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- United States Offering $5 Million for Z43
- "El Mayito Gordo" Zambada Captured in Sinaloa
- Mexican Government Using Same Tactics Used in Tlatelolco Massacre To Stifle Dissent?
- Mexico’s Murderous SWAT Teams
- Rumors of CDG Los Rojos and Zetas alliance
- Interrogation of "El Chereje" killer of 43 of 51 killed in Iguala September 26th
- Humberto Moreira Associate Arrested in Texas on money laundering charges
- 17 shot: Oaxaca Mayor orders citizens fired upon, he is now a fugitive
- Mexico Gob claims calcination remains of 43 students found in Rio San Juan
- Iguala: At least 20 bodies discovered in new fosa
- Psychological Profile of Imperial Couple From Iguala
- Arrest video of Iguala Mayor and his wife
- “They wanted to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds"
- Passage of Prop 47: California Steps Toward Ending Mass Incarceration and War on Drugs
- Legal use of recreational marijuana wins big
- Southern Tamaulipas in conflict again
- Tamaulipas: Demands and Rumors persist in the case of 3 murdered Texans
- Photos Iguala Mayor's living accommodations when captured
- Fugitives Ex-Mayor of Iguala and His Wife Arrested
- Mexican Student Activist Exonerated and Freed After Year in Jail
- Mexico general fighting drug cartels shot dead
- Parent of Ayotzinapa Normal School students describe EPN; "He's tiny, like someone no one pays attention to."
- Tuta says he was killed in a 30 minute shootout
- The government tried to buy the silence of the parents of missing normalistas
- "La Tuta" says he's sick and tired of the Caballeros Templarios
| United States Offering $5 Million for Z43 Posted: 13 Nov 2014 03:59 PM PST  The United States Department of State announced on Tuesday, November 12, a reward of $5 million for information leading to the arrest of José María Guizar Valencia, whom they describe as a commander of a faction of Los Zetas in southern Mexico responsible for annually trafficking thousands of kilograms of cocaine and methamphetamine to the U.S. He is known to use the aliases of "Amo", "Charly" (derived from Carlos, an alternate name he has used), and "Z43". It appears that he was born around the year 1979 in Palenque, Chiapas. It further appears that he was arrested in January 2001 at the Lucio Blanco international airport in Reynosa, Tamaulipas for possession of 9.035 kilograms of cocaine found in his luggage. What is certain is that "Z43" at some point was imprisoned in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and escaped from there in 2005. He then fled to Huimanguillo, Tabasco, where he went into hiding. The events of his criminal career in the years thereafter have been unreported, but it is obvious that he was a member of Los Zetas who climbed in stature and power during that time. On July 19, 2012, three members of Los Zetas, among which was Pedro Hernández Hernández, alias "El Chelo", were arrested in the municipality of Comalcalco, Tabasco. "El Chelo" would confess to being an operations chief for Los Zetas who had previously been sent to Colombia and Guatemala by "Z43" to negotiate drug trafficking.His name began to surface on June 8, 2012, when Erik Cardenas Guízar, alias "El Orejón", was arrested while traveling on the Veracruz-Xalapa highway. "El Orejón" would go on to confess to beinga member of Los Zetas in charge of money laundering through construction companies in Tabasco and Veracruz. Additionally, he provided testimony on the operations of Los Zetas in the region. In this testimony he mentioned that "Z43" was an associate of Mauricio Guízar Cárdenas, alias "El Amarillo", and of Maxiley Nadales Barahona, alias "Z19". It is worth noting that "El Orejón " claimed to be a cousin of both "El Amarillo" and "Z43". The information provided by "El Orejón" and "El Chelo" led to the arrest of "El Amarillo" on July 27 and, thereafter, "Z43", along with six associates, in Villahermosa, Tabasco, on July 31, 2012. In the report of his arrest, he was described as head of the Tabasco plaza. It is unclear how much time he spent in prison, though it was clearly brief, all things considered, which raises suspicion. It was reported that in June 2014 Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho", leader of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, alias "El Viceroy", leader of the Juárez Cartel, and Fausto Isidro Meza, alias "El Chapo Isidro", who attended in representation of Héctor Beltrán Leyva, alias "El H", leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, met with the leader of Los Zetas, Alejandro Omar Trevino Morales, alias "Z42", who was accompanied by "Z43", in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. The purpose of this meeting was to form an alliance between these organizations. Based on this, it is quite apparent that "Z43" is one of the highest ranking active members of Los Zetas, possibly even second in command, and the $5 million reward is quite fitting for this criminal that has managed to fly under the radar for so many years. | ||||||||
| "El Mayito Gordo" Zambada Captured in Sinaloa Posted: 13 Nov 2014 08:58 PM PST Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat  The morning of Thursday 13 November, federal authorities of the Semar agency reported catching Ismael Zambada Imperial , alias "El Mayito Gordo " in Sinaloa. The son of "El Mayo" Zambada, was captured yesterday, the result of an operation conducted by the Army and Navy in El Dorado and El Salado in the state of Sinaloa, well known as the hub of El Mayo and his family. He was arrested with at least two accomplices, unnamed at this time. The federal operation also included teams dispatched to search four homes. It was learned that after the arrest, Zambada, who is designated as one of the main bosses of the Sinaloa Cartel , was transferred to the Office of the Deputy Attorney Specialized Investigations of Organized Crime ( SEIDO ) in Mexico City .  Zambada , is a brother of Serafin Zambada Ortiz, who was arrested in November last year at a checkpoint on the border with the United States. Previously another brother Vicente Zambada Niebla, was arrested by the Mexican Army on March 18, 2009, later extradited to the United States and sits in federal prison. El Mayo fathered 5 daughters in addition to his sons, one of which died earlier this year in an electrical accident. Mayito is wanted in the United States on trafficking charges. Unconfirmed is that Eliseo Imperial, alias "El Cheyo Ántrax" was one of the others arrested with Mayito.  The house above, is a photo published in Excelsior as the capture site, which is still guarded. It was off paved roads in a dirt road only area. Neighbors report the raid was early AM Wednesday, and over quickly. Trucks pulled up and two helicopters flew in. No shots fired. El Mayo's sons below and above  | ||||||||
| Mexican Government Using Same Tactics Used in Tlatelolco Massacre To Stifle Dissent? Posted: 13 Nov 2014 11:50 AM PST DD for Borderland Beat  I cringed when I saw the photos of "demonstrators' setting fire to and and trying to break down the door of the National Palace. My thoughts were "No, No! You are just giving critics of the protests movement ammunition for their charges that all the protesters are anarchist and criminals. Pena Nieto was quick to respond (the next day) that "you cannot demand justice by pursuing violence". ( His quick response to someone trying to burn down his door was in contrast to the 10 days it took him to even mention the abduction and murders of the students in Iquala.) Then I read the following article in El Diario de Coahuila and viewed the video which seems to indicate that it was government agents that tried to burn down the door, giving the government justification for using the military to move against the protesters in the plaza. The videos show the violent repression of the protesters that resulted in injury of 2 youths, one of them 11 years old. That the government could have been been behind the attack on the National Palace would be hard to believe if you were not familiar with Tlatelolco massacre of 1968. (video following the article) Ten days before the opening of the Olympic games in Mexico City in 1968 the tragedy unfolded on the night of October 2, 1968, when a student demonstration ended in a storm of bullets in La Plaza de las Tres Culturas at Tlatelolco, Mexico City. Police officers and military troops shot into a crowd of unarmed students. Thousands of demonstrators fled in panic as tanks bulldozed over Tlatelolco Plaza. Government sources originally reported that four people had been killed and 20 wounded. The government said that the violence started when "anarchists" among the students fired at the police and the police and army responded. Over time evidence, witness statements, videos, some leaked govt. documents, and even a leaked US State Department cable from the US embassy to Washington has shown that Mexican government snipers on rooftops shot into the massed police and army presence that was blocking all entrances and exits to the plaza. It is well accepted today that the government fired on its own troops to justify them to violently attacking the demonstrators and silence the student movement. The death count is still unknown, but over 300 were killed and unknown numbers injured. Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested. It worked! The student movement was silenced as fearful students were afraid to organize other protests. The Olympic Games opened peacefully. Could PRI be doing the exact same thing today concerning the violence that erupted at the National Palace and other violence that has erupted in otherwise peaceful demonstrations? The following article was taken from the website of 'EL DIARIO DE COAHUILA ON 11/11/14. It is reporting on a story published in the Blog Notigodinez that contains a video that seems to show that an agent of the federal government instigated the violence in the attack on the National Palace. The authors assert they take no position on the facts exhibited in the video. México, 10 de noviembre 2014 (NOTIGODÍNEZ).- A revealing video released today by electronic means 'In El Terreno' provides definitive evidence that the vandalism last Saturday against National Palace were orchestrated by the State Presidential. The recording of 2 minutes 52 second of duration, it initiates with a clarification on the part of the authors of the material indicating that they do not think about how to assume any position on the facts exhibited in the video, although the same ones turn out to be conclusive to demonstrate that the vandalism against the door of the mentioned palace was another official assembly. Then they make a brief summary of the facts and troublingl images of police repression that arose, in which at least two youths were injured, one of them just 11 years old. In the minute 1 with 20 seconds, the authors manage to locate an individual who takes part actively in the violent facts before the repression, heading the attack on the front door of National Palace and setting it on fire. At times it appears he is concealing half of the face and in other scenes one sees him completely open. The distinctive feature that makes him readily identifiable is the military style jacket bearing an eagle with a shield on his left arm. Ironically, the subject held a poster that read 'WAS THE STATE' (referring to the protestors claim that it |was the state" that was responsible for what happened in Iguala) while the vandalism took place. Also, you can see how perfectly he coordinates with the other subjects that participated in setting fire to the door of the National Palace. Once the violent repression is unleashed, the subject wearing the jacket with the eagle shield is taken no less behind the security fences surrounding the National Palace, giving orders to the soldiers involved in the 'operation'. The shield on his right arm is clearly visible and leaves no room to doubt that it is the 'anarchist' is the same who just before had participated in the wreckage at the door of the National Palace. The overwhelming evidence from this video possible to conclude definitively that the violent actions last Saturday, as others have done in peaceful demonstrations, was a setup orchestrated by their own police forces to justify repression against citizens and discredit social movements. In their desperation, the system does not hesitate to literally raise curtains of fire and smoke to distract the attention of their own crimes, while it sows terrpr in the citizenship and inhibits their need to demonstrate and to raise their voices.. The only measure able to override these criminal strategies of the PRI regime is the NATIONAL STRIKE. The ABSOLUTE NO COLLABORATION to leave alone us alone defenseless, while the criminals who hijacked the country remain and are willing to go on killing the people to remain in power. DD. Another article in El Universal reports that Catholic priest Alejandro Solalinde, one of  The Catholic priest and activist said that the federal government is behind the fire attack against the ceremonial office of the President. "What happened in the Zócalo is an official answer. The shock groups started it in December 2012, when (Mexican President Enrique) Peña Nieto was sworn in, you can see the signature of the house. Who could actually believe that a group like that could get close to National Palace and do what they did. It is either that or the Cisen (National Intelligence and Investigation Center) and the intelligence agencies of the Army and the Presidential General Staff are not working, which is unacceptable," he said. In his opinion, the main cause of anger among the people about the Ayotzinapa case is that Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam will not accept that the crimes against the missing teachers in training in Guerrero were caused by the federal government. "What is happening is that the PRI (Institutional RevolutionaryParty) wants to have the state of Guerrero and that is why it has worked out the conflict. They are not interested in the farmers or what is happening. They have an election-minded interest. Solalinde added that the moment has come to demand the presentation of all people disappeared in the country and take such demands to a higher level, organizing in every state of the nation a series of coordinated non violent resistance movements working in coordination. So, what do you think? Is PRI (PRI and the govt. are one and the same) using the same tactics it used in the Tlatelolco Massacre to justify use of massive force to quell dissent? Good Video about Tlatelolco Massacre with English subtitles. | ||||||||
| Posted: 11 Nov 2014 04:40 PM PST DD for Borderland Beat  This is republished from The Daily Beast * story on 11/10/14 Three American kids allegedly were slaughtered by the so-called Hercules Group, which claimed to use special weapons and tactics just like many cops north of the border. MEXICO CITY—Even in Tamaulipas, one of the most violent states in Mexico, there was something cavalier, or worse, about the way the "Hercules Group" operated. Back when its existence was officially still a secret, citizens of Matamoros, a border city about five miles south of Brownsville, Texas, complained to the police about a militarized strike force that took orders from city hall. The complaints reached such a pitch that in July, when Hercules was less than a month old, a city councilman named Ulises Ruiz demanded that Mayor Leticia Salazar say more about the group, which, back then had no name. Then as now, Mayor Salazar was short on details: The strike force existed, its mission was to fight organized crime, its members drawn from the ranks of ex-marines and ex-army regulars, trained by the Mexican navy, how many there were and how much all of this cost was classified. The state government in Tamaulipas was hovering in the background, airing its concerns that Mayor Salazar's strike force was uncertified, unregulated, and without legal standing. The mayor responded defiantly with a kind of military pageant that was truly bizarre for such a secretive organization.
