Morelos: The Old School leaves manta in Cuernavaca

Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat from VXT

Today at approximately 6:45 am, the location of a narcomanta was reported on one of the pedestrian bridges of Paseo Cuauhnahuac, in the Flores Magon neighborhood.

Police units arrived to secure said narco manta. Which had the following message:

"Abel Maya Garfias, you and your filthy gang that you command. Tom, Checo, Ataques (Attacks), El Gordo (The Fat One), Ivan, La Lombriz de Agua (The Water Worm), Puerca (Female Pig) Alias, Mirris. Just like in Zapata, you are involving yourself in other people’s wars and in the people’s voice that you extort and all of Morelos. We are going to fuck you up. You went to ask others for their tit and they all told you to fuck off. You just didn’t know how to work.

Veracruz: The war against cartels; CJNG taking the most hits

 Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from eVerzcruz.mx veracruz.mx

Xalapa, Ver. - Of seven organized crime groups that fight "the plaza" in Veracruz, the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación (CJNG) has been the most battered in the first three months of the Cuitláhuac García Jiménez administration.

According to the analysis of 597 official communications, the group founded by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho", has suffered major arrests, property assurances and abatment in 12 municipalities where this cell was based from the government of the PRI, Javier Duarte.

The state leader Cuitláhuac García has recognized before senators and media the presence of at least six cartels in the entity: CJNG, Los Zetas, Zetas Old School, Sangre Nueva Zeta, 35 Z, Cartel del Golfo and Grupo Sombra.

Video: After non-payment of piso, extortionists detonate a grenade in an Edomex combi

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from Excelsior

"Everyone gets off. Let’s go little boy. May you all go with God. God bless you all. Please get off..." extortionist 

Tecámac, State of Mexico.  With smoke grenades and gun in hand, the extortionists in the State of Mexico charge drivers of public transportation employees piso/tax for permission to work.   The drivers say that in less than a week, two Combi units have been burned.

It was 5:15 in the morning the driver of the public passenger transport unit of the Zitlantepec line , covered his route on the Mexico-Pachuca highway , and sent a voice message on his cell phone, when two people boarded the unit.

In the images captured by the transport security camera it is observed  subjects indicate to the passengers that they have a grenade and that it is not against them nor is it an assault, they only question the driver because they have not paid.

Sonora: 3 men who were missing found dead from bullet wounds in San Carlos/Guaymas

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from El Sol de Hermosillo

Typically peaceful, San Carlos/Guaymas has experienced an uptick of violence for the past year. US consulate issued security alert for three cities in Sonora.  Warning applies to San Carlos, Guaymas and Empalme and follows recent criminal activity

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When the bodies of three lifeless people were found with bullet wounds inside a vehicle in Guaymas, Sonora, the State Attorney General's Office informed that one of the victims has already been identified.

It was at 00:40 yesterday, when the municipal and state authorities found a gray Dodge Attitude, model 2017, where were the remains of Christopher Miguel N , 22 years old and the bodies of two more men.

Official data reveal that Christopher N , is originally from Hermosillo, who apparently was missing since March 15, until he was found in San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas at kilometer 1 + 800 of Boulevard Manlio Fabio Beltrones.

Israeli Spyware Used to Target the Widow of Journalist Javier Valdez, says report..

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat republished from Haaretz

Pegasus, licensed by NSO, allows monitoring devices and their content, including the remote activation of cameras and microphones without users' knowledge. This brings to 25 the number of known cases involving the spyware in Mexico--

The widow of a renowned Mexican journalist murdered two years ago was the target of an attempted spyware attack 10 days after his death, an internet watchdog group reported Wednesday.

The Toronto-based Citizen Lab said the attempt to place Pegasus spy software targeted Griselda Triana, the widow of Javier Valdez, bringing to 25 the number of known cases involving the spyware in Mexico — including two of Valdez's colleagues at the Riodoce weekly in the northern state of Sinaloa.

Tamaulipas: In message CDG claims murder of Agent of Public Ministry of anti-kidnapping squad

SteveCtpa for Borderland Beat from VXT

State offers 5 Million Peso reward

An Agent of the Public Ministry of Tamaulipas was murdered this morning for the impact of a firearm, after being attacked in a vehicle in which she was traveling when she arrived at a home in Ciudad Victoria.

The death of the official identified as Patricia Butrón, was confirmed by official sources, who belonged to the Anti-kidnapping area.

The facts would have arisen near the 8:00 hours in a fractionation of that city of Tamaulipas.

In December of last year, Judge Abelardo Ibarra Torres and Public Prosecutor, Dolores Érika Granados, were assassinated after an attack while traveling in a vehicle in Ciudad Victoria.

Authorities of Tamaulipas informed that an investigation folder was opened to clarify the facts about the murder of the agent.

"The Attorney General of Tamaulipas informs that an investigation folder was opened for the murder of an agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office that took place on Thursday morning in Ciudad Victoria," the official said.

Without giving details of the events, the agency said that at this time the investigations are conducted to determine the manner in which the events occurred.

