The voice from the Sierra Madre Oriental and the entrance to our Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Gleanings by El Zorro....always worth the time (I'm still laughing)
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The Canadian Revenue Agency actually commented on this one:
(Something to ponder ... but, worth a broad smile !)
Amazing, but true, if you think about it! The importance of accuracy in your tax return,
The CRA has returned the Tax Return to a man in Canada after he apparently answered one of the questions.
In response to the question...."Do you have anyone dependant on you?"
The man wrote: ...
"2.1 million Illegal immigrants, 1.1 million crack heads, 4.4 million unemployable scroungers, 80,000 criminals in over 85 prisons plus 450 idiots in Parliament and an entire group that call themselves Politicians''.
The CRA stated that the response he gave was unacceptable.
The man's response back to CRA was, ... "Who did I leave out ?"
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My immediate notion of a body of takers that had been neglected was almost the entire Native Peoples population of the old Dominion. However, the most culpable are not actually the Indians of various and sundry tribes and nations, but those same do-gooder, utopian, social democraticians whose calling it is to help people into dependency, and ultimately, oblivion.
El Gringo Viejo
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The consummate hypocrite - a reminder
There has been so much mendacity, so much hypocrisy, so much responding to question while looking down and to the right to avoid eye contact while saying, "Uh, uh, uh, what you fail to consider is that we inherited a lot bigger mess than anyone imagined...." or some other such bilge.
This is specifically to remind the devious pretender which cow eats what cabbage. The Republicans did not have any problem dealing with the CNBC midgets. They chewed them up and spit them out. Remember. And then they took a bit of a victory lap as they should have after the "debate". Cruz especially showed why he may well finally win the nomination and the election.
Using the example of challenging the "toughness" of the Republican field standing up to Putin was not well advised in that you, Barry, were caught, in flagrante delicto, thereby essentially committing treason; conspiring with Russian thugs against American and allied interests, "Until after the elections".
Really?
El Gringo Viejo
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Monday, 19 October 2015
We are heading back down for an extended stay - But Wait, there's more
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First, we shall be heading down to the Quinta Tesoro de la Sierra Madre for a while. There is a possibility of making a kind of linkage with a hunting/fishing operation on the coast and the people have expressed an interest in looking at our place as kind of an "off the beaten trail" alternative for some of their clients. It is encouraging because they are indicating that good numbers of duck, whitening and mourning dove, and quail groups returned during this season. They likened it to a dry hose, and then about 2 years ago there was a drip, and this year there has been a steady flow. So we shall see.
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Now, more about our friend El Chapo Guzman. It was my opinion back in the hours and days following the escape of Guzman from the ultra-high security prison deeper into central Mexico that he was not leaving the country. There are simply too many people waiting for him, people from all walks of life. They also have all sorts of interest in him.
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Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez is the one who "hears everything". But now he will be making license plates for the State of Texas probably. The Mexicans have been pretty good about extraditing on a "worst charges" priority...and Angel has a lot of "worst charges".Share to FaceShare to Pinterest____________________My notion was that he would go back to his dear and comforting Sierra Madre Occidental, a vast, vast extension of canyons, rivers, tropical, and alpine forests the size of New England and, on there lie low. Stories had already begun to surface that Guzman was having arguments within the family....that he was more trouble than he was worth....that he would womanize and get stoned like before and spend more and more of the highly overestimated wealth that he has. There would be nothing left "....for the rest of us".
Supposedly his American wife (dual citizenship) went to the prison some time back to plead with him to co-operate with the authorities so that they could salvage some of the ill-gotten gain and erase the stain against their two daughters. Emma Coronel, the niece of a man who was one of El Chapo's higher ranking inner circle, was killed in a shoot-out with the Mexican Army back in 2010, but officially authorities say that she just a nice girl, a beauty contest winner, college-educated homebody who likes to whelp her babies in the United States.
Emma Coronel de Guzman |
Guzman, when he left the prison down that long tunnel, possibly thought he was going to some nice place with no extradition, such as Costa Rica. But, in fact he was, after several clumsy deceptions, spirited off to his mountains. Yesterday we spoke a bit about Cosala' in Sinaloa State, and Tamazula in Durango State....two towns quite closely situated one to the other.
