Nuevo Laredo

[Big Tex]

I have recently discovered the scene in Monterrey, Mexico. Let me tell you, if you are planning to go to NL for an overnight stay, drive the extra 2 1/2 hours and go to monterrey. Monterry is better for hobbying than NL even in the best of times. Check out the Monterrey board.

Cheers all!

[Zenactive]

All I can say is that I talked to a man who is scared that Zetas eventually will know that he was selling drugs that were provided by Chapo guys. Police was talking to him, but it looks like they don't know about his drug connection. (Police in Laredo is mostly on Zetas payroll)

Week ago was killed a young girl (and her boyfriend) selling drugs in Herradura - she was selling Chapo stuff. Her friend told me that all Chapo guys run away. He said: "all young guys in Herradura that you see now, are Zetas. Very young 16 - 18...

It may be only tactical move. Chapo controls 16 centers in Mexico, including Mexico City.

[QUOTE=Santiagotx]Where did you hear this? This is what was printed in the Dallas Morning News last month.

Posted on Thu, Dec. 22, 2005
Gulf cartel sees power slipping
BY ALFREDO CORCHADO
The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON - Fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "EL Chapo" Guzman appears to be winning a bloody battle with the rival Gulf cartel for control of the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo and the lucrative smuggling corridor into Texas, U.S. and Mexican officials say.

Authorities say this development means that the rampant violence along the U.S.-Mexico border will likely worsen next year as key criminals remain loose and new paramilitary groups working for Guzman's Sinaloa cartel - Los Numeros and Los Negros - assume a larger role in the drug war.

"There is intelligence that Chapo Guzman has taken control of Nuevo Laredo," said Al Ortiz, acting FBI section chief of the bureau's Americas' criminal enterprise section. "It's clear that the Sinaloa Cartel is now the dominant cartel throughout Mexico. We should be more concerned about Chapo and his people."

[Glock]

That doesn't sound to good. I'm going to be down at NL this coming weekend. I'm a newbie to NL as well. Is most of the violence in town and around the border, or is it in Boy's town as well?

[El Oso Milo]

Dont beleive Laredo is improving. I have spent the last two days there, and only one word describes BT-Laredo. DEAD!!!

The pickens are slim and alot of the clubs have closed there doors.

Even the Central Zone was dead with alot of the shops being closed even during the day.

Oso

[Santiagotx]

It seems that Chapo Guzman lost in NL and Zetas are back, and looking for anyone who was dealing with Chapo. If you are not into a drugs, probably it's not very important for you, except special precaution. Specially Herradura (little less Montera) is full of Zetas. It's better to not make them angry, because they have guns.

Bar scene is rather attractive now. Girls don't have much business and are very ready. New faces, and old ones. Elizabeth is starting as early as noon everyday. Mirasol and Luisa at 7PM.

Play safe and have fun.

Where did you hear this? This is what was printed in the Dallas Morning News last month.

Posted on Thu, Dec. 22, 2005
Gulf cartel sees power slipping
BY ALFREDO CORCHADO
The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON - Fugitive drug kingpin Joaquin "EL Chapo" Guzman appears to be winning a bloody battle with the rival Gulf cartel for control of the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo and the lucrative smuggling corridor into Texas, U.S. and Mexican officials say.

Authorities say this development means that the rampant violence along the U.S.-Mexico border will likely worsen next year as key criminals remain loose and new paramilitary groups working for Guzman's Sinaloa cartel - Los Numeros and Los Negros - assume a larger role in the drug war.

"There is intelligence that Chapo Guzman has taken control of Nuevo Laredo," said Al Ortiz, acting FBI section chief of the bureau's Americas' criminal enterprise section. "It's clear that the Sinaloa Cartel is now the dominant cartel throughout Mexico. We should be more concerned about Chapo and his people."

Ortiz's comments provide the broadest explanation to date of the cartel's ambitions and strategy. He cautioned that the situation remained fluid and could change again. But his conclusion that the Sinaloa cartel had gained the upper hand over the Gulf cartel and its enforcement arm, a paramilitary group known as the Zetas, was supported by a senior Mexican intelligence official.

To bolster their position, the Zetas have been trying to recruit members of a Guatemalan special forces unit, the Kaibiles, the Mexican official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Seven alleged members of the group were arrested in September in the southern state of Chiapas.

"The Zetas, no doubt, remain important players," the official said. "But their influence is on the decline and that's why they're recruiting Kaibiles."
Meanwhile, border violence continues.

Ortiz warned that the U.S.-Mexico border area remains one of the most dangerous anywhere in the Americas.

"These groups now have tactical abilities and SWAT team capabilities that make them dangerous players, more so than other organized groups in the Western Hemisphere," Ortiz said. "They're simply very deadly."

Last month, Chris Swecker, the FBI's assistant director for the criminal investigative division, told House Judiciary subcommittees that the Zetas and other paramilitary groups pose "a serious threat to public safety on both sides of the border."

"We have documented kidnappings and forays that go across the border into the U.S. part, where in one case they've even attempted to kidnap and kill a U.S. law enforcement officer, a Laredo police officer," Swecker said. "They're well-financed and well-equipped."

Over the summer, two Arizona Border Patrol agents were shot and wounded by suspected drug smugglers believed to have been deserters from the Mexican military, according to U.S. intelligence reports.

Recently, Mexican authorities seized an arsenal of guns and small explosives in a house in Nuevo Laredo, along with fake Mexican army and federal police uniforms, night-vision goggles, military-style boots, radio equipment, helmets, handcuffs, tear gas and a baseball cap with "DEA" emblazoned across the front - the initials of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to Mexico's attorney general's office.

