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More details on the Christmas eve massacre at El Platanar Ontiveros

December 27, 2012, 9:00 pm
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

The Christmas eve massacre at El Platanar Ontiveros in Sinaloa state was caused by a rivalry between drug gangs over territory, according to Mexican news reports.

According to a Proceso wire dispatch published on the website of Vanguardia news daily, the armed group which invaded the remote mountain community numbered about 30 armed suspects, so said Sinaloa state Procuraduria General de Justicia (PGJE), or attorney general Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez.
Marco Antonio Higuera Gomez

Higuera Gomez at a news conference told the press that his office had a number of leads in the case including the identity of some of the shooters, but he did  not elaborate, only saying that armed groups vying for territory in Sinaloa state include Beltran Leyva cartel, the Sinaloa cartel and Los Zetas.

According to the news article, Concordia mayor José Eligio Medina Rios has been informed at around 1930 hrs by Maria Ontiveros Osuna  that her husband Francisco Tirado Gutierrez had been kidnapped.

It was later learned that Tirado Gutierrez, along with three other individuals, Bastidas Feliciano Gutierrez, Francisco Lizarraga Perez  and Marcelino Rueda Medrano had been taken to the town basketball court and executed.  Tirado Gutierrez was beheaded using a machete.  Investigators found 17 spent cartridge casings identified in the story as "Cop killer" rounds, probably 5.7mm.

According to an El Universal dispatch which appeared on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily, Lizarraga Perez, 19, was a student on vacation attending Autonomous University of Sinaloa,

About 20 minutes later, Medina Rios found five other individuals who had been shot to death at a nearby grocery store, identified as Francisco Parentes Medina, the store owner, Victor Medina Garay, related to Parentes Medina, Parentes Medina's sons, Jesus and Francisco Parentes Paez and Tomas Rodriguez Aguirre, a neighbor.  At the store investigators found 96 spent cartridge casings for an AK-47 rifle.

According to Higuera Gomez, El Platanar Ontiveros had a local army detachment permanently stationed in the village, but the unit had been dispatched to another location for a counternarcotics operation.  Higuera Gomez said the armed group took advantage of the military unit's absence to make their assault.

Higuera Gomez also said that none of the victims had a criminal history, but any nexus with organize crime is under investigation.

The same group which performed the massacre in El Platanar Ontiveros also killed two Sinaloa state Policia Estatal Preventiva agents in Mazatlan municipality near the Picachos dam last November, said Higuera Gomez.

Many residents in the area had fled to Concordia municipality drug gang violence in other areas of the state.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and natonal political new for Rantburg.com
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PGR Arrested One of Mexico's "Most Wanted " Women

December 28, 2012, 8:53 am
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MEXICO CITY, (ap). - Nessie Susana Topete Herrera or Jessica Itzel  Martinez Requena, one of the nine women most wanted by the Attorney General's Office (PGR), was captured Thursday in the city of Querétaro.

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Immediately, the authorities of that entity made available to the Attorney General of the State of Mexico (PGJEM), which has outstanding warrants with justice for her alleged involvement in several robberies and murders committed in the cities of  Zinacantepec and Toluca, as recorded in the criminal case 185/2011.

In addition, the 22 year old is associated with a band of robbers to computer  businesses, from which four murders were derived.

Once the PGJE learned that the accused, who is from the state of Mexico, recently had  moved to Querétaro, elements of the Crime Investigation Department deployed investigators who identified her exact location and then carry out her capture

According to information provided by the Mexican authorities , Nessie Susana Topete, 22, was part of a gang that was involved in the robbery trade with violence,  operating in the cities of Toluca and Zinacantepec.

Another most wanted women by federal justice is Dolores Torres Moreno, La Lola , who is part of the kidnap gang known as Los Montante and also organized crime.

The third most wanted woman in the country is Andrea Penaloza Pineda, who is related to the killing of three youths in the El Seminario neighborhood, in Toluca.

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CDG Decapitates Zeta Plaza Boss in Zacatecas

December 28, 2012, 8:20 pm
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Members of the Gulf cartel (CDG) abducted and executed a Zetas plaza boss in the state of Zacatecas. A Mexican narco-blog posted the picture of Commander Niño de Los Zetas (boy of the Zetas) who was decapitated by alleged members of the Gulf cartel in Zacatecas.

Commander Niño was plaza boss in numerous towns in the state of Zacatecas but he was in charge primarily in the towns of Fresnillo and Jerez.

The Gulf cartel placed the decapitated head of the plaza boss along with a narco-card with a message where they accused him of also being extortionist and kidnapper. The message said the following:

"For being a kidnapper and extortionist Commander Niño of Los Zetas."

The Gulf cartel and Los Zetas are currently locked in battle over control of plazas in Zacatecas that has generated an increase of violence in the region.

Source:El Diario de Coahuila
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100 bodies in Durango mass grave identified since January

December 28, 2012, 9:00 pm
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Less than 30 percent of victims found in Durango's mass graves have been identified, according to Mexican news accounts.

Fiscalia de la Garza Fragoso

A news report posted on the website of El Siglo de Durango news daily, Durango state Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) or attorney general, Sonia Yadira de la Garza Fragoso, released information that since the final report on the mass graves in Durango state in March, 2012, 100 bodies have been identified by family members, and then returned to them.

Starting in mid 2011, 331 total dead were found in a series of mass graves discovered in Durango state, primarily in Durango city, the capital. Other sites found were as far away as Gomez Palacio in the extreme western part of the state around the La Laguna area and in Santiago Papasquiaro municipality in the north.

Late July another nine dead were found in Cristobal Colon sector of Durango city, bringing the total to 340 dead.

Many of the victims had been killed as far back as 2007, and 77 percent of those had been strangled or asphyxiated, mainly by being buried alive.

de la Garza Fragoso said relatives such as grandparents and cousins were providing DNA samples to help with identification, a much less accurate means of determining the identity of the victims.  Some remains, however, are so decomposed that DNA samples are impossible to obtain, so, according to de la Garza Fragoso, other means are being used.

The mass graves in Durango are cumulatively the worst mass grave find in the Mexican Drug War to date.  That said, those murders occurred over a six year period. The mass murders and graves in San Fernando municipality in Tamaulipas state are by far the worst mass grave in the Mexican Drug War to date, standing at 193 dead.  Those deaths took place between August 2010 and May 2011.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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Northern Zacatecas scenes of thefts shootings and kidnappings

December 28, 2012, 9:00 pm
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By Chris Covert
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Despite public promises by authorities to reinforce security in northern municipalities of Zacatecas state, several security incidents have taken place, including the kidnapping of a relative of a Chihuahua state politician Christmas eve, according to Mexican news accounts.

A news story published on the website of El Siglo de Durango news daily Friday reported that three members of the family of Camargo, Chihuahua mayor Arthus Zubia Ordaz died in a carjacking incident near Fresnillo, Zacatecas.

According to the report at around 1200 hrs, the family was bound for Chihuahua state when the victims was intercepted by armed suspects, and then driven some distance only crash at a location about 24 kilometers outside of Fresnillo.

Killed in the crash was Yolanda Zubia Fernandez, a former government official from Guanajuato state and Zubia Ordaz's sister, and Brenda Ordaz Zubia, 34  and her son Luis Alfredo Ordaz Zubia, 14.

Three months ago Chihuahua state politician Alex LaBaron claimed that in September in Fresnillo Max LeBaron, his brother, and two women were taken hostage and driven to a warehouse in Cuencame municipality in Durango.  There Max Lebaron was beaten.  Three hours later the trio were released near Fresnillo.

The last incident probably explains why the Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA) the controlling agency for the Mexican Army had announced plans in November to reinforce the northern border areas in Zacatecas, especially near the borders of Durango and Coahuila states.

Since that announcement, more than 50 individuals have been killed mostly in intergang fighting and executions.

Incidents have taken place on or near Mexico Federal Highway 54, and have included 13 killed in or around Fresnillo between November 12th and December 16th.  Included in that time frame was a counter kidnapping operation by units with the Mexican 11th Military Zine which led to the capture of four kidnapping suspects.  Other killings have occurred in that time frame in Jerez and Calera municipalities as well as in Guadalupe and Tabasco municipalities.

According to a news item posted on the website of El Sol de Zacatecas news daily intense fighting between armed gang members have been taking place since Christmas.  Locations in Fresnillo include firefights on Calle Miguel Hidalgo, near Zona Centro and near the Palacio Municipio or city hall.  Fighting continued in Zapata colony, on Avenida Huicotand and near Chedraui store.

Reports were also received from the sectors  Lomas de Plateros and  Fovissste, which are near roads leading to Valparaiso municipality.

According to the report fighting continued Thursday in Esparza colony, near the school Secundaria Técnica 2 and in Paseo del Mineral colony near roads that lead to Valparaiso.

No one was reported killed or wounded in these multiple gunfights.

It is worth noting that a comment appearing on the El Siglo de Durango article charged that federal and state police forces in the area were charging tolls at checkpoints in northern Zacatecas.  That comment was removed a few minutes later.  The original remark in Spanish can be seen here.

Criminal gangs also ahve been known to don military uniforms to appear as legitimate security elements to disguise their presence in public.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com.
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Mexico Finds Smuggling Tunnel Near US Border

December 28, 2012, 9:34 pm
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By Adriana Gomez Licon
Associated Press

Mexican authorities have discovered a sophisticated smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity and ventilation not far from the Nogales port of entry into Arizona, U.S. and Mexican officials said Friday.

The Mexican army said the tunnel was found Thursday after authorities received an anonymous call in the border city of Nogales, Sonora, south of Arizona. U.S. law enforcement officials confirmed that the Mexican military had discovered the football field-long tunnel with elaborate electricity and ventilation systems.

U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Victor Brabble said the tunnel did not cross into the U.S.

The army said the anonymous caller was reporting gunmen standing outside a two-story house in a hilly neighborhood near the international bridge where motorists travel between Mexico and the United States.

