The US media have virtually ignored this story. [...]

'If Congress and the media start to look at this properly, they will be horrified."

—Sandy Gonzalez, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA office in El Paso, one of the most senior and highly decorated Hispanic law enforcement officers in America, quoted in observer.guardian.uk's House of Death

4.
Sutton had all the evidence he needed from the US's high-paid stoolie, Guillermo Ramirez Peyro, or "Lalo," to close down the case and (among other things) bring in Heriberto Santillan-Tabares (Il Ingeniero, the Engineer, "a man notorious for acts of savage violence")—a confessed killer who thought nothing of his crimes and bragged of more in advance. But gathering information was more important to United States officials than preventing the people they were watching from being killed. Even Lalo, America's paid informant, began helping in the murders.

The inevitable conclusion in this case is that this apathy to murder has based on racism. That is not my invention or inference. That is the statement of both Sandy Gonzales, Special Agent in charge of the DEA office in El Paso, Texas as well as of those who are studying all the facts.

5.
The trail of blood leads to Alberto Gonzales, himself.

Now, as a result of documents disclosed in three separate court cases, it is becoming clear that his murder, along with at least 11 further brutal killings, at the Juarez 'House of Death', is part of a gruesome scandal, a web of connivance and cover-up stretching from the wild Texas borderland to top Washington officials close to President Bush.

These documents, which form a dossier several inches thick, are the main source for the facts in this article. They suggest that while the eyes of the world have been largely averted, America's 'war on drugs' has moved to a new phase of cynicism and amorality, in which the loss of human life has lost all importance - especially if the victims are Hispanic."

—Observer.guardian.uk

I call Alberto Gonzales pinche vendido and some argue me that he owes nothing to Mexicanos, nothing to his illegal alien parents, nothing to the idea that there is something horrifying about his absolute lack of empathy for the plight of his people at the hands of the nation that has made him so powerful and rich. To me their case falls apart without even considering this news on the House of Death. But with it, I hope they understand what I am getting at.

At least 11 other murders under the US Government's watch.

But who cares if you break a few Mexicanos eggs when you're scrambling your plato of DrugWar. (Note to the chef: You don't even need a Drug War! See the "Polking Más Tierra" section of your American Cookbook Manifesto.)

Sutton could and should have shut down the case, there and then. He could have told Ice and the lawyers "go with what you have, and let's try to bring Santillan to justice". That neither he nor anyone else decided to take that action invites an obvious inference: that because the only people likely to get killed were Mexicans, they thought it didn't much matter.'

Bill Weaver, a law professor at the University of Texas at El Paso who has made a detailed study of the event

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When Sandy Gonzalez (no relation), the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA office in El Paso got a hold of the facts, he wrote a letter to Sutton explaining his blunt and not-disguised awe and disgust at how the case had been handled. He said he was "outraged," and informed Sutton that he held him personally responsible.

8.
Sutton was "horrified" and only concerned that Sandy Gonzales might go to the Press—but not so much about what were being called "carne asadas" (literally "barbecues"), these death fests taking place under his watch and with his approval.

9.
Sandy Gonzales was taken off the House of Death case and was "ordered to report to Washington for 'performance discussions to further address this officially'."

10.
"Gonzalez, who had enjoyed glittering appraisals throughout his 30-year career, was told he would be downgraded." (Sound like a familiar pattern?) But instead, he quit the Bureau and launched a lawsuit.

If Congress and the media start to look at this properly, they will be horrified. It needs a special prosecutor, as with the case of Valerie Plame. [...] But Valerie is a nice-looking white person and the victims here are brown. Nobody gives a shit.'

—Sandy Gonzalez, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA office in El Paso, one of the most senior and highly decorated Hispanic law enforcement officers in America

Another cover-up by our shining knights of Democracy. One more way in which the dominant culture wants to reinforce the very same paradigm that brought killers and slavemasters and liars to these very shores. No, it's not what they set out to do. But the problem with undercurrents that are concretized into a system's foundation is that they inform even when they are unstated. It's the template underneath the page, the attitude that the hands engage. And in this case, it is one that the mainstream media is using to keep us in the dark. I guess they assume that is where the light of Democratic process does its best work.

It's worst at night, when I put them to bed. I guess that's when it hits them. I tell them, 'come on you guys, we got to make a prayer. Don't worry. Your daddy's watching you.'"

—Janet Padilla, widow

I'm betting other people are watching you, too. But it ain't the Press, chavalitos. It ain't the "guardians of Truth." They've all been paid to leave their posts.

UPDATE: Getting more attention, now. May get even more.