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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.
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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.”
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.
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Investigation, Cover-up
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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 CayoTHE 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 ViceroyTHE 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 UnidosTHE 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, 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.