The public debut of the Hercules Group is a day that not many in Matamoros are likely to forget. A militarized strike force onstage, attired in all black with faces smeared in black as though prepped for a nighttime raid. Behind them, a royal blue backdrop with the city's logo and its slogan "Land of Progress." Before them, and a head shorter than the rest, Mayor Salazar at the lectern attired in militant black beret and matching uniform with Hercules Group emblazoned in Spanish above one breast pocket and her last name stitched above the other.  "We are all Hercules," Mayor Salazar told the assembly of reporters and well wishers that day, "defending our city from the trenches." In her remarks, the Hercules Group was synonymous with peace and safety. But the president of the state chamber of commerce said it was nothing more than a personal security detail for the mayor and her secretary of social welfare, a wealthy and scandal-ridden automobile importer named Luis Biasi. The mayor and Biasi are a popular topic of gossip in Matamoros. She somehow retained him despite an
The president of the state chamber of commerce went a step further and accused Biasi of being the real power behind the Hercules Group. "We don't understand how the secretary of public welfare can go around deputizing police. Are you the secretary of public welfare or the commander of the Hercules Group?" the chamber president intoned in the press. Maybe none of which would have mattered much outside the neighborhood, but on Oct. 12 members of the Hercules Group showed up at a barbeque restaurant in the jurisdiction of Matamoros and kidnapped four people, including three Americans, all of whom ended up dead and whose charred bodies were found 16 days later in a field 25 miles east of Matamoros.  Mayor Salazar and her administration have gone into lockdown mode and she was back in civilian clothes to make her only comments on the crime, and those were to disavow any responsibility for the Hercules Group, to deny she used the group as her bodyguards, indeed, to deny she kept bodyguards at all. Her repudiation comes more than two weeks after two vehicles belonging to the Americans then reported as missing were photographed while parked inside a sales lot owned by Luis Biasi. Biasi has not responded to interview requests and has yet to make any comment on the case. State criminal investigators said that nine of the 40 members of the Hercules Group are under investigation in relation to the quadruple homicide. In a statement, Governor Egidio Torre Cantu said "We will apply the full force of the law and zero tolerance." Last week, the Mexican Justice Department took charge of the investigation. When state authorities in Tamaulipas were still in charge, the chief prosecutor said he saw no reason to interview Biasi or Mayor Salazar. Raquel Alvarado is the mother of the three young Americans killed. Raquel lives in a modest brick house in Progreso, Texas, a border town less than 40 miles from Matamoros. She said she still doesn't know what to say when her four grandchildren—ages 3, 4, 5, and 9—ask her where their mother is. She said her children had no criminal charges against them, no prior warrants. Fighting through sobs, she says she hasn't received any condolences from Mayor Salazar nor gotten any explanation for why this happened. "She has caused me so much pain, she left my grandchildren without a mother, she took my children away from me. There is no doubt in my mind that she is responsible."
Raquel's ex-husband, Pedro, the father of her children, lives just over the border in Mexico in a town called El Control. Pedro has not had a day's rest since the search for his children began. In an area of Mexico like Tamaulipas, which is dominated by criminal gangs, the murders of children tend to turn grieving parents into investigators, and Pedro is no exception. It was Pedro who drove to La Curva Texas, the barbeque restaurant on Highway 2, and interviewed the witnesses to his children's kidnapping. He says the owner of La Curva and members of his staff witnessed the Hercules Group abduct Pedro's daughter Erica, 26, and her Mexican boyfriend Jose Guadalupe Castañeda Benitez, 32, while they were having lunch. He said he learned that his two sons Alex, 22, and José Angel, 21, arrived in time to try to rescue their sister, but that the men in black military-style uniforms ended up abducting them as well, beating them, putting hoods over their heads and forcing them into armored trucks that bore the insignia of the Matamoros city government. Those witnesses have not granted interviews to the media, but Pedro says that at least three of them have made statements to criminal investigators. The men from the Hercules Group identified themselves by name, he said, photographed the witnesses at the scene of the crime, confiscated their photo IDs, and threatened to retaliate if they spoke to anyone about what they had seen. Pedro Alvarado searched for his children for 16 days and it was he and his son Pedro, Jr., who saw the siblings' missing vehicles, a Jeep Cherokee and Chevy Tahoe, locked inside the gates of a car dealership whose owner is Luis Biasi, the secretary of social welfare in the Matamoros city government. The license plates had been removed and the stereo was stolen from the Tahoe, but Erica Alvarado's personal belongings were still inside the Cherokee. "We searched all the impound lots in the city, and there they were," Alvarado said. Things got very heated between Pedro Jr. and the manager of the lot, with Pedro demanding to know how the vehicles ended up there and asserting that they belonged to his siblings. He took photographs of the vehicles and vowed to send them to the FBI. The manager made a phone call and eventually relented. He had the vehicles moved to the curb outside the dealership. Pedro Sr. suspects the manager of telephoning the Hercules Group, because two armored trucks arrived and he said that members of the group began to inform him in a threatening manner that he had no business taking photos on private property. The dealership called the Hercules team "right then and there," Pedro Sr. said. "Because the people in that agency are in charge of that group. Luis Biasi is the one in command of the Hercules." The manager of the car dealership declined to comment to the AP about the presence of the murder victims' vehicles. He said he feared that including his name in an article would endanger his life. Pedro Sr., said that the men from the Hercules Group ordered him to drive his son's Tahoe away from the lot and arranged to have Erica's Cherokee towed to Pedro's driveway in El Control. "Two pickup trucks full of Hercules escorted the vehicles to my house. They weren't normal police. They didn't want to give me their badge numbers or anything. They followed us back to the house and left the vehicles there," he said. The Tahoe remains in El Control and the Jeep Cherokee is now parked in the driveway of Raquel Alvarado's house in Progreso, Texas. "How can Biasi not be considered a suspect?" Raquel Alvarado asked during a telephone interview. "If the vehicles were found in a business that belongs to him, then he has to explain what they were doing there and who brought them. They haven't given any explanation. But they did take the plates off the vehicles and why would they do that if they had nothing to do with it?" The murders in Matamoros mark the third time since June that Mexican state security forces are suspected
The Mexican human-rights commission is also investigating the murders in Matamoros DD * The title of this website sounds like some sensationalist blog, but has quite a respectful history and was formerly affiliated with Newsweek. It is an American news reporting and opinion website founded and formerly published by Tina Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as the short-lived Talk Magazine. On 12 November 2010, The Daily Beast and Newsweek announced a merger deal, creating a combined company, The Newsweek Daily Beast Company. On 3 Aug 2013 IAC, owner of The Daily Beast, sold Newsweek to IBT Media, owner of the International Business Times. | ||||||||
| Rumors of CDG Los Rojos and Zetas alliance Posted: 13 Nov 2014 10:05 AM PST Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  This is the rumor. I have no clue what it means, if it is factual, details or where this originated from.. I am putting it out there and see what BB readers think, or have heard. Supposedly, this resulted now that the troublemakers are dead or arrested. What is rumored? CDG and Los Zetas, have made a pact. El Kelin and El R1 have joined forces. Supposedly mantas are appearing, which I can confirm they have for the past couple of weeks, communications from El Cartel Vieja CDG (Old School CDG) Their stated Goal? Peace of course, and to eliminate the "bad guys" extortionists, kidnappers etc Signed by? "The New Alliance of "La Paz" Cartel Del Gofo and Zetas Signed Comandante R1 CDG and Comandante Kelin Zetas <!--[if gte mso 9]> From MenyTimes Blog, translated by BB reader "JK" Factions of the CDG of Tamaulipas remain in debate over whether they should abandon kidnappings, extortions, and other crimes which affect the general population, and return exclusively to their origins; drug trafficking. The debate increased following the latest massacres in Mexico, which have impacted criminal organizations. One of the factions of the CDG proposes a return to the "old school." At the same time, they have begun to eliminate and denounce members who refused to abandon the crimes perpetrated against the general population. To this end, one of the factions of the CDG that operates in the "Frontera Chica" announced via social networks an alliance with a division of The Zetas. "The CDG and Los Zetas are no longer fighting amongst ourselves, because we are more united than ever in our desire for peace in Tamaulipas," said the communication signed by commander R1 of the CDG faction known as Los Rojos and by commander Kelín of Zetas Unidos. "Those who would continue the war will be killed or taken prisoner, we come to restore order, CDG and Zetas old school are here and are no longer making mistakes and will try to purge from our ranks people who desire to work with 'panocheos' (not sure how to translate that :) ) and liars." "Do not worry, do not be paranoid, this will soon be over." "This is a turning point, soon will come an end to the extortions, kidnappings, to earn our keep there will be peace. Zetas and CDG will live in peace." "The new CDG and Zetas Alliance. Att. Commander R1 of Los Rojos and Commander Kelín Zetas Unidos," ended the communication. Commander Juan Reyes Mejía Gonzalez, alias "El R1" operates in the region of La Ribereña, while Rogelio Gonzalez Pizaña, alias "El Kelín" is attempting to retake control of the group in Reynosa and Nueva Laredo, after leaving prison. One of the primary measures taken by the faction of CDG that operates in "Frontera Chica" was to 'fire' and pay a settlement to sicarios (hit men) in the region of Camargo. Last week's Manta:  | ||||||||
| Interrogation of "El Chereje" killer of 43 of 51 killed in Iguala September 26th Posted: 10 Nov 2014 10:59 AM PST Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat narrative translation by Un Vato  The following translated narrative, was taken from the interrogation of El Chereje, one of the arrested subjects held responsible for the execution of 43 "normalistas", students studying at a Normal School to become elementary school teachers. The interrogation was a part of the press presentation by Mexico's attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam. The press video in its entirety is at the bottom of this post. The translated portion is a description of the horror and events leading up to the executions, and shortly thereafter.  Murillo Karam ordered Solalinde to the PGR offices in DF to give a formal statement. After which Murillo Karam said "at least 80% of Fr. Solalinde's statement, we can agree with". As it turns out, Solalinde's sources were sadly 100% accurate. 51 KILLED ON THE NIGHT OF TERROR….NOT 43 Lost in the equation is the fact that at least 51 people were murdered in Iguala on the night of terror. 43+8. 44 normalistas taken to their deaths from the scene, 1 killed by being flayed alive, 43; smothered in transport, shot, or burned to their deaths. 3 normalistas killed on the buses, 3 futbol players on team bus, including a coach and 15 year old player (funeral below), A woman riding in a taxi  AGUSTÍN GARCÍA REYES, EL CHEREJE INTERROGATION -How many students did you have with you? -There were, they say, 44, I heard… not that I counted them one by one, no. -Who told you? -They said. -Who? -El Pato, El Guereque, they said there were 44 or 43, that's what I hea, but I did not count them. But there were a lot, so then, 'El Pato' went from there… -And what (vehicle) did the 43 or 44 (students) come in? -They were in the largest pickup. Two of the detainees claim that some of the victims moved to the landfill of Cocula arrived lifeless or unconscious and the others were questioned by members of GU to determine who they were and the reasons for their arrival in Iguala. -Were there some dead (students) in the pickup before they took them down? -Yes. At the time that I was handing the boys down to him, there were already some dead, there were already about 15 dead. -Dead from gunshots or what? -From asphyxiation. AGUSTÍN GARCÍA REYES, EL CHEREJE CONTINUES: -They asked them what they were, and all of them answered that they were students. "We're students", then they got them down and asked them why they had come into Iguala, and they said they came for Abarca's wife, that's all they said. -But did they belong to some group? -That's what they asked them, "Do you belong to group?", and they said "No". (after being asked how they were unloaded, he illustrates the manner in which they took the bags with human remains off the truck) They were letting them fall down like that, and then, as they were falling down like that, they tell "El Terco", "La Rana", or "El Pato, they would grab them this way, over here, and they were arranging them like this. The ones who were alive would get up, so they would grab them and would walk like this (he acts out the way they were led off with their hands on the back of the head and looking downward), and then they would place them there and tell them: Are you going to tell me?... and they would shoot them.  -Were there some (students) already dead when they were taken off the truck? -Yes, at the time I was handing the kids over, there were already some dead, there were already about 15 dead bodies. -Dead from gunshots or what? -From asphyxiation. Like that, they were leaving them, and those they grabbed around here, they would shoot. Then, the rest would drag them by their legs or their hands and arrange them over there and the rest of the kids, the ones who were left live, they were placed on this side. Continues: The ones on top, boss… they told me, "You drag the ones that are already dead to the edge of the garbage dump," since it is high, well, yes… from here to here I carried them with another person, with "El Bimbo", like this, carrying them. -You? - Yeah, and there were two more men here, and those two would swing them and throw them to the bottom, while we were bringing them over. -So then, they killed them up on top? -No, some of them, the ones on top.  -Who threw the bodies down? -I took part in that, with "El Primo", "El Guereque" and "El Peluco". -How did you get the bodies on top to get to the bottom?(answered with more detail) -One would grab the hands and another (person) would grab the legs and we would swing them so they would get thrown downwards, and once there, the bodies would roll down to the bottom where it levels off. - What did they do once they were on the bottom? -They began to place rocks in such a way that they built a circle made out of rock. Then, on top of the rocks, they would throw the tire, and on top of the tire, they would put firewood, and the bodies were placed like this, in a layer, and so on like that, until the bodies were in place and from there… -Did they spray something over them? -Yes. "El Huasteco" got there with diesel and gasoline and soaked the bodies, and there with the layer of diesel and gasoline, "El Duva" and "El Huasteco" set fire to them on one side and the other... NEW VIDEO, SAME WITNESS, QUESTIONED IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS ATTORNEY: -How long and until what time were you there? How long did the fire last? -Without doing anything to it, it lasted six, seven hours. -At what time did the fire die out? -Well, it did not die out, it stayed burning, and we left that day at about 2:00 (in the afternoon) and we left the fire burning hot. We left, and after that they came back to clean up, and I just returned, went in on a motorcycle and went back. AGUSTÍN GARCÍA REYES EL CHEREJE WITH HIS CONSENT BEING QUESTIONED BY PSYCHOLOGIST -It was around three that the fire died out, and we waited for it to…. -Three in the afternoon? -Yeah, for it to get cold... -How long did it take to get cold? -Well, from three, four, about 5:30 it died out and we threw ashes and dirt on top so it wouldn't be so hot and we put a double bag and some people had shovels, and I just gathered stuff up with bottles. - And what were you picking up? - Well, it was charcoal (ash) and little pieces of bone, like this. And from there we got to… -How many bags were you carrying? -There were eight, but not full, they were about half full. -What size were the bags? -Trash bags, the big ones. -The black ones? -Yes, plastic. - The ones with a tie? - No, not that kind, the thicker ones. -Aha…where did you buy them? - "El Terco" already had some with him, boss. - Eight bags? - Yeah, we took them away on pickups, and when we got to the San Juan bridge, that's what it's called, but before we got to the town, almost at the town, they said "get down to throw the bags away", "El Terco" said. When he told us, "throw the bags out", I grabbed two and just threw them out. The others would grab the bags, dig holes and empty, and that way... -In other words, you threw out two complete ones? -I just threw them like this… -They… did they sink or stay there? -No, because it had a lot of water. -They were carried off? -Yes, they were carried off -And the other ones? - The remainder, some sank right there and others were carried off. - And the other ones, did they tear them open and dump them? -Well, it happened very fast. But, yeah, I grabbed two (bags), throw them away and by the time I looked, some were (floating) away, I didn't see the others.  | ||||||||
| Humberto Moreira Associate Arrested in Texas on money laundering charges Posted: 09 Nov 2014 04:38 PM PST Chivis Martinez republished from San Antonio Express  Coahuila businessman charged in ongoing money laundering investigation By Jason Buch and Guillermo Contreras Rolando González Treviño was arrested Oct. 31, 2014, in Las Vegas by deferal agents, He is the brother os a media mgnate from Coahuila and is facing charges in a wide-ranging probe into money allegedly stoelmn from the state later laundered in San Antonio and South Texas. Rolando González Treviño was arrested Oct. 31, 2014, in Las Vegas by deferal agents, He is the brother os a media mgnate from Coahuila and is facing charges in a wide-ranging probe into money allegedly stoelmn from the state later laundered in San Antonio and South Texas.  That spring, the conspirators paid nearly $2 million to Rolando González Treviño, a Mexican businessman who owns several pieces of real estate in San Antonio and a TV station in Eagle Pass, the indictment says. Federal agents in Las Vegas arrested González as he stepped of a commercial flight with his family Friday night. He's charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to transport stolen property and conspiracy to launder money. González faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the money laundering and wire fraud charges, which are the most serious. Prosecutors are also asking for a $1.8 million judgment against him. His lawyers said the charges were kept secret all weekend. González denies doing anything wrong. "He didn't do what he's accused of," said San Antonio attorney Brandon Hudson. González's arrest is the latest development in a sprawling investigation into allegations that money stolen from the state of Coahuila was laundered in San Antonio and elsewhere in South Texas. A half-dozen people have been charged in the case, and prosecutors have moved to seize tens of millions of dollars in bank accounts and real estate. In 2006, an unidentified co-conspirator ordered Coahuila government officials to pay 100 million pesos, or more than $7 million, of state money to another unidentified co-conspirator, according to the indictment. Around the same time, the first co-conspirator told a government official that he wanted to buy media outlets in Coahuila. The outlets aren't identified, but the indictment alleges that in February 2009, members of the conspiracy traveled to San Antonio in a private plane to meet with González at the golf club. González and his family own radio and television companies in Mexico, and the indictment alleges that he discussed with the co-conspirators the sale of media properties for 25 million pesos, or about $1.8 million. A month later, a Coahuila state official met with two of his employees at the governor's mansion in the capital of Saltillo where another co-conspirator gave them bank account numbers for González, the indictment alleges. In April and May 2009, González received a series of wire transfers from private companies in Mexico totaling about $1.8 million, according to the indictment. Court records don't explain which media companies were purchased or if the money that was allegedly stolen from the state of Coahuila was wired to González. González comes from a prominent family in Coahuila. A brother, Roberto Casimiro González Treviño, is a media mogul who critics say supported former Gov. Humberto Moreira and his Institutional Revolutionary Party. Another brother, Raúl González Treviño, was Moreira's spokesman in San Antonio. His son Raul González Fernandez pleaded guilty last month in federal court in San Antonio to a drug conspiracy charge. The family has been caught up in a U.S. investigation into allegations that state officials and unscrupulous businessmen laundered tens of millions of dollars in San Antonio. During Moreira's term in office from 2005 to 2011, the state government racked up nearly $3 billion in debt. Roberto Casimiro González, Raúl González and Moreira haven't been charged with any crimes. Two people have pleaded guilty in the investigation so far, including Coahuila's former treasurer, Héctor Javier Villarreal.  Villarreal agreed to turn over $6.5 million in bank accounts that he controlled Charges are pending against Jorge Juan Torres López, the former interim governor of Coahuila. Rolando González owns a television company in Mexico and in recent years has expanded his business into Texas. A limited liability company he controls owns a TV station in Eagle Pass. Other companies he controls own San Antonio properties including empty lots, a house on the far North Side and a small office building on the Northwest Side. He and other family members have purchased more than a dozen properties in San Antonio since 2007. | ||||||||
| 17 shot: Oaxaca Mayor orders citizens fired upon, he is now a fugitive Posted: 08 Nov 2014 09:08 PM PST Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  On orders from Carlos Vásquez Rebollar, the mayor of San Baltazar Chichicapan, Oaxaca, three men who are cousins of the PRI Municipal President, shot people from the community, leaving 17 people  The mayor is a fugitive. (at left) According to the Supremo, newspaper, the incident occurred on Thursday November 6th at 3:00 PM, when residents of the town were preparing to march in protest against the mayor, in the streets of Mount Isa, where the mayor's home is located. The grievance against the mayor is a common grievance against municipal presidents, he is accused of "illicit personal enrichment". Citizens charge the mayor with absconding 12 million pesos, and purchasing luxury SUVs and real estate with public funds. The people of Chichicapan had summoned him on November 5th to a meeting, to account for the allocation of public resources, however, the mayor did not attend. The actions by the people, enraged Mayor Vasquez, who ordered brothers, Adolph, Roman and Ceferino Santiago Vasquez, cousins of the mayor, to fire on citizens who were outside his home.  The men armed with shotguns and ascended to the roof of the mayor's house, shooting into the crowd from that vantage point. Many of the injured were children, passing by as school had just recessed, for the day. After the shooting, the three shooters, took refuge in the house of the mayor, until the arrival of members of the State Investigation Agency (AEI), who finally arrested the assailants, except Carlos Vasquez, who fled before the arrival of the police, and is a fugitive. Sources: RioDoce, Supremo, Youtube and Proceso | ||||||||
