Tune in to "Geraldo at Large" on Fox News this Sunday night...

...if you want to catch me talking on-air and live about the drug war and other border security issues! I'm very excited about this opportunity, and have been waiting/hoping/praying that Fox News would eventually come a'calling. Anyway, I'll be on during the first half of "Geraldo at Large" on Sunday night (Nov. 14), which starts at 10pm EST. Wish me luck!

UPDATE: I was able to get a copy of the segment which included my interview. In case you weren't able to catch it live, here it is (I come on at 5:05):

Comments

[P]

Update on the Zeta's and Ciudad Meir ...

Houston Chronicle. Nov 12'th ...

CIUDAD MIGUEL ALEMAN, Mexico — More than 300 men, women and children from the colonial ranching town of Ciudad Mier, a 10-minute drive from Texas, have taken refuge in the Lion's Club in this small city on the Rio Grande — fleeing for their lives from the gangland killers called the Zetas.

The refugees deserted Mier en masse during the past week after Zetas attacked in force to wrest it back from rival thugs of the so-called Gulf Cartel narcotics smuggling organization. Businesses and houses were burned, refugees say, and innocents murdered. Government forces have not yet reacted, they say.

"Either the government doesn't want to act or they are waiting until the bands kill off one another," said a refugee, who spoke on the condition his name not be used out of fear of the gunmen."

I guess if the Mexican Army moves in with shovels, then they'll only have to bury the dead. It beats risking your neck by facing live bullets.

Excuse my sarcasm.

P

[guest]

I see Gerardo is on Midnight EST on Fox, we will see if I will be able to stay up for it, surely we will be able to see it online later too. Thank you for telling us.

[guest]

Oh, pardon me for saying, Central Time, it appears Geraldo is on at MIDNIGHT, I did not mean to say Eastern time. I'll leave the time zone issue out of this as above you say 10 PM Eastern...we'll see.

Well, congratulations if you are happy to be on that show.

Those Mexican towns out in the boonies like Cd. Mier, once upon a time, those towns could be enchanting.

How about the Mennonites down in Chihuahua? Heavens! Poor people,

Poor people in the Copper Canyon too, the Tarahumara Indian Tribe. By the way, if anyone is into athletic endeavours, there has been a book on running, a landmark book called "Born to run" by MacDougall (or McDougall) and there is a whole lot about the Tarahumara Indian tribe in that book as they are great runners.

A gringo, very athletic went down to the Copper Canyon area and he is known as Caballo Blanco, he even has his own website: http://www.caballoblanco.com/

I don't know if I would want to go on the Ferrocarril Chihuahua Al Pacifico these days, though when I went some years ago, there were people from all over Mexico on the train and the train was actually pretty nice, in fact, there were people from New Zealand, Australia, France on the train too. Surely, it is a scenic wonder in the world still. Fantastic.

This is off topic, sorry, but the trip to the Pacific was great, I would have to say, the return trip though a few years before this current turmoil, probably did have some rough characters on it.

[D]

Sylvia,

Enjoyed seeing you on Geraldo. Though I'm not a Fox news kind of guy, I enjoyed seeing a familiar face. Geraldo mentioned something about the Mexican military being the sole force against the DTOs. From what I know, they are still quite corrupted. I have hope in the Mexican navy and the Marines, though even they might have some issues of corruption. I'm sure you have heard about the Mexican Marines who captured Tony Tormenta, and then let him go for three million dollars. What is your opinion on the matter of corruption within the Mexican military?

-D

P.S.- Didn't mean to be so harsh on the EZLN matter.

[guest]

Please excuse the 3rd post but yes, I saw it and you expressed yourself well and you were rather photogenic. I liked the background as well, the book shelf and the ceramics.

I was not aware of the "gun stores" Gerardo referred to that he said were lined up in some USA border cities one after another. If this is so, definitely, the USA needs to curb/clean up this situation as well as the "voracious appetite" for drugs.

It seems like some Cartels at the moment are taking some hits, there is some vigilantism and who knows what are some things the government could be doing. In Colombia of course, they had the Pepes, as I think everyone knows standing for something like People or Personas persecuted by Pablo Escobar. Interestingly, one of the top bosses of the old Medellin Cartel was called the Mexicano because he styled his ranch in Revolucion decor and the like.

[Sylvia Longmire]

@D - No worries. And as for the military, I think they're corruptible like everyone else, but maybe to a slightly lesser extent...that's why Calderón sent them in the first place. But they have their own issues, like the human rights abuse allegations, lack of sufficient counternarcotics training, etc. They were and still are the best solution Calderón has right now, but they're not as squeaky clean as some people might think, in my opinion.

[guest]

Fox news is great to watch and they still have a wide umbrella of coverage and views with the likes of Juan Williams, Geraldo and others. Geraldo's show was actually very good. Also, Fox has had some other coverage of border issues just in the past week and that's based on my actually not even watching too much.

Some observations on Geraldo's show would be.

Geraldo said he was hoping proposition 19 in California which would have decriminalized marijuana would have been passed and Geraldo's reasoning was that this would take a burden off of the drug war on the Mexican side. President Calderón however was against the passage of proposition 19 and reasoned it would have made the drug war worse. I tend to see it more Geraldo's way but I may well be wrong.

Geraldo said 100 people were killed in one day in Matamoros if I heard correctly, that weekend the troops went after Tormenta. I did not know the toll was so high.

Geraldo asserted the Mexican Military was "solid" in his words and I believe he meant that in a generalized way. I didn't see him painting them as being saints. Of course, the segment largely just scratched the surface of the issue and yes, they are ratings based.

The other guest was good too as well as the discussions with the Cuellar brothers. Now, I don't even remember if Geraldo actually was in the parts filmed near the border.

[Will]

Hi there. There was a L.A. Times article on Nov. 3rd, about four U.S. citizen that were killed in CD. Juarez. Any info on this? It might have been over looked due to the Nov. 2nd Elections. The article indicates that it was 2 different incidents. The authorities did not want to give a whole lot of info regarding the people involved, but did say that two of the deceased had criminal records and they didn’t disclose that info either (a 15 year old and a 26 year old).

[John Gold]

Sylvia great job on Geraldo.

It's good to see you finally getting some national exposure for your expertise.

Best of luck in the future.

John Gold
Radio Free ARFCOM