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Crecencio "El Chencho" Beltran Murillo, old school CAF

September 9, 2016, 9:57 pm
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NOTE: Excerpt taken from "Gente de la Tia Juana"
Translated and posted by El Wachito

The backstory of Chencho Beltran

He was born in Durango but raised in Pueblos Unidos, Sinaloa. 

The Beltran Murillo family started trafficking in the 80's, when everything was a brotherhood between the Zambadas and Arellanos. A problematic family who spread terror across the small towns. However, unlike his brothers, Chencho was really discrete and "chinga quedito" (Passive aggressive). Tired of complaints and with problems in the border region, Zambada invites Chencho, however instead of meeting Zambada, Chencho along with his brothers go and look for the head of hitman of Zambada but they only found his wife who was pregnant. The older brother of the Beltran Murillo's was known for being alcoholic, violent and addicted to cocaine promptly decided to kill her. Chencho, skilled and ambitious knew exactly what it was coming.

No drug lord will ever forgive the murder of a family member and the family of the older Chencho Beltran brother was left with no other option than to move to Veracruz where he was cruelly assassinated. Back then Culiacan and Tijuana were already having problems(1989). Ramon Arellano had already killed "El Rayo" at club Britannia and knew that Chencho Beltran was a key component in the conflict. With more problems surrounding him, in Pueblos Unidos the brother of Arturo Villareal Heredia aka "El 6-1" is assassinated. Therefore Chencho decided to invite "El 6-1" to Tijuana to serve him as ally, brother in law and friend.
Arturo Villareal Heredia "El Nalgon or el 6-1" was arrested
    with "El Tigrillo" in international waters by the Coast guard.
Chencho, smart and with great ability to manipulate people, knew how violent and impulsive Arturo Villareal was and he placed him in front of him along the side of Ramon Arellano. 6-1, as a "leading man" was fascinated. With this, Chencho plans the famous massacre of "El cajoncito". With his ability to manipulate people, he informs Arturo Villareal that he knows where Javier Torres "El JT" was going to be. Chencho knew that JT was not going to be there, but he knew that his family would be there and Chencho wanted vengeance for his brother. Chencho knew that Arturo Villareal was going to act quick and that is exactly what happened.

JT was devastated and just like that the Beltran Murillo family violated one of the most important codes of honor among traffickers that states that "family is untouchable" once again. Chencho, skilled at manipulating 6-1 and him hiding in the clandestine side was fundamental for the economy and to start collecting money for "la plaza" of the Arellano Felix brothers. Chencho frequently invited friends and cousins to Tijuana in order to traffic. He was good on the first deal and was extremely punctual to the point where other traffickers usually came back with double money and they were often robbed or kidnapped.

;The decline of the Arellano Felix Organization(AFO)

Ramon was assassinated in Sinaloa and Benjamin was arrested in Puebla, Mexico. "El Tigrillo" was left commanding the AFO. Chencho knew he was young and enjoyed partying and at that moment  he used his puppet and brother in law "El 6-1" who does whatever he wants to do with the young Tigrillo. They partied so much that they were captured together on a yacht,  while fishing for marlin and with an extreme hangover.
Francisco Javier Arellano Felix "El Tigrillo"
was captured by the Coast Guard deep fishing of the coast of Mexico. 
Chencho received an invitation in Monterrey by Eduardo Arellano Felix "El Doctor". Chencho decides to go and gets offered "La plaza". Anyone would feel proud of such offer, however Chencho, with his experience knew that accepting la plaza would mean that his end would arrive soon. He is the expert in using people in order for him to remain in the shadows, and therefore he rejects the offer.

                        Eduardo Arellano Felix was arrested in Tijuana after shootout with Mexican federal Police

The end of the Arellano Felix Organization

Fernando Sanchez Arellano (nephew of Eduardo Arellano Felix)was known as "El Ingeniero". When he arrived to the city of Tijuana he was really young, with bipolar disorder and the only experience he knew was the war games that he played in his XBOX for which he was known. When Chencho realized that this young kid was useless and that the only backup he had was the Arellano last name he decided to breakaway.

                                                       Fernando Sanchez Arellano was arrested on a Monday while
                                                               watching the soccer game of Mexico VS Croatia.

Chencho knew that it was the end of the family that he had serve for years but he didn't know that it was going to end that quick.

Haunted by the past

With the power and control of Zambada in Tijuana, Chencho sends "Don Balas" to ask for a truce in order to gain time and to organize and offense. Zambada does not forgive him.

"Don Balas" refused to fight because he feared for the life of his son "El Balitas". The one that supports Chencho is his second in command, a drug trafficker with little experience to fight, Jose Luis Escudero Escandon "El quieto" o "Pelus".

He is also supported by "Manotas Tapia", known for snitching on "el Cholo" for not giving him a position in the cartel that was supposed to obtain. Mesien e Isaac "Ripa" Barcenas, who enjoy bragging but have little experience and carry young inexperience males such as "El flako" y "el Kado", with promises of power and giving them feelings of importance and fame in order to make them feel important and to manipulate them easily. Most of them end up killed in shootouts.

The question is, will Chencho be able to get away with all this or he is only using them while the manipulates his known "Mencho" from Guadalajara, who knows, he thinks like a roman emperor but can he make a lot with that?

With surgery scars in his face and extremely different but he still is.... "Don Chencho Beltran"
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78,109 executed during Peña Nieto's term

September 8, 2016, 8:01 pm
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Posted by DD republished from Zeta
Translated by Borderland Beat reader "Jaqui" who translated the story and sent it to BB.

 PHOTO: Rashide FRIAS /CUARTOSCURO.COM
By Jesse Lara Bermudez

The Federal Government has not only failed in its strategy against violence in the country, the proceeds of crime and drug trafficking also continues and its effort to conceal information about the damage and blood letting continues unabated. 



The willful deaths so far in six years of Enrique Peña Nieto's term ( less than four years) are incalculable. There is a feeble -and refutable- attempt by the Federal Government for counting the numbers as one of the leading causes of deaths in the country. Alone, official figures from the Interior Ministry are scandalous: 63,816 court records are related to violent deaths so far during this PRI government. 

Of course, it was not a relevant topic in the Fourth Presidential Report. Despite the possibility of establishing a number of victims for the crime of homicide, Mexico is far from knowing precisely the number of lives lost as a result of violence and insecurity.      

45 MESES of EPN ( map )
PHOTO: SIMON DIEGO SÁNCHEZ /CUARTOSCURO.COM
The government covers up the obvious, the violence and the absence of a plan to combat crime, promote security or seek justice. If the three completed years (2013, 2014 and 2015) in which Peña Nieto leads the government, on average, every year 21,199 intentional homicides have been accounted for. However, the country of death was not reflected in the Fourth Report of the Government of Peña. To hide and disguise the atmosphere of war and the loss of the rule of law does not prevent the bloody reality that shakes the country. 

The dead are more than numbers.

  Research conducted for weeks by ZETA tallies the number: 78, 109 intentional homicides during PRI government. These numbers are the result of the number of casualties recorded by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the approved reports of entities, consultations with prosecutors or state prosecution offices and some references of the Executive Secretariat of the National System of Public Security, Secretariat of Interior. 




However, the figure could be higher. The uncertainty of the exact amount is born mainly by the number of missing persons, homicides that are wrongfully classified as suicides in several states, and the lack of authority in some areas dominated by armed groups, where executions are committed without the presence of police forces or the possibility of justice to come.
 The more than 78,000 documented intentional homicides are perhaps only part of the face of death and crime that the government intends not to recognize. In this note , is the list of those executed with a firearm or knife wounds during the peñista mandate. As shown, the most violent states based on the highest number of executed are: State of Mexico, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Mexico City, Michoacan, Veracruz and Tamaulipas. 


If we consider only so far in 2016, from January to July (at the close of this work it was not yet completed in August), the ten entities with the most executed as follows: 

   1 : State of Mexico, 1,326 
   2 : Guerrero, 1,267 
   3 : Chihuahua, 771 
   4 : Jalisco 
   5 : 723 Sinaloa
   6 : 698 Baja California 
   7 :660 (of which 490 were committed in Tijuana) 
   8 : Mexico City , 654
   9 : Michoacan , 643
   10 : Veracruz , 606
   11: Tamaulipas 605 . 

Doing the same exercise, but proportional to its population, ie, the rate of intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, the five states with more violence per capita are: 

   1 : Colima, 45.94 per hundred thousand inhabitants 
   2: Guerrero, 35.31 
   3 : Sinaloa, 20.10 
   4 : Baja California, 17.17 
   5 : Morelos, 16.98   

  Bloodied country, made-up numbers.

     Regarding Morelos, Alberto Capella Ibarra, Commissioner of Public Security, said in an interview that the data that the Unified Command are " virtually the same " to those registered by the National Executive Secretary of the SEGOB, because "there is already a statistical system that is fed month to month. We are transparent and handle what is ". 

One explanation of the Commission is not in vain, but the distrust of official versions is more than normal. For example, figures that the Executive Secretary of the National System of Public Security of the Interior Ministry has documented since 1997 refer to the "crime rate", that is, the inquiries from murders and not the number of victims, although lately he has begun to generate this job. 

Showing the above mentioned sample of the figures -both of official crime rate between SEGOB and the handling of the data concerning homicide deaths of INEGI. 

In 2013, the Secretary reported the incidence of 18 ,332, while INEGI realized 23, 063 victims. The same in 2014, when the first documented 15, 653 and the second 20,010 .  2015was no exception: 17,028 cases by SEGOB and 20, 525 by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography.   

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 Homicides, an epidemic.

 Dr. Hiram Sanchez Beltran is a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles who published an article in January 2016 on the impact of homicides in the life expectancy of Mexicans. 

The academic states :

  "The problem we have in Mexico with the murder rate is that there is a constant struggle to know if the information (official) is appropriate and whether they are codifying well, or are masking information." 

