Unfortunately, I have no clue as to how to start a thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2758714/posts
It seems that the FR link you're providing covers similar issues....the title doesn't really suggest that, but here from the body of the post:
helping to oversee an operation that imported into the US “multi-ton quantities of cocaine. Zambada Niebla also claims to be an asset of the US government.
You might like to post your excellent link from the El Paso Times as a post in that thread so readers can see the Times' different take.
If it's posted as a new thread in Breaking or Front Page, the mods may pull it as a 'duplicate' even though it isn't really.