Cancún: Bar attack leaves 5 dead and at least 5 wounded

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Animal Politico

                         

The attack on a bar in Cancun, Quintana Roo, left at least five dead and five seriously injured, according to the state attorney's office. 

Four subjects entered the establishment with a long weapon and three short, firing on the attendees.

The events occurred in the bar "La Kuka", located on Lopez Portillo Avenue near Supermanzana 60, in the streets of the downtown Benito Juárez municipality.

https://t.co/27nCqi1E7A

- Attorney General QR (@ FGEQuintanaRoo) February 16, 2019

According to the test data collected, four subjects entered the establishment with a long weapon and three short ones, firing on the attendees.
 
.223, .38 super and .45 caliber shells were found in the bar.

El Chapo’s final chapter

From my fave Journalist republished from Tortoise Media

What? The trial of the man who may have smuggled more drugs into the United States than anyone else in history is coming to an end. Why? His trial – and life – had a dark glamour to it. The life he led was murderous.

By Ioan Grillo

The main attraction at the federal court in Brooklyn over the past three months has been the chance to get within a few feet of the man they call El Chapo – real name Joaquin Guzman. He is the drug lord whose tales of prison escapes and smuggling tunnels have made him the dark star of his universe. Journalists, fans and tourists have been arriving from as early as 2am in sub-zero temperatures to get in line. On a typical day, only the first 25 or so would make it into the courtroom to see him in the flesh. The next 40 would find space in an overflow room and watch proceedings on TV. The rest were turned away.

Bugg's 'Borderland Beat' Book Coming Soon!!!!

I could not be more proud, this book has been on Alex's agenda since I have known him, 2010 or so.

Read below-Chivis

"The Borderland Beat Project is collaboration from a group of people of different backgrounds located in the US and Mexico that gather information related to the Mexican drug cartels and presents it in English through the internet, publications and presentations. Almost all content in this book comes from the result of reporting in the Borderland Beat blog and, the personal experience and research of the author.

Veracruz - A photographer kidnapped in Mexico, part two

Stevecpta for Borderland Beat by  By John Sevigny 

Read Part One Here 

A woman working as a prostitute in Guadalajara, Jalisco shows off her Santisima Muerte tattoo. Photo by John Sevigny, 2006. [at left]

After years prowling Mexican barrios and slums I know them as well as the place where I grew up. They’re all the same. Makeshift houses with DIY expansion jobs halfway finished. A cinder block church with a playground. A graffitti-covered municipal basketball court with no nets in the hoops and teenagers smoking crack in a far-off corner.

There are kids playing soccer in the street. There are dogs unleashed. There are little houses with open doors where men with AKs will sell you sex, drugs, and for big money, cars and guns.

I’ve watched boys become men in these neighborhoods and get recruited in the transition. Some rise through the ranks in gangsta-land to become big brass. Some become kings. Others never rise above the the rank of “halcon” — lookouts who sit on corners with cell phones. If they see soldiers or federal cops, they text a numeric code across the network to warn everyone else. It’s a dull, dangerous, low-paying job. They are cannon fodder for rival cartels. The word halcon means hawk. Lookouts are not predatory birds but they need the same eyes.

Playa del Carmen Bar Video released where 7 were killed

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Playa del Carmen.- One day after José N. was linked to the kidnapping, where  seven deaths that took place at the "Las Virginias" bar, located in the Villas del Sol in this city, today a video is released from surveillance cameras, showing how armed individuals enter the place where the multihomicide occurred.

In the video, of little more than 30 seconds of duration, it is possible to observe two armed persons entering the bar, and those who threaten the patrons,  some of these people even throw themselves on the floor.

In addition to the seven deaths, he is linked to express kidnapping and aggravated kidnapping, because he is accused of plagiarizing several people, from whom he reserves his identity, in the town of Caobas, in November 2018.

Veracruz: Kidnapped woman decapitated and left with message

Throw Away for Borderland Beat translated and republished from Proceso

XALAPA, Veracruz- The body of Susana Beatriz Carrera, who had been kidnapped over the weekend, was found decapitated and with a message, after her family members rebuked the mayor of Coatzacoalcos, Víctor Carranza.

On Sunday, the relatives of Susana Carrera questioned the mayor of Coatzacoalcos about his tasks to provide security in cases of kidnapping, the video circulated quickly on social networks.

