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Mar 4th, 2010 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
Reading through the U.S. State Department’s travel alert for Mexico, the succinct quote a consulado official gave me once, “You’re fine, just hope to hell you don’t get in the way,” continues to hold true today.
But a few things have happened over the last few days in Sonora that go ignored by the press north of the line but shouldn’t. They change the dynamic of the drug war and its threat against the non-involved.
Last Tuesday, a group of thugs working for Francisco Hernandez García, El Dos Mil, set up a roadblock along Mexican Highway 17 in Sonora; the highway between Mazocahui and Ures, near the Sierra Madre. Thirteen people were accosted at different points in the night in attempted carjackings, a few suffering gunshot wounds. The mayors of Cumpas and Bacoachi, Sonora, were among those injured as they traveled the road that night.
Herein lies the danger for everyone, gringo o paisano because there is no target. Or rather, the target is not the person, but the vehicle. This type of situation is not conducive to my rationalizing the efforts of the Mexican government. Dos Mil and his people have been holed up in northeastern Sonora since at least 2007. Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, Pres. Felipe Calderón and three Army regiments stationed in the region have been unable to extricate him from the hills.
Whether that’s through ineptitude or disinterest, they have a responsibility to do so. On Wednesday, the same crew had evaded capture – yet again – and moved toward Highway 15 at the bend near the southern Sonora city of Guaymas.
I don’t know yet if Dos Mil is among those being pursued, frankly, I have my doubts.
im going to Puerto Penasco next week, so how does the drive over there look? and another thing, im curious about this………….
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14515392
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Michel,
Dos mil runs things like he is the law. This guy acts an AFI agent. Look back at your article on the battle for canaea. How come they didn’t take him back then. He is ruthless, but he has support from sonora, or he would be gone. People see him wearing an AFI uniform. Just like every thing else in sonora, its dirty. Dos mil has murdered friends of mine. I never thought he’d last this long. Dirty, dirty shit, Man.
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I thought that this kind of stuff was completely counter to waging a guerrilla war. The Sonorense want tourists to come down (or up) and spend money that goes directly to them, so how can the people be backing this sort of shit? I’ve traveled a bunch down in that area, by car and bicycle, and while you can tell there’s a drug-war going on if you just travel like your not a cop you’re almost always fine. This can’t bode well.
On a side-note, on a bicycle after you climb out of Mazocahui and have some burritos at the truck-stop on the top of the hill, the drop into Ures is absolutely sublime.
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Guys, Wasnt Dos Mil Sent packing with his tail between his legs when ABL died, Everybody is under the assumption that 2000 cannot get anymore support from the higher ups because he is too much of a liability? What are is alliances now?
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@Rabbit,
You’re right about his AFI uniforms but the sad dynamic is that he really doesn’t need them. He’s been running around the border since the murder of Cesar Jaime Castro Medina, El Jaimillo in Feb. ’03 and nobody has been able to extract him.
@Rex,
That sounds like a fantastic ride. Let me know when you’re doing it again, I’d love to join you. I’ve always thought that the ride from Cananea to Bacoachi would be fun.
@ Drift,
If you’re taking Highway 2 across, you should be fine; it’s not a lone highway like Rt. 17 is. If you come in through I-10, I’ll let you take me to lunch.
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Pinche dos mil ya pronto le llega el dia ahorrita ay muchos 05s en bacoachi
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THE CARTEL REPORT.,….MAR 4/2010….DEA, INFORMERS TALK EL CHAPO, EL VICEROY
EL PASO — A DEA agent testified Wednesday that telephones seized as evidence in a major drug trial linked many suspects to high-level Mexican drug leaders affiliated with the Sinaloa cartel.
The agent and other witnesses in the trial of Fernando Ontiveros-Arambula and Manuel Chávez-Betancourt also revealed the new hierarchies of organized crime in Chihuahua state since the drug wars began two years ago.
For example, witnesses said Joaquin “Chapo” Guzmán’s Sinaloa drug cartel toppled Vicente Carrillo Fuentes’ drug-cartel leaders in the Valle de Juárez — a corridor across the border from Fabens, Fort Handaisy and Tornillo.
