An insight connecting the dots between CJNG, a Colombian security business and FARC guerrillas

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"Fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me—y'can't get fooled again." -President George W. Bush

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The War on Drugs has never really been about drugs.

To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace

The inextricable link between political power and organized crime in Tamaulipas

SEDENA points to the governor in documents from investigation folder 406/2019. The current Secretary of Public Security, Jorge Ontiveros Molina, is also directly indicated for his role in the events.

Investigando

Una traducción de un artículo sobre una figura mítica de la guerra de Irak con lecciones aplicables más allá de Oriente Medio

A translation of an article about a mythical figure from the Iraq War with lessons applicable beyond the Middle East

The Ballad of Blackwater

🎶 Pose for tha frame

You be the judge

🎶 I know Pablo, Noriega / The real Noriega / he owe me a hundred favors

A mixed bag

La frontera chica woke up to a grisly spectacle of at least 9 dead bodies of young men, some of them minors, strewn along the Reynosa-Nuevo Laredo highway on the outskirts of Cd. Miguel Alemán westbound towards Los Guerra. The first reports appeared on social media this morning between 5:30 and 8:00 AM CDT and asserted that a confrontation, which allegedly included a .50 BMG rifle and grenades, was heard in the area between 2:40 and 3:50 AM. Associates of Cártel del Noreste (CDN) reportedly lo

OPTIMUS By: Jorge A. Pérez González @MISTER_OPTIMUS [https://twitter.com/MISTER_OPTIMUS] www.optimusinformativo.com [https://www.optimusinformativo.com/] link [https://www.optimusinformativo.com/?p=382052] to the original article Sunday June 27, 2021 No matter how strained it may be, it is impossible to ignore the stark images that recall the Nazi holocaust. Tamaulipas is a no man's land created by official dereliction, from breach of contract, because they have not been able to intelligentl

Someone just scored 87,000 rounds of 7.62x51 mm NATO and a whole lot more

Yesterday (June 9, 2021), some pictures of three young men killed by the Tamaulipas state police were leaked (illegally) by the police to "citizen journalist" conduits for distribution on social media. The anonymous social media personas reported the killings as "a confrontation" in which the police "repelled an aggression". The pictures show three young men in and around a white Dodge Ram pickup truck with fatal gun shot wounds (GSW) despite initial reports of four subjects killed. [WARNING