The Kennebunkport Kardashians Want YOU to Know: JEB CAN FIX IT ... NSFW: OPEN BORDERS ACTIVISTS AND AGITATORS EXPLOIT CUTE KIDS TO ATTACK TRUMP ... BENGHAZI: HILLARY CLINTON -- WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!

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• The Kennebunkport Kardashians Want YOU to Know: JEB CAN FIX IT ...
• NSFW: OPEN BORDERS ACTIVISTS AND AGITATORS EXPLOIT CUTE KIDS TO ATTACK TRUMP ...
• BENGHAZI: HILLARY CLINTON -- WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER!

The Kennebunkport Kardashians Want YOU to Know: JEB CAN FIX IT ... Posted: 05 Nov 2015 03:32 AM PST Unfortunately, Jeb's slogan leaves it up to you to decide if he is speaking of fixing his faltering campaign, fixing his abysmal poll numbers, fixing the country, or simply fixing his broken-down attitude. Jeb’s father, Bush 41, was a gentleman who was a weak president, leading to the election of a corrupt sexual predator, Bill Clinton and his co-president Hillary Clinton. A man who refused to speak out about Clinton’s excesses even when his failure to capture bin Ladin was a sure thing.  Jeb’s brother, Bush 43, was a gentleman who gave us the Iraq war when he should have attacked his pals in Saudi Arabia. A crony capitalist whose appointments to regulatory agencies empowered Wall Street to nearly destroy the economy and give us Barack Hussein Obama. After leaving office, he refused to speak out while his successor went about fundamentally transforming and weakening America. Going so far as to pal around with Bill Clinton and calling him “his brother from another mother.” Now comes another Bush, a man who looks like he wants to be anywhere but on the stage seeking the GOP nomination. He may have been a decent governor, but her certainly cannot scale to the presidency. A man who appears to go against the American people on open borders and common core. Jeb started the race as the front-runner, with powerful advisors, a large campaign war chest, and the approval of big business and the Northeastern liberal elites that rule the GOP. Now he is lucky to make the debates with his low polling scores; with only 4% in the Quinnipiac University National Poll. Worst of all, Jeb is hiding his last name in favor of his initials (John Ellis Bush) and then spending precious time defending his brother’s administration. Bottom line … Bush is so 90’s, as is Hillary Clinton and I don’t want this historic campaign to be about re-litigating the Iraq war and the Bush economic disaster. His family had always considered him to be the natural politician in the family and were greatly surprised when his brother George took the presidency for eight years. I think one should consider remember, that within the Bush family, there are the Bushes and the hired help – all of those advisors and advocates who can’t seem to launch Bush’s campaign into the prime time. Jeb can’t fix it. He appears to lack the energy, the will, and the tools to effectively challenge Hillary Clinton – but considering his family’s connections with Bill Clinton, maybe he wasn’t really supposed to win. There is no way that I would vote for a Clinton, or a Bush and go back to the future. We are so screwed. -- steve

NSFW: OPEN BORDERS ACTIVISTS AND AGITATORS EXPLOIT CUTE KIDS TO ATTACK TRUMP ... Posted: 04 Nov 2015 05:23 PM PST If you want a prime example of how socialist activists and agitators create propaganda, here is a prime example … Look how that attempt to persuade the younger Americans with misleading propaganda. Complete with swear words used for shock value and to get the younger voters to pay attention.  A sovereign nation is defined by its borders and immigration policy. If there is no rational immigration policy and those illegal aliens do not respect our current laws, it is not immigration it is an INVASION by people whose allegiance is to another life. If they were really so interested in becoming Americans, why have they attempted to recreate their own country on our soil. Bottom line … Do not confuse illegal alien with a legal immigrant. Do not accept the fact that illegal aliens contribute more to our economy and welfare when the reverse is true – they destroy our social safety nets, the disrupt our financial, educational, criminal, and medical systems. And, for those Black Americans that voted for Obama, they push Blacks out of the workplace and onto the welfare roles. I am not a big Trump fan, but I am also aware of the fact that criminal illegal aliens are killing Americans and in many places have been shielded from the consequences of their actions by progressives who have conferred “super citizenship” on them – the right to our benefits, our legal protections, but not subject to our laws. As for the cute kids … useful idiots being used for propaganda. If they are Americans as they suggest, why are they acting on behalf of an illegal and illegitimate constituency. -- steve