Inside the house, soldiers discovered a fake wall inside a storage closet under a staircase that led to a dark room with buckets and clothes. After lifting a drain cover in that room, soldiers found another staircase at the entrance of the tunnel that went 16 feet underground and measured a yard in diameter. Light bulbs lit the underground passage and pipes stretched across the 120-yard tunnel that Mexican army officials believe was built to smuggle drugs.

It was unclear whether officials made any arrests, but the house where the tunnel was found was seized by the local government. Military officials did not say how long they believed the tunnel had been under construction, but authorities say it can take six months to a year to build such a passage.

Sophisticated secret tunnels stretching across the international border have become increasingly common as drug cartels invent new ways to smuggle enormous loads of heroin, marijuana and other drugs into U.S.

More than 70 such tunnels have been found since October 2008, most of them concentrated along the border in California and Arizona. In Nogales, Arizona, smugglers tap into vast underground drainage canals.


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Four Zetas Killed while Trying to Steal Plaza Boss El Pokemon's Body

December 29, 2012, 7:08 am
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In a statement issued near midnight on Friday, the state government reported that a group of men attacked soldiers guarding the amphitheater where the body of the suspected plaza leader was held.

Elements of the armed forces shot to death four suspected criminals when they attacked the military in an attempt to steal the body of Ángel Enrique Uscanga Marín, alias El Pokemon , identified as the leader of the criminal group Los Zetas in the region of Cordoba, in the state of Veracruz.
On Thursday 27 December, soldiers working as part of the Coordinated Operation Safe Veracruz, faced off with a cell of organized crime in the Congregation on 2o de noviembre,  of the same city.

It was reported that operations had killed five suspected gunmen but it wasn't until Friday afternoon that the Attorney General of the State of Veracruz verified that among the dead was the plaza chief  of Los Zetas.

In the statement issued near midnight on Friday, the state government reported that a group of men attacked the soldiers guarding the amphitheater where the body of the plaza leader lay.

The members of the order repelled the attack and shot dead four gunmen who fired from a vehicle against the military installation which contained the bodies of the five criminals killed on Thursday.

Elements assigned to the coordinated program "Veracruz Seguro" established a security perimeter around the area to protect civilians. Ministerial authorities arrived on the scene, who testified the facts.
  
At the scene they secured vehicles, weapons and a grenade, which were made available to the appropriate authority.
It is known that in May of this 2012, Ángel Enrique Uscanga Marín, El Pokemon was arrested in the town of Amatlán de los Reyes for the crime of theft of motor vehicles, however, he was released..

Sources: Veracruzanos, Universal
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2012 a Violent Year in Coahuila

December 29, 2012, 12:07 pm
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The escape of 129 prisoners from the prison of Piedras Negras, the execution of Jose Eduardo Moreira, son of former Gov. Humberto Moreira, the killing of Heriberto Lazcano, the leader of the Zetas cartel, and the implementation of electoral officer Nathaniel Rivera have been security events that have Coahuila bending to the first year of Ruben Moreira as state governor.

Even from the same campaign, Moreira made it clear what would be one of the hallmarks of his administration, with the phrase "I'll handle security."

Here is an account of the main facts about security that have occurred in the state during the first year in office Moreira.

DECEMBER 2011  

The first month of the current administration gave no respite or because it is Christmas time. Continued their attacks on bars in Torreon, highlighting the killing of a policeman and his stepson in Saltillo, and the kidnapping of seven Police graduates.

3. Organized crime "welcomes" the new administration with an attack on bar "La Barra" of Torreon, where three people died.  

5. The municipal police of Saltillo, Emmanuel Almaguer Perez and his stepson , are executed in his vehicle.

7. Three men aged between 20 and 30 years old were gunned down in Vista Hermosa, in Saltillo.

9. Seven Coahuila police gratuates are kidnapped, which unleashes a confrontation where two people are rescued and one dies.

13. Serafin Pena Santos, director of Cereso of Saltillo, is killed by eight bullets in front of a technical secondary University Avenue.

23. The municipal police Frontera calcined Gilberto Escobedo is found after being reported missing
 
 
good guys are really the bad guys

Eduardo "Lalo" Moreira
 
JANUARY 2012

The first month of 2012 shocked the city saltillenses because it presented the first "hung", common in cities like Monterrey and Torreon.

16. The director of Women Cereso, Silvia Parra Perez of Saltillo, is ambushed and kidnapped in the morning by armed men in full Peripheral Echeverria and Abasolo. Hours later released.

18. Appears the first hanging in Saltillo. The body of Joel Espinosa Luis Sosa is found in the MDV The Sarape, after being executed and hung on that structure.

FEBRUARY

The month of "love and friendship" was not so, and was characterized by the implementation of police and elements involved in drug trafficking.

4. The elements of Alfredo Peralta Police Investigating Oscar Ramirez and Jesus Ontiveros are riddled in Torreon.

14. Arturo Alvarez Andrade, police chief of Saltillo, was killed by three bullets in Saltillo outside his home in Lomas de Guadalupe.

16. After the capture of federal and state control by the PGR, an armed group attacked and killed Jorge Bazaldua, "The Face of Glove", people trusted Tobias Sergio Salas, one of the state officials arrested, allegedly for his links drug trafficking.

APRIL 

During April, is arrested at Saltillo a leader of the group Los Zetas, which breaks out in the city the violence, including that massive shootout against the building of the PGR, which injured three federal agents.

1. Three bodies of women are found in a clandestine grave in the ejido Dam Boys.

28. José Alberto González Xalate, "El Paisa", whom federal authorities identified as a member of Los Zetas is arrested, a fact that triggers a series of shootings in Saltillo.

29. Aboard two Humvees, attacked a heavily armed commando shot the building of sub Attorney General's Office in Saltillo, injuring three federal agents and a civilian passing by.

JUNE

During the summer of this year, the shootings are intensified in Saltillo. In June of the conference presented a more dire, with clashes, dead, chaos, suspension of classes and closing shops.

3. A balance of 11 dead and over 10 wounded by gunfire stopped the shooting attack by a command in the rehabilitation center "Your life on the rock, AC" located in Ejido La Union in the rural area of ​​Torreón.

22. In one of the most violent days in Saltillo, and chases after clashes throughout the day between gunmen and authorities, there was a balance of nine people killed: eight criminals, one civilian and three state troopers injured by gunfire .

9. It transcends the reporter Saltillan Stephania Cardoso and his little son are kidnapped after attending a party. Days later appears, and through social networks ensures that all right, but in danger.

JULY

These days, a shootout in middle of the night woke from their dreams to Saltillo.

5. A confrontation in Saltillo left a toll of four dead suspects, three soldiers injured and a woman traveling in the same vehicle as the attackers. The facts were reported around 3:32 am on crossing Boulevard Luis Echeverria and Miguel Hidalgo.

AUGUST 

Shocking was meeting in Saltillo was a safe house where organized crime guarding hostages, even from other cities, including Monterrey.

9. Ten kidnap victims were freed and five suspects, including 16-year-old arrested in Saltillo, during a raid by federal police.

28. Three adults and a child are executed by a command inside a garage and car wash.

SEPTEMBER 

On patriotic framed the now famous flight of dozens of inmates Cereso of Piedras Negras, on facts that have not been clarified to 100 percent

11. The municipal police in active Reyna Barajas, Transit, assigned to the Coordination of alcohols, and Maribel Ugalde, the Police Special Unit for the Investigation of Family Violence, are found executed with bullets to the head on the highway Saltillo- Torreón.

17. In the largest mass escape in memory, 129 inmates escaped from Cereso of Piedras Negras.

18. Ignacio Meza Rueda, deputy director of the Municipal Police of Saltillo, is ambushed and executed in the MDV The Sarape.

19. One dead, two injured are the balance of the assault of a command into the restaurant "The Frigate"
 
 
Lazca
OCTOBER

Perhaps most shocking month: Jose Eduardo Moreira is executed, son of former Gov. Humberto Moreira, in an alleged "narcovenganza" in which police are embroiled Acuña. Also killed Heriberto Lazcano, top leader of the Zetas.

2. In a clash between authorities and criminals, is killed Trevino Alejandro Chavez, nephew of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, leader zeta.

3. Jose Eduardo Moreira, son of former Gov. Humberto Moreira, Acuña is executed in revenge for alleged drug trafficking.

7. In a confrontation in Progress, is killed by elements of the Navy Heriberto Lazcano, top leader of Los Zetas.

12. Elements of the Federal Police arrested three men and rescued a person deprived of liberty had, during a raid in Torreon.

NOVEMBER

The continued violence claiming the lives of security features, in this case a member of GROMS.

3. 10 people are killed in Torreon in two different events. Six when a command broke into a ritual of Santa Muerte and four more to be found inside a car two couples dismembered.

5. After a series of clashes in Piedras Negras, six criminals are killed by federal forces, disrupting classes for 2000 students. That same day, in Saltillo, a narcomanta created panic by appearing in the MDV The Sarape.

8. Said Omar Juarez, "The Peluso" Saltillo plaza boss of Los Zetas, is captured by the Navy of Mexico.

18. A local group element GROMS dies after chase and confrontation with criminals in the Metropolitan Park.

19. Cobra Group Elements fold down to two suspects and recovered two cars reported as stolen.

22. Military troops a property located five kilometers from the bypass gap Berrueto Eliseo Mendoza, at the height of the former red light district, east of Monclova, where there were half-buried human remains.

24. Four people were executed inside a taxi were located on a road near the boundaries between Piedras Negras and Zaragoza.

28. In Saltillo, GROMS elements fought gun battles against a group of criminals, fold down to 4.

DECEMBER

The 2012 violent closes December 1. The kidnapping and execution of Nathaniel Rivera and the appearance of 4 "hanging" in the MDV The Sarape highlighted in the news this month.

1. During the first hours of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto and even before he received the presidential sash, a group of thugs appeared in Saltillo with attacks on government installations and the Institutional Revolutionary Party. Through a statement, warning that it was the "first phase" of their struggle.

3. An ambush officers left PGJE an expert investigating officer dead and seriously injured in Jupiter Street North Satellite colony, and peripheral Luis Echeverría Álvarez, in Saltillo.