Without belabouring the issue any more than necessary, Guzman has had babies by two other women beside his present "wife''. Another minor complication has arisen because the State Congress Representative for the district including Cosala is a (lamentably, a PAN party member, the homologous entity to the American Republican Party or the Conservative Party in Canada)
(reportage de Gardenia Mendoza - freelance desde la Ciudad de Mexico)
Mexican Marines are nipping at the heels of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s – or at least that’s what the minister overseeing the Marines believes. Since Oct. 6, thousands of soldiers have been sent to the area known as Mexico’s “Golden Triangle,” the remote, mountainous region where the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa converge. Most of them parachuted in. The operation was reportedly triggered by information provided to Mexican authorities by U.S. drug agents who were monitoring cell phone activity.
Around 200 people from the region, presumably scared of getting caught in the crossfire between the Marines and the Sinaloa Cartel’s sicarios, have fled to the town of Cosalá.“The Marines told us that they want to capture the Lord,” they told reporters, and mentioned talking about soldiers attacking civilians. “People are frightened,” Cosalá’s representative in the state legislature, Lucero Sánchez López, told TV reporters, adding that at least eight people were missing.
The most interesting fact about Sánchez is that she has been identified by the Mexican press and the Attorney General’s office, as Chapo’s newest lover and the mother of his youngest child, an allegation she has consistently denied.
For its part, SEMAR says there haven't been any civilian attacks, but it doesn't deny that the Marines are carrying out an operation in that sector of Sinaloa and across the state line in Durango – a state that’s governed by Ricardo Ochoa, whose sister, Emma Coronel, happens to be Chapo’s current wife. The presumed romantic relationship between the 57-year-old Guzmán – the world’s most wanted drug kingpin – and a 26-year-old, thick-lipped and light-haired member of the National Action Party (PAN) – has spread ever since June, when it was first reported that she visited Chapo in Altiplano prison, some 55 miles from Mexico City, in May when she was pregnant.
At the time, authorities at the prison lodged a complaint with PGR saying that Chapo received a visit from a woman who used a fake ID who was not his wife. For her part, Sánchez says that the woman photographed with the drug lord isn't her. The newspaper Excélsior, suggested that Sánchez first met Chapo in 2013, at a party in the Golden Triangle that both attended. A few months later, her former husband and the father of her two sons, Rubén Chavez, 27, was shot to death.
A few days after Chapo’s second escape from a Mexican high-security prison in July, the Attorney General’s office (PGR in its Spanish acronym) leaked to the media a statement by one of Guzmán Loera’s attorneys confirming that Sánchez visited his client to discuss details of where and how their child would be raised.
A veteran columnist from El Universal newspaper, Ricardo Alemán, wrote, “Very little is known for a fact about Chapo’s children … What we do know is that Chapo’s youngest kid is the son of Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez López, presently a deputy in the Sinaloa Congress from the 16th district of Cosalá.”
He added, “It is also known that Mrs. Sánchez became deputy in the state congress by virtue of Chapo’s influence in Cosala.” Sánchez continues to deny having a relationship with Chapo. At a session of the Sinaloa Congress in July, she said the topic was “ridiculous” and condemned the PGR’s “coarse leaks” and said she intended to “file a claim with the [Mexican] Human Rights Commission for defamation and moral injury to me, my children and the rest of my family.”
It isn’t known whether she has filed any claim or if she has been called into the PGR for questioning. Chapo’s wife, with whom the kingpin has twin daughters, has not made any public statement on the matter. PAN leaders have stated that Sánchez will be removed from her post if it proves that she did, in fact, visit Chapo at Altiplano. Whether or not Sánchez is involved with Chapo, few people doubt that he’s in the Golden Triangle. What’s less clear is that Mexico’s forces will be able to catch him a third time.
“There’s hardly any other place where he could feel more secure than the Golden Triangle, where he has not only friends but family and social protection,” analyst José Reveles, author of the Spanish-language book, “El Chapo: Surrender and Treason,” move alo-----0ng.....the reporterette is a leftist observer, and she is a freelancer, but she doe0s have veracity in terms of her reportage. If El Gringo Viejo says so about an0y leftist....then you know that it simply has to be true. What we want to do h0ere, however, is (1) demonstrate that there are things going on that are no0000t reported by a0ny American media....things that are not that hard to figure out or learn.....(2) that those things are important to Mexicans, Americans, and Canadia0ns.....(3) and finally that El Chapo did not have friendly terrain back up in Choix, Sinaloa when the "peasants" volunteered to help the Army uproot and run him out of town or into hell two years ago.