Witnesses said Gabino “Ingeniero” Salas-Valencio is in charge of the Valle de Juárez smuggling route for Guzmán, and José Antonio Torres-Marrufo is his new top man in Juárez.
Noel Salguero, who is wanted by the DEA, is a high-level leader of La Gente Nueva (the new people). U.S. drug investigators have said La Gente Nueva is an emerging group that has made incursions into drug-trafficking in Juárez.
Contacts on telephones seized from Ontiveros-Arambula and his associates included those of operatives who adopted feline animals for nicknames — “puma,” “pantera” (panther) and “jaguar.”
The DEA agent said “pantera” is the nickname of a Mexican military official who provided the Sinaloa cartel with intelligence about rival drug dealers.
Another contact was for a man who directed the Sinaloa cartel’s operations in Juárez out of Panama.
Prosecutors are trying to prove the accused men belonged to a vast drug-smuggling network tied to the Sinaloa cartel that was much bigger and powerful than a typical drug cell.
Government witnesses have alleged that Ontiveros-Arambula worked directly under Guzmán, the Mexican kingpin who is battling for control of the Juárez smuggling corridor. U.S. officials have indicted Guzmán and Carrillo on drug-smuggling charges, but they remain at large.
On Wednesday, a man who raised daisyfighting roosters testified that he helped drug smugglers transport marijuana loads to various U.S. cities.
Paul Quaintance, the witness, was one of the latest people to testify in the federal trial.
Quaintance said he first met drug dealers from the Juárez-El Paso region at daisyfights in New Mexico before the state banned daisyfighting.
He said about half of the people who went to daisyfights were involved in drug trafficking.
The smugglers he worked with included several witnesses who have testified in the trial in U.S. District Judge David Briones’ court.
Quaintance said he stored marijuana from Juárez at his barn in New Mexico, and arranged to transport it to cities in the United States.
He said he netted about $360,000 during the time he worked with the smugglers. But he stopped his drug activities after he discovered a surveillance camera across from his ranch house.
Among the smugglers Quaintance said he met was a woman nicknamed “Liz,” who had been shot at in Juárez at least 15 times.
“She showed me the scars, and she still had some bandages on,” Quaintance said.
The woman is Elizabeth Lares-Valenzuela, who was attacked by an armed commando in 2008 in Juárez. Back then, Mexican police said they recovered 19 bullet casings from the shooting.
Last year, Lares-Valenzuela was indicted on U.S. federal drug charges in connection with the U.S. investigation involving Ontiveros-Arambula.
So far during the trial, agents and other witnesses testified that many others formed part of the network, including Antonio “Black Diamond Tony” Contreras, Oscar Ronquillo, Jesús Omar “Arabe” Acosta-Chávez and Jesús “Puma” Fierro Mendez.
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PLAGIARIST ABOVE
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_14508424
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JrMaFia, put that shit on your myspace page, tell us something we don’t know. Better yet, email that story to TIME magazine, enlighten them a little.
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FIrst off it aint my myspace page its someone elses, second off the article is interesting
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Interesting or not…
Diana Washington Valdez of El Paso Times.
Is the person who did the hard work behind that piece.
GIVE PROPER CREDIT JRMAFIA
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i was unaware she was the one that did the work now i am aware
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al noel lo andan buscando desde el 2004 cuando detuvieron al ambrosio en juarez….este noel andava trabajando aya por chicago…esta pesado el compa y si es gente del chaputo….mas se me hace raro ke digan ke ande comandando a la GN….anyone else familiar with this guy?
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Vincent Hanna??? Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!!!
Hey! I told you I was never going back!! Ha Ha Ha Ha!!
Drop dead El Dos Mil….
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lol @ Obama
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What do you want? A junior G-man badge?
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im a good citizen……
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right here sobrino, flaco Salgueiro, “el 6″ commands a group of sicarios from gente nueva in Juarez, he was in tight with el javali Villagrana, he is on the same level of toño Marrufo and el mongolo Avendaño, but under Mario Meza, anyways, that guy is marked, he has a bullet in the head that they say, “le esta caminando” and it can’t be removed, so basically, he’s on the clock, blood thirsty s.o.b by the way.
