Now Mexican Cartels Will Control Not Just The Border But Also Mexico’s Judges
New judicial reforms passed by the Mexican congress allow the cartels to train their sights on would-be judges.New judicial reforms passed by the Mexican congress allow the cartels to train their sights on would-be judges.James O’Keefe INFILTRATED the cartel; says government is funding migrant crisis
Undercover journalist James O’Keefe went to the front lines of the migrant industrial complex in his new documentary “Line in the Sand,” and what he found was shocking.
“What my takeaway was, actually, from having lived through this and gone down there and been in Mexico and faced it with the cartel, is that it’s all about money,” O’Keefe tells Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein.”
“Everyone is making money off of it. And there was one scene in the film where the cartel is cutting through the fence, and I’m face to face with them. And first they were startled, and then they were like, ‘You need to leave because we need to make money,’” he explains.
“That’s what I heard over and over again. They’re getting $10,000 per person. So it’s like that old adage, ‘Just follow the money,’” he says, adding, “and the government’s funding it.”
Stein is disturbed by O’Keefe’s findings, but in classic "Prime Time" fashion, jokes that he himself “just got back from Haiti.”
“It’s beautiful,” Stein says. “There’s no Haitians there. It’s wide open. You can just leave your keys and wallet out while you go swimming on the beach.”
“Haiti is the safest place. Haiti is safer than New York City right now. We should be in Haiti, I’m telling you,” he continues, adding, “You don’t have to worry about any crime. They’re all here.”
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Cartel drones drop explosives near southern border
A Mexican cartel is using drones to “drop explosives” on a rival gang near the Arizona southern border, the New York Post reported, citing a recently leaked bulletin.
The United States Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector Intelligence Unit released a bulletin on Tuesday warning about the recent cartel activity along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the alert, members of Los Salazar, a cell of the Sinaloa Cartel, are using drones with explosives to attack Los Pelones, a rival cartel. The activity is part of an ongoing conflict between the two cartels in Sonoyta, Mexico, roughly two miles from the border.
“Other confrontations between these two organization[s] have occurred along the border, south of Wellton Stations area of operations in recent months,” the bulletin read. “Agents are reminded to take any necessary precautions if drones are encountered or obse[rved] and report that activity up their chain of command as soon as possible.”
In March, Air Force General Gregory Guillot told the Senate Armed Services Committee that, in his estimation, there are “over 1,000” drone incursions each month at the southern border, calling the number of encounters “alarming,” Blaze News previously reported. Guillot noted that no one knows the exact number of incursions but that it is “in the thousands.”
At the time, he told lawmakers, “I haven’t seen any of them manifest in a threat to the level of national defense, but I see the potential only growing.”
Cartel spotters typically use the drones to spot gaps in the border wall where they can sneak past law enforcement agents undetected. Guillot stated that some of the drones may be used to carry illicit drugs over the border.
Last year, Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Gloria Chavez told the House Oversight Committee that more than 10,000 drone incursions and 25,000 sightings were reported over a one-year period.
“We have made great progress in countering the threat of small, unmanned platforms,” Chavez said. “However, the adversaries have 17 times the number of drones, twice the amount of flight hours, and unlimited funding to grow their operations.”
In 2023, Customs and Border Protection called human smugglers’ use of drone technology a “growing trend.”
The Associated Press recently reported that the Mexican army has stated that some of its soldiers have been killed by cartel drones dropping explosives.
Mexican Defense Secretary Gen. Luis Cresencio Sandoval stated, “Our personnel have suffered wounds, and some of our troops have even died."
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How cartel hitman used a food pic to hunt down Ecuadorian beauty queen and brazenly murder her in broad daylight
Cartel hitmen utilized a food photo posted on Instagram to hunt down an Ecuadorian beauty queen and murder her in broad daylight, according to police. Investigators believe that the 23-year-old model was gunned down because of her previous relationship with a married drug lord.
Shocking surveillance video shows the moment that a beauty pageant contestant was murdered inside a restaurant in Quevedo, Ecuador.
