Head of Investigator in Falcon Lake Case Delivered to Mexican Military

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 13, 2010

According to CNN, the severed head of the lead investigator in the Falcon Lake murder case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas, was delivered to the Mexican military in a suitcase.

“His head was delivered to the army garrison this morning in a suitcase after he failed to report back home last night,” Zapata County, Texas, Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez Jr. said.

The report that Villegas was murdered appeared after the Tamaulipas state attorney general’s office provided conflicting information on whether authorities were looking for a pair of suspects in the case of David Michael Hartley’s disappearance. The murder of Villegas has fueled speculation that Hartley was killed by drug cartel enforcers.

Hartley was shot in the back of the head on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake in Texas while jet-skiing there with his wife on September 30. Tiffany Hartley escaped the gunfire by assailants described by the corporate media as “pirates.” She returned to the American side of the 60-miles-long “big fishing paradise” that straddles the U.S.-Mexican border after attempting to rescue her husband but was forced to abandon his body when the gunmen opened fire on her.

The attack on the Hartleys is not an isolated case. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, gunmen armed with AK-47s and AR-15 rifles have attacked American tourists on Falcon Lake during a number of robberies in recent months. Gunmen use Argos-type fishing boats and are often dressed as Mexican police. Others have used duct-taped signs to disguise their boats as Texas Parks and Wildlife vessels, victims report. Since April 30, five incidents of armed robbery or attempted theft have been reported on the lake.

Humberto Palomares, a security expert at the Tamaulipas campus of the Colegio de Frontera Norte, told the Christian Science Monitor on October 7 that Mexican drug cartel thugs now claim to own public spaces.

Mexican drug cartels not only claim to own and control public spaces in Mexico, but also in the United States. In June, the U.S. ceded part of southern Arizona to the drug cartels. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said that a wide corridor of Arizona from the border North to the outskirts of Phoenix is effectively controlled by the cartels. In June, a drug cartel threatened police in Arizona after they confiscated a marijuana shipment. “The threats appear credible because various informants were able to identify the officers who intercepted the drug load,” ABC Newsreported.

In response to the situation in Mexico, the Obama administration said crime on the border is down, an assertion obviously at odds with reality. For more than two years, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials have been warning that the dramatic rise in violence along the southwestern border could eventually target U.S. citizens and spread into this country. Violence against Americans visiting Mexico has risen significantly over the last few years. According to the State Department, 79 U.S. citizens were killed last year in Mexico, up from 35 in 2007. In Juarez, across border from El Paso, Texas, 23 Americans were killed in 2009, compared with two in 2007.

After the Hartley story surfaced, the corporate media insinuated that Tiffany Hartley had fabricated it.

On Monday, David Michael Hartley’s widow said that she was frustrated by the lack of response from the federal government.

Mexico is now a narco state controlled by powerful and murderous drug cartels.

In large parts of the country, the drug cartels employ up to one-fifth of the population and own everyday businesses such gyms and a day-care centers. “We are approaching that red zone,”Edgardo Buscaglia, an expert on organized crime at the Autonomous Technological University of Mexico, told AZCentral in February. “There are pockets of ungovernability in the country, and they will expand.”

In July, it was reported that nearly 50 candidates and public figures were assassinated in the run up to Mexico’s 2010 state elections. Political murders have also targeted Americans. In March, a U.S. Consulate worker in Ciudad Juarez was ordered murdered by high-ranking drug cartel enforcer.

The drug cartel takeover of Mexico was facilitated in part by American banks. In June, it was discovered that Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America were involved in laundering drug money for the cartels. “This was no isolated incident,” Bloomberg reported. “Wachovia, it turns out, had made a habit of helping move money for Mexican drug smugglers. Wells Fargo & Co., which bought Wachovia in 2008, has admitted in court that its unit failed to monitor and report suspected money laundering by narcotics traffickers — including the cash used to buy four planes that shipped a total of 22 tons of cocaine.”

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“Moderate” RINO Colin Powell Calls for Tidal Wave of Illegal Students

Kurt Nimmo
Infowar.com
September 20, 2010

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said over the weekend that he has illegal immigrants working on his house.

