Update in the manuscript
2012-05-19
Posted by: badanov
I am just hours away from finishing the transcription of the manuscript in toto.
At the moment, it appears the manuscript will net out at about 730 pages when formatted as a book.
When I originally did the manuscript, I figured it would net at out 450 pages, but nooo.
So,I have a decision to make. Cut mercilessly, which I will likely do in any case, or split he book into two parts. I will have to decide soon because I am looking at an August release date.
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Mexican Presidential Poll,May 15th
2012-05-18
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Last week, just after a week of several unsettling press gaffes and strong, if disturbing indications of a campaign that is imploding, Vazquez Mota told reporters that internal polling placed her candidacy within ten percentage points of Pena Nieto. Her claim has some justification, since the polling done by PAN in the Michoacan elections was a more accurate reflection of how close that race was than news polls had indicated at the time.
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Yahoo! Big Story: The Cadereyta Massacre
2012-05-16
Posted by: badanov
My Borderland Beat story about the Cadereyta massacre was linked in Yahoo a few hours ago. Click the link in the title to see it.
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Cadereyta Mothers Day Massacre
2012-05-15
Posted by: badanov
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Cadereyta massacre was part of Los Zetas Mothers Day plot
2012-05-14
Posted by: badanov
In April, 14 unidentified individuals said to be members of Los Zetas were found in Nuevo Laredo, butchered and stuffed into an SUV, it said by Los Matazetas, said to be aligned with the Sinloa Cartel and based in Veracruz state.
These examples are only the ones Mexican press and private social media have been allowed to reveal to the pubic due to threats from criminal gangs. Indeed, it was not until almost 10 days after it took place that at least one US publication, the Houston Chronicle, has reported on the fight for Nuevo Laredo by mentioning the March massacre of Los Zetas operatives in Nuevo Laredo.
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Police find 49 mutilated dead near Monterrey, Nuevo Leon: UPDATED II
2012-05-13
Posted by: badanov
Nuevo Leon attorney general Adrian de la Garza said that that he has reports of a sudden increase of abductions in the area.
Some of the bodies left at the scene were already in a state of decomposition. The report also said spent shell casings were found at the scene, suggesting some of the victims were killed at the scene. He also said some of the remains were dusty, and theorized the dead may have been transported to the scene in a dump truck
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May 11th Mexican Drug War Pr0n
2012-05-12
Posted by: badanov
The photo is of a Tamaulipas state police operative with a G36 5.56mm assault rifle with a folding stock, and what appears to be plain iron sights and a translucent plastic magazine.
See photo here
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Peggy Noonan II
2012-05-09
Posted by: badanov
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Mexican Presidential Poll, May 8th
2012-05-08
Posted by: badanov
Frontrunner Pena Nieto has to be worried at this point. The second largest block of voters are still undecided voters with 23.6 percent, slightly smaller than a week ago, but still indicative that voters may not make their final decision until they are queued up to vote July 1st.
Even so, Vazquez Mota protested last week that PAN polls show her within ten percentage points of Pena Nieto. Recent history has shown that PAN polling is more accurate than public polls, the most relevant example being the Michoacan gubernatorial race last November where PRI's margin of victory was much thinner than predicted.
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Mexican Political Notebook: May 8th
2012-05-08
Posted by: badanov
But not all was going swimmingly for Pena Nieto. There are signs that enthusiasm for his candidacy is starting to wane. A news article by El Imparcial news daily showed a photo of a Day of the Child rally April 30th in Distrito Federal where empty seats could be seen were inside the tent holding the campaign event. This is an area where enthusiasm for Pena Nieto should be the highest.
The caveat is that Sonora state, home of El Imparcial, is a Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) state with PAN governor Guillermo Padres Elias presiding, and is likely to accentuate travails by PRI politicians. Even so, the empty events with all the undecided voters should be a worrying trend for Pena Nieto.