BENGHAZI: HILLARY CLINTON -- WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER! Posted: 03 Nov 2015 06:05 PM PST Amazing that the mainstream media is so corrupt and in the tank for progressive socialist democrats that they are declaring that Hillary Clinton is the victim of partisan politics and that Benghazi is a trumped up controversy over nothing. It does not even matter that Hillary Clinton was proven to be a liar when her emails definitively illustrated that the video story was a bald-faced lie and that she told the truth about Benghazi to Chelsea Clinton and foreign diplomats but lied to the American people to prop-up Obama’s reelection bid. How Trey Gowdy, with all of his professionalism as a prosecutor, failed to tell America what he was going to prove, what evidence he had, and what conclusion must be drawn from the evidence. Showing that Hillary Clinton was complicit in a fraud upon the American people. Bottom line … We keep waiting for the GOP to produce results – only to find out that we have run out of time and that there is nothing that can be done until the next election. Pretty much like Congress, knowingly and deliberately, creating a false budget crisis by waiting to the very last day and then adding toxic amendments to a “must past” spending resolution. Where the progressive socialists win big, and the GOP is richly rewarded for going along. I thought better of Trey Gowdy and was hoping his hearing might be a turning point. Alas, we hear he wants to go home and become a judge. I wonder if he is simply waiting to be appointed to the Supreme Court by the next republican president. We are so screwed. -- steve

US, Brits point to ISIS bomb fears; Russia sends anti-aircraft systems to Syria; Rebels carve out space in Syria's north; WH ‘should have armed Ukraine’; And a bit more...

November 5, 2015

Bomb fears mount in Russian airliner mystery. British authorities and U.S. intelligence officials say they have information that suggests a bomb brought down the Russian passenger jet that crashed in the Egyptian desert on Saturday, killing all 224 on board. The U.K. announcement sparked a frenzy in Washington, where cautious U.S. officials told Defense Onethey back the British suggestion—10 Downing Street came out first with a statement, adding it was suspending all British-bound flights from the Sinai—but would not yet confirm the disaster was a deliberate explosion or the work of the Islamic State. "Intercepted communications played a role in the tentative conclusion that the Islamic State group's Sinai affiliate planted an explosive device on the plane," a U.S. official told the Associated Press. In the most direct comment from officials yet, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who formerly was the UK defense minister, said on Wednesday: "We have concluded there was a significant possibility that that crash was caused by an explosive device on board the aircraft." Later, CNN, Reuters and others reported U.S. officials saying a bomb was "likely." As a result, the Dutch followed the British suspending flights from Sharm el-Sheikh, the Wall Street Journaladded. Brought to you by Northrop Grumman America Wins. Thirty-five years ago, Northrop Grumman partnered with the U.S. Air Force to build the nation's only stealth bomber. We're proud that once again, the Air Force selected us to deliver the nation's next bomber—a capability essential to America's national security. THIS IS WHAT WE DO. AGAIN. That's The Value of Performance. Northrop Grumman.  It all follows a similar warning Monday from U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, speaking at the Defense One Summit. Clapper said he wouldn't rule out ISIS involvement. The Islamic State's Sinai affiliate released an audio message on Wednesday again claiming credit for the crash. But like the initial claims over the weekend, they provided no evidence or proof. However, "the signs pointing to ISIS, another U.S. official said, are partially based on monitoring of internal messages of the terrorist group. Those messages are separate from public ISIS claims of responsibility," CNN reported. As the investigations continue—with Russian and Egyptian authorities carrying out theirs, while the U.K. dispatched a team to the Sinai—Russia has grounded Metrojet's entire Airbus 321 fleet for safety inspections. Americans are relying in part on foreign work as Washington has not sent a team of investigators to the scene; there are no U.S. carriers in the Sinai.

