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- Tuta needs a new studio as PJGE confiscates infamous meeting place
- Abuses by the Marines in Guasave
- Guerrero PAN Party Chief assassinated
- The 57 students missing after the Iguala attack, are feared in the hands of organized crime
- Was the Mayor of Aquila at a La Tuta conference against his will?.....Maybe
| Tuta needs a new studio as PJGE confiscates infamous meeting place Posted: 29 Sep 2014 11:47 PM PDT Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat  Did you ever wonder where the location was featured in the Tutateca? Or why the government hadn't moved in on the location? Well now they have...perhaps a little late to be of any real consequence, but the place with the square tiled floor, white Costco folding chairs, white table, the camera, and the parade of motley characters, has been found, and confiscated. Tuta will have to relocate. Which no doubt he long has. The PGJE chief, José Martín Godoy Castro, said properties secured were in the town of Tumbiscatío: A warehouse located on Calle Cuauhtémoc on the corner Benito Juárez, in the colonia Centro. aka Tuta's studio. A hotel, which is close by the warehouse. It served as a dormitory for members of the Caballeros Templarios, and was used for Tuta's interview with Fox Mundo. At both the locations authorities also found bags of marijuana. And about 1 mile away, on Tumbiscatío-Arteaga road, a fueling station was seized, that had been forcefully taken by the Temaplarios from the rightful owners.   | ||
| Abuses by the Marines in Guasave Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:41 PM PDT RioDoce (9-28-2014)By Luis Fernando Najera, translated by un vato for Borderland Beat
Ariel Carbajal Gutierrez could not find a way to stop the torture that Marine troopers were inflicting on him to force him to reveal the codewords and names of his accomplices in the Guasave Cartel. He had been stripped naked out in the woods and hung by his neck. He was beaten on the back, the chest, the abdomen, and on whatever undamaged part of his body they could find. His buttocks were purple with bruises. After the physical torture, with could not tear a confession out of him, except for his cries of pain, came the mental torture. "We already killed the skinny guy. Now it's your turn." He couldn't see anybody because his eyes were blindfolded. His head was hurting and he was about to urinate and defecate in his own pants. The torturers wanted passwords, names, passwords and names. And he didn't have any of those things. So, to stop the torture, he offered to give the marines a million dollars. He told them he had hidden the money in his wife's house. He gave them the address: San Jose de las Delicias, known by the locals as Calabacillas. When they heard that, the marines (he assumed) went on alert, because they stopped torturing him. Calabacillas was one of their targets, because their intelligence information said this was the home of Mario Calabazas, known as the leader of gunmen working for Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, El Chapo Isidro. It's Saturday night, June 28, and after a few hours in the hills near the Chumares ejido, Ariel, better known as "Azul", nickname that his friends on the ranch gave him because of the color of the plastic packaging on a certain double action detergent, had a few minutes of peace. They put him on a compact pickup and he only stopped swinging back and forth during a short, "technical" stop that the marines made in Bamos to stock up on water and other basic products they needed to go back up the mountain. They began to climb and when they got to the town, he was made to point out the house. He did that. Some time passed until a marine, furious, came back and told him he had gone too far. "El Azul" didn't know this, but the marines had mobilized their helicopters and their quick response group which had for months been hunting the leader of the Guasave Cartel, Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, El Chapo Isidro. And in that mobilization, they broke into the home of Flora Olivia Cuevas and that of another neighbor. They asked them for the weapons and the money. They answered that they had nothing like that. They interrogated the young people, and the response was the same. They gave her a name: Ariel Carbajal Gutierrez, and she answered that he had left her and their children four years before. That's why the marine, pissed off, had threatened El Azul with that thing about having gone too far. That's when he figured it out; he assumed that in the mountains, he most probably would be murdered. Time went by, and nothing. The beating stopped. He stayed awake all night. He only saw the light of day when a female doctor stripped him and searched even his butt. She certified that he was unharmed. Next day in the afternoon, Sunday, June 29th, Ariel met with his friends Cesar Alberto Coronel Corrales and Francisco de Jesus Moya Quinonez. All of them were beat up, and now they were being held in a fresh building. They didn't know it, but the marines reported that they had been stopped on the Los Mochis-Guasave highway, close to Las Chumares ranch. They were driving an old green Jeep. They were carrying rifles. A total of seven AK-47 rifles, grenade launchers, thousands of rounds of ammunition and dozens of magazines. They also had tactical equipment, including boots. They went through a ministerial investigation and said nothing. They reserved their right to make a statement. When they were in the Seventh District courtroom, testifying on Case No. 113/2014, the three laborers denied the accusations, but the marines insist on repeating their report. Witnesses contradicted the marines' version and testified that the three young men were arrested in front of the La Mision Hotel, on Guasave's south exit, while they were getting drunk. That the only pursuit involved a motorcyclist who chased the convoy that took the three young men into the hills, among other things. To this day, the three friends are still in prison. They are charged with carrying firearms and ammunition intended for military use exclusively, as well as criminal conspiracy. The arrest of Ariel and his friends was never reported to the media. The federal case is still developing the evidence. Azul's wife never went to testify. And in his head he still hears echoes of that million dollars that he invented to get out of being tortured. And it was that torture that brought him, four years after abandoning his wife and children, back to his motherland; Calabacillas, land of gunmen and murderers for hire, according to the official police narrative. And the hunt for Chapo Isidro goes on. | ||
