Hachita, New Mexico: Drug & Human Trafficking Cartel Border Town? - 4k UHD
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Yes, that's what the deputy sheriff told me. Hachita, NM is apparently a haven for Mexican drug cartels. Stay away!
By the way. Here is an insane article promoting Hachita as a tourist destination. Per the article:
"The streets of Hachita are unpaved. Residents drive their pickup trucks slowly so as not to stir up dust-the modern descendant of a tradition in the West to ride horses slowly past a campsite. Going slowly also gives you time to avoid the jackrabbits and quail as they scurry across the road. There’s really no reason to hurry here."
Here is a link to this stunning piece of journalism (misinformation):
www.newmexico....
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On my way back from janos, Mexico my car broke down 13 south of 81. Well I can't tell you how wonderful everyone that lives in Hachita was from Jeff the owner of the Hachita market to Daniel and Andrea and others whose name I can't recall. Everyone so welcoming and willing to lend a hand offering me a place to spend the night and making phone calls to try to get my truck hauled and tied to my trailer...Thank you all for watching over my truck while I came back to Phoenix to pick up my trailer...Hachita folks you are awesome!!❤
My dad grew up in Hachita and several of my family are buried there. His name is George Holder and also his sisters Irene and Ida. Also his brother Cecil Earwood who ran a garage there for many years. George Hilliard wrote a wonderful book “Adios Hachita” printed 1998.
@@DavidHolder-j6r Hachita is an interest town. Quite isolated. The cops gave me a certain impression
Not afraid and not working for drug cartel. The Hachita Food Mart is open and welcomes all visitors.
I passed by your modest shop. The rest of the town is definitely lackluster.
@@JMMGarza Yeah no shit. It's close to being a ghost town. Is it supposed to be profound that you think it's somehow "lackluster"? I mean in reality every town and city in the Southwest is lackluster, from Scottsdale to El Paso. Nothing but shithole subrubs, shithole towns or over-priced pretentious crap like Santa Fe. I don't see why "Hachita" which again is a literal Ghosttown, is singled out for being "lackluster". Why not do another expose of your typical single story sprawling shit-hole that is numerous among the settlements of the American Southwest. Like...Las Cruces?
@@boomdos4265 Amen!
@@boomdos4265 Haha you are a fucking idiot. You've been here though. Come by sometime I'll show you the shit hole where you belong, you'll know why for a brief second
@@boomdos4265 Bwahahahahahahaha! Couldn't have said it better!
I love that area, but most folks just don't see it's beauty and mystique...and, for me, just comfort.
I miss my West Texas desert and really liked Hachita when I worked through there.
Y'all are rare and amazing folks.
You shouldn't say what others say unless you seen it for yourself thats how rumors start and tarnish the truth.
I've slept on it and come back to say this is poor commentary and a sad way to look at a community you clearly have no clue about
Comments after talking to a patrolling sheriff.
Hi Mr Garza. My Grandma and Grandpa lived in Hachita my whole life. It’s a wonderful magical place. I’ve lived there as a kid and after getting out of the Navy as an adult too. My mom and dad have lived there most of their lives. I just want to kindly say that there is no cartel action in Hachita. It gets some shady characters moving through once in a while, but there isn’t any criminality going on by any locals. 😂 Have a blessed day. ❤ ps. That deputy you talked to was clueless. He was making an assumption. 🤣
I can't wait to go back to Hachita, NM. I heard in August it's quite pleasant. This time around, I will capture more video of the infrastructure or lack thereof. I think an hour or two in town should be good enough. A trip to the sheriff's office would be a bonus. Instead of a 5:34 video, a 20 minute vignette. Thanks for your friendly comments. I look forward to interviewing Hachita residents next time around. Not just a sheriff's deputy. Hopefully the locals will be amenable. Don't forget to like, subscribe and share. Thanks.
I worked that border a few times on horseback in the early 2000's. Beautiful nights and hot, dry days...and I miss it.
The desert isn't for everyone. Yes, even then there was some cartel presence, but this little "town" isn't a descent crossing point. There's too much hard terrain to make it practical.