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels are about to get another shipment of weapons as part of the White House's "dual-track" strategy to "maintain military pressure on Mr. Assad and his Russian and Iranian supporters while U.S. diplomats see if they can ease him from power through negotiations," WSJ's Adam Entous reports. "In the past month of intensifying Russian airstrikes, the CIA and its partners have increased the flow of military supplies to rebels in northern Syria, including of U.S.-made TOW antitank missiles," Entous writes. Why? One reason: "U.S. intelligence agencies are concerned that a few older Manpads may already have been smuggled into Syria through supply channels the CIA doesn't control," Entous adds. Read more, here. And U.S.-backed opposition forces inside Syria have retaken some 255 kilometers of turf, largely to the east and along the Syria-Turkish border, U.S. military spokesman Col. Steve Warren saidfrom Baghdad yesterday. For a clearer picture of where that turf spans, the Pentagon shared thismap. For what it's worth: More than half of Americans polled "now reject Obama's handling of the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria," Real Clear Defense reports. They say, "...disapproval has jumped 8 percentage points just since January." More here. Mission creep, Moscow-style? Russia's military forces inside Syria have grown to nearly 4,000—up from an estimated 2,000 on Sept. 30, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Russian aircraft are now operating out of four bases, but multiple rocket launcher crews and long-range artillery batteries are reportedly deployed outside the wire of those four bases. On by the way: Russia just sent anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria, its air force chief said Wednesday, citing the risk of hijacked military aircraft. That story, here. The numbers: "Russia's air fleet in Syria comprises 34 fixed-wing aircraft and 16 helicopters," officials told Reuters. "The main Russian base is at the Bassel al-Assad International Airport near the port city of Latakia. All of Moscow's fixed-wing aircraft are flying from there in support of ground offensives by the Syrian army and foreign Shiite militias, the defense official said. Three other bases—Hama, Sharyat and Tiyas—are being used for helicopter gunships, he said. The Russians began operating from Tiyas only this week."

The White House should have sent weapons to Ukraine, says Evelyn Farkas, who stepped down last week as the Pentagon's top policy official for Russia and Ukraine, Defense One's Marcus Weisgerber reports. "I happen to personally fall into the camp that believes we should provide lethal defensive assistance to Ukraine, primarily antitank weapons," she said at a Defense Writers Group breakfast Wednesday. "We need further military assistance, namely modern anti-tank systems, reconnaissance and combat unmanned aerial vehicles," Army Gen. Viktor Muzhenko, chief of the general staff of Ukrainian Armed Forces, told Defense One in an email through a spokesman this week. "Another crucial area is electronic warfare and modern anti-aircraft systems." The U.S. should also consider basing troops in Eastern Europe, Farkas said, a move that Poland has called for on numerous occasions since Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. That story, here. And a bit more on Farkas below the fold. And from the archives of What the…?!—The Pentagon reportedly farmed out coding for computer software involved in sensitive military communications to Russian programmers in Moscow. The case was brought to light as early as 2011 when an Army contractor learned of the Russians' role and set "in motion a four-year federal investigation that ended this week with a multimillion-dollar fine against two firms involved in the work," The Daily Beast reports via The Center for Public Integrity.

From Defense One

President Obama may veto the annual defense authorization bill for the second time in his administration over restrictions on his push to close the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Politics Reporter Molly O'Toole writes. "The House is expected to pass the reintroduced NDAA Thursday, with the Senate shortly after, according to McCain. Both he and Thornberry have made clear the broad policy provisions in the bill, in particular on Guantanamo, will not be changed. That means as early as next week, the defense bill could again be on the president's desk." More here.

This is the last, best chance for the White House to close the detention facility in Cuba—so Obama needs to stick to his veto guns, hurry up and offer his plan to close Guantanamo, argues Raha Wala is senior counsel for defense and intelligence at Human Rights First, writing in Defense One. That take, here.

On the 2016 campaign trail, fast-faltering Jeb Bush recently put forward what his team called a "serious" foreign policy platform. The only problem, writes The Atlantic's Peter Beinart, they're hardly serious—indeed, almost wildly reckless. From laying blame for Syria's humanitarian crisis at the feet of the White House to Obama's negotiations with Jerusalem: "For the first time in the history of Israel, its greatest existential threat has been created by its greatest ally." More here.

China is responsible for 30 percent of the world's "secret" military spending, according to a report from Berlin-based anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International. And Beijing's "additional, off-the-books spending" could be as high as 50 percent of China's official defense expenditure, Quartz reports, here.

