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And Mexico, and I mean the State, is staying the Christ out of it. Thank you, first of all, to juanito, a reader here who helped set me straight on the players. (I’d like to add, as a friend in Nogales pointed out, who in the hell drives a Volkswagen Passat to a gunfight with the Beltrán Leyvas?)

He’s got it right, Felix the Ice Cream Man is with Raúl Sabori, Paéz Soto, Nini Beltrán and Los Jabalí, Jose Vásquez’s boys from Santa Ana. Collectively, they’re the Sinaloa Federation’s syndicate along the Sonora border.

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We’re just gonna file this under the WTF Department. This is why I moderate comments.

“Here’s a question for everybody…. Can you physically changed yourself with herbs? What I mean is, can a white man change his height, weight or color of skin using herbs? Like a white man turning into a brown guy weather hispanic, mediteranean or persian/middle-eastern. Or a white man turning into a blackman.

There’s lots of crazy shit going on in the middle east and the majority of the culprits are really white men turning into brown or middle eastern. This just raises many questions into who really is responsible for all this crap in Mexico.

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Update: Milenio has a story saying Beltran’s people attacked Chapo’s people in Tubutama. But fue al contrario, no? Los Jabalines attacked Felix the Ice Cream Man, which means Chapo and the Sinaloa Federation attacked (and lost) to the Beltrans. Que dice la raza?

A … hitchhiker … from Sasabe tells me “it was a complete ass kicking on the guys who came in via auto,” suggesting that Los Jabalines got smoked, which would mean the Sinaloans took the worst of it, yes?

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Justice Department officials in Arizona are now saying the tally of the dead in northern Sonora is 21, and possibly included in those, Raúl “El Negro” Sabori Cisneros.

Meanwhile, a source within CISEN, the Mexican intelligence agency, and a cartel familymember I talk to in Tucson are both reporting at least another ten dead in Altar, Sonora. The hospital in Caborca, the closest hospital to the area, is filled with wounded. My guy in Tucson says an additional 40 people were wounded, enough that the wounded in Altar are being taken to houses to recover, there’s simply no room for them in Caborca.

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While I recognize that elected officials aren’t always the sharpest knife in the drawer, I take absolute exception to this elected idiot up in Wisconsin who supports a boycott against Arizona on the grounds that Arizona does not border Mexico and therefore faces no illegal immigration issues.

Years ago, I used to cover the board of supervisors meetings up in Flagstaff, Ariz., the representative for the Navajo reservation slice of the county used to fall asleep before the meetings even began. A colleague and I begged the editors to let us write a story about the snoozing supervisor but he felt that was too mean-spirited and told us to let it go.

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