CCTV footage shows Landy Párraga Goyburo eating a meal at a restaurant with a man on Sunday afternoon. Suddenly, a masked assailant burst through the front door to shoot and kill the model. A second gunman secures the front door. After the beauty model was shot three times, both men are seen fleeing the crime scene. Goyburo is left in a pool of her own blood before dying.
Authorities suspect that the lethal hit job was ordered by the spouse of a drug lord, whom Goyburo was rumored to have a fling with.
In December, Goyburo was reportedly mentioned in a text message conversation between now-deceased drug trafficker Leandro Norero and his accountant – Helive Angulo.
"If my wife comes across anything about her, I’m screwed," Norero allegedly wrote to his attorney in 2022. "My friend, her name cannot come out anywhere. Otherwise, my world will come crashing down."
The Attorney General’s Office was reportedly investigating Goyburo's finances, but she was never charged with any crime.
Norero would later be arrested and then killed in prison just six months into his incarceration.
Goyburo has not publicly commented on Norero or his purported criminal organization.
Ecuadorian investigators believe that a food pic shared on Instagram tipped off the alleged cartel hitmen on Goyburo's location. Goyburo – who has more than 175,000 followers on her Instagram page – posted a photo of octopus ceviche to her social media account.
Goyburo had been in Quevedo to attend a wedding last Saturday, according to Ecuavisa.
Goyburo competed in the 2022 Miss Ecuador beauty contest, where she represented the Los Rios province.
In her final Instagram post made on Wednesday, Párraga wrote: "The world is an echo, what you send into it, you get out of it."
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Is THIS donor the reason for Colony Ridge, Texas' biggest and most nefarious illegal immigrant city?
If Glenn Beck doesn’t make it onto his own show, you know it’s for a good reason.
This time, it’s because Glenn is calling in from Colony Ridge, where he is investigating a massive illegal immigrant settlement that’s sprung up right outside of Houston, Texas.
He’s dubbed this Miami-sized settlement “the world’s most dangerous trailer park.”
It’s a cartel-run community of about 70,000 illegals in the middle of 30,000 acres.
Despite the land being in the middle of a flood zone, developers bought it all up and are selling plots to illegals.
“You’re talking about a change in elections just with this county. You’re talking about corruption and gangs, they’ve had body bags there, massive drugs going on,” Glenn explains.
The entire community only has 6-8 police officers, prosecutors have refused to prosecute any crimes, and on top of that, the developers are rigging the entire housing market.
One of the brothers running the community happens to be one of the Texas governor's biggest donors and has provided over a million dollars to his campaign, which Glenn is sure is a “complete coincidence.”
Glenn is there working on a documentary about the settlement that will be exclusive to the BlazeTV, which he says “a lot of people are not going to be happy is airing.”
“This is the most immoral, legal thing I’ve ever seen, and it’s going to happen all over the country,” Glenn says, disturbed.
By the end of the Biden administration, Glenn notes that there will be 10 million illegals in Houston. “10% of the population is illegal,” he says in disbelief.
But it’s situations like this that made Glenn want to start and grow TheBlaze.
“[TheBlaze] has built itself into such a workhorse now — and really pretty darn bulletproof,” he says, adding, “and finally we’re able to be the investigative arm.”
“We’re no longer going to wait for ABC, NBC, CBS, whatever; they’re useless. They’re going to have to start answering to us.”
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DeSantis doubles down on vow to whack the cartels and drug manufacturers responsible for the fentanyl crisis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis does not simply want to secure the U.S.-Mexico border — he wants to flatten the criminal elements on the other side whose illegal drugs helped kill at least 109,000 Americans last year alone.
During Wednesday's Republican presidential debate, DeSantis reiterated that he would send U.S. special forces to go down to Mexico blasting.
"Yes, I will do it from day one," he said. "When these drug pushers are bringing fentanyl across the border, that is going to be the last thing they do. We are going to use force and leave them stone-cold dead."
That force would be applied to crush fentanyl labs, disrupt cartel operations, and stem the flow of the drug into the U.S., reported Bloomberg.
