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- The saddest, loneliest dorm in Ayotzinapa
- Guerrero Autodefensas found 7 More Iguala Graves
- What is Guerreros Unidos?
- Iquala Doctor; "I saw the injury, but did not treat him because it was not my responsibility."
- Tamaulipas Tuitera/ Blogger Kidnapped and Killed
| The saddest, loneliest dorm in Ayotzinapa Posted: 17 Oct 2014 12:03 AM PDT Proceso (October 14, 2014)By Marcela Turati, translated by un vato for Borderland Beat
AYOTZINAPA, Gro. (apro).-- Every day, they try to make Bernardo move to another dormitory, but he doesn't listen to them. When the sun falls at this boarding school, he spreads his red blanket over some pieces of cardboard and sleeps alone, surrounded by absent students, yearning for this room full of friends. They were eight, and they fought over every square inch of floor space, they would play at being careless and step on each other's feet. His companions Julio Cesar, Cristian Alfonso, Israel Jacinto, Eduardo and Miguel Angel are not here, only their belongings are here, only their photographs remain, exhibited among the 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers School who disappeared on September 26, when the devil got into the Iguala police and they revealed themselves to be criminals working for drug traffickers. "I'm the only one here. One went home, his mother came to get his things, the other six are disappeared", says Bernardo, thin, lanky, easy-going. Around him, leaning against the bare walls, are the briefcases, clothing. the shoes and memories that he is taking care of until their owners return. On the fourth day, his companions had not returned, so Bernardo took it upon himself to tidy up the place. He folded and stacked the pieces of cardboard that are used as beds, he did the same thing with the sarapes (cloaks) and the many-colored blankets.
On one corner, he piled up the torn tennis shoes, all made out of cloth, no brand names; the X-shaped huaraches (home-made sandals) that peasants wear; the dress shoes bought with great sacrifice for future teachers. Everything is sprinkled with particles of paint that fall off the ceiling, which is crumbling from the humidity, and which makes it seem that the items belong to some master painter.
A white sack, like those that are used for seeds, is standing up against the wall, stuffed with clothes. It's got a sign that reads "Mexican Postal Service" (Correos de Mexico). "This was Eduardo's back pack", explains this young nahuatlaca youth, caretaker of memories. On top of the sack-luggage is draped an old jacket, inherited from some prior generation from this teachers' school, that protected its owner from the cold. A plastic cup with the toothbrush and toothpaste used by Julio Cesar peeks out from a sports duffel bag. At the bottom, a metal plaque with his name: "Julio Cesar Lopez Patolzi". Among the clothes, the first page in his ruled page notebook stands out, where Julio Cesar, in pencil and in fine handwriting, wrote on the first day of class: "Well, I entered this Teachers School with (sic) the simple fact that my parents are peasants with meager resources and my abilities (sic) is to be responsible in the academy, too, I try to pay attention to the teachers so that I can get ahead".
