Thursday, August 21, 2008
Strange tale, I was at a party. In walks a stunning girl. Beautiful and by the way she dressed I could tell she was conservative. Her face hinted at some attitude but the attitude that only girls that have tremendous self respect have. Immediately I was intrigued as were the guys I was rolling with that day. I decided to approach this mysterious girl. I was instantly greeted with a smile. Gee I was falling in love, beautiful smile she had, and pretty. We struck up a friendly conversation where it seemed we talked about anything and everything. The way she eloquently spoke showed me she had education and manners. So here was a sexy, beautiful girl, smart and with self respect, not dressed like the hoochies that abounded at the party. I was definately interested. This was a girl worth getting to know more most definately. I asked her for her number and where she lived and she responded, "You cant have it"."Why not?" I demanded. "Because Im not real, dummy". I was shocked. Then I heard a dog bark. And a big truck rumble past the street. I awoke. It was only a dreamThe sweet, conservative, sexy girl didnt exist
Friday, October 29, 2010
Birth of the Drug Industries in Mexico
Monday, November 03, 2008
In 1939 and 1940, Hitler rose to power and thus in the early forties began World War II. The US went to war with Germany and its allies. Germany controlled Morocco and Turkey, countries that at that time exported its opium to make morphine to the United States. Morphine is a well known pain killer used in surgery and as a drug to numb pain in the battlefields as well as the surgeons operating room.The United States needed a new source of opium and morphine. Top US scientists quickly discovered that the opium poppy grew in perfect climatic conditions in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa.
The US and Mexican government signed agreements to grow opium in the Sierra Madre Occidental of these states and employ rural farmers for low wages. And thus, the cultivation of poppy began in the isolated sierras of Durango, Chihuahua and Sinaloa. A new, cheap source of morphine had been found. But poppy bulbs are also used to make something more sinister than a painkiller: Its also used to make Heroin.
After WWII was over, soldiers wounded on the fronts came back home addicted to morphine and marijuana. That is when the Mexican campesinos began their illicit business, smuggling Morphine, and marijuana cultivated in the sierras to the US border where there was a huge demand for the drugs. The rural, crude laboratories of Durango were good for making Mexican black tar Heroin. Sinaloa and Durango in the fifties and sixties then began making huge quantities of drugs, the farmers no longer poor, making thousands and even millions of dollars of the drugs they had learned to cultivate in such fertile land. No more corn or beans would be planted in these lands. Amapola (poppy) and marijuana became the cash crops.
The Sinaloan traffickers soon moved from their rural ranchos to ostentations mansions in the Tierra Blanca neighborhood of Culiacan, the state capital. Tierra Blanca became their fort and center of operations. Others moved into Las Quintas. Culiacan now saw brand new Cadillacs and Lincolns on its main avenues, along with a explosion of violence. Murders were rampant and Culiacan gained the title "Little Chicago".
The US government by the late sixties and early seventies began an anti drug campaign, started by Pres Richard Nixon. Mexico responded by starting Operation Condor. In 1977 the Mexican military descended upon the Golden Triangle of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua, torturing and killing the campesinos, imprisoning others, burning marijuana and poppy fields and spraying the ground with pesticides. Now, not even corn or beans could be grown.
Operation Condor forced the old time kingpins to flee Tierra Blanca and Culiacan and relocate the center of operations to Guadalajara, Jalisco. The infamous Pedro Aviles was killed by the police, and the Quintero family took control of drug trafficking in Mexico. The new generation of kingpins would now emerge. Caro Quintero, Joaquin Guzman and Amado Carrillo.
The newly relocated Sinaloans found in Guadalajara a "welcoming comittee" of rich families involved in shady dealings. These pilars of the Jalisco elite introduced the noveau riche kingpins to commanders of the Mexican secret police, the Federal Security Directorate. These comandantes introduced Miguel Felix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca among others to the whose who of the Tapatio elite. Provided them with safe house, mansions for their families and muscle and firepower.