7. The dawn of this day are four bodies hanging in Megadistribuidor Vial The Sarape. According to early investigations, this act would be part of a clash between two rival gangs of organized crime.

08. It executed a mining entrepreneur in the Carboniferous Region of Coahuila.

12. It is revealed that kidnappers are members of the PAN in Coahuila, some of them identified as Guillermo Anaya team.

17. In El Ejido Guadalupe Victoria, in Saltillo, are found the bodies of six people executed.

18. They confirm that Nathaniel Rivera, executive secretary of the IEPC, is among the six people found tortured and executed in Ejido Guadalupe Victoria.

27. Five children escape the Juvenile Detention Center in the Bellavista neighborhood, after hitting a custody. Find pastor Viesca six bodies.

28. Cesar Garcia Guevara, element Municipal Preventive Police, was killed on 15 shots in the Buenos Aires colonia of Saltillo.
 
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Police Commander Executed in Saltillo

December 29, 2012, 3:20 pm
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Saltillo. - The commander of the South Delegation of the Municipal Police, César García Guevara, was killed in the line of duty in the early hours of Friday after being shot by a group of armed men in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

It was reported that at 0:38 hours, while on patrol duty in his official car, a Chevrolet Captiva  no.11208, the chief was attacked and killed by unknown gunmen at the intersection of Division and Rios in the southern sector of the city. 

As a result of the shooting, the commanding officer lost control of the police vehicle and impacted over the back of a parked Ford Model 79 truck.

 The officer was shot in the head and the body with various firearm projectiles in what  appeared to the naked eye to be the same that instantly took his life.

The Chief of Police of Saltillo, Yáñez Clemente Carrillo confirmed to Radio Zócalo the assassination of Caesar Eleazar Garcia Guevara commander, 39 years old, who early Friday was riddled with 12 shots from a high caliber weapon.
It was reported earliest at 12:38, when a witness at the scene took the dead commander's radio and used it to notify the base of his death. Immediately police moved to the scene at Division  and Rios Streets in neighborhood Buenos Aires where Garcia Guevara  was found dead aboard his Chevrolet Captiva patrol car.  The officer was hit by shots from persons in a gray Dodge car.  According to the witness, the shooters fired first into the back of the commander's vehicle, which swerved to the right of driver, and hit a parked truck and he was dead instantly," said the official.

Yanez Carrillo called the fallen Commander as an honest cop, courageous, with a very great future vocation with law enforcement. He had 13 years of service within the corporation. The fallen commander is survived by his parents, his wife and two small children.

Press Chief Confirms the criminal act against the municipal police 
Press Chief Confirms the criminal attack against the municipal police 

In the morning broadcast of Radio Zócalo Saltillo, the CP Francisco Juaristi contacted the press chief of the municipal police, Patricia Moreno, confirming the fact and location where the commander of the South Delegation, Cesar Garcia Guevara, was killed.
Moreno explained that around 1:00  on División del Norte, in the neighborhood of  Buenos Aires,  a police car on a routine neighborhood patrol was violently attacked. Garcia Guevara was traveling alone and died alone aboard his patrol vehicle.

For now, they haven't ascertained the identity or number of armed individuals who assaulted the officer. As of yet they have no details on the size of the bullets that took the life of the commander, except according to the authorities of the fourth group of Homicide Attorney General of the State, they found shell casings of high caliber at the scene. The investigations are proceeding.


Patricia Moreno said that Cesar Garcia Guevara had risen through the ranks of the police to become a commander of  the Southern Command Delegation, indicating he was the one who had previously personally informed families of slain officers on duty to fact that their funerals would have to be held privately for security reasons as well as for the tranquility of the bereaved.


They have had at least Five Chiefs of Police killed in Saltillo
The Chief of Police in Saltillo Yáñez Clemente Carrillo recounted fallen cops along the years and said there has been more than five, including Commander Marcial Barron, Captain Ignacio Meza, the official Reyna Barajas Munguia, Elisa Ugalde Maribel Torres and the latter, Commander Eleazar Cesar Garcia Guevara.

The prosecutor of Common Law, Rafael Martinez de la Rosa, verified the violent crime and ordered the the removal of the body and arranged transportation to the Medical Examiner for the autopsy.

Source: Zocolo,

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Pena's Security Plan starts to take form

December 22, 2012, 9:00 pm
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President Pena
Barely in its fourth week, the security strategy of newly inaugurated Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto is slowly becoming apparent. 

Going by Mexican press accounts now and in the past it is possible to detail at least some elements of Pena's new security strategy in dealing with organized crime.

One of the first acts of the incoming president Pena was to make a proposal which would disband and fold the federal cabinet level Secretaria de Seguridad Publica (SSP) into the Secretaria de Gobierno (SEGOB), or interior ministry.  Originally that proposal was met with a great deal of resistance especially with the Mexican left including the Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD), with many top leaders of which calling the move a throwback to the old days when Mexico's SEGOB was one of the most powerful security agencies in Mexico, especially during the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s.
Miguel Osorio Chong

As that change moved through the legislature, the new SEGOB, Miguel Osorio Chong, met with several governors, the latest of which included Coahuila governor Ruben Moreira Valdes, as well as the governors of Durango, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.

In a news story posted Saturday on the website of El Diario de Coahuila, Governor Moreira told reporters that a new federal security strategy was about to be implemented to including the "cleaning" of police and help with the proposed Gendarmeria Nacional, which is a campaign promise President Pena made throughout the campaign season last spring and summer.  Then as now, how this new police force would be used is shrouded in mystery.  Little indications exist that the current national police, the Policia Federal (PF), has had their mission  diminished so far.  PF units still patrol many of Mexico crime trouble spots in the north including in Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Zacatecas.

But there is little mistake that the violence level already has been reduced since December 1st, by virtue of the sheer drop in reported incidents.  Such a drop may not mean anything, however.  Confrontations between Mexico's military units and organized crime, at least in the last three years, have historically had their ups and downs.  The Mexican Army changes zone and regional commands in June, and promotions for colonels and higher ranks, a precursor to command shuffling, usually takes place in November.  Commanders in both instances usually need some time to get up to speed.  The new Secretaria de Defensa Nacional (SEDENA), both the controlling agency for the Mexican Army and the cabinet level job now held by General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, will also likely need some time to get up to speed as well.

However, some regional commanders have already attended regional security conferences since November, in Mexico where governors and representative from regional gather to discuss their plans for new security arrangements.

One example was a regional conference, the second of it s kind, which took place two weeks ago including commander of the Mexican V Military Region,  General de Division Genaro Fausto Lozano Espinoza, and the governors of Jalisco, Michoacan, Nayarit, Colima, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes, according to a news item posted on the website of EL Sol de Centro news daily.

The purpose of the meeting was to discuss implementing the Mando Unico Policial or Single Police Command, a federal security scheme which has been partially implemented since 2010.  The idea behind the Mando Unico Policial is for the states to use individuals which have been trained and are usually better paid than municipal or even state police commands to deal more effectively with organized crime.

The news article reported that agreements between the federal government and Aguascalientes and Mexico state have already been signed, which indicates that changes are going to take place which will likely shift resources from supporting the current police agencies in support of a more federal response to organized crime.
Miguel Alonso Reyes

The end game for the new security arrangement has been revealed by Zacatecas governor, Miguel Alonso Reyes, who said the main objective was to return Mexico's military "to the barracks" and allow  police forces to take over security work against organized crime.



But as Coahuila governor Moreira has indicated, that is a tall order.  In the El Diario de Coahuila article Moreira was quoted as saying that only one on 20 applicant pass the confidence tests.  Moreiea also revealed that federal forces, meaning to include Polica Federal, Mexican Army and Naval Infantry will continue to support security operations in regions such as La Laguna and in Saltillo, both in Coahuila state.

Why this is significant is because of Laguna Seguro, the security operation in La Laguna area was implemented just a little over a year ago.  Between the time the cessation of the operation was announced in October and December, both La Laguna as well as Saltillo have experienced a large spike in shootings and organized crime violence in the area, prompting Durango state to continue reinforced patrols in its half of La Laguna.

Although it has not been formally announced except in Governor Moreira pronouncements to the press, Laguna Seguro as a separate, federally supported security operation has been resurrected, at least for the time being.

How the new Gendarmeria Nacional agency will figure in President Pena's new strategy is explained in Pena's official website.  The Gendarmeria Nacional will be expected to be deployed in troubled regions such as La Laguna, Saltillo and Piedras Negras, as well as the border areas such as  between Jalisco and Zacatecas states, and on national borders including seaports and airports.

As matters stand now, airport and seaport security area already handled by the Mexican Army and Navy respectively, so it can be presumed that the intention  of Pena Nieto is to completely supplant Mexico's military with civilian police better trained and paid than state and municipal police.

The plan to reduce if not totally eliminate Mexico's military in dealing with organized crime has long been an agenda item for Mexico's left.  Indeed, the leader of Mexico's left, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has long advocated returning Mexico's military to the barracks, while shifting those resources as savings to Mexico's poor.

President Pena's plan has so far been well received among politicians of the left, and while such concordance may seem rare, much of Mexico's left were formerly disaffected members of President Pena's Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).

PRI's and PRD's arch political rivals, however,  see the new security strategy as a repackaged version of Calderon's security strategy.
Guillermo Anaya

Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) politician Guillermo Anaya, chair of the Chamber of Deputy's public safety commission has dismissed President Pena's plan as as one that resembles former PAN president Felipe Calderon's security plan.

According to a news item posted Saturday on the website of El Diario de Coahuila, Anaya is quoted as saying "This announcement is equal to what is served for the past six years.'s Pure media effect and good intentions."

Anaya's remarks are a 180 degree change from the goodwill PAN politicians had for the plan to fold SSP into SEGOB.  How the PF will figure into Pena's new security strategy was revealed a week ago, when a PF unit toured the Gomez Palacio, Durango Centro Readaptacion Social (CERESO) at the request of the Comite Nacional de Derechos Humanos (CNDH), or human right commission. 

