Latina Beauty Queens Recruited As Narco Novias
Latina Beauty Queens Recruited As Narco Novias
Colombian and Venezuelan beauty queens are being “imported” to Mexico as novias, or girlfriends, for narcos, or drug dealers. This comes from a story by McClatchy, which outlines a handful […]
50,000 Dead Since 2006 In Mexico’s Drug War?
According to some Mexican reports, the death tally in Mexico that has followed President Felipe Calderón’s “drug war” begun in 2006 may surpass 50,000. This article says the total from 2008 […]
Drug Sniffing Dogs Often Wrong, Harass Latinos
Just when you thought we had entered post-racial America, even dogs begin to show signs of racism. Yes, that’s right, in a recent analysis done by the Chicago Tribune, it […]
US Gun Shops are Fueling Mexico’s Drug War
According to Mexico’s attorney general there were 12,456 murders in his country from January to November of 2010. That’s more than 1000 a month, mostly done with firearms, mostly dealing […]
Lucha Libre Wrestlers Pass On Narco Cultura
In a feel good story by The Washington Post, we learn that lucha libre wrestlers in the Washington, D.C. area have purposefully left out narcocultura from their repertoire. The story […]
Felipe Calderón Says U.S. Fuels Drug War
The BBC took a good interview with Mexican president Felipe Calderón (no relation, ha ha) and we wanted to share it with you here. The BBC interviewer comes off a […]
New Juárez Documentary: “8 Murders A Day”
A new documentary called “8 Murders A Day” chronicles the human rights disaster that followed Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s declaration of war on the drug cartels in 2006. The story […]
Drug Cartels Recruiting Kids
You may or may not have heard of Ponchi, the 14 year-old drug cartel assassin recently arrested in Mexico. The Chicago Tribune wrote up an interesting piece about how young […]
Mexican Govt’s Drone Crashes Near El Paso
Well this is a little random. Talking Points Memo reported that Mexican unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed in someone’s backyard outside of El Paso, Texas: “CBP/U.S. Border Patrol responded to […]
Texas Department Of Public Safety: Avoid Mexico During Holidays
The Texas Department of Public Safety followed the U.S. State Department’s lead in warning people not to travel to Mexico during the holiday season. According to a press release: “‘The safety […]