Comments on: Lalo.

Lalo.

Ufez Jones — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:38:54 -0800

In a small-town jail in the upper Midwest sits a once highly-paid informant the U.S. government would probably rather you not know about. Guillermo Ramirez-Peyro, AKA Lalo, sits in prison without being charged. He's a former Mexican Highway Police Officer that found himself incahoots with the drug trade on the Juarez-El Paso border, but then received more than $200K from the U.S. Federal Government for information. The same U.S. agency that paid him, however, now wants to deport him back to Mexico and an almost certain death.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:52:18 -0800

Nice post. This is a tangent, but there's a great little web radio series about Juarez from Scott Carrier, Charles Bowden and Julian Cardona. Might be of interest to those who "enjoy" reading about this stuff.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:01:31 -0800

Well, that's pretty fucked up.

By: telstar

telstar — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:37:50 -0800

Oh, that noble and glorious drug war.

By: nlindstrom

nlindstrom — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:52:43 -0800

Poor fellar. But, such is the price of freedom.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:53:31 -0800

Incahoots are the sounds owls made in old Cusco. Lots of people dying for no reason. Quagmire.

By: i_am_a_Jedi

i_am_a_Jedi — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:40:04 -0800

Where's the A-team when you need them. I miss you Face.

By: MrZero

MrZero — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:21:50 -0800

Technically, Ufez, I think Lalo has been charged - he's being deported. Putting that aside, I don't see how this can be good for the government either way. If they send him back (to a certain death), I'm sure that the plaintiff's attorneys in the civil cases they are so afraid of will make a huge stink about it. Plus, news of his murder at the hands of ICE will have a terribly detrimental effect on any future informants they might try to get.

By: telstar

telstar — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:57:44 -0800

Plus, news of his murder at the hands of ICE will have a terribly detrimental effect on any future informants they might try to get. Silver lining.