Tour may be too mild a word:  PF elements searched the prison uncovering contraband such as cell phones, but failing to find weapons, which were later used by prisoners to affect an escape.

The operation, the first since PF was folded into SEGOB could be seen as an abject failure in its new role in President Pena's security plan.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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Over 25,000 names on secret list of "disappeared"

December 30, 2012, 9:24 pm
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12-29-2012

Anabel Hernandez

Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat

During the six-year Calderon administration, and as a result of his war against drug trafficking, 25,276 persons acquired the classification of "desaparecidos" (disappeared). They are 25,276 human beings who officially are neither alive nor dead. They simply are not there. They are only statistics, but behind each of them there is a woman, a man, or a child with names, last names and families, and of whom so far nothing is known. This weekly journal gained access to the "Integrated Database of Persons not Found" (Base Integrada de Personas no Localizadas) and  the report from all the attorneys general in the country, which was presented last July 17 (2012). From an analysis of both documents comes the first official count of the "disappeared" in Mexico, a phenomenon that is part of the inheritance that, like it or not, the government of Enrique Pena Nieto received and must confront.

Distrito Federal (Proceso).-- Disappeared Person No. 2,586: Martha Teresa Chacon Corral. Housewife born in Durango, Durango; 1.70 meters (5'7") tall, medium build, medium dark skin, wavy brown hair, has some facial discoloration.  On February 14, 2011, after 5:00 p.m.,she was with her son, Jose Angel Martinez Chacon, in her home, when two men entered all the way into the ironing room, where Martha Teresa was, and took her. She was wearing blue jeans, cap, grey T-shirt with blue sleeves, pink felt boots and a pink sweatshirt. Since then, her whereabouts are not known.

Disappeared Person No. 15,822: Newborn male whose parents did not have time to register. March 33, 2007, in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, disappeared. The report was filed that same day.

Case No. 22,889: Juan Antonio Mota Macias, 28 years old. Commander of a Zacatecas corrections facility (Centro de Readaptacion Social). On March 11, 2010, at 1:30 in the afternoon he was in his home in the town of Trancoso, Zacatecas, with his wife and son, when a group of armed men came into his house and took him. He was wearing underwear only and was barefoot. At this time, his whereabouts are unknown.

Brothers Gerardo and Eduardo Bahena Cabrera are numbers 2,728 and 2,739 on the list. The first was 29 years old and the second, 26. Members of the Armed Navy (Marines), they disappeared on January 1, 2010, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and nothing is known about them since.

Numbers in the shadow

All are part of the list of persons who disappeared in Mexico during Felipe Calderon's war against drug trafficking, and they are in a report drafted by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and the justice departments of all the states and the Distrito Federal. They are simply some of the thousands of women, men, children and babies that during six years appear to have vanished on a highway, a military road block, in their homes, on the way to grocery store or simply out walking.

While the government of Enrique Pena Nieto and local authorities have remained silent regarding the list of persons who disappeared in Mexico from December, 2006, to July, 2012, Proceso obtained access to the  "Integrated Database of Persons not Found" and to the most recent report created by the PGR and the attorneys general of 32 states and the Federal District (Distrito Federal) that was presented July 17 (2012) at the Interior Ministry  (Secretaria de Gobernacion).

The database and the report jointly reflect the horror of the "desaparecidos" in Mexico. The integrated database, updated to February, 2012, contains 20,851 cases, but the report presented on July 17 states that the number of disappeared persons reached 25,276. On Tuesday, December 18, Proceso had access to the documents and analyzed the statistics and facts. This is the first information about the Calderon's government human disaster.

According to the investigation and the official documents that  were accessed, the "Integrated Database of Persons not Found" and the attorneys general report presented on July 17, 2012, at the Interior Ministry was prepared and organized by personnel at the PGR's Planning , Analysis and Information Center against Crime (Cenapi; Centro de Planeacion, Analisis e Informacion para el Combate a la Delincuencia). Cenapi gathered and organized the information provided by the state attorneys general.

Each disappeared person was assigned a number, the date, state, township or police station and town where the disappearance took place were noted, and the date of each particular report. The name of the disappeared person was noted, along with the age, gender, occupation, nationality and aliases, if this was known. The report also details whether there are photographs of the person.

Also, there was a section where their physical and health characteristics were described, as well as the registration of any vehicle the person may have been traveling on and a brief description of the incident. Finally, it was thought advisable to also include data about the relative who reported the disappearance.

On reviewing the data, one can see that not all the states include the same degree of detail in the information about the victims. Some states provided very vague information.
 
The numbers in the database only reflect those disappeared persons for whom there was a report made or police complaint filed. Disappearances not reported (to the authorities) are not included, as in the case, for example, of undocumented immigrants that cross Mexican territory on their way to the United States.

Through the National Commission for Human Rights (Comision Nacional de los Derechos Humanos) it is known that there are hundreds or thousands more cases.

In addition to the reports provided by local authorities, Cenapi added information from the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN; Centro de Investigacion y Seguridad Nacional), according to the documents that were reviewed for this article.

The integrated database contains just one case from 2005, which was not reported until 2006, without specifying the date; there's also a report from August, 2006), but the rest involves persons who disappeared between December 1, 2006, and February, 2012. The figure of 20,851 (disappeared) persons was obtained from this document.

According to official documents that Proceso has, on May 24 and 25, during the XXVII Ordinary Session of the Plenary Meeting of the National Conference on Procurement of Justice (XXVII Sesion Ordinaria de la Asamblea Plenaria de la Conferencia Nacional de Procuracion de Justicia) in Monterrey, the PGR and the state prosecutors agreed to complement and finalize the reports in the database no later than June 5, 2012, and to develop a permanent method for amplifying, updating and validating the information.

In that session, it was also agreed that, in order to comply with the requirements in the decree by which the Law for the National Registry of Facts on Lost or Disappeared Persons (Ley del Registro Nacional de Datos de Personas Extraviadas o Desaparecidas) was promulgated, information referring to the "general facts about persons not located" should be forwarded to the National System of Public Security.

According to the document, of which Proceso has a copy, "towards that end, on June 13, the PGR/Cenapi and the National Information Center of the National System of Public Security began to work on a project proposal, taking into consideration the structure of the database required and the legal document upon which to base the corresponding exchange of information, in order to comply with the referenced law."

As far as can be determined, the intent was to make the numbers public. But it didn't happen that way.

The numbers increased noticeably in the reports provided by the state attorneys general and Cenapi personnel began to clean up the list to determine how many of the disappeared persons had already been found, dead or alive, so they could have a figure that was closer to reality. 

The numbers were overwhelming. No government was safe, except the Nayarit government, which reported zero disappearances. All of them, including the federal government, maintained silence on the numbers.

On July 17, 2012, in the third national meeting of the Executive Secretaries of the state public security systems or councils at the Interior Ministry, a report was presented on the progress on the Collaboration Agreement for the Unification, Integration and Exchange of Information on the Matter of Persons not Found (Convenio de Colaboracion para la Unificacion, Integracion e Intercambio de Informacion en Materia de Personas no Localizadas).

The gross number of disappeared persons was 29,386, but it was cleaned up: 3,895 persons were found alive and 215 were found dead. The final number was 25,276. This report is not as detailed as the database, but is instead a summary, updated up to the day of the meeting, of the number of persons whose disappearance was confirmed.

Cenapi personnel had in their possession the database and the report was released by then-Attorney General Marisela Morales days before the Calderon administration ended. The former public servants have expressed fear that the information on disappeared persons was erased from the PGR archives, but they point out the National Public Security System and the state governments also have (the information), but have chosen to remain silent.

Presumably, this is the reason that they leaked part of the information to the Washington Post and another part to the Investigation and Training Center Civic Proposal (Centro de Investigacion y Capacitacion Propuesta Civica). The complete information was provided to this reporter on Tuesday, December 18.
 

2011 and the DF, the worst

From December, 2006, to July, 2012, the year with the greatest number of disappeared persons was 2011. According to the report from the state attorneys general, the number was 8,977; that was the year that had the most murders in the Calderon war against drug trafficking. In February of 2012, the PGR officially admitted to a figure of 12,903 deaths in executions or confrontations between organized crime groups.

From confrontations between criminal organizations,  48 persons a day were murdered and 24 (per day) disappeared, on average.

The year with the second highest number of  disappeared persons was 2010, with 7,246. It was also the second most violent year in the six year administration, with almost 11,500 murders by organized crime, according to tallies from several sources. The states in which there appeared to be less explicit  violence were the ones with the most disappearances.

According to the report presented on July 17, the entity with the most disappeared persons was the Federal District (Distrito Federal), with 9,268 cases, 36% of the 25,276 disappeared persons in the entire country.
(Anabel Hernandez/Proceso)
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Narcofosa: Zetas Killed Four Women in Coahuila, Marines rescued more awaiting same fate

January 1, 2013, 1:02 pm
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Saltillo., (Proceso.com.mx.) - Members of the criminal group "Los Zetas" kidnapped and executed four women and threw them in a clandestine grave in the town of San Buenaventura, Coahuila.

Moreover, the criminals held four other kidnapped victims whom they planned on killing later, reported the Attorney General of the State (PGJE).

"Staff of the Deputy of Research Missing Persons located four female bodies in a clandestine grave in San Buenaventura," said a statement from the PGJE.

The "narcofosa" was located when thanks to the navy they captured a woman first and then three members of a cell belonging to the criminal organization "Los Zetas" in the city of Monclova.

On Sunday, the elements of the navy captured Juanita Villegas Elizabeth Ibarra, "La Chave", 22, originally from San Buenaventura, who told of the location of the safe house and where they found kidnapped hostages.

Arriving at the safe house of the criminals, they were attacked with bullets. Marines were  searching the house in neighborhood of Las Flores in Monclova. In one of the bedrooms on the upper floor they found four hostages who said that criminals planned to kill them later."


In the safe house, agents "managed to rescue four people who had been held captive, exhibiting signs of torture from being tied hand and foot. They seized an arsenal of weapons for use by the Army and Air Force," added the report

Those arrested were identified as Guadalupe Reyna Martinez, Jesus Martinez Villanueva and Hugo Adam Lopez Alvarado.