"I tidied things up myself this week. When they went out on the (fundraising) activity, they didn't have time to arrange things, so I began to clean up the place", explains Bernardo, tense but smiling. A pair of brooms is standing in a corner. With his arm, he shows how four of them used to sleep by the wall closest to the door with worn borders: Julio Cesar, Cristian Alfonso, Cristian ("that one is at home; his mother took his things"), and, over there, Jonas. During the first days of classes, in the room they call Section G, Julio Cesar Mondragon, "El Chilango", also used to sleep there. He was the young man from Mexico State who disappeared with the others on the 26th, and who was found murdered three days later, his torso full of bruises and flayed; without eyes, without skin, without a face. He was wearing the same red T-shirt he had on when he showed up for the first day of classes, the same one that is circulating on the Internet, where he is seen holding his newborn baby girl, kneeling down beside his wife. "'El Chilango' moved out of here because there were a lot of us and there was no room-- he says --. Sometimes he would throw himself down beside me, then he moved to the other side (the other room), he stayed there for a while, then he said he was going to look for a place to sleep. I told him that if he didn't find a place, to come back here, and he moved to the bakery" Whoever says that in the rural teachers schools, where the poorest teachers in Mexico are trained, they live in luxury should take a look in this room, with a sign that says "Number 4"; Section G, as they call it. They'll find out that the door does not seal, that the wind comes in through the roof. The furniture consists of three boxes nailed on the walls to serve as shelves; one, a wooden crate, and the other two made out of plastic. The walls are smeared with white paint that the humidity is rotting away. There are no ornaments. There was no time to put up any. There's only a sign written in pencil that somebody left behind which reads: "October 2". The young men traveled to Iguala (a little more than an hour away) to collect donations ("botear", literally, "to pass the can") to obtain funds to attend the annual demonstration commemorating the Tlateloclco student massacre in the Federal District, and to bring back three passenger buses for that purpose. (In the school's courtyard there are some thirty commercial passenger buses parked, their drivers waiting for their relief). Because Bernardo was signed up for the school's Military Band and stayed behind to clean the instruments, he did not go to Iguala with the rest of the first-year students, so-called "pelones" (baldies), because, by school tradition, all students newly admitted to this Teachers School get their heads shaved. Bernardo is also bald; the hairs that are growing on his head stand up straight as if they were bristles on a brush. "I stayed at the door to wait for my friends. I waited. I saw that they did not come back", he says, sitting on the floor by the pile of shoes. That night, the School got the news that they had suppressed the "pelones", the police had surrounded and arrested them. Information dribbled in; somebody was wounded, no, he was already dead, and the dead person was a "pelon". The uncertainty passed through them, leaving the question of who could it be. "We were calling all of them. The only call that got through was to Israel Jacinto, he said they were on the bus, that the police had surrounded them, that they had tear gas. We told them to break the windows so they wouldn't asphyxiate. He asked us to go get him, we told him that a Suburban had already left to go for them. (The call) lasted five minutes, you could hear the others yelling, him, too. You could her the noise made by the patrol vehicles. Until he hung up. It was only later that he learned that all the passengers in Israel Jacinto's bus were forced to get into municipal police patrol vehicles. They were all disappeared. That night, Bernardo tried to go rescue his comrades, but he couldn't find space on the pickups that left with reinforcements (some of the students who went to the rescue did not return, they were killed, others are still hospitalized). He stayed up all night with all of them, guarding the school; he was tasked with guarding the corrals. Among themselves, they would check the news on Facebook and the Internet; that it was no longer one dead person, but two, then three. Three from the Teachers School, and another three who were not student teachers, but who were mistaken for them. "They began to show the images, I didn't know anything, but they said they did something very ugly to a guy, they took off his face. That's where I recognized "El Chilango" because he was wearing the same T-shirt from the first day of classes. The last time they saw him was when they put them on patrol vehicles." He says this as if it was nothing, but fear lurks in his eyes. He takes out his cell phone and shows the video they took on August 21, his birthday. It shows that Bernardo was taken by surprise and thrown into a pool of water. He looks at the scene affectionately and says, "There's El Chilango, he's the last one to arrive (and, yes, you can see a young man, not as thin as the others, who helps the rest of them throw him into the river); the