Appeal Ruling Due Today on Woman Convicted in 2009 Murder of 9 Year-old Brisenia Flores
Appeal Ruling Due Today on Woman Convicted in 2009 Murder of 9 Year-old Brisenia Flores
By Associated Press/San Fracisco Chronicle PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court is to rule Friday on an appeal for a former border activist sentenced to death for the killings of […]
Out of Mexico’s Violence: Cultural Renaissance On the Border
By Louis Nevaer, New America Media MEXICO CITY – Mexican youths living in border cities from Tijuana to Ciudad Juarez are reclaiming civil society via cultural movements emerging on the heels […]
DRUGS: Narco Mennonites Arrested Again
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Years ago, I had a run-in with drug-smuggling Mennonites in the area around Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua in Mexico, and wrote about it, and the decay […]
DRUGS: Narco “Canonized”
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I guess it was only a matter of time, but …Nazario Moreno, deceased leader of La Familia Michoacana, the narco-Catholic drug cartel now finding itself […]
Memorial Day Repost: Cops Shoot Latino Marine 71 Times
(Editor’s note: We republish this article, almost a year to the day after it was first published; first in remembrance of a U.S. veteran, and secondly so that the incident […]
When The Drug Cartels Are The Guys Down The Street
By Wuicho Vargas Violence, I must admit, is taking over the southernmost part of Texas. Here in the Rio Grande Valley we have grown accustomed to it. Sad, but true, […]
The Murder of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata Goes Unsolved
By Cindy Casares This week marks the one-year anniversary of the mysterious murder of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata, a Brownsville native, who was gunned down on a stretch of […]
Is The U.S. Military Deepening Its Operations In Mexico?
By Melissa del Bosque News Wednesday evening that U.S. military officials had arrived in Matamoros went viral over Twitter and other social media sites along the Mexican border and by […]
Confessions Of A Cartel Hit Man
By Susana Hayward THE FIRST TIME HE pulled the trigger, he said he couldn’t even think. He was just following an order that came in code while driving his police car […]
In Mexico, Zetas Vs. Hackers May Lead To More Violence
The basic story goes like this. One of the members of the hackers group Anonymous became mixed up with the Mexico’s scary drug cartel, the Zetas (although this has come […]