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- Activist who led protests in support of missing normalistas found decapitated
- kidnapped, beaten and warned, Matamoros editor halts narco news coverage
- Chapo's capture results in no change in street drug market -Heroin replacing RX as drug of choice
| Activist who led protests in support of missing normalistas found decapitated Posted: 05 Feb 2015 04:33 PM PST Lucio republished from proceso posted by Siskiyoukid Salgado Delgado was one of the main Morelos promoters of the demonstrations in support of the 43 normalistas missing in Guerrero, and was scheduled to participate in the demonstrations held on Wednesday, February 4th at the University of Morelos and Cuernavaca.  The municipal police reported that about 5:30 PM on Wednesday they found the body of a man, without hands or head, corresponding to the characteristics of the missing activist, so reported to the Regional Public Prosecutor of the East of Morelos. (Milenio is reporting the decapitated head was at the scene a few meters away) Later, at the stroke of eight in the evening, members of the RPF moved to the place of the discovery to identify the person, and they alerted regional prosecution officials in Morelos. Local media reported that Salgado Delgado "was kidnapped and executed by an armed group when he left a popular assembly with day laborers of the Montaña of Guerrero, who were part of a migrant camp asking for a home". Alejandro Salgado, 32 years old, was found decapitated and with signs of torture, according to both media and authorities in Morelos. The slain activist was characterized as promoting in Morelos mobilizations demanding justice for the 43 missing of Ayozinapa, Guerrero. Previously, the RPF Central Committee denounced the disappearance of Salgado Delgado, who was seen for the last time Tuesday as he returned from a meeting held in the keyhole in the Morelos municipality of Ayala.  He was kidnapped and killed by an armed group- while leaving a popular assembly with laborers from the mountains of Guerrero. In a statement, the RPF directive demanded the emergence with life of the leader and made responsible for any aggression to the PRD Graco Ramírez Governor. "The last thing that is known is that you moved to a meeting where he stayed until six in the afternoon. Even colleagues accompanied him to the transportation that would take him to the road to take the urban truck that would take him back to Ayala", but did not reach its destination. Then began to look at State and municipal barracks and went to the public prosecutor's Office in the town, but they did not receive the complaint. "The political activity of our colleague has been constant in the defense of the land and housing in the Morelos municipality of Ayala for migrant workers in the mountains of Guerrero and Oaxaca. "Is from this situation that local chieftains and the state have maintained constant surveillance and harassment towards our colleague, like their illegal detention on March 20, 2014, in Cuernavaca, while participating in a March organized by the citizen front against income [tax] law", said the RPF. |
| kidnapped, beaten and warned, Matamoros editor halts narco news coverage Posted: 05 Feb 2015 10:49 PM PST Lucio republished from The Monitor and posted on forum by Pepe Kidnappers were not happy with El Manana's news coverageof the escalated violence in Matamoros and Reynosa The US Consulate in Matamoros advised in a statement; it has suspended its activities until further notice because of the Tamaulipas border violence continuing since Sunday. "Because of the increase in violence in Matamoros, staff American Consulate was being warned to restrict travel from home to work until further notice." Also, he has asked consulate staff; to be on the alert to the presence of vehicles marked with "scorpion", "M3", "XX", " 900 "or "C7" which are involved in violence. He explains that there is greater risk of violence in Matamoros and Reynosa due to the conflict between factions of the Gulf Cartel.  Necessity, the mother of invention: Tamaulipas has been a narco news blackout state since 2009, when mainstream publications stopped reporting, or greatly reduced, news on organized crime activity. This resulted in the formation of Tamaulipas Twitterers and Situations at Risk bloggers (SDR and PSDR) such as #ReynosaFollow. which led the way to anonymous SDR blogging and tweeting across Mexico. (Lucio) A newspaper editor from a Mexican border city considered his future Thursday; a day after three  Enrique Juarez Torres, editor of El Mañana de Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, said his kidnapping was a warning from the Gulf Cartel over publishing reports in Wednesday's newspaper about gunfights in the area that killed nine people. A total of 15 people have reportedly been killed since the weekend as rival factions of the cartel battle between the border cities of Matamoros and Reynosa. Thursday's edition of El Mañana in Matamoros carried no mention of Juarez's kidnapping nor the dummy grenade tossed at the door of city hall. Both stories appeared in its sister paper, El Mañana de Reynosa. Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, Juarez was in his office on the second floor the newspaper's downtown building. Three armed men entered, asked for him and found their way to his office. They dragged him outside and pushed him into a van. He was driven around the city, punched repeatedly and told he would be killed if he continued publishing stories about the drug violence plaguing the area. They dropped him off later outside the newspaper. This week, Matamoros and the towns along the Rio Grande north to Reynosa have been put on edge by rolling gunbattles between the rival cartel factions. The U.S. Consulate in Matamoros issued a warning to U.S. citizens on Wednesday of a "likelihood of increased violence in the Matamoros vicinity, reportedly between the Matamoros and Reynosa factions of the Gulf cartel."  "Because it was a situation of 'Enough already,' there is a lot happening," Juarez said of the decision to publish. But he said the decision to break with the usual policy of not reporting on cartel violence was made by the newspaper's owners. Asked if he agreed, he said, "Truthfully, no, because I suspected that something was going to happen, and it did." "What they did to me was a warning," Juarez said of his kidnappers. "It is a warning to all of us who work there, those who are physically in Matamoros and those who are not in Matamoros." Juarez, who has been editor of the newspaper for five years, said the cartel had gotten his attention previously over stories related to drug activities. He said he now considered himself a "marked" man and left Matamoros Wednesday night.
According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, 76 news media workers have been slain in Mexico since 1992 |
| Chapo's capture results in no change in street drug market -Heroin replacing RX as drug of choice Posted: 05 Feb 2015 01:19 PM PST Written by Lucio for Borderland Beat Sinaloa Cartel and its now incarcerated leader, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, can be directly linked to  the heroin flooding the streets of St Louis, Missouri, reports the DEA. The Drug Administration once proclaimed Guzman as the U.S. public enemy Number 1.The former Special Agent in Charge of the DEA's regional office in Chicago, Jack Riley, says the Cartel brings heroin and cocaine to the United States, using Chicago as their staging hub. Regional gangs then distribute it in cities such as St. Louis and throughout. St Louis area police agencies have discovered a striking increase in heroin use, drug overdoses, and heroin related arrests. Former agent Riley says eighty percent of the heroin and cocaine in the Midwest can be attributed to the Sinaloa Cartel.  The explosion of number of addicts created from using the expensive RX drugs, especially when purchased on the streets, have later fueled the much cheaper heroin market. Sinaloa flooded the market with heroin, the cheaper alternative, while increasing its strength. This action pulled business from the opioid RX market, shifting the drug of choice to heroin, creating a large pool of consumer, to the drug, that had greatly declined in use over the last decade. In St Louis County, the heroin market has exploded over the past two years, as RX use has declined.  Subsequent to the capture of the Sinaloa capo 'El Chapo', there have been no signs or affect on the U.S. street drug trade. In the past few years number of arrests in St Louis region has doubled. Riley says the heroin market is fueled by users who can't afford costly opioid prescription pain relievers. RX medication addicts may choose the cheaper heroin. The aggressive manner in which Sinaloa chased the pill market, has proven once again that big cartels are big business. They have business structures and business plans that aside from the criminality, are much like any legitimate business. Sinaloa saw their heroin market declining to insignificance, and created a stronger, cheaper alternative, that had easier access than RX meds, to recapture their loss in the market. Heroin can be injected, inhaled by snorting or smoked. All three routes of use, deliver the drug to the brain very rapidly, which contributes to its high risk for addiction, chronic relapsing caused by changes in the brain. 48% of young people who inject heroin, surveyed in three recent studies, reported abusing prescription opioids before starting to use heroin. They report switching to heroin because it is cheaper and easier to obtain than prescription opioids. They also report that crushing prescription opioid pills, to snort or inject the powder, provided their initiation into these methods of drug administration prior to converting to heroin, making the switch comfortable. |
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