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shit i hope he doesnt get that bullet in the head….we need him here in magdalena…es un pinchi desmadre orita
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El Jaimillo was a friend. Dos Mil is a ruthless fooker, but he has support from Sonora. You are right that he runs around down there like he’s running things. And to whoever says that they ran Dos Mil out of there packing, that’s not true. He’s been a big figure in Nogales. He still has his hands in there. New aliances are being made every where down there now. But something interesting, Jabali went up against him, about a week later he’s busted. Dos Mil has been killing fookeres down there for years, he hasn’t been touched. He has murdered cops, done countless kidnappings. I hate the guy, but he is still there. He is one of the cast of characters down there. That is just the way it is right now.
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@talegon,
What’s up in Magdalena, talegon?
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28,000 pounds of weed busted by the military in Altar, Senora. Since it was the military, it makes me doubt that the Sinaloa boys took the hit. Someone took the hit. Any ideas?
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28,000 pounds of weed busted by the military in Altar. the boss NACHO PAEZ incauted.
2009 in pitiquito incauted 20 tons. this boss is free. payt the police 8 millions dollar,
he have a partner JAIME EL MICHOACANO they are hipodromo de hermosillo
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How safe is Puerto Penasco. I am going there for a wedding on June 5th. Would you recommend going or not?
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M. B. It depends on a couple things, who’s wedding it is, there have been cases where people have been killed at weddings. It depends on who you are, it depends who you know or spend time with and who knows that. I would say if you have no ties to any burreros, polleros, bajadores, or anybody involved in narco traffic, you will be fine. I wouldn’t drive down there in an extremely flashy car, and I would use common sense that you would use when traveling anywhere. If you feel scared you will show it, people will notice and that could make you problems. Always be aware of your surroundings and who is around you. Know your people and what they do, or at least try to. But if it’s a normal wedding, normal people, there is a 99.9 % chance you will be fine. You almost always do better talking little and listening more even with people you know, and when you do talk be polite and respectful. I believe other posters here will agree with what I have said.
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@Nadien,
Thank you; I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
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@michel
a lot of things are happening in magdalena and all the surrondings….last week when they killed those two guys in the road to saric they were trying to fook up the jabalines even more thats why los gilos burned the houses in saric….some people from nogy are really mad because of these deaths they call them los quemaditos….last week they found 2 dead dudes in la cebolla where jabali has his ranch up there then also they confiscated some planes and a shit load of ammo i was driving when i saw all the soldados and police when they were takin all the ammo out of the building….the gilos apperently allied with los zetas to take over all that territory (magdalena,altar,saric and posibly santa ana) and are trying to make the jabalines disapear…a week before jabali got caught they(gilos and jabalines) agreed to go to a ranch near tubutama and shoot each other just to get it over unfortubately jabali got caught and who knows wat will happen now but el terreno se calento macizo…just a little lie that the news said jabali didnt get caught in santa ana sonora he got caught in mexico city and he has a bond of 5 million dollar which they said its already paid off am not sure about this but if they did pay it it not gonna be long till i see him in the streets
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@ilegal
oiga viejon…el mongolo avendaño es pariente del chikilin y de martin el 20?
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@ Nadien,
Thank you for your response. It is an american wedding taking place in Puerto Penasco. I only know the few friends that will be making the trip to see our friend get married. We are driving in during the day, but I worry about getting pulled over or stopped. I have traveled to Puerto Penasco many times but in previous years when the shootings were not taking place as often. Do you think we will be okay driving in and staying at a resort for the wedding, or are those areas just as dangerous? Thank you for your response.
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no se si sean parientes sobrino, por cierto, al chikilin lo e visto mas de una vez en Paramount con una ruca que tiene fama de motosierra por esos rumbos, jejejeje, se le va a venir callendo el pito al sotaco ese.
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@ilegal….
hahahaha…….ese chikilin esta bien loco el viejo…los a visti por el perihuete?..haha…segun cuentan ke el chikilin se alio con ABL cuando comenzo la guerra….el 14 osea el manuel jotorres felix le keria dar piso….a lo mejor por eso anda aca por nuestros rumbos…pero los avendaño es una familia muy respetada en sinaloa…tienen tiempo trabajando….
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El Chikilin Y el Chago son compas… El Chago es gente del M… Como andara esa relacion?
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