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Extradition order for El Mayo's son, Mayito Gordo Zambada

September 10, 2015, 10:35 pm
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Ismael Zambada Imperial "El Mayito Gordo", son of  Sinaloa Capo, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, has been ordered extradited to the US, to face charges against him in the federal court, California Southern District, San Diego.

Reforma reports that the Sixth District Judge, Alejandro Caballero Vértiz, sent his decision to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who in turn has 20 days to reach a decision to approve the extradition.

In November, 2014, "The Mayito Gordo" was arrested by the Navy in the town of El Ranchito de los Burgos, 60 kilometers from Culiacan and four days later he was booked into Penal Federal de Occidente, in Jalisco.


If the extradition occurs, that will be the third son of El Mayo that has been placed into the hands of United States Federal Court.


Mayito’s brother,  Serafin Zambada Ortiz, who was arrested in November last year at a checkpoint on the border with the United States, he has since plead guilty in exchange for a plea bargain. Previously another brother Vicente Zambada Niebla, was arrested by the Mexican Army on March 18, 2009, later extradited to the United States and sits in federal prison.  Vicente also entered a plea agreement with the United States.  It can be read below.



El Mayo fathered 5 daughters in addition to his sons, one of which died  in an electrical accident.

This is the notice he filed on 3.15.11 about 2 years before he plead guilty, contending he was working with U.S. Agents, and he was a victim of entrapment.

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"Don Neto" is granted "House Arrest"

September 11, 2015, 5:22 pm
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Lucio R. Borderland Beat- posted by ComputerJA


Milenio is reporting that a federal court in Jalisco, granted Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, ("Don Neto") the right to spend the rest of his 10 year sentence under house arrest. 


He was convicted of the assassination of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.

"Don Neto" was one of the founders and leaders of the Guadalajara Cartel, a drug trafficking organization that monopolized nearly all the smuggling routes in Mexico during the 1970s and 1980s. After the kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena Salazar by the Guadalajara Cartel in 1985, Mexico and the U.S. carried out a massive manhunt against the cartel's leaders. 

That same year, he was arrested in Puerto Vallarta and has imprisoned at the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 2 ("Puente Grande") in Jalisco. "Don Neto" is currently 85 years old and was granted the right to spend the rest of his sentence in house arrest given his age. Mexican authorities are still working to determine exactly where he will be kept.

In November 2013 when Rafael Caro Quintero was released, José Luis Guízar, the attorney of  Fonseca Carrillo, stated that his client's release was “imminent”.  No further news of developments was reported, until January of this year, when reports indicated he was to win a release.  A judge had ordered a study,  due to his heath and senility, to determine if  he would qualify for a house arrest.

The Milenio report indicated they were still uncertain exactly where he would be sent.


Fonseca is the uncle of former Juarez Cartel leader, Amado Carrillo Fuentes.

Click on this hyperlink for backstory information.

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Rodrigo Vallejo sentenced to 11 months in prison

September 12, 2015, 2:35 am
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Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article

[ Subject Matter: Rodrigo Vallejo, Knight Templar
Recommendation: Read this article by BB reporter Luciosee link]

A Judge sentenced the son of ex Governor of Michoacán, Fausto Vallejo, for the crime of  concealment of facts that could have led to the arrest of Servando Gomez Martinez "La Tuta" and other criminal Templarios.



Reporter: Milenio Digital
A Federal Judge handed a sentence of 11 months and 6 days to Rodrigo Gerardo Vallejo Mora, son of the ex Governor of Michoacán, Fausto Vallejo, for the crime of concealment.

The Judge of the 16th District of Federal Penal Processes in the Federal District informed that Vallejo Mora did not proportion data that could have helped in the in the capture of members of the Knights Templar Cartel and specifically Servando Gomez Martinez "La Tuta".



The son of the ex Governor committed the crime of concealment on 1st of August last year, when he appeared as a witness for SEIDO and the PGR.

The Judge determined that the conduct of Vallejo Mora contravened article 13, sub section II of the Federal Penal Code, for which the penalty is privation of liberty and its corresponding sanctions.

Original article in Spanish at Milenio

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Part 1: Prominent businessmen's arrest unveils Mexico/Australia cocaine trafficking ring

September 13, 2015, 5:50 pm
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Prominent Businessmen's arrest reveals Australian trafficking conspiracy 

Owen Michael Hanson, a former USC tight end, turned entrepreneur, who runs 310 Development, a Los Angeles real estate design and architecture firm, finished his round of golf at a Carlsbad course last Thursday.  In the sweltering San Diego heat of the late afternoon, he walked through the parking lot of the San Diego area country club, where he was arrested by agents with the FBI, and federal officers from Sydney, Australia.  He is charged with a single count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, in a indictment unsealed Friday.  Australian authorities are seeking his extradition to file more charges. 

Andrew Mcmanus
At Melbourne Airport, Australia, hours earlier, a 54 year old man, with an air of entitlement, and privilege and multiple cell phones attempted to board his flight.  He is overweight,  perhaps from the indulgences of the good life, including alcohol and morphine.  His hair is thinning, white, his clothes stylish. Andrew Mcmanus, of his own One World Productions, and Australian native is also arrested by federal authorities.  One World is featuring a KISS reunion tour this fall in Australia. 

He has been charged with perverting the course of justice, two counts of intention to defraud by false or misleading statements, and knowingly participating in a criminal group. 

Others named in the conspiracy include Craig Haeusler, 55, Michael Croke, 65(attorney of Mcmanus, and partner in a nightclub) and Zeti Atilgan, 32 a pastry shop owner.  The men had been under investigation in a convoluted conspiracy case that goes back to the summer of 2011.  


The case involves 300 kilograms of cocaine, steroids, money laundering, casinos, MMA fighting, the backdrop being the charmed life successful businessmen, concert promoters with designer homes, and celebrity clients and friends.  All three are free on bail, Mcmanus is due in court on October 14th.
McManus arrested last week

In August 2011, Sean Caroloan, a sort of amalgam of sleazy by reputation occupations,  who was allegedly, at this point calling himself a personal trainer, after being a cage fighter and racehorse trainer was detained in possession of a black suitcase with 700,000 in cash, in 10,000 bundles.  Police acting on an anonymous tip, detained Carolan at the Hilton, in Sydney.  He claimed the cash belonged to his business partner, Owen Michael Hanson.

 Hanson apparently had invested in Carolan's weight loss business, Advanced Peptide Solutions.  Carolan, has a history of sordid business dealings, including his NUBODI weight loss, featured on the Rip Off report.  Also, Carolan was accused of administering HGH to the Roosters, a Sydney Rugby team.  
One of McManus' former luxury homes

The men, Carolan at the forefront began a series of legal maneuvers to reclaim the 700k.  They would be unsuccessful after a trial last year, to receive back the money.

'Do you want me to tell you the, the full story on basically how this money was laundered"? -Owen Michael Hanson, police interview. 

Hanson, who apparently spent a lot of time in Sydney's casinos and hotels, claimed the money was for silent investors, who were anxious to be paid back for Hanson's business ventures.  "I have silent investors that are basically at their wits end over here...I deal with a lot of professional athletes, a lot of people are upset...".

Sean Carolan.

Enter Andrew Mcmanus, interviewed in 2012, who told a different story, in a candid and incriminating series of interviews with the police.  "I gave someone 700 large.  You found someone with 700 large. It's my 700 large".  He told investigators he had 600 large in a safe at his house at the moment. 

He claimed the money was to repay Hanson, who had fronted the money for a ZZ Top concert in Australia, that Mcmanus company One World Productions had promoted.  Mcmanus claimed he used couriers to smuggle the money in from America, the proceeds from a Lenny Kravitz Concert, to avoid the Australian Tax Organization, who were already circling, seeking millions in back taxes.

McManus claimed friends of his, including Craig Haeusler, who was "like my brother", and Owen Michael Hanson would front him money to support his struggling business, due to financial difficulties and tax troubles.  Hasusler, served 5 years for managing a methamphetamine distribution network in Sydney, and was released from prison in 2003, after a 5 year sentence.  He is a "known organized crime figure", according to Australian authorities.

 McManus in a later press interview, said he was using alcohol and morphine at the time, and "not in a good place", and "not a lucid man".  After several bad deals and failed, financially devastating tours, he was 4.2 million in debt in 2011.  He started abusing alcohol, a bottle of vodka a day, and eventually pain killers.  He claims, "I lost my character and all my credibility".  To pay off his debt, and continue his lifestyle, McManus sold six properties, homes and liquidated his business, Andrew McManus Presents International PTY LTD.

Hilton Hotel, Sydney, Australia

He also sold luxury cars, including a Bentley, Range Rover, and Mercedes.  After suicide attempts, a broken back, and depression, among other woes, he went to rehab for six weeks.  He claimed he was a changed man.  He now lives in a modest home, and drives a 30 year old Rolls Royce, given to him by friend, Jerry Lewis.   The 702,000 and the scandal have followed him in the press in Australia since 2011. 

Authorities allege the money was proceeds from cocaine trafficking, and was to be laundered in Sydney and Las Vegas casinos.  Hanson, allegedly introduced through Haeusler to an unnamed professional gambler, who would take checks from the Sydney Star casino and cash them in Vegas.  Camera footage from the casino, the night in August shows McManus stuffing bundles of cash into a black bag.  Carolan is the alleged bag man.

In 2014 after years of maneuvering, Carolan lost at trial.  Afterwards a series of raids in Sydney, and Victoria turned up steroids, marijuana, 68,000, and electronic devices and equipment.  The raids were focused on properties belonging to Mcmanus and others allegedly involved in the conspiracy. Authorities became aware of plans to import up to 300 kilos of cocaine into Australia, where the price is over 100,000 per kilo.  

Enter Owen Michael Hanson, known to his Australian circles as 'dispose', the 33 year old business prodigy, with a silver AK-47 with the Louis Vuitton logo adorning his designer Redondo Beach home's living room, and a taste for Las Vegas.

Sources:  The Sydney Herland, The Daily Telegraph, ABC News, The Herald Sun, The San Diego Union Tribune, La Times. 






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Banners: Brother of Singer Joan Sebastian ordered normalistas kidnapping in Iguala, drugs hidden on bus

September 13, 2015, 9:44 pm
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Mantas, (banners) were placed in various points of Morelos.  It accuses Federico Figueroa, the brother of the late singer Joan Sebastian, of being the author of the kidnapping and killings of normalistas in Iguala, Guerrero.  It also states he is the leader of Guerreros Unidos.


It has recently come to light that there may have been a 5th bus taken by the normalistas, and on that bus were hidden drugs being transported.  This manta (banner) seems to support that theory, and is one that makes sense when all the known facts are pooled together.  If true, the kidnappings and killings was not pre-planned, but happenstance because of a drug shipment. 

This would explain the poor planning of body disposal, which just about no one believes occurred at the Cocula dump (PGR theory), and leaves open the door of possibility the army help dispose of the bodies, by transferring the deceased to a military crematorium, a not so long drive from Iguala.  A recent poll revealed that 64-68% of Mexicans reject the official theory as factual.   A report was released on September 6, from IMCI that concluded the bodies of the Ayotzinapa Normalistas, were not incinerated at the dump.  The full report is embedded in Spanish at the end of this post.

Manta Tex
"Gentlemen from Guerrero, parents of the Normalistas of Ayotzinapa, do not be fooled and do not forget about your children and relatives, ask Federico Figueroa where your children are.

 He is the one who knows the whereabouts of the normalistas, as it was he who ordered them to be seized.  Ask him how he treats peasant farmers from Iguala.  He is the one who knows the whereabouts of the students of the normal school, as he ordered them to be seized,  and ask him how I treats the peasants from Iguala and the mountains of Guerrero, he removes the planting of what they have sown..

