THE BORDER REPORT

This is just too amusing to leave buried in the comments. And reader LaPuraNeta! raises a good point. Why do these guys always give up without so much as a squeak of protest? Over and over again, we hear how the border's most powerful narcos nearly exemplify Mexican machismo. Yet the only narco I ever saw who fought his arrest instead of surrendering was Arturo Beltrán Leyva. Mochomo Alfredo Beltrán didn't. Neither did Teo Teodoro García nor El Chiquilin nor Muletas.

EL CORRIDO DE EL MULETAS

– by LaPuraNeta! –

3 capturas, ni un solo disparo

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THE 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.

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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."

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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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