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US calls for a transparent investigation in the Iguala case

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 08:18 PM PDT

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat

As the Iguala case finally received attention from the world press,  a full week and a half after the shootings and mass kidnappings, the White House has addressed the issue by asking for Mexico to conduct "a transparent investigation". 


"This is an alarming crime that demands a full, transparent investigation," said US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki.  The next part of the the statement depicts how little the US knows of who is responsible and how deeply embedded organized crime control is in Guerrero, Psaki continues "The perpetrators must be brought to justice."


In a case where the president of Mexico has shown no interest in, and in fact cancelled a planned trip to Guerrero last week, it will be interesting to see how he reacts to foreign pressures, if he reacts at all.


OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza called for "the clarification of the murders that have brought grief not only to the Mexican people but to all the countries of the Americas."

PGR Arrives in 5 helicopters-Mexico's attorney general leading the investigation

Five PGR  helicopters with forensic scientists, prosecutors and investigators arrived today in  Iguala, Guerrero, where federal Attorney General,  Jesús Murillo Karam is  leading the investigation against those responsible for the disappearances of 43 normal school. 

 Arriving today aboard PGR helicopters were; federal  institution staff of  prosecutors, forensic experts, criminologists and specialists.  Federal police arrived and took over the police duties until a new municipal policee department can be vetted and certified, including polygraphs.  100 cadidates were moved to Tlaycala for investigations. (below)
 



Federal Police arrive in Iguala

ATF and PGR dismantles clandestine AR-15 manufacturing shops

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 06:16 PM PDT

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat

Attorney General of Jalisco, Luis Carlos Nájera Gutiérrez de Velasco, announced that an operation with cooperating agencies from both sides of the border, has dismantled clandestine weapon manufacturing workshops.

The ATF agency along with Mexico's PGR agency dismantled two shops, both in Jalisco, one in Guadalajara, that was producing AR-15 rifles.  The factories were part of an network that sold its product to organized crime groups.  This is the first of its kind to be discovered in Mexico.

The shops manufactured the weapons for organized crime groups in Michoacán and the local cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG). It is estimated the shops were only operating for a few months. The material was imported from the United States.

The machinery is highly sophisticated and used software for precision manufacturing. 
foto from valor tamaulipeco

Video: MIL of Iguala's fugitive mayor, tells of Narco links to government in interrogation video

Posted: 07 Oct 2014 03:22 PM PDT

By Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat
Maria is one of the 4 women arrested in 2009
This is an kidnapping interrogation video from "Agora Guerrero".

Posted over a year ago, but have good information about the situation.

Rather than simply translating the narrative, this BB article will be presented as a post to include information that will give a better understanding to the interview.

The video presents two people who have presumably been kidnapped. Both are blindfolded, the footage begins with the woman being interrogated. If they were killed or set free is something I am yet to determine. 

Her name is Maria Leonor Villa Ortuña, (MIL)  she is the mother in law of the Iguala Guerrero mayor, since January 2011, Jose Luis Abarca, her daughter, Maria de Los Angeles Pineda,  is married to Abarca,  Abarca is a fugitive from law wanted for murder of 3 activists and the kidnapping and murder of student teachers.

MIL is asked who funded the campaigns of the mayor and Guerrero Governor Angel Aguirre Rivero.  Aguirre has been governor since January 2011.  

She answered that both were funded by Arturo Beltran Leyva (BLO).

She also said that the governor is the cousin of Victor Hugo Aguirre Garsol, one of the founders of Independent Cartel of Acapulco.  The Independent group is a splinter group of BLO.  After the death of Arturo Beltran, there was an internal struggle for control, between Edgar Valdez alias 'La Barbie' and Hector Beltran Leyva.  This resulted in Valdez and his loyalists leaving and creating their group.
Molon
Iguala is a valuable point in Guerrero, for many reasons but in the drug trafficking aspect, it is a staging portal of drugs, which from that point transfers to various points of Tierra Caliente, State of Mexico and Morelos.   

There is constant conflict for control, primarily between GU, who has managed to keep control, and Los Rojos.  Los Rojos is another BLO splinter group, and should not be confused with the Los Rojos of Tamaulipas, a CDG cell.

MIL is asked who is behind the criminality in Iguala. She says Guerreros Unidos, with support by her son in law, the mayor, commanders and municipal police.  She claims he is paid 2 million pesos per month, which is difficult to believe, per year would be more in line.  

But again, this mayor is very different than any corrupted mayor this reporter has seen in Mexico.  This mayor is a very hands on active character within the GU organization.

MIL is asked who 'El Molon' is.  She states he is Solomon Pineda Villa, her son.  She says Molon is his nickname.  She said he was incarcerated in Matamoros Tamaulipas but released two months prior, but keep in mind this video is a year old at least.
Questioning continues by the interrogator asks the names of her children, she answers:

Mario Pineda Villa  (killed)
Alberto Pineda Villa  (killed)
Guadalupe Villa Pineda
Salomon Pineda Villa
Maria De Los Angeles Pineda Villa (Mayors wife in above photo conducting her "charity work", require as president of the DIF agency)

In May 2009, there was an arrest in Morelos of 10 men and 4 women.  MIL was one of the 4 women arrested, many of the others are related to her.  Notably, her 73 year old husband, and three sons.  One is Alberto Pineda was the leader of the group in the region, aka El Borrado.  Another of the arrested was 'Molon'.

It appears that few actually served any prison time.  Molon served about a year and a half in federal prison in Matamoros.. 

MIL is asked who killed her sons Maria and Alberto.  She said Arturo Beltran, and that he did so because her sons betrayed him.

She also states that the group were Arturo Beltran collaborators, engaged in the trafficking of drugs.

She is asked who are the allies of GU, she says Independent Cartel, the cartel led by the governors cousin Victor Hugo Aguirre.

The interrogator now questions the other person kidnapped, he is the escort or bodyguard of MIL.  He states his name as Carlos Cereso Salgado, he has worked as MIL escort for 3 ½ years.  They mostly ask him the same questions of MIL.  He answers giving the same responses as she.  

In closing, seeing the relationship, control and infiltration of organized crime from the bottom up to the governor's mansion, one can realize how the crimes against the Iguala and Guerrero society in general has been allowed to persist with impunity.  It is the classic case of the fox guarding the hen house.

PGR, EPN and other federal agencies refused to become involved with the atrocities when called on by citizens of Guerrero for help.  For years, they took the position that it was a state and local issue and as such should be handled by authorities there. 

Rendering justice an impossible feat.

Big thanks to ValorTamaulipeco.com for sending me the video and other information


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