Tag Archives: corruption
In a System that Encourages Corruption, Prison-Bound Senator Carlos Uresti was Inevitable
The state’s part-time Legislature and weak ethics laws allow corruption to flourish. Uresti was just stupid and brazen enough to get caught.
It’s one thing to be useless and honest, and another thing to be useful and crooked, but it’s another thing entirely to be useless and crooked. Useless and ...Read More
Rotten Apples in Donna ISD
Corruption that led to the indictment of two Donna school board members roils the border town they served.
“It’s embarrassing — that’s what it is,” said school board member Efren Ceniceros, who worked as a coach and teacher for 30 years before retiring. “...Read More
Homeland Insecurity
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What good are more boots on the ground if the men and women wearing them also work for the cartels? What benefit is an 18-foot wall when criminals can bribe the...Read More
Families of the ‘Ayotzinapa 43’ Seek Justice on U.S. Tour
Maria de Jesus Tlatempa Bello had come more than 1,110 miles from her home in Guerrero, Mexico, to tell the story of her son, Jose Eduardo, one of the Ayotzinap...Read More
Will Mexico’s Plan to Save Tamaulipas Create More Violence?
Mexico's president announces a new security plan to quell the violence in Tamaulipas. Will it work or will it cause more violence?...Read More
Members of Panama Unit Sentenced; Former Hidalgo County Sheriff Awaits His Day in Court
One by one, members of the disbanded Panama Unit, a street level drug trafficking task force, stood before U.S. District Judge Randy Crane in a McAllen courtroo...Read More
Former Sheriff Lupe Treviño Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
Former Hidalgo County Sheriff Guadalupe "Lupe" Treviño Pleads Guilty to MOney Laundering Charges...Read More
Border Law Enforcement Scandal Grows With Recent Arrest
In Hidalgo County, when it comes to law enforcement corruption, the feds like to make their arrests right before the holidays. On Christmas Eve, Commander Jos...Read More
Anabel Hernandez on Mexico’s Lost Drug War and Her New Book Narcoland
Melissa del Bosque interviews Anabel Hernadez, author of Narcoland, a new book on corruption and drug cartels in Mexico....Read More