For the woman, her kidnappers asked for a large ransom, which the family was unable to gather. During the early hours of the morning, Carrera's body appeared decapitated, wrapped in a black bag

CDN records interrogation of members of the Gulf Cartel before decapitating them

Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat from @Loba_Indomable 

The Northeast Cartel (CDN) recorded the interrogation of two members of the Gulf Cartel before decapitating them; the images were broadcast on social networks.

This Thursday, through Twitter, it was announced that two human heads presumably corresponding to members of the Gulf Cartel were abandoned in the avenue Industrial Park 805 and Las Torres, in front of the C-4 in the municipality of Escobedo, Nuevo León.

Along with the remains, which were reported by the authorities around 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday, a narcomensaje was found addressed to the Ministerial Police, signed by sicarios of the Northeast Cartel.

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Mexico says they and U.S.have been investigating the kidnapping and torture of U.S. photographer

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Kidnapped photographer John Sevigny

“Tu Fren” [my buddy] sent this in with respect to the post titled “ Veracruz A photographer kidnapped and Tortured in Mexico, part one”

“AG confirms they are investigating and have received a request from the US, through the FBI, to help in the investigation”

Read backstory post here

1.  In regards to information circulating in various media and social media networks, about the case of the American citizen John Sevigny, in which he states there is no investigation in relation to the events where he was a victim: Presumably the events occurred in the city of Cordoba Veracruz, o January 8^th and 9^th of this year.  Also claiming that there is no coordination between the U.S. and Mexico for investigating the facts and clarification.

The attorney general of Veracruz has in fact began an investigation.

2.  Oh January 28, 2019 the Embassy of the United States, sent an official communication to the Attorney General of the State in reaction to “The investigation of the kidnapping of John Matthew Sevigny”.  

San Diego: Suspect in nightclub shooting has ties to Arellano Felix operators

Suspect in nightclub has ties to Arellano Felix operators 

In the sprawl, and relentless churn of the Gaslamp, in downtown San Diego, thousands turn up every weekend, every week, to indulge in the sordid pleasures of the bar and nightclubs tucked into pockets of Fourth, Fifth and Sixth avenues. It is a varied assortment of people from casual tourists and conventioneers, the 9-5 crowd, binge drinking through the weekend, the industry crowd, servers, VIP hosts, bartenders, bottle service girls, the harder edged drug scene, and those who inhabit the clubs VIP area sections. 

Sidebar nightclub 

This is an interesting cross section of society, affluent business owners, tech start ups, legal and illegal marijuana dispensaries, gang members and human traffickers, out of town businessmen, white collar fraud offenders, all looking to spend, and be seen spending. Violence is common in Gaslamp, often in inter or intra group violence within those named above, and more. 

Priest denounces disappearance of two indigenous activists

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Proceso

                         

By Ezequiel Flores Contreras

CHILPANCINGO, Gro.- The Catholic priest Alejandro Solalinde publicly denounced the disappearance of the indigenous activist and member of the Council of Community Authorities of the municipality of Ayutla de los Libres, Obtilia Eugenio Manuel -who was granted precautionary measures- and a member of the Me 'Phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM).
 
Both activists had previously received threats, denounced the Catholic priest and defender of migrants.
 
Since 2005, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has ordered the Mexican State to guarantee the safety of Obtilia Eugenio in the face of systemic threats due to her work in defense of human rights and the legal actions she undertook against the Army in the case of the sexual violation against Valentina Rosendo Cantú and Inés Fernández Ortega, a crime registered in February and March 2002, in the municipalities of Ayutla de los Libres and Acatepec.
 
Eugenio Manuel was accompanied by Hilario Cornelio Castro and in the town of Tierra Colorada, municipal seat of Juan R. Escudero, boarded a collective taxi to go to the capital of the state near 07:00 hours yesterday.

A photographer kidnapped and Tortured in Mexico, part one

Stevectpa for Borderland Beat republished from Medium.Com fotos and post by  John Sevigny

 

Self portrait of the author, taken in Western New York.

Note: this telling of real event includes strong language and descriptions of torture including sexual assault.

The cartilage connecting my ribs to my sternum is badly bruised after one of the men hit me in the chest with the butt of an AK-47.

I’d been forced to stand against a wall and my back took as much of a blow as my rib cage. There is a burning straight through my chest to my spine and Advil doesn’t touch it. Nor does tramadol.

