Y'all should read Charles Bowden. a former running buddy of Ed Abbey. Scary stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bowden And see the flick MISS BALA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Bala I can walk to a curandera/botanica in 10 minutes from where I live in KCMO and get sanctified oil from the patron Saint of the Sinaloa Narcotraficantes, Jesus Malverde. My friends here in KC from Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, and Michoacan say this is seriously bad juju. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malverde There's some great banda music available with this. None of that pinche reggaeton, which is favored by los chilangos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2kcyvrKj9Y&feature=related On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 8:38 AM, <speleoste...@aol.com> wrote: > ** > I just finished an excellent book on the sad situation in Mexico and I > recommend it. *El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency*, by Ioan > Grillo. The dusk jacket says "Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America > since 2001 for international media, including Time magazine, CNN, the > Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday > Telegraph. He has covered military operations, mafia killings, and cocaine > seizures, and has discussed the drug war with two Mexican presidents, three > attorneys general, and the U.S. ambassador. A native of England, he lives > in Mexico City. El Narco is his first book." > > Grillo also got out there on the streets, barrios, and prisons and talked > to the criminals themselves. There are areas of Mexico where most cavers > are not going these days. I have projects in Tamaulipas and Guerrero which > are on indefinite hold. I got scared off by things that really happened, > witnessed firsthand by me. > > Bill Steele > > In a message dated 7/7/2012 7:25:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > freddiepoe...@yahoo.com writes: > > It probably is. I still go to Mexico quite frequently and what I have > noticed is that what makes the news here, I don't see in the news there, > and visa versa. Makes me wonder where this news is coming from and how much > of it is true. Meanwhile, I do not know of a single person who has > witnessed any of it firsthand. Nonetheless it has been very effective in > scaring off American tourists including what I formerly considered brave > American cavers. > > --- On *Fri, 7/6/12, Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com>* wrote: > > > From: Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> > Subject: [Texascavers] Mexican drug wars > To: "Cavers Texas" <texascavers@texascavers.com> > Date: Friday, July 6, 2012, 9:09 PM > > For those wanting to keep up on the Mexican drug wars, there's a long > article in the July 2 issue of The New Yorker. I recall earlier press > reports that the Mexican army had seized a remarkable about of meth. From > the article: > > "In February, the Army announced that it had seized, in a "historic bust," > in Tlajomulco [Jalisco], fifteen tons of methamphetamine. The street value > of that much meth was, by the Army's figuring, some four billion dollars. > If true, that would make it the largest meth bust in history. But was it > true?... > > "I tried to get to the bottom of a single bust--the "historic" meth-lab > raid in Tlajomulco that confiscated some our billion dollars' worth of > drugs. Were the drugs seized really worth that much? Well, no. The more > experts I consulted, the lower the number sank. Maybe it was a billion, if > the meth was pure. Then was it really fifteen tons of "pure meth," as > widely reported? Well, no. There had been some confusion. There were > precursor chemicals. A lot of equipment--gas tanks, reactors. Maybe it was > eleven pounds of pure meth. Eleven pounds? Nobody wanted to speak on the > record, but the spokesman for the federal presecutor's office in > Guadalajara, a young man named Ulises Enríquez Camacho, finally said, "Yes, > five kilos." Eleven pounds. The fifteen tons had been methamphetamine ready > for packing, according to the Army. But it was not "finished product," and > there had been only five kilos of crystal. In the U.S., where meth is often > sold by the gram, that amount might be worth five hundred thousand dollars. > So the reported value had been inflated by a factor of eight thousand?" > > I hope the body count is not off by a factor of eight thousand. > --Mixon > ---------------------------------------- > I'm walking down the street with Leonardo da Vinci. He says, "The things > your science has created are indeed wonderful. You must explain to me how > everything works." 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