Winning, don'cha know?
"Reputed head of Mexican drug cartel caught
Mexico has captured a kingpin accused of terrorizing his way to the top of a gang fighting for control of key US drug routes, even ordering rivals dissolved in caustic soda. Yesterday’s arrest, announced by US and Mexican officials, capped a series of victories in Mexico’s US-backed war on narcotics....
So which intelligence agency did he work for?
Simental, one of Mexico’s most wanted drug traffickers, is the second kingpin to be taken down in less than a month by President Felipe Calderon’s government. Pequeno said Simental is responsible for the deaths of at least 300 people, including some whose beheaded bodies were dumped in Tijuana. He also ordered hundreds of bodies to be dissolved in caustic soda, officials said.
I don't know, MSM.
Sometimes you guys come up with the most outrageous stuff.
Update:
The Globe makes my points for me when they continue to leave it up to my local.
"Journalist killed, soldiers deployed to Tijuana
The bloody and broken corpse of a radio journalist known for his broadcasts on drug trafficking was found Saturday on a highway a few miles from the city where he was kidnapped, prosecutors said.
Can't win them all, right? Pffft!
End this fraudulent crap before more people get hurt and killed (not that I would hear much about it in the BG).
Linea Directa radio station reporter Jose Luis Romero was forced at gunpoint out of a Los Mochis restaurant on Dec. 30. A few hours later, gunmen killed the chief police investigator in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa who had started investigating the kidnapping.
I'm always supicious of "gunmen" now -- and who they protect (or who is protecting them).
Sinaloa assistant state prosecutor Rolando Bon Lopez said Romero's body was found shoved into a black bag with his hands bound and broken, two bullets in his head and another in his shoulder....
So that's what government assassins are doing these days?
That's what the local gave me.
I added this:
Last week, in the northern city of Saltillo, a major regional newspaper announced it would stop covering drug violence altogether after the body of reporter Valentin Valdes was found with a threatening message. Valdes had reported the arrests of suspected drug traffickers....
Soldiers will work with local police and other law enforcement to man checkpoints and set up anonymous complaint centers....
That a**hole across the street is in for a big surprise!
Ring, ring.
Yeah, there is suspicious activity going on across the street. Get rid of that jerk once and for all. No, no, personal gripes and grudges never entered into it.
The deployment follows an announcement Friday that 2,000 federal police are being sent to Ciudad Juarez to lead the fight against traffickers there. Those officers will coordinate the efforts of local police and 6,000 soldiers.
I am ALWAYS SUSPICIOUS when the cui bono of it all is MORE POLICE STATE, MORE POLICE PRESENCE -- especially when the drug war is such a fraud!
More than 15,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on cartels three years ago....
That -- among other reasons -- is why the BG has been relatively silent on this issue for a while. You know, 50 or 60 people dying a day isn't something you really want to report when there is so much politics, etc.
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