Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article
Subject Matter: Mexican Marines
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Even though they operate against all in Tamaulipas, their operations extend to Coahuila and Nuevo Laredo, where they located El Lazca and El Z-40, among others.
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Reporter: Ruben Mosso
The Secretary of the Marines is an institution that has delivered the heaviest blows that have been delivered this sexenio against the leaders, operators and lieutenants of the Cartel del Golfo and Los Zetas, criminal organizations that have a major presence in Tamaulipas for the last 17 years.
According to the information from the Navy, since 2012 they have taken down or arrested 15 operators of the top level in the municipalities of Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, where there have been constant confrontations with the Federal forces or executions between rival cells.
However, the displacement of some criminals prompted the Special Forces of the Navy to hunt out in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, the leaders of the these groups, where they were finally caught or killed in clashes.
The information provided by the General Staff and by the Special Operations Unit of the Mexican Navy also reports successful operations against the CJNG, Sinaloa Cartel, Guerreros Unidos, La Familia Michoacana and the Beltran Leyva Organization.
For example, special forces killed Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, Tony Tormenta, leader of the Gulf Cartel and brother of the Capo Osiel Cardenas Guillen, El Matamigos.
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On September 12, 2012, Jorge Eduardo Costilla, El Coss, leader of the Cartel del Golfo was captured by Special Forces of the Navy in Tampico.
The Navy also killed Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, El Lazca or The Executioner, leader and one of the founders of Los Zetas, after a clash in the town of Sabinas, Coahuila, on October 6th of that year.
Another of the strikes that stand out is the arrest of Tomas Mauricio Sifuentes Garcia, El Mega, Plaza boss for Saltillo, on December 12th of that year, designated as responsible for the assassination of the Executive Secretary of the Electoral Institute for Citizens Participation of Coahuila, Natanael Rivera Gutierrez.
On July 14, 2013, the Navy captured Z-40, considered the most bloodthirsty criminal of Los Zetas, who was located on a dirt road that connects Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon.
In February of 2016, the Navy found Juan Francisco Carrizales Lara, El Metro 98, alleged Plaza boss of the Cartel del Golfo, he was detained in Monterrey.
Two Revised Amparos
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation will review two amparos related to people who were identified in the last six years of being members of a gang of kidnappers Los Zodiacs, an organization linked to a french woman Florence Cassez.
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The matter was handed over to Minister Alfredo Gutierrez Ortiz Mena, who in 2013 voted in favor of sheltering Florence, and who allowed her release, due to irregularities committed during her detention.
One of the complainants is Rene Vallarta Cisneros, brother of Israel Vallarta, the latter who was identified as the leader of Los Zodiacos and the partner of Florence Cassez. The other plaintiff is his nephew Juan Carlos Cortes Vallarta. Both demand that they be recognized as self incriminated due to torture, an action on which they blame four Federal policemen and their superiors.
In 2006 a court acquitted Rene Vallarta and Carlos Cortes of kidnapped and organized crime, a decision that annulled sentences of 37 years and 33 years in prison respectively.
Original article in Spanish at Milenio
Subject Matter: Mexican Marines
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Even though they operate against all in Tamaulipas, their operations extend to Coahuila and Nuevo Laredo, where they located El Lazca and El Z-40, among others.
Reporter: Ruben Mosso
The Secretary of the Marines is an institution that has delivered the heaviest blows that have been delivered this sexenio against the leaders, operators and lieutenants of the Cartel del Golfo and Los Zetas, criminal organizations that have a major presence in Tamaulipas for the last 17 years.
According to the information from the Navy, since 2012 they have taken down or arrested 15 operators of the top level in the municipalities of Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, where there have been constant confrontations with the Federal forces or executions between rival cells.
However, the displacement of some criminals prompted the Special Forces of the Navy to hunt out in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon, the leaders of the these groups, where they were finally caught or killed in clashes.
The information provided by the General Staff and by the Special Operations Unit of the Mexican Navy also reports successful operations against the CJNG, Sinaloa Cartel, Guerreros Unidos, La Familia Michoacana and the Beltran Leyva Organization.
For example, special forces killed Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, Tony Tormenta, leader of the Gulf Cartel and brother of the Capo Osiel Cardenas Guillen, El Matamigos.
On September 12, 2012, Jorge Eduardo Costilla, El Coss, leader of the Cartel del Golfo was captured by Special Forces of the Navy in Tampico.
The Navy also killed Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, El Lazca or The Executioner, leader and one of the founders of Los Zetas, after a clash in the town of Sabinas, Coahuila, on October 6th of that year.
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In February of 2016, the Navy found Juan Francisco Carrizales Lara, El Metro 98, alleged Plaza boss of the Cartel del Golfo, he was detained in Monterrey.
Two Revised Amparos
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation will review two amparos related to people who were identified in the last six years of being members of a gang of kidnappers Los Zodiacs, an organization linked to a french woman Florence Cassez.
The matter was handed over to Minister Alfredo Gutierrez Ortiz Mena, who in 2013 voted in favor of sheltering Florence, and who allowed her release, due to irregularities committed during her detention.
One of the complainants is Rene Vallarta Cisneros, brother of Israel Vallarta, the latter who was identified as the leader of Los Zodiacos and the partner of Florence Cassez. The other plaintiff is his nephew Juan Carlos Cortes Vallarta. Both demand that they be recognized as self incriminated due to torture, an action on which they blame four Federal policemen and their superiors.
In 2006 a court acquitted Rene Vallarta and Carlos Cortes of kidnapped and organized crime, a decision that annulled sentences of 37 years and 33 years in prison respectively.
Original article in Spanish at Milenio