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Musicians Murdered

September 3rd, 2008

THE BORDER REPORT

Four bodies found murdered yesterday may be those of a music group from northern Sonora and Tucson, Ariz., El Imparcial reports this morning.

Whoever did the hit on Los Alazanes de Sonora kidnapped the band in Caborca and drove all the way up to the U.S.-Mexico border to Rancho Cochi Feo, a feral ranch that sits on the San Miguel Gate of the Indian rez. That's a 100, 150 mile trip, mostly up dirt roads.

I wonder who didn't like their music.


Hubris?

August 9th, 2008

THE BORDER REPORT

Gen. Sergio Aponte Polito, the Army general who has so badly shaken up northwestern Mexico, was ousted Thursday, to the sweaty relief of many, many bureaucrats in Baja California and Sonora.

I've enjoyed writing about the general's exploits over the past year, even when the doings of some of his men were sometimes shady.

There was the time last year when a regional drug trafficker shot one of his planes down with a .50-cal. in Caborca. The general responded with something like fifteen seizures topping some 80 tons of weed.

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SECRETO A VOCES

April 7th, 2008

THE BORDER REPORT

My column in The News of Mexico City

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El Mochomo Detenido

February 4th, 2008

THE BORDER REPORT

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History Revisited

January 30th, 2008

THE BORDER REPORT

A home that was shot up in November 2005 may have been attacked by Caborca gunmen using a 50-caliber machine gun seized last week in a military raid in northern Mexico, police told El Imparcial newspaper.

A watchman for the house was killed in that incident and there's always been some confusion as to why the owner of the house was targeted. He is a shrimp farmer working on the Sea of Cortez.

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