| Mexico Gob claims calcination remains of 43 students found in Rio San Juan Posted: 08 Nov 2014 04:57 PM PST chivis martinez for borderland beat  Ashes of students "found" in the San Juan River? Supposedly, this information was derived from municipal police arrested for the murders of the 44  There were no attempts to conceal the unimaginable work of evil, the body was not found in a pit, but rather dumped on a Iguala street out in the open making it impossible not to be found. Why this one student, out of the almost 4 dozen kidnapped and vanished, why he was immediately tortured and executed, apart from the other 43, remains a mystery. No detainee has given a reason. It would appear that a maniacal monster fed his perversion, knowing all the students would soon die anyway.  The photos of Mondragon's dead body was then released to social media, where it was picked up and included in an early BB post. ( at original BB post at this link) On September 26, Normalistas (students) traveled on two buses from their school in the town of Ayotzinapa, to the city of Iguala. There, after transferring to two other buses, they were attacked and detained by the municipal police, who were sent on order of the mayor José Luis Abarca to intercept the normalistas, because he believed they were going to interrupt a speech being given at an event by his wife, authorities said. After the buses being attacked by gunfire, by municipal police, 8 people were killed in the balance, and 44 students were captured and detained by the police. They were transferred to the police station of Iguala and from there led to a hill between Iguala and neighboring Cocula. There, the municipal police handed over detainees to members of Guerreros Unidos (GU), who took them on a three-ton cargo truck along with another smaller vehicle, transferring them to a landfill, located in a ravine. (below left) 14 or 15 normalistas arrived at the landfill dead, having suffocated in the truck, according to the testimony of the detainees. Those who were still alive, they were ordered onto the ground face down.  They were interrogated, checking to see if they to see if they belonged to a rival criminal organization. The detainees said they were then shot, and thrown into a ravine atop the trash and set on fire. It was not known if they were all killed or some killed while others remaining alive after being shot. The flames, fueled with gasoline, tires and wood, lasted from midnight of the same day, to the afternoon of the next day. In this process of calcination, bones for the most part turn to a ash. The Mexican government claims this is what occurred. However, the US National Center of Biotechnology, reports that some bone fragment, of the larger bones can produce DNA, and teeth burned at high calcification levels of heat. Genomic DNA extraction is made possible by the protective dental armor sealing DNA within the tooth when exposed to extreme and harsh elements. Teeth tested at heat levels of 800f , still provided DNA. However, Mexico's Attorney General Murillo Karam says "although virtually impossible to extract DNA, he claims DNA analyses will be made at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Murillo Karam said that the investigation remains open to identify all the human remains found in the dump and the Rio San Juan and until that happens "we will continue considering them missing".
In a convoluted, confusing theory and explanation, Murillo Karam attempted an explanation of the search for the remains, attempting to explain how the remains were found. At the conference, Karam, in an ultra insensitive move, displayed hundreds of fragments of bones and charred teeth, which he insists were recovered from the landfill, and River where suspects say the remains were bagged and tossed into the river. "I know great pain will result from the information that we have obtained, a pain that we share with all in the family," said Karam. It is the most complete count offered to date on enforced disappearances. At the press conference, Murillo Karam showed confessions recorded video of those who allegedly killed the students, and those who made a huge bonfire with corpses, and tires, wood and fuel along of the San Juan River, in Cocula, village near Iguala, where students disappeared. He also confirmed that some human remains found in a clandestine mass graves discovered after the disappearance do not correspond to the students. It is believed such graves there in women and people killed in August. However, there were 32 bodies previously discovered in fosas in August, already reported by regional newspapers and Borderland Beat as being those kidnapped and killed persons. Mexican authorities also told family members of students missing on Friday that they had found six bags with human remains not identified on the banks of the river.  Martinez said that authorities advised them, that the finding occurred thanks to the confession of two criminals that led to the police and forensic experts to the banks of the River, located 22 kilometers from Iguala.  Family members, who described the meeting as "tense", rejected the information provided by the authorities and do not accept any identification of human remains until a group of forensic Argentines, collaborates with the research.State and federal government agencies have barred the Argentine group of scientists who specialize in this field of anthropology. Also released to the press was a photo of Gilardo Lopez alias "El Gil", lieutenant of Guerreros Unidos, who is charged with claiming the group of students belonged to rival group Los Rojos. He gave this information to the now arrested leader of GU Sidronio Casarrubias.   Interrogation of a GU who gave information to a psychologist:  ...They came in the bigger truck 
 .....they all responded they were students  Well... ash and bits of bone   "here".....suspect led police to one of the dumping spots | ||||||||
| Iguala: At least 20 bodies discovered in new fosa Posted: 07 Nov 2014 01:07 PM PST Chivis Martinez posted by Lala republished from ejecentral  At least 20 bodies found in a new mass grave in Cocula (Iguala) Federal authorities found this weekend a new clandestine mass grave in which 20 bodies have been found so far. Sources close to the case said that Federal forces who resumed the search located the graves in the vicinity of Cocula. According to the information collected by Eje Central, authorities have already reported the discovery to some relatives and representatives of the missing "normalistas", and they are waiting on the expert examinations in order to determine the identities and find out if the bodies belong to some of the 43 missing students or not. The sources explained that this is a new clandestine mass grave located in the area of the garbage dump, where the authorities have been working for weeks. Since today members of the citizen police have integrated into the Safety Commission with the gendarmería to work together for the first time since September 26, when the students were taken by force.  According to our sources, the citizen police intends to expand their search with the support of the gendarmería, to reach different areas and towns they have not been able to access due to presence of criminal groups. | ||||||||
| Psychological Profile of Imperial Couple From Iguala Posted: 07 Nov 2014 10:25 AM PST
Translated by DD for Borderland Beat Psychology of Face An analysis of the faces reveals that he likes to be the center of attention while she is being dominant. The Imperial Couple from Iguala share the ability to negotiate, are arrogant, are ambitious and ' having them as an enemy is not a good idea '. He is carried by instinct. he likes to be the center of attention and looks for the success at all costs, but she is the domineering one, she is practical, by nature irritaable, but in the end a calculating woman, that can handle his charm and image to reach their objectives. (DD note; she has been described as looking like the beautiful villain in a Mexican novella) This is the personality of former Mayor of Iguala Jose Luis Abarca and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, stars of the stars of the criminal episode of the forded disappearance of 43 students from the Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, as interpreted in a psychological analysis of the faces by criminologist and graphologist Marina Pombar from the United States. (DD note Marina Pombar is an artist and sculptress, author of the book "Psychology of the Face", Directorate of Training at the Criminology Laboratory, Institute National Criminal Science, and presenter at dozens of seminars and conferences over the past 10 years) ElUniversal engaged the academic from the National Institute of Criminal Science to perform a Physiognomy outlining the alleged masterminds of the disappearance of the students, from their facial features as this discipline is based on the premise that the face is a reflection of the attitudes that shapes personality muscles. From the photographs of the former mayor and his wife, Pombar says the couple have "a lot in common," such as bargaining power, suitable for sales "are hardened", know how to work under stress, and have a strategic thinking, smooth talking, and defined goals to ensure success. Separately, the analysis reveals he is a "practical person, logical, but difficult for him to change or for him to accept that others think differently. He is organized, with rigid views, tense, tough, arrogant, proud, with a hardened character." His square jaw "indicates a stubborn selfish man, schemes to obtain a high position in life with the possibility of achieving it. He has perseverance to survive hard times, and he has creativity and imagination that dominates, can be flexible and adapts easily, but takes criticism to heart. The pallium (distance between the nose and upper lip) denotes that he 'is somewhat pompous, theatrical, likes the elegance of dress and seeks to be the center of meetings, acts to attract admiration', like his wife, both reflect 'strong security in themselves', although Abarca needs you to recognize his power 'and can be rash and impulsive. SEE MORE ON MAYOR AND LADY IGUALA PROFILE NEXT PAGE From the shape of his eyebrows "cannot give up easily, is ambitious, quick to seize an opportunity, believes himself very important, grand, arrogant, arbitrary, and considers he has absolute authority over every other person." His ears, said the expert, "indicate that although very intelligent, he act by instinct, with potentially aggressive and unruly nature that does not hear the comments others make. The expert indicated that his wife has many things in common, not suitable for enemies, and skilled in negotation, but the report highlights her domination of him. She likes to dominate others to get what he wants. Her square face indicates she is a practical logical and effect person. It is difficult for her to change her mind or accept that others think differently from her; she is organized, stiff, hard, arrogant, proud, and has a hardened vision. "Works well under pressure. She is tolerant, a strategic thinker, a way with words and working with customers; focusing on work to achieve her goals. She is also impulsive but controlled." She has what is called in physiognomy a split nose that makes her prone to experiment big goals, creative, but with ups and downs, indicates an irritable nature, prudent, angry and energetic. Her small mouth shows she is introverted, stubborn, but with great desire for independence . She can also be charming and hardworking, but seeks solitude. The thin lips indicate cunning and malicious spirit", "her glued back ears indicate she has managed to harmonize within her group without losing her individuality.   | ||||||||
| Arrest video of Iguala Mayor and his wife Posted: 07 Nov 2014 10:26 AM PST Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat posted on YouTube by Rosa Castro  The footage is self-explanatory. What is perplexing is why the two vile fugitives were not immediately cuffed, blind folded hooded. What is notable is they were not only allowed to roam around the room, but Maria is packing her lady gear, e.g. makeup. Seems the police standing by and allowing them to freely roam about should have looked inside the close case? I have never seen this freedom in the midst of an arrest. Not a great sign. They appear to be orchestrating the arrest, not the police.  Also arrested is Yazareth Abarca Pineda, one of the couple's three daughters, who was assisting her parents as they hid from police. Yazareth was staying in the hideout with her parents, and was in charge of shopping for supplies such as food, so her parents would not have to leave and possibly be seen.  Yazareth, unlike her parents, was visibly shaken when taken into custody, crying, holding her hands up to her face obviously distraught.  Also arrested, Naomi Berumen, a close friend and business partner of the family. Naomi met one of the daughters as they attended The Anahuac University in Mexico City. Video plays well on full screen mode..; three videos on next pageBesides family members being on the titles of the more than 80 properties, Naomi was also on a number of the titles. She is attributed of arranging the hideout and preparing for the arrival of her friends as they fled Guerrero. Neighbors report Naomi was seen having the home clean and stocking the home with supplies the day and night before the mayor, his wife and daughter arrived. Naomi lists her profession as "graphic designer" on face book. Let's all reflect on the parents of Maria and Grandparents of Yazareth, here are the Pineda's mug shots, from an earlier arrest.  Daughter arrest From Daughters YouTube page, carefree with friends | ||||||||
