Or is it ole’ Sneaky El Chapo just wants the chance for a paid group of serious pipe hitters to break him out during the transfer? Hmmmm, Enquiring Minds want to know.-SF At the same time, the drug lord’s wife has warned the Mexican authorities that they will live to regret her husband’s extradition because of…
Category: The Drug War & The Border
Cartel Corner #58: The Next Generation of Narco’s
There was a time, the story goes, when if a local collided with a drug trafficker’s car on the streets of Culiacán — a bastion of the infamous Sinaloa cartel — the narco was likely to hop out to check that everything was ok. “They’d say: ‘If you have any problems call this doctor and…
Cartel Corner #57: 6 Common Misconceptions about the MS-13 Street Gang
In response to a recent article on the MS13 published by Foreign Policy and reprinted at InSight Crime, gang expert Carlos Garcia challenges six commonly held misconceptions about the street gang based in several parts of Central America, Mexico, and the United States. There is an abundance of journalists, communicators and even academics who accuse…
Immigration Crisis Update: The Sneaky Way the Obama Administration Is Making It Look Like Fewer Illegal Immigrants Are Skipping Court Dates
Four out of 10 illegal immigrants never show up for their court hearings. That’s according to Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council (which represents border patrol agents). Judd testified that illegal immigrants show up to their required court hearings only 60 percent of the time after being issued a “notice to appear” at…
Dose of Truth: Accepting the Possibility of a “Central American Spring”
Central Americans May Be Ready for Their Own Arab Spring The spread of gangs, the U.S. narcotics trade, and rampant corruption are major factors contributing to mass migration and alarmingly high levels of violence. Tens of thousands of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, and Hondurans, many of them unaccompanied minors, have arrived in the United States in recent years,…
Cartel Corner #56: The True-Crime Story of Monica Velasco
Truth is Stranger than Fiction when it comes to the Drug War. When you read stories like this you realize how DEEP the Drug Trade has it’s tentacles into Society. How many seemingly legitimate people in your community are involved in the drug trade in some respect? In this case, an Elementary school teacher. -SF…
Border Security Update: 113 Cubans Being Flown to Border
Wow. Now we are flying pregnant foreign aliens into this country? It’s sad, but I am not surprised anymore.-SF A group of Cubans, said to be vulnerable, have reportedly been flown from Costa Rica to northern Mexico where they are expected to cross the border into the United States. They will then apply for an…
Cartel Corner #54: How El Chapo Got his Gun
You’ve probably heard the news that when Mexican authorities raided the hideout of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, the head of the murderous Sinaloa drug cartel, on Jan. 8, they recovered a .50-caliber Barrett rifle that was trafficked through the ATF’s disastrous “Fast and Furious” debacle. What you may not know, but probably suspected, is that…
Cartel Corner #53: Video of Narco Gunmen Killing Businessman in Front of His Family
This video goes a long way in showing what REAL life is like in Sinaloa, Mexico. First, the Police are either Corrupt or Chicken Shit to stand up to the Cartels. Second, If you don’t pay the Cartels their extortion money, you die a horrible death in front of your Family. All of this courtesy…
Border Security Update: Keeping the Pedophiles Out
As if the United States does not have enough problems with fighting the plague of Child Sexual Predators, now we have to worry about Mexico’s predators coming over here? I think Mexico is doing what Castro did in the 80’s: Dumping the dregs of their jails on the United States. Sorry, but the safety of…