He is in his second-best terrain at this point, and has been up-rooted from there by an effective attack by the Mexican brand of the American 82nd. In this case, 120 Mexican Army Special Forces personnel did parachute from fairly high, stationary helicopters, at night. The "Run Away Escape" episode has begun, the objective has one bullet-wound in the right leg....(we'll keep tabs on that matter)....and a significant facial wound....of unknown profundity. El Chapo and his "friends" or "controllers" or by this point, perhaps his "kidnappers"....are trying to cover the man and keep the issue.
We shall keep our own ears close to the ground and learn if we have g00d news for our neighbors and Christian Allies concerning this matter. I am not fluxed or surprised that the truth of this issue is not front page of any Newspaper of McAllen area.
More in a few Days. For now....it is off to the Tropics and the celebrations of the Mexican Halloween, or the Fiesta de los Muertos y Todos Santos. I'll try to have better pictures upon the return.
El Gringo Viejo
More in a few Days. For now....it is off to the Tropics and the celebrations of the Mexican Halloween, or the Fiesta de los Muertos y Todos Santos. I'll try to have better pictures upon the return.
El Gringo Viejo
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Saturday, 17 October 2015
FUNDAMENTAL STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL VICTORIES
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CDG:"El Orejón" leader of "los Ciclónes" captured
Lucio R. Borderland Beat using information from Reforma
Prado-Rodríguez, "Ciclón 7 also known as El Orejón (Big-ears), it was rated as one of 15 priority objectives of the strategy of Tamaulipas security.
Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez "El Orejon" |
The Coordination Group - Tamaulipas said Friday members of the Ministry of Defense National arrested in Matamoros Angel Eduardo Prado Rodríguez, head of the Golfo Cartel in this border town and premier leader of CDG’s “Los Ciclones”.
The suspect was the sole objective on that list had not been detained since May 13, 2014. The remainder are either dead or in prison in Texas or Nuevo Leon State. (emphasis- el gringo viejo)
His arrest was made in a raid shortly after six in the morning today. He was transferred to the premises of the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) in Mexico City, and is expected to be presented later to the media. (All credit to: Borderland Beat Reporter Lucio - Posted at 4:16 PM 15 comments: Labels: cdg, Ciclone Golfo Cartel de Los Ciclones, tamaulipas
His arrest was made in a raid shortly after six in the morning today. He was transferred to the premises of the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO) in Mexico City, and is expected to be presented later to the media. (All credit to: Borderland Beat Reporter Lucio - Posted at 4:16 PM 15 comments: Labels: cdg, Ciclone Golfo Cartel de Los Ciclones, tamaulipas
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Additional side information....,"Why Orejon" (Big Ears?)
Orejon, depending upon region throughout the Americas, has seven or eight pretty distinct meanings, some understandable but others related to matters of anthropology and archeology. My problem was a drug gang "leader" of the now nearly defunct Cartel del Golfo. Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez who was the 15th of fifteen "most wanted" by the Mexican Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry. All the rest of the left-over leaders have been killed or are in prison in Texas or Nuevo Leon.
Orejon can possibly identify a person who has a deep and wide cadre of observers and informants....."....nothing happens that he doesn't hear about an hour later, no matter where." Or it could mean that he is a really, really, really backwards Indian from some remote places in the area where Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa States of Mexico have their closest "come-togetherness". The Orejones are more "....backwards than the Quichole"....and they speak no Spanish still. They also sit on about 4% of the known reserves of gold and industrial metals...some say in the world, others say in North America.
Also, there are Orejon tribes in South America, unrelated to those smaller groups up in the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. They are known as "orejones" for the manner by which the men extend their ear lobes with fine woods, or even gold discs the size of American an half-dollar at times.
Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez is the one who "hears everything". But now he will be making license plates for the State of Texas probably. The Mexicans have been pretty good about extraditing on a "worst charges" priority...and Angel has a lot of "worst charges".BlogThisOrejon, depending upon region throughout the Americas, has seven or eight pretty distinct meanings, some understandable buth others related to matters of anthropology and archeology. My problem was a drug gang "leader" of the now nearly defunct Cartel del Golfo. Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez was the 15th of fifteen "most wanted" by the Mexican Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry. All the rest of the left-over leaders have been killed or are in prison in Texas or NueOrejon can possibly identify a person who has a deep and wide cadre of observers and informants....."....nothing happens that he doesn't hear about an hour later, no matter where." Or it could mean that he is a really, really, really backwards Indian from some remote places in the area where Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa states of Mexico have their closest "come-togetherness". The Orejones more "....backwards than the Quichole"....and they speak no Spanish still. The also sit on about 4% of the known reserves of gold and industrial metals...some say in the world, others say in North America
Additional side information....,"Why Orejon" (Big Ears?)