one who recorded the video from above is Miguel Angel". He no longer has the photograph taken on August 8, when the older students shaved their heads with a razor. It was in a cell phone that was stolen from him. But he does have the memories, and he pulls them out. "We were going to choose "El Chilango" to be group leader. He wanted to do it, but, since he was from (the State of) Mexico, he was afraid he would be treated badly, so he chose to remain as support. He didn't like to argue, he was serious, reserved. We were going to elect him because he liked to participate in class. He had been in Teneria, and we asked him but he didn't want to talk about it; I think he was expelled. He went to take tests in Tripetio, Michoacan, he didn't say why they expelled him, and he came here." Bernardo has just returned from three days leave in El Durazno, his home town, located in Tuxtla municipality, where four of his colleagues come from, and which is a nahuatlacas area. At home, his mother asked him to leave the Teachers School, and not go back, to which he answered: "I want to stay there so I can find out about my friends". Also, he still wants to become a teacher. --Why do you want to be a teacher? -- My friend Chilango would say... I still remember his words -- and he smiles, complicit-- 'to share my ideas with the children". -- Ideas such as what? He doesn't answer any more. He covers his face, stunned. Sadness takes his words and he cries silently, not with the noise of those who come from the city, he cries like a peasant. He looks like a cornered child. And how could it not be like this, since this is a gigantic pain for this young man, barely turned 18 years old, who is pretending to be an adult, who is carrying on his skinny body the heavy memory of seven friends and, like a kick to the soul, the discovery of this rotten country's root. "I just want them to come back," he wipes his tears. When he recovers, as if he was in a hurry, he begins to pick out memories, as if it was urgent for him to talk about all of them, to name them, to remember them so they can be brought back. "The section was very united. We were very united. We would never get separated when we went out to work on the module or to buy things, we would cooperate among ourselves. If there was something to do, we would go together. I would get there first, but I would not go in, I would not open the door, I would wait outside until all of them got there so we could go into the dining room together." The smile returns when he makes Eduardo, "Boby", appear in the room, the one who liked break dancing, he would put on a song and begin to throw kicks around. And Cristian Alfonso, who loved to study dancing since he was a child. And Israel, who pretended to be careless at night, because every time he got up for any reason, he would step on the feet of those who were lying down; his victims would scold him, the rest of them would laugh. Jonas making trouble, like that time he fell asleep standing up in a class and made everybody laugh out loud. "He was from the coast, he couldn't pronounce '128' and used to say 'Baisa' [slang for 'hand']". He also talks about his school routine, about the 'struggle' activities they had, milking the cows, getting the diesel out, "passing the can" (asking or donations), until he chokes up. "On the 26th, we came in at 9:40 (a.m.), I don't even remember what class we went to. I had the schedule, but the guy who kept it has disappeared. I was going to ask him for it." He knows that his other first year friends are worried about him because Section G is the only room where there was only one student left -- in other rooms, at least two or three remained. When they invite him to change sections, he tells them the same thing he says now: "no, that I'm OK, that I want to stay here with them". Some nights he has dreamed that they are all in the get-together that they had planned for this weekend. 
A student moved into his section for a few days so he would have some company, and sometimes he would scold him with a, "don't be sad, cabron, they'll show up. Think positive'. One day, they simply began to pray with more or less these words, that Bernardo recites now: "May the Lord protect each student from our section, may He give them strength, protect them and bring them back unharmed; they're coming back here and we will be waiting here'. After the tears have passed, the memories polished, friends revisited, empty spaces retaken, Bernardo speaks honestly: "There's times I want to get away from looking at the families, how their faces look, how they cry. One loses hope. I feel sad and alone, I feel bad, I'm the only one who stayed here. I always used to say: 'If we all go out, we all come back.'" That routine of waiting for them at the door, of not going in until they were all there; that promise of "if we all go out, we all return" is what makes Bernardo rearrange his friends' belongings every so often, sweep the floor and cultivate the hope of a reunion until night falls, when he returns to the saddest, loneliest room in Ayotzinapa, spreads out his red blanket, and sleeps, always vigilant, to welcome them back the moment they reappear. "I'm waiting for them to get here -- he says -- For that reason, I haven't left. I know that if I was disappeared, they would do the same."
