The most quiet day at the border 🤔. Just in time for Biden’s photo op.
Follow
Luis Chaparro
@LuisKuryaki
Periodista/Productor siul.chaparro@gmail.com
Luis Chaparro’s posts
#HugsNotWalls Today hundreds of families will hug at the #Mexico #US #border for 3 minutes after being split by #immigration for years.
SCOOP: Three survivors and two guards at the facility told VICE World News that the immigration jail at the center of the tragedy was a defacto “extortion center,” where only migrants with the means to pay were released. My latest for
A day before President Biden shows up at the border migrant expulsions have been non stop. Speaking of whitewashing El Paso.
Migrants are defying the official version shared by . Questions they are asking is: if they were stripped from all the belongings how someone got a hold of lighter. The fire station is 2 mins away. They were being held under lock and no one opened as the fire began.
Tough to watch. Absolutely heartbroken. 💔 Ciudad Juárez. 2023.
An operation by Mexican authorities started early this morning: they closed the camp while hundreds of Haitians were sleeping and brought in INM and at least 5 buses. They are blocking them from leaving the park. Haitians are tense. Updating soon…
Both the officers and the guards allegedly ran a wire transfer-based operation to scam and extort migrants in detention, according to an official complaint as well as the three survivors and two guards who spoke to VICE World News. vice.com/en/article/v7b
Migrants were deliberately left locked up inside to burn.
“We are not disappeared, we are buried all over Mexico”: In a single week, over 8 bodies found in Sonora, 27 in Tamaulipas, 51 in Jalisco. Mostly thanks to a collective of women, mothers and daughters looking for their relatives.
With the arrest of El Mencho’s wife, authorities are closer to cornering the leader of the CJNG.
Iván Archivaldo put together 6 men to serve as "godfathers" to channel funds to a group of independent weed producers and experiment with strains and brands. I went inside the booming weed industry in Sinaloa to learn how the CDS is banking millions. My latest for
Even the Ciudad Juarez local police its doing its share on the Mexican side of the border to clean this place up ahead of Biden’s visit.
A first step to stop the killings of journalists all over Mexico is to ask media companies to treat them better. Most of the victims worked under circumstances few of us know: starting from awful wages to cero back up from their news orgs. Precarized jobs + impunity is killing us
The Mexican military arrested him “less than 15 minutes” drive from the grave of his brother Edgar Guzmán, according to the same source speaking anonymously with VICE World News.
People in Jesus Maria (the town where Ovidio Guzman was captured) are isolated, no phone, electricity or water. The roads remain closed from and to the town. Locals believe the government is hiding the real number of civilians killed and hurt during the “Operación Relámpago”.
⚠️Sources confirmed that Manuel González is the name of the Mexican national fatally shot by a Border Patrol officer while at CBP custody. Some worrying details: he was shot twice, one on his left arm and the second one “on the head, at point blank range, on his temple.”
EXCLUSIVE: documents obtained by revealed that US Border Patrol fatally shot a Mexican national on custody “at point blank range” to the head.
Right in the middle of the night Mexican Guardia Nacional and state police started raiding the city of Acuña. They are grabbing Haitians out in the streets and parks and taking them to deportation while all the press is gone.
Jesenia Johana Cisneros (17) never left home, still right on her own house in Ciudad Juarez she was beaten to death and burnt. Why? Because Mexico is a femicide country. Feminicides (the killing of a women for being a women) are at an all times high with more than 74% increase.
Heartbreaking X-ray photos of smuggling attempts inside trailer trucks. ❤️🩹
Why is the US threatening to send troops to Mexico to fight against “drug cartels?” Short answer: minerals. At the center of an interventionist discussion lays Vulcan Materials, one of the main contributors to both, the Republican Party and -once every then- the Democrats. 1/
Authorities in El Paso,TX area are on alert after learning that gang leader “El Neto” who killed 10 guards to escape prison in Juarez could have crossed the border on Monday morning. El Negro one of the 25+ fugitives was photographed trying to cross through the Rio Grande.
While keeps engaged in a fight with and the European parlament over the spike in murders of journalists in Mexico, not a single Mexican media company owner has stepped up to propose solution or back the news workers.