Soon the traffickers controlled Guadalajara and the capital city of Jalisco would become the trampoline for Colombian drugs into the US. Felix Gallardo established the routes and drug air traffic control from Colombia to Jalisco then to Sinaloa and the US. Caro and Fonseca ruled the northern deserts making them green with marijuana.
They reigned supreme for years, all under the protection of the Secretary of State, Manuel Barlett Diaz, Secretary of Defense, Juan Arevalo Gardoqui and the boss of the DFS, Antonio Zorrilla Perez.
The so called War on Drugs, the one that started because of an American idea back in the forties, still rages on.
In 1939 and 1940, Hitler rose to power and thus in the early forties began World War II. The US went to war with Germany and its allies. Germany controlled Morocco and Turkey, countries that at that time exported its opium to make morphine to the United States. Morphine is a well known pain killer used in surgery and as a drug to numb pain in the battlefields as well as the surgeons operating room.The United States needed a new source of opium and morphine. Top US scientists quickly discovered that the opium poppy grew in perfect climatic conditions in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa.
The US and Mexican government signed agreements to grow opium in the Sierra Madre Occidental of these states and employ rural farmers for low wages. And thus, the cultivation of poppy began in the isolated sierras of Durango, Chihuahua and Sinaloa. A new, cheap source of morphine had been found. But poppy bulbs are also used to make something more sinister than a painkiller: Its also used to make Heroin.
After WWII was over, soldiers wounded on the fronts came back home addicted to morphine and marijuana. That is when the Mexican campesinos began their illicit business, smuggling Morphine, and marijuana cultivated in the sierras to the US border where there was a huge demand for the drugs. The rural, crude laboratories of Durango were good for making Mexican black tar Heroin. Sinaloa and Durango in the fifties and sixties then began making huge quantities of drugs, the farmers no longer poor, making thousands and even millions of dollars of the drugs they had learned to cultivate in such fertile land. No more corn or beans would be planted in these lands. Amapola (poppy) and marijuana became the cash crops.
The Sinaloan traffickers soon moved from their rural ranchos to ostentations mansions in the Tierra Blanca neighborhood of Culiacan, the state capital. Tierra Blanca became their fort and center of operations. Others moved into Las Quintas. Culiacan now saw brand new Cadillacs and Lincolns on its main avenues, along with a explosion of violence. Murders were rampant and Culiacan gained the title "Little Chicago".
The US government by the late sixties and early seventies began an anti drug campaign, started by Pres Richard Nixon. Mexico responded by starting Operation Condor. In 1977 the Mexican military descended upon the Golden Triangle of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua, torturing and killing the campesinos, imprisoning others, burning marijuana and poppy fields and spraying the ground with pesticides. Now, not even corn or beans could be grown.
Operation Condor forced the old time kingpins to flee Tierra Blanca and Culiacan and relocate the center of operations to Guadalajara, Jalisco. The infamous Pedro Aviles was killed by the police, and the Quintero family took control of drug trafficking in Mexico. The new generation of kingpins would now emerge. Caro Quintero, Joaquin Guzman and Amado Carrillo.
The newly relocated Sinaloans found in Guadalajara a "welcoming comittee" of rich families involved in shady dealings. These pilars of the Jalisco elite introduced the noveau riche kingpins to commanders of the Mexican secret police, the Federal Security Directorate. These comandantes introduced Miguel Felix Gallardo, Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca among others to the whose who of the Tapatio elite. Provided them with safe house, mansions for their families and muscle and firepower.
Soon the traffickers controlled Guadalajara and the capital city of Jalisco would become the trampoline for Colombian drugs into the US. Felix Gallardo established the routes and drug air traffic control from Colombia to Jalisco then to Sinaloa and the US. Caro and Fonseca ruled the northern deserts making them green with marijuana.
They reigned supreme for years, all under the protection of the Secretary of State, Manuel Barlett Diaz, Secretary of Defense, Juan Arevalo Gardoqui and the boss of the DFS, Antonio Zorrilla Perez.
The so called War on Drugs, the one that started because of an American idea back in the forties, still rages on.
