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2010-06-09 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2010-06-09 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 AP: Authorities say six inmates had their throats cut and died in a prison in Culiacan.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-09 00:35|| 2010-06-09 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I just don't cover Sinaloa.

Posted by badanov 2010-06-09 01:07|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-06-09 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 El Paso Times: Unarmed Predator drones now flying along border

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-09 01:51|| 2010-06-09 01:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Unarmed Predator drones now flying along border

Watching. And beaming back really nifty high-res images of Mexicans hopping over our high-security fence before disappearing into the landscape while sipping on a Slurpee and cracking jokes with the the rest of the latest Illegal Aliens class of that particular day.

What? No Hellfires?! FAIL.

Posted by gorb 2010-06-09 02:00|| 2010-06-09 02:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Texas lawmakers have also asked that the FAA to create a faster way of processing applications for new flights.

Long past the time to designate the first five miles along the border outside of incorporated metro areas [100,000+] as a military march. Let the writ of the administrator take precedent over that of the beltway bureaucrat.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-06-09 08:51|| 2010-06-09 08:51|| Front Page Top

#6 No hellfires. FASCAM-ADAM(AP). It will give the National Guard Artillery crews something to do for summer drill.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-06-09 12:07|| 2010-06-09 12:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Badanov: you are doing a great job and can't cover all of Mexico. Sinaloa, however, has long been the fatherland of the narcos. Hundreds of narco-corridos have been written/sang about its capital, Culiacan. ("Los Tres Gallos de Sinaloa", por ejemplo.)

Posted by borgboy 2010-06-09 16:28|| 2010-06-09 16:28|| Front Page Top

#8 As always, if one needs head shopts to bring home the point, check out "El Alarma" on the web. (Prensa rojo = Mexican version of yellow jounalism).

Posted by borgboy 2010-06-09 16:30|| 2010-06-09 16:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Badanov: you are doing a great job and can't cover all of Mexico.

Thanks for the compliment,.

I'd like to raise a few points, however.

To compose a news roundup with ten crimes and between 500 and 650 words takes me about 3 hours; just about every last bit of spare time I have. I won't bore you with the details, but it just isn't enough to dump the babelfish translation into an article; we are trying to accurately chronicle the insanity that has become Mexican society in recent months because of gangs, drugs and greed.

Secondly, the Mexican federal government is apparently comfortable enough with the crime situation in Sinaloa and Baja California, that they just transferred last week 500 Mexican Federal agents to Sonora from those two states, Sinaloa and Baja California.

Why?

Because the Mexican Army had three armed confrontations with drug gangs in the span of two days not to mention the gun battles between elements of Sonoran state police against the bad guys, as well a a number of mass murders centered around Nogales.

I cover five of the six most northern states: all but Baja California, perusing per night about a dozen Spanish language newspapers, often several times an evening.

I said all that to say this: If someone wants to cover Sinaloa and Baja California, that would be helpful. I am stretched as far as I can be in what I am doing.

Posted by badanov 2010-06-09 17:37|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-06-09 17:37|| Front Page Top

#10 I'll keep an eye out for Baja, Bad.

Posted by Frank G 2010-06-09 18:58|| 2010-06-09 18:58|| Front Page Top

#11 I'll start covering Baja California if someone watches Sinaloa and Guerrero.

Posted by badanov 2010-06-09 21:00|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-06-09 21:00|| Front Page Top

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