However, the current reality is that in the country "the impact on life expectancy is much lower than it should be, because we know that there are deaths that are classified differently, even though they were actually murders". 

PHOTO: ARTURO PEREZ ALFONSO /CUARTOSCURO.COM
 When comparing the findings of the study with the current situation, Beltran Sanchez observes how violence went from being focused in some states-most in the north- to a more widespread geographic distribution. "When we talk about the murders as an epidemic we refer to how this pattern is changing.  If we look at the latest information, the data shows that the violence has spread virtually throughout the country. " 

For example, in 2010, entities / states such as Colima and Zacatecas have figures that were so low that they were not even considered among the states with the highest figures.  " Now, Colima has a higher rate than Guerrero" he says. 

Hence, the expert refers to the importance of obtaining more accurate information to learn about the phenomenon and stop it. 

Ismael Urzua Camelo, a former assistant attorney in Aguascalientes and former official of the SEGOB, also knows the exact numbers are difficult to know. But the "deductions" are much easier. 

Above all , from the element of " the findings that PGR has made about organized crime in an entity or region, are reflected in terms of homicide. If there are many findings , about 15 or 20 done by organized crime, we suppose there to be an increase in homicides " he says. 

The now adviser to the Senate asks the question: "Why do the  killings remain static, at their level, if there is a lot of organized crime? Because what happens is that crime kills and relatives and /or family are scared to death, they no longer complain, they do not want to know anything. "

Besides that "when someone was wounded then dies, the authority does not update the information, the investigation itself, yes, but the statistics do not reflect an updated high," he concludes. 

PHOTO: Rashide FRIAS / CUARTOSCURO.COM
 
 Peña, wrong and foolish.
   
Roel Santiago, director of the civic organization Semaphore , says crime increased 17% in intentional homicides in the first half of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015, and it is a result of disputes between the cartels. However, the consultant who created the mechanism for measuring crime rate, which is qualified with green, yellow or red, depending on the security situation in the country and in each entity, also seen in the use of police forces to combat drugs, is the background of the problem. 

   " The current administration does not want to adopt a change in drug policy for fear of paying the price in 2018, and continues to suffer the political cost of insecurity throughout Mexico," he said. 

In an interview with this Semanario, the specialist points out that while in 2015 Semaphore information - fed at the time by  Lantia Consultants - indicated an average of 677 executions by organized crime per month , by July 2016 , 1,080 homicides were related with organized crime. 

"In the first half of the year, 56 percent of homicides in Mexico were executions of organized crime, but there are states where this figure is above 80 percent, as Guerrero, Colima and Tamaulipas" he says. 

Roel relates the constant increases in crime rates in those states with the presence of two to four criminal groups in competition for the plaza. 

A report from the firm specializing in security , Stratfor , entitled " The Cartels in Mexico Erode in 2016 ", projected to continue the trend of fragmentation of the cartels, some of which have been maintained for over 20 years. 

 Such divisions occur within the same criminal organizations, mainly the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Zetas and Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). "No criminal group will remain immune to decentralization and reduction," says the report. 

It is precisely in the strategy to combat drug trafficking, where Santiago Roel sees the main problem with the Mexican government, as the drug policy "gives market power to the mafias, this leads us not only to high impact violence , but high impact corruption where the authorities could collapse with silver or lead, "he says. 

" After more than nine years with this strategy of increasing violence in the war against drugs, when all indicators are pathetically negative, why so stubbornly stay in a strategy that does not work? Neither protects us from consumption (drugs ) orachieves peace, "he exclaims through his phone. 



The dead will never be counted.

In different states, those killed will never even go past the desktop of an authority. Chiapas is one of the states that has been rated as the safest by the National Security Council, however, it is far from it. 

Pepe Gallegos, editor of The Herald , explains that in recent years, "drug trafficking and treatment of people continue to invade the crime pages and /or red notes of major newspapers, who discreetly have tried to minimize the facts for fear of reprisals from different cartels ", thanks to the absence of authority. 

The journalist cites some cases, such as Ocozocoautla de Espinoza, "a place where there is present an armed group called the Cartel de los Sapos, where there has appeared corpses in out of the way places , some of them even collected by the government." 

One more. In Chamula there was talk of a clash where there were at least seven killed in a firefight, but the same indigenous inhabitants did not let  the police or justice departments enter .

The clearest example , he continues , was that of a woman who allegedly committed suicide by putting her head in a bag of nylon with a tie and then threw herself to a cistern,  where she was found; that same day the body of another person was found with signs of torture, mutilation and burned arms in a tourist place ".       

Something similar happened in the state capital a couple of weeks ago. A businessman with bars and clubs , in addition to a car repair shop, was found dead in his car, but according to the state attorney general this was another suicide. 

A statement from the PGJE of Chiapas confirmed the man's death was caused by a tourniquet to strangle himself by the neck with a rope and a screwdriver. 

Drug trafficking and its consequences, the omission of a government without strategy and unrealistic figures make for a country sinking in drug trafficking, violence and corruption .
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Ohio: 4yr old boy in car seat while mom and companion OD on heroin

September 10, 2016, 2:02 pm
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Lucio R. for Borderland Beat by C.E.M.

"In attempts to publicize the effects of the Ohio heroin epidemic, the East Liverpool, Ohio police department  released these stunning photos.   

Over 3,000 Ohioans died from accidental drug overdoses in 2015, heroin is killing 8 Ohioans a day…"

A police officer was driving when he spotted the Ford Explorer SUV moving  erratically.  The SUV would cross the yellow divider line, then pull back again into the right edge of the roadway. 

The driver slammed on his brakes, skidding towards a school bus stopped while students exited, the
bus pulled away, and the SUV then drifted to the side of the road and stopped.

The officer then made contact with the driver, identified as James Acord.  The officer asked Acord what was going on.  He observed Accord’s head bobbing around, pinpoint pupils and almost unintelligible.  Accord pointed to an unconscious woman, identified as Rhonda Pasek, who was sitting in the passenger seat, explaining  he was taking her “to the hospital”.

The officer noticed a child in the back of the SUV, a four year old male, sitting in his car seat, looking confused. 
Then Acord slipped into unconsciousness.  By this time Pasek was blue and not breathing.  A Lifeteam EMS was called as the officer kept the airway opened on Pasek.  EMS administered several injections of Narcan saving her life. Narcan is an antidote used in opiate overdoses.
Guerrero: Mexico replaced Asia as the provider of heroin to the U.S.
when the product became high grade and white, knocking Asia out of the market
When they were removed from the car, the police officer reported that he found a folded piece of paper between Pasek’s legs that contained “a small amount of pink powdery substance,” which was then taken to a lab for testing.

The little boy was taken into protective custody and later released to the care of a neighbor.

Pasek and Acord have had previous run-ins with the law, in Ohio and neighboring West Virginia.

Pasek (her FB photo above left)was charged with child endangerment, not wearing a seatbelt and public intoxication. Acord was charged with endangering a child and slowing/stopping in a roadway.

Acord pleaded no contested to the charges and was sentenced to 360 days in jail. His license was also suspended for three years and he has to pay a $475 fine.

Pasek pleaded not guilty. 

Police report below.  Click on image to enlarge




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TJ: Meth Becomes the Most Prominent Drug on the Baja Border

September 11, 2016, 6:20 pm
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Posted by El Wachito republished from ZETA

Written by Ines Garcia Ramos
Friday, 9 September 2016

In the region between Tijuana-San Diego, meth has position itself as the most commercialized, trafficked and consume drug. In the last 10 months, American law enforcement agencies have confiscated more than 9 tons of meth at the border. Small doses of meth have also become the most common drug that has been found in the streets of Baja California.

Its early in the morning. From American soil, along the border region that is patrolled by the Border Patrol one can hear songs from Vicente Fernandez and rooster crows coming out of houses that are made of wood in Tijuana. There is almost one kilometer that separates the houses and the border patrol guard post, however not even the fence that divides the United States from Mexico can't stop the folk music nor the sound of the birds which create a special vibe along the border of San Diego, California. Early in the morning, some residents from la Colonia Libertad, which is located east from the San Ysidro border crossing, start to carefully observe border patrol officers through binoculars. A border patrol agent explained to a ZETA correspondent that this is a common practice. The idea is to locate an access point or a moment of distraction by the border patrol in order to warn immigrants who are trying to cross the border illegally or drug traffickers. Once the drugs make its way into the border, its value increases significantly. For example, the cost of one pound can go up to 10 thousand  dollars. In the case of cocaine, a pound exceeds 12 thousand dollars.


Trafficking methods vary. Marihuana is usually not trafficked through ports of entry because of its strong odor and volume, while synthetic drugs such as meth and cocaine are being hidden in secret compartments such as gas tanks and glove compartments. An old piece of cloth with oxidized metal spikes which go through one the extremes and is wrapped around with ropes, is one the many tools that traffickers used and have been recently found by border patrol agents in one of their most recent patrols. The agents claim that this tool is used to hook it to the top of the fence and then use it to climb it and jump from it. Some of them use it just to cross the border, however others, use it to carry drugs across the border.


From October of 2015 to August of 2016, the Border Patrol San Diego Sector has confiscated almost a ton of meth. 928 kilograms to be exact. To this quantity we must add the 8 tons 295 thousand kilograms of meth that has been confiscated by the Customs and Border Protection(CBP) in the San Ysidro port of entry, Otay, Tecate, Calexico and Andrade, as well as ports and airports of the California border which were confiscated from October 2015 to July of 2015.
                       
 

Two months away to the end of the current fiscal year and we are already exceeding the 7 tons 951 kilos that were confiscated in 2015 by custom agents. This quantities are impressive and according to US custom officials their value in the streets exceed 20 million dollars.

If we divide the quantity of confiscated meth by the quantity of a small dose, than we can conclude that we have confiscated 9 million doses in less than a year which means that there is a tremendous demand for meth.





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Alfredo Beltran Leyva: Hearing for Wednesday and Thursday is cancelled

September 12, 2016, 5:14 pm
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Lucio R. Borderland Beat with C.E.M.