| Guerrero PAN Party Chief assassinated Posted: 29 Sep 2014 06:30 PM PDT Borderland Beat posted by Spike  Braulio Zaragoza Maganda Villalba, was in a meeting with other politicians, at 8:30 AM on Sunday morning, when three gunmen approached his table, seeing what was occurring Zaragosa jumped up from his seat and began running. He was shot in the back by the assailants. He was the general secretary of the conservative opposition National Action Party (PAN) Guerrero state. Several politicians have been targeted by drug cartels operating in the area. Police say an investigation is under way but no arrests have yet been made. Mr Zaragoza, 35, died before paramedics arrived at the El Mirador Hotel, located in the tourist area of Quebrada. He was having breakfast with two local politicians before a meeting with regional leaders from his party in Acapulco's port area. Last week, a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the governing PRI party, Gabriel Gomez, was kidnapped south of the city of Guadalajara. His burnt body was found a few days later in a car in the central state of Zacatecas. Gomez, 49, was a pediatrician who previously served as the mayor of the town of El Grullo in Jalisco state, also plagued by gang related violence. chronica and reuters | ||
| The 57 students missing after the Iguala attack, are feared in the hands of organized crime Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:24 PM PDT Borderland Beat posted by Pepe "Mondragon's face had been flayed and his eyes removed, the kind of mutilation typical of underworld killings."  The students attacked over the weekend in Iguala, a city in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, said Monday they feared that the 57 young people reported missing in the area are in the hands of an organized crime group. The incident started on Friday night when "a group of police officers tried to cut off the buses" carrying the young people, a student at the teachers college in Ayotzinapa who witnessed the violence told Efe. "After a struggle, the (municipal) police officers used their arms against the students, who had just finished taking up a collection to cover the expenses of the boarders at the Normal (School)," the student said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Mexico's normal schools train future primary-school instructors. More than 20 classmates were taken away in patrol cars with the numbers 017, 018, 020, 022 and 028, the student said, adding that since then "nothing has been heard from them." A group of armed civilians attacked the students just before midnight Friday as they held a press conference, killing two young people. "We all ran away from there, it was very dark and all you heard were the blasts, the comrades dispersed and we have not learned of the whereabouts of at least 30 others who are still missing," the student said. Authorities found the body the next day of Julio Cesar Mondragon, lying 500 meters (about 1,640 feet) from the scene of the second attack. Mondragon's face had been flayed and his eyes removed, the kind of mutilation typical of underworld killings. Three people, including a minor, were killed in another attack on Friday night targeting a bus carrying the Third-Division Avispones soccer team from Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero.
Relatives fear that an organized crime group may be holding the missing students and called on army and police commanders to speed up the search. Classmates and relatives have been searching for the missing students, who range in age from 18 to 25, since Saturday, contacting hospitals and the morgue in Iguala, a city located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Chilpancingo. The disappearance of the 58 students reported by the Ayotzinapa Normal School's Student Committee is being investigated and a search has been launched, the Guerrero state government said Sunday night. Protests were organized Monday at the nine normal schools in Guerrero to demand the safe return of the missing students. The demonstrators plan to demand the resignations of Gov. Angel Aguirre and Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca, who are both members of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD. Abarca told MVS radio that he was informed on Friday night of disturbances involving the students, who allegedly beat and robbed people attending an official event in Iguala's main plaza. Security Secretary Felipe Flores was given orders to monitor the situation but "not touch anyone," Abarca told the radio station on Monday. The mayor said he learned about "the deaths of some people" via social networks and media reports early Saturday. Twenty-two police officers have been arrested in connection with the wave of violence, which also left 17 people wounded, the Guerrero state government said. Meanwhile, president Peña cancelled his scheduled trip to Guerrero, his visit was scheduled for today.  At least 2,000 normalistas-students studying to become primary school educators) their families, and teachers, marched at noon through the main streets in the capital of Guerrero to demand justice for the violent events recorded on 26 and 27 September in Iguala, which took a toll of: six dead, including three normalistas 17 wounded and 57 missing In mobilizing the protesters decided to march to the headquarters of the local Congress to demand a meeting with MPs. At the main entrance of the compound burned in effigy two figures with the face of the governor Angel Aguirre. When the group was ignored, they began throwing stones at windows and set afire the library building.  SDP-Latino Fox-EFE | ||
| Was the Mayor of Aquila at a La Tuta conference against his will?.....Maybe Posted: 29 Sep 2014 01:23 PM PDT  Today he sent a letter to the media, it is unknown if Agencia Esquema is one of them, but he says the reason he met with Tuta, is that he threatened to "kidnap one of my sons". "I was required to meet with Mr. Servando Gómez Martínez, that was to be held at an elementary school in the town of Tumbiscatío, I went against my will, if I did not comply, he would kidnap one of my children. " Hernández Ramírez says that indigenous communities Pómaro and El Coire, belonging to Aquila were with him that day. Teachers Calvillo Ray Montes, Victor Palacios Lugardo Hector Arroyo Ramirez, Efrain Arroyo Chavez Chavez Rumuel Flores, Noah Avila Méndez and Narciso Mendez, among others, he says are with him. "And they can testify what happened with Mr. Servando Gómez Martínez in this public meeting, in view of all the community." The PRI mayor added that his administration, which ends in 2015, has had to confront new situations and nobody can blame him that he stood up for his people, and the struggle that began with the issues of the indigenous community of San Miguel Aquila and the mining company agreement granting royalties to the nearly five hundred families in the Nahua people. Hernandez may be truthful in what he has said. The meeting place was not at Tuta's man cave, it did appear to be at a school, and that there was an audience or group he is speaking to. It was a structured meeting, Tuta is using and or taking notes. Tuta has not provided a video that narrative is heard. He has only provided two screenshot images.It is possible Tuta wanted to frame Hernanadez, and assumed people would believe in Hernandez' willingness to work with him by seeing a couple of photos, because the video demonstrated otherwise. Hernandez does not seem to be excited to be there, based on the two photos. The video would be helpful but as it stands, Hernandez may have met with Tuta under duress. If that truly is the case, Hernandez better move his children far away from Michoacán. |
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