Justice For Brisenia Flores Poster From Presente.org

Justice For Brisenia Flores Poster From Presente.org

Mary Mata February 14, 2011

Presente.org has created a poster to try to bring attention to the Brisenia Flores trial, currently being deliberated by a jury. We have written about the trial previously, and are […]

Pentagon May Contribute To Gun Flow To México

Mary Mata

Narco News has been reporting on the flow of U.S. military fire power into Mexico and into the hands of the drug cartels. Recently they posted a story that gleans […]

Breaking News: Forde Guilty in Brisenia Flores Death

NewsTaco

We’ve been following this story since the beginning of the trial; last week the jury went home with out returning a verdict. So today we were monitoring the webs for […]

Minutemen Associate Faces Death Penalty for Murder of 9 Year Old Latina

NewsTaco February 11, 2011

Finally, someone in the national, legacy, press is paying attention to this. Not that attention from a traditional news organization is needed to legitimize a story, but it’s about time. […]

Mexico Drug War Aid Delays Investigated

Mary Mata February 7, 2011

Somewhere between President George W. Bush announcing in 2007 that the U.S. would give México $1.4 billion dollars to fight drug cartels (Mérida Initiative) and now, just $362 million in […]

U.S. Guns Used In Mexico To Kill Border Patrolman

Mary Mata February 3, 2011

Guns purchased in Arizona and illegally smuggled into Mexico were among those used to kill a Border Patrol agent in that state in December. This information came as part of […]

NewsTaco To Go: Cold, TSA, Juárez, Immigration, Middle East

Mary Mata February 2, 2011

The Middle East continues to boil over, the TSA tests new body scanners, undocumented immigration has remained stable in the U.S., it’s cold across the country and Ciudad Juárez sees […]

U.S. Targets American Gun Cartels

Mary Mata January 27, 2011

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)’s Office of Field Operations has devised a new strategy, according to NBC News, that will have agents focus on monitoring the activities of […]

Border Vigilante Trial Begins For Girl’s Death

Mary Mata January 26, 2011

And now for a very sad story from Arizona. In May of 2009 two people entered the home of Raul Flores Jr., his wife Gina Gonzalez and their daughter Brisenia […]

Latina Beauty Queens Recruited As Narco Novias

Mary Mata January 21, 2011

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 […]