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1st Mexican presidential debate of 2012 concludes
2012-05-07
Posted by: badanov
Lopez Obrador seemed to play the role of spoiler in the debate, hammering on Pena Nieto and his PRI party for what he said was an economic crisis that began during the Salinas administration. He charged that PRI had spent decades trafficking in the people's poverty, a double entendre meant to subtly link PRI with statements made in the recent past that PRI governors had been in collusion with drug traffickers. He also charged that because of the Salinas government, Mexico has "opulence in the midst of poverty."
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Mexican Army deploy 600 troops to Choix, Sinaloa
2012-05-07
Posted by: badanov
According to the article, refugees from Choix have been filtering down to the west, ending up in El Fuerte, which is only about 20 kilometers southwest of Choix municipal seat along Sinaloa State Highway 32. Other villages reporting refugees from the eastern part of Choix include Chinobampo, which is directly south of the battle area, and a village called Montoya. Those villages report 70 families have fled the mountains in Choix. Other have moved completely out of the mountains to coastal municipalities such as Mazatlan.
In El Fuerte municipality, El Debate reported 25 families have fled from the villages of La CofradÃa, Sabino Cuate, El Platanito and El Pantano seeking shelter in El Fuerte municipality seat
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8 bad guys die in Zacatecas
2012-05-06
Posted by: badanov
Additionally, individuals aboard an SUV fired weapons, and a grenade was detonated which resulted in a burned vehicle. NTR Zacatecas news daily in a report posted on its website said the vehicle was a Nissan Tiida. A separate report posted by Zacatecas en Linea news daily said that two of the dead were immolated when the vehicle was struck by a grenade.
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May 5th Mexican Drug War Pr0n
2012-05-05
Posted by: badanov
Mexican Drug War Pr0n:
Beneath the two boxes of .45 ACPs is a rifle, which appears to be a Mk18 CQBR 5.56mm rifle.
Sans the upper rail, or a sight, and no foregrip.
Pretty fancy weapon for a Loz Zetas operative, if you ask me.
UPDATED
Not a CQBR, but an LR-300
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May 4th Mexican Drug War Pr0n
2012-05-04
Posted by: badanov
The rifleman in the middle appears to be holding a Milkor 40mm automatic grenade launcher. See the link in the title for the Wikipedia description of the weapon.
Mexican Army road patrols sometimes deploy with a Humvee mounted Mk19 40mm belt fed grenade launcher. I have seen news photos of those in La Laguna in Coahuila state.
On either side are two riflemen with G3A3 rifles.
See photo here
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Several Mexican cartel groups involved in Sinaloa bloodshed
2012-05-04
Posted by: badanov
In a Thursday evening post on its website, Noreste reported that 11 armed suspects were killed in the firefight between armed suspects and a Mexican Army road patrol at the Hotel MacurÃn in Guasave. Seven suspects died in separate hotel rooms, while two more died attempting to flee the fire zone. Two more died in the courtyard of the hotel.
The report also said that 30 local schools were closed down during the two hour long firefight.
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Bloody Sinaloa: 24 die Wednesday
2012-05-03
Posted by: badanov
In a late Wednesday evening story posted on its website El Diario de Juarez reported that residents on both sides of the border have fled their homes to keep armed groups from attacking them. Criminal gangs in the area are running low on food and water, and while reports on other Mexican news websites say some residents are fighting back, those stories appear to be anecdotal and not widespread.
Mexico is currently undergoing one of the worst droughts in decades, so water is at a premium and is being preserved in remote mountain communities for human consumption. Temperatures in the Mexican Sierras have also soared since last week, hitting 46C (114.8F) in Urique in western Chihuahua.
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Baltasar Garzon: Dangerous Man
2012-05-03
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Fighting continues in Choix, Sinaloa: 12 die
2012-05-02
Posted by: badanov
Mexican Army and naval infantry forces have reportedly set up a cordon in the area to prevent armed groups from filtering back to the western side of Choix municipality. At least two naval infantry units were deployed near Chinobampo, which is south of Choix municipal seat to aid the Mexican federal security effort.
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May 1st Mexican Drug War Pr0n
2012-05-01
Posted by: badanov
A Mexican Army fusliero with a G3 rifle with an under the barrel grenade launcher attachment, and two ministerial agents, one with a G3 rifle and the other with an M4A1 with a scope.
See here.
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