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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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Update: The mayor of Cumpas was not killed; incorrect info.

The showdown between Dos Mil’s people in the Sierra and Mexican law enforcement has finally come to a head.

Sources are reporting that a gunbattle broke out between the two groups in the city of Arizpe about twenty minutes ago. I’ll keep you posted but you readers do so as well. The fight started sporadically last Tuesday southwest of Arizpe and Cananea and finally culminated this morning.

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Update: The tertiary chisme is that Miguel Treviño Morales, El Zeta 40, was captured in Reynosa. Don’t know anything yet; just what’s being said.

Another of these … odd situations seems to be occurring in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, in the past week. Rumors abound that 40 to 60 thugs were killed in a gunbattle with the Mexican Army that left an additional ten soldiers dead. News accounts published in Sonora newspaper, El Imparcial stated that six men total died in a gunbattle on Feb. 8. However, residents appear to be flooding the Internet with remarks about a much higher murder count. Additional commentary here at LaVidaMafiosa, (registration required).

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Some of you may know the answer to this.

In “Down by the River,” Charles Bowden mentions a church in Ojinaga, Chihuahua, that Amado Carrillo built. Anyone know which
church and what year that might have happened?