“He is the leader of Guerreros Unidos and in Morelos, his accomplice and right hand, is Noe Reynoso AKA La Yegua, whom assists  him in getting into Morelos” since he hides in the government,  so the Guerreros Unidos kidnap and screw around in Morelos, is read in the mantas.


"Gentlemen of Ayotzinapa ask of  Federico Figueroa, and his accomplice “La Yegua”  for your children, they have the answers."

“The mistake of the Normalistas was to take the wrong bus, because it was full of drugs that belonged to the leader of Guerreros Unidos which is Federico Figueroa, that is why he ordered to stopping of the bus demand of him, the whereabouts of the normalistas, so that the government stop the cover up, and the truth comes to light,” (concludes the text.)
According to police sources in Morelos, were in total three Mantas of 4 meters wide by 2meters high printed with black and red letters which were placed on bridges over the Cuernavaca and Acapulco Highway and streets of Morelos Capital.



Oak Ed put together information and links on forum giving in-depth reporting on the report. Also Soliado

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San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora´s Police Chief executed.

September 14, 2015, 10:38 pm
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With little more than 24 hours left for the actual city administration in San Luis Rio Colorado, Francisco Vazquez Bustamante, the city´s Police Chief, was executed. According to unofficial reports, the Police Chief was heavily injured and was taken to a hospital still alive.

The attack took place at about 8:00 PM, in the corner of 22nd Street and Chiapas Street. The Police Chief was driving a white late model Nissan Titan pick-up truck. the truck remained with its headlights on and parked on the side of the road. It appears Vazquez Bustamante parked his truck to answer a phone call.

According to witness reports, the attackers were driving a blue Volkswagen Jetta from which they shot against the Transit and Police Chief.




This attack takes place on the last day of the PAN administration led by Leonardo Guillen, who, at tomorrow´s midnight, will pass the power to Enrique Reina, of the same party, who has already been city mayor in 2000-2003.

It was rumored Vazquez Bustamante could remain as Police Chief as he had the same role on Reina´s previous term.

Francisco Vazquez Bustamante previously worked in the Baja California Public Safety Agency assigned to the Penitentiary System, before that he was a Public Ministry Agent in the Violent Homicides area assigned to the San Felipe port.

On May 21, 2012, Police Chief Luis Rodriguez Soqui, was also executed, and in 2002. Jose Antonio Pineda working also as Chief was too executed. Another execution related to "Chiefs" was that of Jesus Zamora aka "El Jessy" who at the moment was assigned as security to the Rio Colorado theater but worked on the previous administration as right-hand man of the Police Chief.



SOURCE: ZETA
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40 years ago the US sent Mexico into a financial crisis — and it transformed the narcotics industry

September 15, 2015, 12:54 pm
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Borderland Beat posted by DD republished from Business Insider



In this excerpt from A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the Mexican Drug War, coauthors Carmen Boullosa and Mike Wallace explain how the US and Mexico jointly created the Mexican Drug War.

 In the mid 1970s, the United States had added to its woes of recession those of inflation, due in considerable measure to OPEC’s success in raising oil prices.

To “whip inflation now,” the Federal Reserve Bank helmed by Chairman Paul Volcker began to raise interest rates, eventually driving the prime rate from 12 percent to 21 percent.

By 1980, this had precipitated a far deeper downturn, which did lower inflation, but only by driving up unemployment to levels not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

The recession Volcker engineered in the US had an even more devastating impact on Mexico, as the interest rate on rolling over its short term loans nearly doubled.

By 1982, simply meeting interest payments would have required more than $8 billion per year. Worse, just as expenses soared, oil prices sagged.

Mexico made clear it could no longer make its interest payments.

US banks were terrified. Thirteen of the biggest stood to collectively lose $60 billion if Mexico went under — 48 percent of their combined capital.

And if Mexico fell, most of Latin America would come tumbling down behind it, likely triggering a collapse of the entire international financial system. The United States, accordingly, put together a multi-billion-dollar package of loans and credits, and worked out an unofficial debt moratorium.


 The World Bank and IMF were wheeled in to provide Mexico with emergency loans with which to resume paying the US banks, rescuing them from their own recklessness. These institutions in turn — following the model first worked out in New York’s fiscal crisis in 1975— now imposed “structural adjustment” on Mexico.
Three boys in the street read a newspaper announcing better salaries for Mexican workers November 16, 1993 as Mexico anxiously awaits the outcome of a crucial vote in the US congressional session on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 The creditors demanded privatization of public services, cuts in government social programs, a wider opening to foreign investment, and a ruthless concentration on paying back loans and interest. This arm-twisting was given an ideological gloss, reviving hoary shibboleths about the inherent superiority of market over state, repackaged as “neoliberalism.”

Executing these demands fell first to President de la Madrid and then to his successor Carlos Salinas de Gortari (1988–1994). Both believed the state apparatus was a burden upon Mexican business that should be thrown off, along with much else in the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) inherited project and ideology. Structural adjustment prompted privatization, the opening of the country to foreign investment, and the reorientation of the agricultural sector towards exports.
Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari waves to the crowd after he gave his 6th State of the Nation address before the Mexican Congress, November 1, in Mexico City
 The 1980s were known as la Década Perdida, or “lost decade,” wherein 800,000 jobs evaporated and dispossessed farmers streamed into urban centers.

Salinas continued the policies, selling off large public enterprises at bargain basement prices. The process created a new class of Mexican tycoons. In 1987 there was one Mexican on the Forbes billionaire list. When Salinas left office in 1994 there were twenty-four.

Labor, conversely, was battered. When public enterprises were privatized their collective agreements were scrapped, benefits removed, “flexible” work rules imposed. Salinas also distanced the party from its long-affiliated labor unions, and ordered a series of attacks on more militant entities.

Various unemployed Mexicans offer their skills as handymen, fixing everything from light bulbs to toilets, by Mexico City's Metropolitan Cathedral October 30, 1995.
 At the same time, state subsidies that had kept the price of basic foodstuffs low were suddenly removed. The price of milk, tortillas, petrol, electricity and public transport shot up at the same time wages were being slashed. The provision of basic social services was similarly cut so that fewer people had access to free health care and education.

The neoliberal offensive was particularly devastating to farm labor, partly as a consequence of the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (which Salinas negotiated with George H. W. Bush, and which went into effect under Bill Clinton).

A principal US condition for entering the agreement was that Mexico undo the agrarian reforms embedded in Article 27 of the Constitution, a principal legacy of the Revolution. Communal land could now be divided and converted into private property. Price regulation of staple crops was scrapped. Tariffs and quotas on agricultural imports were removed. Subsidies that had supported small-scale farmers were deleted
US President George H. Bush offers a toast to his host, Mexican President Carlos Salinas during a luncheon in Monterrey on November 27, 1990.
The results of establishing a putatively equal trade between grossly unequal partners was that US agribusiness pushed thousands of Mexican farmers out of their own markets.

The price of corn dropped by around 50 percent after the NAFTA agreement, and the number of farmers living in poverty rose by a third. In the six years following the introduction of NAFTA, two million farmers abandoned their land. They flocked from country shacks to the burgeoning barrios of Mexico City; to the spreading slums of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez to work in factories across the border.


The crisis transformed the narcotics industry.
Indeed it is impossible to understand the tremendous changes in the drug business during the combined sexenios of Salinas and Zedillo (1989–2000) without taking into account the massive political, economic, and ideological transformations wrought during that decade and the previous one by the PRI-governed state.

Farmers, unable to sustain themselves due to the removal of subsidies and the arrival of competition from US agri-corporations, found the burgeoning market for marijuana and poppies their only avenue to surviving on the land. The army of the urban unemployed gave the cartels a deep pool from which to recruit foot soldiers, and the miserably paid (and eminently corruptible) police and military provided the muscle with which to protect their interests.


The spread of everyday crime — aided by the rapid declension and corruption of local police forces — demoralized civil society, and provided a climate within which grander forms of criminality would flourish.
 
The adoption of free trade, and the deeper integration of the Mexican economy with that of the United States, dramatically increased cross-border traffic, making it far easier to insert narcotics into the stream of northward-bound commodities.
 
Some NAFTA rules were of particular help: because factory workers were exempt from tariffs and subject to only minimal inspections, Mexican smugglers began buying up such factories to use as fronts for shipping cocaine.
A Mexican soldier stands guard as over one ton of Colombian cocaine goes up in smoke on the Carribean island of Cozumel in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo February 27, 1997.
 Narcotrafficking had formerly been integrated into the PRI corporatist state, an under-the-table equivalent of labor, peasant, and business organizations. As such it was subject to a certain degree of regulatory control, and to unofficial taxation, in return for the de facto licensing of smuggling.

The state’s abandonment of this form of corporatist inclusion contributed to the independent growth and power of organized crime syndicates.


The glorification of wealth and entrepreneurialism provided a cultural environment that boosted the social standing of narco businessmen.

As in the former Soviet Union and other post-communist regimes, a neoliberal shock treatment simultaneously produced millionaires and gangsters, a twinning that Forbes registered by including them on the same list.
A soldier carries blocks of cocaine to a pile for incineration at a naval base in Matamoros, in Tamaulipas state April 29.
 The weakening of the state and the glorification of “free enterprise” conferred authority and legitimacy on the private sector in which drug traffickers were now key players. As Peter Watt and Roberto Zepeda have argued, neoliberals prioritized accumulation of profit over social welfare, ruthless competition over cooperation, and the sanctification of private property and wealth over community and civic responsibility.

These propositions — the cornerstones and guiding principles of free-market ideology — also formed the dominant ideology of crime syndicates.
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El Mencho's chief of Security arrested

September 16, 2015, 4:56 am
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Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article

[ Subject Matter: CJNG, Enrique Alejandro Pizano Jimenez
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required]

Enrique Alejandro Pizano Jimenez, was located in Jalisco, he is the private secretary and trusted side kick of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes "El Mencho".


Reporter: Ruben Mosso
Federal Police discovered that Enrique Alejandro Pizano Jimenez "Anestesia" or "Sacristan", allegedly responsible for the personal Security detail of "El Mencho", leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, also had charge of the safe houses for CJNG.

According to investigations carried out, Pizano was located in rented accommodation that after would be used as a safe house, where allegedly they had been storing precursor chemicals.




His capture underlined by Federal functionaries, derived from a confrontation, later the agents located a convoy on the freeway Acatlan de Juarez - Ciudad Guzman, in the outskirts of the town Techaluta de Montenegro, Jalisco.

When spotted the alleged criminals tried to evade authorities and shot at Federal Police, the officers repelled the aggression and managed to disarm the man trusted by "EL Mencho".

Together with him were captured Alba Priscila Zamora Santana, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Garcia, Francisco Javier Vazquez, Jose Candelario Sandoval Alanis and Marco Antonio Hernandez Sanchez.

The agents also found in the vehicles 9 fire arms, two of those marked with CJNG, tactical equipment, ammunition, magazines, communication equipment, an alkaloid substance and various other objects.

Federal functionaries indicated that Pizano is the private secretary  and trusted friend of "El Mencho", also allegedly the Chief of Security.

The also said to have known Pizano has been a member of CJNG for 7 years, also he allegedly ordered the murder of the Mayor of Ayutla, the panista Juan Manuel Gomez Torres, who lost his life and also his bodyguard was killed in August of 2014.

Alejandro Pizano and 4 of the detained were taken to the Federal Prison of Gomez Palacio, Durango, meanwhile the woman was taken to the female area of the Federal Prison "El Rincon", in Tepic, Nayarit.

The PGR have charged them with violation of Federal Law prohibiting fire arms and explosives.

Original article in Spanish at Milenio


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PGR opens investigation of agents caught on video planting weapons

September 16, 2015, 7:35 am
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Lucio R. Borderland Beat posted by Ed Oak from Arestigui and Bloomberg
Agent circled is the one to watch, from the time he exits the truck
The background of this case is very complex and involves a possible attempt by the Mexican Federal Government to silence the watchdog/auditing company, Infraiber.  The Federal Government believes Infraiber is releasing audio tapes implicating the Spanish conglomerate OHL in attempts to influence the awarding of huge state contracts for infrastructure work in the State of Mexico and the rest of the country.