Could the Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab get their hands on a nuclear core?It's not that unreasonable considering the dismal record of Kenyan security forces in the run-up to the International Atomic Energy Agency giving Kenya the OK to begin a nuclear program. More from Quartz, here.

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Game of telephone. The defense secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can still talk to their counterparts in Russia even though Washington has suspended military-to-military contact with Moscow. But that doesn't mean their phone calls are productive, said Farkas. When at the Pentagon, Farkas sat in on former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's phone calls with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu. "[T]he conversations that Secretary Hagel had repeatedly, and I was privy to them, with Minister Shoygu were not productive," she said. "And in order for us to recommend to our secretary that he takes 90 minutes out of his very important schedule, very busy schedule, we would have to make a case to him that there would be some kind of productive outcome." Why were the calls so unproductive? "They had a number of phone calls where Secretary Hagel was trying to … get some facts from his counterpart," Farkas said. "His counterpart, frankly, gave him false information. And after that had happened a couple of times, it didn't really make sense to continue the conversations." That included not acknowledging Russian troops were in Crimea.

White House officials under cyber attack from Iran. "Obama administration personnel are among a larger group of people who have had their computer systems hacked in recent weeks, including journalists and academics…[as well as] officials working at the State Department's Office of Iranian Affairs and its Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs," WSJ's Jay Solomon reports. More here.

ICYMI: The U.S. approved Italy's request to arm its MQ-9 drones with "Hellfire missiles, laser-guided bombs and other munitions," Reuters reported Wednesday. "This would be the first effective sale of armed drones approved since the U.S. government established a policy in February for exports of the new type of weapons that have played a key role in U.S. military actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen." Further: "Italy would be only the second country to be approved to buy armed drones after Britain, which has been using them since 2007, according to two U.S. officials who were not authorized to speak publicly." More here.

And the folks at the Center for New American Security, or CNAS, just announced the formation of an ISIS Study Group. It includes a lot of former Obama administration officials now critical of the war's path. Leading the group will be CNAS CEO Michèle Flournoy and President Richard Fontaine. Also on tap: retired Gen. David Petraeus, Marine Corps Lt. Col. Peter McAleer, former DoD official and Defense One contributor Derek Chollet and nearly three-dozen other experts. Complete list, here.

"Fool me twice…" For Afghanistan watchers—have fun with this one: The Afghan businessman convicted in the legendary Kabul bank fraud scheme that cost Afghanistan nearly $1 billion is back in Kabul's good graces. "Khalilullah Frozi, is supposed to be serving a 15-year prison sentence...stood with top government officials on Wednesday as he signed the contract for a new township: 8,800 homes across 33 acres of prime real estate in the heart of the capital, with an initial investment of at least $95 million," the NYTs reports.

Hawaii's $15m thud. "The launch of the first satellite from Hawaii went awry Tuesday when the experimental Super Strypi launch vehicle failed midflight," Air Force Times reports. "The center's terse news release did not include any information about what may have caused the launch vehicle to fail. The mission was supposed to deploy 13 small-cube satellites during the flight." The program's Super Strypi rocket "ultimately was expected to cost about $15 million per mission," Popular Mechanics adds.

Lastly today, the U.S. airman who helped thwart the August train attack in Europe can rest a little easier. That after authorities in California arrested a 28-year-old man who faces one count of attempted murder for stabbing Spencer Stone at a bar in Sacramento on Oct. 8, WaPoreported Wednesday. "Police said Wednesday that they arrested Tran after interviewing numerous witnesses. He allegedly stabbed Stone four times in the torso before fleeing in a car...tone, 23, needed emergency surgery, but has recovered well enough to attend and be recognized at an NBA basketball game featuring the Sacramento Kings within the last week. In recognition of his heroics, he also was meritoriously promoted two ranks to staff sergeant by the Air Force during a ceremony Saturday at Travis Air Force Base in California." More here.

General Gurrola: There Are No Cartels in Michoacán; There Is Organized Crime...