However, lack of law enforcement makes it truly part of the "Wild West"... just not quite as wild as it once was.
This is heartbreaking to see. I grew up in Animas, my great aunt lived in Hatchita in the house next to the church. I remember when the church looked new. Hatchita wasn’t a metropolis but I have great memories there.
Thank you for sharing. Heartbreaking...
Times change. I hope you are doing well.
hey Im from Playas, animas class of '93 hey who are ya/Brandon Hughes
Youre way too scared. Chill mane, its not that bad
I lived in plays before they closed the smelter that was there
I live in Hachita, there is no truth to this video, reporting for false news.
The video doesn't lie.
@@RVTA I live in Hachita, ain't no one afraid and sure as hell no one is involved with the cartel, you sir are spreading false lies in which you have zero basis to do so, you're a liar plain and simple, Hachita is simply a place where some of us have chosen to make a life far away from the chaos of the cities, sure it's not pretty, we don't have everything a mile down the road nor do we care to otherwise we wouldn't choose to live the life we live.
@@khaosinfire Info about the majesty of Hachita courtesy of a sheriff's deputy I met while shooting this video. I'd love to go door to door and meet all the wonderful folks living in Hachita. Then again, maybe not.
@@RVTA The Majesty of Hachita? Seriously, do you know how many border patrol and military personnel work this area? If something like that was going on it would be stopped quickly, I dunno who told you all that stuff but it's not true, Hachita is the last place a fugitive or drug dealer would want to come to let alone live.
@@khaosinfire The deputy I talked definitely to was keeping a keen eye on criminal activity in "bucolic" Hachita.
All I can say about this little bit of idiocy is Libel Time! I grew up in this area and still have family there and there is NOT nor has there ever been any "Drug & Human Trafficking Cartel" in this town. Your source of information is questionable if you got the name of the town right. Everyone knows everyone else and probably grew up with their family unless someone new retires here because they crave the quiet life. People that work from here either work for the ranches around or the state and yes all the roads are dirt and always will be dirt but take a look at the video-they are well maintained dirt! I believe the town Garza got mixed up with Hachita is Columbus which he said he had come thru on his way to go to Animas. Columbus has had its share of trouble with cartels. Google "Columbus NM trouble with cartels" to verify this then do the same for Hachita. Anyway Mr Garza, you owe the residents of Hachita an apology, and I'm glad to hear you couldn't be paid to live there. They probably couldn't be paid to have you.
I'm glad I'm not the only one saying no...it is not a "cartel border town." Most of the cartel people down here want nothing to do with any towns I've found in my years down here. They stick to the desert until they get to or past I-10. I know...I see them weekly running behind my property or on the roads when I'm going to Road Forks or Animas. Towns are too hot for cartel presence. Animas and Chiricahua Valley are where we get most of our traffic here...some more across the border of AZ down near Naco and Bisbee also seems to have a lot of traffic. Like another poster said, the mountain passes below make it an ill-advised crossing, not to mention it is like 20 miles from a Homeland Security training camp in Playas which I would imagine would be a dangerous proposition for criminals.
Hachita is Registered as unincorporated community . Why is all border towns neglected by state and government fundings ?
It's monitored by the sheriff's department. Infrastructure?
I lived in Hachita for only one summer doing seasonal wildlife work in the area and honestly I find this video to be very out of touch, and horribly offensive. Hachita is not abandoned, and it is certainly not a “cartel town”. The people who live there are some of the kindest and most unique individuals I have ever met. To hear you talk about them as if they are animals and record their homes like zoo exhibits breaks my heart. You drove past a place I called home filled with lots of joy and memories, recorded it, and said “Everyone look how horrible it must be to live here! There’s no possible way anyone could want to live here!” Can you imagine how you would feel if someone did that to you?
I visit my friends in Hachita at least once a week and I can tell you that you're simply wrong
about cartels and people being afraid. Why not put your interview with the "deputy" on the vid?