“;They’re all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I’m sure you’ve seen them at your house. We’ve got to find a way to bring these people out of the darkness and give them some kind of status,”; he said on NBC’s Meet the Press.

The DREAM effort to legalize criminal behavior is “;bi-partisan.”; It was cooked up by Sen. Orin Hatch, a Utah Republican, and Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat.

The DREAM Act web portal teaches “;undocumented students”; how to break the law, including how they can receive in-state tuition and fleece legal U.S. citizens. The site also urges illegal aliens to contact Congress and tell them to pass the DREAM Act.

Last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he will add the amnesty legislation as an amendment to the defense authorization bill. Reid had previously expressed doubt that he could find the votes to pass the act.

Polls reveal Americans are opposed to allowing illegal aliens from attending public colleges. AQuinnipiac University national poll conducted earlier this month indicated 68% of Americans oppose granting “;amnesty”; to illegal immigrants and favor stricter enforcement of immigration laws. By a 60%-to-28% margin, respondents disapproved of the way Obama is handling illegal immigration, the poll found.

A McClatchy-Ipsos poll conducted in May showed that 64 percent of registered voters support Arizona’s immigration law and would back similar laws in their own states.

Moreover, a Rasmussen poll determined in 2007 that voters oppose the Dream Act Amnesty by 59% vs. 22%. “;Parallel polling also indicated that support for versions of Amnesty was much softer than the intense opposition to Amnesty. Many Americans fervently oppose illegal immigration and any form of Amnesty for illegal immigrants because they are aware of the detrimental impact both have on American citizens and the health of America as a nation,”; notes ALIPAC, the Americans for Legal Immigration PAC.

On Sunday, Powell chastised Americans for opposing illegal immigration. “We can’t be anti-immigration,” Powell told NBC, blurring the line between illegal and legal immigration. “Immigrants are fueling this country. Without immigrants, America would be like Europe or Japan with an aging population and no young people coming in to take care of it. We have to educate our immigrants. The DREAM Act is one way to do that.”

Powell did not address the fact that allowing illegal immigrant students will encourage even more illegals to enter the country.

“;Congress needs to look toward an immigration system that enforces rule of law, maintains security, and promotes the economy. Such a system can be achieved by robustly enforcing immigration laws, securing the border, reforming the visa system, and working with Mexico and other appropriate countries on law enforcement/public safety issues as well as free market initiatives,”; the Heritage Foundation explains on its website.

Following negative reaction to his comments, Powell’s office said that he “;misspoke.”;

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“;I don’t hire illegal immigrants,”; Powell said in a statement today. “;On Meet the Press yesterday, I referred to illegal immigrants working around my house. I was referring to the many service contractors who work in my neighborhood, using mostly immigrant workers, who do good work. Some may well be ‘illegal.’ There are 11 million illegal immigrants in this country and most are working somewhere in our economy,”; reports USA Today.

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Mexican Cartels in Norcal?

Nathaniel Mayer -- Contributing Writer
Activist Post

In April of 2008, Barack Obama was quoted saying Medicinal Marijuana is “appropriate” but since his “election”, the Federal and State raids on Clubs and Growers have only increased. CAMP (The Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) has spearheaded many raids this year along with the local Sheriff’s Department and “The Emerald Triangle” (consisting of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity Counties) is their primary target.  In 1983 CAMP destroyed about 150,000 plants the entire year.  During a 12 day period last month officials destroyed 150,667 pot plants in Sonoma County. It’s been speculated that so far this year, over 7 Million plants have been destroyed by Law Enforcement In 2009, 148,486 plants were seized in Sonoma County and 4.5 million plants were seized statewide. At least 4 people have been killed by police in The Emerald Triangle during pot raids in the last seven weeks.

I started paying closer attention to this subject after talk began stirring of a State of Emergency being declared here in Northern California, possibly in the county of Mendocino.  That could mean Martial Law and the Military being called in to sweep the over cities and forests by land and air.  The people now demand it according to a recent poll taken by The Press Democrat of Sonoma County.  Fifty –Three Percent of those who took the Poll willingly from the P.D.’s website believe that it’s up to the National Guard to join in to help stop the Pot-Growers.  The locals of Mendocino County are mad and scared like small weak mammals in a harsh oversized reptilian dominated jungle.  They asked the Mendocino County board of supervisors to declare a state of emergency on August third but by the 17^th, the board of supervisors had decided against it.


