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Sources on both sides are saying Francisco Hernandez García, aka El Dos Mil, was captured by the Mexican Army day before yesterday in Hermosillo. Hernandez, the intellectual author of some very, very interesting hits in Sonora going back at least eight years was also blamed for engineering the 2007 attacks in Cananea that left 24 people dead. After the death of his compadre, Raul Enriquez Parra in 2005, the Cananea-born narco-trafficker was picked up by the Beltrán Leyva family back when Mochomo controlled the Nogales and Naco corridors. Afterward, he linked himself to the Gulf Cartel, smashing a pacto between the Sinaloans and the Gulf cartels in 2007. (Photo courtesy, Sonora State Police) The information of his arrest is unconfirmed by the Mexican Army and the Sonoran state government. I'm working to corroborate the information by tomorrow.

-- Michel Marizco

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Gotta love this Web site's readers, only they can take citizen journalism to an underground level. Thank you, mi carnál, for passing this photo along of the shot-up truck after yesterday's attack in Cananea.

Outstanding shot and much appreciated. That's as efficient of a strafing as I've ever seen.

Meanwhile, the Mexican Federal Attorney General's Office has issued a "traveler's guide" for Sonora, mainly telling people what to do when confronted with a false checkpoint, El Imparcial reports.

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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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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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