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- 31 Students kidnapped in Cocula Guerrero in July
- Mexico: 11 Ayotzinapa Protesters Arrested Are Denied Bail
- "Changuito Ántrax" ; The embarrassing Son-in-law of the Sinaloa Ministerial Police Deputy Director
| 31 Students kidnapped in Cocula Guerrero in July Posted: 26 Nov 2014 07:13 PM PST Borderland Beat posted by Pepe and Chivis republished from France24  Note: Cocula is about 20 minutes driving time from Iguala. I have a post from August where 31-32 bodies were discovered on the outskirts of Iguala. No identification studies have been performed on those remains....Cocula is as violent as Iguala, with large groups of people taken and never seen again. In 2013 between the months of May-July at least three groups were taken; 12 in May, 10 in June and 23 in July. These aside from ongoing single kidnappings and smaller groups, including entire families from their homes. Children are not off limits. These kidnappings and killings are unlike kidnappings in other states of Mexico. The only gain that one can surmise, is terrorizing the populous for control. By containing residents in the grip of terror. As for student kidnappings, this is nothing new, group student killings and kidnappings have been occurring for years in Guerrero and neighboring states. Citizens begged for help from the federal governments and PGR, appealing to both the Calderon and Pena administrations, but they refused to help on grounds it was a state and local matter. This was told to residents, even after they stressed it was the government that was part of the killings as they were in collusion with organized crime. .....Chivis  France24 Report The southern Mexican city of Cocula grabbed global headlines after being named by officials as the place where 43 students who went missing in September were likely murdered. Now FRANCE 24 has uncovered a new kidnapping case in the same town. A witness to the latest kidnapping told FRANCE 24 that more than 30 high school students, including her teenage daughter, were rounded up in broad daylight on the last day of classes. It was July 7 – the children have not been heard from since. During and after the abduction, the kidnappers told Cocula residents they would kill them if they spoke out. Terrified families did not report the incident to authorities or the media, until now. Their collective silence is due in part to what appears to be another case of criminal complicity between local police forces and drug cartels that operate with impunity in the region. Although the captors were wearing masks, they took the secondary school students away in police vehicles that they did not even bother to camouflage. Video should play well in full screen.... | ||||||||
| Mexico: 11 Ayotzinapa Protesters Arrested Are Denied Bail Posted: 26 Nov 2014 01:35 PM PST For Borderland Beat by DD  On November 20 three different massive marches led by students and families of the missing 43 students coalesced on the Zocolo, the main plaza in Mexico City. The marchers were not only demanding the return of missing students, but demanding the resignation of President Engrique Pena Nieto and demanding justice for the other 22,000+ missing in Mexico. The demonstrations were peaceful during the entire day of marching and the coming together in the Zocolo. Earlier in the week Pena Nieto had warned that violence and vandalism would not be tolerated in demonstrations and threatened to use state force against protestors if that occurred. It seems his words turned into action on the night of Nov. 20 as the tens of thousands of demonstrators started disbanding and returning to their homes at about 10:PM. Shortly after 11:PM a small group of individuals wearing face masks started attacking the troops guarding the National Palace that faces the Zocolo. Rocks, bottles a few Molotov cocktails were thrown. Estimates of the size of the group involved in the violence ranged from 20 to 40. The army and police responded with force attacking indiscriminately the small crowd that remained in the plaza. Police violently removed protesters from Zocala Square injuring dozens, despite pleas from the protesters
The police indiscriminately attacked all those present, including Juan Martin Perez, the executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children, who was in the square with his family. A photographer from Mexican magazine Proceso was also among the injured when an officer threw a sharp piece of metal at him. Dozens were injured and 15 arrested.