The Local Media has also been reporting to the people that the violent Mexican Drug Cartels may be involved in Northern Californian Grow Operations but the only evidence of this is the presence of Latinos at a few grow-cites.  White U.S. citizens are almost always present, but that doesn’t seem to stop the police from spreading The Fear.

With this frame of mind, the next logical step for the National Guard and Law Enforcement would be to raid the Mondavi, Kunde, and Martinelli Wineries since their properties are littered with Mexican Nationalists working for them daily in their gardens. If just the frightening presence of Mexicans indicates ties to Murderous Cartels then I predict that every grape field in Sonoma and Napa counties will be raided by the authorities by week’s end.

I’ve been told why it makes sense that Mexican Cartels would set up shop here.  It wouldn’t cost a thing for transportation into the U.S. since it’s already here and the risk of smuggling is erased.  These are valid theories but there is one serious discrepancy thereby discrediting this twisted viewpoint.  The fact is, there isn’t a single person I know who has purchased inferior “Mex Weed” in the last 14 years (probably since prop. 215 passed in 1996).  Even before that, no one I know would purchase it by choice, and I was hanging out with every sort of desperate depraved stoner Nor-Cal offers.  “Mex” has always been considered the worst, most embarrassing grades of Ganja in existence.  Not to mention the profit margin is much lower on even the highest grade Marijuana compared to other drugs (e.g. cocaine) that carry the same penalties.  Cocaine per gram can get you $50-$70 on the street.  Weed goes for $15-$25 per gram. Hash, $20-$35.  It just wouldn’t make any sense to take the same risks for potentially less than a quarter of the profits. 

Mexico hasn’t had an influence on the Northern California Marijuana trade and culture for decades, so to say that “Cartels” are germinating in our forests is a lie and simply government created propaganda and scare tactics.  The only thing those Nationalists are doing is getting paid under the table to guard against thieves.  If only one of the five people who had been shot and killed by the cops had actually fired their weapon during the raids, then perhaps the police would have been justified but that is just not the case.  The police may just be hiding their Gestapo-Tactics behind our Fear of Evil Brown People. 

Filmmaker, Kevin Booth, was recently allowed by a group of Mexican Growers to interview and film them for his documentary, “How Weed Won the West”.  Would members of a vicious deadly Mexican Drug Cartel allow themselves to be exposed and compromised like that?  I’m sure if they had any ties at all to the cartels, Booth and his crew wouldn’t have made it out of those forests with their heads attached.

They’ve gone too far; CAMP, the Sheriff’s Department, The National Guard and, as always, the Federal Government.  Meth labs still persist, Oxycontin is flooding the streets, road rage kills at least 5,000 people daily, and a small herb that you cannot overdose on (and coincidentally can’t be patented by drug companies) is causing people to be killed and jailed to a record breaking degree.

All this violence, money, lies and suffering over the lightly toxic herb, Marijuana.  It’s been over 30 years since John Lennon sang for John Sinclair, who got busted at a concert with two joints and was sent to jail for Ten years. Lennon helped get him out but not all of us have dead rock stars in our back pockets waiting for a chance to save us. 

But why should we care?  In November it’s going to be settled once and for all whether or not Weed will ever stand a chance in America. If California can’t legalize this plant, then we might as well abandon all hope that it will ever have any remote chance of survival.  Either the days of CAMP will soon be extinct from this era or Grass will be gone for good.

Nathaniel Mayer is a California-born journalist and author.  He has been dedicated to his writing for over a decade and is a regular contributor to Minds Eye World News and other alternative news publications. Nathaniel's only bias is against those in control and his integrity for the Truth is only matched by his passion for music and firearms.

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Will ‘Machete’ release spark racial violence?

Alex Jones & Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
September 1, 2010

With the violent and racially-charged film ‘Machete’ about to hit theaters Friday, Alex Jones has once again questioned the film’s potential to heighten tensions in the immigration debate or even fuel riots or attacks. Though the production crew has downplayed fears of a ‘race war’ message, recent sightings of bloody ‘Machete’ promo posters plastered throughout Latin America suggest that this violent film may still stir controversy and strong reactions.

