{"id":1630934,"date":"2022-09-02T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630934"},"modified":"2022-09-02T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:35:47","slug":"drone-captures-images-of-mexican-drug-cartel-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/drone-captures-images-of-mexican-drug-cartel-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Captures Images of Mexican Drug Cartel Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdrone-captures-images-of-mexican-drug-cartel-camp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1630934&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>This is the fifth and final article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona\u2019s border with Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ARIVACA, Ariz.\u2014The first gunshots seemed to come down the mountain on the other side of Arizona\u2019s border fence with Mexico, just east of Arivaca, where rival drug cartel factions battle to the death for supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>Sam, my security guide, listened closely as more shots rang out.<\/p>\n<p>They were hunters, no doubt, though not the kind you would typically expect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere exactly do you think the shots are coming from?\u201d I asked Sam nervously from the back seat of his pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think they\u2019re to the right,\u201d Sam said, focused on the nearest mountain. \u201cThey could be on top of that big peak as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not as if we were invisible, clambering noisily up the winding dirt fire road in the border zone known as the California Gulch, part of the Coronado National Forest in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Our arrival in Sam\u2019s gargantuan white Chevy Silverado on the sweltering morning of Aug. 25 was about as clandestine as a bullhorn in a public library.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey could be warning shots\u201d\u2014for us, Sam said. \u201cBut this is where they\u2019re coming. Right here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sam is the pseudonym he uses to conceal his identity and that of his security company in Arizona. He\u2019s been threatened by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-sinaloa-cartel\">Sinaloa Cartel<\/a> for conducting border-watching activities. He now fears for the safety of his employees and family.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image000000-3-1200x523-1.jpg\"><\/a> Actual drone still footage shows a Mexican drug cartel faction (red dot) camped out just over the U.S. border near Arivaca, Ariz., on Aug. 25. (Courtesy of a private Arizona security company) <\/p>\n<p>Below our position, the unfinished Trump border wall and fence stretched east and west for miles, then abruptly stopped.\u00a0On the U.S. side of the border, cattle grazed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fifth and final article in a series on illegal drug and human smuggling along Arizona\u2019s border with Mexico. 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