"During the investigation, the accused said they had kidnapped the 4 women who had been buried in San Buenaventura."

In first statement, both Guadalupe Reyna Martinez and Jesus Martinez Villanueva reported that they took the lives of women because they belonged to an opposing group. 

The four bodies were found handcuffed "and two of them covered over the head with closed black plastic bags. Head trauma and contusions were the cause of death "

"The ages of the deceased varied between 18 and 30 years, and the time of death was within 72 hours. PGJE personnel are working on establishing the identity of the victims, "the statement said.

From the detainees were confiscated an arsenal of two fragmentation hand grenades  K-400, ovoid, olive green, with lot numbers: HWB95K605-029 and EC-89E605.

Two percussion grenades M-118, 40 mm caliber, of high explosive, olive green and gold, a type assault rifle AR-15 Rock River Arms brand, model LAR-15, 5.56 x 45 mm caliber, illegible brand (deleted ), American manufacturing, retractable stock.

A square pistol, brand Colt .38 Super, registration 29291, American manufacturing.

Also: 21 magazines up to 30 cartridges caliber 5.56 x 45 mm, 6 magazines with a capacity of 30 cartridges caliber 7.62 x 39 mm.

Also: 1,301 cartridges caliber 5.56 x 45 mm caliber cartridges 150 5.7 x 28 mm and 95 cartridges caliber 7.62 x 39 mm and two aluminum baseball bats.

"The defendants could get life imprisonment and a minimum sentence of 60 years in prison on charges of homicide, illegal deprivation of liberty and burial underground," concluded the official statement.

Proceso

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US Murder Indictments: Chapo, Mayo, and 22 CDS Insist They Have Been Framed

January 2, 2013, 10:50 am
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It is alleged that the leaders of Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and 22 others are indicted in Texas for murders they didn't commit.  Their complaint says they were framed.

Editor: An email from a group representing the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, declares the innocence of particular individuals attacked during a wedding in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The wedding groom, 2 of his family members were kidnapped and found murdered. One friend was shot outside of the Church wedding. The complaint alleges the Sinola Cartel Leaders and Members have been framed.

We are choosing to publish the letter in its complete form. We have received contact from Mexican cartels in the past, but the information contained here is unusual, as follows, note that the reference to "I" is from the person representing the group of attorneys' that are representing the Sinaloa Cartel

This is a complaint for Joaquin Guzman Loera and Ismael Zambada Garcia, leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. This is a complaint for 22 other Sinaloa Cartel Members that were indicted with Ismael Zambada Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Loera. This complaint is also for Sergio Saucedo, La Linea Cartel Member.

This complaint is for Rafael Morales Valencia, Jaime Morales Valencia, Guadulupe Morales Arriola, Alonso Setelo Corral. Wedding groom and family kidnapped from a Church wedding in Ciudad Juarez Mexico. And the Bride and family members that were traumatized at the wedding, whose lives will never be the same.

This complaint is against Deputy Jesse Tovar El Paso County Sheriff, Chihuahua Govenor Cesar Duarte, President Barack Hussein Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr, Attorney General Marisela Morales, President Felipe Calderon, FBI Director Robert Mueller, DEA Administrator Michelle Leonhart, Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano...
ICE Director John Morton, Robert Pittman U.S. Attorney Western District, Joseph Arabit DEA Special Sgent in Charge El Paso Texas, Mark Morgan FBI Special Agent in Charge El Paso, ATF Special Agent in Charge Dallas Robert Champion, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State...
Stacia Hylton U.S. Marshalls Director, Ken Gonzalez U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, former Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, Ramon Eduardo Pequeno Garcia Mexican Federal Police, Police Chief Greg Allen in Texas...
Sheriff El Paso Terry Maketa, Public Safety Texas Steve McCraw, U.S. Attorney John Murphy, David Cuthbertson FBI Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Border Marfa Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jon Esparza, Richard Wiles El Paso County Sheriff, former Chihuahua Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez, Chihuahua Prosecutor Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas, Jose Reyes Baeza Terrazas.

This complaint is about the Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and 22 others indicted in Texas for murders they didn't commit. And the officials listed above knowing they didn't commit these murders. I am alleging the officials mentioned above conspired to have Rafael Morales Valencia and family and Sergio Rene Saucedo murdered so they could frame the Sinaloa Cartel.
The police suspected another cartel was responsible for the murder of Sergio Saucedo in 2009. Sergio Saucedo was murdered for a drug debt. I emailed you before and said he was stopped with the drugs by border patrol. But I am not sure of that. 4 other men were stopped with the drugs in a tractor trailer.
 I am not sure how Sergio Saucedo was involved in this drug transaction. But I do know that three men have been convicted of this kidnapping and I believe murder of Sergio Saucedo. These men were not the ones stopped with the drugs. One man Omar Obregon Ortiz received 100 months, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy. I am not sure if the conspiracy was related to the murder or drugs.

Two men, Rafael Vega and Cesar Obregon Reyes, were sentenced to life in prison, but they proclaim there innocence. I believe they are innocent. One will never know, the governments lied about the Sinaloa Cartel involvement, then they could have lied about everything related to these murders.

There were many questionable acts in the trial of these two men.

One person said they bragged at a party. Family members said they were never at a party. One of the men were living in a halfway house. There was a log signed by one of the staff that said he was at the half way house.
But the worker that signed the log said she didn't get to work until 3:30. But the log was signed at 3:00 that the young man was present. Two men in the halfway house testified that you could sneak out of the halfway house anytime.
I have never seen that in a halfway house. A cousin of one of the men alleged to have kidnapped Sergio Saucedo,was a prison detention officer. The cartel that is accused of murders of consulate members, the Juarez cartel murdered a Texas detention officer, he was the Husband of a u.s. consulate member.
Cartel members said he was murdered because he was too strict on cartel members in Texas prison. The cousin detention officer,testified that his cousin showed him a magazine with Sergio Saucedo on it and folded it and put in back in his pocket. He could of said that out of fear.
Or apart of there sick game. you don't mess with certain gang and drug dealers that law enforcement favor, they will make you pay. I know this from experience. A prosecution witness told the courts he had a vendetta against the young men.
The wife of Sergio Saucedo couldn't identify the men that were charged with the kidnapping of Sergio Saucedo. As I say, there were a lot of questionable acts at there trial. Sounds like railroading. The u.s. and Mexican government covering for the true murderers. As they have done, accusing the Sinaloa Cartel Members of murders they know they didn't commit.

The mexican and united states government said Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo was a Sinaloa Cartel Member. But they lied. There is no way a Sinaloa Cartel Member or Leader would have killed Sergio Rene Saucedo, a LaLinea Cartel Member for a drug debt owed to the La Linea or Juarez Cartel. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez gave a interview to the police that said he killed Sinaloa Cartel Members and there associates
.They were enemies. Also, Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo and Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez Juarez or La Linea Cartel leader, a reward for there capture was offered by the Chihuahua attorney general in 2009 for the massacre at Casa Aviliane rehab. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez admitted to the massacre of 18 people at Casa Aviliane.
And Federal Officer Ramon Eduardo Puqueno Garcia gave a press conference in which he states Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo was wanted for the Casa Aviliane massacre. The same massacre Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, Juarez Cartel Leader admitted he
ordered.Which means that Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo is a Juarez or La Linea Cartel Member. Sergio Saucedo is a La Linea Cartel Member. In the indictment someone alleged that Sergio Saucedo was kidnapped from Texas and taken to Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo.

This is murder, conspiracy to murder, perjury, killing in a foreign country, crime against humanity, abuse of power, cruel and unusual punishment, kidnapping, genocide, running a criminal enterprise.

We are seeking justice. We are asking that all indictments on Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and all Sinaloa Members are dismissed, in all states in the United States. The other indictments charge them with drug trafficking, they are national security assets, a title given to Sinaloa Members by the federal bureau of investigations.

We are asking the true co conspirators of these murders, U.S. and Mexican government officials are brought to justice.

The U.S. government denied Sergio Saucedo involvement with any cartel, knowing he belonged to the La Linea Cartel, because they wanted to frame the Sinaloa Cartel. This also proves a conspiracy to murder, accessory before and after the fact of murder, by the U.S. government to murder Sergio Saucedo.
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Backstory: about the Saucedo kidnapping from El Paso Times as follows:

 30-year-old Sergio Saucedo, who was taken at gunpoint from his home in the 14000 block of Desert Sunset Drive about 3:40 p.m. Sept. 3. His wife told deputies Vega was tied up with duct tape and carried out the back door.

Witnesses reported hearing a gunshot and the victim struggling and yelling for help before he was taken away in a Ford Expedition. Children on a school bus also witnessed the daytime kidnapping.

On Sept. 8, Mexican authorities found Saucedo's mutilated body in Juárez. His hands were cut off and placed on his chest.
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No Starvation Here: La Barbie's Prison Menus at the Max

January 2, 2013, 11:34 am
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JJ and Edagr
 
Looks like La Barbie may become El Gordo.....Though I must say this does
not represent the menus I know that are served in medium and low security prisons.
 

Mamito
Arrested on August 30, 2010, the former chief of the Beltran Leyva gunmen was held at the Criminal Altiplano maximum security prison in November of the same year, inmates food and medicines cost on average 40 pesos daily (a little over 3USD)

Since last November 20th, 2010, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, identified as "La Barbie", has remained in the Penal Altiplano maximum security prison that houses some of the most dangerous criminals in the world of drug trafficking, serving 21 various menus for the more than 800 inmates.

Salads, tea, fruits, pork in green sauce, Aztec soup, fried chicken and pizza are just some of the dishes enjoyed by prisoners as "La Barbie" Jorge Balderas, "JJ" , Osvaldo Garcia Montoya, "El Compayito" or Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, "El Mamito", recently extradited to the United States.

Food has not reached the sophistication of what these characters ate when they were free, it is richer in nutrients and reaches equilibrium of the food pyramid recommended by experts and of course that many Mexicans do not have access.

Edomex El Universal made ​​a request for access to information to the Federal Public Security Secretariat to know what kind of food is inmates eat at Altiplano prison.