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| Guerrero Autodefensas found 7 More Iguala Graves Posted: 16 Oct 2014 07:46 PM PDT Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat  Autodefensas of Guerrero discovered seven additional clandestine graves (fosas) today in Iguala, so far they have found bodies in 4 but did not give a tally today. Miguel Ángel Jiménez Blanco, head of the search committee, Unión de Pueblos and Organizaciones del Estado de Guerrero (UPOEG), indicated the fosas were near a hill in the El Zapatero area. He states they expect to find many more graves but the process is slow because they only have picks and shovels, no heavy duty equipment. The question begs to be asked, how is it the authorities are not finding any and they have the heavy duty equipment and tools? The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) launched an investigation into the bodies found in different graves in a place known as Las Parotas in Iguala. The agency, seeks to understand the actions taken by the Mexican State to identify victims and what they are doing to locate those responsible for the deaths. In a statement of 14 October, CNDH stated that the autodefensas, located an area of land containing bones. "Of particular concern is the situation of public insecurity in the State of Guerrero," he said. and that there is no justification for authorities not to make it a priority to implement necessary measures to search for the missing students and additional graves . Relatives say State and Federal governments are blocking Argentine experts Since Monday, Argentine experts are seeking DNA testing of relatives of missing youths matched to the discovered remains; however, the Attorney General of Guerrero and the Attorney General's Office (PGR) have blocked their work, and they have not been allowed to access to the bodies found in clandestine graves of Iguala. Relatives of the 43 students of the Ayotzinapa rural school who disappeared on September 26th accused the Federal government of Guerrero of the hindering Argentine forensic team of anthropologists to conduct investigations in Iguala. At a press conference, Meliton Ortega , Mauricio Ortega's father, expressed his distrust of official investigations, since "the government is colluding with organized crime" after all it was " was the police. Not narcos" who attacked the students. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Posted: 16 Oct 2014 03:54 PM PDT  With the massacre in Iguala, Guerrero and the resulting fallout, the organization known as Guerreros Unidos has been frequently mentioned on Borderland Beat and other media. Nevertheless, good background information is hard to find and what little is out there is often contradictory. While I am far from an expert on Guerreros Unidos, I have been aware of the organization for nearly three years and would like to share what I know and understand about it. Guerreros Unidos is a drug trafficking organization based in the north-central part of the state of Guerrero, with additional presence in Morelos, the state of México, and Puebla. While documents of the Attorney General of Mexico (PGR in its Spanish abbreviation) classify it as a cell of La Familia Michoacana, I personally feel it merits the designation of an independent cartel due to its cultivation of marijuana and heroine, which is trafficked in part to Chicago, Illinois, as well as controlling some cocaine shipments. From my research, it appears that the first use of the name Guerreros Unidos was on December 16, 2011, when a banner was found in northern Guerrero against Los Rojos signed by "Guerrero Unidos brazo armado de La F.M." (Guerrero Unidos armed wing of La F.M., in reference to La Familia Michoacana). At that time, Los Rojos, based out of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, and La Familia Michoacana were locked in a brutal battle for control of the region. Yet something changed in the following months. Around 6:00 AM on March 18, 2012, 10 heads (7 males and 3 females) were left at the entrance of the municipality of Teloloapan,Guerrero. A message written on a card accompanied it as well, which stated that "This will happen to all those who support La F.M."