..Everybody Knows/Todo el mundo sabe

On this cold wet Friday, here’s one for everyone in the narcoguerra–both sides and in between…from Senor Cohen
En esta lluvia fría primer viernes de diciembre, aquí está uno para todos en la narcoguerra – ambos lados y en medio de … del señor Cohen

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My mother  suddenly departed this world on the Day of the Innocents-Nov 1–my birthday.

Mi madre se marchó de repente el mundo en el Día de los Inocentes–Nov 1–mi cumpleaños.

Celebrating World Drug Day

In case you  missed it,  yesterday–Friday June 26–was World Drug Day, sponsored by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Spain’s Ministry of the Interior celebrated the event by seizing over a ton of cocaine packed in pineapples and yucca plants shipped from Guayaquil, Ecuador
It capped the week when  UNDOC released its World Drug Report [...]

Zetas: Everywhere on Everything

On Tuesday, June 22,  New York Times‘ readers were greeted   with this scarifying headline:   “Mexican Cartels Lure American Teens as Killers”–a profile by reporter James C. McKinley, Jr. of a Laredo, Texas kid who claims to have been recruited as a sicario (hit man) by Los Zetas when he was 13 years old.
Such recruitment [...]