We only hope director Robert Rodriguez and his production crew have thought carefully about what they are putting out on the big screen.

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The image of a bloody machete in a clenched fist, now plastered across the Latin American world to promote ‘Machete’– spotted recently by a listener in Puerto Rico– holds a double meaning. “Todos con Machete” is more than just a rally cry to join the hero of this Mexploitation film; the machete is the common symbol for peasant uprising in Mexico, Central and South America– the weapon of a disarmed population.

The image of a bloody machete in a clenched fist now plastered across the Latin American world to promote ‘Machete’– spotted recently by a listener in Puerto Rico — holds a double meaning. "Todos con Machete" is more than just a rally cry to join the hero of this Mexploitation film; the machete is the common symbol for peasant uprising in Mexico, Central and South America– the weapon of a disarmed population.

The justified anger evoked by the “machete” is then fueled into the film’s “war” on immigration, as the crazed patriot senator played by Robert DeNiro declares, and Machete’s pursuit of revenge killing. In reality, the imagery this film puts forward plays into the hands of the globalists who are using “pressure populations” like the underprivileged of Latin America to neutralize the sovereignty of the United States andamalgamate the region into the North American Union and larger world government.

The message of ‘Machete’ became politicized back in May shortly after director Robert Rodriguez leaked a trailer with a special “message to Arizona” that stirred fierce debate about the film. Rodriguez backed off of the fiery rhetoric however, after scenes from the script and warnings from Hispanic members of the film’s crew confirmed its overt racial overtones and prejudiced violence. Rodriguez told Ain’t It Cool News that he simply had ‘too much tequila‘ and that many of the most controversial scenes would be cut. We hope this will prove true in the final edit premiering Sept. 3.

Nevertheless, many dubious statements have been issued from the ‘Machete’ camp. Producer Elizabeth Avellan told the Austin American-Statesman Saturday that:

“There were a lot of things that people misconstrued… without even knowing the script and pretending they have a script.”

The reference was clearly to Jones, who issued a video response to the very real script given to him in May by a high level source within the production team. Rodriguez himself admitted the quoted scenes were authentic, but claimed it was not from a final draft. Alex Jones told the Statesman that he doesn’t mind Rodriguez having cinematic freedom, but objects to the portrayal of white people as a “bunch of blood-thirsty, foaming-at-the-mouth killers,” adding that it “reflects bad on Texas.”

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Early ‘Machete’ reviews, however, suggest the film maintains its political fury. In an exposé titled, “How ‘Machete’ Inflames Immigration Debate,” The Hollywood Reporteraccuses the film of ‘skewering’ the notorious Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a particularly nasty near-likeness, wherein Don Johnson leads a band of murderous border vigilantes who shoot illegals on sight:

“Among ‘Machete’s’ more provocative elements are border vigilantes led by Don Johnson as a kind of avatar for Maricopa County’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio and fake political ads for an incumbent senator whose platform is built on his ‘hard line against (inappropriate term)’ and a description of them as ‘parasites.’ That the two characters murder a pregnant Mexican woman to prevent her baby from being born in America and then shoot her distraught husband while uttering the line, ‘Welcome to America,’ underlines the point.”

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Arpaio denied the likeness, but the larger portrayal is more than provoking; it’s backwards. It is border-area law enforcement like Arpaio and Sheriff Babeu in Pinal County whose lives have been threatened. The portrayal of border & law enforcement and volunteer minute men as murderous, vicious and heartless– as written in the script and according to screening reports– is wrong indeed. In reality, the violence at the border is carried out almost exclusively by the Mexican drug gangs, backed by CIA and Wall Street banks, who use desperate immigrants for drug mules or play them into the hands of kidnappers, extortionists or human trafficking.Mexico is collapsing, and border regions in Arizona have fallen to drug lord control. The 72 migrants from Central and South America murdered by Las Zetas drug members should be a stark reminder of where the violence is coming from.

Despite the controversy over the film’s message, Alex Jones, who lead early criticism of the film after learning what the script contained, has maintained that Rodriguez has a right to put out any film he wants.

“I support tax incentives for industry and for film and the arts,” Jones said. “Robert Rodriguez has a right to make any movie he wants. If he’s putting out this hardcore, race war film– if he’s releasing it the way the script states– I think it should get its funding, but they had better remove any controls off of any other films. If they let this go forward and give it funding but then block other things, it’s outrageous.”