..."Sincerely: Guerrero Unidos". I have never read a solid explanation for why Guerreros Unidos split from its parent organization, though, around this time frame, Los Rojos and La Familia Michoacana reached a ceasefire which, I believe, played at least a factor in its rise to independence. Since that time, Guerreros Unidos has fought an unending war against both Los Rojos and La Familia Michoacana. While Guerreros Unidos origin lies within La Familia Michoacana, the bulk of its membership derives from the Beltrán Leyva Cartel and its splinter organizations. Here are a few of its former and current members worth noting: "El Sapo Guapo"   Mario Casarubias Salgado, alias "El Sapo Guapo", was once a bodyguard for operators of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. Following the death of Arturo Beltrán Leyva on December 16, 2009, he continued his criminal activities as a member of Los Rojos. For some unreported reason, he began to have differences with Los Rojos and left the organization. His former rivals in La Familia Michoacana approached him with an offer to join them and by December 2010, if not earlier, he was a working member of La Familia. "El Sapo Guapo" waged a savage war against Los Rojos in and around Chilpancingo. For another unreported reason, he began to have differences with La Familia and left the organization. Due to his hatred of Los Rojos, my working theory is that he was angry about a ceasefire between the organizations, but I may very well be wrong. Regardless, "El Sapo Guapo" is generally regarded as the founder of Guerreros Unidos, though some reports place him as the second leader. He was arrested on April 29, 2014. His brother, Angel Casarrubias Salgado was also a reported member of Guerreros Unidos and is still at large. "El Bofo"  Rodolfo Paredes Cárdenas, alias "El Bofo", was a high ranking member of La Familia Michoacana and considered the right hand of José María Chávez Magaña, alias "El Pony", a regional leader of La Familia who would eventually become its leader. A split in the cell of "El Pony" occurred and "El Bofo" left the organization along with other members. "El Bofo" is sometimes reported as the cofounder of Guerreros Unidos, along with "El Sapo Guapo", though other reports place the split as occurring in May 2012 and him joining the already formed Guerreros Unidos. Regardless, "El Bofo" is still at large, though his status within Guerreros Unidos has been unreported for quite some time. "El Tilde"  Cleotilde Toribio Rentería, alias "El Tilde", began his criminal career as a member of Los Pelones, a cell of the Sinaloa Federation under the command of the Arturo Beltrán Leyva. Upon the split from the Sinaloa Federation, he continued as a member of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. Following the December 16, 2009 death of Arturo, he sided with Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie" in his split from the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. On September 30, 2010, he reportedly carried out the killing of 20 tourists from the state of Michoacán in Acapulco, Guerrero. In the fallout of this slaughter, the Cártel Independiente de Acapulco was formed, to which he joined. By February 17, 2011, infighting in the organization resulted in a splinter organization being formed, named La Barredora, which he joined, and by August 29 he was reported leader of a cell within the group called Los Calentanos. Eventually he left the La Barredora, joining Guerreros Unidos, though a few reports say that he actually founded the organization and was its original leader. I personally doubt this version of events as it does not fit the chronology of the emergence of Guerreros Unidos. Regardless, he achieved a leadership role within the organization and was arrested on July 9, 2012. His brothers Moisés, alias "El Moy", Sóstenes, and Zeferino, alias "El Zefe" are at large and are possibly members of Guerreros Unidos. Leonor Villa Ortuño  Leonor Villa Ortuño is the wife of Salomón Pineda Bermúdez (arrested May 7, 2009), and mother of four sons, José Alberto Pineda Villa, alias "El Borrado" (killed September 12, 2009), Marco Antonio Pineda Villa, alias "El MP" (killed September 12, 2009), Salomón Pineda Villa, alias "El Molón", and Guadalupe Pineda Villa (kidnapped by La Familia Michoacana and presumed dead), and a daughter María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa. "El Borrado" and "El MP" held a leadership position within the Los Pelones cell of the Sinaloa Federation under the command of the Arturo Beltrán Leyva. Upon the split from the Sinaloa Federation, they became high ranking members of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. A relative of hers, Carlos Federico Quinto Guillén, deputy secretary of the Mexican marines, allegedly provided logistical support to the Pineda Villa brothers for the importation of drugs before their deaths. In the years following, a member of their cell, Carlos Campos Hernández, alias "El Comando", joined Guerreros Unidos. He put "El Sapo Guapo", in contact with Leonor Villa Ortuño, who arranged military support to Guerreros Unidos through Carlos Federico Quinto Guillén, as well as political and police support in Iguala, Guerrero, through her son-in-law, José Luis Abarca Velázquez, the current municipal president of Iguala. "El Molón", who was released from jail in July of last year, is reported to have become head of the Iguala plaza for Guerreros Unidos. Federico Figueroa  Following the April 29, 2014 arrest of "El Sapo Guapo", banners were hung in Morelos which claimed that Federico Figueroa became the new leader of Guerreros Unidos, directing the organization from his ranch