl dead last month was arrested at the headquarters of a large non-profit border watch group in Southern Arizona. Shawna Forde, who’s been formally charged in the double execution, was arrested as she left the [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 10:45am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • “The law is for my friends. Justice is for my enemies.”

    Number of comments: 5
    THE BORDER REPORT A fascinating theatre is brewing in Sonora these days following the June 5 daycare center fire that killed 46 children in Hermosillo. Gov. Eduardo Bours, the untouchable PRI-ista who spent his six years nearly unmarred by the press, finds himself in a ferocious back-pedal and his greatest enemy [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 10:57am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Mormon Leader Kidnapped in Chihuahua?

    Number of comments: 10
    THE BORDER REPORT Readers are saying that Meredith Romney, the LDS leader in Chihuahua, was kidnapped today by masked gunmen. Meredith is a cousin of  Mitt Romney, the former Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency in the 2008 elections. If the rumor is true, I wonder how much of the motive to [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 8:06pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • ¿Teo?

    Number of comments: 4
    THE BORDER REPORT Those fine little rumors just keep going. Clearly there’s something here. The Mexican Army arrested four men a few minutes ago. The rumor is that at least one of those men is a big fish. Before that arrest was announced, a columnist from some Mexico City newspaper wrote [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 4:31pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Minuteman Vigilante Tied to Home Invasion

    Number of comments: 10
    THE BORDER REPORT A 41-year-old woman involved with the Minuteman vigilante groups that hunt illegal migrants through the Arizona desert has been arrested for pulling a home invasion and murdering a father and his nine year old daughter last month. Then it gets ugly and weird. According to the Pima County Sheriff’s [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Tumbaron al Teo?

    Number of comments: 3
    THE BORDER REPORT The rumor floating around these parts is that El Teo has been detained. Teodoro Garcia Simental, the principal rival of the Arellano Felix family in Tijuana, has been waging war in that city for two years. Don’t yet know that it’s true, but if it is, hijole. [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 5:13pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • God’s Gonna Cut You Down

    Number of comments: 10
    THE BORDER REPORT Is Caborca, Sonora, changing hands? If so, the latest would-be owners want everybody out, the narcos, the cops and the mayors from every town in the Pinacate Desert. And the new guys are backed by Macho Prieto himself, Mayo Zambada’s security chief. What happened here last week was a [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Was a Murdered Cartel Figure an Informant for the U.S.?

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    THE BORDER REPORT Cd. Juárez – A high level cartel figure assassinated in El Paso last month was murdered because his killers believed he was working as an informant for a U.S. law enforcement agency, say sources in Juárez familiar with the situation. Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana worked for La Linea, the [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 1:11pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Chismes: Juárez Trafficker, U.S. Cop or Both?

    Number of comments: 8
    THE BORDER REPORT Cd. Juárez – A cartel figure taken out in a swank El Paso neighborhood late last month was working with U.S. law enforcement, Mexican law enforcement sources I spoke with today in Juárez say. Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana is still somewhat of a mysterious figure but something in his [...]
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    Posted: June 06, 2009, 9:16pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Update

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    THE BORDER REPORT Events in Sonora have been dwarfed by news of a fire at a daycare center that killed anywhere from 10 to 14 infants a few minutes ago in Hermosillo. I’m not going to have anything that the Sonoran media won’t already have on this tragedy. El Imparcial is [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 5:10pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Tucson Crawling with Cops

    Number of comments: 10
    THE BORDER REPORT No sé, maybe someone figured it was a good time to get into the body removal business in Sonora what with most of Sonora’s state police commanders up in Tucson for the annual conference. Thank you, LOL, for pushing the issue, I stopped at five, but no, 11 [...]
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    Posted: June 04, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Stupid Smuggler Tricks

    Number of comments: 3
    THE BORDER REPORT Not to cap on the U.S. military’s fantasies about narco sky-jumpers but this fiasco from Monday best characterizes the challenges faced by U.S. border law enforcement. The photo comes from the Border Patrol who snapped a shot of a smuggler’s truck whose driver missed the ramp. The ramp was [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Narco-Parachuters?