| “They wanted to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds" Posted: 06 Nov 2014 08:05 AM PST  OP/ED by DD I saw on the news protesters marching in Mexico City. So what! , One group of another is always protesting in Mexico City. It is a daily event. But then I started looking at the news reports about more protests in support of the 43 missing male students from the Raul Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. Something real was happening here A seminal event. In the northern border region, university students spearheaded a brief blockade of the Santa Fe Bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez and El Paso on the evening of October 31. The action was the fourth closure of an international border crossing by protesters in the northern Mexican city in about three weeks. On the same day, approximately 400 students, teachers, doctors, garbage collectors, and others occupied a toll booth on the Tijuana-Tecate Highway in Baja California in solidarity with Ayotzinapa. "What we are doing today in Tijuana might seem insignificant," said Marco Antonio Pacheco Pena, coordinator for the Teacher Resistance Movement. "But it is a grain in the sand of what is going on at the national level, because this is being repeated in other states, in the sphere of human rights, public education and labor rights. Students and community members were also on the move in the Sonora border cities of Nogales and San Luis Rio Colorado in the state capital of Hermosillo, 1,200 rural teacher students attended a Day of the Dead event that prominently featured an altar for the Ayotzinapa students. On Sunday, November 2, more than 1,000 demonstrators returned to the streets of Tijuana again, demanding the safe return of the Ayotzinapa students In Oaxaca, meanwhile, a large movement blockaded the Puerto Escondido airport, seized gasoline stations and occupied department stores Among the biggest October 31 demonstrations was the march held in the old tourist center of Acapulco, Guerrero, where thousands of students, teachers, popular movement activists and relatives of the AyotzinaAcapulco demonstrators also demanded justice for murdered activists like Rocio Mesino, leader of the Campesino Organization of the Southern Sierra Madres gunned down in October 2013, and freedom for Nestora Salgado, Marco Antonio Suastegui and other Guerrero leaders the popular movement regards as political prisoners. The chief of the community police in Olinala, Guerrero, Salgado sent a message from her jail cell in Nayarit, where she is being held on what supporters insist are kidnapping charges that were trumped up after her policing activities disturbed the interests of organized crime. "What a shame that I am not here," Salgado said. "If I were here, I would be at the first in the struggle to uncover the assassins of these companions." A day prior to the Acapulco protest, some 5,000 people marched in Tixtla, the town closest to Ayotzinapa and home to 14 of the disappeared students, also demanding the new Guerrero governor's ouster On November 2, the Day of the Dead, 60 people held a vigil for the students outside the White House. Even the most elite of the elite, from the richest families in the US, students from Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Tufts and Berklee and other top universities in the US joined the protest movements against what happened to their "little brothers" who were students from families of dirt poor farmers who barely eke out a living from the soil. Students from the school have spread out across the county to meet with groups organizing protests and give them first hand information on the school and what happened in Iguala. With one change of clothes and a backpack, Carlos Martínez, a third year student at Ayotzinapa, left his home state of Guerrero to hitchhike more than 2,000 kilometers [1,200 miles] to the state of Chihuahua to meet with protesters in that state.
I saw one figure that in 67 cities in 27 of the 31 states there were protests. And that figure was from a week or so ago. Certainly more now as the protests continue and grow. Even Pope Francis and President Obama, the United Nations, the European Parliament and many other organizations and countries joined the chorus expressing their concern over what happened in Iguala Yesterday, 40 days after the students went missing, and one day after the Mayor of Iguala and his wife, the alleged masterminds of the disappearances were arrested in Mexico City where they had been hiding, tens of thousands of protesters marched again in Mexico City and brought parts of Mexico City to a standstill. If the moral outrage is not enough to cause EPN and PRI to look in the mirror and see the monster they have created, and take substantive and real actions to slay that monster by taking real steps to eliminate corruption in government and protect and serve the people, maybe money will get their attention. In the "Congress Blog, The Hill's Forum For Lawmakers and Professional Policy Makers", affectionately called "the HILL", widely read by members of Congress and their staffs, was a recent story that began; "The U.S. government-funded Merida Initiative was supposed to bolster Mexican government efforts to promote the rule of law and human rights. The accountability failures exposed by the Iguala atrocity suggest that it's time to take a closer look, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer money is part of the solution rather than part of the problem." In addition to that warning from Washington, in a report issued Oct. 1, Mexico's own central bank kept interest rates on hold on Friday and argued that a recent spike in inflation would quickly fade next year while flagging the risk that social unrest in the country could dampen a modest recovery. That would lower the projected GDP growth and discourage foreign investors from investing in Mexico. IT'S TIME FOR A CHANGE The state of Guerrero has always been in the vanguard of political and social changes in Mexico. It's very name is a homage to the great revolutionary Vicente Guerrero, a native of Tixtla -where Ayotzinapa is- and one of the most visionary leaders and committed to the people during the War of Independence. it was in Acapulco (which is in Guerrero) where Morelos unveiled his Sentiments of the Nation and called the Congress of Chilpancingo to create and found the new nation. There could hardly be a more appropriate site than Iguala de la Independencia, Guerrero, to begin a urgent process of national reconstruction. It was there that the Independence of Mexico was completed with the signing of the Plan of Iguala and the development of the national flag on February 24, 1821. On that historic day they were able to unite the various nationalist forces that then defeated the Crown of Spain. Making Iguala, and the normalistas from Ayotzinapa Tixtla, centers for the articulation of a large network of popular power could eventually transform the nation and "move to make Mexico" to a democracy. As was stated on a banner carried by a student protester, "They wanted to bury us but they didn't know we were seeds" Let us hope those seeds keep growing. | ||||||||
| Passage of Prop 47: California Steps Toward Ending Mass Incarceration and War on Drugs Posted: 07 Nov 2014 01:14 PM PST chivis martinez borderland beat press release from Drug Policy Org California becomes first in the nation to "de-felonize" personal drug use  Today, California voters took a significant step toward ending mass incarceration and the war on drugs by approving Proposition 47. On the heels of reforming the state's "three strikes" law in the 2012 election, Californians overwhelmingly voted to change six low-level, nonviolent offenses – including simple drug possession – from felonies to misdemeanors. "The overwhelming support for this reform sends a powerful message nationally, demonstrating that voters are not just ready but eager to reduce prison populations in ways that can enhance public safety," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. Prop. 47 has the potential to drastically reduce the number of people in state prisons and county jails – who don't need to be there for reasons of either justice or safety – by making 20,000 current people eligible for resentencing and reducing new admissions by 40,000 to 60,000 every year. Between 500,000 and one million Californians will be eligible for automatic felony ex-pungement, thereby removing debilitating barriers to employment, housing, education and public assistance. Prop. 47 will then dedicate the savings – likely more than $1 billion over five years – to schools, victim services, and mental health and drug addiction treatment. With its retroactive sentencing and ex-pungement provisions, the impact of Prop 47 in California on wasteful corrections spending and individual lives will be profound and surely resonate across the country. With less than 5 percent of the world's population but nearly 25 percent of its incarcerated population, the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world – largely due to the war on drugs. Misguided drug laws and draconian sentencing requirements have produced profoundly unequal outcomes for communities of color. Although rates of drug use and selling are similar across racial and ethnic lines, black and Latino people are far more likely to be criminalized for drug law violations than white people. Statewide, Prop. 47 w\, according to a brief by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Statewide, jails will see freed capacity of 10,000 to 30,000 jail beds. Using three counties as examples, the brief estimated that Los Angeles County will save $100 million to $175 million, San Diego County will save between $28.4 million and $49.7 million, and San Joaquin County between $6.8 million and $12.0 million annually with the implementation of Prop. 47. Most of these savings will accrue from freed jail capacity, with between 2,500 and 7,500 jail beds freed in Los Angeles County, 700 to 2,100 beds freed in San Diego County, and 170 to 500 beds freed in San Joaquin County. Although Prop 47 does not specifically address marijuana, people with felony records for marijuana possession (which is possible because possession of marijuana concentrates can be charged as a felony under current law) would be eligible to be re-sentenced and can also file a petition to expunge or clear their records. DPA's lobbying arm, Drug Policy Action, supported this initiative with assistance on its drafting, as well as financial and other support for the campaign. "We've been trying to get simple drug possession reclassified as a misdemeanor through Sacramento for years, facing first an unwillingness by the Legislature and then last year's veto by Governor Brown," said Lynne Lyman, California state director for the Drug Policy Alliance. "With Prop. 47, California voters took the issue of smart justice into their own hands. If the people lead, the leaders will follow." | ||||||||
| Legal use of recreational marijuana wins big Posted: 05 Nov 2014 09:05 AM PST Chivis for Borderland Beat republished from RT and Governing websites  Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some form. Four states have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Alaska and Oregon will become the next states where recreational marijuana is legal after voters approved cannabis ballot measures set to become effective in 2015. Voting on Tuesday saw recreational marijuana legalized in Washington DC and Oregon, with Alaska expected to follow suit. In Florida, a vote to legalize the use of medical marijuana fell just short of a constitutional 60 percent majority. In Washington DC, the measure – known as District Initiative 71 – allows residents to grow up to six marijuana plants in their homes and possess up to 2 ounces of the drug for their own use. Support for the measure in DC registered at 65 percent in favor (20,727 votes) to 29.5 percent against, according to National Public Radio. Medical marijuana was already legal in DC. Over in Oregon, people hugged and cheered as the measure was passed – dispensing with the "medical marijuana" terminology. The Measure 91 proposal will safely regulate marijuana sales and possession at all levels, supporters say. Oregonian legalization campaigners view the state with its already existing vigorous medical cannabis program as the forerunner in a crucial second wave of legalization across the US. "We have ended a painful, discriminatory, harmful policy that has terrible consequences for our state," said Anthony Johnson, a longtime marijuana legalization advocate, as he took the stage at the Southeast Portland club Holocene, where the Measure 91 party was under way, The Oregonian reported. He said the reform was "decades in the making" and "replaced a policy that is smarter, more humane… It's a policy whose time has come." In Alaska, the measure to legalize recreational marijuana early on Wednesday led by about 52-48 percent with all precincts reporting preliminary results. Both sides said the initiative had passed. "Marijuana prohibition has been an abject failure, and Alaska voters said enough is enough," said Chris Rempert, political director of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol, in a statement, Reuters reported. The way Measure 91 was applied consisted of a mix of Washington and Colorado laws, financed for the most part by donors from outside the state campaigning for recreational marijuana. The true power of the 'Yes on 91' campaign, however, is illustrated in the staggering difference in numbers: compared to less than $200,000 raised by 'No on 91,' the pro-legalization campaign secured $4 million in funding. The measure will come into effect July 1, 2015, allowing adults over the age of 21 to possess one ounce in public and up to 8 ounces at home. The only thing still illegal would be to drive a vehicle and smoke at the same time. Production and sales of marijuana will be regulated by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission, while tax revenue will go toward public services – schools, addiction treatment centers and various other mental health services. In Florida, the ballot measure gained the support of 57 percent of voters, but the measure fell short of a 60 percent constitutional majority required under state law. Proposed as a constitutional amendment, it would have permitted patients to use marijuana to treat "debilitating medical conditions" such as cancer, glaucoma, hepatitis C, AIDS, HIV, multiple sclerosis and more. Additionally, it would have sanctioned marijuana use for "other conditions for which a physician believes that the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the potential health risks for a patient." Source: RT | ||||||||