in Taxco, Guerrero. It has been reported that Federico has used the fame of his brother José Manuel Figueroa (a Grammy aware winning singer and songwriter since the 1970s better known by the stage name Joan Sebastián) to achieve political support for Guerreros Unidos. Gonzalo Martín Souza Neves  Arrested on July 10, 2014 in Puebla, Puelba, Souza Neves was reported to have taken over leadership of Guerreros Unidos following the arrest of "El Sapo Guapo", and coordinated the shipment of cocaine to the United States in hidden compartments of passenger bus lines. Other reports indicate that he was merely head of plaza in Puebla. "El Jamón"  The criminal career of Benjamín Mondragón Pereda, alias "El Jamón", " El Benjamón", and "El Tío", dates back to at least 2010, when he was reported to be a member of the Cártel del Pacifico Sur, which was founded that year by Sergio Enrique Villarreal Barragán, alias "El Grande". At that time, he was a coordinator of drug dealers for the organization and involved in petty thefts as well, such as robbery and dismantling vehicles to sell parts. With the dismantling of the Cártel del Pacifico Sur, "El Jamón" continued as an independent criminal, though he eventually joined Guerreros Unidos. In February 2014, a message in Cuernavaca, Morelos was left indicating he held some sort of leadership position within the organization. He either was killed orcommitted suicide on October 14, 2014. While some reports indicate that he was the leader of Guerreros Unidos, he was actually a recruiter for the organization, as well as coordinator of drug sales and weapons trafficking in the state of Morelos. "El Chuky" In the fallout of the Iguala massacre, the alias of "El Chuky" has been mentioned as the current leader of Guerreros Unidos. Unfortunately, that is the extent of the information provided about him and it is unknown was his real name or criminal career is. On the Borderland Beat forum, El Faro has proposed an interesting theory that "El Chuky" is, in fact, Jorge Luis Valencia Arzate, who is known to use that alias. If this happens to be the case, "El Chuky" was once a high ranking member of La Familia Michoacana, serving as head of plaza in Morelia, Michoacán and was last reported as a member of Los Caballeros Templarios. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iquala Doctor; "I saw the injury, but did not treat him because it was not my responsibility." Posted: 16 Oct 2014 01:26 PM PDT  I am at a loss as to what to say. As tragic as the happenings in Iguala were, I understand reasons for the actions of most of the players involved. There was corruption, greed, craving for power, fear, a sense of impunity, indifference, the fervor and intensity of youth trying to right perceived wrongs and seeking a better life, poverty and class (caste) discrimination. And just plain evil. On the night of September 26, Abarca, his wife and their guests danced to the cumbia rhythm of Red Light. They continued to party despite the fact that he was hunting students. By midnight, the teachers college students lay dead on the floor in pools of blood. Others were hiding in terror in the mountains, a few were given refuge in houses. No police went back to take an interest. The military only attended to reports of theft, such as at the Cristina clinic. Just after half past four in the morning, the first prosecutors arrived to cover the dead with a blanket. The teachers college students laid on the pavement for six hours. Alone. They were of no importance to anyone. A few of the student injured that escaped and sought medical care. This is how one Doctor reacted to their pleas for help. As shameful as the actions of violence were earlier in the evening, we have all seen it become customary and common for authorities to impose cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in order to stifle dissent.. But this is a new low point. I can only say I am embarrassed for Mexico. From Mexico Voices Iguala, Guerrero: Casually, with a hint of satisfaction at having accomplished the mission of refusing to treat the student with a broken jaw and his face pierced by a bullet, surgeon Ricardo Herrera says "I saw the injury, but did not treat him because it was not my responsibility."On the night of September 26, when the doctor found him hiding inside his hospital with twenty student teachers, the student's wounds required urgent attention, but rather than helping him, the doctor spoke to the Municipal Police to take them. That night the doctor called the same authority that three times had ambushed students from the Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa--an hour away--by spraying with bullets the buses that were transporting them. In another still unsolved episode--in which gunmen from the Guerreros Unidos [United Warriors] cartel killed two adults and four students (one of whom appeared skinned: faceless, with eyes pulled out) and detained 43 others who have still not