"US-born drug suspect in Mexico boasts in his video confessions; ‘La Barbie’ brags of investments, names others" by William Booth, Washington Post | September 10, 2010
MEXICO CITY — A ritual is performed when drug lords are arrested here. They are paraded before the news cameras, often with black eyes and fresh bruises, and then stand shackled and grimacing between a pair of masked police.
They roughed up Ken?
The tough guys look tough, and they don’t talk so much as mumble. But the alleged gringo gangster called “La Barbie’’ smirked, and bragged.
In videotaped confessions that have riveted this country, a sweaty, cocky, beefy Barbie boasts he was pals with the most famous crime bosses in Mexico, that he was rich, had “offices’’ in Colombia and Panama, and that he paid “some movie guys’’ $200,000 to film the story of his life — but didn’t much like the script. He says he doesn’t know what happened to them.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal was arrested Aug. 30 after a 14-month manhunt involving 1,200 Mexican federal police and an unknown number of US agents.
For one man?
He faces multiple US indictments on cocaine-importing charges. Mexican authorities say he is a kidnapper, torturer, and murderer — and a major trafficker of marijuana and cocaine.
And the GOVERNMENT does NOT LIKE COMPETITION!
“Someone should write a book about this guy,’’ said a senior US law enforcement official who works in Mexico.
I'm sure they are already working on the movie.
The agent added that the United States would like to bring Valdez home for trial — he wouldn’t even need to be extradited. La Barbie is a US citizen and could simply be deported as an illegal alien. “We would like to nail him,’’ the official said.
Did you turn on him in the never-ending game of double-crossing in the drug-running business?
Valdez, 37, was born and raised in south Texas. He reportedly was a good student and a high school football star in the border town of Laredo, where he lived in a nice house in a nice neighborhood and went to a private high school.
The script writes itself.
According to law enforcement agents, he began his climb up the criminal ladder after he started drinking and driving in Texas — and killed a man in an auto accident.
Hey, the same way the Bushes did!
He got his nickname, Barbie, from a coach who thought the lean, dark-haired, square-jawed teen was as handsome as a Ken doll — though these days with his smirking grin stretched across chipmunk cheeks, La Barbie looks more like a sinister version of actor Seth Rogen.
Had he been arrested in the United States, an alleged criminal mastermind of Valdez’s stature would probably have zipped his lips. But in Mexico, where organized crime and celebrity often go together, Valdez has been more than willing to puff up the legend.
MSM would know all about puffing up legends.
Shown boasting to police interrogators about his investments in Colombia in one recent video clip released to the press, Valdez was asked: drugs?
“Sure, drugs,’’ he said, proceeding to explain how he transported cocaine to Mexico from Panama and smuggled large amounts of cash out of the United States in boxes stashed in tractor trailers.
They do it at the airport in Afghanistan.
Video footage of Valdez’s police confessions were rolling out in serialized form on news broadcasts and the websites of Mexico’s newspapers. Though he has hired a Houston lawyer, he has shown little concern about self-incrimination, freely dishing to Mexican police about the inner workings of the country’s drug cartels and naming names....
I don't really get any in my paper, but I bet this guy ends up dead soon.
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And this is a sight no one wants to see:
A woman wept after learning her son was killed as she stood at the crime scene in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Raymundo Ruiz/ Associated Press)
:-(
Just legalize the f***ing s***!!
"25 slain in Mexican drug cartel attacks" By Associated Press | September 11, 2010
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed 25 people in drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican border city. Farther east on the border, 85 inmates scaled the walls of a prison and escaped yesterday in Mexico’s biggest jail break in recent memory.
Despite the violence, President Felipe Calderon disputed a statement this week by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton saying Mexico resembled Colombia two decades ago.
“These kind of comments like the ones made by Secretary of State Clinton . . . so careless, so lacking in seriousness, are very painful for Mexico, because they damage Mexico’s image terribly,’’ Calderon told the Spanish-language network Univision.
“I think the main thing we have in common with Colombia is that both of our countries suffer from US drug consumption,’’ Calderon said. “We are both victims of the enormous American consumption of drugs, and now the sales of weapons.’’
Don't blame me!
And CUI BONO?
Whole lot of people around the world who have a beef with U.S. weapons sales -- or the weapons themselves.
The toll in Thursday’s attacks in Ciudad Juarez included 15 people killed when attackers stormed four homes in three hours, said Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the attorney general of Chihuahua state, where Ciudad Juarez is.
In the worst of those attacks, gunmen burst into a house and killed two young men — then killed four witnesses....
Two graffiti messages appeared in Ciudad Juarez threatening Joaquin “El Chapo’’ Guzman, the fugitive head of the Sinaloa drug cartel. “You are killing our sons. You already did, and now we are going to kill your families,’’ one sign said.
In Reynosa, 85 inmates scaled the prison’s 20-foot walls using ladders, said the Tamaulipas state public safety secretary, Jose Garza Garcia.?????
Because of the jail break my printed article was clipped and cut.
Here is some of what they did not give you:
Ciudad Juarez, with a population of 1.3 million, has become one of the world's most dangerous cities amid a turf war between the Sinaloa and Juarez cartels.
Violence has continued unabated despite the deployment of thousands of soldiers to the city this year.
Maybe that might be BECAUSE OF, pro-government and pro-military paper.
Just a glimpse into the way they think.
And the most surprising (or not) cut of all:
Also yesterday, Sandoval confirmed that a U.S. resident, Saul de la Rosa, kidnapped in Ciudad Juarez last month was found dead.
Saul the Hispanic?
What was he, CIA?
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