By SEYMOUR HERSH
Special to The Tribune
REYNOSA, Mexico - It goes on. Another day, another killing. This time it was a public official. Who know who it'll be today?
Yesterday afternoon, crime-weary authorities found the body of Reynosa Public Works Director Roberto Arechandieta Ramos seated in a white Chevrolet Cheyenne, his bloodied body full of bullet holes, said a spokesman for Mexico’s attorney general.
Arechandieta's end came after years of work in law enforcement that included stints as a federal agent with the now-defunct Federal Judicial Police, as a high-ranking Tamaulipas state police officer and as a supervisor under Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Security.
Cops here declined to speculate on a motive for the killing or to lay blame on any individual or group. Reynosa, like other Northern Mexico bordertowns, has been the scene of numerous wanton killings associated with drug cartel territorial warfare. The solution appears to be as elusive as a border woman's hunt for a non-abusive husband. Hopeless, in other words...
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8 comments:
Mr. Editor: I was glad to read on your side bar, about San Benito and Harlingen, of your blog. You should advertise on the newspapers about your blog.
Is Duardo P. Martinez really running for Mayor??? Good, maybe Mr. Ahumada will get the message that it is time for him to go.
I Also Heard That Bobby Loco is also Running as an Independent candidate for mayor of Brownsville.
ANON & Third Eye: ...We have rumblings of a move by DP-M to Brownsville, butu have bene tiold an official announcement is pending. He is, however, on good terms with the editor of myharlingennews.com, so perhaps he felt it was a good-enough venue. We expect him to do it in a public venue, BTW. (2.) We have no idea who you refer to as "Bobby Loco," but suspect that DP-M wouldn't be doing this if he thought he had anyone with the mental capacity to challenge him. You should know that he is squeaky clean, and that is what will turn Brownsvile from its present state of socio-political disarray into a veritable oasis... - Editor
All:...Sorry for the typos in that last message. My breakfast arrived a bit late on my desk and I was unfolding a bacon & egg taco from El Pato as I replied to the earlier comments. I know, I know. It is inexcusable. Just look at it as our annual ElRrunRrun moment... - Editor
Bobby Loco was a Dustin Hoffman Rainman type of freak who used to ride around on a bike in the Palm Lounge area. Did not drink. Though he was pretty scary looking. Supposedly choked on food while having a "rainman" type attack about 10-15 years ago.
Rene
ANON: New name for us. Bobby Loco, eh? Sounds like a RainMan character, yes. But the guy likely had some redeeming qualities.... - Editor
Redeeming qualities for Bobby Loco? Really do not think so. You'd have to have seen him to know what I mean. But how about Pipe? Now that is someone you really need to find out about. He also rode a bike, and the boy would ride it to the Palm Lounge, and get plastered. He's now sitting at a table somewhere, with Bobby Loco.
Rene
RENE:...We read the newspapers and watch the evening news on TV, so we know there are people who put themselves out as being monsters. But every Human Being has something good about them, even a drunkard or a wife-beater. Let us issue a call for a higher standard of living all across the Rio Grande Valley, a land where dreams are routinely stomped... - Editor
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