The Mexican military, which increased its presence in Nuevo Laredo last June, is expected to reduce its forces there next month, the U.S. investigator said, and that also could lead to an increase in violence.

More than 170 people have been killed this year in Nuevo Laredo, and hundreds more have been killed in drug-related violence nationwide as part of a gangland struggle for billion-dollar drug-smuggling routes, authorities say.

As military forces have clamped down on hot spots such as Nuevo Laredo, violence has surged in places in the Mexican interior and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border.

"It's like the Pillsbury dough boy," said a senior U.S. official in Mexico City. "You poke in one area and he expands in the other."

A video sent in October to The Dallas Morning News provided a window on the violence and the shadowy world of the drug cartels. On the video, four bound and bruised suspected Zeta hit men recount in chilling detail how they kidnapped, tortured and killed rivals of the Gulf cartel. At the end of the video, one of the men is executed, shot in the head by a person standing off-camera.

Authorities on both sides of the border said the man behind the interrogation, torture and killing is Edgar Valdez-Villarreal, also known as La Barbie, a 32-year-old American citizen from Laredo. Valdez was seeking revenge for the earlier killing of his brother, authorities said. U.S. and Mexican authorities in 2003 issued a warrant for his arrest on cocaine smuggling charges.

Ortiz, who describes cooperation with Mexican authorities as "excellent" and "unprecedented," described Valdez as a ruthless trafficker of the Sinaloa cartel. His main rival from the Gulf cartel is Humberto Lazcano Lazcano, who's just as rash and ruthless, Ortiz said. Mexican authorities have charged Lazcano with drug trafficking, and in 2003 his name appeared on a poster of the most wanted Zetas in Mexico.

Ortiz said both men are largely responsible for the violence unleashed along the border, particularly in the Nuevo Laredo area.

"Until La Barbie and Lazcano are arrested, the violence will continue," he added. "These two men are the main combatants. They are the generals. And there are others. But until they are arrested, there will be a lot more blood along the border. The blood war will continue."

[Zenactive]

It seems that Chapo Guzman lost in NL and Zetas are back, and looking for anyone who was dealing with Chapo. If you are not into a drugs, probably it's not very important for you, except special precaution. Specially Herradura (little less Montera) is full of Zetas. It's better to not make them angry, because they have guns.

Bar scene is rather attractive now. Girls don't have much business and are very ready. New faces, and old ones. Elizabeth is starting as early as noon everyday. Mirasol and Luisa at 7PM.

Play safe and have fun.

[Rick 2]

I was just curious if anyone had a overhead shot of BT's. I know I have seen one awhile back, but can not find it for some reason.

Thanks in advance.

Dihaji

I was going to suggest the same thing. I saw someone posted a link to a satellite view of the Reynosa zone in the Reynosa section.

With the GPS coordinates that Fefifofum has provided it shouldn't be too hard.

[Dihaji]

I was just curious if anyone had a overhead shot of BT's. I know I have seen one awhile back, but can not find it for some reason.

Thanks in advance.

Dihaji

[Fefifofum]

I made a trip to NL Boystown last Sunday. I don't really have much of a report to add. It was pretty slow. It was Sunday, afterall. I saw a new place- the Blue Dragon, I think. New to me anyway.

I have gps coordinates if anyone is interested:

N 27 27.931
W 099 31.675

I hope these come in handy.

I also have coordinates for Acuna and Piedras Negras. Go to those forums if interested.

[Doubt98]

That a good time was had by all!

[Rick 2]

I use to visit the Acropolis (the bar just past the Tucanaso). The owners where very heavy set mother and daughter with a skinny son. The way it was explained to me was that the property is privately owned and operated. The same with the beer/liquor license.

The also spoke to the old women who ran the Tucanaso, and received the same story. She told me property could be had inside the walls very cheaply, but it is difficult to make business because of other owners with more influence.

I do remember seeing a "Se Venta/Aquilera" sign on one of the buildings as you round the corner by the Rumba.

That brings to mind another point: I don't perceive that any major changes have been made to keystone edifaces such as Tamyko, Papagayos, and Marabu since the complex was built. (Correct me if I'm wrong) but I cannot imagine that the businesses are still owned by the same people as in the '60s. I suppose that when a club changes hands it's too expensive to make any substantial updates. (The only possible exception to this being Danash: it seems to be the newest building on the premesis.)

While I feel that the overall condition of the complex displays a distinct lack of initiative, it's impressive that these buildings have stood up as well as they have. This is due to their solid concrete construction.

To me this continuity over the years is oddly comforting. In the U.S. in the fickle world of night clubs it seems that I never drive by the same nightspot twice: either it has closed or its name and theme have changed. But I'll bet that in 30 years most of the same clubs will be there largely unchanged.

Here's something to think and chuckle about about: we know that the solid concrete construction of the compound will last indefinately. In a thousand years, when archeaologists are excavating the compond, what do you think they'll conclude?

[El Oso Milo]

Rick2,

I use to visit the Acropolis (the bar just past the Tucanaso). The owners where very heavy set mother and daughter with a skinny son. The way it was explained to me was that the property is privately owned and operated. The same with the beer/liquor license.

The also spoke to the old women who ran the Tucanaso, and received the same story. She told me property could be had inside the walls very cheaply, but it is difficult to make business because of other owners with more influence.

I do remember seeing a "Se Venta/Aquilera" sign on one of the buildings as you round the corner by the Rumba.

I cant substantiate any of that information though.

Oso

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