| Southern Tamaulipas in conflict again Posted: 04 Nov 2014 04:42 PM PST Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat with information and photo from "M"  The following manta was hung by CDG Zona Centro. CDG is again going through severe internal conflicts in the southern part of Tamaulipas. A few months ago there was such conflict in the Tampico area that it resulted in a federal operation being deployed to quell the violence which in the balance dozens of people were killed. CDG zona centro is backed by La Vieja Escuela of CDG (retired CDG comandantes) and are fighting against CDG sur Chive, Tony (Chive's brother), and Comandante Kadur. The situation is reported as being intense and has included topones (convoys of armed men) fighting each other. Manta reads...more or less: CDG down town zone directly blamed El Chive and his Brother Tony; Pink and Purple Power Rangers together with Luis Manuel Kadur of all the violent acts that happens in this town. Stop creating paranoia in the town and take care of the territory we gave you, because no one is here to help you Gays. Thieves and kidnappers who think that the civil people are their assholes, CDG Old School is here and we don't beat our breast, we make mistakes but try to eliminate the people that are in our ranks, that want to work with lies and act like pussies, as you are responsible of Tampico, Madero and Altamira trio of Jackals, Power Rangers Jotos, Chive, Tony and Kadur. In conclusion, continue kidnapping students and extorting schools, or show your face , fucking messenger. (Errand boy). | ||||||||
| Tamaulipas: Demands and Rumors persist in the case of 3 murdered Texans Posted: 07 Nov 2014 01:09 PM PST Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat  Roberto Osvaldo Castillo Hernandez says, the mayor should submit to authorities and give a statement to the evidence that exists against her and the police squad know as Hercules regarding the murder case of 4 young people in Matamoros. The mayor directly commands the police group Hercules. Osvaldo says Leticia Salazar, who from PAN, should leave voluntarily from her position as Mayor of Matamoros, to guarantee investigations in the case. . Osvaldo said that this situation portrayed Tamaulipas, in a negative light at an international level, and that cannot be tolerated. The local leader of the Aztec Sun Party said that concern exists in his Political Organization and in Society in General, because facts prove that Matamoros lacks security guarantees, and people cannot be on the streets with confidence of being safe. "Leticia Salazar Vazquez" as first authority, has the responsibility of assuring the security of the citizens of this municipality and the executions of foreign citizens and other crimes. does not generate confidence in the citizens" he said. Castillo Hernandez demanded that "the authorities of the 3 orders of Government, immediately clarify the facts, and restore the social peace in Matamoros and all Tamaulipas." However, Univision and a Tamaulipas columnist published an article saying that the Tamaulipas state government has put a lid on the facts of the story. Although reasons for the squash was not given.  They contend the Hercules Squad were not the culprits of the murders. Going further they insinuate the mother of the murdered young people fabricated that scenario. Univision contends the trio were driving a Cherokee, which had no plates and stolen in Texas, and it was planned to be driven back into Texas with drugs. Also they accuse the 4th person killed in the murders as the boyfriend of the young woman killed, and was a member of CDG and was involved with fuel theft. As of today, those charges have not been alluded to by Mexico or the US government. It would seem the vehicle theft would not be a difficult charge to confirm. The detractors of the young people killed say that there have been no reports by design. However, since this is a bi-border incident, one would think if the US government has information of any of the charges they will be made public. Certainty, at the very least, the auto theft report could be released, an easy access for a reporter or citizen. Although under no circumstance can the murders be justified, a stolen vehicle report would help in determining the intent of the four killed. The parents say they fear for their life, they will make themselves available to authorities, but no longer will conduct interviews. Their children were buried in Matamoros. | ||||||||
| Photos Iguala Mayor's living accommodations when captured Posted: 04 Nov 2014 06:28 PM PST Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat  As reported, Iguala's Mayor Abarca and His wife Maria Pineda were arrested this morning in an apartment building in Iztapalapa, reported the Federal Police spokesman, General Commissioner Enrique Galindo. Noemi Berumen Rodriguez was also arrested for her role in hiding the couple in two homes. The deplorable conditions they were living in while renting a home in Iztapalapa, was in great contrast to the lux lifestyle they have enjoyed before becoming fugitives. Abraca is identified as the mastermind of the attack on the normalistas in Iguala, which left 6 dead and 43 missing. The arrests were made at the rental property located on Calle Jalisco No. 27, in the village of Santa Maria Aztahuacan, Iztapalapa. The capture was announced on Twitter in the 2 AM hour of today, by Ramon Salinas .onfirmada la detención en el DF por Policía Federal de José Luis Abarca y esposa. — José Ramón Salinas (@joserra_salinas) November 4, 2014Here are photos published in Reforma, the pink house is a second home they were hiding in:  Fugitive dogs    | ||||||||
| Fugitives Ex-Mayor of Iguala and His Wife Arrested Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:49 AM PST
Finally the ex-mayor of Iguala, Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, affectionately referred to as "Lady Iguala were arrested in Mexico City this morning . The couple had fled Iguala, on a "leave of absence" shortly after the murders and kidnapping of the normal school students from Ayotzinapa on Sept. 26 and 27. There have been false reports of their capture before, but this time the arrests are being reported by all of the major media. From reports posted on BB Forum this morning at 7:47AM, Feynmanposted the following report from CTVnews; MEXICO CITY -- Federal police early Tuesday detained the former mayor of the southern Mexican city of Iguala and his wife, who are accused of ordering the Sept. 26 attacks on teachers' college students that left six dead and 43 still missing. Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda, were arrested in Mexico City without resisting, according to two security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. The couple was in the custody of the Attorney General's Office, where they were giving statements. At least 56 other people have been arrested so far in the case, and the Iguala police chief is still a fugitive. The couple's detention could shed light on disappearances, which have prompted outraged demonstrations across the country to demand the students be found. The case forced the resignation of the governor of Guerrero state, where Iguala is located. The students from a rural teachers college had gone to Iguala to canvass for donations and authorities say Abarca ordered the attack on them, believing the students were aiming to disrupt a speech by Pineda. They say the assault as carried out by police working with the Guerreros Unidos drug cartel. Authorities say Pineda was a main operative in the cartel. They also have said the drug gang essentially ran the town of Iguala, with Abarca receiving payments of 2 million to 3 million pesos ($150,000-$220,000) every few weeks, as a bribe and to pay off his corrupt police force. Guerreros Unidos have increasingly turned to the lucrative practice of growing opium poppies and sending opium paste to be refined for heroin destined for the U.S. market, according to a federal official. The search for the students has taken authorities to the hills above Iguala, where 30 bodies have been found in mass graves but not identified so far as any of the students. Last week, the search turned to a gully near a trash dump in the neighbouring city of Cocula, but still no remains have been identified. Later reports with more details were posted by Lala in a comment on the Forum; More details in la Jornada (translated by Lala)http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2014/11/04/detienen-en-el-df-a-jose-luis-abarca-y-su-esposa-declaran-en-la-seido-4253.html José Luis Abarca and his wife arrested in Mexico City; they are declaring at the Seido Elements of the Federal Police arrested early this morning in the delegation Iztapalapa, Mexico City, the former Mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, identified as the masterminds behind the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teaching school, Guerrero, on September 26. Officials involved in national security cabinet confirmed that staff of the Federal Police followed up on a line of investigation obtained through intelligence and both the former Mayor and his wife were captured without any attempt to escape or confrontation between authorities and the fugitives of Justice. The arrest took place at around 2:30 am of Tuesday in the colonia Santa María Aztahuacán. The Commissioner general of the Federal Police, Enrique Galindo Ceballos, reported via his twitter account that "the arrest of the former Mayor of Iguala was made this morning in the city of Mexico, Iztapalapa delegation. "The coordinated work of the Government of Enrique Peña Nieto's security cabinet allowed this morning arrest of the former Mayor and his wife. "The detention of José Luis Abarca and Maria de los Angeles Pineda is part of the investigations to locate the 43 students from Ayotzinapa," said the head of the Federal Police. According to the information obtained following the arrest, José Luis Abarca and his wife María de los Ángeles were transferred to facilities of the attorney specializing in investigation of organized crime (Seido), where they are being questioned, since they are considered key witnesses for clues that lead to the location of the 43 normalistas disappeared by municipal policemen of Iguala and Cocula, in coordination with members of the criminal group Guerreros Unidos. Abarca and his wife had rented a house in Iztapalapa, and hardly had the essential furniture, according to reports. Authorities are working on the confirmation of the identity of both detainees. The research of the federal Government has established that students arrived in the city of Iguala the evening of September 26 to carry out boteos and raise funds to travel to Mexico City on October 2 to the commemoration of the massacre of Tlatelolco. The same September 26 Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa rendered her report as head of the municipal DIF in Iguala and held a party to celebrate it. At the prospect of the normalistas affecting their party, the mayor ordered the police to attack the students, according to the investigation. Municipal officials requested the support of their colleagues in Cocula and together gunned the students, leaving a first balance of six dead and dozens wounded. The attack was extended to members of a football team, los Avispones de Chilpancingo, in third division, since the police mistook them for students from the teaching school of Ayotzinapa. Also police officers illegally detained an undetermined number of "normalistas" and took them to their facilities, then transferred them to the limits of Cocula and Iguala and handed them to an operator of the criminal group Guerreros Unidos (a division of the Beltrán Leyva brothers cartel ), identified as el Gil. Allegedly the normalistas were brought to different points and nothing is known of their whereabouts, although several of the policemen, some of the known as halcones (lookout for the drug cartels) and other participants in the aggression against the students, led authorities to discover nine clandestine graves where the remains of 38 people have been located. The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR), reported that of those 38 remains, in 28 cases none corresponds to students missing since September 26. After investigations by the authorities started, José Luis Abarca and his wife fled Iguala, for 38 days they were fugitives, until this morning the Federal police arrested them in the Iztapalapa delegation | ||||||||
| Mexican Student Activist Exonerated and Freed After Year in Jail Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:50 AM PST