 Motion to continue sentencing hearing and request for forensic evaluation

A request for a continuance was filed on behalf of Alfredo Beltran Leyva aka El Mochomo. The motion was granted vacating the 2 day hearing, scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, which now will be a status hearing.

In his filing, counsel for Alfredo, Washington D.C. attorney Eduardo Balarezo,  states that recent events have occurred, that gave him cause for concern enough that a forensic evaluation is necessary.

The reasons for this request are under seal.  On the following page is the filing.

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Acapulco: Human Remains Left As An Order of Tacos

September 12, 2016, 7:00 pm
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By: Uriel Sánchez | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

Acapulco, Guerrero, September 12, 2016— The mutilated hands of a person were found on a disposable plate on 4th Street and Mexico Avenue in the neighborhood of Bellavista.

A phone call to the emergency number 066 warned of the finding as police rushed to the scene to verify the information.

Upon arriving at the location, a disposable plate was found with a lid, and under the lid was a pair of hands with radishes, onions, and cilantro, as if it were an order of tacos.

The police cordoned off the area while staff from the Attorney General’s Office of Guerrero conducted the relevant proceedings, to then order the transfer of the human remains to the medical forensic service.

Source: Quadratin 

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"El Mexicano": Detain the leader of Las Maras in Spain

September 13, 2016, 6:43 am
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Lucio R. Borderland Beat  story translated by BB contributor "Benny Juarez"


Madrid, Spain - Madrid's National Police arrested a leader of a criminal gang nicknamed "El Mexicano" (The Mexican), who allegedly had instructions to establish this organization in Spain.

This individual had several pending cases with the police and at the moment of his capture carried falsified documentation, the police informed. Later it was discovered that he had established his legal situation in the country with a fake identity. 

"The arrest is fruit of acts that are developed systematically to avoid the establishment of this and other similar organizations in Spain" authorities indicated.

The subject, whose real identity or nationality was not revealed, will be under arrest until he can be expelled from the country.



The national police achieved the investigation in collaboration with police services from Honduras and El Salvador.

According to the authorities, currently The "Mara 18" does not have one sole leader controlling it, instead several leaders at an international level work in coordination to mark the directives that the organization needs to be guided by.

According to the investigation, "Mara 18" leaders had given instructions to their members in Spain to put in progress criminal activity of the group in this country.

The principal sources of financing for this organization are: Extortions, Specifically to businessmen, drug trafficking, express kidnappings, arms trafficking, the acquiring of real estate to later rent to other people, and other crimes.

The investigations into the activities of "El Mexicano" in Spain remain open

"Las Maras" which origin can be traced back to the 80's in the Unites States, is organized in a system of territory cells with groups of youngsters between 25 and 50 members, who  make crime their way of life.

The Maras arose in the United States as a consequence of conflicts generated by marginalization, family issues and common delinquency. Even though the first members of the Maras were natives of El Salvador, currently they have extended to countries like El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia.
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Many from La Ruana fled to the US, due to Los Caballeros Templarios violence

September 13, 2016, 7:27 pm
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Translated by Chuck B Alamada for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article

Written by Liliana Padilla (Milenio)
Friday, 09 September 2016

Jose Luis Torres Valencia, son of "autodefensa,"   
Rafael Sanches AKA Pollo (picture by Hector Tellez)
A year had passed after the uprising of frustrated civilians that were tired of the harassment by Los Caballeros Templarios when on March 8, 2014, twelve days after the first anniversary, blood spilled again in La Ruana, the first community in Tierra Caliente to challenge this criminal group. Despite the Federal Operation to stop the submission in which Los Templarios had most parts of the state, a double homicide in La Ruana demonstrated the differences between the different groups of autodefensas.

On March 18, 2014Rafael Sanchez, AKA El California. Two years later, the double homicide is still unsolved and the family hasn’t returned to their home in the heart of Tierra Caliente.
Pollo and Jose Luis Torres AKA El Nino were found burned to death in a truck near La Rauna. A wedding band, a lead fragment, a bracelet, and part of his hand, were the only items that enabled the identification of Jose Luis Torres’ body. March had not been over when the Torres family fled La Ruana and moved to

A folder with newspaper clippings from the March 8thincident was the only life insurance that they took with them.

They traveled to Tijuana and crossed over to the USwhere they asked the government for political asylum to so that they did not have to relive that nightmare where the Torres family lost their patriarch.

Of Jose Luis’ three children, two are in the United States. His daughter, Nereida lives with her husband and mother. His son, Miguel Angel was transported to a detention center where he was detained for nine months until he was deported a week ago, despite of the evidence that he and his family wouldl be in danger. Jose Luis, his second son, decided to stay in Mexico Cityand will unlikely return to La Rauna.

After his father’s death, his mother did not want to leave her home, but were able to convince her. It wasn’t just the violence, but the memories also tormented her. At the end, her visa was enough for her to stay with her daughter in Sacramento, Californiaalthough Miguel Angel, the youngest brother, didn’t have the same luck despite his wife and newborn son also living there. Miguel Angel has had difficulties getting asylum and although he has been deported, he will not return to Michoacan.

As he opens the door to the house that he’s returned to after a year and a half, Jose Luis says” “They will not grant political asylum to my bother because there are already too many families from La Rauna, but he has to appeal the judge’s decision and that costs $8,000 USD.” The pink house in which Jose Luis’ three children grew up seems abandoned. The truck used by the autodefensas leader and limonero (lemon picker) still sits in the garage. The violence displayed them and a banner with his pictures is the only memory left of that tragedy.

“Here they come to say that now Michoacan is a safe state with their operations, but there continues to be death in La Rauna almost on a daily basis. We cannot return like this.”

He affirms that there are many from Michoacan in the US, specifically from La Ruana and all fled due to the violence.

While he’s doing a walkthrough of the home with dust on the furniture, he tells me:”When things were at their worst with Los Templarios, I asked my dad to leave, but he refused to leave his house and land. I told them on the day of his funeral, if he had left, none of this would have happened.”

In their special report on the autodefensa groups in Michoacan and human rights violations due to the conflict, the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH) documented the displacement of 483 people as a result of the violence. According to the report, San Miguel de Aquila in the municipality of Aquila, Nueva Italia in the municipality of Mugica, Coahuayana, Aguililla, Apatzingan, and Tepalcatepec are among the affected communities. CNDH documented that the armed uprising was due to the criminal groups and the “omission of the authorities in guarantying public safety” first in La Ruana and Tepalcatepec and then 33 (out of 113) other municipalities thereafter.


But La Ruana wasn’t symbolic only for being the birth of the uprising, but also for the disputes between rival autodefensa groups. The first dispute cost the life of Jose Luis Torres and Rafael Sanchez. Their families blamed the autodefensas group linked to Hipolito Mora. The reason for the dispute dealt with 300 hectares (741 acres) of lemon trees that had been taken over by Templarios and one of the victims, Rafael Sanchez intended returning the land to the lawful owners.

“Rafa and my dad had their differences with Hipolito Mora because he was expelling people from the town and it was also proven through hundreds of reports that he was taking their houses. At that time, my dad and the other person were really close to the Consejo de Autodefensas and wanted them to return the houses to their owners” says Jose Luis while he places down on a shrine a small box with items belonging to his father.

This was not the only episode, Luis Antonio Torres, El Americano, and Hipolito Mora had several other disagreements. The worst one caused the death of 11 people in December of 2014 after confrontation outside a ranch which had been Mora’s fort for many months during his battle against Los Templarios and where he had also installed a security check-point that prevented Americano’s people from entering the town. In that incident, both men ended up in jail although they were freed after a few months.

That confrontation led to the gun battle that resulted in the death of 11 men just outside the municipal cemetery, a holy place where the tombs fight for space and are stacked against each other; the majority of those dead are a result of the violence. There are fresh flowers in some tombs, but only in a few as most people buried their death and never returned.

AUREOLES BLAMES THE VIOLENCE ON “OTHER ADMINISTRATIONS”

The Governor of Michoacan, Silvano Aureoles affirmed that “criminal groups have become stronger due to their conspiracy with the state government.” This statement was made after the person in charge of Felipe Carrillo Puerto, Mario Padilla Adame asked the state government for help. “Don’t leave us alone, we trust that you will bring peace to this municipality, we need urgent attention” urged Mr. Padilla Adame.

The Governor reiterated that this is the fault of “other administrations,” that sided with the members of organized crime. The Governor did not specify if he was referring to the government of Fausto Vallejo (former Governor) or the government of Leonel Godoy (also former Governor) or Lazaro Cardenas Batel.

“With these statements, I have to agree with what has been expressed: we have talked with Hipolito Mora and it’s also not the right path for people to be armed as that is the Government’s responsibility.”

The most recent violent attack in Michoacan was the helicopter that was shot down last week with a Barrett rifle by narcos.


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Mexico arrests drug lord's wife

September 14, 2016, 10:03 am
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Clara Elena Laborin, 52, wife of of Hector Beltran Leyva, (alias "H") was detained on Monday in Hermosillo, northwestern Sonora state, along with another cartel operator, Alan Contreras, according to the federal police.




Borderland Beat reported in November of 2015 that  Laborin, nicknamed "La Senora",  assumed leadership of the Beltran Leyva cartel after the arrest of her husband, the alleged drug trafficker "H"  in 2014.  

Like many of the women who have gained power and prominence in the cartels, Clara Elena Laborin had been a contestant in a beauty contest where  she was crowned Miss Sonora/

She has a home and members of her extended family live in Hermosillo.  Her  arrest on Monday was not the first time she had been deprived of her liberty in the city.  In April of 2010 she was abducted in front of her home in the community of La Alameda, not far from the headquarters of the Sonora State Preventive Police. by operatives working for Nacho Coronel..    

The kidnapping had been brought about by bad feelings between the BLO organization and Nacho Colonel after a dispute between the 2 over a joint enterprise they had been engaged went sour and Nacho wound up controlling  the profitable enterprise.  After the splt Arturo Beltran "El Barbas", head of the Beltran Leyva clan ordered the execution of Nacho Coronel.  

