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Friday, April 24, 2020

New York Man and Girlfriend Quarantining in Mexico Are Shot and Killed

"MX" for Borderland Beat; NBC News

Pat Landers and Karla Baca
A New York man and his girlfriend were shot and killed while driving down a street in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, authorities said. Pat Landers, of Baldwinsville, and Karla Baca were driving in a black Jeep with New York license plates on Monday when they were attacked, according to NBC affiliate KTSM-TV in El Paso, Texas.

Police say at least 20 gunshots were fired at the vehicle. No arrests have been made. Landers was the father of a 6-year-old boy, according to NBC affiliate WSTM-TV in Syracuse, New York. He met Baca, a physical education teacher in Juarez, during a trip to Texas.

Landers was the father of a 6-year-old boy, according to NBC Dave LaBarge, a friend of Landers, told Syracuse.com that Landers was quarantining in Mexico with Baca. The two had been dating for three or four months, he said. “He was a good dude,” LaBarge said. WSTM-TV in Syracuse, New York. He met Baca, a physical education teacher in Juarez, during a trip to Texas.

Video: Couple with New York plates murdered in Juarez, police say (KTSM 9 NEWS)



Adam Howe, another friend, said Landers had been in Mexico for about three weeks and the last time the two spoke was a few days before his death. Howe said Landers told him he was trying to learn Spanish and joked about gaining weight from eating too many churros. “He really meant a lot to me,” Howe told the outlet.

Note: This report was written by Minyvonne Burke from NBC News. The original source is linked here and above.

125 comments:

  1. Probably La Línea behind it, those savages. AMLO needs to let US personnel in there to put a stop to this or else he has blood on his hands.

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    1. Probably a jealous ex boyfriend type crap.
      Hired hitmen.
      Not a cartel hit.
      Stop with La Linea hating just because they are beating the shit out of CDS in Chihuahua.

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    2. The U.S. needs to worry about their own personnel.

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    3. @8:58
      Exactly. Flossing in your truck w NY plates w someones ex girlfriend is probably not appreciated.

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    4. 4:20 you would blame AMLO for the crap in your calzones little man...
      Ever wonder where your governor javier Corral fits in all this shit?

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    5. Hell yea that was a jealous ex boyfriend. The rounds that hit the front windshield were all targeted at her if he was driving. And what was he doing driving a 2019 jeep around juarez especially right now

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  2. Why would you drive a car with NY plates in Juarez?

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  3. RIP. Is there more to this story?

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    1. Rip indeed atleast his death wasn't too painful considering they like to decapitate and flay in Latin America

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    2. 6:15 jeff Dahmer would also refigeratw his meals,
      and some hunters like to prowl on school hallways,
      But when you have the means you go to las Vegas high rise and let go on party goers on the plaza center...
      --In Florida, some people bite other peoples' faces off, blamed on bath salts, not on mexican cartels, of course

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  4. Probably thought they were DEA

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    1. What narco thinks DEA drive a NY plated jeep in Juarez!!!

      Nah its cause the woman:
      - either 'involved' or
      - jealous ex-BF

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  5. Calentando la Plaza. CDS faction probably did this shooting

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  6. I can see baca forgot to tell her husband or boyfriend in juarez, she had moved on

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  7. Juarez is the 5th most dangerous city in the world right now.

    Things are absolutely worse now than 2006-2008, when the war for the city itself first flared up.

    Lord have mercy on this city and state.

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    1. 2006 to dec 2007 everything was fine.... dec 3 2007 hell came through

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  8. Out of town people don't randomly get shot in Juares specially so many times. Unless this was a case of mistaken identity?
    Obviously nobody that knew them are going to say they were involved with drugs or wrong doing either. They may not know if this was the case also?
    The thing is that these are not the first people from the U.S. shot in Juarez but in most cases these people shot in Juarez do travel there to make business transactions with drug dealers. Something enemy crews might not like or if the deals fall through (drug deal gone bad), actions like these might be the outcome.
    Sad but true.