After a massive shootout in the small village of Guachochi (Chihuahua), authorities found several sicario kids as young as 9 years old. Something that has been happening for decades but we keep forgetting: most of the Chapo’s, Mayo’s, Mencho’s, etc, were recruited while kids.
And just for the record: huge load, not in between ports of entry, not through the desert, not by “illegal immigrants”, but two US citizens.
Quote
#BorderPatrol finds the Motherlode of #METH
A mom & daughter smuggling duo are found with 692 lbs. of meth which has a street value of over $830k!
The love between a mother & daughter is deep, but the love agents have for taking drugs out of our communities is deeper
‘El Chueco’ is like Voldemort inside La Sierra de Chihuahua: I was twice last year and his name can’t be said in public. People are too afraid to even name him. They believe that there is always someone listening and they might be right. 1/3
Mexican army has now more military deployed on our borders than the US Border Patrol. 28,634 agents on the “Migration and development plan” at both north and southern borders.
This what thousands of migrants have to face in the middle of the jungle. Only one of the many risks they face going through the Darien Gap.
The narco culture in the Sierra Tarahumara has rooted so deep that Tarahumara women are knitting their traditional dresses with choppers taking off from heroin poppy fields or… *take a closer look to the necklace on one of them.
Otoniel was running a millionaire business out of thousands of migrants in Necoclí, Colombia, where he was living and from where migrants start their trek into the Darien Gap on their way to the US. This came days after US Secretary Anthony Blinken visited the country.
Quote
Replying to @elcolombiano
En una operación conjunta entre Policía, Ejército y Fuerza Aérea fue capturado el narcotraficante más buscado de Colombia. Aquí los detalles:
bit.ly/3njKUGp
A very strange black fentanyl paste was just seized in Ciudad Juárez. FBI field operation agent in El Paso confirmed it is pure fentanyl and said it is the first time black fentanyl pops up in Mexico
This year alone Ciudad Juarez has changed its National Immigration () director four times, and a coordinator was killed and burnt while traveling a highway south of Chihuahua. Why? 1/
Can you imagine the US National Guard going through the airport (passing TSA) and asking “randomly” people for their passports and asking where do they live? Well, that’s what the Mexican National Guard is doing in Tapachula’s airport right now.
“Women in Nuevo León are afraid of being the next victim. The younger generation is growing up with that fear every day.” My latest for
The Sinaloa Cartel and Juárez Cartel are having to adjust to many US states legalizing marijuana by monopolizing other commercial activities like alcohol sales, logging and extorting local farmworkers.
My latest and first colab for
Mexican government has closed all exits from Ciudad Acuña for Haitians preventing them from getting to another Mexican city, so they are now stuck at the river between two governments closing in to deport them back to the only country they can’t go back.
Very few know this but I lost five of my friends on a summer night in 2010. They were killed as part of “the war on drugs” and I never really found out who or why. Sometimes I ask myself if thats why I do what I do. Here is the story I wrote 8 years ago.
“So let’s wait for the mass murder and then we can jump in, like we did in Uvalde”
Quote
The EPPD is aware of an individual carrying a rifle walking around the far east side of El Paso in the Joe Battle area. There is nothing illegal about this. Unless he presents a threat, by his actions beyond that, there is no need to report him.
The war between cartels is not only for the drug routes -in any case that seems to be the last of the reasons of the fight-, it is for political control and natural resources.
In a few talks I’ve had with leadership inside cartels in Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Michoacán and Jalisco:
Replying to
Why were migrants protesting? For not having water in over 10 hours. For being illegally detained and swept from the streets and for this food: old tuna out in the Sun for hours.
A small group of Venezuelan men are controlling the (illegal) access to the US side of the border: they are charging migrants for a “place on a list” that allegedly would be let into the country before Friday. Monday morning the figure was at around 400/500 people.
Well, Jesús Alfredo Beltrán Guzmán “El Mochomito” was freed last week the same way Caro Quintero was: in the middle of the night. Sources said he is back in Culiacan and expect a new fight vs Aureliano Guzman Loera, “El Chapo’s” brother.
Carlos Valladolid is among seven workers at two call centers in western Mexico who disappeared last week. Jalisco State Attorney General's Office announced the US government is helping with the investigations since they believe Valladolid was a US citizen, Arizona native.