In early April of 2010 suspected gunmen allied with the Beltrán Leyva killed Nacho's son , Alejandro Coronel, age 16.  Assassins in the service of Colonel counterattacked. In Nayarit they killed 10 people and burned their bodies. Weeks later in Sonora they kidnapped Clara Elena Laborín Archuleta.  


Three days later on April 26, 2010, she was found on the street with her hands and feet bound and gauze tape wrapped around her head down to her nose.  She was not injured or hurt.  A banner was left by her body as a warning to "H" which said;

 "We are going to teach you how to be a man and to respect family, murderer of children. Here is your wife, which you refused to answer for. I hand her back to you healthy and safe so you can see and learn that for us family is sacred. We do not kill women or children, we are only going after `El Hache´ y `El Dos Mil,´ as well as several police officers working for Hector Beltran Leyva and Francisco Hernandez Garcia." 


This time her detention by the Federal Police may not be as brief as it was when Nacho had her kidnapped.

As reported in Yahoo  News, the Federal Police  Laborin is "identified as the head of operations of a criminal cell with a presence in Sonora state."  She and Contreras "are considered among the main generators of violence in Acapulco," 

In 2009, the US Treasury Department sanctioned Laborin and 21 other individuals for their ties to the Beltran Leyva organization, freezing any assets they may have in the United States.

Yahoo quoted  Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations at the US Drug Enforcement Administration,  

"We're starting to see more and more women climbing through the ranks of many of these cartels,"

"There's one key factor that distinguishes them from other female traffickers: ...they're extraordinarily ruthless and highly intelligent," Vigil told AFP.

"They have to be extremely ruthless otherwise the men won't pay attention to them, and they have to be highly intelligence because they engage in the more sophisticated aspects that the cartel does such as money laundering and logistics, the corruption of public officials."

"The Web site ANG reported that 2 mg of cocaine and illegal firearms were confiscated at the scene of the arrest.  It also reported that La Senora is not part of the 122 priority objectives of the Federal Government; however, she is included among the 50 priority objectives of the new Reconsideration of the  Strategy Attention of Guerrero. Her capture is the 22nd of the 50 priority players on the list.

"She is considered one of the main generators of violence in Acapulco, from funding her organization and  related cells disputing control of the port with the Independent Cartel of Acapulco (CIDA).
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Tijuana: Bloody Tuesday

September 14, 2016, 11:59 am
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Bloody Tuesday

A week after mutilated corpses were thrown onto the street, limbs and heads collected in plastic bags, with a mocking note to Arturo 'Gross' Herrera and his crew of defectors, who represent CJNG in Tijuana, violence continues.  

Yesterday, at least 4 were killed in violence connected to retail drug feuds, and inter gang conflicts, two more were killed, one in a suicide, and another in dispute at a rehabilitation center. A municipal police officer was also wounded in an attack in the Hills Dam colonia, in a wave of continuing executions and targeted killings, since last week. 

A couple was killed late yesterday morning in Colonia Ninos Heroes in their home, where another man was killed in the same colonia the night before.  In Colonia Nidos De Aguila, another man, nicknamed 'The Skull' was executed, and left in the street.  Another executed by men in a grey Cherokee was left in Colonia Chilpancingo.  


In the Canyon K area of downtown Tijuana, two more were injured in an attack, the gunmen fled in a white pick up truck.  Municipals were also fired upon in Colonia German, no one was injured, and the attackers fled.  Late last night in a bar in Macro Plaza, Micheladas, another group was attacked, without detailing how many, and the exact injuries.

As retail traffickers and their gunmen adjust their accounts, and take their feuds into the public streets of the city, the level of impunity is revealed.  There is violence in San Diego too, a man was shot with a  long rifle, in an ambush in Carlsbad over Labor Day weekend, however, his attackers were arrested a week or so later.

In Tijuana, few, if any of the killers are apprehended, and there is an almost certainty that the crime will go unpunished, in terms of justice delivered in a court room, and not blood smeared pavement in desolate areas of the city, meted out among teenage sicarios, full of crystal.  

Sources: AFN Tijuana 



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CJNG vs Sinaloa: Tijuana Police under threat and attack as violence explodes -part 1

September 14, 2016, 12:17 pm
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Borderland Beat Article translation by BB Contributor "Benny Juárez"
Republished from ZETA part 1 of 2
"The image she was exposed to was horrifying,  a mess of blood and human flesh that crashed into her car’s front windshield...
it was the torso of a man"
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The experience that a 59 year old woman lived through during the first minutes of Saturday, September 3 of 2016 in the Benitez of Tijuana boulevard was terrifying, when from a bridge a severed body of a man fell on her windshield which in turn caused her to lose control andcrash against against an asphalt fence. The mutilated cadaver was part of a threat from the Sinaloa cartel against the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).



Three days later, Tuesday September 6, local authorities received an alert from their counter part agency in the United States government. They had information about a threat. Members of CJNG had decided to attack the Preventive State Police (PEP), supervisors and personnel that had recently been re-assigned “…"Everyone that is not aligned”.


These recent criminal acts are part of a bloody conflict that the Sinaloa cartel and the CJNG headline since 2010 in the country, which shows that while other criminal groups have been depleted, the Jalisciense Mafia has been greatly strengthened,  during this current 6 year presidential term. called Sexino)


This new war began in Baja California last year, between 2015 and 2016, thanks to the support of the Cartel Arellano Felix (CAF), and the disdain and irresponsibility of the authorities that insisted in denying the presence of this dangerous cartel, same that now part of the East zone of Tijuana is now territory of the guys from Jalisco; The criminal group feels that it has the power and enjoys enough impunity to threaten the life of the authorities, while the conflict in the streets threatens the tranquility and safety of its citizens that are not colluded in criminal activities.

“We have lived through this in other years...”, said the secretary of the state’s public safety department, Daniel De la Rosa, in a press conference that took place at the “Confederacion patronal de la Republica” (COPARMEX) Tijuana on September 7th.  “..when  criminal cells start gaining strength”,  he was explaining that the increase in homicides is due to the increased arrival of drugs and the power struggle between criminals to gain power of the territory. “The more increase of drugs, results in a greater  conflict” he explained.
There are some drugs which confiscation increased 800 percent, some other 200 percent, and that’s just counting seizures made by the PER only, the official explained.

Threats written with blood
Past midnight, in the first 20 minutes of Saturday September 3rd there was a complaint call; subjects were hanging a banner and a bundle on the walking bridge located in front of the building of the Electricity Federal Commission (CFE),  which is located in the boulevard of Federico Benitez and Calle Castro in the Residential development Castro de Tijuana.

The Municipal Police were responding to a fight at the 2016 Tijuana Fair and the complaint of an armed man who was trying to enter the Bar Colibri  (Humming Bird bar), a supervisor who was near that zone was instructed to approximate and confirm the citizens complaint.

The official Report indicates that while he was nearing the driving bridge Manuel J. Clouthier, located to the south, he could see there was a banner and a group of people were carrying  a bundle from the walking bridge. Via radio he confirmed this and headed to that point, he entered the zone from the lane north to south but going against traffic, the criminals saw the patrol car and ran; in their escape the bundle that was hanging fell.

In that moment, a 59 year old resident of Tijuana, retired ex-worker of the city hall, was driving her car over the boulevard Benitez heading south, when she could see the bundle hanging from the bridge was plummeting.

The image she was exposed to was horrifying, a mess of blood and human flesh crashed into  her car’s front windshield, it was the torso of a man between 30 and 40 years old, his head had received severe trauma from blows.  in his neck there was a wound and he was tied with a gray nylon rope. His four extremities had been amputated.

From his moving patrol car while he was nearing the place, the supervisor was able to see how three subjects with youthful appearance were escaping aboard a sedan automobile towards La Joya, since he was alone, due to the amount of criminals, he didn’t follow them. When his partners arrived and although they placed checkpoints,  they did not apprehend anyone.

At the scene, investigators opened the incident 1944632/2016 and requested police guards to avoid being attacked. They took down the banner which read:

Note* the banner had Mexican slang words that I have changed for context
“Here is your doll from Jalisco  they were in fact whore dolls with me they sit down whore girlies and that is for you too assholes – Arturo Herrera Gomez El Gross –  Jose Juan Perez el Piolin (Tweety Bird) Zame- Edwin Huerta Nunoel  El Flaco (skinny) – Edgar Alejandro Herrera El Caiman (Gator)
“Fierro Metal”
*note– Fierro is Sinaloa slang meaning “let’s go with everything” or “let’s go with full force” 
On the bridge floor they found a blood stain, and tied to one of the metal tubes of the bridge a black plastic bag.

The workers of the PGJE also recovered the torso of the man who fell on the car of the retired lady, the contents of three bundles, a black bag and two other bags, one was covered with a beige blanket and the other one with a brown and blue blanket.

In the bags there were two more torsos one with a slashing wound in the left shoulder and the other one with a wound in the buttocks. These cadavers, not only had the arms and legs severed but also their heads. Separately they found six legs, six arms and two heads.

The PGJE investigation in this case so far,  has only resulted in the identification of one of the mutilated men. This was done thanks to a tattoo, and that his head still kept its features and that the man had a criminal history. It was Carlos Fajardo Saucedo, 45 years old, with residence in the residential development El Lago and had 3 previous open investigations against him; one for theft with violence, one for property damage, and one more for simple theft.
The detainment of "El Lago"

Precisely on Friday, September 2, the Municipal Police reported the capture of three subjects in possession of drugs and firearms, short and long, a citizen complaint led the authorities try to apprehend the men while they were traveling in a Suzuki van, as they drove along the residential development El Lago (The Lake). They decided to flee, and they were pursued  and arrested them in the Colonia El Chamizal.   