Students and bystanders insisted that the masked "anarchist" were not part of the demonstrators in the marches. Earlier in the day, social media was abuzz with allegations that police were transporting officers in plainclothes and that police intended to infiltrate the peaceful march to provoke violence. Ayotzinapa student Dante Hernandez Castrejon said government violation of human rights of protesters that were arrested during the November 20 demonstrations in Mexico City are "way out of line" and are aimed at intimidating people who have supported the struggle to pressure authorities to find the 43 disappeared students alive. He pointed to the existence of some infiltrators in the area around the Mexico City airport that morning and in the Zocalo that night, but said that those arrested were students. Eleven of those arrested were charged with serious crimes against the state, including attempted murder, conspiracy (terrorism). After their arrest they were transferred by the PGR to the state of Veracruz and on Monday presented to the 17th District Court to determine if they should be detained. The court denied them bail due to the seriousness of the crimes even though the evidence against them was "fuzzy". PGR failed to produce the videos and photos that the office had promised as conclusive evidence of their guilt. The "key" element in the evidence presentedto identify the arrested as part of a "collective subversive group" was the testimony of police who said the students referred to each other as "compa" (buddy). The detainees complained to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) for alleged acts of physical violence and mistreatment during their transport to the Republic's General Attorney (PGR) facilities and later to Federal Prisons, where they remain held. Alejandro Jimenez, counselor to the allegedly unfairly detained declared that the moving of five male students to the high security prison of Veracruz and three women to the one in Nayarit, has made difficult the communication with their families, most of them of limited economic resources. During a press conference in Mexico city, Jimenez said that the arrested attended the march on November 20 as part of different groups; also, they were verbally mistreated, threatened and physically attacked while being arrested and during their transfer from the Deputy Organized Crime Specialized Secretary (SEIDO) to the states of Veracruz and Nayarit. The lawyer quoted the files of the prison physicians, that states the arrested individuals have been evidently beaten. Activists fear that the repression unleashed Thursday night in Zocalo is a sign of things to come. La Jornada said in an editorial that; It is regrettable, first of all, that a protest for a crime committed by a police force, as is the case in the murder and disappearance of the student teachers in Iguala on September 26, is reinforced with abuse by authorities against innocent citizens. The arbitrary and baseless arrests result in a violation of the law by those in charge of seeing that it prevails, weakens the rule of law, accelerates the discrediting of government institutions and increases the discontent already traversing the country. Moreover, as reprehensible as is repeated police abuse against innocent citizens, the inability of the police to distinguish between innocent people and possible suspects, and the unjustified detention of random people, it is even more reprehensible that citizens who are arrested in these circumstances receive treatment similar to that of murderers, drug traffickers and kidnappers, and that they are sent to federal prisons with unusual speed by the institutions that administer the eAs can be seen, this trend has moved from words to deeds, while the arbitrariness with which the police acted to disperse the crowd and the actions of the prosecutors who consigned the detainees cannot be understood as anything other than a means of intimidating those who have participated in these mass actions and of inhibiting the realization of future demonstrations. Such a perspective is unacceptable, because it would reveal a government that has not only been unable to provide a single hard and credible piece of information on the whereabouts of the 43 missing students, but also that is beginning to focus more on silencing and suppressing expressions of discontent aroused by that crime than to clarify itnforcement of justice. "The government is dumbstruck," said Jose Antonio Crespo, a political science professor at Mexico's Center for Economic Research and Teaching. "This should be a turning point to enact deeper measures against corruption, whether the entire political class accepts it, wants it, or not," he argued. Milenio newspaper columnist Ciro Gomez Leyva warned that Pena Nieto "will not get a second chance.
The indiscriminate attack on the mostly peaceful crowd and the arbitrary arrest of the 11 students on Nov. 20 has not succeeded in intimidating and repressing the protesters. It has only given the protesters a new slogan and theme for their marches. A small march on Sat., Nov 22 was held protesting the arrests and demanding the release of the 11 "political prisoners". Another larger march was held yesterday, Tue. Nov. 25 with the same demands. At the National Center for the Arts, a public institution in Mexico City's south, roughly a hundred students and professors gathered in an open-air amphitheater Monday to discuss the upcoming protest. The purpose of the assembly wasn't to draw up plans of attack, but rather to figure out how marchers could protect themselves from the police. Atzin Andrade González, who attends the center's painting and sculpture school, is among the group of 11 detainees.  "It's actually kind of scary," Eduardo, a 23-year-old student at the center's music school, said. "But we can't give in to that fear. Even though we know [the police] have the power to disappear us, we have to continue so they don't do it to anyone else."