The Texas Film Commission, a division of Governor Rick Perry’s office, has been criticized for its selective funding and rejection of certain projects. The film ‘Waco’ was rejected and its filmmakers were reportedly told not to apply for tax incentives because the commission allegedly objected to its depiction of the massacre at the Branch Davidian church in Waco in 1993. Now funding for ‘Machete’ could fall under greater scrutiny.

While Rodriguez maintains the blood-soaked film is just for fun, its violent scenes are not only ‘torn from the headlines’ but all too likely to provoke real hatred and animosity between different racial groups. We only hope the indicators of a divisive message prove overblown as its producers have reassured us over and over again.

Mexican Police To Patrol NY?

Jeffrey Smith
American Free Press
August 23, 2010

NEW YORK, New York — In a series of events which has caused wide notice and a storm of protests, the government of Mexico, through its consulate in New York in the United Nations, has announced it will begin patrolling the New York City borough of Staten Island to “safeguard” its nationals there.

The actions of Mexico come after a series of incidents the Mexican government terms “bias attacks.”

Ironically, these so-called “hate crimes” have been perpetrated by blacks and Asians, indicative of rising tensions between various ethnic groups in the U.S. The Catholic Examinerand NBC New York both reported the Mexican government’s intention to mount surveillance, patrol and police in and around the Staten Island community of Port Richmond, which in recent years has seen a large influx of Mexican illegal immigrants.

Since the Examiner’s coverage, however, councilor officials, city hall and the local press have begun to carefully de-emphasize any possible role of Mexican law enforcement or military in efforts to secure the neighborhood.

Mexican officials have set up a neighborhood office and a local phone hot line for their nationals to report “bias incidents”–regardless as to whether they are in the United States legally.

New York City police had been monitoring the situation and investigating the reported assaults as local crimes. The actions of the Mexican government have caused Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly to order what many observers say is the most concentrated police mobilization since the World Trade Center disaster.

The main street of Port Richmond was swiftly transformed into what the New York Times described as a war zone like atmosphere with over 120 newly assigned officers, high-intensity night lighting, two huge “sky tower” police observation posts, frequent helicopter overflights and 20 police cars to watch the center of the relatively small neighborhood. Several long-term residents described it as a constant hornet’s nest of activity.

Both published reports and residents say that reports of fights between Mexicans and other groups began years ago, in the late 1990s or early 2000s. Many charge the present round of incidents started in 2003 with one loss of life in 2006, which might not even be connected to the present series of events.

At a major community gathering held at the historic St. Phillips Baptist Church, speakers addressed the current situation in the neighborhood and the borough, while Mexican councilor officials looked on.

But while the Richmond anti-violence organization and assorted left-leaning journalists who attended may have been expecting a mea culpa from local residents, what they got instead was a blast of community push-back. Speaker after speaker from the black community told of horrendous conditions the largely illegal immigrants had brought to their community. Speakers described the pattern in communities affected by an influx of illegals.

Community residents, many of whom are black first-time homeowners, told of constant disputes, alcohol and drug sales, late night disruptions, trespassing and public urination.

Others in the audience, who declined to testify, spoke of men wearing clothes bearing symbols of La Raza, Aztlan and other militant pro-Mexican groups.

They also spoke of repeated attempts to summon the state liquor authority’s enforcement agency to deal with the surging illegal liquor sales in the area, with little in the way of a response .

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Narco-blogger beats Mexico drug war news blackout

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By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer – Thu Aug 12, 6:21 pm ET

MEXICO CITY – An anonymous, twentysomething blogger is giving Mexicans what they can't get elsewhere — an inside view of their country's raging drug war.

Operating from behind a thick curtain of computer security, Blog del Narco in less than six months has become Mexico's go-to Internet site at a time when mainstream media are feeling pressure and threats to stay away from the story.

Many postings, including warnings and a beheading, appear to come directly from drug traffickers. Others depict crime scenes accessible only to military or police.

The undifferentiated content suggests that all sides are using the blog — drug gangs to project their power, law enforcement to show that it too can play rough, and the public to learn about incidents that the mainstream media are forced to ignore or play down.