It was Cristian Siciliano , David Garcia and Roberto Carbajal alias Julio Vital, who expressed they had been sent by Juan Jose Armenta Soto, the leader of their cell, to El Lago to kidnap  a man, " ... to put down a dude from CAF". Hours later Armenta was captured,  the weapon he carried tested positive matching for two homicides. “This is part of the conflict” said one of the authorities involved.

Sinaloa Cartel against CJNG-CTNG

With the contents of the banner on September 3rd, the State Security Council Baja California placed the attack immediately, "Fierro Metal" they recalled is the "signature" and "he has used since last year," as if it was an advertising slogan, Victor Hugo Mejia Lopez "the Greek", who they have placed in the criminal organization as an assassin at the service of the Sinaloa cartel fraction led by Alfonso and René Arzate since 2013.

On August 7, 2015, investigators had already read a very similar message to the one in the morning of September 3, 2016, but it was written on a cardboard , it provided the names of these same criminals belonging to CJNG and was signed "Fierro Metal " last year the message was draped over the bodies of men in an advanced  state of decomposition. –One had been strangled, the other one decapitated-. They were thrown behind Plaza Roca shopping center, between “Benitez Boulevard” and “Rapida Oriente” highway.

Records show that this group usually dismembers their victims. The difference identified by the authorities in their modus operandi is that in their most recent message, "is that they speak to their opponents as if they were women, with the intent to offend," said an investigator.

Only between August 16 and 20th of this year , the police Office opened proceedings for the murder of two men shot to death , one beaten to death,  two dismembered and one bar which had been burned. All of them as part of the escalating conflict between these two groups.

Hugo Mejia Lopez, the alleged criminal most identified in this war, has been captured and released twice, first in May of 2013 and the second in June of 2015, three years ago on suspicion of murder and last year for possession of weapons and drugs. He was identified by authorities as possibly suspect for the murder of Jesús Alberto Hurtado Estrada a municipal cop which was committed on March 29, 2012, but the suspect remains at large and although he is mentioned in several homicides, the PGJE has not processed any of the records, or obtained an arrest warrant for him.

Authorities in Alert

State and municipal authorities that were consulted confirmed the existing threat to the police forces. The PEP details that from the American side they were alerted not only of CJNG s threat. "We also received from the Sinaloa Cartel, who openly say is because we are playing the investigator.


In the municipal corporation, they stated that the threat was not against them but were on alert to support the PEP and the Ministerial, so far only the experts of the PGJE have requested support to give them security while working in criminal scenarios. Also within the PGJE there is concern. The warnings from the criminals have indicated "are because of the investigations".

End of part 1
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Mexican Billionaire Tried to Buy U.S. Election

September 14, 2016, 1:45 pm
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A wealthy Mexican businessman accused of making illegal campaign donations to candidates in San Diego’s 2012 mayoral race was convicted Friday of 36 counts, including conspiracy to make campaign donations by a foreign national.

Jose Susumo Azano Matsura also was found guilty in federal court of making contributions in other people’s names and falsifying records related to campaign finance.


José Susumo Azano Matsura leaves federal court in San Diego on Aug. 21, 2014. (K.C. Alfred / San Diego Union-Tribune)

The jury, which deliberated about a week, was unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Azano unlawfully possessed a firearm, as well as several other charges related to the other defendants in the high-profile case.
U.S. District Judge Michael Anello declared a mistrial on those counts.
Federal prosecutors had also charged campaign services specialist Ravneet Singh, lobbyist Marco Polo Cortes and Azano’s son Edward with the same charges of conspiracy and falsifying records.



One night in a Las Vegas club, TMZ caught Azano and his son popping the cork on a $90,000 bottle of Armand de Brignac “Ace of Spades” champagne. Pictures from the evening show Azano, dressed in black, draping his arm around rapper Jermaine Dupri, sharing a laugh.

Singh was found guilty of all four counts with which he had been charged.

Edward Azano Hester was convicted of conspiracy and donations by a foreign national, but the jury acquitted him of six counts related to falsifying records and deadlocked on five others.
Cortes was acquitted of four counts related to falsifying records. The jury did not reach verdicts on other charges, including conspiracy.
The case focused on more than $500,000 of Azano’s money that was funneled into the campaigns of Republican Dist. Atty. Bonnie Dumanis and Democratic Rep. Bob Filner when both were running for San Diego mayor in 2012. Filner won the race but resigned several months later amid a sexual harassment scandal.
Azano’s money also went to the county Democratic Party and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, prosecutors alleged.
As a foreign citizen without legal status in the U.S., Azano was prohibited by law from donating to domestic campaigns. Although he lived in a Coronado Cays mansion and both his wife and son are U.S. citizens, prosecutors said Azano did not have a green card or any immigration status that would allow him to financially support political campaigns in this country.
A view of one of José Susumo Azano Matsura's Coronado homes. Photo by Sam Hodgson
The evidence included numerous bank records, emails and billing invoices that prosecutors said showed the route the money took from Azano bank accounts. The money made it into the campaigns via straw donors — friends or family members who made donations to the Dumanis and Filner campaigns and were reimbursed by Azano, sometimes on the same day.
Prosecutors said Azano secretly paid Singh’s company, which specialized in political social media campaigns, to work for Dumanis and later Filner. The largest contributions went to PACs or independent committees, via a shell corporation owned by Azano, and through businesses owned by La Jolla luxury car dealer Marc Chase.
Marc Chase, owner of Symbolic Motor Car Co., has been tied to federal investigation alleging illegal contributions to local political campaigns. (/ U-T file photo)
Chase testified that Azano asked him to make the donations during a meeting in the business tycoon’s Coronado kitchen. He said Azano reimbursed him for the contributions. Azano, a car buff, had purchased more than 20 luxury vehicles, including Lamborghinis and Rolls-Royces, from Chase, who pleaded guilty earlier in the case and agreed to testify against Azano.
Another key conduit was retired San Diego police Det. Ernie Encinas, who was Azano’s security chief. Prosecutors said he was the go-between who got Azano and his money to the campaigns and political professionals.
Retired San Diego police detective Ernesto Encinas is the head of security for Mexican national Jose Sasumo
Encinas agreed to cooperate during the investigation and pleaded guilty after Azano was arrested in January 2014. Though he was expected to be a star witness, the former police officer was never called to testify — either by the government or the defense.
But the trial did have several high-profile witnesses, including Dumanis and Sheriff Bill Gore. Dumanis testified that she had little memory of her interactions with Azano, other than that she believed he was a legal resident and allowed to contribute to her campaign. 　
Azano’s lawyer, Michael Wynne, argued that his client was targeted and victimized by Encinas and Chase, who used his money to elevate their own statuses and businesses, then turned on their benefactor to aid the government investigation.
Wynne said after the verdicts that he and his client would continue the fight the case, even all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary.
“I am absolutely confident that we will win on appeal,” he said outside the courthouse.
The judge set sentencing hearings for Azano, Singh and Cortes for Dec. 12. Azano’s son will be sentenced on Dec. 5.
Meanwhile the judge has allowed the elder Azano to remain free until the sentencing date. Prosecutors had asked for him to be placed in custody in light of the verdicts, arguing that he is a flight risk.
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'Burning bodies' experiment casts doubt on fate of missing Mexican students

September 15, 2016, 9:52 am
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A big thanks to TDR for the story.


Burning pig carcasses failed to support the government's contention that 43 students were incinerated.
In September 2014, 43 university students disappeared in Guerrero state in southern Mexico. The Mexican government has maintained that a drug cartel murdered the students and burned their bodies at a trash dump. But forensic investigators and human rights groups were doubtful, citing gaps in the evidence and a federal investigation that they contend fell short of international standards. Now, a renowned fire scientist says his latest experiments rule out the government’s explanation once and for all.

Using pig carcasses as a proxy for human bodies, José Torero, a fire scientist at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, incinerated up to four pigs at a time and determined that the inferno necessary to consume 43 bodies could not have occurred at the dump. “José knows what he’s doing,” says John Lentini, an independent fire investigator in Islamorada, Florida, who wasn’t involved in the research but has participated in other high-profile cases. “It doesn’t make any sense that you can make 43 people disappear like that.”

Torero’s experiments “are one more element that says the so-called ‘historical truth’”—how a former attorney general labeled the government’s theory of the crime—“is impossible,” says Francisco Cox Vidal, a lawyer and member of an expert group (known in Spanish as the GIEI) convened by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights in Washington, D.C., to examine the disappearance and the official inquest. Deputy Attorney General for Human Rights Eber Betanzos Torres did not respond to requests for comment. 

The missing students studied at the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher’s college near Tixtla, Guerrero. On 26 September, a larger group of Ayotzinapa students hijacked commercial buses to travel to a protest in Mexico City, a common practice at the politically active school. According to confessions from members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel, the gang, abetted by local police, ambushed the students, possibly mistaking them for members of a rival cartel. Some students were killed by gunfire, some escaped, and 43 were kidnapped and allegedly executed. Cartel members said they incinerated the bodies in a municipal dump outside the town of Cocula. Six weeks later, federal investigators said they had found bags of human remains, burned to ash, in the dump and in a nearby river.



The ash was sent to a lab at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Almost all the organic matter in the ash had burned away, but the lab eventually recovered DNA of two missing students in remains from the river. In April 2016, the lab announced that it had not been able to link any of the other 41 students to the remains, nor to hair and clothing samples recovered from the dump. 

From the start, doubts plagued the Attorney General’s reconstruction of events. Basic facts, even the number of buses commandeered, differed in the official reports and the escaped students’ own accounts. (GIEI has theorized that unbeknownst to the students, one of the hijacked buses may have been used for drug running.) A group monitoring the investigation on behalf of the victims’ families has questioned the provenance and chain of custody of the ash bags. Human rights groups also suspect that the cartel members’ confessions were extracted under torture. Faced with international criticism, the Mexican government agreed to allow GIEI to investigate.
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"We should stop looking into the dump because that’s not what happened."


