News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Operations of gang detailed at hearing

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times

Article Launched: 01/17/2008 12:00:00 AM MST

The criminal workings of a sophisticated, ruthless and prison-based gang were detailed Wednesday before a U.S. magistrate by law enforcement agents, who said El Paso had been divided into zones for the collection of "quotas" on drug sales.

An underworld of coded letters, enforcers and hit lists was described at the arraignment for six alleged members and associates of the Barrio Azteca gang.

All face federal racketeering and conspiracy charges.

Investigators said the gang's world is discussed only in hushed tones because gang members, known as carnales, face retaliation for betraying secrets.

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