Apr 29th, 2009 |
By Michel Marizco
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Category: Chismes
THE BORDER REPORT
Well this is interesting.
The rumor floating around the Southern Arizona health community at the moment is that a U.S. Border Patrol agent from Tucson Sector may have tested positive for swine flu (or the 2009 H1N1 flu virus as the CDC is desperately trying to label it).
And we're just going to keep it under chismes for now, since there's nobody official to call at the Homeland Security Dept. at 630 on a Wednesday afternoon.
Mind you, it's only a rumor right now. I really don't have anything more on the matter, but we'll keep an eye on it.
Apr 29th, 2009 |
By Michel Marizco
|
Category: Chismes
THE BORDER REPORT
Entirely uncorroborated for now, I'm on the road, but anyone hear anything about a Border Patrol arrested in Pinal County today? I understand the agent was popped for DUI. On duty.
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Sick of swine yet? You oughtta be, but this one's a little different.
Somebody left a pair of severed pig heads outside the offices of two daily newspapers in Nogales, Sonora, last Monday, along with the message: everybody's going to die.
I'm not sure what the allegorical meaning behind the heads was; Death by Virus, maybe?
The newspapers themselves haven't published anything about the two incidences, and even the major daily, El Imparcial, gracefully backed away. Thankfully, the owners of this Web site lack the grace to do so as well.
Ay Mexico, pobre Mexico. Con la cruz en el pecho y el diablo en los hechos. Far be it for me to pass judgement on an entire country, but its government? The only players squirming worse than the Mexicans is Smithfields Foods, Inc., which co-owns the pig farm where the desmadre began.
I've been watching their p.r. page over the past couple days, it's amusing, and enlightening. On April 26, Smithfield Foods issued a press release to investors saying there was no evidence that Carroll Farms had anything to do with the swine flu. A day later, that was hedged:
A really interesting hit late last night in Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, two couples taken out, one survivor.
The hit went down in the heart of the city, 13th Street and Juárez Boulevard; El Imparcial reports this morning.
One of the three dead was identified as Joel Meza Cázares, of Culiacán, and los pajarritos andan cantando, saying he was related to Blanca Margarita Cázares Salazar, La Emperatriz, El Mayo Zambada's ex-girlfriend and a money-launderer for the Sinaloa Federation.
If the info checks out, and we're working on it this morning, then Zambada's been taking some hits.
In February, Cázares' brother, Victor Emilio, was targeted by the Feds, when they arrested 750 people working for the Sinaloans here in the U.S. That sprung from an indictment targeting Victor that was filed in 2007.
Victor controlled Mexicali and California's Imperial Valley for El Mayo.
One of Blanca's son's was murdered in May 2008 along with Edgár Guzmán, Chapo's son, in a bazooka attack in downtown Culiacán. It was a dramatic attack, even by narco standards. Twenty men took part in the murders. Some 25 cars were destroyed, close to 500 bullet casings picked up from the parking lot of the shopping mall where the young men went down.
Now, at the time, everybody blamed the Beltrán Leyvas for the murder. Then the rumors began, here and in other places, that Mayo had ordered the hit, fracturing the Sinaloa Federation. Now this one, Joél Meza, goes down.
The second thought I have this fine Monday morning is that this not going to go over well with the Sonorans. Drive-bys in the tourists spots are a huge no-no. At least, they used to be.
I'll let you know about Joél Meza when I hear something.
Now let's all return to the gripe porcina.
