The Jekyll & Hyde image above, shot in sunny Acapulco, pretty much sums up the drug violence in Mexico.  Happy tourists enjoy a day at the beach, totally oblivious to the bloody corpse laying behind a wall, several feet away.  Not only is this a microcosm of Mexico’s clashing lifestyles; it also reflects the duality [...]

Wow.  MacGyver ain’t got nuthin’ on this guy. According to the NY Daily News: A California man was arrested Saturday night for strutting around town with a homemade shotgun hidden in the hollowed-out shell of a plastic Super Soaker water gun. Randy Smith, 54, had the lethal version of the brightly colored child’s toy hanging [...]

Apparently, blondes do have more fun. Usually, when I post something about Brazil it’s booty-related.  We all know Brazil is famous for babes with mega-phat asses.  But if you’ve seen the movie City of God (one of my all-time favorites) then you know Brazil is also famous for crime.  Hijacking, kidnapping, murder… you name it, [...]

No, this is NOT an April Fools joke. I’d expect this shit from a drug bust in the hood.  But in Italy? My man Crucifixio Jones hipped me to this nugget of foolishness from BBC News: Italian police discovered a bust of actor Al Pacino as the drugs boss “Scarface” when they raided the home [...]

The GOP would have you believe that President Barack Obama is soft on terrorism, national security, blah blah blah.  Clearly they’re blind with bias.  Like the Chi-town gangsta he is, Barry O has murked out a bunch of bad guys.  Bin Laden, Gaddafi (however you spell his damn name), miscellaneous al-Qaeda bigwigs and other super [...]

I saw a few excerpts from the upcoming reality/drama film Snow On Tha Bluff, directed by Damon Russell.  Looks like some real deal, in-the-trenches gangster shit.  The film made its premiere at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival and will be screened at 2012 Brooklyn Film Festival. Russell produced three episodes of the A&E reality-series The [...]

Wow.  The most feared drug gang in Mexico, Cartel Los Zetas, finally buckled under pressure.  But it wasn’t law enforcement, the military or rival gangsters that made the violent Zetas bow to threats… it was a gang of computer geeks. A few days ago, the hacking collective known as Anonymous threatened to expose the identities [...]

Rather than complain about how impotent the genre of Rap has become, I endorse creative artists making good music. L.E.P. Bogus Boys, the hardcore rap duo from Chicago, are at the top of their game right now.  Moonie and G. Count spit well-crafted gangsta shit and unlike many pure lyricists, their beat selection is outstanding.  [...]

People have gone to great lengths to save the whales, trees and oceans.  Hopefully the same effort will be made to save an “uncontacted,” isolated native tribe in the Amazon jungles of Brazil.  The Panoan Indians were first photographed from the air in 2008 and to this day, have never been contacted by the outside [...]

Rick Ross got the Triple C’s? Well, I’m gonna trump him with Five C’s: Cars Carrying Cocaine Cross Country. Guess if you’re gonna ride dirty, you might as well do it in the cleanest whip. From the Wall Street Journal: Four men have been arrested and a suspected ringleader was still being sought in a [...]

If you’re going to kill people in Mexico, do it while you’re a teenager. You thought the Casey Anthony verdict was proof of a flawed justice system? That was small potatoes compared to this.  After calmly confessing to torturing and beheading at least four people, American-born 14-year old Edgar Jiminez Lugo was sentenced in a [...]