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Shaming The Zetas: Mexican Army Takes Down The Badass Enforcer That Lobbed A...
MONTERREY, MEXICO — I woke up the other day and started the morning off just like I do every normal day: by sitting on a bench in my front yard, reading the newspaper and toking. There’s a saying in...
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Mexican Drug War Video: School of Zetas
Here’s an entertaining/instructional cellphone video that shows one of the Zetas’ more preferred torture methods in action. It is called the tablazo. I wrote about it a few months back: It comes from...
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No, I’m Not Dead: Swine Flu Dispatch From Mexico
I’d pork these fine swine flu mamacitas, the pandemic be damned MONTERREY, MEXICO — I’ve been meaning to do a dispatch on the Swine Flu ever since the “epidemic” broke out, but I have been too busy...
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Border Wars: A Day in the Life of a Virtual Vigilante
This article first appeared in Vice Magazine It is a sweltering afternoon in May on a patch of empty Arizona desert straddling the US-Mexico border. There is not a soul in sight, no one to mind the...
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Mexican Drug War Dispatch: Viva La Narco Counterculture Revolución
Hello there! Hola to the few who still check out this column to learn about crazy antics of America’s favorite suppliers. Yeah, I know I haven’t been updating you for a while on account that I’m...
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What’s The Border Fence Good For? Subsidizing Mexican Scrap Metal Entrepreneurs
Border Barrier Blues: Mexican footpaths on the Arizona side of the fence Last week, the Government Accountability Office released a depressing audit of the US-Mexico border fence we’ve been trying to...
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An eXiled Recap: Recent Drug Trade Coverage You Might Have Missed
To compliment today’s article by Matt Harvey exposing the media bullshit behind New York’s supposed heroin epidemic, here are a couple of drug-related stories we published in the past year or so that...
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Mexican Drug War: The Narco-Welfare State . . . Drug Cartels Take Care of...
MONTERREY, MEXICO — Another day, another shootout. Forget about the tropical storm that hit the Pacific just now, it’s raining bullets in this biatch. It seems that every day there is another...
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Mexican Drug War Dispatch: The Life and Death of Don Arturo Beltran Leyva
On December 16th in the town of Cuernavaca, Mexican armed forced cornered and killed Don Arturo Beltran Leyva, the country’s most powerful drug boss and one of the top three capos of the trade. Some...
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Immigration: Mexico’s Trojan Burro?
OK, so after taking some time off, courtesy of me moving back to the fucking stone age to a house with no internet or cable, I’m going to try and write on a little more regular basis. This time, I’m...
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Mexican Drug Cartels Raid Massive Rave Parties, Crack Down On Rival Pushers…
“Raise your hand if you like weed,” the gang leader asked the raver crowd. But nobody raised a hand or so much as moved. They were too scared. So he repeated his question, this time while firing a...
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eXiled Alert! Mexican Drug War About To Explode
So there are these narco-banners being hung up all around the metropolitan areas of San Pedro, Monterrey, Escobedo and San Nicolas. If you don’t read Spanish, here’s a rough translation: Mr. Felipe...
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eXiled Alert! An All-Out Drug War Erupts In Mexico: Deadly Firefights, A...
I told you I’d be updating the situation if it got hot, so here I am, because some heavy shit went down yesterday, when the army ran into the Zetas north of Monterrey. I don’t think that any of your...
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Mexican Drug War Spring Break Report: 30 Killed in Less Than 12 Hours!
How about this eXtra Hot Spring Break update: In Acapulco, the shit just got burning hot again last week, with more than 30 people killed in less than 12 hours. I’ll do a proper update a little...
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Mexican Drug War Intel Report: Over 22,000 Dead, Police Detain 27% of the...
Hey there drug war fans, I got some statistics to throw your way. While you gringos pay attention to the unemployment rate and foreclosure statistics, we here in Mexico track the national kill...
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BREAKING NEWS: Mexican Army Captures Zetas Commander In Charge of Monterrey
This afternoon the bullets were once again flying over my city, as Mexican Army soldiers captured the JEFE DE PLAZA of the Zetas in Monterrey Héctor Luna “El Tori” (short for Hector), along with other...
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Narco-War Dispatch: Gulf Cartel Releases A Brutal Video Threat Against The...
This brutal video, which just came out, pretty much speaks for itself…that is, if you can understand Spanish. If not, I’ll explain it to you so you understand what’s going on. It was filmed in...
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Wrong Turn in San Luis Potosi: Why Did The Zetas Ambush Two ICE Agents On A...
The eXiled’s special Drug War Correspondent MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN–While meeting Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon at the White House today, Barack Obama is expected to discuss the idea of letting...
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Mexico Drug War Dispatch: Human Rights Aren’t Always Right
The eXiled’s special Drug War Correspondent MONTERREY, NUEVO LEÓN–I just learned that a friend of mine got his human rights violated by the Mexican army, when he was grabbed off the street by a couple...
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The War Nerd: The Mayan Caste War–Vivan Los Machetes
Some of the weirdest, longest wars around have been on the other side of the Big River, but for some reason most American war nerds would rather read about Eurasian battles. Not sure why, except I...
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