Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat material from El Manana
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The huachicolero (fuel theft) leader Jesús Martínez Miron alias El Kalimba was attempting to alter his fingerprints and facial identity, through surgeries at the EPMAC Clinic, when he was shot to death last Monday.
This was revealed by the Puebla Attorney General who, in addition, confirmed that the motive was a settling of accounts within his criminal group, which is dedicated to fuel theft.
He and three others, two men and a woman, were gunned down at the EPMAC clinic in the Colonia Lomas 5 de Mayo in Puebla capital.
Puebla has been embroiled in violence as gangs clash over fuel. 16 people were killed in last week in fuel theft gang disputes.
The A.G. also indicated that one of the alleged perpetrators, in the execution of El Kalimba, is El Irving, who was involved in the killing of five people in Tlaltenago, including Alfredo El Cuino, owner of the site. The vacant lot served as a fuel theft base, where authorities discovered hoses, valves, connections and pumps, used for clandestine taps and fuel theft.
'El Kalimba' was 27 years old, but he is already famous in the “Triángulo Rojo” for being a bloodthirsty huachicolero who financed the campaign of his uncle Martín Mirón López for the municipal presidency.
Diario Cambio reported in September that his entire family, including his in-laws were in El Kalimba’s criminal organization structure.