Spillover Violence From Mexico’s Drug Cartels: How Real Is It?

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/05/27  No Responses »
May 272011
 
Spillover Violence From Mexico’s Drug Cartels: How Real Is It?

BY HERNAN ROZEMBERG & RUXANDRA GUIDI KPBS With every report of drug-related violence in Northern Mexico, comes the fear that the shootouts, the assassinations, and kidnappings will spillover into the United States. But when does a crime along the border become an example of spillover violence? And when is it just a crime? It’s all a matter of local interpretation and, sometimes, political manipulation. Even some media hysteria. “Let me tell you about the kidnapping epidemic that is happening in our own backyard. Phoenix, Arizona, is America’s kidnapping capital. It is the second worst city after Mexico City, in the world!” declared Fox News host Glenn Beck two years ago. He was referring to a rash of kidnappings that were widely used MORE

Princess Tiffany goes to Washington looking for hubby David Hartley’s body

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/05/21  5 Responses »
May 212011
 
Princess Tiffany goes to Washington looking for hubby David Hartley's body

Why doesn’t Tiffany Hartley just take a damned polygraph test as has been requested by hundreds of thousands of Americans who doubt her recounting of events that allegedly occurred on Falcon Lake on the Texas-Mexico border 8 months ago on September 30, 2010.   On that day, Tiffany and David Hartley, illegally entered the Republic of Mexico via Falcon Lake, a man made lake that straddles the US-Mexico border. Fully aware of State Department alerts warning Americans to take care in traveling to Mexico, and aware of the dangers, the were allegedly on a day trip to photograph a partially submerged church in the town of Viejo Guerrero.   Once there, they were supposedly confronted by 1, 2 o 3 MORE

12 Zetas, 1 Marine killed in Falcon lake Gunbattle, but still no David Hartley nor his Jet Ski

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/05/09  8 Responses »
May 092011
 
12 Zetas, 1 Marine killed in Falcon lake Gunbattle, but still no David Hartley nor his Jet Ski

Twelve suspected members of the Zetas drug gang and a member of Mexico’s Navy were killed in a shootout on an island in a lake that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Monday. The Mexican Navy said the shootout occurred Sunday on Falcon Lake, located between Texas and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, after troops patrolling the area spotted a camping area on an island. The suspected drug traffickers used the island for storing marijuana to be transported by boat to the United States, the Navy said in a statement. After the shootout, the Navy said it seized guns, ammunition and bullet-proof vests from the island. Falcon Lake drew the attention of law enforcement authorities on both side of the MORE

New evidence emerges in David Hartley case? Only if you believe in the Easter Bunny

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/15  7 Responses »
Apr 152011
 
New evidence emerges in David Hartley case? Only if you believe in the Easter Bunny

KRGV.com is reporting that witnesses have come forward six months after the disappearance and alleged murder by Los Zetas, of Coloradoan David Hartley, that claim to have heard gunshots on the lake at the time Tiffany Hartley alleges her husband was murdered. Zapata Sheriff Sigi Gonzalez an elderly couple (winter Texans) with a home near Falcon Lake heard the gunshots that killed David Hartley. That is a pretty powerful and provocative statement. They heard the shots that definitely killed David Hartley. (No body has ever been found. Many times I’ve spent the night in the area, peaceful and tranquil that it is, yet Gonzalez continues to maintain a scenario of a war zone, with bullets whizzing and gunfire at all MORE

ALIPAC President William Gheen put in his place by DREAMER Viridiana Martinez

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/13  9 Responses »
Apr 132011
 
ALIPAC President William Gheen put in his place by DREAMER Viridiana Martinez

Viridiana Martinez, co-founder and community organizer for the  N.C. Dream Team, debated the nativist President of ALIPAC, William Potter Gheen III on North Carolina Public Radios WUNC and John Stasios “The State of Things” and it was a massacre. Think Hillary Clinton debating Jethro Bodine. Martinez was one of the three NC DREAM Team members who conducted a 13-day hunger strike in Raleigh last summer during a campaign to convince Congress to pass the DREAM Act and recently was arrested along with 7 others at a protest on the Georgia State University campus in Atlanta. They were all released on April 7 with no deportation process initiated. The debate is over two bills currently in the NC Legislature which would MORE

Another attempted murder of an Arizona resident by the US Border Patrol?