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    1. She was not an out of towner. Only he was. You assume way too much dude. Sad but not remotely true.

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    2. She was from Juarez, he was from New York. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a hit.

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  9. Wow. Mexico is such a fucked up country. Will never visit Mexico. Too dangerous and no justice there.

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    1. Yup. Don’t ever come to Mexico. Mexico is for real macho men only. Sissies stay home.

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    2. No Justice in the U.S. neither. Wake up.

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    3. Yeah I agree Sissy's stay home and eat rice kirispies , macho Man eat tacos de cabeza and drink tequila y Buchanan's, maybe sissy boy can suck on a mango too����☀️��from la guera paisa

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    4. 6:44 onde andabas güera falsa?
      Tabas en bote por andarte brincando tromp's wall?
      Welcom back!

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    5. Yeah and what? It's me

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  10. Damn rip wonder what the motive was

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  11. It looks like a cartel hit.

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  12. This guy wasn't just a civilian from New York he was a pro golfer.

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    1. So pro golfers aren’t civilian? You might want to check a dictionary for that definition mcfly.

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    2. Well then he was just like Tiger Woods, no common sense.

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    3. Humm grandma Ann Landers ??

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    4. is that supposed to make more important?

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    5. Hey idiots I'm just stating he was a pro golfer and yes he is a civilian but he's not a nobody like you.

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  13. Just read this article in the morning, that’s sad to hear. Rip to them

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  14. I been saying it. Stay in good ol usa. Even if your wife or girlfriend from mexico. Even if you used to live in mexico. Its sad but its unsafe. In usa shit happens as well but south of the border is fucking wild.

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  15. On her FB in Febuary she mention having trouble being harassed by her ex boyfriend. Lets see. Beautiful blonde, Juarez, multiple hitmen, a bunch of shots grouped through the windscreen. I'm betting ex bf was a narco. QEPD to them both. If you read through her stuff, she seemed like pretty good people, and he def seems like a good guy too. They shouldnt have been in Juarez.

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    1. Blonde? More like trying to be Guera ahuevo

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  16. Jealous ex boyfriend or someone who couldn’t have her. Fucking pieces of shit. No motherfucking respect in the game anymore.

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  17. Crazy. More bullet holes to the passanger side too

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  18. according to insight crime, ELN in columbia is killing people violating lockdown/quarantine.

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    1. They could die from Corona!!

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    2. 12:59 insight lies, alvaro uribe velez' brother is in prison for his mass murdering but alvarito has the 12 apóstoles riding again, after being forced to resign from the colombian senate for his own crimes against humanity...only "el varito" has interest in murdering colombians, specially former guerrillas who got signed into the peace accords.

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  19. How naive do you have to be to drive through that shithole Juarez with US plates? What did he expect? Borderlandbeat should be more mainstream to remind ppl daily of what is happening in Mexico.

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    1. They translate articles of what goes on in Mexico, you need to read more of BB, to get the scoop of what goes in Mexico.

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    2. We drive in Mexico with US plates all the time. So relax little girl.

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    3. I drive me vehicles to Chihuahua all the time. GA plates and I don’t get harassed not once. It was definitely a hit.

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    4. Ignorant comment and closed minded.Its a border town and U.S. plates aren't uncommon. Travel outside your box idiot.

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    5. 8:17 what big boy @1:08 needs is:
      a scoop or two of crap with sprinkles and fairy dust...

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  20. Cdn and la Linea taking out cds wanna bees

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    1. More like La linea n cdn couldnt get their way with these two so they executed them

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    2. More like you 8:58 don't know shit.
      First CDS fanboys accuse Linea of working with Jalisco and now CDN.
      La Linea don't need help. They work alone.

