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Amateurs!
The local gangsters are getting sloppy. Attacking a couple of rivals at 4:40 in the morning (guaranteed to lose them support among the neighbors) is bad enough, but trying to set off a car bomb in fr… more →
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Amateurs!
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richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: The local gangsters are getting sloppy. Attacking a couple of rivals at 4:40 in the morning (guaran … more →
A good time was had by all
richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Sounds like some frat parties I’ve been to. El Debate, 14-June-08 . Whoever edited the story … more →
Thou shalt not make (phony) graven images -- another nota roja
richmx2 wrote 2 months ago: Alfredo (citius64) found this recently in Reforma. It was worth translating in its fully glory, not … more →
Alas, poor Canada
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richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: There has been a string of violent incidents involving Canadians in Mexico since 2007. Domenic and N … more →
Another day in paradise...
richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Our local gangsters must be on vacation. Other than a wannabe meth dealer getting himself stabbed d … more →
Dirty rats...
richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: Rat abatement continues… This photo, from la Prensa, accompanied a story on a couple of foo … more →
What you see is what you get?
richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: It is likely that the problem that Mexico’s criminal justice system is facing today is rooted … more →
The Nazi, The Green Phantom and The Mother of Satan
richmx2 wrote 5 months ago: I’ve noticed that the foreign news about the bombing ten days ago in the Zona Rosa has quietly … more →
Drugs are not the answer... so what's the question?
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richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: In a front page story in the Houston Chronicle, Mexico City bureau reporter Dudley Althaus writes: … more →
Girls gone wild
richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: MEXICO CITY, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Mexican police have captured Sandra Avila, known as the “Quee … more →
Unsolved mystery -- U.S. priest murdered in D.F.
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Stratfor’s Mexico Security Memo, which is subscription only, and I can only access now and aga … more →
God, I hate bus tours!
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Note to everyone: I really do have to ask for support. Thanks to Jonathan, David, Adrian, Thoma, B … more →
Another nota roja
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Daniel Estrada Ortiz wrote this for the El Siglo de Durango . It’s a horrifying story (and m … more →
A farewell to arms?... or, do not operate machetes while using drugs
richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: Gabriel Zendejas, a crime reporter for the working class tabloid, Prensa, is something of a literary … more →
"Persecuted by bad luck..." Another Prensa crime page masterpiece
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richmx2 wrote 1 year ago: The second in my occasional translation of ”paid by the word” notas rojas, tonight … more →
Crime of Passion ... Prensa's police blotter poetry
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richmx2 wrote 2 years ago: If I hadn’t given up guilt for Lent (in 1987, never to take it back), I might feel some remo … more →
I've made the crime pages! Whoo-hoo!
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richmx2 wrote 3 years ago: … but wait a minute… I’m a middle-aged gringo! … and I’m connected wit … more →
456,789 Acts of Contrition, 127,905 Hail Marys... and no television for a month
richmx2 wrote 3 years ago: January 26, 2005 SANTA CATARINA JUQUILA, Oaxaca (El Universal (English Edition) ) Four robbers stol … more →
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