Narco Mexico

Saludos a todos/Greetings everyone: First, I hope this finds all of you in good health and getting used to living through this Covid pandemic. Of course, like many people, I have found that I h...

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Hijo de la guerra by Ricardo Raphael My rating: 5 of 5 stars The book is in Spanish. Writing about narco Mexico presents many challenges— but the most important is the difficulty of �...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2020/02/hijo-de-la-guerra.html

THE CARTEL  by Don Winslow average reading from Goodreads.com 4.36 of 5 stars  4.36  ·   rating details    ·  1,080 ratings   ·  171 reviews FROM THE ACCLAIMED ...

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MEXICO'S VIGILANTE STATE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCdqWNn6bsA Correspondent Teresa Bo takes viewers to the troubled state of Michoacán for an immersive examination of the autodef...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2014/05/mexicos-vigilante-state-al-jazeera.html

Rise in Street Crime? Changes in Drug Use? Do we really know who —or, if anyone— is running the Sinaloa cartel since the surprising arrest of El Chapo Guzman on February 22? And can we kno...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-mexican-drug-scene-after-fall-of-el.html

NARCO CULTURA: A REVIEW NOVEMBER 25, 2013 I  was fortunate to have seen "Narco Cultura" http://narcoculture.com/  when it screened at the Toronto International Festival (HotDocs). Its...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2013/11/narco-cultura-documentary.html

STRATFOR has produced a report that is now widely circulated and seems to be accepted as authoritative truth in Mexico. "The Mythical El Chapo" was available to subscribers on STRATFOR's site b...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-end-of-el-chapo-guzman-why-stratfor.html

MIDNIGHT IN MEXICO: A REPORTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A COUNTRY'S DESCENT INTO DARKNESS by Alfredo Corchado Alfredo Corchado's reports as the "foreign correspondent" in Mexico for the Dal...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2013/06/midnight-in-mexico-reporters-journey.html

Truth be told, I've never relied on Blog Del Narco as a primary source! I routinely monitor several of Mexico's national newspapers (El Universal, Milenio) and focus on sources that I personall...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2013/04/whats-wrong-with-el-blog-del-narco.html

State Level Change in the ratio of Female-to-Male homicide between 2005 and 2010 J. Creechan October 2, 2012 The following table and two scatterplots use INEGI homicide data from 2005 and...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/10/is-femicide-increasing-in-mexico-gender.html

Felipe Calderón's drug war is looking more and more like a whack-a-mole children's and carnival game of chance. This is an appropriate analogy — given that it's a time for State Fairs and it ...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/08/mexico-is-burning-and-no-one-is-watching.html

I recently realized how little I know about an important communication battleground that has the potential to impede political and social progress in Mexico and to silence the voice of protest. ...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/08/felipe-calderons-revenge-vendetta.html

The corruption charges and vote buying allegations in Mexico are not going away in spite of a public relations campaign by Enrique Peña Nieto that is designed to sell his presidency to the inte...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/07/corruption-and-fraud-charges-not-going.html

Molly Molloy posted a news report from the Edmonton Journal to the widely read Google Group Frontera-list  about a Mexico-Canada drug route.  http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Alberta+arr...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/06/canadian-news-coverage-of-mexican.html

The massive student movement #YoSoy132 and its inspirational group #MasQue131 at Iberoamericana  are celebrating their success at organizing a third presidential debate in the Digna Ochoa Audi...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/06/yosoy132-and-election-campaign.html

At a campaign rally in Mazatlán (Sinaloa), Josefina Vázquez Mota got carried away by the enthusiasm of the crowd of mostly female supporters and urged them to channel the classic theme of Aris...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/06/word-of-day-cuchi-cuchi.html

The link below opens a pdf slide show file (large-15 meg). The pictures are from the #YOSOY132 march of Sunday, June 10, in Mexico City. There are also a few pictures from the Andrés Manuel Ló...

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There was a large and noisy rally supporting Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City's Zocalo last night. There were several public intellectuals who spoke (including Elena Poniatowska, Pac...

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For the past few weeks, Popocatépetl has been emitting ash and smoke and keeping everyone on alert. Many Mexicans call the volcano Don Gregorio, and think he’s casting a watchful an eye on ev...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/06/letter-from-mexico-city-2012.html

The first impression that many have when they travel to Mexico is a bewildering sense of chaos and disorder. But such an impression belies the reality that powerful forces and hidden powers have...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/05/2012-presidential-election-and-youth.html

Concise Oxford Spanish Dictionary © 2009 Oxford University Press: edecán sustantivo masculino 1. ( Mil ) aide-de-camp 2. edecán sustantivo masculino y femenino (Méx) (acompañante) escort...

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It's been hard to find good general books in English that deal with the drug wars and the violence in Mexico. But, there are now a few on the market and that are worth reading. Malcolm Beith's b...

http://narcocartels.blogspot.com/2012/05/recent-books-about-mexico-and-cartels-3.html

NOTEPosts to Narco Mexico are less frequent during the summer months. Information will be posted more frequently in the near future IGNACIO "NACHO" CORONEL VILLAREAL Nacho Coronel el capo en asc...

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NOTE: POSTING TO NARCO MEXICO WILL FOLLOW AN IRREGULAR SCHEDULE DURING JULY. IN AUGUST, THE POSTINGS WILL RETURN TO A NORMAL SCHEDULE Raymundo  Riva Palacio Estrictamente personal: La caída d...

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TORONTO NO LONGER FEELS LIKE HOME  City not so innocent anymore BY LINDA DIEBEL TORONTO STAR:NATIONAL AFFAIRS WRITER It’s a sad admission, but I used to feel somewhat smug about bein...

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