José Torero, fire scientist at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia
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The expert group called on Torero. Born in Peru and trained at the University of California, Berkeley, Torero has investigated many high-profile fires, including those that brought down the Twin Towers. The cartel members had testified that they incinerated the bodies on a pyre of wood and tires in the open air. Torero’s calculations suggested that fully incinerating 43 bodies in the manner the cartel described would have required a staggering amount of wood: between 20,000 and 40,000 kilograms. He also doubted that it would be possible to nearly eliminate organic matter from the remains with an open-air fire, rather than with a furnace. And when he visited the Cocula dump in July 2015, he saw no evidence of a massive fire. He concluded that it was impossible the students had been burned there.

In an 8 June report, the Attorney General’s office called for experimental verification. Torero independently took up the challenge. He and a dozen students simulated the alleged pyres at Cocula in a field at his university’s Gatton campus, outside Brisbane. They used bone-dry wood, stacked precisely, and left out tires, which would have made the fire less efficient. The experimental set-up, Torero says, represented “the ideal scenario.” 

José Torero, fire scientist at the University of Queensland, St. Lucia
Richard Cook/BBC Archive
His team systematically burned pig carcasses. Even when using 630 kg of wood for a single 70-kg pig, 10% of the pig’s flesh remained after the fire burned out, Torero told Science. Forty-three bodies of a similar weight, therefore, would have required over 27,000 kg of wood, and organic matter would have survived the fire. Even if the cartel had been able to find that much wood in Cocula, the intense bonfire would have scarred nearby tree trunks, Torero says. Visiting the dump 10 months after the disappearances, he saw no such scars.

Torero also burned up to four pig carcasses at once to explore whether body fat would fuel the fire and promote total incineration. Each added carcass weakened fire intensity, the team found. Burning 43 bodies together, therefore, would require much more wood than burning each separately. “Bodies are a large percent water,” says Lentini. “They’re not great fuel.”

Torero plans to submit his findings for peer review in the fall. In the meantime, he hopes his experiments will prod investigators in the grisly case to move beyond Cocula. “We should stop looking into the dump,” Torero says, “because that’s not what happened.”

*Update, 14 September, 1:37 p.m.: On 13 September, the Attorney General’s (AG's) office announced that it is expanding its investigation to examine the possible role of the state and federal police in the students’ disappearance. In a Spanish-language interview with Reuters, the new head of the investigation made no mention of the Cocula dump, nor of Torero’s experiments.

A spokesman for the AG contacted Science in the evening of 13 September. In a statement, he said a panel of fire experts convened by the AG’s office in the spring had reached “the majority conclusion” that “a controlled fire had occurred in the Cocula dump, in which it was possible that human bodies had been burned.” José Torero participated in that panel, along with five other fire experts. The panel was confidential and its methods were never publicly released. Torero declined to discuss it with Science because he had signed a confidentiality agreement.

When asked if the AG will continue to investigate the Cocula dump as a probable crime scene, the spokesperson said the AG’s office objectively evaluates all valid evidence and pursues all promising leads.



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CJNG vs Sinaloa: Tijuana Police under threat and attack as violence explodes -part 2

September 15, 2016, 3:37 pm
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Translation by BB Contributor Benny Juarez-republished article from Zeta
Part 1 link here

Cartel Jalisco settled in Tijuana; controls a third of the city

The guys from Sinaloa settled in Tijuana stemming from their intervention in the internal conflict of
the Arellano Felix Cartel (CAF), transpiring between 2008 and 2011. They provided economic relief as well as reinforcements.  They sent people that operated for both sides.


In addition to Victor Hugo Mejia Lopez “El Griego” (The greek), currently active in homicides operating for the Sinaloa Cartel,  the security council has detected Juan Carlos Parra Dominguez “El Java” and another man who is only referred to as “El Diablito” (Little Devil)

The Coordination Group had long denied the presence of CJNG and did not contest their presence effectively.


In September of 2015, when CJNG was designated by the Secretary of Security of Baja California, Daniel de la Rosa, as only being "distraction," CJNG was already utilized by CAF to restructure  and were already settled and in control of territory in Tijuana. This,  with support from local traffickers that previously operated with the Arellano’s or Sinaloa.


According to information held by the Coordination Group, the group from Jalisco started by controlling the Sánchez Taboada delegacion (*a “Delegacion” is sort of like a county), today they have expanded their criminal influence to other delegations such as “La presa”, “Presa Rural” mainly in “El Florido”, “Cañadas”, “Terrazas and Villas del Campo” in terms of territory percentage, this means about a third of the municipal territory. In addition, they control a part of “Tecate” In that whole area they focus their narcotic distribution points.
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Modus Operandi

The members of the Security Council know about at least two meetings held between local traffickers and people of CJNG leader Nemesio Oseguera" El Mencho ",(*El mencho is a slang used to call someone a dummy but not in an offensive way. It is ironic because Nemesio Oseguera is the farthest thing from a dummy.)


One of these meetings took place in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and another at the Expo Hotel in Mariano Otero street located in “Jardines del Bosque, Guadalajara, Jalisco, all the way from Tijuana Jesus Yocupicio  " El Cabezon " (The big head) and two other members who only were identified as " William Levy " and "La Mireya".


These are third level criminals,  above them are individuals who came to the city as entrepreneurs and investors, who change states constantly and move with their families in order to fool authorities.

Upon reaching the city they will fight for, they visit the places frequented by old families of the area, seeking information from local businesses and invest in them to launder their money.

“The drug product arrives from Jalisco and Sinaloa in hidden compartments of private vehicles as well as cargo transport in bigger vehicles. The drug transporting vehicles arrive somewhere in Mexicali, where from there the workers of “El Cabezon” Yocupicio, transport it to Tijuana and Tecate for its distribution. They have active contacts in the different corporations that are settled in Tijuana, to protect and filter information regarding operatives and arrests in their areas of influence”.  This is what the report in hands of the authorities indicates.

About the money laundering the report indicates: “Deposits of $50,000 pesos are made in Bancoppel with different accounts from people that allow the use of their  names, the destination is Sinaloa. Also “saldazo” accounts in the OXXOS (similar to 7-11’s). This is done on a daily basis. According to intelligence facts there is an account belonging to a company called “Solana Guadalajara, SA de CV”, which gets amounts over 150,000 pesos deposited to several times a week.

Street operators for CJNG

For local authorities, Hector Manuel Morales Guzman “El Gallero”, “El Rooster” o “El Gabino”, is the principal head of the local movements. This man has a previous antecedent such as being arrested with a calibre.38 revolver and six rounds, the arrest took place near the Calle Acuario in the colonia Sanchez Taboda in June of 2012. 

Under the criminal authority of Morales, The coordination group believes the criminal leadership is divided into four groups.

1.  Jesus Rafael Yocupicio and / or Jesus Rafael Córdova García- Responsible for the transfer and distribution to the United States in Tijuana. 27 years old, a native of Huatabampo , Sonora. Authorities place him as criminal since he was 23 years old, associated with activities related to drug sales in a group headed by former municipal police Jesus Ismael Cruz Lopez "El Tomate " who committed crimes for a group that split off of CAF which was led  by Eduardo Garcia Simental " El Teo ". Law enforcement has identified Alfredo Beltran " Compadre " , Adan Castillo " Shore " and Cuauhtemoc Arandas " Tatema " as his accomplices.

2.  Arturo Gómez Herrera “El Gross” His task was to control the “Sanchez Taboda’ zone and fight
off “The Aquiles gang” He is originally from Tijuana, is 30 years old and serves as operator of the Sinaloa cartel that changed groups.

He has been arrested and subsequently freed on two different occasions one in 2011 and another in 2015,  both for possession of fire arms. Statements from his accomplices place him as responsible for dozens of deaths, the PGJE has requested four arrest warrants against him however, and all have been rejected by several judges. 

Authorities indicate that his criminal associates are Edgar Herrera Pardo "El Zame" or " Caiman" Samuel Deraz "Canesten" and Loreto Capoema "El Versi"


3. Juan José Pérez Vargas “El Piolín”. He is also responsible for control in Tijuana. He is American and is 34 years old. Born in San Diego, California. Arrested and freed in 2007 and 2011 once for arms possession and also for vehicle theft. Previously identified as member of the Sinaloa Cartel, now he is placed as one of the leaders of CJNG, with strong relationships in Jalisco. To the government his operators are Reynaldo Solano “Cabo”, Felipe Cárdenas “Pinpom” y Alberto Fajardo “El Fajo”.

4. Jesus Alfonso Trapero Ibarra. He is responsible for criminal control in Tecate. He is 32 years old, born in Navolato, Sinaloa, an ex-municipal cop in Tijuana retired in 2009, captured for vehicle theft in 2012 and again in 2015 for possession of another stolen vehicle. "He started working in 2009 for Teo's cell (who was arrested in January of 2010). He later joined the cell of “Atlante” ( Alfonso Lira , captured in September of 2014 ) on the Tecate’s side, responsible for the zone and to contact and link with bad (corrupted) police members.  Mainly in Tijuana", the authorities allege. Dionisio Santiago "Pelon”, Francisco Pulido "La Tigresa" and Julio Rojas "El Morgan" have been indicated as his criminal associates.


Authority passive and reactive

After the disgruntled reactions of the men in charge of civilian organized groups complaining about security for the state, when it was publicly known about the three dismembered bodies at the Benitez Boulevard, members of the coordination group reiterated that they keep working, they have sent flyers, they offered information about their results and stated they are seeking 61 subjects.  These are  men and women suspected of being related to homicides, they are people from all three Cartels: CAF, Sinaloa and CJNG.


The Federal Government had ordered on August 31 the implementation of special operations in 50 municipalities, including Tijuana and Mexicali, basically consisting with the implementation of three cross-departmental panels one for communications, one for investigations, and one more for intelligence to search and locate specific criminals in coordination. Other than these implementations, nothing is new.


In fact the panels were established on Thursday September 1st, when the severed bodies were dropped in the morning hours of September 3rd, and the Coordination group did not establish any special operative, they decided to follow their own agenda and scheduled an operative in different residential areas of the city to look for automobile thieves.