    Number of comments: 4
    THE BORDER REPORT Somebody in the U.S. government thinks that Mexico’s drug traffickers will soon turn to the sciences of the U.S. clandestine services to move their drug loads across the border. Using remote-controlled aircraft, the narcos will smuggle loads of narcotics over the fences and walls that divide both countries. And [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 7:50pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • No News …

    Number of comments: 3
    THE BORDER REPORT Pobre, pobre Mexico, con Dios en el pecho y el Diablo en los hechos. I’m still not sure whether to be pissed or laugh at this weekend’s desmadre with my (I think) former newspaper, The News of Mexico City. The dynamic that amuses me is the same one that [...]
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    Posted: June 01, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Training Day

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    This story comes from Deborah Bonello at MexicoReporter.com, whom I’ll be occasionally collaborating with to bring you stories from inside Mexico. Be sure to check out her Web site; she tends to cover many of the stories that you won’t find anywhere else. THE BORDER REPORT My breath is tearing out of [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 2:50pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • The Tamaulipas Travel Agency

    Number of comments: 10
    Today’s story comes from Texas rancher/writer Elizabeth Burns whom I asked to contribute a Dispatch from Tamaulipas. She keeps a blog from South Texas from where she chronicles the fiascos of the Texas oil fortunes, Rancho Los Malulos, an entertaining read. THE BORDER REPORT I live on a large ranch along [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 8:26am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Journalist Turns up Dead

    THE BORDER REPORT Milenio newspaper is reporting that a reporter kidnapped last night turned up dead this morning. Eliseo Barrón Hernández was a cops reporter for La Opiníon Milenio in Gomez Palacio, Durango. He’d worked there for more than ten years. Initial reports have it that at 8:05 p.m. last night, a [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 1:50pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Rocky Times

    Number of comments: 2
    THE BORDER REPORT Puerto Peñasco has just gone through its fourth gunfight in a month. The latest incident went down Sunday afternoon after two men were robbed on the new Santa Clara highway by a couple of thugs who stopped them on the road. The two robbers tried to make off [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 10:27am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Femicide Revisited

    Number of comments: 10
    THE BORDER REPORT This story and photos probably should have run with this week’s earlier package but the victim photos tell the story far better than I ever could. They come courtesy of TijuanaPress.com. The victims were three young women from Mexicali. Nataly Medrano, 17, and her older sister Ivon Denisse [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2009, 11:07am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Femicide

    Number of comments: 10
    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 front of a train, others, [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2009, 12:47pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Just Sayin’ No to the War on Drugs

    Number of comments: 6
    THE BORDER REPORT The Feds are calling for an end to the bogged down thinking behind the War on Drugs, an ambitious idea with many immediate benefits – except that where the government wants to spend its anti-drug money these days suggests the Feds aren’t so much intent on ending the [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2009, 8:43am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • The Case of Felix Batista Resurfaces

    Number of comments: 5
    THE BORDER REPORT Poring over an FBI intel report this afternoon that focuses on the Zetas, I came across an interesting piece of conjecture that a snitch had passed over about a U.S. citizen killed in Mexico in December. If you’ll recall, that was the month a kidnapping expert was himself [...]
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    Posted: May 15, 2009, 6:16pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • But Will They Get it Right?

    Number of comments: 9
    THE BORDER REPORT Every few years, it seems, Mexico flips a new federal law enforcement agency; each one supposedly impermeable to corruption and politicking, some a little scary, others simply worthless. The latest federal public security agency doesn’t look very worthless, we’ll have to see about the other. The news was lost [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:57am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Not a Chisme Anymore

    THE BORDER REPORT Guess that little tip about the drunken driving Border Patrol agent checked out. The Tucson NBC affiliate, KVOA, has the story here. Agent Victor Zavala blew a .20 breathalyzer when he was finally stopped after nearly careening into five cars while driving down the wrong side of the [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2009, 9:50am EDT
    by Michel Marizco

  • Homeland Security: “A Victim of its Own Success?”

    Number of comments: 5
    THE BORDER REPORT I expect the Homeland Security Department to engage in paranoid fantasies; it’s good for budgets, great for morale, and delineates a nice, clear boundary between friend and foe. That’s the game. The latest fantasy is somewhat astounding in that the Feds attribute the new threat to their successes on [...]
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    Posted: May 07, 2009, 6:05pm EDT
    by Michel Marizco
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