A new massacre inside an Ecuador prison has left at least 58 killed. Authorities say the fight started after the leader of one of the gangs was set free and the gang was “headless”, so others try to take control. This is how the Litoral prison is split by gangs.
If it had been Iván Archivaldo Guzmán the one captured yesterday we would know that Mexican authorities are serious.
During the days when the Biden admin announced a “new” immigration policy towards Venezuelans, a bus carrying around 40 migrants coming from Chiapas was kidnapped entering Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua. 1/
Since US states started legalizing marijuana members of the Sinaloa cartel have been looking for ways to adapt and take back the business that helped their predecessors build globespanning operations. An unprecedented look into Los Chapitos weed operation: youtu.be/1e_Htf3B57E
I started doing this shit +15 years ago and never thought the ‘war on drugs’ would take 5 of my friends, my city and my whole country. Also never thought Id make it this far.
9 years ago I got to Proceso front cover with this story: Caro Quintero didn’t kill Kiki Camarena, it was the CIA.
Does this mean I have to arm myself? Or just have a coffee while I wait for news? 🤔
This is Gerardo Martinez, Yolanda’s dad. She disappeared a few days before Debanhi while going to a job interview. She hasn’t been found and only after Debanhi’s viral stories Nuevo León authorities are listening his sorrow. Let’s not forget Yolanda.
Posted this this afternoon and a few hours later whole hell broke loose in #CiudadJuarez The hit inside the prison was of high significance for the Juarez Cartel: the change of powers at the inside of the cartel arrived only a few months after new political powers took office.
Quote
Cereso #3 in Ciudad Juarez is called "the office" by La Linea (Juarez Cartel) members. Today was visit day and several members of a rival group entered saying they were family of an inmate and killed at least four.
This will bring a spike in violence in and out of the prison. twitter.com/azucenau/statu…
El Mencho was able to empty entire towns out of fear without Mexican government going after him, but only when he started messing with the Military is when we got to see a massive manhunt for him and his family. This says a lot about who is really running the country.
By sources: El Mayo Zambada’s biggest drug transporter in Sinaloa, known as “Lupe Tapia Quintero” was just captured in Culiacán. His son, a mayor fentanyl transporter for the same faction, was arrested last year.
Replying to
Its not only the US Border Patrol whipping Haitians, its also the Mexican authorities hunting them while they try to get some rest.
A postal from the time I went to live in a cave in the top of a mountain, deep in the sierra de Chihuahua where Romain set up his piano. He played Recuerdos de la Alhambra every day at sunset. The Raramuri neighbors gathered to listen.
The camp in Acuña is gone this morning. All migrants have been relocated to an abandoned nightclub turned into a shelter.
Mexico’s homicide rates have been dropping since last year, but instead of being the good news as claims, it could be signs of a macabre trend: cartels have upped the practice of hiding the dead bodies of their victims instead of leaving them where they drop.
They had the time to do a stand off, to pick from a list who would die and who would live, to shoot 17 people, to clean up and to load the bodies into a pick-up truck. Are we sure Mexican government is still in charge of this country? Is this “drug trafficking”?
Today is the anniversary of that time when El Diario de Juárez published a photo of former chief of police Julián Leyzaola with an interesting footnote 👀
Cereso #3 in Ciudad Juarez is called "the office" by La Linea (Juarez Cartel) members. Today was visit day and several members of a rival group entered saying they were family of an inmate and killed at least four.
This will bring a spike in violence in and out of the prison.
Quote
#ÚLTIMAHORA | Tres internos del Cereso 3 de Ciudad Juárez, #Chihuahua fueron asesinados al registrarse una trifulca por una posible irrupción de un grupo armado.
En 1914 EEUU anunció su primera ley para prohibir los narcóticos en el país. Se llamó Harrison Narcotics Tax Act. Un mes después México comienza el naracotráfico y el sistema de protección a los traficantes.
me contó mucho más aquí:
youtube.com/watch?v=VnIGeB
Replying to
Manu Vaquita, now behind bars for the murder of former Jalisco governor, Aristóteles Sandoval, has a close friendship with Nuevo Leon’s governor and his wife. During the days in search for #DebahniEscobar both erased photos from their social sharing intimate moments with Vaquita.
❄️Its 20 degrees outside and hundreds of migrants who entered the country without being processed by Border Patrol are not being allowed in El Paso shelters that receive federal funding.