appeared. For this doctor, the injured had no more than a graze that split the lips, and he walked talking with his peers as if it were nothing. He justifies his neglect: "'The ayotzinapos are aggressive, violent. They remove patients, they destroy, they are like criminals. If they really are students, they don't do that." This reaction is similar to that of many residents of Iguala. It is the same with the military, paramedics, government ministries and state police who turned their backs on the students of this rural school where teachers are trained and where being poor is the requirement for enrolling. When the doctor is reminded that medical students have also disappeared and could have ended up in pits--as the police and cartel members arrested by federal prosecutor have declared--he replies: "That's what will happen to all the 'ayotzinapos', don't you think?" Graphic Photos on Next Page * * * * * The father of one of the two wounded students, who remained hospitalized at the Iguala General Hospital until Tuesday, October 7, relates what he knows about his son's fate: "When I received the call from my son's cell phone at two o'clock in the morning, I thought that it was he, but that's when I learned roughly that he was injured and that they didn't want to care for him at a clinic nor were there taxis to take him. I do not understand how the Navy and the Army arrived, and they did not allow him to be taken [to receive medical treatment]. They also intimidated him."The boy's father was visited by the teacher who guided the teachers college students to hide in the Cristina clinic. The teacher confirmed that the taxi drivers did not want to take the injured man, and that he and his fellow students tried to staunch the bleeding with a T-shirt. An hour and a half after the shooting, someone shouted that the Army was approaching. Everyone hid. The military, pointing their weapons, drove the 26 out of their hiding places, yelled at them for engaging in "delinquency" and showed signs of detaining them. The teacher recalls: "They got to a private hospital; that's forced entry. It is a crime. We told them that if they are going to call the municipal police, they are going to deliver us to be killed, because they are the ones who shot everyone." They were. They assured them that soon an ambulance would pass by for the wounded. They boarded the taxi sent by an acquaintance at the hospital. The young man had nightmares. They sedated him, says the father. He lost his voice and part of his face. His face is swollen, and he communicates through writing. On Wednesday, October 8, he was moved to Mexico City for surgery.
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| Tamaulipas Tuitera/ Blogger Kidnapped and Killed Posted: 16 Oct 2014 07:05 PM PDT Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat thank you "AC"  A blogger who used the user name, "Miut3" was kidnapped and killed in Reynosa Tamaulipas. She was a "Tuitera" with the over 41k followers on her popular twitter page, that sent out situations of risk, and narco news tweets. Maria del Rosario a close collaborator of Valor Por Tamaulipas and partner in the sister blog ResponsabilidadXTamaulipas . Her twitter account is called Felina (miut 3). She is a doctor by profession. Kidnappers accessed Maria's twitter page, and sent out a couple of threatening messages to the public, warning that the same fate will come to other bloggers. These photos of her after being kidnapped, and killed were uploaded there. Maria was the closest collaborator of Valor Por Tamaulipas, but apparently there was a split. Maria worked closely with Responsabilidad Por Tamaulipas a Facebook page that publishes pictures of those kidnapped in Tamaulipas. There have been five people executed for being narco bloggers in Mexico. All executions have been in Tamaulipas. However the first two, a couple, were never found to have ties to a blog and were determined to have been taken randomly and portrayed as bloggers being killed for their work. After those first killings, the killers made sure it was bloggers that were killed. The blogger known as Cruz Star says she was killed because of her failure to save a narcos kid, and not anything to do with her blogging. The problem is that she and VXT have received specific threats for a year and a half. She was too careless with concealing her identity. Here are some of the messages posted by kidnappers on Maria's account and sent to various pages:  Friends and Family, my real name is Maria del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, I am a doctor, now my life has met it's end. #reynosafollow I have NO more to say except that you do not commit the same mistake that I did. I gained nothing, on the contrary, TODAY I REALIZE THAT. #reynosafollow I ecountered death, and nothing was changed @Bandolera7 @civilarmado_mx@ValorTamaulipas Close your accounts! Don't risk your safety and that of your family. As I did. I ask