Beneath the post is the video.  The person to watch, is a  male who exits  the front passenger side of the large white pickup, with jeans a black leather jacket and a baseball cap. Watch closely from the time the jacket wearing agent exits the white PGR truck, his right hand remains inside the pocket. PGR agent carefully video tapes search, which commences at all times except when the agent in the black jacket was in the vehicle. 

 The gun is planted 02:12 - 02:30.  After searching Díez and the trunk of the car, the planted gun is "found" at 06:00 - 06:15.  

Here's some background from a Bloomberg article:  

Latest Leaked OHL Recordings Threaten to Ensnare Pena Nieto

"The latest in a series of leaked telephone recordings involving toll operator OHL Mexico SAB is threatening to ensnare the country’s president.

A new recording released last week purports to show an OHL executive discussing a meeting he had with President Enrique Pena Nieto to complain about a company assigned to monitor traffic on one of its highways. The office of Pena Nieto, who hadn’t previously been a focus in the recordings, and OHL, declined to comment.

OHL accuses the monitoring company, Infraiber, of leaking the recordings -- audio clips that were captioned and uploaded to YouTube -- and filed a criminal complaint against the company last week. 

That claim was backed by a Pena Nieto cabinet minister, who told Reforma newspaper in a letter it published Sunday that the recordings were posted illegally by Infraiber. 

That minister is the one the recording purports to show was present during the meeting with Pena Nieto. Infraiber denied involvement in the recordings.

The events are the latest revelations in a scandal that has been unfolding since April largely via seven recordings uploaded to YouTube that purport to show OHL executives discussing ways to inflate toll rates, pay off judges and offer to cover a state official’s Christmas-week stay at a luxury Caribbean beach hotel.

Pena Nieto is already under scrutiny after conflict-of-interest allegations arose last year involving the president, the first lady and Finance Minister Luis Videgaray, and government contractors building their homes. While all three were cleared by a government investigation, the public’s approval rating of how the president is dealing with corruption has fallen from a year ago.

Just hours before the latest recording was posted, a lawyer representing Infraiber was arrested for allegedly carrying an illegal weapon. He said the gun was planted by the police. Authorities raided Infraiber’s offices Friday after the complaint was filed, but haven’t said whether they charged anyone from the company.

“There seems to be a coordinated effort between the government and OHL to put an end to this scandal,” Gerardo Cevallos, an analyst at Vector Casa de Bolsa based in Mexico City, said Sept. 10. “That’s what appears to have happened this week -- this accusation by OHL, the arrest of the lawyer.”
Gun in yellow evidence bag

This week brought another twist: Mexico’s attorney general’s office said Monday it was investigating the arrest, saying police probably filed false information in the case.

In the recording released Sept. 7 and dated early April, a man identified in captions as an OHL executive refers to a meeting he supposedly had with Pena Nieto and Communications and Transportation Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza. In the meeting they mention the independent traffic monitor, Tecnologia Aplicada Infraiber SA. Esparza’s press office declined to comment for this article, although it confirmed that the cabinet minister sent the letter to Reforma about Infraiber.

Paulo Diez, a lawyer for Infraiber, said in an interview that he was stopped in his car by federal authorities on Sept. 7 who sought his testimony on OHL’s case against phone tapping. He was asked to step out of the car and when his back was turned, an official pulled a weapon from his vehicle that Diez says was planted. He spent two nights in jail and posted bail on Wednesday, he said.

Reforma reports:

The full one hour video, was delivered to the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) by the litigant himself, to extend his complaint of an unlawful detention.   

The attorney says a local forward to him video footage showing events which are the subject of his complaint.  The complaint makes reference to a man dressed in all dark clothing, wearing  a baseball cap as the person who placed the weapon in the vehicle. On the tape at 14:40 on September 7th.

"One of the locals, forwarded  me video footage of the event, at the time of my arrest. It shows  one of the officers dressed in dark clothing, including a jacket and cap, he inserts the weapon into my vehicle.  This shows the events which are the subject of this complaint" states Díez in its letter to the CNDH. 

On the tape, we see that at approximately 14:40 pm last Sept. 7, PGR agents aboard white trucks, intercept the  Gargari Diez vehicle.  There is only one agent not wearing a white shirt, he is wearing jeans and a black jacket.  He mostly keeps his hands inside his pockets.  He is seen with half his body inside the vehicle, while everyone else is at the trunk area.  He straightens up and quickly disappears.


Diez says while he was in custody, his IM message history had been illegally extracted.  Later he saw that on September 9, 2015 at 19:51 someone had used his email, via his cell, to send a history of WhatsApp chats to andresfuentes201282@gmail.com.

Rest assured the PGR agency is instigating and will get to the bottom of these concerns.  

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The alleged "confessed killers" of "Missing 43" were just construction workers who were tortured.

September 16, 2015, 2:06 pm
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Borderland Beat posted by dd Republished from Huffington Post 
Report by Anabel Hernandez and Steve Fisher

 DD;  Almost from the day the students went missing there had been doubts and questions about the government version of what happened in Iguala on Sept. 26 and 27 of last year. The then Attorney General Murillo Karam told the families of the missing "To move on" with their lives - that  the govt. investigation established "the historical facts".  He then uttered his famous phrase "ya me canse"  as he left the meeting with the families.  
But then on Dec 13 Proceso published a report written by Anabel Hernandez and Steve Fisher of the Journalism Program of Research from the University of California at Berkeley blew the governments case out of the water.  Their report caused an international uproar.  Their report was covered in summary by BB on Dec. 14, and a supplement giving more details of the report was published on Dec. 16.   
 
Hernandez and Fisher have just issued a new report detailing the torture the 4 suspects whose "confessions" were the foundation of the government's "official" version of events.  Their report includes the medical exams showing evidence of the torture.

Mexico Tortured The Alleged Killers Of 43 Missing Students: Report


By Roque Planas
: Signs of torture were visible on the face, chest, arms, legs and feet of Felipe Rodríguez Salgado.


Four men named by Mexican authorities as drug cartel members who allegedly killed 43 missing students are actually impoverished construction workers who confessed only after being tortured, according to a report published Sunday in Mexican magazine El Proceso.

The investigative report by journalists Anabel Hernández and Steve Fisher casts further doubt on the Enrique Peña Nieto administration's already widely discredited investigation into what happened to the missing students. On Sept. 6, a panel of experts fielded by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights announced that the Mexican government's version of events has no basis in forensic science.

On the night of Sept. 26, 2014, a group of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College went to the nearby city of Iguala to commandeer buses they planned to use to travel to a demonstration a few days later in Mexico City commemorating the Tlatelolco student massacre of 1968. Mexican security forces attacked the students multiple times, killing three, injuring others and allegedly abducting the missing 43. 

Then-Mexican Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam first claimed in November that four members of the Guerreros Unidos drug gang had confessed to killing the missing students. Prosecutors said that local police had handed the students over to the alleged gang members, who supposedly murdered them and incinerated their bodies in a trash dump in the neighboring town of Cocula.

That version of events rests largely on the testimony of four men. The government has said they were members of a powerful drug cartel.

But the Proceso report says that all four -- Patricio Reyes Landa Salgado, Jonathan Osorio Cortez, Agustín García Reyes and Felipe Rodríguez Salgado -- were just construction workers. To force them to confess to the crime, the report says, Mexican security forces beat them repeatedly, wrapped their heads in bags to nearly suffocate them and administered electrical shocks to their genitals. It says that security forces also threatened to subject their wives and children to the same abuse if they refused to comply.

The Proceso story is based on depositions from the case obtained by the reporters as well as interviews with the imprisoned suspects' family members. Fisher and Hernández are fellows with the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Hernández said these new findings make it hard to believe that the four men masterminded the presumed murder of the students, whose disappearance has set off international protest against the Peña Nieto administration.

"To do what the Mexican government says they did, they needed vehicles, they needed money," Hernández told The Huffington Post. "Nothing that we saw in their homes showed that they did." 
: This is the house where alleged drug cartel member Patricio Reyes Landa Salgado lived. In fact, he was an impoverished construction worker.
 The story that the Attorney General's Office claims the four men told has been soundly rejected by multiple outside experts. For months, independent forensic scientists have argued that a fire capable of incinerating 43 bodies could not have occurred at the Cocula trash dump. The detailed report by the IACHR panel released this month confirmed those arguments.
 
The four men's testimonies also contradict one another and in some instances contradict basic facts in the case, the reporters note. For example, one of the four men, Jonathan Osorio Cortez, said they took the students to the garbage dump, killed them and incinerated their corpses between 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. that September night. The timing is impossible, since the first of several attacks by police were only just beginning at 10 p.m.

After being interrogated but before giving their depositions, the four suspects underwent medical evaluations, according to the Proceso report. Each of the men was covered with dozens of contusions and red prick wounds that the reporters say indicate electric shocks. 

The medical exam for Felipe Rodríguez Salgado (see below), dated Jan. 17 -- less than two weeks before Murillo Karam announced that investigators had established the "historical truth" behind the Sept. 26 attacks -- found a long list of scabs, greenish bruising and small scars associated in previous cases with electric shocks. The signs of torture were visible all over his face, arms, chest, legs and feet.
  
Number of Wounds Registered During Medical Exams

Patricio Reyes Landa Salgado: 72
Agustín García Reyes: 42
Jonathan Osorio Cortez: 94
Felipe Rodríguez Salgado: 60

At least one of them said he had been tortured.  
DD:  I am only including the first page of the medical exam and the last page with a body diagram of the injuries he sustained in the alleged torture.  The full forensic report can be seen at Scribd.



"It is my wish to declare that the way they said they detained us was a lie," Reyes Landa said in his deposition. "They came in my house and they started to beat and kick me, they put me in the vehicle, they blindfolded me and tied my feet and hand and started once again to beat me and apply electric shocks. They put a rag over my nose and poured water over me and applied electric shocks inside my mouth and on my testicles. They put a bag over my head to keep me from breathing. I spent several hours like this." 

The Attorney General's Office did not answer a request for comment. President Peña Nieto has directed the current attorney general, Arely Gómez González, to comply with some of the recommendations of the IACHR report.

All four suspects remain locked up in a maximum security prison in Mexico state, despite the mounting evidence contradicting the government's allegations against them. Authorities have not clarified when the four men or more than 100 other people detained in the investigation will face trial.

That's not unusual in Mexico, according to John Ackerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. Under Mexican law, authorities have wide latitude to detain people based on suspicion for months at a time and to keep them jailed as the trial moves forward.

But Ackerman said the recent revelations by the journalists and the IACHR panel make it clear that federal authorities have willfully misled the public about what happened to the missing students.

"This is not just negligence, this is not inefficiency," Ackerman told HuffPost. "There was a cover-up at a high level of government. I think that Murillo Karam cannot play innocent in this exposé. … Murillo Karam really should be forced to face justice. This is not excusable."

Two other high-profile cases have unraveled in recent years after the Attorney General's Office severely botched those investigations, Ackerman said. The 2009 mass arrest of state officials accused of ties to drug traffickers known as the Michoacanazo fell apart due to lack of evidence. And after years in prison, the Mexican government freed three dozen people convicted in the 1997 Acteal massacre of 45 indigenous people in Chiapas state. Authorities gathered evidence in that case using torture, which is inadmissible in court under Mexican law.

"Based on past experience, the expectation is that these people will be eventually freed," Ackerman told HuffPost, referring to the four construction workers. "Of course that would be an admission of the government of their total failure, so they're going to hold it back as long as they can."
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Egypt apologizes for killings of tourists, compares Mx Drug war to Egyptian terrorism

September 16, 2015, 2:06 pm
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Egypt accidentally bombs Mexican tourists,  8 killed, and 6 wounded,   bodies returned to Mexico via presidential aircraft:  “An Open Letter from Egypt to the People of Mexico”

Tamaulipas couple are among those shot, the husband died, wife injured
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry addressed the people of Mexico in an open letter that is set to be published in major Mexican newspapers on Wednesday regarding the accidental killing of Mexican tourists on a safari trip in Egypt last Sunday.