For each day of the week the menu is as follows:

MONDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, egg pasilla sauce, totillas, sweet bread and jelly.
Food: Water flavor pasta soup with carrot, banana rice, pork in green sauce with zucchini, beans, tortillas, apple.
Supper: Coffee, tea, potatoes with sausage, omelets, pastries and marzipan.

TUESDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, the Mexican zucchini panela cheese and grain corn, tortillas, pastries, flan.
Food: Water flavor pasta soup with mushrooms, poblano rice, chicken fajitas, beans, tortillas and apple.
Supper: Coffee, tea, cheese Navy brown sugar and a loaf of wheat  bread with amaranth (a rice like grain).

WEDNESDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, broth tlalpeño, tortillas, pan dulce, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, cream of squash, rice with green beans, Mexican steak, beans, tortillas, plantains .
Supper: Atole (thick chocholate drink), ham sandwich with cheese, crackers .

THURSDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, smoked ham grilled turkey, salad, tortillas, pan dulce, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, pasta with carrot soup, rice with banana, pasilla pork, beans, tortillas and apple.
Supper: Coffee, tea, poblano quesadillas, green salad, fresh bread, marzipan.

FRIDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, eggs in green sauce white bread, wheat bar and flan.
Meal: Aagua flavor, chayote soup pasta, rice and corn, rosemary in mole, beans, tortillas and guava.
Supper: Coffee, tea, soy ceviche, cookies, pastries and a .

SATURDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, grilled panela cheese, beans, sweet bread, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, Aztec soup, rice with peas, Veracruz steak, beans, tortillas, melon.
Supper: coffee, tea, pizza, cookies, tamarind.

SUNDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, chorizo ​​quesadilla, beans, tortillas, pastries, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, lentil soup, rice with carrots, fried chicken, green salad , beans, tortillas and apple.
Supper: coffee, tea, eggs with ham, omelets, pastries and cookies. 


Source: Zocalo
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Twelve Sicarios Brought Down in Zacatecas and Some Border States' 2012 Statistics

January 3, 2013, 3:51 pm
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Zacatecas- Elements of the 97 Battalion of the Mexican Army managed to bring down in a confrontation that began in the community of El Fuerte and ended up in the community of Francisco Garcia, 12 alleged members of organized crime.

In a military report, it was reported that the incident took place around 14:30 hours on Wednesday in the city limits of Rio Grande, 94 kilometers from the city of Zacatecas.

Also, they explained that the alleged gunmen traveling in a dirt road two kilometers from the federal highway 45, on board of several trucks, when attacked with heavy weapons to the military convoy. 

Besides the chaotic reduction, they achieved the ensuring of vehicles, ammunition, firearms, AK-47 and AR-15, as well as satellite radio equipment.

In 2012 there were three thousand executions in Coahuila, Tamaulipas and NL

Saltillo  -  Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas closed 2012 with about three thousand homicides related to organized crime and a similar number missing.
This region became the country's most violent. To cite an example, Torreón, Coahuila, replaced Ciudad Juarez as the most bloody of Mexico.  

The insecurity of the northeast poses a challenge to the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who proposed a 50 percent reduction in violent crime during their first year of administration.

Peña Nieto divided the country into five regions as part of its strategy to fight organized crime, these points will create 15 units of the new National Gendarmerie specialized to combat kidnapping, extortion and murder.

Statistics from the PGR of Coahuila says that in 2012 there were 1,123 intentional homicides which occurred statewide. This figure does not account for the month of December, as the latest current count ended with  November.

The region consists of the municipalities of Torreón, Matamoros and San Pedro de las Colonias that accounted for over a thousand of these homicides, nine percent more than last year
La Laguna is disputed by the Sinaloa cartel and "Los Zetas", and in the past two years the "drug war" provoked massacres in bars, taverns, drug rehabilitation centers and prisons.

The violence in Coahuila is compounded when considering more than 1, 400 are missing and recorded with the Deputy for Research of Missing People.

In these statistics, add dozens of people who disappeared during the first three months of 2011 in the municipalities of Allende and Nava, which are investigated by the Attorney General of Coahuila.

In Nuevo Leon, the figures of Attorney General of Nuevo Leon show that in 2011,  2003 intentional homicides were committed and up until November of  2012, homicides totaled 1,700 

Since 2010, Nuevo Leon, the most industrialized state in northern Mexico, has been the scene of the largest massacres in recent years: the 52 victims of Casino Royale, which occurred in August 2011.

In addition, 22 people died after an attack in the Bar Sabino Gordo, 44 prisoners were massacred in the Apodaca prison and 49 dismembered bodies were abandoned in the town of Cadereyta.



Conservative figures of missing persons in the last three years total more than a thousand. Currently the Office of Nuevo Leon investigates about 240 cases involving forced kidnapping where transit police participated against organized crime.

In Tamaulipas, where organized crime imposes its law, figures-of-the prosecution aren't credible, they say that until September 2012  only 787 violent crimes occurred.

In addition, there were 236 illegal kidnapping sand 88 kidnappings reported to the Attorney General of the State.

The makeup of missing figures contrast with those reported to the Attorney General's Office (PGR), where Tamaulipas recorded the largest number of persons deprived of their liberty in Mexico.
The PGR statistics had more than 400 cases of disappearances, of 1,020 reported before to that office in the last year. 


Unlike other northern states of the country, local media in Tamaulipas will not publish the violence and insecurity that prevails in the state. 

Just recently, dozens of families organized themselves to use the social media tools offered by new technologies to spread news of missing people who were deprived of their liberty by the organized crime groups that dominate the state: the Gulf cartel and the Zetas.They created the Facebook page "Hope for Tamaulipas" Esperanza por Tamaulipas where they have exposed 117 cases of missing persons, mostly between 2010 and 2012.

Families are also organizing to demand that the Army and the Navy remain in the streets of Tamaulipas. Others propose arm themselves to defend against organized crime.

In December, the "drug war" did not stop and it did increase: In the last days of the year ended with six people hung from a Coahuila bridge, the discovery that Los Zetas had buried four women in a narcofosas with four more waiting, and a Torreon gunmen attacked the Oasis Rehabilitation center, killing one person and injuring three.

In Monterrey, organized crime members broke into a celebration of a Quinceanera, killed the godfather of the quinceañera and wounded eleven guests. Hours later, gunmen with assault rifles gunned down six young men, killing two and leaving four seriously wounded in Tierra y Libertad neighborhood.

Nuevo Leon authorities assume credit for the reduction of "executions" in 2012 without talking about the increase in extortion and kidnapping. 

In Tamaulipas two trucks were abandoned with dismembered bodies: one in Ciudad Mante, with five bodies, and one in Soto la Marina, with eight bodies. Furthermore, in Nuevo Laredo  in a Wal Mart parking a vehicle, they located an abandoned vehicle with a number of corpses.  The number was not specified by the State Attorney, but eyewitnesses claim to have counted many more than 8 bodies.

La Silla Rota, Proceso



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January 3, 2013, 6:42 pm
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The Mexican military is trying to dismantle an extensive network of radio antennas built and operated by the notorious Zeta drug cartel. But the authorities haven’t had much luck shutting Radio Zeta down. Not only is much of the equipment super-easy to replace. But the cartel has also apparently found some unwilling — and alarming — assistance by kidnapping and enslaving technicians to help build it.

At least 36 engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in the past four years, according to a report from Mexican news site Animal Politico, with an English translation published by organized-crime monitoring group InSight. Worse, none of the engineers have been held for ransom — they’ve just disappeared. Among them include at least one IBM employee and several communications technicians from a firm owned by Mexico’s largest construction company. “The fact that skilled workers have been disappearing in these areas is no accident,” Felipe Gonzalez, head of Mexico’s Senate Security Committee, told the website.
“None of the systems engineers who disappeared have been found,” Gonzalez said. Unlike Colombia, where drug traffickers control large amounts of territory and can keep hostages for many years, Mexico’s drug territory is more in flux. “When they need specialists they catch them, use them, and discard them,” said the father of one kidnapped engineer.

For at least six years, Mexico’s cartels have relied in part on a sophisticated radio network to handle their communications. The Zetas hide radio antennas and signal relay stations deep inside remote and hard-to-reach terrain, connect them to solar panels, and then link the facilities to radio-receiving cellphones and Nextel devices. While the kingpins stay off the network — they use the internet to send messages — the radio network acts as a shadow communication system for the cartels’ lower-level players and lookouts, and a tool to hijack military radios.

One network spread across northeastern Mexico and dismantled last year included 167 radio antennas alone. As recently as September, Mexican marines found a 295-foot-high transmission towerin Veracruz state. And while the founding leadership of the Zetas originated in the Mexican special forces — and who might have had the know-how to set up a radio system — relatively few of the ex-commando types are still active today.

One engineer, named Jose Antonio, was kidnapped in January 2009 while talking on the phone with his girlfriend outside a mechanics shop. He worked for ICA Fluor Daniel, a construction company jointly owned by U.S.-based Fluor Corporation and ICA, Mexico’s largest construction firm. Antonio’s family contacted the authorities, but were instead visited by a man claiming to be an ICA employee along with two Zetas. “They said they were going to help us, and that our contact would be ICA’s security chief,” said the kidnapped engineer’s mother. But the group’s message was implicit: Don’t pursue this, or else. The cartel members were later arrested, but Antonio never returned.

Alejandro Moreno, an IBM engineer kidnapped in January 2011 while traveling from Monterrey to the Texas border city of Laredo, hasn’t been heard from since. In 2009, nine contractors hired to build radio antennas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo — a Zetas stronghold — were kidnapped from a rented apartment by masked gunmen. They were taken with their vehicles and equipment.

Aside from the radios, the cartel’s extensive weaponry alone caused GlobalPost’s Ioan Grillo to note “whether [the Zetas] should continue to be labeled as drug traffickers — or need a more martial description.” Now add a military-grade communication system built with slave labor.

It’d also be one thing if jamming the radio network or tracking down and dismantling the equipment were enough to stop it. But that might not be enough.
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By Sam Clements


Past coverage: Borderland Beat: Can You Hear Me Now?