The Truth About Who We Are
Saturday, April 12, 2008
In life you will encounter a lot of people. A lot of people will love you, some will envy you, others will hate you. Its not important who loves you or who doesnt, the people that matter in life will show you they matter and that you matter to them with actions and words. Like an old saying goes, i forgot who said it or where I read it "the people that want you in their life will show you by their actions that they NEED you in their life". Others who forget you like you were just whatever dont matter, in the end its who is still left by your side who really does matter.
Nobody can judge me but God. I am who I am, we are who we are. People can paint us several diffrent ways, does that make them right? No. People might see me a different way than I see myself, it doesnt matter. I do what I do, and I say what I want to say. Whoever thinks they know me, probably doesnt. Never judge a book by its cover. Thats the worst mistake one can do in life. No one can judge or say they know someone, without talking to that someone and getting to see what they live or what they think.
Ill never stop being me, because thats all i can be, myself. Im not gonna be no one else or try to be someone else, this is me. Im not perfect, because im human. No one is perfect until you fall in love with them, then any little thing they do is wonderful and perfect, even if they treat you bad. I dont have to explain myself to anyone, because anyone that knows me, knows who I really am and what Im about. Like I said God is the only one who can judge me when the time comes, and until then I will be myself and what others think is just crap under my shoe, ill wipe it off and keep walking...
The worst thing in life is not knowing. Not knowing what could of been. The things left undone, The experiences left unlived. Words left unsaid. Who knows, no one knows. Nothing is forever and Nobody lives eternal. Thats life, it has its ups and downs, but no one nor anything will ever change who you are or who you stand for. No one has the right to take away your identity. If youre yellow no one can call you brown.
I feel sorry for those who live their lives scared. Not knowing. Go out there and live. Stop and think and learn a thing or two. Educate yourself dont besmirch others. Dont forget that what goes around comes around and Karma catches up with all of us. Why do wrong when we can live at peace?
Missed opportunities, the thinking of what if I was wrong to do something, What if I made a bad decision? If youre questioning it, chances are you DID make a bad decision. Life goes on.
-ec
In life you will encounter a lot of people. A lot of people will love you, some will envy you, others will hate you. Its not important who loves you or who doesnt, the people that matter in life will show you they matter and that you matter to them with actions and words. Like an old saying goes, i forgot who said it or where I read it "the people that want you in their life will show you by their actions that they NEED you in their life". Others who forget you like you were just whatever dont matter, in the end its who is still left by your side who really does matter.
Nobody can judge me but God. I am who I am, we are who we are. People can paint us several diffrent ways, does that make them right? No. People might see me a different way than I see myself, it doesnt matter. I do what I do, and I say what I want to say. Whoever thinks they know me, probably doesnt. Never judge a book by its cover. Thats the worst mistake one can do in life. No one can judge or say they know someone, without talking to that someone and getting to see what they live or what they think.
Ill never stop being me, because thats all i can be, myself. Im not gonna be no one else or try to be someone else, this is me. Im not perfect, because im human. No one is perfect until you fall in love with them, then any little thing they do is wonderful and perfect, even if they treat you bad. I dont have to explain myself to anyone, because anyone that knows me, knows who I really am and what Im about. Like I said God is the only one who can judge me when the time comes, and until then I will be myself and what others think is just crap under my shoe, ill wipe it off and keep walking...
The worst thing in life is not knowing. Not knowing what could of been. The things left undone, The experiences left unlived. Words left unsaid. Who knows, no one knows. Nothing is forever and Nobody lives eternal. Thats life, it has its ups and downs, but no one nor anything will ever change who you are or who you stand for. No one has the right to take away your identity. If youre yellow no one can call you brown.
I feel sorry for those who live their lives scared. Not knowing. Go out there and live. Stop and think and learn a thing or two. Educate yourself dont besmirch others. Dont forget that what goes around comes around and Karma catches up with all of us. Why do wrong when we can live at peace?
Missed opportunities, the thinking of what if I was wrong to do something, What if I made a bad decision? If youre questioning it, chances are you DID make a bad decision. Life goes on.
-ec
Is Anyone Faithful Anymore?