The letter, first published on Tuesday on the foreign ministry’s official page on Facebook, is titled “An Open Letter from Egypt to the People of Mexico”.

Shoukry expressed his condolences and sympathy to the Mexican people, describing the victims as “innocent lives”.

Shoukry said that the loss of a family member is “unimaginable”, adding that Egypt can understand the grief the Mexicans are feeling as Egyptians have seen “numerous innocent civilian lives lost due to terrorist violence”.

The foreign minister assured in his letter that Egyptian security forces are the "most cautious and careful when it comes to preserving the lives of others".

He added that Egypt is still in the process of investigating what happened, asserting that the authorities are "unequivocally committed" to uncovering the precise details of what he described as a “tragedy”.



“The chain of events is still confusing and unclear," the letter reads. "There have been reports, many of them conflicting, regarding whether the tourist convoy had the necessary permits, whether it had taken a detour to a restricted area, and whether the use of SUVs instead of a tourist bus had increased the risk of mistaken identification.”

According to Shoukry, a security operation was taking place against militants in the area at the time the tourist group was passing by. He said that it was not clear whether there was an error involved or whether the group was "simply in the wrong place at the wrong time".

Shoukry said he was troubled by the people whom he claims were using this "tragic event" to allege that Egyptian security forces have no strict rules of engagement; pointing out that the claim made that more lives were lost at the hands of security forces than terrorists "couldn’t be farther from the truth".
In his letter, the foreign minister linked Egypt’s prosperity to the tourism sector, which he said once employed 12 percent of the country's workforce and made up more than 10 percent of its GDP.

“We have nothing to gain from the tragic incident of 13 September, and everything to lose,” he added.

Shoukry said that both Egypt and Mexico are facing similar challenges, comparing the "large scale violence" that Egypt is facing to that of Mexico’s "drug wars" and "organized crime groups" that has left thousands dead.

The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, reiterated yesterday the need for conducting  a full, prompt and thorough investigation, to know exactly what had happened in the incident. This was said in a telephone conversation with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. who in turn expressed his sincere condolences for what happened and said he personally watching the investigations to clarify the death of eight Mexican tourists.

Peña Nieto sent a delegation of investigators so Mexico can conduct their own investigation.  
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Autodefensas Ambushed: 7 Dead

September 16, 2015, 7:42 pm
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By: Rodrigo Caballero | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

According to spokespeople from the autodefensas of the Michoacán coast, autodefensa members from the community of Caleta de Campos were ambushed by a group of armed men allegedly belonging to the Caballeros Templarios.

The attack occurred around 3 p.m. this Wednesday, September 16, 2015, in a small village called La Manzanilla which is located between Caleta de Campos and the port of Lázaro Cárdenas.  The ambush ended with seven dead; four were presumed Caballero Templario members while three were autodefensa members.


The autodefensa groups in the area mobilized themselves after the ambush and are searching for the perpetrators of the attack; however, they announced that they don’t have the necessary weapons to confront the attackers.

“The army took away our high-powered weapons such as AK-47’s and AR-15 and left us with only shotguns, we can’t go up against grenades with our limited weaponry.  We are on the brink of extinction; we are being killed with the complicity of the government.” Josefa Contreras, autodefensa leader in the area, denounced.

The community claimed that the attack was announced on the evening of September 15 but failed to prevent it because “after Cemeí (sic) (Verdía Zepeda) was arrested, a lot of people who were with us went with the Templarios.”

“This is a desperate call, they are going to kill all of us who were with Cemeí (sic) by the orders of the government,” the autodefensa leader announced.


According to Por un Michoacan Libre SDR.’s Facebook page, a group of autodefensa members who belonged to the Policia Rural (Rural Police) were checking up on an anonymous denunciation which indicated a group of armed men in the community of Bejuco.  The armed group belonged to “500” aka “El Quinini”.  Upon arriving, the Rural Police were ambushed by a group of armed men.  Three of the criminals have been identified as Melvin Lorenzano Reyes, 27, "La Tortuga", Joel Epitacio "El Pita" and a criminal only identified as "Poninis”.  Three of the Rural Police members of Caleta de Campos and Chucutitan were severely wounded but later died as they were being transferred to get medical treatment.  They have been identified as Santos Preciado Chavez, 49, J. Cruz Anguiano, 41, and Ponciano Maldonado Farias, 34, who was the leader of the Rural Police in the community of Chucutitan.

Source: Michoacán 3.0,
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They are hunting "La Muneca"

September 16, 2015, 9:33 pm
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Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article

[ Subject Matter: Los Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso
Recommendation: Use the main board search function for "Los 28" and "Los Pepillos"]

The execution of Fanulfo Portillo Lopez, underling of Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic", in the exclusive Guadalupe Colonia of Culiacan, Sinaloa, started a new wave of violence in La Paz. August closed with 22 assassinations between drug dealers of the North Zone and the South Zone, and September started with the capture of Sicarios in the service of Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda "La China".



Reporter: Zeta Investigations
In the last crime map elaborated by Federal and Military Authorities, Ranulfo Portillo Lopez "La Muneca" appears as one of the principal members of Las Furezas Especiales de Los Damaso in Baja California Sur.

The criminal boss, 31 years of age, and originally of El Dorado, Sinaloa, was responsible for the logistics and in charge of recruitment of Sicario's and sending them via sea from Las Arenitas, Sinaloa, to La Paz, in the war that confronts the capos Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic" and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, of the Sinaloa Cartel, for control of the narco trafficking plaza.



According to Federal and Military investigations, the criminal was, at that time, the principal contact for the plaza boss of the South Zone of La Paz, Jose Francisco Ojeda Torres, alias Jose Fernando Torres Montenegro "El Pepillo", who is a protagonist in the struggle between drug dealers, after the execution of the bodyguard of "El Mini Lic", Esteban Espinoza Velazquez "El Pantera", and since the 31st of July of 2014, allegedly trying to take over the North Zone and take control of all of La Paz.

"La Muneca" didn't know he was being hunted until an armed group of Sicario's from "Los Antrax" found him and killed him.

The killers, from the elite group of capo Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada are the most blood thirsty of the Sinaloa Cartel, they located him around 9;05 pm on Saturday, August the 29th, on Calle Rio San Lorenzo, just 10 meters from the Seat of Government in Sinaloa, which, since the beginning of his administration, has not been used by Governor Mario Lopez Valdes.

The member of "Los Damaso" boarded his vehicle a Nissan Frontier 2016, colored red, with circulation plates UE5759.

He was not armed and just as he arrived at a crossroad of the principal Avenida of Culiacan, known as Alvaro Obregon, he was attacked by Sicario's.

At the point of arrival at the corner, where there is an automatic teller located from the bank Banorte, and the building Maria Fernanda in the exclusive colonia of Guadalupe, "La Muneca" was attacked from another car on his left side, a late model car, he died instantly shot ten times in the body and head, according the PGJE, Sinaloa.

The primary reports of the C4 of Culiacan, Sinaloa, they spoke about an armed attack against a person inside Starbucks in the Guadalupe Colonia, which is known to be habituated by business men, land owners and the rich.

However when the first patrols arrived, it was four blocks away from the address of an Office of Public Security, Preventative Police and Municipal Transit Police of Culiacan, they observed the attacked man inside a red vehicle, at the crossroads of Calles Rio San Lorenzo and Alvaro Obregon. He was wearing jeans, a red shirt and a Rolex on his right hand.

Photographs obtained by ZETA confirm that "La Muneca" multiple wounds to his head and body, with Forensic staff carrying out test inside the vehicle.

There was a lot of blood, like a hemorrhage. The body was reclaimed immediately by his family from the PGJE of Sinaloa, where "El Muneca" is seen driving his car from east to west, and all of sudden is caught up by a dark colored pickup truck, when a rifle is levelled out of the window and fires more than ten shots into the driver of the red vehicle, which with its residual speed carried on until it crashed at the intersection of Rio San Lorenzo and Alvaro Obregon.

At the scene of the crime, the State Prosecutor found 12 spent cartridges of 7.62 x 39 mm calibre and among the belonging of "La Muneca", a series of identifications in the name of Ranulfo Portillo Lopez, who crime, according to agents investigating this case, is an important member of Los Fuerzas Especiales de Los Damaso, and a hard hit for the plaza boss of Los Cabos, Javier Lopez Rivera or Javier Guadalupe Acosta "El Javier" or "El Cangre", in virtue of them being colleagues.

The investigations

Even given the current level of violence, no functionaries of the PGJE in Sinaloa consulted by ZETA, wanted to speak publicly about the case, one of the investigating agents confirmed the identity of the criminal cell of capo Damaso Lopez Serrano "El Mini Lic", and according to its modus operandi, and evidence collected in the zone, all point to the attack had been carried out by the armed group "Los Antrax", whose vigil, patrol, and protect the territory under their dominion, and the Guadalupe Colonia, is one of their territories in Culiacan.

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The agent practically ruled out that they would investigate the execution of "La Muneca", because he was a member of a criminal organization: and we don't investigate that as that is the work of the PGR.

The hypothesis that the agents have until the close of this edition, is that the Sicario's of "Los Antrax" were hunting "La Muneca", because they knew in which vehicle he was travelling, and when he was going to pass their way, he was allegedly travelling South to North, coming from El Dorado, nearly 70 kilometers from Culiacan, and took the coastal highway towards the Guadalupe Colonia.

Even though they don't yet know for certain to which address he was headed, research agents, were collecting data to see if there are people linked to the wave of violence in La Paz, from "Los Damaso" are living in this Colonia, which according to the latest crime map drawn up by Military and Federal Authorities are:


  • Jose Francisco Ojeda Torres alias Jose Fernando Torres Montenegro "El Pepillo", drug trafficking plaza boss in the South Zone of La Paz.
  • Alejandro Sanchez Trejo "El Frane" or "El Frank" or El Peinado", responsible for the finances of the operation in La Paz.
  • Edgar Amilcar Acosta Reyes "El Rayo", armed wing of "Los Damaso" in La Paz.
  • Wenceslao and Valerio Portillo Lopez, and Luis Gonzalez Portillo "El Barbas", brother and cousins of "La Muneca", and part of the logistical planning for the organization of "El Mini Lic".
The investigating agent consulted by ZETA considered that "the violence caused by the narcos that live in La Paz could arrive in Culiacan", above all, because, with the case of "La Muneca", it is being found that the main guys responsible for the armed conflict in La Paz, are hiding out in Sinaloa, and via cell phones, have ordered kidnappings, executions, dismembering and burial of their victims, believing they are safe in that state, when they are fully exposed to assassination.

"We see it with Ranulfo Portillo Lopez and even though in Culiacan its only one more of many criminal cells of "Los Damaso", its a visible head for their opponents, in this case, those of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, and everyone knows that Culiacan is the dominion of "Los Antrax", they have hunted out one, they will continue to go for the others", said an element to ZETA.

The same version of events is coincidentally given by a member of the Coordination Group for Public Security in Baja California Sur, in respect of that " after the execution of Esteban Espinoza Velazquez "El Pantera" in La Paz, on the 31st of July 2014, the principle heads of Los Damaso ran from La Paz to Sinaloa, and they hid there, and via cell phone, ordered criminal operations in the war for control of the drug trafficking  against the cells of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

A member of the Institutional Group, with wide experience said "its evident that with the execution of "La Muneca", apparently a new strategy is appearing with the criminal cells of "El Mayo", who are hunting the heads of the cells who are causing the violence in La Paz, in Culiacan, also preventing them sending weapons, dealers, and sicarios, and nipping in the bud any logistical support, and create a climate favourable to their side, and stop the war that has being going on for more than a year now.