for your forgiveness. I found death for nothing. We are closer than you think  From VXT: I am in so damn much pain, yesterday morning Miut3 my collaborator was kidnapped. Today with horror, I see on her account messages and photos were posted, of an angel, as they took her life. An angel that gave her life, her future, her security, for the good of the people in our state. Today Miut3 stopped reporting, but what criminals do not know, is that Miut3 is in our soul and she will never leave us, or surrender to organized crime . She would never surrender and would be disappointed to know that someone who helps would. Miut3 my Dr. Rosario , I have guilt by removing you from Responsabilidad por Tamaulipas, because there you were safer. But, I was so fearful when they sent me the videos of executed persons, I was afraid for my family and collaborators,. For a year and a half I did what I could, so that they could be moved from the danger. I went and back hoping That cartels will no longer focus on the page and the only thing That I did in trying to protect you was push you to the edge, and no longer could force you to be careful. You had ignored all the times I demanded that you be cautious, but I feel it is my fault for not insisting. My only partner in ResponsabilidadXTamaulipas , I hurt so much. Later in the day he posts this: The following is posted by the editor of the real Valor for Tamaulipas the page with over 500k followers. He is very angry with Cruz Star and the fake VXT page. Saying they are spreading misinformation by saying Miut3 was killed because she treated a child of a narco, and the child died. Cruz Star simply gave that scenario without any details, like where, when who, and if he has any proof he has not shared it. Cruz Star lives in the US but frequents Tamps. Here is what VXT says in part: "Let me clarify again that I am not related in any way to the clone blog of valorportamaulipas.com and clone account : @ValorXTamauIipa , published information that I have not said , I have not indicated nothing of failed clinical care given to a son of Narco. However, on the part of Miut3 , she was kidnapped yesterday morning , and when we woke today we saw her Twitter account was now in the possession of criminals and they posted the messages and the photos of her kidnapping and supposedly of her dead body. "MrCruzStar , H_Reporta , and ValorXTamaulip clone account, are responsible for this misinformation.. I have my reasons to believe that ." The editor than goes on to say Miut3 exposed herself too much, like working with causes but that some were also associated with criminal authorities. That he tried to take his warnings and recommendations seriously. And that this year her identity was exposed in some "isolated" publications. He also reminds everyone that Miut3 is the heroine of ReynosaFollow, the movement that began the trend of using social media to warn people of pending dangers. This happened after the Tamaulipas organized crime news blackout was initiated in 2010. Her twitter page was created in January 2010. A couple of hours ago Twitter suspended the account. The following is posted by the editor of the real Valor for Tamaulipas the page with over 500k followers. He is very angry with Cruz Star and the fake VXT page. Saying they are spreading misinformation by saying Miut3 was killed because she treated a child of a narco, and the child died. Cruz Star simply gave that scenario without any details, like where, when who, and if he has any proof he has not shared it. Cruz Star lives in the US but frequents Tamps. Here is what VXT says in part: "Let me clarify again that I am not related in any way to the clone blog of valorportamaulipas.com and clone account : @ValorXTamauIipa , published information that I have not said , I have not indicated nothing of failed clinical care given to a son of Narco. However, on the part of Miut3 , she was kidnapped yesterday morning , and when we woke today we saw her Twitter account was now in the possession of criminals and they posted the messages and the photos of her kidnapping and supposedly of her dead body. He states: "MrCruzStar , H_Reporta , and ValorXTamaulip clone account, are responsible for this misinformation.. I have my reasons to believe that ." The editor than goes on to say Miut3 exposed herself too much, like working with causes but that some were also associated with criminal authorities. That he tried to take his warnings and recommendations seriously. And that this year her identity was exposed in some "isolated" publications. He also reminds everyone that Miut3 is the heroine of ReynosaFollow, the movement that began the trend of using social media to warn people of pending dangers. This happened after the Tamaulipas organized crime news blackout was initiated in 2010. Her twitter page was created in January 2010. A couple of hours ago Twitter suspended the account. |
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