Saturday, April 19, 2008
As of late, I have asked myself a question. Is anyone faithful anymore? Experiences in life have led me to believe that no, no one is faithful anymore. As a famous comedian once said "people are as faithful as their options". Experiences have made me ask; What happened to Respect? What happened to treat others as you would treat yourself? What happened to Loyalty? What happened to being a gentleman and treating a lady right and being a lady and treating your guy right? Seems that people only say they are happy, until there is a certain someone that pops up out of nowhere and starts our curiosity. Then your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife lies forgotten. This new person captures our imagination and inhibitions and sometimes one thing leads to another. And its done. A betrayal. A lie to the person you said you "loved". If you love someone will you betray them? Will you lie to them? Will you cheat on them? Will you subject them to the heartbreak, tears and pain that these situations cause? Why, all for a moment of lust? Of slight exhilirating passion? Then what? Some people will argue "well i was having problems with my bf or gf". Ok then why not let that person know, and let that person go? Instead of cheating?. Does happiness with others even exist anymore, or are we always constantly looking for change? exploring new horizons, if you will? So once again, I ask, what happened to respect? love? loyalty? Where have they gone
As of late, I have asked myself a question. Is anyone faithful anymore? Experiences in life have led me to believe that no, no one is faithful anymore. As a famous comedian once said "people are as faithful as their options". Experiences have made me ask; What happened to Respect? What happened to treat others as you would treat yourself? What happened to Loyalty? What happened to being a gentleman and treating a lady right and being a lady and treating your guy right? Seems that people only say they are happy, until there is a certain someone that pops up out of nowhere and starts our curiosity. Then your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife lies forgotten. This new person captures our imagination and inhibitions and sometimes one thing leads to another. And its done. A betrayal. A lie to the person you said you "loved". If you love someone will you betray them? Will you lie to them? Will you cheat on them? Will you subject them to the heartbreak, tears and pain that these situations cause? Why, all for a moment of lust? Of slight exhilirating passion? Then what? Some people will argue "well i was having problems with my bf or gf". Ok then why not let that person know, and let that person go? Instead of cheating?. Does happiness with others even exist anymore, or are we always constantly looking for change? exploring new horizons, if you will? So once again, I ask, what happened to respect? love? loyalty? Where have they gone
How Guys Really Are
Sunday, April 20, 2008
1. Guys are more emotional then you think, if they loved you at one point, it'l take them a lot longer then you think to let you go, and it hurts every second that they try.
2. Guys may be flirting around all day, but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.
3. Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.
4. Guys will do anything just to get you to notice him.
5. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend or ex love-interest.Unless they're goin for the let-her-complain-to-you-and-then-have-her-realize-how-wonderful-and-nice-you-are method
.6. A guy who likes you wants to be the only guy you talk to.7. Boyfriends need to be reassured often that they're still loved.
8. Guys don't care how gorgeous you are, if you're a bitch-- GOODBYE!
9. Giving a guy a hanging message like "You know what?!..uh...nevermind.." would make him jump to a conclusion that is far from what you are thinking. And he'll assume he did something wrong and he'll obsess about it trying to figure it out.
10. Girls are guys' weaknesses.
11. Guys are very open about themselves.
12. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone to listen to him. You don't need to give him advice
13. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.14.Guys love you more than you love them
15. Guys use words like hot or cute to describe girls. They rarely use beautiful or gorgeous. If a guy uses that, he loves you or likes you a whole hell of a lot.
16. No matter how much guys talk about asses and boobs, personality is key.
17. Guys worry about the thin line between being compassionate and being whipped.
18. Guys think WAY too much. One small thing a girl does, even if she doesn't notice it can make the guy think about it for hours, trying to figure out what it meant.
19. If the guy does something stupid in front of the girl, he will think about it for the next couple days or until the next time he spends time with the girl
20. If a guy looks unusually calm and laid back, he's probably faking it and is spazzing inside.
21. When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl, he really is. Guys rarely say that
22. When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he's just actually saying, "Please come and listen to me.
23. If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him. It doesn't happen that often, so when it does, you know something's up.