With a foot in both camps of the Military and Federal Authorities, a member of the Coordination Group for Public Security of Baja California Sur, revealed that there had been a recent re-arrangement of  Los Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso" after the capture of "El Simon", where "La Muneca" had recruited 12 sicarios who had been sent to La Paz, distributed to four cells of killers, headed respectively by "Los 28", "La China", "El Cochi" and "Los Pepillos".

Previously "La Muneca" was working for the Los Cabos plaza boss, Javier Acosta Lopez, or Javier Guadalupe Acosta "El Javier" or "El Cangre", as part of Los Damaso, who have been confronting the cells of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.



The wave of violence

The assassination of Ranulfo Portillo Lopez "La Muneca" in Culiacan, Sinaloa, caused almost immediately a new wave of violence in La Paz, Baja California Sur.

Only a few hours after his execution, Sicario's of Las Fuezas Especiales de "Los Damaso" attacked the drug dealer Guillermo Eduardo Armenta Morales "El Toro", when they saw him on the Calle Mar Caribe corner with Miramar in the Miramar Colonia of the South Californian capital.

According to witnesses, the drug dealer was accompanied by Jose Maria Valdez, they had left to go to a OXXO convenience store, then a white Toyota Corolla repeatedly appeared, and from which someone fired at him with a 9mm pistol. He received two bullets in the head and one in the chest, meanwhile Jose Valdez had a bullet fragment graze his arm.

Because of the gravity of his wounds, "El Toro" was transported to "Juan Maria de Salvatierra", but he died while receiving attention in the emergency room.

One day after, a new armed attack shook the inhabitants of the Los Olivos Colonia of La Paz, when sicarios attacked a couple driving on Avenida Padre Kino and Calle Nicolas Bravo.

The two victims, identified as Juan Manuel Amezcua Lara "El Chilango" and his wife, Nayla Daniela Placencia Rodriguez, driving aboard their van when they were attacked by an AK47 assault rifle, receiving multiple shots to the head and body, dying instantly inside their vehicle.

According to the PGJE, two more people were injured in the attack, they were exiting the Vetenary Surgery Mundi Mascotas and were trapped in the cross fire.

The injured are Fernando Leonel Mucino Juarez, 32 years old, and Maria Goria Salgados Monroy, 65 years of age who received a bullet wound in the left thigh and another in the right thigh. They are categorised as collateral damage in this narco war.

According to the primary investigations, the armed attack was perpetrated in the North Zone by Sicario's of Las Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso".

But most of these Sicarios soon flee and hide, rather than receive the response in kind by assassins of the armed group "Los Antrax", who, according to the primary investigations, made their debut by attacking one of the supposed thugs of "Los Damaso".

The hitmen had recently arrived from Sinaloa said a member of the Group for Coordination, who arrived in the South Zone and shot at a supposed sicario who at that moment was in the service of the killer Simon Guillermo Hernandez Pena "El Simon" or "El Sepulturero" or "The Gravedigger".

Because of the secrecy surrounding the investigation, the name of the thug was not revealed, according to the PGJE, they are investigating Lozano Vargas for the execution of the drug dealer "La Gely", which occurred on  the 12th of August in Calle Degollado and Bonifacio Salinas Leal, in the Guerrero Colonia of La Paz.

The physical characteristics of the Sicario and the characteristics of the vehicle he was in that gave out the shots, coincides plainly with the witness testimony taken during the investigation, whose data, at the close of this edition, corresponds to that given by the PGJE.

The night of the attack, witnesses said they had seen the Sicario of "El Simon" aboard a vehicle with three other men and a woman,  when their vehicle was hit by a Toyota Tacoma, gray colored, whose occupants opened fire on the driver killing him instantly and wounding the others.

The women who had been in the front passenger seat, was gravely injured and remained in the vehicle, the other men all injured crawled out of the car apparently injured and fled the zone as best they could, one of them hopping away.

The woman who was apparently the partner of the Sicario driving, and whose name has not been revealed by the case investigators, by virtue that they were not carrying any identity, and nobody had reclaimed the body of the Sicario, died in the Hospital she was taken to while receiving treatment.

One day after, when the President of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto, rendered his third Governmental report, spoke of the presumed reduction in violence by 22% in some regions, where all was returning to tranquility, the Sicarios of the FEDD returned and killed another drug dealer inside his house on Calle De Justicia, in the Diana Laura Colonia of La Paz.

At the close of this edition, three Sicario's from the criminal cell of the Chief of Sicarios for FEDD, Melissa Margarita Calderon Ojeda "La China", were captured after they killed a 46 year old drug dealer, originally from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and left gravely hurt another in Calle Colima and Avenida Forjadores in the Bellavista Colonia of La Paz.

The attack was carried out with AK47's, AR15's and 9mm pistols which were analysed and tested positive in ten recent murders carried out in the last few weeks.

After perpetrating the attack, around 11.07 am, the killers fled aboard a white Chevrolet car, which the PGJE found when it passed the Burger King in Avenida Forjadores.

According to a video captured by a video aficionado, Police blocked the way after recognising the vehicle, and the occupants of the vehicle opened fire on the Police, shooting low the rounds bouncing of the tarmac, the occupants passed the Police who gave chase.

At the time the PGJE called for reinforcements from the Municipal Police, Preventative Police, Federal Police, Mexican Army and Marines: the chase finished at a safe house in Calle Alga Marina and Opalina in the Las Americas Fraccionamiento of La Paz.

After arriving at the safe house, the Sicarios left their vehicle and ran, then turned and again started firing at the Security Forces of the three levels of Government. They fired nine shots at special investigators of the Attorney Generals Office.

The Sicario's of "La China" entered the safe house and barricaded themselves inside, Security Officers surrounded the house and asked the Sicario's to surrender, otherwise they would be killed.

After half an hour, two of the three Sicario's gave themselves up voluntarily, the man left in the house moved to the roof and commenced firing on the Security Forces with an AK47, they immediately returned fire and wounded him, they then exploited the situation and captured him, he was then taken to the cells of the PGJE.

The detained are:

  • Hugo Omar Soto Duran "El Oso", 34 years old, originally of Sinaloa
  • Jesus Armando Salazar Velazquez "El Gasparin" or "El Espartano", 19 years old, from El Dorado, Sinaloa.
  • Francisco Javier Mendoza Perez "El Tontin" or "El Chivo", 30 years old and native of Culiacan, Sinaloa.
Also during the operation were confiscated:

  • Two AK47 assault rifles
  • One AR15 assault rifle
  • Three 9mm pistols, made by Glock, Beretta, and Taurus
  • An assault rifle magazine for the AK with 27 rounds in.
  • A tactical jacket, black in color, with six magazines with 173 rounds of .223 ammunition.
  • A tactical jacket, green colored, with four magazines with 108 rounds of 7.62 x 39 mm ammunition for the AK
  • A Chevrolet Cruce, colored white.
During the interrogation, the three detained said they were in the service of "La China", who rented various safe houses, one of those where they lived, on Calle San Joaquin number 136, almost on the corner of Chichonal, in the Sante Fe Colonia of La Paz.

After their capture, the detainees complained that "La China" had brought them there on false pretenses, they had been promised a good salary but had not received anything, they stated that "La China" was hidden in a department of Bahia Conception and Bahia de los Muertos, in the Fovissste Colonia of La Paz.

However, and for the umpteenth time, "La China" was warned and fled, leaving the vehicle she had been using to travel around La Paz, a gray colored Toyota Sedan with tinted windows.

After a meeting of the Group for Coordination of Public Security of Baja California Sur, the authorities determined to initiate a new pursuit of "La China", and for who they are offering a reward for information leading to her capture.

The operations of the four cells of the FEDD, and the alleged arrival of an armed group of "Los Antrax" to Baja California Sur, worsened the violence during the month of August, which ended with 22 killings, of the 157 reported in this drug war, which began on July 31st of 2014 with the death of "Pantera".

Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana

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The remains of a second Ayotzingapa normalista has been identified

September 16, 2015, 10:55 pm
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Lucio R. Borderland Beat
Jhosivani's sister stands before his photo
He was once misidentified as the normalista whose face was flayed and eyes removed.  His parents went to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) of Iguala.  Martina de la Cruz, touched the corpse of the young man, without a face, without eyes, and knew it was not her son. “This young man is not my son”, she said while touching the hands of the body mistaken of being Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz.

The student without a face was later identified as Julio Cesar Mondragon, a young husband and father of a new born.  Julio, who was Los Angeles born and raised, was later that day identified by his widow, who said she did so by identifying his hands and shirt, a shirt she bought for him. 

(the couple is in the photo below left)

Julio was normalista #44, for  he was never counted among those, the world would come to know as the #43.

The experience of seeing Julio, thinking it was her son, was a shock to Martina, another trauma she, and her husband Margarito had to endure in the hours after receiving word that their son Jhosivani was dead.

For days Martina de la Cruz, slept on the floor of the Normalista school, the floor where Jhosivani had slept prior to September 26, 2014.  The waited for further news on the whereabouts of their son. 

Their wait continued until today, when the analysis of mitochondrial DNA of Jhosivani Guerrero and his mother, revealed a match to remains discovered among evidence collected by the forensic anthropology team working on the case.

The University of Innsbruck in Austria, identified the remains of Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz, one of the 43 missing normalistas Ayotzinapa between 26 and 27 September 2014. Guerrero de la Cruz is the second normalista identified.
Alexander Mora's parents are yet to receive the bone identified as their son
The first remains were identified from normalista Alexander Mora Venancio. In December 2014, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAG) discovered the remains.

In November of that year, the PGR sent to the University of Innsbruck in Austria.  The analysis was conducted at the Central Laboratory DNA of Austria.

Furthermore, on 1 September, the PGR delivered to the University of Innsbruck 53 Ayotzinapa case related objects. The PGR announced that samples were reviewed and classified by experts of the agency and by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF). Jhosivani was identified in the September samples.
Jhosivani's father Margarito holds a photo of his son

Jhosivani was 20, he was nicknamed "Korean" and wanted to be a teacher in Omeapa.

The following is from the “Todos Somos Ayotzinapa” website.

"He was looking for an opportunity to excel, he aspired to have a job that would help the community.
We are from Omeapa, a community that is 15 minutes from Tixtla  municipality, although we are close to Tixtla, the people live with lack of public services and many basic needs. 

In order to go to high school, Jhosivani had to walk two miles up the road, to take the shuttle, and then walked the same two miles back. 

His entire family is dedicated to agriculture, he was looking an opportunity to excel when he applied for Normal (Rural) Teaching School Ayotzinapa.

He aspired to have a career and help the community, because in Omeapa the teachers are from faraway places so the teachers have no interest in Omeapa ́s children, and frequently leave the job, with no replacement.


So if the children want a better education, they have to go to schools at Tixtla,  Because of this Jhosivani wanted to be a teacher in Omeapa.”
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Blancornelas Without Justice

September 17, 2015, 9:38 pm
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A Unitary Court of Toluca confirmed the acquittal of the Arellano Felix cartel gunman who in 1997 tried to assassinate the director of ZETA and killed his bodyguard Luis Valero Elizalde. In addition, they reduced the sentence of organized crime. He will leave prison in late 2015.

Arturo Marcos Quinones Sanchez "El Pato" a gang member of Barrio Logan in San Diego, who worked as a hitman for the Arellano Felix Cartel, could be released this year, after the Fifth Unitary Tribunal of the Second Circuit with residence in Toluca, State of Mexico, modified his sentence to resolve an appeal.

The Federal Court confirmed the acquittal of the criminal - he was sentenced 2013 by the Sixth District Judge of Federal Criminal Proceedings in the State of Mexico on charges of attempted murder committed against journalist J. Jesus Blancornelas, and the murder of Luis Valero Elizalde.