Orejon, depending upon region throughout the Americas, has seven or eight pretty distinct meanings, some understandable but others related to matters of anthropology and archeology. My problem was a drug gang "leader" of the now nearly defunct Cartel del Golfo. Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez who was the 15th of fifteen "most wanted" by the Mexican Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry. All the rest of the left-over leaders have been killed or are in prison in Texas or Nuevo Leon.
Orejon can possibly identify a person who has a deep and wide cadre of observers and informants....."....nothing happens that he doesn't hear about an hour later, no matter where." Or it could mean that he is a really, really, really backwards Indian from some remote places in the area where Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa States of Mexico have their closest "come-togetherness". The Orejones are more "....backwards than the Quichole"....and they speak no Spanish still. They also sit on about 4% of the known reserves of gold and industrial metals...some say in the world, others say in North America.
Also, there are Orejon tribes in South America, unrelated to those smaller groups up in the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico. They are known as "orejones" for the manner by which the men extend their ear lobes with fine woods, or even gold discs the size of American an half-dollar at times.
Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez is the one who "hears everything". But now he will be making license plates for the State of Texas probably. The Mexicans have been pretty good about extraditing on a "worst charges" priority...and Angel has a lot of "worst charges".BlogThisOrejon, depending upon region throughout the Americas, has seven or eight pretty distinct meanings, some understandable buth others related to matters of anthropology and archeology. My problem was a drug gang "leader" of the now nearly defunct Cartel del Golfo. Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez was the 15th of fifteen "most wanted" by the Mexican Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry. All the rest of the left-over leaders have been killed or are in prison in Texas or NueOrejon can possibly identify a person who has a deep and wide cadre of observers and informants....."....nothing happens that he doesn't hear about an hour later, no matter where." Or it could mean that he is a really, really, really backwards Indian from some remote places in the area where Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa states of Mexico have their closest "come-togetherness". The Orejones more "....backwards than the Quichole"....and they speak no Spanish still. The also sit on about 4% of the known reserves of gold and industrial metals...some say in the world, others say in North America
This fellow has been the lynchpin of the old "Gulf Cartel" who gradually began to consolidate more control over a larger area, never reaching the level of a true Capone-like Don or Capo. As was predicted by your humble observer severel months back, all "cartels" in Mexico were being effectively degraded and the social-operational integrity of the "Cartels" was in a very rapid free-fall, due to scores of arrests, dead / wounded casualties both from intra-nicene and inter-nicene combat. More importantly, however, has been the work of the Mexican Army and the Mexican Naval Infantry in rooting out of, and offering the deal that cannot be turned down to, the miscreants.
Among other accomplishments, "El Orejon" (Mr. Big Ears) managed to have killed, or order the killing, of up to 50 different people. There are warrants out for him in Texas, as well. This leads to another story, on the other side of Mexico....far to the west......
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Angel Eduardo Prado Rodriquez is the one who "hears everything". But now he will be making license plates for the State of Texas probably. The Mexicans have been pretty good about extraditing on a "worst charges" priority...and Angel has a lot of "worst charges".Share to FaceShare to Pinterest____________________
News concerning Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman
El Chaparro (Chapo) Guzman - Loera |
.....El CHAPO herido en la cara y pierna derecha,durante un intento de captura por parte de fuerzas federales las montañas de la Sierra Madre Occidental, cerca de la cabecera municipal de Cosala' de Victoria, Sinaloa, Mexico, confirmó este viernes el gobierno de México.
COSALA', SINALOA One more of the several hundred or thousand of the littlebeauty-mark communities one finds in rural Mexico |
Segunda fuga:
Guzmán Loera se fugó por segunda vez de una cárcel de máxima seguridad en julio pasado. La primera de ellas lo hizo oculto en un carrito de lavandería, y la segunda a través de un túnel que daba al área de regadera de su celda, en el que está catalogado como el penal más seguro de México.
"Como consecuencia de estas acciones y para evitar su aprehensión, en días recientes el prófugo realizó una huida precipitada, que de acuerdo con la información recabada, le causó lesiones en una pierna y en el rostro", se indicó. En el comunicado no se ofrecieron mayores detalles sobre el lugar exacto o la fecha en la que ocurrió el operativo.
