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Maybe. And, being Mexico, maybe not. The interview looks clean, blaming El Viceroy, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes for the massacre of 16 youth in Juárez last Saturday.
As many of you already noticed, this transciption from juarezpress.com lays the blame solely at the feet of Joaquín Chapo Guzmán. And, as many of you have also noticed, it just seems too simple.
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Dirty, dirty and that's the way we like it here at BorderReporter.com, que nó? This is one of those weird little tales where I gotta protect the guilty – for now.
In late August, three people were arrested in Baltimore on cocaine-trafficking charges; nobody particularly special – low-end movers running 300 pounds through Baltimore from Arizona. The arrest was part of Operation Xcellerator, that massive DEA sweep of 755 members of the Sinaloa Cartel that went down across the nation last summer. Feds had seized some $59 million in cash along with the 755 arrests and and somewhere around 27,000 pounds of cocaine. If you recall, we never got a whole lot of names of the defendants in Xcellerator, a move that myself and others were questioning at the time. And I'm beginning to see why we weren't getting those names.
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Lady friend wants to keep a handgun in the house for protection. She's asking whether a shotgun or a pistol is more efficient. I contend a pistol, specifically a 9-mm Beretta.
Obviously, I'll encourage her to take a weapons safety course.
Your thoughts?
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So, we have Arturo Beltran down; a blow to his own family, the Zetas and Juarez. Then we have Teodoro Garcia, Teo, and that's a blow to Mayo and Chapito. Hm. Uno y uno. Granted, Teo's never been more than a regional drug trafficker and, frankly, barely that. I remember seeing a crew of his taken down in Tijuana, must have been some eight months ago. Police Chief Leyzaola had boasted that he would eliminate "the smaller elements irritating his city like a virus."
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The circulated rumor now appears to be true. Teodoro García Simental, El Teo, was reportedly captured in La Paz, Baja California Sur at about 6 a.m. this morning. Due credit to El Mexicano newspaper in BC who reported the information first this morning and to reader Omar for bringing it to my attention.