He was also exonerated in the murder of his criminal boss and accomplice in the attack, David Barron Corona "CH" from which he was facing the charge of intentional homicide.


Instead, of the initial sentence imposed to "El Pato" for organized crime was amended from 12 years nine months in prison, to 11 years 10 months and 15 days in jail. In addition, the original fine of $204,107 pesos and 40 cents to the amount of $77,740 pesos and 65 cents.



According to the decision in second instance, on appeal by the convicted criminal and counter party, by relatives of the founder of ZETA manager, the penalty imposed on the offender begins its count from January 19, 2004, and it would be entirely completed in early December.

The appeal was the last hope that in the case of Marcos Arturo Quiñones Sanchez will not go unpunished for his cowardly armed attack that the journalist and his bodyguard suffered on the morning of November 27, 1997 in the streets of Tijuana since he was the only one prosecuted for it.

The new ruling confirmed the impunity in attacks against journalists in Mexico, and in the case of Valero and Blancornelas, their crimes remain unsolved. Even several involved, including the Arellano Felix brothers, as masterminds, are not prosecuted for the incident.

Marcos Quinones Sanchez, who also uses the names of Marco Antonio Quiñones and Jose Antonio Torres Mendoza, was notified of the verdict in the Federal Social Rehabilitation Center No. 8 "Norponiente" in Guasave, Sinaloa, where he was transferred a few months ago, from the CEFERESO 1 of Almoloya de Juarez.

"El Pato" was one of about ten gunmen involved in the shooting that morning when Jesus Blancornelas was heading to the offices of the weekly, aboard a truck driven by Luis Valero.

Suddenly, at the intersection of Chula Vista and San Francisco, two commandos ambushed the journalist unit. Valero Elizalde sheltered his boss on the floor of the vehicle, but did not escape the bullets that hit his body. Mortally wounded, Luis got the vehicle in reverse trying to escape, but his life ended there.

Injured with four bullets, Blancornelas was on the floor of his Ford Explorer. The CAF chief assassins, David Barron Corona "CH" was going for him to finish it. When the murderer approached the automobile, some of the gunmen were still firing. A sliver of a projectile bounced and got embedded in the eye of Barron, who bled, and died in seconds.


Among the murderers who escaped "El Pato" was identified. Jesus Blancornelas survived and was able to recognize him. Even other gunmen were observed by the victim and identified in the preliminary investigation: among them the favorite bodyguard of the Arellano Felix brothers, Fabian Martinez "El Tiburón" and the gang members of Logan Heights, Michael Anthony Harvee "El Pee Wee" Isaac Guevara Hernandez "El Zigzag", Alfredo Araujo Avila "El Popeye", Antonio Peña Huerta and / or Adelaido Reyes "El Lalo" and Jose Alberto Marquez Esqueda "El Bat".

Quinones was arrested on April 24, 2003 in Tijuana. Months later Jose Alberto Esqueda "El Bat", was arrested and extradited in March 2007, along with more than a dozen thugs and drug lords to the United States. Years later Alfredo Araujo "El Popeye" was captured. In all, only "El Pato" was processed by Blancornelas case. Impunity prevailed again.

Reporter Luis Carlos Sáinz Martínez ZETA


This article was translated from Zeta Tijuana 

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"El Gil" lieutenant of G.U. detained, a principal named in the normalista case

September 18, 2015, 2:20 am
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Lucio for Borderland Beat

A manta of a year ago signed by "El Gil", claimed Frederico Figueroa, brother of singer Joan Sebastian, was the founder of Guerreros Unidos.


Gildardo López Astudillo “El Gil” or “El Cabo Gil” a leader for Guerreros Unidos has been detained in Taxco, Guerrero.  According to the Mexican Federal Police webpage  page, he is identified as the one responsible for collecting, transporting and incinerating the normalista group on September 26-27, 2014.

He was apprehended in a home in the Colonia Taxco, in Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero.  According to CISEN,  El Gil had changed residences on at least three occasions since the normalistas massacre.

He also has warrants for drug trafficking, organized crime, and kidnapping.


PGR claims that several of the detainees pointed to Gil as the author of the normalistas attack and disappearance.  Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, also named as a leader of Guerreros Unidos and involved in the crime, was arrested last October.
          


Manta of one year ago signed by El Gil

October 30, 2014, 34 days after the disappearance of the 43 normal school, a manta (banner) was hung in Iguala next to the  27thMilitary Battalion.  It was signed by “El “who is a lieutenant of Guerreros, working under Sidronio Casarrubias. The message offers to surrender when 80% of G.U. is behind bars, because detaining a few including commander Casarrubias (apprehended before the manta) would do nothing to disrupt the group. 


It states that Frederico Figueroa is one of the founders of the group. (Remember this is a manta hung just 4 weeks after the massacre)  It claims the normalistas were still alive at the time of hanging the manta.

In the text of the manta, addressed to President Enrique Peña Nieto, a list of corrupt officials is named, including state, federal, and municipal mayors, that the message alleges work with G.U.

It also names the 27th battalion, as being on the payroll

"All received their payroll" in exchange for "disappearing people and kidnapping". Prompting the government  to check, because there are fosas (clandestine graves) in all the municipalities. Aside from Iguala, it then names the cities of Taxco de Alarcón, Huitzuco, Tepecoacuilco, Apaxtla, Teloloapan and Cocula, saying the mayors and public security forces of those cities are on the payroll.

It names Casarrubias Salgado and Tilos as the chief commanders of Guerreros Unidos.

At the time of the manta, the federal government described  “El Cabo Gil”" as the  link between the police of Iguala and Cocula with Guerreros Unidos group.

This was according to the declaration of Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, who the government contends ordered the arrest of the normalistas in September, 2014.

Also according to PGR, (attorney general)  Sidronio Casarrubias said in his declaration, that he received a message from one of his lieutenants nicknamed "El Gil," who told him verbatim "the ashes were made (of the normalistas) and dumped into the water, no one will ever find them.”
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Narco Messages

September 18, 2015, 11:35 pm
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The wave of homicides is continuing on a daily basis in Tijuana, among them professor Antonio Rodríguez Moreno and two companions, the PGJE is currently performing DNA test on three charred bodies to determine if they belong to the missing men.

During the week a municipal policeman who recruited people to work for a criminal group was also arrested. And criminal groups exchanged narcomensajes in the streets of Tijuana.

Zeta Investigation

Saturday, September 5, at nine o'clock, it was the last time the Tijuana men living in Mexicali, Juan Antonio Rodriguez Moreno, spoke with one of his sisters. He told her that he was headed to a property owned by the family in Tijuana delegacion de La Presa, and he said he had an appointment.

He explained that Elihu Quezada Ibarra contacted him and he will have a meeting with him, he explained that Elihu had asked him to meet because he wanted to fix things up before the trial that they had for the land they were visiting.


This litigation is recorded in file 284/2004, started 11 years ago by the First Civil Court, in which Oscar Jaime Rodriguez, Luz Maria Moreno Moreno and Joaquin Rodriguez Moreno (killed in 2008) are disputing the property to Quezada.


Rodriguez Moreno, 67, an Administrative Sciences professor at the UABC and UNEA universities, had left Mexicali on his way to Tijuna, in transit to the family property. He was accompanied by engineer Martin Dimas Palafox Cervantes and this assistant, Dionisio Arevalo. According to what was said by the families, they would make a demarcation of the lands owned by the Rodriguez family, located at kilometer 14.5 in Valle Bonito. But they disappeared.

Between Sunday 6 and the morning of September 7, the families sought on their own and talked to all media to report them as missing and ask for support to find them. On Monday afternoon they filed the missing person report with the Attorney General of the State (PGJE).

For three days and seven hours, no one heard anything from any of them, until Tuesday September 8 at four in the afternoon, when those aboard the Pegasus helicopter of the Ministry of Municipal Public Security of Tijuana -including a son of the professor - spotted a burned vehicle in a steep canyon located on the property of the Rodriguez family.

At the opposite end of the property, from three in the afternoon, more than a dozen ministerial police sweep the area, but work from the air was faster. It was difficult for the elements of the corporations to get to the car.

The location of the vehicle was reported at about four in the afternoon, just over an hour, and the officers confirmed that it was the Jeep Grand Cherokee, 2000 model, which was the same vehicle driven by the three missing men, the original color of the car could not be identified because he was completely burnt, inside just piles of ashes, wires and some bones were visible.

In the car they found the BGA-80-15 plates, owned by a family member by the name of Cruz Rodriguez.

Following the discovery, the PGJE opened a preliminary investigation 342/15/201 for the murder of three unknown individuals "completely charred."

On the right side of the truck, one or two meters above they found maps and documents that belonged to the the Rodriguez family and were in possession of the three men, whose disappearance was reported to the PGJE the night of 7 September.

Also near the vehicle a cell phone and several cans of beer were located, including one already cut, which was used to take some form of liquid accelerant to burn the vehicle.

Thus, the authorities confirmed it was the truck of the missing man, but ratify the identity of the ashes and bones was impossible to verify at the time and they to require DNA testing.

Incineration cause under investigation


Although officially the possibility of an accident has not been ruled out, investigators considered that to be unlikely the reason of the accident.

They explained that the local road to the ranch of Rodríguez, is at 20 meters of the ravine where the vehicle was found.

Additionally, beer cans were found around the jeep, as to suggest that they were drunk, "but taking that in consideration which police don't believe it happened, they wouldn't lost control for 20 meters.

"In addition, the property documents were outside the car, evidently removed and checked before the jeep was set on fire."

A police officer from another corporation that was in the area said: "The situation does not match the possibility of that type of accident, the inclination of the slope could not have caused the truck to explode." The car rolled about 100 meters into the ravine.

Neighbor dispute


As part of the investigation, the same day they located the car and the charred bodies, judicial police went to ranch of Elihu Quezada Ibarra. Local police informed the investigators that they had received reports of armed men at that property, but when the PGJE arrived, there was only a  night watchman dozing.

The only public legal precedent of Quezada, in additional to the litigation with Rodriguez, is dating back to October 2002. It began, when elements of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) raided the Adlsi ballroom in fraccionamiento Murúa owned by the son of Elihu, David Quezada.

The place was where Rafael Loza Cruz, a DEA informant reported that he was kept when kidnapped a week earlier. The property had basement, a fake sink that gave access to tunnels and exit to two streets.

Following up on the same investigation, on November 6, federal agents entered the White Horse Ranch at Kilometer 14.5 Carretera Libre Tijuana-Tecate, owned by Quezada Ibarra. Press reports indicate that they found horses a black bear, three lions, a tiger and a score of ostriches.

In none of the two buildings they located the owners. The PGR said publicly they are somehow involved in drug safekeeping and kidnapping, however, there is no record of any arrest or detention.

Meanwhile, the Judiciary Power reports two injunctions requested by Quezada Ibarra: numbers 852- 1 / 102.5 / 4215, promoted the 19 December 2012 in the case of the land; and 1/0195/2001-III, which began in the Eighth District Court.

Two brothers killed


Before Mr. Juan Antonio Rodriguez Moreno had been involved in a violent disappearance and possible murder, two of his brothers were gunned down.

Miguel Angel Rodriguez Moreno was the first of the brothers whose body was located in January 1988, he was a former Public Prosecutor in Tijuana, publicly known. Among his possessions they found credentials that accredited him as an employee of the PGJE, although he had quit his job in the institution.

This guy was one of the protagonists of the note "The mafia invades Baja California," by Jesus Blancornelas published in edition Zeta on September 20, 1985.

In the text, the story of a military operation that ended with the capture of two agents of the PGJE Juan Jose Padilla and Jesús Martínez Colmenares, who confessed of protecting drug warehouses in colonias Libertad, Cacho and Cerro Colorado all under orders of his boss Rodríguez Moreno.

Details show that in September 1985, Miguel Angel Rodriguez Moreno personally appeared at a warehouse located at 528 Aquiles Serdan Street in Colonia Libertad, to prevent two federal agents they incidentally encountered to denounced their illicit business.