The question was asked to members of the Coordination group and the council for citizen security,  if the federation was committed to go after the heads of the three trafficking cartels which are generating the violence and they all answered: "No”


Solely instructions have been given to state prosecutors to prosecute those allegedly responsible for the killings, not to aggressively pursue the cartel leaders.
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Tijuana: San Diego teenage girl executed

September 15, 2016, 5:43 pm
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San Diego teenager executed in Tijuana

Last year Ana Hernandez, a San Diego teenager, was found shot and beaten to death in off Maket Street in Grant Hill, she had been wrapped in a blanket, and dropped in front of her mother's house. The case bore similarities to organized crime killings in Tijuana, known as encojibado's, wrapped. Ana's killers, were local gang affiliates, who killed her to possibly cover up her rape, and that she may have been being sex trafficked by the men, who weren't much older then Ana.  

In a grim parallel to that case, Destiny Memory Hernandez, 18, of San Diego, a Mar Vista High Student, who lived in Imperial Beach, was found on the 'Fast Track' area of Tijuana, in a baseball field, earlier in the month, shot 7 times, in the head, thorax, and abdomen, no signs of sexual assault.

 She had been partying in Revolucion, at a bar in Zona Rio with friends, and WhatsApp messages between her, and a girlfriend, state she was headed home with some men she met in a club, to El Florido.  The messages state the men were handsome, and include the slang, 'heavy',   Her friend advised her to be careful.  She never came home, and her family came to Tijuana to investigate, with fliers, and social media outreach.  

Her brother, Francisco says he heard from her up until last Thursday morning, and then contact was broken.  Her body was identified on September 13, and assumedly found in the days before.  There are some time frame issues, that aren't clear to me, but will try to clarify.  It's not known whether she had ties to local gangs, or traffickers in Tijuana.

I say they not to slander a victim, but because that is the way these killings usually turn out.  In no way does that mean she wasn't an innocent, or deserving of death, whether it's true or not.  That doesn't mean she isn't a victim, or she is at fault for her death.  It's the way of Mexico, sometimes, and the United States to blame victims, esp. female, which is appalling, and I will never condone. 

Local San Diego gang members, esp, in Imperial Beach party in Tijuana, and have family there. It's possible there is involvement from San Diego residents in her killing, as people know killings are generally not solved in Tijuana.  In March 2009 three US citizens in their late teens and early 20's from Chula Vista were found after a night partying in Tijuana, tortured, bound and stuffed in a van. Their killers, or the reasons for their death were never revealed. 

In 2008, three women from Mexicali were partying with members of CAF (at the time) under Teodoro Garcia Simental, El Negro, and two of his friends met up with the women in a Tijuana nightclub, and after a dispute, drove them to a safehouse in the city.  The women were promised a ride home, and a last minute change of mind from El Negro, they were brought to a home, strangled, and dissolved in lye, common in Tijuana in those years.

Sources: NBC San Diego, AFN Tijuana 

Note: If you are in San Diego, or are able to donate online, please do. The family is asking for support for the funeral.  


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The Fake Peace of Michoacan

September 15, 2016, 6:56 pm
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Translated by Chuck B Alamada for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

Written by Jose Gil Olmos (Proceso)
Thursday, 14 September, 2016

MEXICO CITY- Once again, organized crime continues to dominate in Michoacan despite the siren’s call by president Enrique Peña Nieto and the government of Silvano Auereoles (PRD political party) with the arrest of Servando Gomez La Tuta, leader of Los Caballero Templarios. It was all a lie since there was an agreement under the table between both governments (Federal and State governments) with the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and other local narco groups disguised as autodefensas which again, have been empowered with weapons and terror.

Fuerzas Rurales showing their new uniforms. Photo by Miguel Dimayuga

The official lie begins with the then Peace Commissioner of Michoacan, Alfredo Castillo, acting on behalf of President Peña Nieto with the purpose of taking back territory away from the Caballeros Templarios via the autodefensas of Tierra Caliente. Autodefensa groups became the combat weapon, especially with all those autodefensa members that had deserted from the Caballeros Templarios and became known as the “arrepentidos” (the regretful ones) which were under the command of the brothers Uriel and Juan Jose Farias Alvarez AKA El Abuelo, both linked to CJNG.

 These two brothers are key to understanding the dark pacts of Peña Nieto with the CJNG which again have Michoacan in their hands and continue to cause suffering, violence, and terror with executions, extortions, and the trafficking of drugs, especially of meth which is shipped to the USfrom the Lazaro Cardenas Port. However, for this story, it is important to also notate the presence of another character that is also key. Colombian General Oscar Naranjo Trujillo, who made a pact with the Farias brothers and helped form the autodefensas of Michoacan as groups with paramilitary tactics with weapons and money from the federal government.

From February 24, 2013 when the first autodefensa groups emerged in the region of Tierra Caliente, Michoacan, there were several suspicions regarding their origin and financial backing. At the moment, the government of then Governor Fausto Vallejo accused them of being backed by CJNG and labeled them as criminals. The Caballeros Templarios through mantas (banners) and videos from La Tuta also accused the autodefensas of being backed by CJNG. The greatest suspicion was that they were backed by the Mexican military and by Peñas government that provided weapons, protections, and money to support the thousands of members that had joined as the months went by.

 Such suspicion was corroborated by the former mayor of Tepalcatepec municipality, Guillermo Valencia, who confirmed that Colombian General Oscar Naranjo Trujillo, on November of 2012 was in that municipality and also in la Ruana (the two towns where the autodefensas of Michoacan were born) and that he met with the Farias brothers. Colmbian General Naranjo was an advisor on the subject of national security for President Peña Nieto from June 14, 2012 when he was still the presidential candidate. The General kept a low profile during the two years where he was an advisor to Peña Nieto. It was wise for him to keep a low profile as he was accused of being behind the paramilitary groups in Colombiaduring the 90’s when he was chief of the national police and considered “the best police officer in the world.”

General Naranjo (left). Photo courtesy of Proceso
However, the presence of General Naranjo did not go unnoticed to Los Caballeros Templarios. On November 8, 2013, in 8 municipalities, including Morelia, banners and flyers from this group appeared accusing the Colombian General of being behind the autodefensa groups of Michoacan, at the expense of the federal government. This is how, under the real command of the Farias brothers who were linked to CJNG and with the blessing of the federal government, the autodefensas were able to have an organizational structure headed by the General Counsel (Consejo General)-composed of 37 commanders that represented each zone or territory won. Doctor Jose Manuel Mireles was among that high command and he would go on to become the spokesperson for the entire movement; a position that would subsequently cause problems with Jose Manuel Farias AKA el Abuelo.

Doctor Mireles was the only person within the autodefensas that defended the original idea of becoming a protector of the people. It was for that reason that he refused to put down his weapons or becoming a fuerza rural. This caused him to become an obstacle to the government and was subsequently arrested under fabricated charges.

In just a few months after the birth of the autodefensas, they were able to have fifteen thousand fighters in different places and were able to accomplish within one year what former Mexican President, Felipe Calderon was not able to: liberate and take back the territories in Michoacan that had been dominated by organized crime for 12 years; break the link that the Caballeros Templarios had with the government of Fausto Vallejo; disarticulate the leadership structure that imposed tax laws and extortions to business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals, farmers, and Chinese miners; and put an end to the co-government (politicians and organized crime) that existed in most of the 113 municipalities.

Once mission accomplished, on January 26, 2014, General Oscar Naranjo resigned and returned to Colombiawhere he joined the administration of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. Alfredo Castillo (the peace commissioner) also resigned and Peña made him the sports commissioner. While the autodefensas in Michoacan became Fuerza Rural and while many others joined the ranks of the new criminal group in Michoacan, CJNG that had pacted with the government of Enrique Peña Nieto and has now positioned itself as the most powerful cartel in Mexico today and one of the most important in the world of drugs.
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Another Attack with Explosives in Guanajuato; This Time in San Miguel de Allende

September 16, 2016, 2:36 pm
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Written by Roberto Gutierrez Torres (Sinembargo)  Monday, 5 September, 2016

A new explosion was reported on Monday September 5, 2016 outside a local business in the center of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. A month ago, another explosion was reported inside a local bar, El Sotano where an explosive device was placed in a backpack. During that incident, the explosive device was left on a stage and one person was injured as a result. On the latest explosion in the center of San Miguel, the investigative authorities confirmed that they located evidence of an explosive substance

MEXICO CITY/ SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE- Authorities confirmed an explosion in the early hours of Monday September, 5, 2016outside a local business in the center of San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. The attack with explosives took place between two bars, El Limerick and El Adelitas. So far in September, there have been at least 3 other attacks with explosives in different cities of Guanajuato. Exactly a month ago, another attack with explosives took place in San Miguel de Allende inside El Sotano bar. During that incident, an explosive device inside a backpack was detonated on the stage where the music band was playing. Property was extensively damaged and one person was injured as a result of that explosion.

Photo courtesy of sinembargo.
San Miguel de Allende is an important tourist hub in Guanjato and Mexicoin general. Additionally, it is the home of thousands of foreign citizens that decided to move to this picturesque town due to its tranquility, good weather, and excellent services. September is a month in which San Miguel de Allende fills up with tourists (Mexican and foreign) due to the independence festivities. This community which lived in peace for many years is also the destination for many retired Mexicans.

The result of this latest attack is five people injured; two with serious injuries (chest, arms, and legs) and two with hearing problems, dizziness, and a woman that suffered a panic attack. Additionally, at least 15 businesses suffered damages as well as three vehicles that were parked outside on Canal, Umaran and Zacateros streets. The investigative agency reported that the explosion was caused by an unknown device with an explosive substance. There was clear evidence of the device and unknown substance outside the business where the explosion took place. As of now, investigators believe that the explosive device is homemade and that it contained explosives inside a container or bag. Specialized investigators performed chemical tests to determine exactly what caused the explosion.

