Crutches Cayo Email  Facebook  [Post to Twitter] Twitter  [Post to Delicious] Delicious  [Post to StumbleUpon] Stumble  [Post to Yahoo Buzz] Buzz  [Post to Digg] Digg 

    THE BORDER REPORT

    Okay, so El Muletas, Raydel López Uriarte goes down. The top figure of the Sinaloa-backed crime family in Baja California was arrested this morning in La Paz, Baja California Sur.

    Last Thursday, his sister, Diana Lopez Uriarte, was kidnapped as she left a supermarket in Tijuana. News reports from the area observed that it was a heavily armed commando that took her down around noon. In keeping with our seemingly shared rampant cynicism, I wonder a little if her kidnapping didn’t lead to Muletas’ arrest today. Actually, I wonder a lot.

Photography




View Gallery

Recent News

Chapo Guzmán Captured

THE BORDER REPORT

And now that I have your attention; let’s have a brief dialogue on this fine Sunday morning.

This is what I’d like to see:

“Hi Michel, did you have a nice Saturday?”

“Why yes, I did. I spent the morning writing, then I went on a mountainbike ride then I cleaned my house and went out. And you?”

“Oh no mucho; I spent a little bit of time here on BorderReporter engaging in a little bit of light shit-talking with some of the people I’ve gotten to know. Then we had an interesting discussion.”

¿Que Pedo Con La Polaka?

THE BORDER REPORT

One of our readers, El Teo, just asked the question and it’s getting to be a relevant question.

What happened to La Polaka?

The site’s publisher, Jorge Luis Aguirre, is a great newsman who has turned that Web site into a focal point for on-the-spot crime news with a fantastic black humor. I don’t recall who coined the phrase, he or I, “In Juárez, you either laugh or you cry,” but if it was me, it was only because of him.


The Border In Depth

Drug Cartels Protecting Our Borders

Mexico Investigator Alleging Abuses Jailed by U.S.

Toxicity in Arms Trafficking

Former ICE Official to Get Two Years

The Story of the ICE Agent and His Snitch

FBI Report Details Killing of American Kidnapping Expert

Reeling in a Dealer of Meth and Death

A Surreal Demarcation

Border Epidemic

The Border’s Man of the Year

Twitter Gone Wrong

Voluntarily Returned to Mexico

Border Project Hits Snag

Justice – Sonora Style

Importing Drug Traffickers

Forced Leniency:
The True Story of an Orgy Sponsored by the FBI
A Sting Gone Wrong
Investigation, Cover-up
Corrupting the Weak

Pancho Villa Returns

The Battle for Cananea

The Corridor of Killing

Chismes

¿Que Pedo Con La Polaka?

THE BORDER REPORT

One of our readers, El Teo, just asked the question and it’s getting to be a relevant question.

What happened to La Polaka?

The site’s publisher, Jorge Luis Aguirre, is a great newsman who has turned that Web site into a focal point for on-the-spot crime news with a fantastic black humor. I don’t recall who coined the phrase, he or I, “In Juárez, you either laugh or you cry,” but if it was me, it was only because of him.

Organized Crime

Crutches Cayo

THE BORDER REPORT

Okay, so El Muletas, Raydel López Uriarte goes down. The top figure of the Sinaloa-backed crime family in Baja California was arrested this morning in La Paz, Baja California Sur.

Last Thursday, his sister, Diana Lopez Uriarte, was kidnapped as she left a supermarket in Tijuana. News reports from the area observed that it was a heavily armed commando that took her down around noon. In keeping with our seemingly shared rampant cynicism, I wonder a little if her kidnapping didn’t lead to Muletas’ arrest today. Actually, I wonder a lot.

Politics

El Paso Votes Against El Viceroy

THE BORDER REPORT

Well here’s a city council meeting that may be worth attending tomorrow – for the public comment period if nothing else.

Three El Paso city councilmembers are trying to pass a resolution condemning the violence in Juarez. I’m not even sure what to make of this yet. In some ways, it’s absolutely worthless, almost childlike (we demand Calderon and Obama meet here to re-examine our failed war on drugs? Really?). And of course, there’s the “free the weed” clause; they’ve tried this move before.

Immigration

Banderas Unidos

THE BORDER REPORT

us_borderpatrolAssuming 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, white and green of México.mexico_flag

The Border Patrol, that golden-haired child of the American federal law enforcement agencies, is riding high, shipping its colors off into outer space onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, then sending the returning flag to the Border Patrol museum.

Log in | 54 queries. 0.926 seconds.