Sonora plays catch up
THE BORDER REPORT With the finding of six bodies in a dirt lot yesterday afternoon, about twenty people have now been murdered along the Arizona-Sonora border since last Tuesday. The bodies were found...
View Article15 tons gets you 7, maybe 2
THE BORDER REPORT This story’s a few months old but I like it because it shows nicely to what extent the U.S. simply doesn’t invest in punishing high-end drug traffickers. The United States has entered...
View ArticleHere We Go De Nuevo
THE BORDER REPORT A group of restrictionists who last year saw one of their supporters arrested for the murder of a Mexican-American family in Southern Arizona, plans a return to this border armed...
View ArticleThe Vigilante You Know is Better Than the Vigilante You Don’t
THE BORDER REPORT The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps is no more. The Arizona Daily Star’s got the scoop on the story here. But there’s another armed group floating around down on the border (I mean,...
View ArticleHundreds Gather to Honor Murdered Border Agent
The U.S. Border Patrol held a memorial service in Tucson on Friday morning, paying homage to one of its elite agents, Brian Terry, who was killed during a gunbattle with bandits in a canyon along the...
View ArticleDedos Muertos?
THE BORDER REPORT This State Department cable out of Wikileaks caught my eye. 51 FBI informants and 10 DEA “liaison officers” were murdered in Mexico between 2007-09. When we talk about American law...
View Article3 Accused of Trying to buy Stinger Missiles, Anti-Tank Weapons for Sinaloa...
TUCSON – Three people are accused of trying to buy anti-tank weapons in Arizona for a drug cartel in Mexico. Federal indictments were recently unsealed in Phoenix. Court documents show the three also...
View ArticleLos Numeros de Phoenix
THE BORDER REPORT No, no, not those numeros. I’m talking about the official numeros de secuestros and home invasion rip-offs in Phoenix. The statistics seem to have turned into a hen-pecking party with...
View ArticleMexico’s Hidden Drug War
THE BORDER REPORT The following story was produced for the Fronteras Desk, public radio, Arizona. Click here for the audio version. Long known as Arizona’s beach town, tourists and business owners in...
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