Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Reforma article
Subject Matter: Autodefensas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
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Reporter: Benito Jimenez
A group of businessmen of Quintana Roo integrated yesterday to auto-defensas to combat the insecurity and corruption in the state. "This venture of auto-defensas is very serious. The violations of the law on the part of the Government are repetitive, we have the proof of the corruption, and the authorities refuse to act."
"Not only are they not acting, they are attacking, intimidating and using death threats and executing people to stop the voices of Quintana Roo", businessman Carlos Mimenza, who heads the group said to Reforma.
Mimenza launched a video in which he figures with another 5 persons, all in black, to advertise that the auto-defensas will watch the functionaries of the state.
The initiative started with the participation of about 20 businessmen who said they felt betrayed by the new Governor, Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez, for new acts of corruption like those registered b in the last sexenio by Roberto Borge, detained in Panama.
"The formation of this group which includes 200 people is ready to act when there is an attack against us or those close to us", warned Mimenza.
This was after the execution of Hector Casique Fernandez, who was under the protection of The Executive Committee of Care for Victims, after having been declared a victim of the Mexican State.
Casique was a former Municipal Policeman of Cancun, arrested in March of 2013, and forced under torture, to pleading guilty to murder and organized crime. He spent more than three years in prison during the administration of former Governor Roberto Borge.
"The judiciary executed Hector", declares Hectors mother, because there are arrest warrant against 43 members of the court of Quintana Roo, and Prosecutor Miguel Angel Pech Cen has not legally proceeded to execute these arrest warrants, not only has he not arrested them but promoted them", claimed Mimenza.
" I have already received several calls where I received death threats because of publications of complaints I made on the Internet, we have complaints against Roberto Borge and more than 40 officials, we have political trials which are not followed through in Congress even with evidence", he lamented.
The employer denounced last March the current Secretary of Finance and Planning of Quintana Roo, Juan Melquiades Vergara Fernandez for embezzlement, money laundering, and illicit enrichment of money through the company Travel Channel.
He also promoted a political judgment in the Congress of the Union against Governor Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez for alleged embezzlement and assaults on activists.
"This is not a call to take up arms at this time, it is a call to organize and maintain a personal vigilance against the Governor, the officers of Public Prosecution and of the Court to stop them murdering and carrying out death threats, they are going to be monitored because we are going to defend ourselves, against any attack", warned Mimenza.
He ruled out the participation of Jose Manuel Mireles in the QR autodefensas, although he acknowledged that he was an inspiration for the movement.
Quintana Roo Government responds
The Government of Quintana Roo said that the former President Roberto Borge and his accomplices are under investigation and the administration of Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez will not give any room for impunity.
"In relation to the statements and insults in social media, the Government of QR says that real change is done within the law and people respecting it. With the fight against impunity, there will be partner ship for all, so that people can live better lives", said the Government in a statement.
"Based on the allegations, investigations have been launched against former Government officials and as a result Roberto Borge was arrested. His accomplices are also under investigation".
Subject Matter: Autodefensas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Reporter: Benito Jimenez
A group of businessmen of Quintana Roo integrated yesterday to auto-defensas to combat the insecurity and corruption in the state. "This venture of auto-defensas is very serious. The violations of the law on the part of the Government are repetitive, we have the proof of the corruption, and the authorities refuse to act."
"Not only are they not acting, they are attacking, intimidating and using death threats and executing people to stop the voices of Quintana Roo", businessman Carlos Mimenza, who heads the group said to Reforma.
Mimenza launched a video in which he figures with another 5 persons, all in black, to advertise that the auto-defensas will watch the functionaries of the state.
The initiative started with the participation of about 20 businessmen who said they felt betrayed by the new Governor, Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez, for new acts of corruption like those registered b in the last sexenio by Roberto Borge, detained in Panama.
"The formation of this group which includes 200 people is ready to act when there is an attack against us or those close to us", warned Mimenza.
This was after the execution of Hector Casique Fernandez, who was under the protection of The Executive Committee of Care for Victims, after having been declared a victim of the Mexican State.
Casique was a former Municipal Policeman of Cancun, arrested in March of 2013, and forced under torture, to pleading guilty to murder and organized crime. He spent more than three years in prison during the administration of former Governor Roberto Borge.
"The judiciary executed Hector", declares Hectors mother, because there are arrest warrant against 43 members of the court of Quintana Roo, and Prosecutor Miguel Angel Pech Cen has not legally proceeded to execute these arrest warrants, not only has he not arrested them but promoted them", claimed Mimenza.
" I have already received several calls where I received death threats because of publications of complaints I made on the Internet, we have complaints against Roberto Borge and more than 40 officials, we have political trials which are not followed through in Congress even with evidence", he lamented.
The employer denounced last March the current Secretary of Finance and Planning of Quintana Roo, Juan Melquiades Vergara Fernandez for embezzlement, money laundering, and illicit enrichment of money through the company Travel Channel.
He also promoted a political judgment in the Congress of the Union against Governor Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez for alleged embezzlement and assaults on activists.
"This is not a call to take up arms at this time, it is a call to organize and maintain a personal vigilance against the Governor, the officers of Public Prosecution and of the Court to stop them murdering and carrying out death threats, they are going to be monitored because we are going to defend ourselves, against any attack", warned Mimenza.
He ruled out the participation of Jose Manuel Mireles in the QR autodefensas, although he acknowledged that he was an inspiration for the movement.
Quintana Roo Government responds
The Government of Quintana Roo said that the former President Roberto Borge and his accomplices are under investigation and the administration of Carlos Joaquin Gonzalez will not give any room for impunity.
"In relation to the statements and insults in social media, the Government of QR says that real change is done within the law and people respecting it. With the fight against impunity, there will be partner ship for all, so that people can live better lives", said the Government in a statement.
"Based on the allegations, investigations have been launched against former Government officials and as a result Roberto Borge was arrested. His accomplices are also under investigation".