THE BORDER REPORT

The videos are disturbing; a group of faceless Sonoran State Police loading a pile of bloody bodies into the back of a police truck.

"There you go. Go fuck your mother, puto," growls one officer, as he finishes pushing a still breathing body on top of the heap. An arm moves, just barely. Maybe it's the shifting weight of the carcass. Maybe a last bit of life.

"Assholes," he says as he pushes the body in one last time.

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A cocaine addict who served as chief of police in a northeastern Sonoran town committed suicide this morning, El Imparcial reports on its Web site.

No word yet from state government officials on how he managed to obtain the position. It's not a popular job, lying so close to Gulf Cartel controlled territory in the mining town of Cananea.

More Oddities

Another chief of police for Moctezuma, another town in that region, was arrested last November for poaching deer.

And in neighboring Naco, yet another chief of police quit recently, making 11 or 12 chiefs of police in that beleaguered city over a four year span.

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Ciudád Obregón – The wealthiest cartel that ever controlled the Arizona-Sonora border, Los Güeritos, have resurged to the south, down near Sonora's border with Sinaloa. The group of narco-traffickers who once controlled the entire corridor, from the Sinaloan border to Phoenix, Ariz., have re-established themselves throughout this city and nearby Navojoa, this time aligning themselves with the Gulf Cartel from Mexico's east coast.

The information comes from a confidential informant of the federal Attorney General's Office living in northern Sonora and it leaves some question about the effectiveness of law enforcement in this country against the narcos of this country.

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Expreso newspaper is reporting this morning that state police cannot identify the author of the confession into Alfredo Jiménez's disappearance.

The confession was signed with the name, Saul Garcia Gaxiola.

There's another Garcia Gaxiola name floating around, down around Ciudád Obregón to be precise.

Rodolfo Garcia Gaxiola, El Chipilón, was a commander with the Mexican Attorney General's Office, gunned down in 1998 by the Arellano Felix brothers.

El Chipilón was no angel; he'd been working for the Sinaloans when he was gunned down. Before that, for El Güero Palma.

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HERMOSILLO, SONORA – Kneeling on the ground, his hands cuffed behind him and blood pouring from his head, the journalist begged for death. They tortured him for three days, before finally putting a bullet in his head, the state police officers who had kidnapped him burying his body in a hole dug out in the bedroom floor of a drug trafficker's home.

Los Numeros, narco-traffickers working for the Sinaloan, Arturo Beltrán Leyva, had finished him off, with the blessing of the Sonora state prosecutor, Abel Murrieta.

Or not.

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