Drug cartels are all over the place in Mexico, but the Los Zetas have gained the title of the most technologically advanced and dangerous cartel in the country. They’re ex-paramilitary, tooled up like a miniature army, and have even set up their own radio communications network to organize all their horrible, murderous, people-trafficking business.

Los Zetas' radio network is the rock of the low-level operations carried out by the "street-soldiers." It keeps daily activity running smoothly as well as providing a quick method of communication for the network of lookouts monitoring police movement and making sure the cartel is always one step ahead of the authorities. As you might have expected from a gang that seems to enjoy indiscriminately slaughtering people, they haven't exactly gone about setting up their radio network in the most legitimate way. Their SOP has been to kidnap radio experts, and not one of the reported 36 missing technicians have been seen since.

Los Zetas aren’t the only cartel with their own radio network, but they are said to have the biggest and most advanced of them all, meaning the Mexican military has had little luck bringing it down.

Colonel Bob Killebrew writes and consults on national defense issues at the Center for a New American Security, most recently co-authoring the book Crime Wars; Gangs, Cartels and US National Security. I spoke to him about Los Zetas and their radio network.

VICE: Hi, Bob. What can you tell me about Los Zetas?
Bob Killebrew: In the United States, we often make the mistake of thinking about the cartels as just drug pushers, when they are actually military terrorist groups. They also deal in kidnapping, murder, extortion—all the crime you can do with a well-organized and ruthless group. They have no social value, they have no social feeling, they follow no rules and their foot soldiers are young men who have basically decided they are not going to survive in the world. They have no morals and no scruples.

Yikes. Apart from being really brutal, they’re also very organized, right?

Yeah, they have a paramilitary mindset... a chain of command, an appreciation of what technology can do to enhance paramilitary capabilities. If you’re a military guy who started such a group, one of your first concerns is communications. You can build communication networks at a relatively low expense if you have the expertise. So, it’s quite possible to build, say, a network for a low-level handheld radio carried by a taxi driver that can be picked up, re-transmitted, boosted up, and sent anywhere you want to send it, and even encrypted after it’s transmitted.
How far can they communicate with the radios?
It depends on how big a reach they want. If the taxi driver is calling up to warn someone about the Mexican army leaving town, he only needs to tell the people in his immediate geographical area. So they build a network that will go that far—call it the local network. But there can be a second network—a state network, say—and there can be a national network as well. As long as they’ve got the terrain to put the repeaters (signal boosters) down and they’ve got the access to the materials and the technicians to do it, there’s nothing to stop them from going global, as I’m sure they already are. 

Wow. How easy is it to set up a network like this?

The building of a network like this needs extensive use of remote transmitters, and the terrain in Mexico favors that. Most Mexican terrain—particularly in Veracruz and other places like that—has a lot of distinctive geography that allows you to point antennas and repeaters on high pieces of land. The equipment can be bought on the open market—not easily, but you can get it. What Los Zetas have is the engineering expertise to do it. Of course they get that the way they always get things—they’ll kidnap engineers, make them work for them, then dispose of them.

Why do they need this network so badly?

First to control their drug shipments, because when you start to move drugs you need continuous communications—they don’t use people who aren't totally trustworthy. The second thing they need it for is to arrange business affairs: picking up drugs, dropping drugs off, meetings... that type of thing. Then the third, of course, is keeping tabs on the opposition. If a taxi driver can pick up a handheld radio and say, “Hey, the Mexican army is leaving town in ten trucks,” that’s a great low-level early warning system.
Will Los Zetas’ communication technology evolve?
Oh sure, it will evolve as the capability evolves. Los Zetas won’t be doing any research and development on their own, but they’ll be buying stuff as fast as it comes on the market. They’ve solved the problem of technology because they just kidnap the people they want to work for them. And then they eliminate them when they’re done. It’s a very ruthlessly efficient organization.

Why do you think Mexican gangs are so much more overtly violent than others?

I talked to a retired New York City police chief once who told me he'd actually understood the mafia because the mafia had rules. They didn't commit indiscriminate violence, they didn’t just go out and shoot police officers for fun, and there was an understanding between them and the police. But he said that the gangs we’re dealing with now have no rules. They simply kill, or do whatever they’re going to do. And I think it’s a problem for our society. Not just that, it’s a problem for our civilization as a whole.

How big of a threat are Los Zetas and the other cartels?

I think that they represent a new kind of 21st century criminal. And these cartels are not the mafia—they’re different and they’re worse. And if you look at them as a global phenomenon, they have the potential to seriously challenge our civilization. They have tons of money, they have innovation, and they’re totally ruthless. They operate outside even the informal laws that crime used to follow.

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Torreón: Drug Rehab Center Attacked

January 3, 2013, 9:23 pm
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Authorities report that a group of gunmen attacked a rehabilitation center in the Coahuila city of  Torreón, leaving one dead and three injured.

The Laguna delegation of the Attorney General of the State said that about 7:45 am on Monday, a group of armed men burst into “Oasis” the rehabilitation center for addiction, located on Rodríguez Triana Boulevard, in the colonia “las Julitetas”.

The gunmen opened fire on the patients, subsequently leaving one dead, an unidentified person, about 30 years old, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in his chest.

The three injured were identified with names: Jose Mena Eleno Alvarado, 58, who is treated at a local hospital for gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest, Carlos Alvarado Mena, 39, injured by a bullet in the knee and Pedro Rivas Palacios, 31, who was wounded in the left side of the torso..

Just last June, gunmen killed eleven people in the Torreón center called " “Tu Vida Sobre La Roca AC”.
 

Source: Narco Mexico Drug Gangs (Texcoco’s Blog)


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2012: Borderland Beat's Most Popular Posts

January 4, 2013, 11:38 pm
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A look at the most viewed twenty posts of 2012
 these 20 comprise 1,630.000 views, thank you readers
Is Lazca's death the number 1 most viewed?
Not necessarily  most important, or even the "best", but these were your "Top 20" favorite posts for 2012, declared so by  having the most views,  usually combined with most comments.

The top three most viewed had a combined total of 500,000+ views. Can you guess which is BB Most Views King of 2012?   Lazca? Diablo's Mother and siblings execution?

When "Lazca" was killed we had a first time occurrence when the comments surpassed our blogger character allowance...twice!  over 500 comments came in.  It was necessary to have a post part 2 then 3 to accommodate the posts comments.

Here is the top 20 beginning with number 20 each post will include its hyperlink and a few sentences from the post, link to read the complete post.  For of you that want a revisit or may have missed the post when posted or you are a newbie to Mexican narco war information hopefully this will be an informative review. 

 20-11, the next installment will comprise 10-1:

20. "Z40 Sends a Gruesome Message Declares War in Reynosa"

An execution video was sent with messages confirming that Zetas are in Reynosa ready to battle for the plaza.  The messages were signed by Z40.  The event occurred in Reynosa in the state of Tamaulipas.

Two shirtless young men are presented in the video having their heads wrapped in duct tape.
 

They were decapitated and dismembered into quarters.  The video depicts the aftermath of the horror.  I posted the graphic video   the decision to view the video yours....Graphic
Read full post here

19.  "Beauty Queen Dies With Gun in Hand"


A Mexican beauty queen killed  in a shootout between suspected drug traffickers and soldiers likely was being used as a human shield, a federal official said.
Maria Susana Flores Gamez, crowned 2012 Woman of Sinaloa in February, came out of the car first with a gun in her hands during the confrontation, with the other gunmen hiding behind her, according to the official from the attorney general's office........



Read full post here

 
18.  "Bloody Wednesday in Culiacan Sinaloa"
[This post gives an account of Antrax being killed and due to early reports mistakenly reported the M1 was also killed, later in the year he would  be unmistakably  killed]. 
 
"Among the dead were two locally important underworld figures belonging to the Sinaloa Cartel.
 
One man was identified as "Roque Antrax", a member of the Antrax group of sicarios that works under Mayo Zambada and another was identified as "El Mele", a member of the group loyal to Manuel Torres Felix "el Ondeado".
 

17.  "-El Fantasma- Man of El Chapo is Killed in Shootout Near Quila"



"El Fantasma", identified as a boss of the security detail of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was killed by members of the Mexican Marines during an operation in the region of Quila, Sinaloa. In the shootout he was wounded and transported to the hospital where he died from his injuries. He was identified as Jonathan Salas Aviles.

According to details of the incident an accomplice was also killed at the scene of the shootout, when both attempted to escape in the small town of Oso Nuevo in the region of Quila. Both men were pursued from a helicopter and were shot at from the air...[SUV rolled and caught fire]...
 
Read full post here
 
16. "Blood Brothers:The Alliance Between Cartels and US Gangs"
  
Like the unwanted dandelions that sprout in lawns, cartel and gang partners continue to adapt and survive. Whatever code of conduct that may have restrained them in the past has disappeared.

Their terrible acts of violence and cruelty continue to escalate. The systematic corruption of our police, courts and political system is their goal. Those who they cannot corrupt, they murder. Journalists, police, judges, soldiers, religious leaders, women and children are all potential victims.
 
When they work together, the cartel-gang alliance is a serious threat to our national security.
U.S. street and prison gangs have done business with Mexican drug traffickers since the 1920s. No one gang or Mexican cartel had exclusive agreements with one another. It was basically a free market, but some of the larger more powerful gangs began forming alliances in Mexico.

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15.  "Diablo Confirms the Executed Were His Family-Sends Message With Decapitation Video"

“Nothing helps... neither threat nor prayer.
One man talks well, the other's mum;
it's the other one that I prefer.
He's silent but I like his looks”

The above lyrics are an extract from “Habanera”, the classical aria used in “Silence of the Lambs”, it was also selected for decapitation ambiance by “El Diablo” in his latest execution video.

