sonoyta safety warning...
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playaperro
El Pirata
I'm curious, I was wondering if your companionators were giving you a like for your anti-magazine quote or you calling me a trouble maker?!
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The magazine comment.
jerry
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DOG.......In a lovable way you are a troublemaker in the service of the powers that be. I was calling Chief Brody a troublemaker...sorry
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Was that for me or the Dog?
jerry
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Sorry for the dog.....three year old smart phone.....
Has there been anymore info on this situation? We thought something was up late Sat afternoon. The police had a checkpoint on the El Golfo highway just past the entrance to Laguna del Mar. Have been through that intersection many times in the last two weeks and Sat afternoon was the only time we have seen them there. They had pulled over a couple trucks (not pickup trucks or semis, but small trucks with enclosures in the back) and were going through a bunch of packages. We also saw the military helicopter come in and land around 6:00 pm that night at the navy base.
flicks
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When we were there last weekend. A military plane flew down Sandy Beach toward Cholla
jerry
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The Second Army unit is back in force.This unit is straight arrow and points out the failings of local officials...the fur will fly...
http://hcaborca.info/n3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246:la-neta&catid=18
I met the General 5 years ago by chance.....a power house.....not sure if he is still running the show but local guy with ties to dark side said local gangsters are really freaked out these guys are back down here sweeping the coast.New to the area they are going to shake stuff up.The Second believes the political hacks in Sonoyta are in the pockets of the cartel and the state police too....
The crooks are shutting bricks Aponte's unit is back.He just played a big part in cleaning up Sinaloa.
From a story by Mike of the border reporter years ago "
THE BORDER REPORT
Gen. Sergio Aponte Polito, the Army general who has so badly shaken up northwestern Mexico, was ousted Thursday, to the sweaty relief of many, many bureaucrats in Baja California and Sonora.
I’ve enjoyed writing about the general’s exploits over the past year, even when the doings of some of his men were sometimes shady.
There was the time last year when a regional drug trafficker shot one of his planes down with a .50-cal. in Caborca. The general responded with something like fifteen seizures topping some 80 tons of weed.
He made it so bad for the drug traffickers of Caborca and Sonoyta that a church service was held last fall in Sonoyta, local families praying to San Judas Tadeo for the Army to get the hell out so the town’s economy could return to normal.
Then there was the time his men started digging into the mausoleum of Octavio Paez, a distant relative of the Caro Quintero family and the drug trafficker who controlled Caborca and Sasabe before he was done in by the Sinaloans. Apparently the general’s men had received word there were guns stashed in the old man’s grave.
In Baja California, he took the fight straight to the state and federal level, naming names, dropping state politicos straight into the Mexicali and Tijuana newspapers as negotiators for the Arellano Felix family. He not only published names, but the dates his men were approached to disregard landing strips and lift highway checkpoints. At least one high level prosecutor lost her job over those deliciously public denouncements.
When U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar was killed last winter, Aponte’s men fell on the suspected killer’s boss’s properties in Mexicali, seizing three homes and arresting I don’t know how many people.
There were problems though, perhaps indicative of normal corruption levels that cannot be avoided even among Mexico’s staunchest law enforcers, or perhaps a thread of corruption that runs so deeply ingrained, it can only be seen on the political level.
The general, who also did stints in Hermosillo, Sonora, and Culiacán, Sinaloa, very, very publicly trashed the political power structures of all three of these states, but his timing was always curious.
For example, in Sonora, he waited until after Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, El Mochomo’s arrest, to say anything. Keep in mind that Mochomo controlled four of the five ports of entry leading into Arizona for the past seven years.
Prior to that, he attacked the PAN-istas in Sinaloa, then was quickly snatched out by the PAN federal government and placed in Quintana Roo.
Maybe his ego served as his downfall, a form of hubris where the general started thinking he was more powerful than the gods who put him in power.
A week or so ago, he wrote a 5,666 word piece denouncing what he deemed the latest attack by the Baja California power elite. The rumor was that the general had fired off a shot in a posh Mexicali restaurant; some say it happened, some say it did not. Either way, he flew into a literary tirade about the incident as persecution.
Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t. Zeta magazine didn’t seem to disbelieve the event took place and maybe the general really did lose his shit for an instant.
But the point is this; last April I started wondering what the point of his declarations was if nobody was paying attention.
After the fact or not, the general was challenging power structure and nobody in Mexico City seemed to give the slightest goddam.
Five months later, it seems someone finally did – and they got rid of the general causing all the ruckus.
As strong a sign of complicity by the federal government as I’ve ever seen. They can seize all the mid-level traffickers and marijuana bales they want; but if they’re dumping the brains behind their forces, they are purposefully rendering themselves impotent.
Adios, mí generál. Que Dios cuide tu camino y sea tu fortaleza en los senderos que tomes.
