Blowback from Bragg –at NarcoGuerra Times

Busy at the other shop but expect to have new item here over the weekend. Meantime check out story at NarcoGuerra Times..”Blowback from Bragg”…US military and Los Zetas–Best Trained Drug Gang in the World..
Friday treat, music vid without Michael Jackson..

New at NarcoGuerra Times

Zetas: Everywhere on Everything..

NarcoGuerra Times Relocates

The NarcoGuerra Times reports are overtaking this blog. I’ve opened a new shop exclusive to the subject. Here is the link.

NarcoGuerra Times–Obama Drug War Update

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in Chapultepec Park,
Mexico City April 2008

“The U.S. Mexico relationship is increasingly being designed as a security issue.  The bilateral relationship is becoming militarized. The people who define this crucial relationship to both countries are increasingly in the Pentagon and the military.” -Laura Carlsen, Centre for International Policy

President-elect Obama made [...]

Blistering…John Ross on Mexican day-care horror

Was working a piece this morning about US military blowback in the Mexico drug wars when the latest Blindman’s Bluff arrived in the box and had to turn my attention to this.
The unrepentant one-eyed Wobblie John Ross delivers a blistering report on the Hermasillo day-care fire that snuffed the lives of 46 poor and working [...]

Dying for another high-rise in Austin..

Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted,
Our work contract’s out and we have to move on;
Six hundred miles to that Mexican border,
They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.
We died in your hills, we died in your deserts,
We died in your valleys and died on your plains.
We died ‘neath your trees [...]

Home invasion murders…Narcos? No, Minutemen

After taking the blame for a spike in kidnappings and home invasions in Phoenix over the past few months ,the  sicarios in Sonora must be laughing their asses off at this one.  Cheap but brutal irony comes along led by this crazy bitch.

An outspoken anti-immigration activist from Everett has been arrested in Arizona in connection to [...]

NarcoGuerra Times-Obama’s Rebranded War

On May 28, President Obama’s “drug czar” Gil Kerlikowske had an exchange with the National Journal..in which the former Seattle police chief said,
“We should stop comparing this to a war and be much smarter about how we are dealing with it–and in a much more comprehensive way. I’ve ended the war on drugs.
…Reducing the demand [...]

Though it’s hell on the border..we can still dance.

Fewer damn bullets back then…and no heads on the dance floor.

NarcoGuerra Times- “Parallel State” Update

 

“I would say Mexico is a state with a parallel power in its drug cartels. It’s not a narco state yet; we still have a government. But they have true power, beginning with the right to tax (protection money).  I would say we are in great danger (of becoming a narco state.)”–Victor Clark Alfaro, narcotraficante [...]