There’s a scab on the top of my head where the same man ground the barrel of a 9mm pistol into my scalp, saying he was going to sodomize me, kill me, cut off my lips, fingers, and dick.

I grew up with guns. I’d never been beaten with guns before. Dozens of beatings with dozens of guns. And fists. And feet. And words. Guns at my head. Guns in my ribs. Guns in my mouth. Guns for endless games of Russian Roulette. Guns as heavy as hammers.

And which testicle did I want shot off, the left or the right?

"The Chapo Act" if passed would use Chapo's money to pay for "The Wall"

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat material from AP and Twitter

In 2017, as Chapo was still awaiting trial, Texas Senator Ted Cruz proposed the idea to “make Chapo pay for the wall’.

New released video and photos of Chapo extradition reveals he was emotional

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from DEA/DOJ

 Booking photos after landing in NY

DOJ/DEA released this video today of Chapo landing in NY after extradition from Mexico.  He is visibly shaken and teary

From Jury, Master verdict sheet

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Verdict Master El Chapo Trial by on Scribd

El Chapo Trial: Government Press Release

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat

"As proven at trial, Guzman Loera was a principal leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, a Mexico-based international drug trafficking organization responsible for importing and distributing vast quantities of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and heroin in the United States. .."

Note: Chapo will stay in Manhattan until his sentencing on June 25^th.  The sentence will be natural life, meaning he will leave in a pine box.  He will then be transferred to another prison.  Most likely ADX Florence Colorado, which is where most are predicting he will be sent. Below is press release from the Department of Justice--

Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Eastern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Sinaloa Cartel Leader, Convicted of Running a Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Other Drug-Related Charges

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, known by various aliases, including “El Chapo” and “El Rapido,” was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of being a principal leader of a continuing criminal enterprise – the Mexican organized crime syndicate known as the Sinaloa Cartel – a charge that includes 26 drug-related violations and one murder conspiracy.  Guzman Loera was convicted of all 10 counts of the superseding indictment, including narcotics trafficking, using a firearm in furtherance of his drug crimes and participating in a money laundering conspiracy.  The verdict followed a 12-week trial before United States District Judge Brian M. Cogan. Guzman Loera faces a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

El Chapo Trial: VERDICT GUILTY ON COUNT ONE---HE FACES LIFE

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DEA released today this foto of Chapo landing in Long Island from Juarez

JURY FOUND GUILTY ON ALL 10 COUNTS AND 26 OF 27 VIOLATIONS INCLUDING MURDER CONSPIRACY AND BEING LEADER OF CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS

The legal definitions of some terms such as conspiracy, circumstantial and direct evidence, and made clear to the seven women and five men of the jury that when evaluating the case they should start from the  premise that the accused is initially innocent and that in order to reach a conclusion unanimously afterwards, he must do so "beyond a reasonable doubt".

Judge Cogan told jurors he was impressed on how methodical they were in their deliberations.  Adding “Frankly, it makes me proud to be an American.”

El Chapo Trial: Defense statement regarding Guilty Verdict

"Chapo was prepared and expecting the verdict" 

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el Chapo Trial: verdict reached---stay tuned

Tijuana: To die at a mariscos stand

Tijuana: To die at a mariscos stand

The death of Cabo 23

It was cold on January 5th, but sunny, bright as the couple approached the mariscos stand, mariscos guero in Playas de Tijuana.  The smell of consume made minutes earlier, small styrofoam cups, the steam pouring from the top, a mixture of fish, vegetables, hot sauce, the left overs of the kitchen, the tostadas, and tacos, it's too cold for cocktails, but some people will order anyway. 

Video of the execution of Hugo Figueroa

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Circulated on social media, this video depicting the execution of Hugo Figueroa nephew of Joan Sebastian, by "La Gente del Cerro". The group has been identified as close to Los Viagras, aka "LNFM" or "Gente Nueva Michoacana” the armed wing of Viagras.

Video translation is as follows by Sol Prendido

Man #1 : de Juliantla (birthplace in Guerrero, Mexicans tend to call you out based on where you originated) Go fuck your mother, you hear.

Man #2: You don’t mess with the people of the mountain fucker. So that you fucking learn, so that you fucking learn.

Hugo: What did I do, stop fucking around, what did I do?

Man #1: Shut up you son of a bitch!

Man #2: Shut up you son of a bitch!

Graphic video Below