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Former CIA Pilot Plumlee Says Reagan Administration Responsible for Death of DEA Agent

Plumlee insists the CIA did not murder Camarena as a number of news outlets have reported.

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - Robert Tosh Plumlee, a pilot who flew clandestine CIA flights, told Infowars today that Fox News, who interviewed him last September, is attempting to shift blame for the 1980s Contra resupply network to the CIA.

The network was the work of the Reagan administration, then Marine Col. Oliver North, and the NCS, Plumlee contends. The covert operation was in direct violation of the Boland Amendment, a legislative effort to prevent the United States government from funding and assisting the Contras...

Assassinated DEA Agent Kiki Camarena Fell in a CIA Operation Gone Awry, Say Law Enforcement Sources

He Was Killed, They Say, Because 'He Knew Too Much' About Official Corruption in the Drug War

(LAS CRUCES , NM) - DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena was abducted in early February 1985 shortly after leaving the US consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico. His body was found several weeks later, partially decomposed, wrapped in a plastic death shroud and buried in a shallow grave some 70 miles north of the Mexican city.

One of the chief architects of Camarena’s kidnapping, brutal torture and ultimate death, Rafael Caro Quintero, was released prematurely on Aug. 9 from a Mexican prison, by order of a Mexican federal court, after having served 28 years of a 40-year-sentence for the crime. His release caused an outcry among US law enforcers and officials, who contend his freedom is an affront to justice and to the memory of Camarena.

Government Narcotrafficking and Murder

Two Marine veterans write about toxic exposure of U.S. Marines, murder and government cover-up.

(IRVINE, CA) - Senior Marine Corps leadership were involved in murder, conspiracy to commit murder, crime scene cover-up, narcotrafficking (cocaine, the drug of choice), the shredding of records, and the denial of injuries from exposure to deadly contaminants at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, CA.

Serious charges, but the facts support murder of several El Toro Marines and the slow death from toxic exposures to many others.

Kiki Cameron Executed On Orders of the CIA?

El Diario de Coahuila (10-13-13) Proceso (10-12-13) By Luis Chaparro and J. Jesus Esquivel. Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat. By Borderland Beat Reporter un vato

(WASHINGTON DC) - A story that sounds like it was taken from a complex espionage novel has just exploded on U.S. television.

Enrique Kiki Camarena, the DEA law enforcement officer murdered in Mexico in February, 1985, was apparently not the victim of the Mexican capo Rafael Caro Quintero, but rather, of a dark member of the CIA. This individual was the one charged with silencing the anti-narcotics agent for one serious reason...

U.S. Crisis Unsettles Mexico

The U.S. crisis comes at a time when worries already exist over the state of the Mexican economy and the tax reform looming in the Mexican Congress, including a possible hike in the border region sales tax from its current 11 percent to 16 percent.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - The partial shutdown of the U.S. government is unsettling the Mexican economy. As the crisis took shape last week, the Mexican peso dipped to 13.34 units per dollar, an amount which represented the second largest depreciation in 2013.

The pending October 17 showdown over the U.S. debt limit is likewise contributing to the jitters, said Gabriela Siller, an analyst for Mexico-based Banco Base.

Kurt Schrader Puts Obama`s Shutdown Ahead of National Security: Voted Against Securing America`s Borders

Kurt Schrader Voted Against The Border Safety And Security Act.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Kurt Schrader continued his outrageous commitment to the Democrat government shutdown by voting against funding to secure America’s borders. Schrader voted against the Border Safety & Security Act, which immediately funds border security programs within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). America’s national security depends on funding found within the legislation.

“Kurt Schrader’s reckless vote against funding America’s border security programs puts our nation at risk for terrorism and drug violence,” said NRCC Communications Director Andrea Bozek.

Immigrant Advocates Score Major Legal Wins

“This week’s decisions are a powerful reminder that our Constitution protects immigrants from harassment and scapegoating by state and local governments” - ACLU’s Omar Jadwat

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - While a comprehensive immigration reform waned in the U.S. Congress, significant developments on the immigration front occurred in the courts in July.

In three back-to-back decisions, federal courts struck down state or local laws that attempted to regulate housing, employment and other matters based on a person’s immigration status.

FNS Special Feature: 20 Years of Border Femicide

Part one in a series about border gender violence. Today’s article was made possible in part by a grant from the New Mexico Humanities Council.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - With a warm smile beaming across her face, Ana Alarcon recalls waiting for her daughter Esmeralda at the bus stop every day.

In the proud remembrance of her mother, Esmeralda Juarez Alarcon was a busy and no-nonsense 16-year-old who wanted to help her family move up in the rough-and-tumble world of Ciudad Juarez.

Mexico`s Rich Flourish

The Mexican rich bucked a worldwide trend in which the number of wealthy individuals declined slightly by 0.3 percent from 2007 to 2012.

(LAS CRUCES, NM) - A Great Recession? Not for Mexico’s rich.

In fact, the number of people in the Mexican Republic defined as wealthy by the corporate research outfit WealthInsight grew by almost a third between late 2007 and late 2012, a time when high unemployment and hard times had most people scrambling to make ends meet.

Mexican Mafia Conquers Oregon --- Almost!

It started in the 1920's.

(PORTLAND, OR) - Les Zaitz and The Oregonian have published an excellent Pulitzer Prize eligible series about Mexican cartels and drug abuse, drug addiction and death in Oregon.

Strangely enough, they include marijuana in this category. This is incorrect as is shown in their own graphs showing that marijuana is widely used, up to about 40% of the population.