Such an attack would hardly be unprovoked. After all, in 2021, synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl manufactured with the help of the communist Chinese, killed over 70,601 Americans, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
President Joe Biden’s Drug Enforcement Administration chief Anne Milgram has called fentanyl the "singled deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered."
DeSantis, who is not alien to the course proposed, having previously deployed to Iraq in support of the SEAL mission in Al Anbar province, added, "The president of the United States has got to use all available powers as commander-in-chief to protect our country and to protect our people. So when they're coming across, yes, we're going to use lethal force."
The Republican governor's remarks Wednesday echoed his suggestion to Tucker Carlson last month that on his first day in office, he would "declare a national emergency, mobilize all resources, including the military, [to] stop the invasion."
Extra to building the wall, he said more important would be the authorization of the border patrol and military "to deal with the cartels. If they’re breaking into our country bringing product, if I’m in charge, that’s going to be the last thing they do because they’re going to end up stone-cold dead."
The liberal media has balked at the suggestion that a potential president might eliminate the threat that yearly contributes to the slaughter of over 33 times more Americans than had died on September 11, 2001.
The New York Times characterized DeSantis' comments as "fringe" and suggested they contributed to a "steady drumbeat of menace."
MSNBC's Steve Benen, producer of "The Rachel Maddow Show," picked up where his Russia-hoaxer star left off in the way of criticizing DeSantis, suggesting the governor's talk of deep-sixing America's enemies was rhetoric for the benefit of "GOP audiences [who] respond favorably to the idea of lethal violence at the border."
While this a proposal he has locked into, DeSantis is not an outlier in wanting the cartels dead.
Various other Republican lawmakers in Washington have discussed ways to do what Mexico is incapable or unwilling to do.
TheBlaze previously reported that Reps. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) and Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) introduced a resolution on Jan. 12 to "authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for trafficking fentanyl or a fentanyl-related substance into the United States or carrying out other related activities that cause regional destabilization in the Western Hemisphere."
The resolution went nowhere, but that didn't kill the dream.
"We need to start thinking about these groups more like ISIS than we do the mafia," said Waltz, a former Green Beret.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) indicated in March he would support a military intervention in Mexico to deal with its drug lords, even if that meant doing so without the nation's permission.
Sen. J. D. Vance (R-Ohio) similarly said he wants to see "the president of the United States, whether that's a Democrat or a Republican, ... use the power of the U.S. military to go after these drug cartels."
Even DeSantis' rival — former President Donald Trump, who leads him by over 40 points in the polls — has humored the idea of using missiles to atomize drug labs and the cartels.
Mark Esper, Trump's former secretary of defense, noted in his memoir that Trump twice asked whether the military could "shoot missiles into Mexico to destroy the drug labs," adding that "they don't have control of their own country," reported the New York Times.
While Esper appears to have shrugged off the suggestion that Mexico was descending into a state of anarchy that directly threatened Americans' well-being, even the Biden administration recently pointed out that it is "fair to say" various regions of Mexico are controlled by the terroristic gangs.
Bloomberg noted that Mexico might get its dander up over such unilateral American military operations, regarding kinetic actions on its soil by an ally a violation of its sovereignty.
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Before executing students on film, Mexican cartel forced one of the five victims to decapitate his friend
The presumed remains of the five Mexican college students, ages 19 to 22, who went missing last Friday and were subsequently seen being butchered in a nightmarish video, have been discovered in and around a warehouse in the western state of Jalisco.
When initially asked about the grisly ordeal, which was broadcast on national television, Mexico's leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, joked about being unable to hear reporters, then walked away.
When pressed again about the matter on Thursday, Obrador — who previously thanked President Joe Biden for not securing the American border with "even one meter of wall" — called the situation "very regrettable," then instead spoke at length about baseball, reported the Los Angeles Times.
Five childhood friends were reported missing after attending a fair in Lagos de Moreno, Mexico, on Aug. 11.