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    3. @11:02 im sure you commented @2:05 saying linea n cdn did this and they are working together you cabron

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    4. 2:56 awww sad are we that nobody wants to be friends with CDS?
      An allience or not this is still not a cartel hit like porristas from CDS like to claim.
      If it was a cartel hit it could have been CDS trying to heat up the plaza again by blaming Linea like CDS always does and fanboys like yourself love to do also.

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  21. Were they involved into something or where they just killed for being gringos ?

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  22. Se lo chingaron por que la morra tenia vato, y pues como en Mexico es otro pedo, te matan si te metes con las viejas de otro asi de facil, no es como estados unidos donde investigan y el csi Miami cierra la calle y la verga. En Mexico te fuman y se acabo.

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  23. No law & order, Death penalty needed. Right to bear any kind of firearm.

    Everyone must admit Mexico & goverment are all stupid race.

    Please Trump send in Special forces to wipe out cartel, they just killed 2 Americans.

    I would take all the border towns away from Mexico & make it U.S.A. we DID IT BEFORE.

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    1. You been playing too many video games.

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    2. We lol. What did you do?lol. internet warrior

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    3. These cartels fan clowns claim that US are pussies and Mexico is for real men. Easy to slaughter people who can't shoot back. Get in your convoy so our drones can send a Hellfire up your coward asses!

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    4. These cartels fan clowns claim that US are pussies and Mexico is for real men. Easy to slaughter people who can't shoot back. Get in your convoy so our drones can send a Hellfire up your coward asses!

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    5. 8:11 like hiding behind your drones is sooo manly...

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  24. No checkpoints anywhere in crime ridden mexican cities. Looks like the local governments playing possum for criminals, a precise job like this smacks of a sore ass boyfriend getting even with his escaped escort and the smart ass from the US.
    Stray bullets my ass.

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    1. How do you know she was an escaped escort. From some of the pictures she looks like her family was somewhat well off. People assume because she was a teacher she's supposed to be poor? What if she had a heart for helping kids? People always assume the worst. What makes him a smart ass?

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    2. O:52 spending a "quarantine" in Cd Juarez with a pretty woman who you just met somewhere on the US makes you smartass, and doesn't make her look very serious, certainly leads one to suspect sore ass boyfriend, more comments above agree with me, when i posted there were no comments yet

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    3. I believe you're the smartass... a person who is irritating because they behave as if they know everything...
      Because you know for sure she's an escaped escort? You assume they "just met" 🙄
      Unless you know facts, stop being a smartass.

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    4. 12:06 are you the Secretary General of the Sindicato de las Mexican Escorts? get them benefits and security not internet fights.

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  25. Apparently they did not read enough BB, they should have realized how dangerous Mexico is.

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  26. Obviously there is A LOT missing here.

    Now I don’t know how much s PE teacher in Juarez makes, but she had money and was the fancy type. She sure did a lot of traveling (Paris being one of those places) on teacher’s pay. I would say she was narco girlfriend.

    As for the guy. He had no business in Juarez, none at all. Out of state plates from that far north will bring attention, not to mention with a nice jeep.

    This is her facebook page:,

    https://www.facebook.com/karla.baca.549

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    1. Out of town plates do not bring trouble in Mexico.
      Unless someone plans to rob you not execute you.
      Stop adding extra bullshit.

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    2. “Unless someone plans to rob you not execute you”

      Lmao like the criminals in MX have been so merciful until now

      And yes, they’re right, with Juarez being the 5th most dangerous city in the WORLD, he had no business being down there.

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    3. 10:07 you must be a real expert in Juarez issues or Mexican for that matter.
      Bet you get all your info here on BB and have never set foot in Mexico.
      I have. Weekly at times. From @8:56

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    4. https://www.facebook.com/karla.j.chavez.9

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    5. Paris?????? She sure looks differently.

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  27. I have heard of a seafood employee from Perris, CA going to Mexico, driving in a White newer Range Rover
    and getting killed.
    What would cause to American people with New York plates to travel to M?during a pandemmic crisis?