Borderland Beat

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• Lawyers: Dr. Mireles Will Be Freed In December
• General Gurrola: There Are No Cartels in Michoacán; There Is Organized Crime
• Chapo Guzman sends flowers to Jardines de Humaya cemetery
• Mexico Supreme court votes 4-1 in favor of recreational marijuana consumption and cultivation 
• Missing Normalistas? Villagers find mass graves, say G.U. excavated on 9.27.14

Lawyers: Dr. Mireles Will Be Freed In December Posted: 04 Nov 2015 08:00 PM PST Translated By Valor for Borderland Beat  The leader and founder of the autodefensas of Tepalcatepec, José Manuel Mireles Valverde, will obtain his freedom in the month of December, “before the start of the holiday period,” assured his lawyers. At a press conference accompanied by the leader of the Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizens' Movement), Dante Delgado, they detailed that they presented an argument for the exclusion of the crime and an error of prohibiting that would invalidate the crime for the possession of a firearm for the exclusive use of the army.  The fact is that according to his lawyer Ignacio Mendoza, the autodefensa leader had every right to carry and use weapons, as it was the authorities who had determined it, “it is proven that the State deceived the autodefensas,” he said. The law firm said that they were 100% sure that he would be released before the holidays. José Manuel Mireles is being held in the maximum security prison in Hermosillo, Sonora, since June 27, 2014. Source: Michoacán 3.0

General Gurrola: There Are No Cartels in Michoacán; There Is Organized Crime Posted: 04 Nov 2015 07:00 PM PST General Gurrola By: Rodrigo Caballero | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat In Michoacán, there aren’t any drug cartels, but rather organized crime, assured the Coordinator of the Federal Forces in Michoacán, Felipe Gurrola Ramírez, while at the same time considering the word “cartel” as being relative. During an interview, General Gurrola said that security forces in Michoacán “are migrating” to pay more attention to ordinary crimes in larger cities of the state, because he considers that the Caballeros Templarios are “dismantled.” According to figures given by the special command, at this moment, there are 1,000 members of the Military Police patrolling the state of Michoacán of which 120 are concentrated in the city of Morelia. Felipe Gurrola said that this deployment is independent of the thousands of soldiers that the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) has installed in the state, and will also only be there for a limited time until the installation of the State Police has been completed. On the other hand, General Gurrola ensures that the Michoacán Coordination Group will have “zero tolerance” for crimes committed by security forces, such as: the abuse of authority, negligence, or torture. Because of this, Gurrola said “I call upon the citizens, should they be subjected to abuse of any kind of an authority, to denounce it so that corresponding sanctions are imposed.” Source: Michoacán 3.0

Chapo Guzman sends flowers to Jardines de Humaya cemetery Posted: 04 Nov 2015 06:54 PM PST A floral arrangement with about 70 red roses, was seen Monday November 2 in the Jardines de Humaya cemetery in Culiacan, Sinaloa. An all capital written message in dark letters surrounding the floral arrangement reads, "FROM: JOAQUIN GUZMAN LOERA, TO: PERRILLO. "El Perrillo" was killed last October 24 when he arrived to a body shop. Two gunmen got out of a car and shot him dead. On his tombstone the name reads Adrian Arellano Ricardo Noriega. On that morning someone placed the arrangement in a crypt of this well known narco cemetery, the offering came from none other than El Chapo Guzman, the most wanted criminal in Mexico and the United States. Jardines de Humaya is famous because well known narco traffickers are buried here and those narco crypts are resembling miniature cathedrals. Among the people on this cemetery are the remains of Arturo Beltran Leyva El Barbas, killed in Morelos during a confrontation with the Navy. Also Ignacio Nacho Coronel Villarreal, who died in 2010 in a shootout with soldiers in Jalisco, Francisco Pancho Arce Rubio, a member of the criminal group "Los anthrax". The graves are true mausoleums of white and pink marble designed to perpetuate the memory of its inhabitants. These constructions of the last 20 years have all the luxuries and services, making them unique to this cemetery. The opulence includes solar panels, air conditioning, satellite television, bedrooms, bathrooms and surveillance cameras in the niches. Several tombs also have luxury fittings and finishes. In the past, this cemetery located in calzada Heroico Colegio Militar, in colonia Miguel de la Madrid, was the last resting place for the remains of middle-upper class and is one of the most traditional ones in Culiacan after the San Juan cemetery was saturated . This article was translated from Proceso