Truck with explosives seized in Celaya, Guanajuato

Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat from Notinfomex

GUANAJUATO.- A pick-up truck was seized in the vicinity of the road that leads to the Honda plant in the municipality of Celaya, Guanajuato.

A citizen report alerted the authorities, who mobilized to the area and located a unit in a state of neglect.

When doing the review they found inside a plastic box with explosive material, apparently gunpowder, with the initials of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.

Oaxaca: Journalist Jesús Hiram Moreno is shot in Salina Cruz

Throw Away for Borderland Beat from Excelsior

Journalist Jesus Hiram Moreno is recovering from injuries caused by gunshots that an unknown person fired outside a convenience store in the municipality of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.

After the attack occurred on Wednesday Morena was taken to the emergency room of ​​the Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) hospital, he received protecton from elements of the Army and State Police, who accompanied him to his home where he will recover.

The founder and editor of the weekly "Evidencias" commented to the press that the man who attacked him shot him several times, causing a wound on his right arm and a wound on his back. After the attack, he said, his attacker fled on a motorcycle.

Veracruz: Video emerges of a CJNG 20 truck convoy "parading" in the carnival of La Mixtequilla

Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat from Notifomex

The calculation of the damages from clashes.

Veracruz.- The count of the damages of this morning and violent day of Friday in the Veracruz of Cuitlahuac Garcia and it is not noon.

• More than 20 trucks of the CJNG chase and shoot elements of the Civil Force on the highway 145-D La Tinaja-Cosamaloapan with the balance of a dead policeman and vehicles burned among them a patrol.

Los Escorpiones Group leaves manta in Reynosa, Mexico

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from Loba Indomable Twitter

An executed male was discovered in Reynosa with a narcomensaje in Colonia Sunny Valley, Avenida del Parque corner with Calle de la Montaña del Alba. .

"This is a message for all those guided by Los Metros and Grupo Ceros (Zeros Group). So that you assholes fall into formation with the gang. This is so that you can see. The State, Federal, Sedena, and Semar, we submerge them in their territories "

Sincerely, Scorpion Group 

Commander Yanki, Commander Panorras, Commander Negrito (Blackie), and Commander Caballa (Mackerel)

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Tijuana: Report the kidnappings of son and nephew of Chuy Labra

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat -thank you Manolo M via email- from Zeta Tijuana 

Allegedly the son and nephew of Jesus Labra Aviles who was the adviser and main financial operator of the Cartel Arellano Felix in the 80s,  were abducted Wednesday afternoon,  in the vicinity of the Centro Caliente Agua Caliente, in Tijuana .

Information obtained by ZETA states that around 17:34 hours a "levantón" was reported on the Sanchez Taboada boulevard in front of the Lázaro Cárdenas Federal High School, to the shock of students, passers-by and motorists.

Witnesses said that a white Suburban-type vehicle with tinted windows and several men, some with guns, dressed in denim trousers, black jackets and with the letters "PEP" in yellow, arrived at the site and took the two subjects who exited a pick-up truck, gray color, which was abandoned on the site. According to the documentation, the registration is named as Jesús Labra.

Veracruz: 5 presumed sicarios of CJNG arrested with powerful arsenal

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat Depeso Alerta Nota

Long weapons, cartridges, drugs, grenades and vehicles were secured after a search in a safe house in Cotaxtla and Coatzacoalcos.

VERACRUZ .- After a strong mobilization of uniformed were assured five alleged 'gunmen' who had a powerful arsenal.

Elements of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) in coordination with the Navy-Navy of Mexico (SEMAR) detained five alleged members of the Cartel of Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), in the municipalities of Cotaxtla and Coatzacoalcos.

In both operations, important blows against crime were struck; in addition to which they were confiscated a strong armament with which they counted at the time of their capture.

In an address located in the municipal seat of Cotaxtla, elements of the Navy assured Adolfo "N", of 45 years; Braulio "N", 42; and Jesus "N", of 38; while the SSP mounted a security device in the same place, where two AR-15 rifles, an AK-47 rifle, 14 chargers for R-15 and one for AK-47, 387 useful cartridges and three tactical vests were confiscated with the insignia "CJNG".

Jalisco: Guadalajara Police Commander and two body guards killed

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Waiting for him in ambush, several armed men  aboard trucks opened fire on the Guadalajara police commander and two of his escorts when he arrived at his home; Dead at the site of the shooting, the commanding officer, two bodyguards and one of his companions. 

It was shortly before midnight last Tuesday, in the closed street Río Calderón at the junction with Río Mascota in the Urbi Quinta subdivision, in the municipality of Tonalá , where the commander named Sergio Rivas Mejía was attacked.

After the search efforts of the attackers by police of Guadalajara and the State, they managed to locate abandoned two trucks at the intersection of Ave del Paraíso and Tucán, in the Pinar de Las Palomas neighborhood, Tonala.

Tamaulipas: José Alfredo Cárdenas, nephew of Osiel, trnasferred to federal prison

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from Reforma

In the midst of a strong security operation, which included the closing of streets in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, José Alfredo Cárdenas Martínez "El Contador" was transferred to a federal prison.