The video appeared Tuesday, it depicts the interrogation and decapitation of at least one man  who in his  interrogation states he works for the Zetas cartel. The video is the work of "El Diablo"  the leader of a brutal group of sicarios in the NE Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

It was two weeks ago that a Zetas execution video was released that featured the decapitation of four members of Diablo's family, his; mother, brother, sister and sister-in-law.  At the time, bloody revenge was anticipated by all that follow the Narco war.    However, if one is to believe Diablo's message with respect to the execution of his family, he states the executions were  "not a problem",  it illustrates the psychopathic nature of the man known for his exceptionally monstrousexecutions

Read full post here

14.  "Lalo Moreira, Son of Humberto Moreira Killed in Acuña"

Cold blooded execution

Jose Eduardo Moreira Rodriquez, 28,   was shot and killed in Acuña Coahuila  at around 9:15PM on the road to Santa Eulalia.  Also known as “Lalo”, he is the  son of Humberto Moreira, the former Governor of Coahuila and federal  PRI party president.  Lalo’s uncle is the governor of Coahuila.
His death is described as a cold blooded execution, and it is rumored to be a cartel killing.  Los Zetas control the city of Acuña.  Acuña has experienced violence in the past few weeks, none of which has been reflected in the news.

 
Acuña is located and hour from Piedras Negras, where violence has erupted since the prison break in which 131 prisoners escaped.  Strange circumstances surround the killing, as Lalo was alone at the time of his death, without his bodyguard, and he was driving his armored vehicle yet he felt secure enough to exit his vehicle, which lends the probability that he knew his attackers.  His body was riddled with bullets....

Read full post here  - Here and Here

13.  Amado Carrillo Fuentes Death :Revenge Over the Death of An Ochoa Uncle"

When Castor Alberto Ochoa-Soto, 53 at the time, walked across the Paso del Norte Bridge to Mexico on Feb. 11, 1995, he likely didn’t realize he was a marked man. But his old friend, Amado Carrillo-Fuentes, wanted his 22 tons of cocaine, which was stored in a Juarez warehouse.

Whether the body of Castor Alberto Ochoa-Soto, a former high-ranking member of the Medellin Cartel whose death may have led to the fall of Amado Carrillo-Fuentes, was still there in the morgue, unclaimed, since it was discovered buried in a narco-grave back in November of 1999.

When I asked the medical examiner, he said “Yeah, it’s still here, unclaimed and unthawed, as it  always has been .”.............

Read Full Post Here

 
12.   "Drug Investigation Hovers Over the Death of Jenni Rivera"
 
 
The tragic death of beloved Mexican singer Jenni Rivera.  After the crash rumors spread of possible cartel involvement in the crash, of sabotaging the plane.  Rivera had often spoken out against cartels. 
She is in no way suspected of being connected to drug trafficking or cartels she was a strong advocate against organized crime and the destruction they have caused Mexico.

 
Read full post here
 
11.  "M1" Killed by Army"
 

Manuel Torres Felix AKA 'el M1", 'el Ondeado' was a cell leader of Cártel de Sinaloa . Manuel was brother to Javier Torres Felix (el JT), and a close collaborator to Ismael "el mayo" Zambada y de Joaquin Guzman "el chapo".
 

The Ministery of National Defense (Sedena) confirmed the death of Manuel Torres Felix, nicknamed 'el Ondeado" or "el M-1" considered one of the main operators of the Cartel del Pacifico and deputy to "el Mayo Zambada.


In a statement, the agency reported that military personnel that carried out work to locate this guy was attacked Thursday with firearms in the municipality Cosala, Sinaloa.....
 
Read full post here


The next installment will be comprised of numbers 10-1

 
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Chapo's multinational mafia

January 5, 2013, 11:15 pm
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December 5, 2013

Rafael Croda

Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat

From its country's bitter experience with drug cartels, a research group with the National University of Colombia warns that Mexico has not yet become fully aware of the magnitude of the security problem that El Chapo Guzman represents. According to them and to the Colombian police, the Sinaloa Cartel has already taken control of the principal structures of the narco in Latin America, including the country of Pablo Escobar and 'El Loco' Barrera. Having become the head of  a kind of business enterprise that controls local operations, Guzman Loera has outgrown the Mexican State.

BOGOTA (Proceso).-- He transformed a criminal group into a genuine holding company, a multinational with tentacles in almost all of Latin America. His emissaries, the emissaries of the Sinaloa Cartel, are true managers of their "franchises"; He's El Chapo Guzman, a criminal who has outgrown the Mexican State.

According to extensive research, the results of which are explained by a political scientist with the National University of Colombia, Pablo Ignacio Reyes Beltran, in several regions in this country -- with a strong drug trafficking presence -- they speak of the Sinaloan with admiration and fear.

"All the Colombian drug traffickers want to have dealings with him. They seek him out, they propose business deals. At this moment, El Chapo is drug trafficker number one. His associates here say that in Mexico, he's the god of gods and that the Sinaloa Cartel is the strongest there is," asserts the researcher, who is also a professor and a specialist in mafia sociocultural relations, with the National University's Judicial-Political Culture, Institutions and Globalization Research Group.

He informs Proceso that in the Group's study of the parallels between mafia phenomena in Colombia and Mexico, results of which will be released this year, it has been established that Guzman Loera is much more than the leader of a drug cartel.

"He's a mafioso entrepreneur who transformed the Sinaloa Cartel into a business group or holding company, like McDonald's, with branch offices and franchises in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. He's got people everywhere; they are the managers of his business. He provides the logistics, protection, the network of complicity and the conditions for trafficking drugs. That's what Pablo Escobar Gaviria (the deceased leader of the Medellin Cartel) was at one time, but the Mexican carries this out on a hemispheric scale."

He mentions that Colombian security organizations detected the growing presence of El Chapo emissaries in the areas where Los Rastrojos and Los Urabenos operate. These are criminal groups created by the remnants of paramilitary groups that have taken over the business of drug trafficking in this country.

According to reports from Colombian intelligence sources, emissaries of the Mexican capo, including a purported nephew of his, tightened relationships with their local cocaine suppliers because these (suppliers) are planning to go into the synthetic drug business and they need the protection and the logistics of the Sinaloa Cartel.

In Peru, the Fourth Prosecution (Office) Against Organized Crime maintains an ongoing investigation into the presence of the Sinaloa Cartel in the border area with Ecuador, where El Chapo's structure is made up of Colombian, Ecuadorian and Peruvian criminals, who protect cocaine production and maintain control over trafficking routes.

In Colombia, the  Defensoria del Pueblo (similar to a Public Defender for human rights) reported Friday, (January) 4, that in the southwestern port of Buenaventura there's a group of Mexicans verifying the export of cocaine. It is the principal distribution point for large shipments of the drug to Central America, Mexico and the United States.

According to Professor Reyes Beltran, "the Sinaloa Cartel, the holding (company), supervises the logistics of the production and distribution of cocaine in the Andean countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), and its local associates work as franchises, but there is growing control of the production and distribution channels by the Mexicans.

He adds: "Buenaventura is a strategic exit. The other is the Gulf of Uraba (in Colombia's northwest), where El Chapo can operate with his partners from Los Rastrojos and Los Urabenos to place the drug in Central America and in Mexico; there, he's got other structures to move the drug into the United States."

According to the political scientist, "the task of eliminating El Chapo Guzman and all his organization has proven too big for the Mexican State for this reason: El Chapo is already a holding company, a multinational business enterprise, which implies a mafia structure with a great capacity too infiltrate the political and military institutions of Mexico and other countries."

As Reyes Beltran puts it, it is "impossible" that the most wanted drug trafficker in Mexico (from the time he escaped from the Puente Grande prison in Jalisco, on January 19, 2001) has avoided capture for such a long time without relying on a protection network of government officials.

"He uses this scheme all throughout the region through his partners (...) He has an army, aircraft and boats to transport drugs; he's got the mechanisms to launder assets, the control of several networks from South America to the United States, the marketing channels. And he charges his partners, subsidiaries and franchises a percentage for the use of the multinational business structure. He is much more than a drug cartel," he states.

(Fragment of the main report inProceso No. 1888, already in circulation)
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The Beauty and the 57 Narcomantas in La Évora, Guamúchil Region

January 6, 2013, 11:38 am
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GUAMÚCHIL- Reports of 57 to 67 narcomantas appeared hanging in different strategic locations in Mocorito, Badiraguato, Salvador Alvarado and Angostura in the state of Sinaloa. Each blanket demanded that Governor Mario Lopez Valdez investigate the death of Miss Sinaloa Woman beauty queen, Maria Susana Flores Gamez who was  killed in a clash between criminals and the military last November. The mantas referred to the responsibility being that of the governor's  because they accused the military of the murder, which they see as the governor's responsibility.  The group demanded an investigation into the death of "the Miss."   The Army supported by an agents from PGR took down the blankets.  The messages were signed by the alleged leader of a criminal cell operating in the region.



The messages referenced that María Susana Flores Gámez never had carried  guns or much less detonated them and indicated that the intention was to kill the presumed leader of the delinquent group.

One of the messages said: "Mr. Governor because it calls for investigation into death of Maria Susana Flores who was killed soldiers just because they came with the order to kill me and they could not under General Gurrola, he is with El Chapo Isidro, the girl had never carried weapons, much less shot them.  Investigate well General Gurrola that he is paid by El Chapo Isidro. Atte. Cholo Ivan."

The messages were found in the early hours of January 5 in places as the CBTIS 45, The offices of IFE, in front of a soft drink company among other locations. In each place there were hung two mantas written with bold block and red and black letters.

Other mantas questioned the General of the army who is signaled by them as colluding with the rival group."General Gurrola how much you paid by Isidro to scare people to not tell the truth of how things went when Susana Flores was killed or going to deny you sent people to ranches to tell them not to tell the truth, Sincerely Cholo Ivan ".

It is worth noting that Sinaloa Woman 2012, beauty queen Maria Susana Flores was killed by bullets during a battle between the military and members of a group of criminals on the 24th of November 2012.  The authorities informed that the beauty queen was shot while carrying a gun. There were also conflicting reports claiming she was attempting to surrender. The clash started in Caitime through Salvador Alvarado and ended in El Palmar de los Leal, Morocrito where Flores died.

Sources : Noroeste, Notaroja, 
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