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/12  2 Responses »
Apr 122011
 
Another attempted murder of an Arizona resident by the US Border Patrol?

That’s the answers to questions the wife and family of a man we’ll call “Jose” are asking after her husband was nearly beaten to death, er, excuse me, “fell”, in the desert outside of Yuma Arizona. From The Three Senorans Jose lives in Phoenix, Arizona, and has a wife with three US born children. Jose was brought here as a little boy and has never returned to Mexico since then. Even though Jose is 42 years old, and has been here since he was a child, Jose is undocumented. The father of three was deported to Mexico. His daughter was really sick, so he tried to come back to be with his family in Phoenix. He crossed over at the MORE

Question of the Day – ¿Por qué?

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/08  No Responses »
Apr 082011
 
Question of the Day - ¿Por qué?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtMRIEs0nIg&feature=player_embedded”

Cross Posted From THE MEX FILES Much as I liked to make fun of Don Chente’s often blunt (and sometimes gaffe-prone) public pronouncements, the question he raises is one heard more and more in Mexico.  I admit, I get rather snippy (especially when reading and writing late at night, for posting the next morning) when I read remarks like a comment on F.B.I. Director Robert Mueller’s statement to the U.S. Congress that “there is an ‘unprecedented’ level of violence in Mexico linked to the country’s drug wars” to the effect that Mexico could solve the problem by “just legalizing drugs”.  Sorry… that’s been done, but the violence still continues, and I’m afraid my response is that it’sU.S. drug users (including those MORE

“Love Triangle”, not drugs, not cartels, responsible for murder of Americans at San Ysidro border crossing

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/07  No Responses »
Apr 072011
 
"Love Triangle", not drugs, not cartels, responsible for murder of Americans at San Ysidro border crossing

The news of two American citizens gunned down in their employers pickup while waiting to cross the border at San Ysidro California, one of the busiest ports of entry in the country, has once again given the secure border zealots fresh ammunition in their ridiculous demands to “seal the border:. At 0240 this past Monday, 25-year-old Sergio Salcido Luna, a mixed martial arts fighter and his friend 28-year-old Kevin Joel Romero, American citizens living in Tijuana were in line to cross into the US on their way to begin another week of work at West Coast Beverage Maintenance, a business on Morena Boulevard in Bay Park. Their employer says both men were good guys and hardworking individuals with a zest MORE

Arivaca Minuteman Murders – Two down One to go – Jason Bush received Death Penalty

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/06  11 Responses »
Apr 062011
 
Arivaca Minuteman Murders - Two down One to go - Jason Bush received Death Penalty

Not that there was any doubt, but Jason Eugene Bush, Minuteman Shawna Fordes trigger man in the 2009 Arivaca home invasion murders, received the death penalty today by a Pima County jury for the murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul. In what has been a very swift yet bizarre trial, on March 25, jurors convicted Bush of two counts of first degree murder, attempted first-degree murder of Gina Marie Gonzalez, one count of burglary in the first-degree; one count of aggravated assault, serious physical injury; one count of aggravated assault, deadly weapon/dangerous instrument; one count of armed robbery; and one count of aggravated armed robbery. (The same charges as Minuteman Shawna Forde was convicted of.) Bizarre in MORE

CBP Weekly Blotter – Serial Rapist Arrested – Drug Smuggler caught in Yuma Sector

 Posted by Porter Corn on 2011/04/06  2 Responses »
Apr 062011
 
CBP Weekly Blotter - Serial Rapist Arrested - Drug Smuggler caught in Yuma Sector

SERIAL RAPISTS, CHILD MOLESTERS, SMUGGLERS, KILLERS, DHS WANTS YOU!!!should be the new recruiting slogan for Customs Border Protection and the US Border Patrol following the arrest of a CBP officer after DNA linked him to sexual assaults in the Orange County (Ca) area going back several years. Miguel Lerma Jr., 29, was taken into custody after DNA evidence tied him to a 2010 sexual assault in Garden Grove, as well as a sexual assault a year earlier in Long Beach, Garden Grove police officials announced in a written release. Police allege Lerma picked up a 20-year-old woman on Harbor Boulevard in Santa Ana on Nov. 14, drove her to the 11800 block of Cardinal Circle in Garden Grove and sexually MORE

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