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| "Changuito Ántrax" ; The embarrassing Son-in-law of the Sinaloa Ministerial Police Deputy Director Posted: 26 Nov 2014 11:47 AM PST Borderland Beat posted by siskiyou_kid from RioDoce  The [big] news wasn't that they had arrested Rafael Félix Núñez, "El Changuito", a low-level gunman who advanced because they had arrested Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, "El Chino Ántrax" but that he was the son-in-law of the Deputy Director of the Ministerial police, Martiniano Vizcarra Burgos. Ana Lilia Vizcarra Vega, a daughter from the comandante's first marriage, married "El Changuito" in 2006 and had two children. On September 12, 2014, they obtained a divorce, as documented in a court judgment. Some government officials went into a panic when they learned. One of them was the Governor. So he opted to talk to the reporters in twisted words:  López Valdez said to disregard Félix Núñez's family relationship with the Deputy Director of the Ministerial police. The top leader of Sinaloa even said Vizcarra Burgos is an agent who in recent years has given good results in the fight against crime. "I had no knowledge of this alleged relationship that you mentioned and that Martiniano is a police officer, for 20 or 30 years, I don't know how many years has been in the department, and I know that in recent days has been very committed to combating crime", said López Valdez. The Governor said that there would be an investigation regarding the information that Ríodoce had spread about the kinship between the criminal leader and the police chief. But the investigative momentum went off like a bomb, when three days later, interviewed by the media during the celebrations of the day of the Mexican Revolution, Jesus Antonio Aguilar Iñiguez, head of the Ministerial Police, came out in defense of his "right hand man", saying that it would put the whole department behind the good reputation of Vizcarra Burgos. "It is true that this person - Rafael Guadalupe Félix Núñez, known as "El Changuito", is married to a daughter of Commander Martiniano Vizcarra, but he never advised them when they wanted to marry,", the police chief explained to Ríodoce, in a separate interview.  In defense of his subordinate, Aguilar Iñiguez reported that Vizcarra Burgos' daughter, Ana Lilia Vizcarra Vega, divorced "El Changuito" this year. Last June she filed for divorce because she had problems with her partner, and on 23 September a judge of Costa Rica granted the action. He said that in the document, Rafael Félix agrees to pay 15,000 pesos a month as support for the two children they had together. They married in 2006, when Commander Vizcarra Burgos had legal problems, as a result of what happened at Cinepolis Culiacán Plaza on September 11, 2004, when Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes was murdered. Martiniano has more than 30 years of service and is a serious man committed to his work, Chuytoño said. Martiano's letter of few words Commander Martiniano Vizcarra is a man of few words, who will not agree to give an interview, but did draft a brief letter. But his explanation is, to say the least, fantastic. "I'm a dad like any other and I agree to be the father of Ana Lilia Vizcarra Vega, and out of respect for her mother I will omit her name, but due to personal problems I live apart from them. "The fact that she decided to join together in marriage was a decision that I didn't have anything to do with, until today when I heard that she married a person who appears in the media since he has problems with the law, this person who I do not know and I categorically deny any relationship or friendship, or rather than in my capacity as public official in the police I have favored him, or that he would have taken advantage of my job".