Maybe, just maybe, some good will come from the tragedy of the student's murders and disappearances in Iguala. The uproar that it has caused worldwide, including protest by the Pope, Obama, the European Parliament, the UN, and many other countries and organizations, as well as student protests all over the world, may have caused the Mexican Government to distance itself as far as possible from jailed or detained students. As reported in TeleSur, a student activist who had been in jail for a year after allegedly being beaten and tortured while in custody was released on Oct. 31. No evidence of a crime was ever presented against him Following a highly questionable arrest and alleged torture and human rights violations, Mario Gonzalez García was absolved of all charges after being held for more than a year without bail. Mario Gonzalez was released from a Mexican prison in the early morning hours on Friday, after having been held without bail for over a year. Mario's mother, Patricia García Catalán, received the news of the young man's pending release at noon and immediately informed supporters who began to gather at the Tepepan prison hospital. Gonzalez was transferred to the facility following a two-month hunger strike that ended last January. Gonzalez and eight companions were pulled off a Mexico City bus on October 2, 2013 on their way to an annual march held to commemorate the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. The activist presented evidence that he and his colleagues were arrested and subsequently beaten and tortured by Mexico City police. The nine detained were student activists and most were anarchists. The activists reportedly earned the enmity of school authorities including the Director of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Jose Narro. Though authorities were unable to press riot charges because the students were not present during the march - the Mexico City public prosecutor accused them of throwing firecrackers and molotov cocktails out the windows of the bus on their way to the demonstration. No evidence or testimony was ever presented to support the charge, and supporters accuse the public prosecutor of withholding video evidence that supported the innocence of the students. Mexican institutions, including its law enforcement and judiciacy have come under intense internationally scrutiny following the disappearance of 43 training school students from Ayotzinapa who were attacked and detained by local police in Guerrerro state. | ||||||||
| Mexico general fighting drug cartels shot dead Posted: 04 Nov 2014 10:51 AM PST
Nino Villareal survived a previous attack on October 9 when unidentified gunmen shot at his armored vehicle in Linares, also in Nuevo Leon state. Before his appointment in Tamaulipas, Nino Villareal was head of police in the Nuevo Leon town of Cadereyta. The military took full control of security in Tamaulipas in May after scores of people died in a series of gunfights between warring cartels as well as clashes between gangs and security forces. The state has been plagued by turf wars between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels for years. Both gangs have been weakened by the arrests or killings of top leaders. The most recent violence has partly been blamed on infighting within the Gulf cartel. - Violence persists - Violence continues to torment Tamaulipas residents despite the security overhaul. Three American siblings, all in their 20s, and a Mexican man were found dead last week, two weeks after they were abducted in the town of Control. Prosecutors have questioned nine members of a special police unit over allegations that they had kidnapped the four victims. The officers were part of a tactical force known as the Hercules Group, which was formed by the mayor of the city of Matamoros, Leticia Salazar. In October, a doctor who used Twitter to report violence in Tamaulipas was kidnapped by unknown assailants in the border city of Reynosa. Authorities said they were investigating whether Maria del Rosario Fuentes was killed after disturbing pictures of her were posted on her account before it was taken down. More than 80,000 people have been killed and 22,000 have gone missing since Mexico's government deployed troops to crack down on drug cartels in 2006. | ||||||||
| Posted: 03 Nov 2014 10:41 AM PST
La Jornada: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Translated by Jane Brundage Mexico Voices "He's tiny, like someone no one pays attention to." So says one of the 86 parents of Ayotzinapa Normal School students who attended the meeting with the President in describing Enrique Peña Nieto: "I pictured a strong man. I imagined that the President was big, but he isn't," remarks a man who snapped at the Chief Executive: "The first (Iguala Mayor, Abarca) ran away, the second as well (Guerrero Governor, Aguirre), and are you, too, also going to run away?" The Guerrero father perfectly captures the dwarfed and weak presidential figure: "It's as if he doesn't command." So says the father whom someone charged 1,200 pesos [US$90] to take him to a place where he was assured he would find his son alive. He handed over the money and nothing. Already, along with other relatives, he has spent thirty-five days touring churches, vacant lots, graves, store rooms and whatever other place they are told about. There is no life for them. And they do not accept, in any way, any version that gives their children up for dead. During the meeting at the presidential residence [Los Pinos, The Pines], mothers of the disappeared, from whom little has been heard in these days of anxiety, also spoke.
"The mothers told the President that it is impossible that they remain confined at home, that the government wants to set them against the Ayotzinapa Normal School, against their own children. When one mother went to collect her son's body from SEMEFO [the morgue], prosecutors tried to get her to testify against the normal school. And the mom told him to go to hell," says another witness. The criminalization of the Normal School, and, in particular, of the 43 disappeared students, was a government strategy that, after a few days, turned to the graves. They are neither thugs nor vandals, neither guerrillas nor drug traffickers. They are only students. Fed up with the stigmas of social status and ideology, the students released video images of their colleagues working, cheerfully, one morning in August, nearly two months before being arrested and subsequently disappeared by police in Iguala. In all the scenes, they are laughing. "These are the companions we want delivered to us alive." (DD. video below with translation by Lala on the Forum) So said the students when they came to Mexico City to give their version to the media. They, along with the parents on Wednesday in Los Pinos, are exhausted, but they know that this is just the beginning. They emphasized that they do not trust Peña Nieto, so the answer will come from pressure applied from below. parents of the missing students who sized up their impressions of the President. Video of the Students Working The fields Translation by Lala " - This is the job of our missing mates, it´s the job they´ve been doing since early August, and we can see the results now. - Hey! Say hello to the camera! - They were very joyful at work, they would joke around among them to make the day go by, it was a very united and very hardworking school. - They are "paisa" Benito, Canelo, Comadre, Chucky (who didn´t want to say hello to the camera because he was busy working), the "paisa" who was killed used to work over there, he was skinned, we called him "paisa" Chilango. I wanted to record this video because I wanted to see how work was going, whether I worked well or not, and we also have fun while at work, one moment we are working and the next one a mate starts throwing us dirt or anything. - We made the video so people can see what we really do. The money our mates were collecting (in Iguala) was going to be destined in part to what they were doing here, so this work, these crops, would prosper. - There are many misconceptions about this school, like how at Ayotzinapa we don´t work, we are always involved in protests, but, as you know, we have 5 specialities in here, and one of them is "production modules". - We are peasants, we come from the countryside, this reminds us exactly where we come from, our origins, our identity. And it reminds us that here, at Ayotzinapa, we don´t strip people of their identity, we root it even more. - I don´t cry, but I do miss my comrades. We won´t rest until we find them, and if we have to sacrifice our own lives, we will do it, but we will find them. In the end it´s our brothers who are missing. " | ||||||||
| Tuta says he was killed in a 30 minute shootout Posted: 03 Nov 2014 09:36 AM PST Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat Ok...the title is me having a little fun...the following is the story...... Yesterday evening on the facebook page attributed to Caballeros Templarios, used to spread news and propaganda, it was announced the possibly death of Servando Gomez Martinez, aka "La Tuta" premier leader of Templarios. Although Grillonautuas ran with the story we decided to sit on it having only the word of Templarios. The timing seemed too convenient, coming on the heels of Tuta's release of an audio message in which he announces his conviction never to be taken alive. That fact that mainstream media and even blogs have seemed to keep an arms-length distance from the story is also cause to question the validity of the post. His predecessor before him, "El Chayo", had faked his death, fooling the media and government into thinking he was dead, supposedly he also was killed in an intense shootout with the feds. That shootout did occur with many deaths. But Chayo was not among the casualties. This was always rejected by the Michaocan autodefensas, who reported him being alive and seen by many. Hense, with this "Tuta killed" story I am cautious about possibly feeding into his hoax and will report later if and when we have proof. Here is how the "facts" establish his death from the CT page, at around 1PM yesterday:  Although no authority has wanted to give information, sources for security have pointed out that the leader of the Templarios was killed in a conflict facing Federal Agents, as their was an operation for his arrest by federal agents including the Navy. The faithful servants of the Tuta, accompanied by his leader, report this tragic situation in which La Tuta engaged in almost 30 minutes of shootout before losing his life. Three of his accomplices were captured by federal agents. (Chivis: CT must have a medical examiner with access to the body, who not only was able to quickly perform an autopsy, BUT completed the task in 1 hr! in time for this announcement on facebook) The cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage, bilateral shock, loss of blood, and crash trauma. "It is hoped that authorities, will inform of the incident. We must stress that this week spread the Tuta, gave out a little piece of audio where he indicated he preferred to die, rather than capture.. This week, also, his wife, Ana was formally arrested and his daughter Sayonara was called to give statement." Then 7 hours ago: EN PAZ DESCANSSE EL SR SERVANDO No photos, footage or proof has been presented (The image at top was posted on the FB page and is a tribute to their fallen hero-I substituted the foto for one of my favorites ) | ||||||||
| The government tried to buy the silence of the parents of missing normalistas Posted: 03 Nov 2014 10:41 AM PST
Aristegui Noticias Translated by DD <![endif]-->They offered $ 100,000 each, explained at a meeting at El Colegio de Mexico; painful testimony in another meeting, at UNAM Two weeks after the disappearance of the students, the Guerrero government offered 100,000 pesos per head to his parents, not to talk and stop looking for them. Parents and relatives of the missing Ayotzinapa normalistas reveal what was said at meetings on Friday with students from El Colegio de Mexico and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), in separate meetings. "People come from the government saying, 'You know what,? do you need anything?...we can help with anything… Look, sign these papers, and we will give 100 thousand dollars?'. What for? To get us to shut up", Gaspar Barnabas Abraham, father of Adam Abraham de la Cruz, one of the missing students told students and faculty at El Colegio de Mexico. "Many fellow parents also were thinking about the governments offer to pay that large amount of money. We told them: ' My son is not for sale for a hundred thousand dollars." That's why we walk from school to school, looking for support for our children back, "he continued his story. Clemente Rodriguez Moreno, father of Christian Rodriguez, 19, asked himself if his son was being punished for getting an education and reading books and blamed the authorities of the three levels of government for collaborating with organized crime groupscommitting murders and forced disappearances. We do not know where they are, what happened to them, if they are wearing the same clothes, beaten or tortured. I'm waiting with open arms and will fight to find my son and his companions no matter whathappens to me, if it's the last thing I do. I want to find my son if it's the last time I see him, he said in a voice broken by grief. I feel in my heart (my son) is alive, but the damn government stabbed me in the depths of my heart, where it hurts me. The song says that men should not mourn, but the truth is a fucking pain I can not stand, Rodriguez complained to cheers, shouts of solidarity and tears of many students south campus of the College of Sciences and Humanities, UNAM, with whom they met in the morning. He insisted that the federal government has done nothing, neither found anything. It's been 35 days, so I want to advertise, if there is a camera here from the media, if my son is watching me, if you listen to me, do not despair, I'm on é l, go for the 43 young people. Whatever happens to me, if it is the last thing I do in this life, I want is to see them alive, he continued with his story, which caused of many of those present to cry. The farmer blamed the governor Ángel Aguirre Rivero, the ex-town mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca; the officials of Cocula, César Miguel Peñaloza, and the police officers of both town halls of the happened and that's why they should be in the jail." "Iguala is a graveyard" Cordelio Valentín González, brother of Gabriel García Hernández, one of the 43 missing men, said "Iguala is a cemetery", in reference to the large number of mass graves have been found there in recent weeks, but warned that the government will not go collecting bodies and then leave them at our homes, as the government wants. Relatives of the missing on Wednesday lamented that President Peña Nieto did not give themthe resultsof research to find the 43 boys living. "The president said to us: 'I do not know, nor does the PGR. There is no deceit, we are telling the truth, and we will investigate and agree with a lot of things,' said Jose Solano, normal student Ayotzinapa, who said he was disappointed because we expected different responses President. (With information from Alma E. Muñoz and Fernando Camacho / La Jornada) | ||||||||