Family members later indicated that "there is a high probability" that college students Roberto Olmeda, Diego Lara, Uriel Galvan, Dante Cedillo, and Jaime Martinez were the victims seen battered, bound, and bleeding in the footage, reported the Daily Mail.
Witnesses told Héctor De Mauleón of El Universal that 10 armed men dragged the victims out of their car late last Friday and forced them into a white pickup and van with blacked-out windows.
There is some indication that at least two of the five men had been lured to the fair with the promise of gainful employment as security guards, having previously spoken with an individual who had connections in a call center.
The Daily Mail reported that the individual who had dangled employment opportunities before some of the victims was actually a Jalisco New Generation cartel member.
Cartels routinely list fake job postings, offering competitive salaries and benefits. Applicants unfortunate enough to show up are apparently given the option of death or working for the cartel. Those who choose life often have to kill on command.
According to security analyst David Saucedo Torres, the CNJG has opened multiple call centers and made "Lagos de Moreno a key operational site, specifically for recruiting and training squads of hitmen."
"The five young people who were kidnapped seem by all indications to have been caught in some sort of training program by the Jalisco Cartel, which sets tests for the new recruits — forcing them to carry out assassinations," said Torres, adding that the requirement that one captive kill the others would have been a routine initiation.
The footage broadcast on television reportedly shows one of the captives crushing his friend's head with a brick thrown to him by his off-screen captor. The captive then proceeds to decapitate his brained friend with a knife under orders.
It appears the one captive's brutal compliance didn't save his life.
The Jalisco State Prosecuto'rs Office Thursday said investigators had discovered the charred remains of four decapitated bodies along with four skulls in the western state of Jalisco, home to the terroristic CJNG — whose logo is featured in the gruesome film. The remains were inside a building near where the men were kidnapped and filmed being tortured.
Mexican authorities found a fifth body nearby in Olmeda's torched vehicle.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro stated, "What we are seeing here is an act clearly linked to organized crime. ... These are irrational, violent and direct attacks against the stability of Jalisco state, and they demand a reaction from the [federal] government."
The U.S. State Department notes that violent crime is ubiquitous in Mexico and advises Americans not to travel to the following states: Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas.
It further recommends reconsidering travel to the following states: Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Sonora, and Baja California.
For all but Campeche and Yucatan state, the U.S. federal government recommends that travelers altogether exercise caution when visiting Mexico on account of the rampant crime and/or risk of being kidnapped.
While Americans can avoid Mexico, with a porous southern border, they may find it difficult to avoid its criminal elements.
Just last week, suspected Mexican cartel members equipped with rifles and wearing body armor were seen entering Texas, reported the New York Post.
Another five suspected cartel members were encountered in the same area in June, similarly carrying rifles.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 144,000 illegal aliens stole into the nation in the month of June. Well over 1.8 million illegal aliens were encountered crossing the southern border in the eight previous months.
TheBlaze previously reported that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently indicated that he would not rule out using drones as president, stressing he would "use whatever force we need to to defend the country."
He stressed that the cartels are "killing tens of thousands of Americans" as well as trafficking individuals into the U.S. and perpetrating sexual abuse. "It's really the worst of humanity," he said, adding that he "would categorize them as something akin to a foreign terrorist organization."
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DeSantis advocates for allowing deadly force against drug cartel operatives who cut through border wall
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has indicated that as president he would support rules of engagement that allow for the use of deadly force against drug cartel operatives who cut through the nation's border wall.
DeSantis, a GOP presidential primary candidate who is polling in a distant second place behind former President Donald Trump, said that use of lethal force would deter drug cartels from attempting to breach the barrier.
"If somebody were breaking into your house to do something bad, you would respond with force. Yet why don't we do that at the southern border?" he said, adding that if cartels are breaking through the wall in an attempt to smuggle products into the U.S., they will "end up stone-cold dead as a result of that bad decision. And if you do that one time, you are not gonna see them mess with our wall ever again."
DeSantis said Mexican drug cartels control America's southern border, a situation which he described as "horrific" and a "disgrace."
