CATTLEPROD'S SHITTY RANCH

OF COURSE

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:04:07 -0500

My last day at this idiot-factory is Friday the 15th. I just checked my email, to find on the afternoon of Wednesday the 13th, an hour-and-a-half EXCEL TRAINING staff meeting.

FML.

Chalino Sanchez

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:12:46 -0500

Chalino Sanchez

It happened at a time when the overall number of people crossing the border was thought to be down...

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:07:14 -0500

It happened at a time when the overall number of people crossing the border was thought to be down - something experts gleaned from the fact that apprehensions in the Tucson Sector were at a 10-year low of 241,600 in 2009.

jesus.

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Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:00:42 -0500

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Arturo Beltran Leyva made a pact with municipal, state, and federal authorities in Morelos to...

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:01:44 -0500

Arturo Beltran Leyva made a pact with municipal, state, and federal authorities in Morelos to eliminate common criminals (such as muggers, carjackers, thieves, kidnappers, and rapists) in exchange for letting his organization traffic drugs without interference. The idea was to keep Morelos safe and to continue attracting both national and international tourists. Morelos, has become an important enclave in the transportation of drugs.

From Stratfor. This kind of thing points to how instituionalized organized crime is in Mexico. While cities like Juarez and Tijuana, contested turf between rival cartels, are seeing incredible violence as well as police and military attention, other border crossings like Nogales and Mexicali (plazas in the middle of Sinaloa territory) have very little violence AND very little attention from Calderon’s “drug war”. Are we to believe cartels aren’t active in these places? It’s easy to say that these places aren’t ‘urgent problems’ and that other areas require the majority of resources, but Mexicali and Nogales haven’t been problems for decades really. It’s also a sign that the drug trade itself isn’t really the problem for Mexico, it’s the violence associated with it.

Mexican Officials Assess Calderon's Drug War Through the Lens of Juarez in 2009

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:28:48 -0500

“There is an almost unanimous consensus in the city that the strategy hasn’t worked,” said Hugo Almada, a sociology professor at the Autonomous University of Juarez who earlier this month organized a peace march of more than 3,000 people.

“The most terrifying question that everyone asks is, ‘If the army comes in and can’t control the situation, what happens to us now?’ ” Almada said.

Gulf Cartel History

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:05:41 -0500

Gulf Cartel History

Any advice on the best way to quit your job?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:20:00 -0500

You’ve got 40 minutes.

zzzlll: GPOYW(aterfalls are frozen, New Years in the city is...

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:36:40 -0500

zzzlll:

GPOYW(aterfalls are frozen, New Years in the city is for amateurs)

BASH BISH.

(via talkinghead) Good old Green Street.

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:34:56 -0500

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Good old Green Street.

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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:24:13 -0500

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Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:23:39 -0500

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(via talkinghead) <3 u 4eva.

Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:23:23 -0500

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<3 u 4eva.

zzzlll: Gorman and I made this. Listen to it until your ears...

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:04:17 -0500

zzzlll:

Gorman and I made this.

Listen to it until your ears bleed.

2010 is gonna be a sexfest.

Gorman and Cheese living together has been an incredible meeting of the minds. Why didn’t it happen sooner?

Photo

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:43:00 -0500

Mexican gangs all over YouTube.

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:16:20 -0500

Mexican gangs all over YouTube.

Video

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:55:04 -0500

DEA and FBI agents received information about a week ago on Beltran Leyva’s whereabouts in...

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:55:11 -0500

DEA and FBI agents received information about a week ago on Beltran Leyva’s whereabouts in the city of Puebla, southeast of Mexico City, and shared it with Mexican naval officials, according to a DEA official in Washington.

But Beltran Leyva and his bodyguards escaped a navy raid on the Puebla location, said the DEA official, who was not authorized to discuss the operation publicly.

Early the next morning, Mexican forces raided a Christmas party in the picturesque southern Mexico City suburb of Tepoztlan in search of cartel members. They arrested dozens of attendees and entertainers, including Latin Grammy-winning accordionist and singer Ramon Ayala.

Chavez said residents in nearby Cuernavaca reported the presence of heavily armed men in their neighborhood. The DEA official said U.S. and Mexican agents received information that the Beltran Leyva group had fled to a Cuernavaca high-rise.

Sold out by the Sinaloans, no doubt. This is only going to get worse for a while.

Cartel Gunmen Kill the Family of the Solider who Died in the Assault on Arturo Beltran leyva Last Week

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:23:00 -0500

Cartel Gunmen Kill the Family of the Solider who Died in the Assault on Arturo Beltran leyva Last Week:

It was only a matter of time.

Colombia to Chavez: Maybe 'spy plane' was Santa

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:11:25 -0500

Colombia to Chavez: Maybe 'spy plane' was Santa