Rodriguez was a friend and partner in the law firm of Edgardo Leyva Mortera, brother of then Governor Xicotencatl Leyva Mortera and, according to two arrested officers, they trafficked drugs to the United States, the officers received $2000 to $3000 dollars per month to protect the warehouse, and up to $50,000 for letting go drug traffickers arrested with drugs. Most went into the pockets of Manuel Rodriguez. An arrest warrant was issued against him, but he crossed into the United States and evaded capture.

Joaquin Rodriguez Moreno was shot dead on a Friday afternoon of June 13, 2008, when he arrived to a meeting of the Farmers National Confederation at a restaurant located in the downtown area of ​​Mexicali.

The General Director of the Bachelors College of Baja California during the tenure of Leyva Mortera, was shot twice in the head when he was getting off of a pick-up Ford 1999.

According to witnesses, the assailant didn't even ran to get away from the crime scene, he walk away eastward down the Reforma alley, on the way he threw away the gun-a .45-cal on the roof of one of the houses.

Rodriguez Moreno was a member in the State Electoral Commission of the peasant league, representing the municipal committee of the CNC Playas de Rosarito.

The election for the Cenecista State Leader was scheduled for Sunday 15, for that reason the election commission where Joaquin Rodriguez Moreno was a participant was in session that Friday morning in the premises of the league located beside the state PRI, on the Boulevard López Meteos, near the Civic Center. That after noon members of the electoral committee chose to move to the BIC restaurant -located by Peritus Street and Alley Reforma, opposite of the School of Fine Arts.

The BIC is a restaurant frequented by PRI old-guard, since previously the state offices of the Institutional Revolutionary Party were located on top of the old Municipal Market, almost opposite corner of the establishment.

Former educational official, also director of CONALEP Puebla was lying on the floor in a fetal position and seriously wounded. He stayed for about half an hour until the ambulance arrived, they moved to Al Mater Private Hospital, where he died minutes later.

No one was arrested for the crime, and the daily Mexicali didn't mention the former official on the obituary section.

More killed


The escalated insecurity goes beyond homicides in Tijuana. With 68 murders in the city, August was one of the most violent of the months in 2015, however, the authorities recorded a total of 168 criminal events where there was the presence of firearms, and 100 incidents from injured people with guns and robberies.

Ten murders were committed in the first ten days of September, 13 if the charred remains that were found on September 8 inside a van burned in the bottom of a ravine in Valle Bonito are added.

Nine of the homicides were committed in the week ending. On Friday 4 before three in the afternoon, an armed man with cap and black hood, entered the Granite Express business fraccionamiento El Lago; he went straight and pointed the gun at the head of the owner, Victor Manuel Salazar Rueda. The video reveals that he tried to fire but the gun jammed, he leaned back, then the victim took a folding chair and tried to hit him, but the thug had already pulled the jammed bulled and reloaded the gun.

Four shots hit Salazar, one in the head. He died in a private hospital. He had no criminal record.

The Toyota Corolla car plates 3NNE109 from California State used by the attackers, was found in a parking space in Plaza Insurgentes.

On Monday September 7th authorities found a rotting corpse of an unidentified man with a pipe in his head, they left him lying on a dirt road near the Puente La Encantada, 500 meters from Boulevard 2000.

On Tuesday, September 8, between two and three o'clock, they found the three charred bodies and, after ten at night, the PGJE was informed of the death of Jorge Javier Lliles Ortiz, he was shot inside his home in colonia Obrera segunda sección.

On Wednesday, reports came in about three murders early morning. The body of a man full of bullets was found in Pórticos de San Antonio, another one in colonia Chihuahua and the third one on the river channeling by Benton bridge.

Municipal police arrested


As part of police operations, on September 3, after his henchmen gunned down a man in colonia Independencia, Miguel Antonio Serrano Juarez "El Vampi" was arrested, he is an active municipal police officer with ten years in the force.

When he was arrested he was among those assigned to the Operation Trust in Zona Centro, before that in La Presa delegation, but he was relocated because it was reported to have links with drug dealers in the area.

According to statements provided by his accomplices, Roberto Ruiz and Mauricio Cervantes, they did not know that "El Vampi" was a cop, they just knew he was their boss, " he was discreet" and added: "That dude moves all the connects in Valle Verde" and offered them money to "do a hit in colonia Independencia"

The information collected from the detainee and his accomplices place the police officer as a "recruiter"; he will pay police from various delegations for information regarding police operation; and when he needed some other criminal activity, he will offer money to criminals to move drugs or kill a rival.

Serrano was consigned for drug dealing, because the Second judge denied an "urgent order of apprehension" for the murder for which he was arrested. In his first statement he finally accepted paying cops and criminals for criminal activities. Even his "mob boss", whom he did not identify - will pay him a fee for each opponent narcomenudista arrested by him or the police who he recruited. But he said he has never killed anyone.

Narco Banner War




Additionally, during the week several narco banners were hung in Tijuana bridges, at least four banners with messages of threats between cartels, which publicly reported the names of suspected criminals. They also sought to evade their responsibility in the escalated violence, ensuring that all the those killed were involved on criminal activities.

On September 4, on a bridge over Insurgentes Boulevard, a message allegedly from Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) again exposed the names of some alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel, and according to them, they are killing and kidnapping innocent people. The blanket was handwritten with a pile of words and spelling errors. It read:

"MARCO TULIO CARRILLO GRANDE “ EL MARLON” EX MUNICIPAL LUGARTENIENTE  DEL “AKILES”, LUIS FRANCISCO LOZANO BELTRAN  ALIAS “EL LICO” O “EL PAKITO” JEFE DE SICARIOS DEL AKILES, VICTOR HUGO MEJIA LOPEZ “EL GRIEGO” O “EL YOGURT” o “CHECO” ESCOLTA Y JEFE DE SICARIOS DEL AKILES, JUAN ENRIQUE ROCHIN CERVANTES “EL PETERPAN” o “FELIPIN” ENCARGADO DE BATAKAS, DAVID HERNANDEZ MENDEZ “EL FADERS” , SICARIO Y SECUESTRADOR DE LAS SOBRINAS DEL MAYO ZAMBADA AL SERVICIO DEL PETER, RAUL MIRANDA ORDAZ “EL ALEJO” O “EL RULAS”, JEFE DE VARIAS CELULAS CRIMINALES AL SERVICIO DEL AQUILES, JUAN CARLOS DOMINGUEZ PARRA “300 o EL CHUECO” o “JAIVA”. 

PINCHES LACRAS SECUESTRADORES “AKI ES CABRON CON CABRON NO INOCENTES USTEDES TAMBIEN TIENEN FAMILIA RESPETEN PUTOS NO SEAN MUGROSOS SI SIGUE CORRIENDO SANGRE DE INOCENTES LES REGRESAREMOS LA CORTESIA AKI EN LA TIA JUANA, EL CIELO ES COLOR PERLA, FUERA DE LA PLAZA RATAS TRAICIONERAS Y SECUESTRADORES NOSOTROS AYUDAMOS A LA GENTE Y NO LA ROBAMOS NI SECUESTRAMOS MUCHO MENOS COBRAMOS PISO NO VIVAN DE LO QUE LA GENTE GANA CON ESFUERZO RATAS MUERTOS DE HAMBRE. 

TIJUANA TIENE NUEVO DUEÑO “SR MENCHO  CTNG Y CJNG” PURO TIJUANA"

Marco Tulio Carrillo Grande "El Marlon" Former Municipal Police Officer, and "Achilles" lieutenant, Luis Francisco Lozano Beltran aka"El Lico" or "El Pakito "head of sicarios for"Achilles", Victor Hugo Mejia Lopez "El Griego" or "El Yogurt"or "Cheko" bodyguard and CHIF of hitmen for "Achilles", Juan Enrique Rochin Cervantes "El Peter Pan" or "Felipin", in charge of hitman crews, David Hernandez Mendez "El Faders" hitman and kidnapper of the nieces of "Mayo Zambada" working under the orders of "El Peter", Raul Miranda Ordaz "El Alejo" or "El Ruelas" head of several criminal cells under "Achilles", Juan Carlos Dominguez Parra "300" or "El Chueco" or "Jaiva"

Fucking scum kidnappers "It is Criminal vs Criminal not against innocents" You have family also, "Have respect fuckers" ... Don't be so low, if "You Keep Spilling Innocent Blood" We will do the same to you , here in "La Tia Juana" ( Tijuana ) the sky is still pearl (A response to the saying by CDS members "The Sky is Green" in reference to "La Rana", saying it is still pearl is a reference to Jalisco Guadalajara Which is Known as "La Perla Tapatia" or the "Tapatia Pearl"). "Get out of the Plaza" treacherous rats and kidnappers. We help the people, we don't steal, kidnap or tax people, don't  make a living with other people's hard earned money, you greedy rats. 

Tijuana has a new owner. Mr. Mencho. CTNG and CJNG are here!

Five days later, on September 9, three narco banners were hung on a bridge in Lazaro Cardenas, another one in the pedestrian bridge in Morelos Park, and one in Soler division.

It was made in a printing workshop, all capital letters without accents, and at the bottom was a timber to avoid to be bend with the wind and it read:

“CARTELES DE OTROS ESTADOS, SEGUIREMOS TUMBANDO INTRUSOS COMO LO HEMOS ESTADO HACIENDO HASTA AHORITA, MAÑA CONTRA MAÑA, LISTOS PARA CONTINUAR CON LA PELEA, LA LIMPIA ES PARA TRAER EL ORDEN A LA CIUDAD, FIRMA EL C.A.F. 

Carteles (Narco Traffickers) from other states we will continue killing intruders like we have been doing until now, Criminal vs Criminal, ready to continue the fight, the cleansing is to bring back the order to the city, Atte CAF.

While another sign warned:

“TIJUANA NO TIENE NUEVO DUEÑO, ES EL CARTEL ARELLANO, DEJEN DE ILUSIONAR Y DE QUERER ENGAÑAR A LA GENTE LA PLAZA ES DOMINADA POR GENTE NATIVA DE TIJUANA, NO POR CARTELES DE OTROS ESTADOS, SEGUIREMOS TUMBANDO INTRUSOS COMO LO HEMOS ESTADO HACIENDO HASTA AHORITA,  MAÑA CONTRA MAÑA, LISTOS PARA CONTINUAR CON LA PELEA, LA LIMPIA ES PARA TRAER EL ORDEN A LA CIUDAD, FIRMA EL C.A.F.”

“Tijuana doesn´t have a new owner, the Arellano Cartel still rules, stop dreaming and stop trying to fool the people, this territory is ruled by native people from Tijuana, not by cartels from other states, We will keep killing intruders like we have been doing up until now Criminal vs Criminal, ready to continue the fight, the cleansing is to bring back the order to the city, Atte CAF.

On these acts of preliminary investigations with out progress, only the Secretary of State Security, Daniel de la Rosa Anaya, said to reporters that we can not validate the information contained in these messages.

On Thursday September 10 there was an unofficially report of another banner hung in front of the Macroplaza. ZETA reported to the PGJE and the secretariats of State Security in Tijuana, and they said to ignore the fact, they also deny that any staff had removed the message.

Three vehicles full of drugs abandoned


Just a few meters from the international line to the United States at the San Ysidro border crossing, a truck was abandoned with 27 kilos of marijuana, wrapped in 22 packets, at approximately nine o'clock on Thursday September 10th.

The Chevrolet pick-up unit with American plates 93164B1, was on one of the left lanes of the international crossing on the Mexican side.

According to preliminary investigations, security video observed two men getting off from the vehicle, and they walked away from area via Puente Mexico.

In another vehicle, 320 kilos of crystal meth were seized inside a black Grand Cherokee SUV with American plates.

