Guillermo Paxton's Blog - Posts Tagged "chapo"
Nogales, Sonora trip
It was my first time to Nogales. The first thing I noticed about this sleepy border town is that there are very few Americans visiting. Not surprising, with all of the drug war press in the media, and any "gringos" that go are immediately accosted by English speaking Mexicans eager to find them drugs and girls.
Trucks cruised the strip with music blaring, corridos that praise the Sinaloa cartel. People from Sinaloa own many a business in Nogales. Many of these businesses have been funded by drug money. Casas de cambio, where dollars and pesos are exchanged, are fundamental for laundering Chapo's money, and there is a ton of it to launder at that.
We stayed at a nice hotel. It had an hydraulic lift in the parking area. Don't all hotels have them? And it is right in front of the border, almost in plain sight of the border patrol.
I was offered every kind of drug five different times by five different people. There is no fear there of cops or rival cartels because the Chapo owns it all.
Trucks cruised the strip with music blaring, corridos that praise the Sinaloa cartel. People from Sinaloa own many a business in Nogales. Many of these businesses have been funded by drug money. Casas de cambio, where dollars and pesos are exchanged, are fundamental for laundering Chapo's money, and there is a ton of it to launder at that.
We stayed at a nice hotel. It had an hydraulic lift in the parking area. Don't all hotels have them? And it is right in front of the border, almost in plain sight of the border patrol.
I was offered every kind of drug five different times by five different people. There is no fear there of cops or rival cartels because the Chapo owns it all.