24. When a guy tells you that you are beautiful, don't say you aren't. It makes them want to stop telling you because they don't want you to disagree with them.25. When a guy looks at you for longer than a second, he's definitely thinking something.26. A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.
27. Don't be a snob. Guys can be intimidated and give up easily.
28. Guys talk about girls more than girls talk about guys.
29. Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions and are MAD confusing but somehow are drawn even more to them.
30. A guy would give his right nut to be able to read a girl's mind for a day.
31. No guy can handle all his problems on his own. He's just too stubborn to admit it.
32. Not all guys are assholes.Just because ONE is a jackass doesnt mean he represents ALL of them
33. They love it when girls talk about their boobs.
35. Even if they refuse it all guys are ticklish on the ribs.
36. Guys love neck rubs and if he lets you keep doing it ..it means that he really likes you or his neck really hurts.
37. When a guy sacrifices his sleep and health just to be with you, he really likes you and wants to be with you as much as possible.
38. Even if you dump a guy months ago and he loved you he probably still does and if he had one wish it would be you to come back into his life
1. Guys are more emotional then you think, if they loved you at one point, it'l take them a lot longer then you think to let you go, and it hurts every second that they try.
2. Guys may be flirting around all day, but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.
3. Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.
4. Guys will do anything just to get you to notice him.
5. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend or ex love-interest.Unless they're goin for the let-her-complain-to-you-and-then-have-her-realize-how-wonderful-and-nice-you-are method
.6. A guy who likes you wants to be the only guy you talk to.7. Boyfriends need to be reassured often that they're still loved.
8. Guys don't care how gorgeous you are, if you're a bitch-- GOODBYE!
9. Giving a guy a hanging message like "You know what?!..uh...nevermind.." would make him jump to a conclusion that is far from what you are thinking. And he'll assume he did something wrong and he'll obsess about it trying to figure it out.
10. Girls are guys' weaknesses.
11. Guys are very open about themselves.
12. If a guy tells you about his problems, he just needs someone to listen to him. You don't need to give him advice
13. A usual act that proves that the guy likes you is when he teases you.14.Guys love you more than you love them
15. Guys use words like hot or cute to describe girls. They rarely use beautiful or gorgeous. If a guy uses that, he loves you or likes you a whole hell of a lot.
16. No matter how much guys talk about asses and boobs, personality is key.
17. Guys worry about the thin line between being compassionate and being whipped.
18. Guys think WAY too much. One small thing a girl does, even if she doesn't notice it can make the guy think about it for hours, trying to figure out what it meant.
19. If the guy does something stupid in front of the girl, he will think about it for the next couple days or until the next time he spends time with the girl
20. If a guy looks unusually calm and laid back, he's probably faking it and is spazzing inside.
21. When a guy says he is going crazy about the girl, he really is. Guys rarely say that
22. When a guy asks you to leave him alone, he's just actually saying, "Please come and listen to me.
23. If a guy starts to talk seriously, listen to him. It doesn't happen that often, so when it does, you know something's up.
24. When a guy tells you that you are beautiful, don't say you aren't. It makes them want to stop telling you because they don't want you to disagree with them.25. When a guy looks at you for longer than a second, he's definitely thinking something.26. A guy has more problems than you can see with your naked eyes.
27. Don't be a snob. Guys can be intimidated and give up easily.
28. Guys talk about girls more than girls talk about guys.
29. Guys really think that girls are strange and have unpredictable decisions and are MAD confusing but somehow are drawn even more to them.
30. A guy would give his right nut to be able to read a girl's mind for a day.
31. No guy can handle all his problems on his own. He's just too stubborn to admit it.
32. Not all guys are assholes.Just because ONE is a jackass doesnt mean he represents ALL of them
33. They love it when girls talk about their boobs.
35. Even if they refuse it all guys are ticklish on the ribs.
36. Guys love neck rubs and if he lets you keep doing it ..it means that he really likes you or his neck really hurts.
37. When a guy sacrifices his sleep and health just to be with you, he really likes you and wants to be with you as much as possible.
38. Even if you dump a guy months ago and he loved you he probably still does and if he had one wish it would be you to come back into his life
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