Mexico Supreme court votes 4-1 in favor of recreational marijuana consumption and cultivation  Posted: 04 Nov 2015 01:54 PM PST  Lucio R. Borderland Beat  Reforma, BB archives and Jornada used to write this post Mexico City. In an unprecedented and historic decision, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) validated the "recreational" use of marijuana, planting and consumption for personal use, not including trade, supply or distribution. In closed session, the ministers were in favor of the measure were A four people to the Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (COFEPRIS) grants them permission to produce and consume the grass.Later the decision was confirmed at a public meeting. The judgment issued authorizations "for performing acts in conjunction with personal consumption for recreational purposes (plant, cultivate, harvest, prepare, possess, transport) exclusively cannabis (marijuana and seeds). The resolution "in no way implies the authorization to carry out business activities, or any other provision that refers to the sale and / or distribution of the aforementioned substances." Public meeting In the open session of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court,  having the lone vote against  the measure, Minister Jorge Pardo Rebolledo spoke out against the draft prepared by Arturo Zaldivar. Pardo said that his refusal was because the proposal does not include how one would  acquire the seeds to plant drugs and initiate the procedure that guarantees the right to the protection granted to the recreational use of the herb. "By excluding this issue, I cannot agree with the proposal." In 2009 Mexico decriminalization law  The federal decriminalization law, which took effect Aug. 21, 2009 called  for suspects caught with small drug quantities to appear before a prosecutor, who must determine whether the possession was for personal use or trafficking. The limits included:  5 grams for marijuana (about three to six joints, depending on size) and 500 milligrams of cocaine (roughly five doses, or "lines"). Those found to be users must be released with a referral to health authorities, though it's unclear how many referrals were made or whether they work.

Missing Normalistas? Villagers find mass graves, say G.U. excavated on 9.27.14 Posted: 04 Nov 2015 11:36 AM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat villagers discovered 2 additional fosas yesterday  Carrizalillo, Guerrero Residents report that on the night of September 27, 2014, they witnessed a convoy of about 3 dozen members of Guerreros Unidos, arrive in late model trucks and a backhoe. They report seeing the backhoe excavating two large holes, later evident by two large mounds of dirt. These residents notified the parents of the 43 missing normalistas, of a discovery on October 31st, of human remains. Villagers called on the media, showing them many bones, including the two jaw bones a skull, and a vertebrae discovered in a pit about 3 feet deep.  The pit was 65 feet from the road in Los Cazahuates. The discovery was made soon after the detention in Carrizalillo last week of halcon Modesto Onofre Peña Celso, along with 9 federal officers, who are suspected of having links with the cartel. During questioning Peña Celso reportedly gave information to police about  several clandestine narco-fosas  ( graves) in the hills in the area. A group of residents accompanied by a federal prosecutor walked along the road that connects Amatitlan and Tenantla, in Los Cazahuates and where the bones were found. click on image to enlarge The people who discovered the grave asked that they remain anonymous, in fear of reprisals from Guerreros Unidos, who dominates the area. The (PGR) prosecutor’s office promised to return on Saturday to collect evidence, evacuating the graves and run tests on the bones, but that plan was then suspended. They did send the discovered remains to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) of Chilpancingo Then yesterday, they issued this statement  "With diligence we aim to locate the graves identified by the inhabitants of this town, and proceed in excavating the findings, " the PGR said. Further stating,  that federal forces will work in coordination with collective authority The villagers believe the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa teacher’s college were taken to Carrizalillo and could possibly be found in the fosas. Residents of the community are said to have been living in fear of the Peña Celso family, which has been linked to the Guerreros Unidos gang. One Carrizalillo resident, who would only be identified as “Jacinto,” said he believed there were many graves in the area and claimed to know of one that contained 30 bodies. He adds, because of the size of the operation, and the timing, it is highly probable that many of the missing 43 are buried in the area.  The commissioner of the community of Carrizalillo in the municipality of Zumpango de Neri, says 3 fosas have been discovered so far and that the two large fosas could have as many as 60 bodies. Residents say that federal police attempted to arrest and intimidate villagers, and attest to a long history of torture and abuse by the federal police. Information used for this post from: Reforma, Sinembargo, Jornada