Desplazados por operativo:
Desde la semana pasada, efectivos del Ejército vigilan la entrada del municipio de Cosalá, en el estado de Sinaloa, un poblado cuya tranquilidad se vio alterada desde la semana pasada ante la llegada de algunos pobladores de Tamazula, en el vecino estado de Durango, lugar donde el ejército ha venido intensificando sus operativos en el último mes para recapturar al narcotraficante.
Los desplazados aseguran que en la zona se han registrado algunos enfrentamientos protagonizados, según las autoridades estatales, entre efectivos de la marina y supuestos miembros del cartel de Sinaloa que operan en la zona.
"Nos salimos porque, por miedo, pues, que le pueda pasar a los niños, y eso y ese es el problema. Tenemos mucho miedo", dijo uno de ellos.
En una conferencia de prensa el alcalde de Tamazula, Ricardo Ochoa Beltrán, dijo estar al tanto de la situación de los desplazados, y aseguró que se le está brindando ayuda para que puedan regresar a sus lugares de origen lo más pronto posible.
En la conferencia de prensa el alcalde estuvo acompañado de su esposa, Erika Coronel, quien negó ser la hermana de Emma Coronel, quien sería la actual pareja de Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, como lo habían reportado la semana pasada algunos medios de locales.
"Lo que me gustaría por parte de ustedes, no sé, es que digan la verdad, me gustaría que investigaran que se dieran cuenta que no, y que se diga la verdad de las cosas”, dijo la mujer.
A principios de esta semana las autoridades del estado de Sinaloa, confirmaron el despliegue militar implementado por la Marina en esa zona del país y cuyo objetivo prioritario, señaló, es la recaptura de Guzmán Loera, líder del cartel de Sinaloa.
We have put the Spanish language reportage up so that you all will know that we actually do try to stay ahead, and to dig deeper about these stories. We were riding on our unseen, mid-night surfboard for the last couple of weeks, but then something of even greater importance took centre stage. My daughter's father-in-law, a Veteran and gem of a fellow, was thrown into the hospital and people began poking and stabbing and giving surprise and concerned looks. His operation was to be robotic and hopefully take only two hour. Two hours came and went almost three times.....we were seeing Whatifie Monsters everywhere; I found two under by own bed, along with a commie.
BUT!!! In the end, all results were positive. And Your Humble Servant here is going to try to build a case to-morrow about, for instance, why El Chapo did not go back to Choix from whence he was flushed a couple of years back and went on the lam towards Mazatlan where he was caught. This time he went to the south a little ways to Cosala', Sinaloa (doll-house town, very antique and elegant), and the town on the other side of the Sinaloa - Durango border named Tamazula, Durango.
Suffice it to say that there was a massive engagement just outside of Tamazula on a ranch with world-wide radio capacity. But...a sneaky little tickler for the OROGs....El Chapo was not as secure as he thought. Hubris and Pride lost the race for the hare. There are some weird twists and turns. We shall have more to-morrow.
El Gringo Viejo
We have put the Spanish language reportage up so that you all will know that we actually do try to stay ahead, and to dig deeper about these stories. We were riding on our unseen, mid-night surfboard for the last couple of weeks, but then something of even greater importance took centre stage. My daughter's father-in-law, a Veteran and gem of a fellow, was thrown into the hospital and people began poking and stabbing and giving surprise and concerned looks. His operation was to be robotic and hopefully take only two hour. Two hours came and went almost three times.....we were seeing Whatifie Monsters everywhere; I found two under by own bed, along with a commie.
BUT!!! In the end, all results were positive. And Your Humble Servant here is going to try to build a case to-morrow about, for instance, why El Chapo did not go back to Choix from whence he was flushed a couple of years back and went on the lam towards Mazatlan where he was caught. This time he went to the south a little ways to Cosala', Sinaloa (doll-house town, very antique and elegant), and the town on the other side of the Sinaloa - Durango border named Tamazula, Durango.
Suffice it to say that there was a massive engagement just outside of Tamazula on a ranch with world-wide radio capacity. But...a sneaky little tickler for the OROGs....El Chapo was not as secure as he thought. Hubris and Pride lost the race for the hare. There are some weird twists and turns. We shall have more to-morrow.
El Gringo Viejo
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