On Friday, September 4, at 3:30 pm, members of the Mixed Operations Base BOM, were conducting a routine patrol in El Salado, in the town of Colonet delegation Ensenada, when they saw the parked vehicle.

Upon review the vehicle they found the drug known as crystal meth, weighing 320.46 kilograms; 405 containers and 82 plastic bags.

The drugs and vehicle were taken by the Public Prosecutor's Office.

In another abandoned vehicle in the parking lot of Plaza Monarca, in Cerro Colorado Delegation in Tijuana, 25 packages of marijuana were found on September 9, which in total amounted to 100 kilos.

When searched by members of the Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) of the Attorney General's Office, the car parked in the shopping center from the day before, had inside drug packaging in the trunk, which were delivered the Public Prosecutor's Office.

Also in the colonia Chapultepec Alamar, elements of the State Preventive Police and the Army seized 449,014 kilograms of marijuana.

On Friday September 4th a couple were arrested with 71.15 kilograms of marijuana, the drugs and the vehicle were seized.

According to the  PGR, the detainees are, Rodrigo Barraza Olivas, 27 years old, who was caught loading the drugs to a Toyota on Andador Canal st. On board of the unit was Alejandra Mireya Arratía Vela, 29.

Subsequently, on Monday, September 7, the officially practiced diligently search warrant at the home of the couple, 377,864 kilograms of the same type of drug they were located in a basement.

On September 9, a thousand 315 kilograms of marijuana were found in the false bottom of a truck tract from San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora, to Tijuana, where PVC pipes were transported.

The same day, in the hidden compartment of a boat parked off the coast of San Diego, California, 95 packages with 220 kilograms of marijuana were seized and three Mexican nationals were captured, one of them with permanent residence in the United States. $290,000 dollars were also seized.

Confiscated arsenal


On September 3, Joel Perez Delgadillo, 30 years old, was captured with weapons and drugs in the Loma Dorada neighborhood of Tijuana. He was arrested for possession of seven AR-15 .223 caliber weapons; besides 650 cartridges, 600 .223 and 50 .25 caliber.

6.74 kilos of crystal meth and 150 grams of cocaine were also found in the vehicle.

This article was translated from Zeta Tijuana

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PGJE hunts the child killers of Las Fuezas Especiales de "Los Damaso"

September 19, 2015, 6:03 am
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Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from  Zetatijuana article

[ Subject Matter: Sinaloa Cartel, Baja California Sur
Recommendation: Read this article on recent eventssee link]

After the execution of a family on the Meliton Albanez common land, between La Paz and Los Cabos, the PGJE are investigating five suspects of the armed attack, who allegedly belong to a cell of  Las Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso", responsible for killing children, women, and innocent men.

Raul Castillo de la Rosa "El Cochi" at right

Reporter: Zeta Investigations and Cortesia
The primary investigations of the PGJE after the execution of an entire family, on the night of 3rd of September in this location, point to a dangerous criminal cell of "Los Mataninos" or "The Child Killers".

According to the primary testimony of the three survivors, the five attackers wore military type uniforms which were colored marine blue, with the initials FED ( Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso" and had a symbol of a Cockerel and two crossed rifles, after attacking their victims they boarded a Ford Mustang, colored red, on the river bed of a creek, just four metres from the asphalt of the La Paz to Cabo San Lucas Highway.







According to officials interviewed, the assassins had been tasked with executing a drug dealer on this land, Evelio Santiago Lugo "El Evelio", but in the armed attack they killed his wife and his two grandsons, a boy of four years old, and a girl of eight years old, also gravely wounding two teenagers of 15 and 16 years old respectively.

Agents from the PGJE immediately initiated an investigation, and after taking witness statements, physical descriptions of the Sicario's and the resulting ballistic testing, they compiled a list of suspects, who are members of the criminal cell of "The Child Killers", in which figure:



Raul Castillo de la Rosa "El Cochi", head of a cell of Sicarios of Las Fuerzas Especiales de "Los Damaso", with criminal operations in La Paz and Los Cabos.

His modus operandi is that of a known killer who has gained infamy for his grotesque form, coldness and blood-thirsty nature of the way he kills his victims.

Osvaldo Pastrana Zacarias "El Oso", alleged Sicario of "Los Damaso", and a known rapist and kidnapper in Guerrero State, and identified also as "El Negro Pastrana".

Alvaro Burgos Sauceda "El Cheque", alleged Sicario of "Los Damaso", well known for the sale, distribution and transit of drugs in Los Cabos.

Manuel Burgos Sauceda "El Chombi", brother of "El Cheque" and alleged Sicario of "Los Damaso".

Luis Medina "El Torito", son of a drug dealers identified as "El Toro Medina" in the town of Comondu, and alleged killer with "Los Damaso".

Not withstanding, investigating Agents of the PGJE, in coordination with Federal and Military Forces, work on the confirmation of more possible members of this dangerous criminal cell of FED, which during a recent series of attacks, have killed children, women and men completely innocent of illegal activities in the State.

The innocent people assassinated so far are as follows:

* On the 21st of August they killed a family employed by the Mine Roca Fosorica Mexicana, Francisco Javier Hirales Lucero and his wife, Victoria Berenice Cesena Zamora, leaving their 8 month old baby wounded, Diego Hirales Cesena, on the Calle Baja California and Francisco Villa in the Community of Chaemtla, in the North of La Paz. (Otis: see link to an article about these killings).

According to investigators the killers had confused the vehicle, killing the mother and father of this family, and leaving the wounded baby an orphan, along with his two brothers at primary school.

* On the 31st of August, during an attack planned to assassinate the drug dealer Juan Manuel Amezcua Lara "El Chilango", on Avenida Padre Kino and Jaime Bravo, in the Los Olivos Colonia, they killed the wife of a drug dealer, Nayla Daniela Placencia Rodriguez, where due to bad luck, two business people were injured in the cross fire, identified as Fernando Leonel Mucino Juarez, aged 32, and Maria Gloria Salgado Monroy, 65 years of age, who was shot in both thighs with an AK47.

* On the 3rd of September, during the assassination of the drug dealer Evelio Santiago Lugo "El Evilio", they killed his wife, Rubi Celia Torres Robles, 53 years of age, also his grandsons, Jesus Adrian four years old, and Alejandra eight years old. Also wounded were Osvaldo Alexis, 15 years old and Luis, 16 years old, both students and originally from Veracruz.


During the attack, only one of the seven occupants of the vehicle emerged unscathed, named Leonardo aged 12 years.

The killing

The most recent mortal armed attacked launched by the dangerous cell of "The Child Killers" occurred around 10 at night on the 3rd of September, when, according to witnesses, the aggressors were waiting for their victims aboard a white pick up on the shoulder of kilometre 19 of the La Paz - Cabo San Lucas highway.

The 5 Sicarios observed an approaching red vehicle of the drug dealer Evelio Santiago Reyes "El Evelio", and they made to immediately intercept him, they opened fire on the occupants, despite the cries of the woman and children inside the vehicle, who according to witnesses had said "don't shoot there are women and children on board".

Evelio Santiago Reyes "El Evelio
Witnesses assure that of the five Sicarios, four drew weapons. Two of them had pistols, and two had rifles, and the fifth stayed in front of their vehicle. After the aggression witnesses heard " Vamos, puro Damaso cabrones", or " We go, pure Damaso, assholes", their vehicle sped off and later was found abandoned a little further down the road with a breakdown.

At the scene of the crime, dogs of the PGJE, found a red mustang riddled with bullets, model 1997, with circulation plates CZP1392, with four dead bodies inside.

In the drivers seat was the drug dealer Evelio Santiago Reyes, and in the front passenger seat, Rubi Celia Torres Robles. In the rear of the vehicle was the body of Alejandra, 8 years old, who was wearing blue jeans and a gray blouse,

On the right side of the rear of the car was the body of Jesus Adrian, 4 years old and wearing yellow shorts and a red shirt.

The three survivors of the attack left the vehicle on foot and immediately tried to flag down other vehicles passing on the highway, they were transferred to the General Hospital "Juan Maria de Salvatiera" of La paz.

Two of the three survivors arrived at the Hospital with wounds, Osvaldo Alexis, 15, wounded in the left arm, and Luis with wounds to the body.

The third survivor, Leonardo, aged 12, was receiving medical treatment for nervous breakdown and pains in the stomach.

The Forensic Medical Services, said that the 4 people who died received multiple shots to the chest, stomach, face and head, and died instantaneously.

In a radius of approximately 100 metres of the vehicle, dogs of the PGJE located 16 spent cartridges of 7.62 x 39mm calibre, shot by an AK47 and 6 spent cartridges of .223 inch calibre shot by an AR15 rifle, 4 spent cartridges of .40 inch calibre and 13 cartridges of 9mm calibre

Original article in Spanish at Zetatijuana.

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Federal Prisons chief and 12 others arrested in El Chapo escape

September 19, 2015, 12:29 pm
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by Lucio R. Borderland Beat
Former chief of federal prisons Celina Oseguera Parra

The Federal Police and the Attorney General's Office today arrested 13 officials charging them in the escape of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Including Celina Oseguera Parra, former general coordinator of federal penitentiaries, (she was fired the day following El Chapo’s escape) and Valentin Cardenas Lerma, a former prison director of Altiplano No. 1. 

Celina is the highest level of authority arrested in the case, she was chief of all prison directors, including Valentin.

Others arrested: Leonor García García, former legal director of the Altiplano;

And the following detainees:

Roberto Cruz Bernal, (custodian chief),

Reyes Mora Carrillo, (one of the top 3 federal police working at the prison)

Herminio González Albarrán. (in charge of monitoring)

Miguel Ángel Flores Mirafuentes, (chief of security control center)

Others whose duties included monitoring, guards and custodians:

Jaime Galindo Hernández, Oswaldo Gastón Veytia Rodríguez and Agustín Jiménez Molina,  Miguel Ángel Cortes Carrillo, Erick Sorcia Martínez, Arturo Hernández Hernández.

The government had previously detained 7 prison officials, including 2 of the federal police and 2 from the agency CISEN (national security).  Government officials report that 4 were released of the original 7, and the others were charged with acts such as failing to activate the “Code Red”, delaying notification of the escape, and not following protocols.

That is the contention of the government, however reports in August claimed all but 1 detainee had been released, and that person was a low level guard.


The newly arrested male suspects are imprisoned at CEFERESO Número 1, Altiplano, and the two women CEFERESO Femenil de Tepic, Nayarit.

I searched the federal agency websites and PGR social media pages for mugshots, as of yet, I found no mugs and no mention of the arrests.

Some material used in this post was accessed from Reforma, BB archives and Univision Noticias
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La China Chief of sicarios of Los Damaso arrested in BCS

September 19, 2015, 5:09 pm
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Police elements managed to arrest Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda "La China", presumed Special Forces chief of assassins of the criminal organization "Los Damaso" in Baja California.

According to the weekly Zeta, the Attorney General of Baja California unofficially confirmed the arrest of the woman.

The publication reported the arrest at about 13:10, when she was trying to leave the state from the Cabo San Lucas airport, in Baja California Sur.

He adds that because of the secrecy of the investigations, the case was not reported.

Calderon Ojeda was arrested along with a criminal cell.

La China is one of those responsible for the violence in La Paz, where until now there have been 178 murders in the struggle for control of the drug trade.

Calderon Ojeda is an armed wing operator of "Los Damaso" Special Forces in Baja California Sur, which operate mainly in the city of La Paz.

The 30-year-old became famous by a ballad titled like her nickname.

In recent weeks it was reported that La China had stop working for "Los Damaso" of the Sinaloa Cartel, because of problems high in the chain of command.

Therefore, supposedly Calderon Ojeda decided to form her own group holding a dispute with "Los Damaso".

The alleged sicaria was one of the two objectives of state, federal and military forces for her participation in at least nine murders in the drug war being waged against Los Pepillos and Los Mayitos in La Paz, according to the weekly Zeta.

This article was translated from Proceso

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