A small mistake from Ciudad Juarez Juarez authorities have placed this border in a surreal situation: if you cross to El Paso you will be one hour behind. For border residents and binational trade this is confusing and painful.
Interesting narcomanta threatening a group from “La Chapiza”, asking a group of people to “stop using the Sinaloa Cartel name”. This reinforces the theory that the Sinaloa Cartel doesn’t exists anymore and most are powerful family groups operating as a cartel.
If we agree that for a drug deal to be successful we need at least, two parts: a seller and a buyer, then what we heard during the trial of Mexico’s former top cop Genaro García Luna was only one part of the story…we were left out of the equally important buyer’s side.
A federal judge just ruled in favor of the Miller/Langford families to get more than $4 Million as restitution from “the Juarez Cartel” for the killing of 9 of their relatives in 2019.
“He didn’t even want to enter the organization, but he was forced to by Iván, who is the one giving orders,” the cartel member said. “He was more like a posh kid from Culiacán.
For many in Michoacán, the brutal murder of Hipólito in the early hours of June 29 marked the final chapter in a civilian movement that started in this same town a decade ago. For a few, it was a new reason to take up arms in resistance again. My dispatch
Tapachula has become the biggest immigration prison in America and the only way for migrants to leave is a caravan. My latest for
If he were not to cross the border this morning requesting political asylum accompanied by attorney Carlos Spector, Alfredo Gris, would have been the next on the long list of killed journalists in Mexico. 1/
While they wait and cast their hopes that Title 42 gets thrown away next week, these two Venezuelan kids (8 and 11) are making a few bucks from going to the store, cross the river and sell water, food or cigarettes to asylum seekers waiting in line to be processed into the US.
“This is what’s happening today, in Del Rio and all across the border. For eight months, Biden has not provided clear information about when, if ever, Title 42 will end, going so far as to fight in court to keep it in place” Amazing dispatch from
“So if El Chapo is locked up for 23 hours a day in a 7-foot-by-12-food soundproof cell but drug busts are at an all-time high, what exactly was the point in arresting him?” My latest for
A key player left out from the international fentanyl traffickers flagged this week by the DEA was this woman: Joanne Segovia, chief of the Police Union in San José, California who was importing fentanyl for over 7 years before vetting caught. She was recently released on bond.
Climate change, and the extreme drought happening from it, is making the Raramuri sell their ancestral running gift to the cartels operating in the Sierra Madre mountains. My latest for
How far before agendas align? In very few days we will start seeing different cartels publicly banning the production and sales of fentanyl amongst their ranks in yet another proof of the intertwining between political and criminal agendas.
“My daughter is dead and I don’t know what to do,” Escobar’s father said. “I'm angry at myself for trusting the authorities of Nuevo León. I made a mistake.” My latest for
Huge lesson for journalists: you don’t publish photos of vulnerable, still unidentified victims. Dozens of migrants gathered this morning hoping to find out if their relatives were amongst those dead, while these photos were standing at news stands. This is also inhumane.
Replying to
The price today -in Ciudad Juárez- for getting a person across into a stash house in El Paso is not less than $1,000. The price keeps rising as more hands enter the business: The cartel, smugglers, Mexican immigration, Guardia Nacional, and now even local airport employees.
To name the chain of command of those responsible for this tragedy is as important as to name the victims of a criminal and opaque institute:
“"For years, authorities have put away these alleged leaders but it is not serving any purpose, but if you go after politicians that are allowing this to happen, it's a different thing,"” My latest for
Mexico keeps loosing its national treasures. This piece called ‘Hacha Maya’ was auctioned today at a auction for $800,000. The Mexican government has done nothing to stop this besides sending letters to the auction houses.
Replying to
I died like 30 mins ago without even knowinf what killed me.
The containers removed from the Arizona/Sonora border were not dismantled. They were brought to the Ciudad Juárez/El Paso border and installed this morning.
Took my best photographer this morning to the border while reporting on what’s next for tens of thousands of migrants stuck in Ciudad Juárez.
Javier Campos and Joaquin Mora, two priests inside the remote community of Cerocahui in la sierra de Chihuahua were killed inside their church a few days ago and their bodies were taken by the sicario. 1/
