Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article
Subject Matter: La Familia Michoacana
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
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Reporter: Proceso Redaction
A group of armed subjects that identified themselves as members of the criminal group La Familia Michoacana accused the Governor Hector Astudillo Flores of giving protection to the PRD Mayor of Teloloapan, Robel Uriostegui Patino, as well as the community guard of this town linked to Guerreros Unidos.
The video which appeared in social networks this weekend, in which one can observe a dozen men carrying rifles, their faces covered and wearing military type uniforms, warn about a resurgence in the violence in the North region of the Tierra Caliente.
In this part of the State, where Astudillo promotes mining projects and provides security to investors, the groups of La Familia Michoacana and Guerreros Unidos maintain a confrontation for control of the routes for growing and transit of heroin and the profits generated by the mining industry which has left a trail of death, disappeared and displaced.
"This message goes to the Governor, Hector Astudillo, look you son of a bitch, already you are supporting these prowling Guerreros Unidos that pass themselves off as communitarios in Teloloapan, and they support your bitch army, together they have disappeared many innocent people", signalled the communication against the Governor.
Later they add " you know well that bitch municipal president of Teloloapan, Robel Uriostegui is the cousin of the Casarrubias brothers, leaders of Los Guerreros Unidos and now they are maintaining the communitario dogs".
The communication spoken by sicarios of La Familia accuse the Governor of supporting the Mayor of Teloloapan, because a few months ago Astudillo Flores sent an official helicopter to extract the PRD who had received death threats.
They finish " Astudillo remove the communitarios, put in a neutral Government or otherwise Teloloapan will burn like never before. Now if everything goes as planned, which would be good, we were waiting to see and you did nothing", advertised the message of the armed group who operate in the Tierra Caliente regions and have its base in the municipality of Arecelia and in the south of State of Mexico, according to official Federal reports.
As well as accusing the Governor Hector Astudillo of complicity with Guerreros Unidos, the sicarios of La Familia advised of a death list, which includes the names of political PRD of Teloloapan, among them the actual Mayor Robel Uriostegui, the ex senator Valentin Guzman, Efren Romeo Sotelo, Enrique Salgado, Paul Alonso, Ismael Mora, Guadalupe Guadarrame and Antonio Bravo.
In reply, the Governor Astudillo Flores said that no threatening message would intimidate him, and reiterated his friendship with the Mayor of Teloloapan.
"They will not inhibit me, nor my comments, however rude or aggressive they are. I know perfectly what my responsibility is, who I work for and I will not depart from that," said the Governor during a tour of the Tierra Caliente regions yesterday.
Original article in Spanish
Subject Matter: La Familia Michoacana
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Reporter: Proceso Redaction
A group of armed subjects that identified themselves as members of the criminal group La Familia Michoacana accused the Governor Hector Astudillo Flores of giving protection to the PRD Mayor of Teloloapan, Robel Uriostegui Patino, as well as the community guard of this town linked to Guerreros Unidos.
The video which appeared in social networks this weekend, in which one can observe a dozen men carrying rifles, their faces covered and wearing military type uniforms, warn about a resurgence in the violence in the North region of the Tierra Caliente.
In this part of the State, where Astudillo promotes mining projects and provides security to investors, the groups of La Familia Michoacana and Guerreros Unidos maintain a confrontation for control of the routes for growing and transit of heroin and the profits generated by the mining industry which has left a trail of death, disappeared and displaced.
"This message goes to the Governor, Hector Astudillo, look you son of a bitch, already you are supporting these prowling Guerreros Unidos that pass themselves off as communitarios in Teloloapan, and they support your bitch army, together they have disappeared many innocent people", signalled the communication against the Governor.
Later they add " you know well that bitch municipal president of Teloloapan, Robel Uriostegui is the cousin of the Casarrubias brothers, leaders of Los Guerreros Unidos and now they are maintaining the communitario dogs".
The communication spoken by sicarios of La Familia accuse the Governor of supporting the Mayor of Teloloapan, because a few months ago Astudillo Flores sent an official helicopter to extract the PRD who had received death threats.
They finish " Astudillo remove the communitarios, put in a neutral Government or otherwise Teloloapan will burn like never before. Now if everything goes as planned, which would be good, we were waiting to see and you did nothing", advertised the message of the armed group who operate in the Tierra Caliente regions and have its base in the municipality of Arecelia and in the south of State of Mexico, according to official Federal reports.
As well as accusing the Governor Hector Astudillo of complicity with Guerreros Unidos, the sicarios of La Familia advised of a death list, which includes the names of political PRD of Teloloapan, among them the actual Mayor Robel Uriostegui, the ex senator Valentin Guzman, Efren Romeo Sotelo, Enrique Salgado, Paul Alonso, Ismael Mora, Guadalupe Guadarrame and Antonio Bravo.
In reply, the Governor Astudillo Flores said that no threatening message would intimidate him, and reiterated his friendship with the Mayor of Teloloapan.
"They will not inhibit me, nor my comments, however rude or aggressive they are. I know perfectly what my responsibility is, who I work for and I will not depart from that," said the Governor during a tour of the Tierra Caliente regions yesterday.
Original article in Spanish