In at least one case Blog del Narco may have led to a major arrest — of a prison warden after a video posting detailed her alleged system of setting inmates free at night to carry out killings for a drug cartel.

The mysterious blogger hides his identity behind an elaborate cyber-screen. The Associated Press wrote to the blog's e-mail address, and the blogger called back from a disguised phone number. He said he is a student in northern Mexico majoring in computer security, that he launched the blog in March as a "hobby," but it now has grown to hundreds of postings a day and 3 million hits a week.

"People now demand information and if you don't publish it, they complain," he said.

Indeed, President Felipe Calderon has heard complaints that his government is not putting out enough information to allow people to function and stay safe.

"You authorities have placed Mexicans in the middle of a shootout where it's not clear where the bullets are coming from," journalist Hector Aguilar Camin said at a recent forum evaluating the government's strategy for fighting organized crime. "When it comes to information, the Mexican public safety agencies don't even shoot in self-defense."

The violence has killed more then 28,000 people and made Mexico one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists, which explains why Blog del Narco cloaks itself so heavily in anonymity.

"For the scanty details that they (mass media) put on television, they get grenades thrown at them and their reporters kidnapped," the blogger said. "We publish everything. Imagine what they could do to us."

Among his postings:

• A video of a man being decapitated. While media only reported police finding a beheaded body, the video shows the man confessing to working for drug lord Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villareal, who is locked in a fight with both the Beltran Leyva and Sinaloa cartels;

• The prison warden affair, which unfolded in a video of masked members of the Zetas drug gang interrogating a police officer, who reveals that inmates allied with the Sinaloa cartel are given guns and cars and sent off to commit murders. At the end of the video the officer is shot to death;

• Links to Facebook pages of alleged traffickers and their children, weapons, cars and lavish parties;

• Photos of Mexican pop music stars at a birthday party for an alleged drug dealer's teenage daughter in the border state of Coahuila, across from Texas.

"The girl wrote to me and told me, in a threatening way, to take down her photos," the blogger said. "But as long as I don't hear from her father, I won't take them down."

While there are numerous blogs on Mexico's drug war, Blog del Narco seems to be the first used by the traffickers themselves. The blogger said he provides an uncensored platform, posting photographs and videos he receives regardless of content or cartel affiliation.

It can be extremely gory, but his neutrality has helped build his credibility.

"We don't insult them, we don't say one specific group is the bad one," he said. "We don't want problems with them."

Critics say it's free public relations for the cartels.

"Media outlets have social responsibilities and have to serve the public," said Carlos Lauria, of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. "This is being produced by someone who is not doing it from a journalistic perspective. He is doing it without any ethical considerations."

Blog del Narco's first posting concerned a small-town shootout in the border state of Tamaulipas that police wouldn't even confirm happened. The blog aired a resident's YouTube video of the crashed cars and corpses along the highway.

Soon Blog Del Narco was dominating Mexico's drug-war blogosphere.

The blogger maintains a Facebook page and Twitter account that includes CNN en Espanol, all major Mexican media, the FBI and the Mexican Defense Department among its more than 7,300 followers. Rusty Payne, spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said "we're very aware of these kinds of things" but wouldn't say whether the DEA uses the information in its investigations.

Blog del Narco has also become a meeting point for people anxious to get information the mainstream media doesn't deliver, such as what streets to avoid during shootouts.

In Nuevo Laredo, where journalists have been attacked, 26-year-old storeowner Claudia Perez says she reads Blog del Narco to know when streets close, but can do without the gore.

"There are times when they do publish useful things, like such or such street is blocked," she said, "but they also put a lot of information about narcos and the ugly things they do."

Blog del Narco is registered with a U.S. company and all its blog-related payments are made with bank deposits, not a credit card, he said.

The blogger said he spends about four hours a day working on the blog and has recruited a friend to help after becoming overwhelmed with submissions.

Many of his videos are sent to him by readers, who know he will get them a much wider airing in Mexico, or are taken from YouTube. He regularly lifts news reports from other media sites without credit. He says mainstream media did the same with his content — until the national Milenio Television network aired the prison warden video and credited Blog del Narco.

Its daily hits went up 30 percent.