The transfer of the nephew of capo Osiel Cárdenas took place about fifteen days after he was recaptured in San Luis Potosí and held in the Center for the Execution of Sanctions. (Cedes) of Ciudad Victoria.

The transfer of Cárdenas Martínez as "El Señor Cortés" or "Escorpión" was carried out by air based on the coordination and cooperation agreements with the Government of Mexico and was led by elements of the Federal Police.

After the capture of José Alfredo Cárdenas, leader of the Gulf Cartel, narco message mantas  appear in Matamoros announcing the arrival of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the "Vieja Escuela” to Tamaulipas "welcoming dialogue with all the cartels, and that they must align with them. [TY LeChef]

Sonora/San Luis Río Colorado: Another Journalist Shot Dead

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On Friday evening at around 21:10 hrs, journalist and radio host Santiago Barroso was shot at the entrance of his home in the border city of San Luis Río Colorado. Reportedly, an assailant rang the bell at Barroso’s home at callejón Sinaloa between calle 7 and 8, located in colonia Sonora. After having opened the door, the perpetrator opened fire on him and fled the scene unidentified. According to neighbors, up to ten shots were heard. Badly wounded with one bullet in the clavicle and two bullets in the abdomen, Santiago Barroso was still able to call the emergency service which transferred him to the hospital. However, at around 23:00 hrs he succumbed to his wounds.

Tabasco: While little Girl plays with tablet in the family car, her father is murdered [Video]

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat from emenoticias

The case of a girl who plays with a tablet while her father dies in the family car after being brutally shot in a town in Tabasco shocked social networks.

The events took place on the night of Thursday, March 14, on José Sosa Street in the Gaviotas neighborhood, located in Villahermosa, when a man was traveling in his car in the company of his wife and two daughters.

According to the police report, the victim, identified as Joel, a local merchant also known as El Chelo Mafia, was intercepted by a group of gunmen, who shot at least seven times, causing fatal head injuries

After committing the brutal attack, the gunmen fled the place to an unknown destination; Fortunately, the children and the mother were unharmed.

Civil Force Rescue Minors Deprived of Their Freedom in Boca Del Río

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat

Elements of the Civil Force rescued two minors deprived of their liberty by presumed members of the Cartel of Jalisco New Generation (CJNG), in an address of the Las Vegas 2 subdivision, in this municipality.

In a statement, the group reported that the troops received a report that on San José de Calasanz Avenue, between streets Río Papaloapan and Ejército Mexicano, descended from a Nissan Pathfinder truck, white, with XZR912A plates, seven armed men, with two women that they had kidnapped.

At the site, the two victims were found, whom were taken for medical attention. In addition, the truck was secured with two handguns and one long, three chargers, cartridges of different calibers, tactical equipment and tarpaulins with the acronym CJNG.

CDN manta in San Pedro, Nuevo León

Sol Prendido Borderland Beat

This goes for all the dumbasses that work for CDG and the people of El Gato, leave San Pedro. Mayor Miguel Treviño is already with us. We have you all located. Therefore leave or your world will go to shit. Also the assholes who pay a fee to El Gato will now pay us. Fall into formation with us or die assholes.

Sincerely, CDN

Veracruz: War declared by CJNG leaves 11 murdered

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from La Silla Rota

         

          

In the north of the state, a pregnant woman died of a shot to the head
 

by Rodrigo Barranco Déctor

VERACRUZ, Veracruz - Attacks on the police, 11 deaths, blockades, and armed forces operations is the outcome over the weekend due to the wave of violence that has hit Veracruz since the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has lashed out against authorities of the Ministry of Public Security. 

After a violent Thursday and Friday, on Saturday morning, clashes continued, now in Jáltipan, in the south of the state, where an armed commando attacked a command of the Civil Force that at that time was empty. 

In the same region, there were reports of blockades by people who burned vehicles to block roads leading to the southeast of the country. 

In Tlalixcoyan, the SSP reported on the dismantling of an organized crime camp, in which no arrests were reported. 

Fleeing the black hole called Tamaulipas

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Horizontal

I survived three kidnappings and one week of torture. Forty companions and acquaintances disappeared. The State and Los Zetas threatened me. I fled from my house, but they will not shut me up. I am a journalist who defends those who have been silenced for reporting.

                        

  

by Gildo Garza

After surviving three "levantones" of Los Zetas and endured a week of unimaginable tortures, I could not write anymore.
 
After thinking for hours that they were going to kill me - to "see the devil's eyes" as they say in Tamaulipas - or after observing my companion's broken body, I could have kept quiet.
 
When between 2000 and 2013 more than 40 comrades and acquaintances disappeared and others were murdered and the state humiliated them by planting drugs and cardboard with messages from the narco at the crime scene to accuse them, I could have surrendered.
 
After all this, I ran away from my house.
 
But from the day I arrived at that workshop at the newspaper La Voz de Tamaulipas, of the late José Luis Contreras, and put a bucket, solution, and a printing plate in my hands, I knew that I had been caught by journalism. I felt the obligation to educate and document the history of Tamaulipas. That's why I'm still recounting.