La Prensa San Diego

Por Mariana Martinez     El aire en el salón es húmedo y enrarecido, bajo las lozas color durazno se levanta una jaula cuadrada subida por un motor hidráulico que rechina un poco.     EL General Gilberto Landeros, jefe de la Segunda Zona Militar, cree que el elevador se trababa seguido en el trasiego de droga [...]

Commentary: By Kent Paterson Fronter NorteSur    A friend and I were having a conversation when he raised the issue of why the US never seems to detain its own big drug lords. I held that control of the US drug market was more diffuse, less centralized than in places like Mexico, where big traffickers [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     On a hill overlooking Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Lesly Narvaez Castanon and her staff wage a struggle against substance abuse. Opened in 2005, the government-supported Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo Youth Integration Center(CIJ) became the first drug prevention and treatment center to serve this Pacific Coast resort located in the southern state of Guerrero.     [...]

Commentary: By Patrick Osio    Charlie Sheen may have become the best pitchman for international drug cartels, that, I venture, would gladly pay him the added million a week he demands to continue acting on the cancelled Three and a Half Men television sitcom from the better than $30 billion the cartels rake in annually [...]

By Mariana Martínez     Prop 19 seems to be the star on the upcoming November 2nd ballot. It has been in the public eye because if approved it would make California the first state to decriminalize the use and growth of marijuana for recreational purposes.     The proposition would allow all adults 21 or older [...]

By Kent Paterson Frontera NorteSur     They could have been videos from the Middle East or Central Asia. But the images flashed to the crowd at Texas Congressman Silvestre Reyes’ annual border security conference at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) showed graphic scenes from the so-called narco war in the Mexican state [...]

Frontera NorteSur     In Ciudad Juarez and other parts of Mexico, the social fuse is burning short. Sparked by corruption, insecurity and impunity, different manifestations of social discontent have erupted in recent days. Journalists, prisoners, policemen and other social actors organized demonstrations, staged uprisings and issued new calls to action.     In an unusual protest, [...]

    Asesinatos en plena luz del día, secuestros, ajustes de cuentas, amenazas con un perro muerto a la puerta de una casa y una lápida arrancada de un cementerio, policías corruptos que incluso cargan drogas para los traficantes, compra de granadas, uniformes militares y la embestida con una Escalate contra una patrulla de la Policia [...]

Por Mariana Martínez Tiene un narco-corrido con su nombre contando sus hazañas; una película promovida por él mismo, autos blindados, armas bañadas en oro portando su nombre en diamantes y hasta un ejército de más de 200 personas,  con uniformes que muestran su total egolatría: Fuerzas Especiales Muletas. Era el encargado de entregar los cadáveres [...]

Por Mariana Martínez No había en mayores índices de violencia,  ni aumento en la adicción a las drogas en México, como tampoco el tráfico de armas es exclusivamente desde los Estados Unidos,  ni ha crecido la  infiltración exacerbada en las instituciones del gobierno. De hecho, la llamada guerra contra el narcotráfico del presidente Felipe Calderón, [...]

Por Mariana Martinez The guy was asleep in his room, no bodyguards around. Just before dawn an explosion was heard and over 50 masked police men entered his huge mansion in an exclusive neighborhood in quiet La Paz, Baja California Sur. That was the way police arrested one of the most renowned narcos from Tijuana. [...]

Por Mariana Martínez Dormido en su cuarto y sin guardaespaldas. Una explosión en la madrugada y media centena de agentes encapuchados entrando a la mansión de una zona exclusiva en la tranquila ciudad de La Paz. Así fue finalmente capturado uno de los narcotraficantes más nombrados de Tijuana. Teodoro García Simental mejor conocido como “El [...]

 Raquel Ibarra’s properties became a refuge for former addicts seeking rehabilitation under the program Sober Living By América Barceló Feldman NATIONAL CITY – Undoubtedly, one of the biggest challenges for former addicts is the opportunity for a second chance. Unfortunately, a significant number of them fall back into their addictions finding no support to continue [...]

Raquel Ibarra convirtió sus  propiedades en el refugio de ex-adictos que buscan rehabilitarse bajo el programa Viviendo Sobrio Por América Barceló Feldman NATIONAL CITY – Sin duda, una de las etapas más difíciles para un ex-adicto es encontrar una segunda oportunidad; por desgracia, un número consi-derable de estas personas recaen en los vicios al no [...]

By Mariana Martínez  Under the blazing August sun, amongst arid terrains and dust covered trees, it is hard to think about drug trafficking and easy instead about having a picnic in the shade.  But it is precisely in this odd setting, far from roads and houses, that Mexican Military found what is believed to be [...]