Witnesses said that approximately at 2:00AM they heard a loud explosion followed by a cloud of smoke that was visible in the sky. They also reported seeing broken glass throughout the streets of Umaran and Zacateros, they also added that the door to the business was destroyed as well as damaged vehicles on the street. Civil Protection Units along with firefighters responded to the scene after the explosion.   

Another attack with explosives was perpetrated on Friday, September 2, 2015 near a beer depot in Abasalo, Guanajuato and three days prior, an additional two explosive attacks were committed outside businesses also in Abasolo. The attacks took place outside Tortilleria Fuentes and Don Poncho convenience store. The tortilleria is located on Bugambilias steet while the convenience store is located at the corner of this same street with Margaritas street in the Margaritas neighborhood. Right across from these two businesses is where the construction of government office is taking place. Per witnesses, unknown subjects in a Chevy vehicle drove by incident location and threw out the explosive devices. According to the preliminary investigations by the Military, it is believed that the subjects used Molotov cocktails.

Guanajuato state recorded 95 murders in the month of August which brings the annual murders to 625 in the state. The most violent deaths have taken place during the past four months (354 murders in those 4 months). At least, 10 of those deaths took place in Penjamo and Acambaro 4 days prior to the implementation of the Mando Unico Regional Police (single command) in that area headed by General Felipe Gurrola Martinez. Despite the multiple murders in the state, General Gurola Martinezhas denied to the media that there is a dominant cartel in Guanajuato and added that the violence is only due to small cells. 

Days after the discovery of 10 bodies, Guanajuato State Attorney, Carlos Zamarripa Aguirre assured that at least four of the victims were from Michoacan and that their bodies were only dropped in Penjamo; possibly due to the lack of police presence in that area. Additionally, he assured that Guanajuato’s government would increase security in the area and would work with the authorities in Michoacan to prevent these types of incidents from happening. Despite this, September has started with death and tragic discoveries in Penjamo. A man and a woman were found in the truck of a vehicle after police responded to a call regarding an abandoned vehicle on a state road near the communities of Tacabaya and El Huizache.

The two bodies were in the trunk of a Cadillac vehicle bearing Michoacan tags. Although the man did not show any obvious gunshot wounds, his hands and feet were tied. The woman had several gunshot wounds about the torso and had been dead between six and eight hours when they were found. A day after (Friday September 2, 2016) two more bodies were found in that same region. One of the bodies was found in a field in the community of Novilleros while the second was found in a house in the community of Padrera de Gala; both in Abasolo and both bodies showed signs of decomposition.
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By using social media, sicario illustrates how "business" continues behind prison walls

September 17, 2016, 8:18 am
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"Benny Juarez" for Borderland Beat original article BCSNoticias
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his article illustrates how easily criminality is able to operate behind prison walls.  This post is about an incarcerated La Paz sicario, who has multiple cell phones providing access to social media and messaging. By using these tools he is able to communicate with narcos outside prison. This sicario is not a high caliber narco, one can only imagine what high profile capos have at their disposal.

La Paz, Baja California Sur (BCS)
From research intelligence, it was detected that Simon Guillermo alias "El Simon", or as better known "El Sepultero" (The Undertaker), operated from inside the "Centro de Reinserción Social (Cereso) de La Paz" with with a mobile phone, providing him with the ability of using social networks.

It was announced yesterday, Simón Guillermo, was found in possession of almost 150,000 pesos in cash , three  cellular  phones , marijuana and crystal inside his cell, due to this, he was transferred, along with  five other high profile prisoners, he was taken aboard a plane belonging to the Attorney General of the Republic, to the Deputy Attorney Agency that Specializes in Organized Crime ((SEIDO).


At the beginning of last August, the correctional facility was being investigated for the presence of mobile devices unlawfully used inside the prison.  It was then when members of the investigating agency detected that Simón Guillermo kept communication with alleged Sicarios and Traffickers of La Paz, among them “El Guero Rufles”.


Simón Guillermo, always had access to his social networks and was active on Facebook with the alias of: “Wero Peña”.  He was released on July 14 of 2015 citing “lack of evidence”. He was re-arrested in August of the same year, when an intense internet activity by him was detected, but this time, under the pseudonym “Manuel Peña”.

In his profile picture, he is observed with navy blue jeans, black shirt, beige belt and a watch.

On that same page we can see comments from a  La Pa sicario who is known by the moniker  “El Guero Rwmble” (El Guero Rufles), who positions himself at Simon's service and “waiting for activation orders”
Wero Rwmble: "Careful with the fire !. You comin’ back ! ... Queers..”Manuel Peña: ‘jajajajaj Wassup pa’ How we doin?’Wero Rwmble: “Just waiting for your order to activate” ...you already know “Viejon”
Therefore, the authorities concluded  that Simon was operating from inside the penitentiary, with killers and narcos in the city of La Paz.


The last activity recorded in his profile was last August 28, when he was inside the Cereso; There, you can also see pictures of him and his buddies, completely covered with legends like " The killers from patiios area”
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Despite BAN, Los Tigres Del Norte Play NarcoCorridos at the Gov't Palace

September 17, 2016, 2:29 pm
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Article by Miriam Ramirez

In Sinaloa, with a dedication to “The Boss", Los Tigres del Norte kicked off the national holiday known as " El Grito ", the 206th anniversary of the Mexican Independence, with some of their most famous Narcocorridos , this despite the ban that exists in the state against music that glorifies violence.

Just a week ago, the state government denied permission for a presentation by Calibre 50 and Gerardo Ortiz arguing that both groups perform music of the genre of "altered movement" and in Sinaloa there does not exist the conditions under which they could perform.

However, a couple of days later it was announced that Los Tigres del Norte would perform, who are famous for their songs that make tribute to drug traffickers.  In response, Raul Perez Miranda, general Secretary of the government, said that the musicians would respect the agreement.

However, it did not turn out that way.

The night of Sept 15th, the crowd gathered in the main concourse of the Governmental Palace, perhaps  more excited at the prospect of the free concert by the legendary group, than the El Grito itself.

The fireworks ended as Govenor Mario Lopez Valdez made " El Grito " about 11:30 pm and the group famous for their Norteno style music began to play. The concert lasted until 1:30 am.

“We are very excited to be here in our homeland, we will play everything that they want or ask of us ", said the leader of Los Tigres at the beginning of the show.

“Golpes de Corazon" /Beating Heart, "La Puerta Negra" / The Black Door" La Mesa de Rincon "The Table in the Corner” and their latest single "El Atuad "/The Casket,  resounded throughout the public concourse.

They sang the lyrics to" Contraband and Betrayal” and the thousands of Sinaloans gathered sang along with the lyrics of " We left San Isidro and from Tijuana Emilio Varela and Camelia , the Texan, brought the truck with the tires full of weed ."

But it was "The Boss of Bosses", the successful song by Los Tigres that ignited the crowd. Before beginning the song it was expected they would speak of the famous drug trafficker. Los Tigres del Norte announced on the microphone that the song was especially dedicted to “The Boss ".

Sinaloa is among the three most violent states in the country because of the conflicts between the drug cartels as they dispute the production, the trafficking routes and the commerce of drugs. During the six year Administration of Mario Lopez Valdez more than 7000 murders and 2000 missing have been recorded.

Jefe De Jefes Boss of Bosses)
I'm the Boss of Bosses gentlemen,
I respect all levels
And my name and my photograph
Never going to look on paper,
Because my journalist loves me
And if you lose my friendship.
Many chickens just born,
I want to fight with the rooster,
If you could be up to me,
Well, it would take many years
And I will not leave the job,
Where the way I ordered.
My work and courage has cost me,
Handle with many I have,
Many want to climb my height,
Nomas looked to be falling,
They wanted to scratch my crown,
Those who try have been dying.
I sail under water
And also fly to the height
Many believe that the government is looking for me,
Others say it is a lie,
I enjoy nomas from above,
Well, I like that just get confused.
In the accounts takes a rule
From the one to get to the hundred
The man who wants to be right
What is taught to look at their level
But talent does not seek greatness
Because you'll never have.
I'm the Boss of Bosses gentlemen,
And say not by implication,
Many great I ask for favors,
Because they know I'm the best,
Have sought the shade of the tree,

For them not to drive the sun.
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Guanajuato: Eruption of violence continues, 3 bags found of human remains

September 18, 2016, 6:41 am
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In the last 24 hours 9 violent deaths

As criminal groups clash over territory, violence continues to erupt in Guanajuato.  Additional explosives and murders terrorized citizens over the weekend.


It was Saturday morning on an old access road to the community of “La Estación La Piedad” that three plastic bags were discovered, inside the bags contained dismembered human remains. The authorities of the State of Guanajuato are conducting investigations into the incident.


The gruesome discovery was reported by people who passed by the road, a road just 200 meters from the Pénjamo-La Piedad road.  The witnesses called the emergency line and informed the police that there were three plastic bags thrown, that apparently contained  human body parts.

Elements of the Municipal Police Penjamo, confirmed the discovery of a dismembered corpses and proceeded to cordon off the perimeter and notify the Regional Office.


Because of the way the bags were wrapped it was not possible to determine how many bodies the dismembered parts belong to.  This will be determined after the bags are moved to the Forensic Medical Service Unit (Semefo).


Another of the events, having the most victims, was in Comonfort three killed and four more injured.
This as a result of an attack by armed men who fired against all those present to the interior of a hair salon located in the downtown area of that municipality.

A few minutes  after 11 a.m. yesterday, a report came into the emergency center  that  several people injured by gunshots on Vicente Guerrero street near the corner with Magueyal in the center.

Incinerated body found in San Felipe

The body of a man burned, about 35, was found lying on the dirt road leading to the La Estanzuela community in the municipality of San Felipe. 

It was on the Friday afternoon, when the body was discovered.


The deceased  man  was burned and lying in a fetal position with his hands and feet tied.  

The body of a man shot in the head was found near Lienzo Charro ‘Los Gavilanes’ de Manuel Doblado.
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