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...time, it looked as if the Arellanos had gone over the line. But after offering confession and begging forgiveness in a secret meeting with the papal nuncio, they simply stepped up the violence. They recruited hardened gang members from San Diego, as well as the bored sons of affluent Tijuana families--a trigger-happy cadre known as "los narco-juniors." Mexican ex-military and police officers filled out their ranks of assassins and helped train new members. They imported not only guns but also heavy weapons from U.S. arms traffickers (they once threatened to fire rocket-propelled grenades...
...Tijuana weekly Zeta. Because of his reporting on the cartel--which included publishing letters from mothers of Ramon's victims calling Ramon a coward--Blancornelas was shot four times in broad daylight in 1997 by a group that included Ramon's main hitman, David Barron Corona (a San Diego gang member who was himself killed by a stray bullet between the eyes during the botched assault). "If the will is there, and I think it is," says Blancornelas, "it could happen soon...
...houses south of Tijuana as he partied drunk and naked with two Colombian women. And patience with the Arellanos may be wearing thin among the Colombian cartels, which are often led by cultured narco-dons who view their Mexican allies as sloppy and uncouth nacos, or hicks--a gang, U.S. agents say, that had to bury a DC-7 in the Baja desert six years ago because it had failed to tell the Colombian pilots, who were delivering 20 tons of cocaine, that landing in the sand would wreck the jet engines...
...They were a ragtag gang of young Dublin friends that grew up with dreams of stardom...
...years have taken their toll on those who kept the secrets. When police began re-examining the case less than two years ago, they questioned a gang member who left a taped confession implicating fellow members before killing himself. Three other members suspected in the shooting have committed suicide. Two more died in accidents. July 1969 produced a case that will not be easy to close. But it can no longer take refuge in silence...