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    1. Mexico didn’t have any COVID-19 measures in place at the time, so you could go down to Juarez and party like normal.

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    2. That perris story did not have any innocent people in it and that's a fact.

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    3. A Range Rover isn't a just any car specially in Mexico. Drive a regular car to not draw so much attention.

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  28. Mistaken identity?

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    1. No that girl was messing around! Let me ask you.
      Who in their right mind travels to Ciudad Juarez for vacation? All I’m gonna say is these folks were into some shady business.
      So don’t feel bad for them.

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    2. Same I mean they only dating not even a month and they riding around in a Jeep with New York plates

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    3. 8:36 guy is a pro golfer probably makes a lot of money and he got swept of his feet by this girl. She's from juarez she probably had a narco ex. She's an idiot for going around there with her new man

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    4. Teacher,,I know, I know,
      pick me ,, Rising hand up

      She wanted him to meet Momma Daddy and the place her Family came from Show off her new Baeu FROM NEW YORK CITY

      ps but it diss her cousins
      her cousins that she used to play doc with
      and she wanted to be The The Big Drug Boss in New York City

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    5. I doubt many pro-golfers ever made one penny from golf.
      Also, mexican escorts you meet for the day on the US are cheaper by the month in Mexico.

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    6. Oh shit! It's the poem Riddler again from Russia or Pakistan he's at it again trying to post his rymes and poem riddles 7:05 I remember you on bb a year ago ! This is hilarious

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  29. Seems like there is more to this story. Her FB pics shows she made a lil more than a PE teacher. This guy meet her on a trip to Texas but she's from Juarez?? From the impacts on the windshield looks like professional hit. Lopez Mateos is a main street in Cd Juarez

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    1. Here Facebook shows she's from Chihuahua and look like they have some money... Why do people always assume the worst of people. Her family couldn't have money and she still likes to work with kids?

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  30. It was a hit not a random KILL.. These guys were not the goodie toshoo couple described by the article.. Nobody gets sprayed with bullets just BECAUSE.. There more to this story

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  31. I always try to give the benefit of the doubt but immediately the gut was telling me ole Pat was up to no good. Most likely the girl too. Like the above posts touched on, who, in their right mind is going to go vacation in Juárez ? Not for the churros, they have those in NY. And Pat, if you can here me, and if you were doing the business, why would you come in all high profile.

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    1. He didn't come to Juarez. He came to Texas. That's where they met. She probably told him it was OK to come to Juarez. If he's a pro golfer, he probably travels a lot.

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    2. 12:59 You don't know, but many people risk their ass to eat in Cd Juarez all the time, and i don't blame them, thare's good food there, even the menudo, pozoles and carniasadas... eat and don't ask.

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    3. 1152: what don't you ask? What's in them?

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  32. Quarantine = no driving around

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  33. So word in the barrios is the was a cartel hit. They saw a white dude with New York plates and believed he was DEA or CIA. That is the word on the streets. Felipe N. is telling people about it as it was his cousin who oversaw the hit.

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    1. Surely if they thought he was CIA or DEA, they woulda left him alone. Even the methed out scumbag sicarios don't want another Kiki Camerana situation. I'd be willing to bet she was an ex or a side chic to someone important.

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    2. STUPID COMMENT CLOWN!!!!! Don’t you have anything else to do but play on a random website?! Fake much?! A white guy with Ny plates makes him DEA or CIA? You’re so retarded!!! The cartel....which you have absolute zero knowledge about...doesn’t kill at random just guessing someone might be this or that and wouldn’t dare kill someone from either of those just blatantly like that. They’re still hiding from the Camarena hit. And they don’t make mistakes. This was a hit indeed who can’t tell that, carjackers don’t fire that many shots. Most likely he had been working and his connections rivals cancelled his az! You have never lived in Mexico but I have. You have no connections in your past like I do. Yes way way back many years ago but I speak from experience you speak from an imaginary image you’ve created for yourself in your mind. Grow up and get a job

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    3. 11:07 time to join the Pink Panther defective agency madder facker.
      And chill your ass with a cup of boiling coffee!
      No more DEA or CIA for you, they have been invaded by the corrupt.
      That worser than COVID 19.