Changuito and Monki: How they escaped the pot Rafael Guadalupe Félix Núñez, "El Changuito" and José Miguel Arano Montoya, "El Monki", were delivered to the soldiers of the Navy by chance. Still in the same house where slept Ismael Zambada Imperial that morning that they were captured, they decided to "run" on quads. They carried no radios. While on the mountain, they saw the movement of helicopters which, like huge vultures, hovered about Estancia de Los Burgos. On seeing them land they knew that "El Mayito Gordo" had fallen. They hid all day and night on the mountain, and the next day took to the road, where they were collected by his people. It took more to recover from the bustle and establish a connection with his accomplices, when Navy trapped them. The monkey were arrested the next day while he was in a Nissan car, at the junction of the streets of bougainvillea and 12 October, the colony may 10. Reviewing it, the Navy found an AK-47 rifle with your charger supplied with 29 useful cartridges; a supplied charger with 30 useful cartridges calibre 7.62 x 39 mm and a.9 mm pistol. In the trunk, said the PGR in a statement, they found a kilogram of cocaine he had. That morning the Monki was also arrested. According to the part of the Navy, at approximately 9:50 hours the Feds patrolling the colonia Ruiz Cortines and going on the calle Severiano M. Moreno, noted that on the aforementioned Street, was a person who wore a bulletproof vest as he was getting into an SUV. It was a Mercedes Benz, silver gray, with plates from the State of Durango. They covered his step with federal unit and José Miguel Arano ran towards the avenida Gral. Fernando Cuen, by what a naval officer ran after him. He was given scope on the same street. A pistol calibre was found 9 mm with a magazine inserted seven useful cartridges and one in the Chamber. Also three Chargers supplied. In the van found in the passenger seat a weapon caliber 7.62 × 39, known as the goat Horn, charger inserted and stocked with useful 29 cartridges and one in the Chamber. On the floor of the vehicle found a charger supplied with useful 27 cartridges calibre 7.62 x 39 mm. Admitted both to the criminal of Culiacan on Saturday, days after the first district judge issued them detention for his probable responsibility in the Commission of crimes against health, in the form of possession of hydrochloride of cocaine for the purpose of trade; and violation of the Federal law of firearms and explosives, on the modalities of carrying of a firearm and possession of cartridges for the exclusive use of army, armed and air force. Old Dirt Both El Changuito and El Monki, along with another gunman, were arrested on April 16, 2013, when in a raid conducted by the Municipal police in the south of the city, and commanded by the then Secretary of public, Carlos Alfonso Ontiveros Salas, they were found with at least four AK-47 rifles. They moved them to the facilities of the police in Culiacan and entered data to the base of criminal information known as platform Mexico, while arsenal was lowered in the rear of the office of the director of the Corporation. This time, elements who took part in the arrest of the armed group reported that among those arrested was a person identified as El Changuito and another nicknamed as El Monki. While they came to sign the detainees, he entered the offices of the police chiefs the high command of the State Ministerial police called , demanding their releas, by the night of April 16. This caused both Ontiveros Salas and other police chiefs to be threatened with death, which led to the resignation of the Secretary, after have been hidden outside the state for 15 days. There were also threats of death against Ontiveros Salas, Hipolito Hernandez and other police controls who participated in the referred operation, among them the head of specialized unit against the theft of vehicles of the DSPM, being forced to leave the State for reasons of personal safety. Ontiveros Salas was in the city of Mexico until May 6 reappeared in Culiacan to present his resignation as Secretary of public safety and Municipal transit. The accurate information Hipolito Hernandez re-joined the DSPM, but not as Deputy but as first officer. Record or informative part about these facts was not in the Municipal police. The monkey and the Monki arrested, there only remain in the old structure of El Antrax three of its main agents: René Velázquez, El Sargento Phoenix, who recently came out of jail; El Tracka and Cheyo (Eliseo Imperial, cousin of el Mayito Gordo).  The death of "El Fello" Martiniano Vizcarra Burgos lost a son in a tragic way. Alfredo Vizcarra Vega, who originally commanded the group that later would be called Los Antrax, was killed on November 4, 2008, in the framework of the war that broke out inside of the Sinaloa cartel, following the arrest of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva. He was in a car wash located on 21st of March Street, in the colonia Diez de Mayo, when a group of sicarios arrived at the place in two trucks and opened fire. Also killed was another person and two more were wounded. El Fello lived two blocks from there, by the Lilia Street, Martiniano Vizcarra's home until he had to flee the city once the PGR sought ithim, along with Jesús Antonio Aguilar Iñiguez, under the presumption that they had protected drug traffickers when they were - as now-, at the head of the Ministerial police in the six-year period of Sinaloa governor Juan Millán Lizárraga. The death of Alfredo Vizcarra, his friend Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, who had baptized his eldest son, took command of the group. Later they named the team of assassins: Los Antrax. |
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