| "La Tuta" says he's sick and tired of the Caballeros Templarios Posted: 02 Nov 2014 07:44 PM PST Proceso (10-30-2014)Translated by un vato for Borderland BeatThis audio recording has been reported in several places, such as RioDoce, El Diario de Coahuila, Diario de Juarez, just to name a few. The voice, style, accent and language are those of Servando Gomez Martinez, "La Tuta", judging from several video recordings that have been posted here in the Borderland Beat and in several Mexican journals. I took the trouble of transcribing and translating the recording -- La Tuta talks fast! -- because he mentions several names that have appeared in other stories about Michoacan. --un vatoMEXICO, D.F. (apro).--In a new audio (recording) that is circulating in social networks, Servando Gomez Martinez, "La Tuta", states that he is fed up ("hasta la chingada) with the Caballeros Templarios. He suggests to one of his friends, whom he identifies as "El Kinini", that they create a new organization to take control of exploitation of minerals from Arteaga to Aguililla. It is the second audio recording that the Templario leader has made public in less than a week. In the first one, published a few days ago, he says he made a mistake in choosing to take a criminal path, but he warned that he will not pay for his crimes while he's alive. In the new video, published on Wednesday, he warns that he will continue in the business of mining and extraction of iron ore, and for that, he will eliminate his adversaries. In addition, "La Tuta" asks his friend to align miners in the Sierra-Costa region to form a single block and take control of mineral exploitation from Arteaga to Aguililla. "We have to treat miners very tactfully, with a lot of respect; we already told them that we're going to collect [protection money] only from those that come from outside the area, and whatever they want to give us. If they were giving us $3.00 per ton before, now they'll give us $1.50, and that is enough", says the Templario leader in the recording. He also refers to somebody identified as "Tena", telling him that they are both working men. "We are narcos, never bandits or kidnappers", La Tuta promises him. He also claims that it was former Templario leader Nazario Moreno. "El Loco", "who made us do stupid things (we shouldn't have). I ask you from my heart to get together with Kinini, with Tono and Valdemar, and get to 'El Mocho'", he asks Tena, and insists on forming a new group of "friends" to "work" and take care of their areas. The capo tells him that his men will take 100 of Gallito's men out of the way to drive him out so they (Tuta and Tena) can take over all the properties and the mines. "There a lot of land to plant ice, marijuana and let us make a living. The mines we work, we will work ourselves, we're not going to steal anything from anybody", Gomez Martinez emphasizes. TRANSCRIPT OF RECORDINGLa Tuta: Hello, Flaco! What's going on, Kinini. I'm very pleased to greet you and I hope your loved ones are doing well. Listen, my Kinini, I want to tell you something. The kid that's going to deliver this recording, you know who he is. He's also going to help you with a little money so you can pay your boys. It looks like they're 228 or 230. So, no later than Sunday, he'll give you 260,000 pesos so you can pay your boys. Keep up the hard work, Kinini. We have to treat miners very tactfully, with a lot of respect. We sent word to them that we're going to collect [protection money] only from those that come from outside the area, and whatever else they want to give us. If they were giving us $3.00 per ton before, now they'll give us $1.50, and that's enough. Because, well...we were taking the money to the guy who died. Now, all we want is to get enough to live on. Give this message to my good friend, Tena, I've heard that you're in touch with him. Rely on Tena. Look, your mines, those that are located towards Tumbiscatio, they are yours. We're going to try to negotiate, so pay attention so that you know what's what and can come to an agreement with Tena Look, over here, "Gallito", Loco's man, is the one who is trying to fuck with us. He and those guys will never learn, they want to go back to that shit, to robbery and kidnapping. There are people that are said to have graduated from school, which was your father, my father, "El Chiguan", "El Pinto" with "Chiwis" and everybody. We're trying to make him be reasonable, so he can try to talk to these people. And if he's the one who's going to control this guy, so let have peace and stop fucking around. What's done is done. But I want you to know this. Look, get in touch with Tena. We're taking care of it from our side. But you, you get in touch with Tena and tell him, "Look, my friend Tena, all of the top side of the mountain, above where you are, where your mine is, what is from Playitas, Hostigal, El Puerto del Venado, to the top, which is Puertas Quemadas, which is Cerro Prieto, which is Barranca Adentro, all the way until you get to Aguililla, all of that until you hit Los Agaves, all of that until you get to Tena's lands. Tena doesn't have any space because of what they're doing to him. The guy who betrayed us and killed my compadre Ponciano, and killed "El Jamaica" and the other kid, was "El Mocho", a fucking kidnapper from Arteaga, who was one of the doctor's men, and the one who kept them (the men). We were paying him and it appeared he was OK with us, but he called my compadre Ponciano to a meeting and killed him. So then, "El Mocho" is with Valdemar, the one from Aguililla, one of Tena's men. Or rather, it looks like he was (with Valdemar) because last I heard is that Valdemar had split from him. Nobody likes "El Mocho". He has a few men with him, about 10 or 15 boys, but Gallito's men are giving him support; "El Lutas". "Higuere" and all of that bunch of fools that are up here above San Francisco, over here around ?Pansacola?, up here by La Cucha, way up on top over here, they are providing him support. So what is this about? This is about you and Tena going up higher. In Tumbiscatio, I have Don Tono, the one from Coalcoman, who was also one of Tena's men. I've got him there with 50 or 60 men, all of Ponciano's people, the ones who were with Dimas, who stayed with me because they captured my compadre Chewis. And the ones with Don Tono, who are about seven men. There's supposed to be about 50 to 60 men staying there. So then, you and Tena come to an agreement with Don Tono, the one from Coalcoman, he's in touch with Tena. Come to an agreement with them. And let Tena talk to Valdemar and tell him, "If you have split up with "El Mocho", join me", and between all of you, if you want to, hit "El Mocho". If you hit "El Mocho" and make him leave the area, all of those properties that are up there in the mountains are for taking control of the mines. Tell Tena that it is to his advantage, and yours, too. And so, we'll control the mines, and Tena will have enough space to come up here. So then, the river comes down from that area, all of that area including El Hostigal adjacent to Aguililla, which was Tena's, and Tena will have space to come in. "El Mocho" has many ranches there, and they would provide for Ten and for us. Propose this to Tena, let him listen to this recording. And, Tena, you know that you and I are working men, we are narcos, we have never been bandits, kidnappers, or any kind of asshole like that. And you know very well how "El Loco" would get us to do a lot of stupid things that, no... I didn't agree with a lot of things, Don Tena, but you know very well that absolutely nobody would back me when I contradicted "El Loco". So, with all my heart, Tena, I ask you to join Kinini, and get together with Tono, from Coalcoman. And bring in Valdemar, and hit "El Mocho", and all the ranches that you are familiar with in the mountains, you can keep them and live there with your boys, all the way to your properties in Aguililla. I don't have a problem with that. We have always been friends, so, Tena, let's do it that way. Look, Tena, when this operation started and the narcos came at us, the package they had to deal with was seven people: Don Quique, there was uncle Micho Loya-- that makes two. No. 3 was "Sames", No. 4 was "Pantera"--- those four are no longer around, they have been captured or killed. No. 5 was yourself, No. 6 was Cenizo and No. 7 was me, your humble servant. Those were the seven (people) in the package. Now, there is only Cenizo, who's with me, and you, too. You, Cenizo and I. Everybody likes us like water for chocolate. And Gallito is going to try to set us up and fuck us over. We need to stick together. So I propose, Tena... Oh, and they did not come for the other one because he was already dead, that's why they didn't come for him. So he was not pushing them because he was already dead. But he also went with the package. So, that's who is left: Ceni, you, and I. I'm going to try to arrange things with the narcos. Trust me, I ask you with all my heart, Tena, and let's split up only with Gallito's people. Get together with Valdemar. Last I heard is that Valdemar did not agree with the things "El Mocho" was doing, and I'm telling you, he betrayed us. I had been paying him since January! I had been paying him for 6 or 7 months and he betrayed us, he killed my compadre Ponciano and he killed "El Jamaico". I have all the people. That's what I'm proposing. Together with Kinini, come on up here. Talk to Tono, the one from Coalcoman, who I've got up there with Ponciano's people, and talk to Valdemar. "El Mocho", at most, he's got between 10 or 15 boys because nobody likes him, he's an asshole, he would beat them up and everything. The people had stayed with him because I had told them they were going to stay under my command and that things were going to change. But now, now that he killed my compadre Ponciano about 15 days ago, all his people left him. He's got 10 or 15 gunmen with him, so I cannot get close to him. But you guys are up there, hiding in those areas in the mountains, well, go on up with Kinini. We're going to have mines there, we're going to have everything. And, I'll try to arrange things with "Fructos". I will be staying in touch with "Fructos". Because up here, in ?Pansacola?, in ?Tambirichere?, from El Ojo as you turn towards La Cucha, at Los Molinos, there are about 80 to 100 armed men who are with Gallito. But I'm already talking to some people so I can take him out. Trust me, Tena. You're a working man. You're a narco, and so am I, and we'll have so much land, to make ice, to plant marijuana and to allow us to live off of that. We're going to respect the people from the mines, and we will work our own mines ourselves, and we're not going to rob anybody or take anything from them. From the heart, my Tena, listen to this that I'm sending with Kinini, and get together with Kinini and El Flaco, and go on up there. I will take care of the ones that are up here in ?Pansacola? and all that, because "El Gallito" wants to retake all that belonged to the Caballeros Templarios, and I am fed up ("estoy hasta la chingada") and I don't want to hear any more about Los Caballeros Templarios. I am inviting you, Tena, as a friend, let's form a group of friends to just to work, only that. And let's take care of ourselves and take care of our areas. I promise that I will negotiate with Fructoso and them. So trust me, I will arrange things with them. You're going to have a lot of space so you can live in those mountains with nobody bothering you. Take care, Flaco, Kinini, and talk with Tena. And that's how it is. And as for Gallito, who wants to fuck with us, I will try to talk with Don Carlos, Kinini. If he's going to be in charge of all this, and if Don Carlos doesn't put a stop to this, then we'll put a stop to it ourselves, right? In this little cake that is the port of Lazaro Cardenas, we are all going to be involved. I'm already making deals, my deals, and God willing, it's going to work for us and there will be enough for everybody. Nothing more, and with a commitment not to rob or extort. We'll dedicate ourselves to work. God bless you. www.proceso.com.mx/?p=386234 |
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