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  34. A man get killed chasing a woman - happens all the time. I learned this deer hunting.

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  35. It's not suppose to make sense.if it did it would be Chicago.

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  36. @EDGAR 10:02. You are to racist or to stupid or to naive to blame a nation for the death of some white guy who was dating and fucking the ex of one of the members of la linea, there I said it..they should go talk to pepe AH...there something to chew on...next time you run your fucking mouth make sure you are not in Mexico talking like that gets people fucked up

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  37. Another joke is lame ass drug users dying of all the crap the cartels sell. They want to voluntarily put shit in their systems then let them. Just don't go crying to Mexico to stop the supply of drugs that idiots so desperately need.

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  38. i woukd like to cross the bridge from el paso to juarez and buy some legal medication. is it too dangerous to risk it

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    1. 10:02 what you are looking for you can get by fort Bliss, boy.
      Lots of lonely quarantained and well endowed guys there.
      Some have not killed anybody for a while too. Just in case

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    2. Just go when they are taking a siesta, then hurry back.

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    3. Naw, better we meet in your hood, around the block, bring cash !

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    4. it is rated as one of the most dangerous cities in the world. its ok ill just take a 45. they dont check if you walk over.

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    5. 10.48. i am not gay, nor black, as you suggest. people go to mexico to buy medication, very common. if you said that shit to my face i would kill u puto. vete a carajo.

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    6. nobody at ft bliss has ever killed anyone. mencho could kill everyone there in 2 hours

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    7. 10:51 Fort Bliss has a looong history.

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  39. Probably thought he was a contra or big dog in that range rover

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  40. Jealous ex boyfriend , connected to cartels will also get u killed, driving a Jeep or suv will also attract attention from the cartels

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  41. No. But cbp will ask you what makes your trip essential travel. I traveled there 3 times last week

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    1. Two shooters letting go at the same time?

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  42. Mexico is not that bad, someplaces r great. Just where r they???????

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  43. Mexico is Funny, Amlo said just Hug the bad guys, Amlo how does that work, when they u are when they r shooting at u. U say stop u need a hug

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  44. Edgar stop being racist.

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  45. Something is way off. Jealous cartel bf, she brings her new bf to show off and it gets them both kill.

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  46. Her FB page shows her up on some man with a kid with no boob job at the time.

    More recent pics show her having a nice rack, and with the idiot from NY who chose to tap that ass.

    She’s likely divorced (now days most people can’t stay married) and her ex put a hit in her.

    *Most bullet holes were in the passenger window and few in the driver side.

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  47. Growing up in the eighties friends and I used to party and go surfing down in Rosarito Beach all the time and bring back some coke and we never had any trouble, but now I wouldn't do any business down there I don't give a fuck how much I could make. Anyone going into Mexico in less absolutely necessary you a fucking idiot or your just plain insane. I will say I feel very sorry for the good people of Mexico because I helped bring about the evil and has befallen them even if I did it years ago, and for that I'm sorry.

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    1. @11:07
      What has befallen Mexico is diabolical and nothing like the 1980’s.

      Time, life and more changes most people.
      You are forgiven.

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    2. Agree not worth going any more, expensive now if cop stop u and no security

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    3. 10:53 all of what is happening in Mexico was left behind by the 12 year FECAL/EPN War ON Drugs paid for by the US, 36 billion dollars in "aid" 5o get close to 1 million mexican Falsos Positivos and more drugs than ever.
      Who cares about winning american wars anymore? The money is in protracted unwinnable long ass wars, and if you have to help the enemy, you help.

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