This was not the only rancher we heard that day that talked about the drug trains...

From such late 1980s headlines in the San Antonio Express - News more or less along these lines:

"US - bound drug runs escorted by East Germans and Cubans sources say..."

To today's 2010 Kinney County Post quote from a recent Arizona state senate hearing:

"Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation..."


The evolution of Los Nuevos Comancheros has indeed a long and fascinating history!

In what I'm pretty sure was an EXPRESS - NEWS feature article in something like the 3rd. Sunday in March, 1989 edition -- back in the good 'ole days when Mr. James "Jim" Hutton and equally professional colleagues were all still on the payroll -- we were told that these East German and Cuban mercs dropped out while still at least ten miles south of the US boundary.

Their places were then taken by local pistoleros for the duration of the trip.

Bringing things up to date in the Nuevos Comancheros scene, we have the "Open letter from Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen," carried by the Kinney County Post -- Tuesday, May 25, 2010 edition.

In this article we read:

"Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation.

"A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards.

"These people are violent and they will kill anyone who gets in the way.

"This was not the only rancher we heard that day that talked about the drug trains..."