The governor made the comments during a speech in Texas in which he discussed his plans to tackle the border crisis if he becomes president.
"We are going to build a border wall. Walls work," DeSantis stated.
He called for penalizing sanctuary jurisdictions and said he supports states' and localities' right "to enforce federal immigration law."
DeSantis rejected the notion that a child is automatically an American citizen if he or she is born in the U.S. shortly after the mother crosses the border. He said that this notion is "not the original understanding of the 14th Amendment" and that he'd act to compel clarification on the issue.
He also said he would designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations or transnational criminal organizations.
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Bandits go on rampage at Mexican swimming resort, killing seven, including a child
Bandits raided a Mexican resort Saturday and slaughtered seven vacationers, including a 7-year-old child.
The attack took place at the La Palma resort around 4:30 p.m. in the Cortazar municipality of Guanajuato state, reported the Associated Press.
While initial reports indicated that around 20 people had been attacked and 10 injured, officials later confirmed that three women, three men, and a child had been murdered.
According to Reuters, an eighth victim inside the resort was left seriously injured.
Graphic photos show a chaotic scene, including bloodied bodies and overturned plastic chairs nearby a swimming pool. There was a pink backpack and children's belongings on a table nearby the bodies. The child killed in the attack appears to have been a little boy.
After the massacre, the bandits reportedly ransacked the spa shop and stole its security cameras.
A witness claimed "heavily armed sicarios" were responsible in a video documenting the aftermath.
Following the massacre, Mexican soldiers and local police attempted to track down the bandits, but no arrests have been made so far.
Guanajuato, a low-rent manufacturing hub for carmakers such as Toyota, is Mexico's most violent state.
Two cartels that traffic lethal drugs into the U.S. are competing for superiority in the region: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the local Santa Rose de Lima gang, backed by the Sinaloa Cartel.
\u201cAlthough Cortazar is part of the territories under the control of the CSRL, their enemies from the CJNG launch periodic attacks against them, trying to establish a beachhead either in the municipal center or in some of its rural communities. They have not succeeded so far.\u201d— Borderland Beat (@Borderland Beat) 1681675151
Mexico's leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has routinely downplayed the violence, reported the New York Times.
"Our adversaries are exaggerating," said Obrador. "It’s like staged, it’s propagandistic. There is no major problem, but they do want to grab that banner of violence."
DW reported that there have been over 350,000 murders in Guanajuato since 2006.
3,500 people were murdered in Guanajuato in 2019. Murders skyrocketed to nearly 5,000 in 2020, reported the Mexico Daily Post.
Guanajuato saw 993 murders in the first four months of 2022, and there have been no signs of the violence letting up in the intervening year.
In May 2022, 15 hooded gunman reportedly opened fire at a Mexican hotel, slaughtering seven women and three men. An eleventh victim later died in hospital. The massacre took place just hours after dismembered bodies were discovered nearby in plastic bags, reported the New York Post.
In October, a dozen people, mainly women, were gunned down in another bar. 10 more were left dead after a shooting in September.
The U.S. State Department maintains its travel warning to American travelers that "Violent crime — such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery — is widespread and common in Mexico."
The State Department asks Americans to reconsider travel to Guanajuato state, where this shooting took place, citing crime, kidnapping, and a high number of cartel-related murders.
While Guanajuato is especially deadly, tourists in more frequented Mexican states are still up against significant risks.
In March, a U.S. tourist was shot in the leg at a Mexican resort just south of Cancún, reported the Associated Press.
TheBlaze previously detailed how Dustan Jackson was mugged, butchered, and left for dead when attempting to leave Cancún.
An American family of nine, including 8-month-old twins, were brutally slaughtered in 2019 while traveling through Chihuahua, Mexico, just 100 miles south from the Arizona border.
Paul Nielsen and Janet Vasquez of Utah were also targeted in 2019. While they were both robbed and murdered in Guerrero, Mexico, their son survived with minor injuries.
Two Canadian tourists were gunned down at an upscale hotel in Mexico in January 2022.
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