June 4, 2013 in POLITRICKS, Preview 2
Bill Conroy | Former Deputy Attorney General Played Leading Role in Cover-Up of US Government Informant’s Participation in Mass Murder in Mexico. President Barack Obama is expected to nominate former George W. Bush-era Deputy Attorney General James Comey as the next director of the FBI…
May 21, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, FEATURED STORIES, Preview 3
Bill Conroy | The Mexican government under recently empowered President Enrique Peña Nieto has gone to great lengths to promote the nation as a rising economic contender while downplaying the disastrous war on drugs — which, to date, has led to more than 125,000 homicides…
April 5, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, FEATURED STORIES, Preview 2
Melissa del Bosque | In 2010, the birth year of the popular and controversial website Blog del Narco, Mexico’s tumultuous drug war reached a turning point. Monterrey, an economic engine of the country and once famously known as the safest city…
April 3, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, FEATURED STORIES, Preview 2
Robert Beckhusen | The Twitter and Facebook accounts for a popular crime watchdog in one of Mexico’s most dangerous states have been abruptly taken down, without their owner providing a reason. But he had a $46,000 cartel bounty on his head.
April 1, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, Preview
Wired | In case you thought Mexican drug cartels had sunk as low as they could get, a new report details how they use children as young as 11 years old to do their murderous bidding.
March 1, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, FEATURED STORIES, Preview
Der Spiegel | The war on drugs has become so intense that the line between criminality and law-enforcement has blurred. Salvador Martinez, an undercover officer at the Mexican border, ended up in prison after he went too far.
January 25, 2013 in MEDIA, Preview 2
YouTube | Living with Drug Wars – Mexico
January 20, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, FEATURED STORIES
Austin-American Statesman | Ex-associates in Corpus Christi called Manssor Arbabsiar a joke, a floundering businessman who smoked too much, drank too much and often solicited prostitutes. Neighbors in Round Rock knew him as a rude and unfriendly recluse.
January 7, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, FEATURED STORIES
Narcosphere | Two guns of interest were found in late November of last year near the scene of a gun battle in the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
January 7, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, Preview
Los Angeles Times | She holds one of the most dangerous jobs in this spectacularly dangerous country, confronting the most feared and powerful men of the Guatemalan present: gang leaders; dirty public officials; shot-callers in the Mexican drug cartels who have bled in from the north.
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