– Michel Marizco
http://hcaborca.info/n3/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=246:la-neta&catid=18
I met the General 5 years ago by chance.....a power house.....not sure if he is still running the show but local guy with ties to dark side said local gangsters are really freaked out these guys are back down here sweeping the coast.New to the area they are going to shake stuff up.The Second believes the political hacks in Sonoyta are in the pockets of the cartel and the state police too....
The crooks are shutting bricks Aponte's unit is back.He just played a big part in cleaning up Sinaloa.
From a story by Mike of the border reporter years ago "
THE BORDER REPORT
Gen. Sergio Aponte Polito, the Army general who has so badly shaken up northwestern Mexico, was ousted Thursday, to the sweaty relief of many, many bureaucrats in Baja California and Sonora.
I’ve enjoyed writing about the general’s exploits over the past year, even when the doings of some of his men were sometimes shady.
There was the time last year when a regional drug trafficker shot one of his planes down with a .50-cal. in Caborca. The general responded with something like fifteen seizures topping some 80 tons of weed.
He made it so bad for the drug traffickers of Caborca and Sonoyta that a church service was held last fall in Sonoyta, local families praying to San Judas Tadeo for the Army to get the hell out so the town’s economy could return to normal.
Then there was the time his men started digging into the mausoleum of Octavio Paez, a distant relative of the Caro Quintero family and the drug trafficker who controlled Caborca and Sasabe before he was done in by the Sinaloans. Apparently the general’s men had received word there were guns stashed in the old man’s grave.
In Baja California, he took the fight straight to the state and federal level, naming names, dropping state politicos straight into the Mexicali and Tijuana newspapers as negotiators for the Arellano Felix family. He not only published names, but the dates his men were approached to disregard landing strips and lift highway checkpoints. At least one high level prosecutor lost her job over those deliciously public denouncements.
When U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar was killed last winter, Aponte’s men fell on the suspected killer’s boss’s properties in Mexicali, seizing three homes and arresting I don’t know how many people.
There were problems though, perhaps indicative of normal corruption levels that cannot be avoided even among Mexico’s staunchest law enforcers, or perhaps a thread of corruption that runs so deeply ingrained, it can only be seen on the political level.
The general, who also did stints in Hermosillo, Sonora, and Culiacán, Sinaloa, very, very publicly trashed the political power structures of all three of these states, but his timing was always curious.
For example, in Sonora, he waited until after Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, El Mochomo’s arrest, to say anything. Keep in mind that Mochomo controlled four of the five ports of entry leading into Arizona for the past seven years.
Prior to that, he attacked the PAN-istas in Sinaloa, then was quickly snatched out by the PAN federal government and placed in Quintana Roo.
Maybe his ego served as his downfall, a form of hubris where the general started thinking he was more powerful than the gods who put him in power.
A week or so ago, he wrote a 5,666 word piece denouncing what he deemed the latest attack by the Baja California power elite. The rumor was that the general had fired off a shot in a posh Mexicali restaurant; some say it happened, some say it did not. Either way, he flew into a literary tirade about the incident as persecution.
Maybe it was and maybe it wasn’t. Zeta magazine didn’t seem to disbelieve the event took place and maybe the general really did lose his shit for an instant.
But the point is this; last April I started wondering what the point of his declarations was if nobody was paying attention.
After the fact or not, the general was challenging power structure and nobody in Mexico City seemed to give the slightest goddam.
Five months later, it seems someone finally did – and they got rid of the general causing all the ruckus.
As strong a sign of complicity by the federal government as I’ve ever seen. They can seize all the mid-level traffickers and marijuana bales they want; but if they’re dumping the brains behind their forces, they are purposefully rendering themselves impotent.
Adios, mí generál. Que Dios cuide tu camino y sea tu fortaleza en los senderos que tomes.
– Michel Marizco
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jerry
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http://lanetanews.net/2.0/2015/05/enfrentamiento-entre-bandas-deja-saldo-de-varios-muertos-en-sonoyta/ flack jacket...check.....not traveling at night ...check.....Away from town but this battle is o going...guys killed in the states last week
jerry
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http://www.elsoldecaborca.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13148:se-enfrenta-la-pesp-contra-grupo-armado-entre-sonoyta-y-caborca&catid=4:sonoyta&Itemid=3. Better story...hard life being a gun slinger...
Yeah, my bank in Wi is making tons of dough on it here. You guys might want to buy larger tin foil hats. LOL
Landshark
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Yeah, you're right, the banks are all good, especially in Wi.
playaperro
El Pirata
You know Jerry when I first saw this story unfolding on facebook I was thinking our very own JJ had skipped out on a gas bill again, got to be out of it to do that JMHO, anyway the imparcial ran the story about these "Bajadores" man they didn't even make it ti the border to rip off the poor crosser's. Did you have a chance to read it?