Your viewers, and you, might like to get another angle on Hachita by reading the feature article in New Mexico Magazine, April, 2019.
Uh so what else is there then ?
Your Trippingg
The locals maybe?
I just gave you the 31st thumbs down by the way.
Thanks?
You are woefully uninformed about Hachita. Cartel? Cheap shot snarky sniping of a place you think is a joke. Go away. Stay on I-10 next time, hot-shot.
Images are true but your words are lies deputy’s come to Hachita about every 3 months.
I don't plan to go back unless to buy some Twinkies at the grocery store.
@@JMMGarza I can't wait to go back to Hachita, NM. I heard in August it's quite pleasant. This time around, I will capture more video of the infrastructure or lack thereof. I think an hour or two in town should be good enough. A trip to the sheriff's office would be a bonus. Instead of a 5:34 video, a 20 minute vignette. Thanks for your friendly comments. I look forward to interviewing Hachita residents next time around. Not just a sheriff's deputy. Hopefully the locals will be amenable.
Didn't you post this before though? :)
@@AZ-gw8un Should I post it again?
Well obviously drug runners will pass through there. It's near the border after all. No different than Imperial County, Cohise, or your typical Texan border town.
I'm not too far from there. I wonder if Mexican soldiers ever crossed into New Mexico by mistake or on purpose? Also, did you get an eerie feeling being there?
I talked to a Sherriff's deputy. I was just passing through. I was in the safety of my truck.
Does anyone in Hachita know who I can buy a small piece of land in Hachita from so I can park my motor home? Can’t seem to find a realtor.Thank you
I know the Been Family still have some land there. I think Virginia and William Been own a few acres there, check them out!
@@textbooksgalore858 thank you. Where I find them? Just google Been family?
4 dozen (official) inhabitants in 2010, if you do not mind the isolation and solitude, the place seems nice
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachita,_New_Mexico
Okay.
Joey Uno This video is completely bogus. A bunch of misinformation by an ignorant tourist. He dosent even know he was on Hwy &1, not hwy 146. Another drive by so called journalist who dosent know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Joey Uno some of us are confident and not needy and being alone when we choos to be is ok. I know a lot of ppl can't stand to be alone for an hour beause they feed off the energy of others.
Does anyone know if the graves if Ike and Billy Heslet are marked? They were killed in a shootout here at an old general store when the town was still known as Eureka in the 1880's. Thanks for any info some of you locals might provide!
I looked for those graves and could not find anything with markings that could show proof but there were some old unmarked graves.
@Lucas Speer.The Heslet brothers were ranchers who killed two Arizona outlaws and the brothers were ambushed and killed. in 1881 I believe. I think these are the ones you are referring to.
Maybe Garza is trying to scare all the quail hunters away so's he can have it all to himself?
Saludos desde Indianapolis Indiana estados unidos muy buen video
Molto bene! Gracias. Thanks.
Gracias desde Fort Worth, Tejas.
did you record Columbus? thank you J.
Next time?
@JMM Garza I've been to Hachita like 2-3 times
@@rogeliovmartinez Shopping?
@@JMMGarza right?
Nice im agana visit this cartell town . HACHITA! ITS called ocupation fellow ciudadanos.
Very interesting. Sure glad you got out safe.
It was a hot day. People were inside enjoying the AC.
People are really defensive about this place on the comments , It reminds me of the Navajo Indian Res but dirt roads.
People are really "defensive" about this place because they don't like it when outsiders come here who have seen too many movies about the Mexican drug cartels. It's like every Italian is a mafioso, right? People live here. Like they live everywhere else. Migrants pass through because that is human nature. To migrate. And nobody likes it when "passersby" think they know a town just by...passing by.
Creeeeeeeeepy.
One person had a nice house and jeep.
@@JMMGarza lol
I used to live in hachita NM. Down by the Post office. . They had a old school and a gym where we play basketball games and we had rodeo and dance there back in the 70's. We had a bar there. Before we moved to Texas someone opened up a store there. .
@@janerawall06 thanks for sharing your experiences in Hachita.