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The Tucson Smoke-Out Hits the Auction Block
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Found this one during a casual search of the Federal contract solicitation page. The Homeland Security Department is requesting bids for narcotics incineration here in Tucson. I’ll ignore, for the moment, that they’re simply repeating steps from DEA who already has an incineration facility here in town. Writing about the Feds would be less entertaining if they worked efficiently, after all.
Homeland is asking for a price breakdwon to burn 215,000 pounds of dope per year; that’s 210,000 pounds of weed and 5,000 pounds of “hard” narcs; synthetics, meth, steroids, coke, and heroin.
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Update: I don’t know why it’s so easy for me to forget that the U.S. engages in the same inanities as Mexico. See below.
Having a conversation with an old friend last night, he made the point that with its level of political and social abuses, you would think Mexico would be a more powerful country. It’s a bit Machiavellian but I think he’s correct. Instead, the country acts like a 1980s banana republic.
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Take a look at this video interview of José Vázquez Villagrana, El Jabáli, for a moment.
Captured last month in Mexico City, Mexico’s Ministry of Public Safety presented the clean-cut 40-year-old Jábali, a drug lord from Santa Ana, Sonora, sporting a turtleneck sweater. The interview bothers me for many reasons, not the least of which are his wild admittances about what exactly he did for a living and for whom. Jábali claims to work for the Sinaloa Federation, but some people I had an opportunity to speak with over the past few days say he actually worked for the Juárez Cartel, not Sinaloa.
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So I thought I’d share a little of where your donations are going. Thanks to your donations, I’m now the proud owner of a new 23″ inch Acer LCD monitor I picked up at NewEgg.com using donations acquired from last month.
Got tired of peering at my laptop screen all day. You just helped BorderReporter.com not go blind; this is a much bigger deal than you may think.
Later this week, I’ll be using those accrued donations for a trip to Hermosillo to speak with a few people who have some interesting stories to tell about goings-on in Sonora.
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Take a look at this video interview of José Vázquez Villagrana, El Jabáli, for a moment.
Captured last month in Mexico City, Mexico’s Ministry of Public Safety presented the clean-cut 40-year-old Jábali, a drug lord from Santa Ana, Sonora, sporting a turtleneck sweater. The interview bothers me for many reasons, not the least of which are his wild admittances about what exactly he did for a living and for whom. Jábali claims to work for the Sinaloa Federation, but some people I had an opportunity to speak with over the past few days say he actually worked for the Juárez Cartel, not Sinaloa.
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The Tucson Smoke-Out Hits the Auction BlockTHE BORDER REPORT
Found this one during a casual search of the Federal contract solicitation page. The Homeland Security Department is requesting bids for narcotics incineration here in Tucson. I’ll ignore, for the moment, that they’re simply repeating steps from DEA who already has an incineration facility here in town. Writing about the Feds would be less entertaining if they worked efficiently, after all.
Homeland is asking for a price breakdwon to burn 215,000 pounds of dope per year; that’s 210,000 pounds of weed and 5,000 pounds of “hard” narcs; synthetics, meth, steroids, coke, and heroin.
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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, white and green of México.
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.
