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Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Drug Cartel Video Leads to Arrests



It is by any measure a horrendous video. An abducted policeman from the Ciudad Lerdo, Durango police force, Rodolfo Najera, flanked by two Zeta gangmembers, has been savagely beaten and in a barely legible voice answers his interrogator’s questions, barked out by the now all too familiar rough, threatening voice.

Rodolfo Najera is about to die and this video of his interrogation and execution has already sent shockwaves throughout Mexico. In fact, this video threatens to destroy any credibility remaining in the state and local law enforcement institutions and governments in the areas of the country that are heavily infiltrated by drug cartels and are under attack by their paramilitary armies.

The pathetic truth of this video is that it took the Zetas torture of a corrupt to the core policeman to break the case of the massacre of 18 attendees of a birthday party in Torreon, Coahuila, last Sunday and the 2 other mass murders committed in the tri-city area of Torreon, Ciudad Lerdo and Gomez Palacio, Durango. This area is known as the Lagunera district.

Maybe we all believed that the inability to solve these crimes was because of ineptness, lack of proper training in police procedures and the pervasive “plata o plomo” intimidation by organized crime. Anybody with a wife and children can understand this fear.

However, after one hears the revelations in this video and learns of the forensic evidence discovered by the PGR (federal attorney general’s office), the only conclusion left is that the tri-city area authorities are in collusion with the perpetrators of these massacres

Some of these authorities may have been perpetrators themselves. Every local and state policeman, every state investigative agent and every Ministério Público (state prosecutorial magistrate) in the tri-city area must have known what is revealed.

Some of these authorities are certainly working for the Zetas also. Those two Zetas flanking Rodolfo Najera may very well be policemen that he knows.

Rodolfo Najera has been tortured, his face disfigured, and is under extreme duress. The first questions are introductory: name, age (25), occupation.

At 00:21 the nature of his corruption begins to unfold. He, a policeman, works for “el Pirata” (pirate) the boss of a gang of puchadores ijn Lerdo (street level, disposable barrio drug sellers, the lowest rung in the ladder) Najera is probably an halcon, a lookout or informant, for el Pirata.

He is then asked about “Arturo”. His first response is unintelligible but this Arturo has gone to Guadalajara. It is implied he is the head of a rival criminal gang fighting the Zetas for control of the Lagunera district. Maybe he is from the Sinaloa cartel or a member of La Resistencia at the head of the criminal gang fighting the Zetas for control of the Lagunera district.

At 00:59 Najera is asked about the kidnapping and death of Jesus Arroyo, an elderly gentleman and owner of Los Alfredos restaurant who was interrogated on a video by his captors and accused of being a Zeta collaborator

Najera says that he was kidnapped by el Pirata and el Cayo who are led by a prisoner in the CERESO prison by the name of Daniel Gabriel “el Delta”.

At 1:25 he mentions that el Delta is released nightly at 8:00 pm by “la directora” or the warden of the prison

At 2:33 Najera is asked who else in the police force protects the criminal group he works for and he begins to name other policemen who provide protection to “Arturo”.

At minute 3:21 the shorter Zeta with a blue shirt turns around to reveal a cap that is hard to identify. It’s worth checking to see if it’s a police cap but really, nobody would be that stupid.

At 4:01 the same Zeta tugs at Najera’s left ear which is barely hanging onto his head. The short slender thug seems bored. A fine example of the “banality of evil”

At 5:28 Najera is asked about “el Guero Pollero” a puchador who was sent by Arturo to kill people in the barrios of Torreon and repeats what someone off camera says that it was done to “ponerle gorro a los Zetas” (create problems for los Zetas)

It’s worth noting that its conceivable Najera is simply repeating answers he has been fed but that doesn’t seem to be the case with Najera. His answers are too imperfect for that. Sometimes it looks like he is reacting to a cue but that could be simply be that the person or persons who mauled him are within his field of vision and he is reacting to their movement

At 5:50 Najera is asked about the killings of the 18 people at the Italia Inn and he answers it was done by el Guero and Danny (el Delta) and other prisoners from the CERESO prison under orders from “Arturo”. He says these same people committed the other mass murders at the Juanas and El Ferrie bars earlier this year. Najera is starting to come apart now.

At 6:15 Najera starts talking about the CERESO prisoners who leave the prison in a red pickup and white van belonging to the prison. They are armed with assault weapons and tactical or bulletproof vests. The weapons are AR-15’s and also belong to the CERESO inventory.

At 6:41 Najera states that the CERESO director’s name is Margarita and that she authorizes the release of the prisoners armed with CERESO weapons with the full knowledge of the murders they are about to commit. He states that Danny is in charge inside the prison and that Margarita provides protection for Danny “el Delta” and “el Chino” and their people in the prison.

7:26 Najera states that Margarita is the godmother to Danny’s child and they work closely together. Danny also serves as Margarita’s bodyguard and drives her home from the CERESO compound every night.

At 8:22 Najera states that Danny leaves the CERESO compound every night after 8:00 pm with at least 15 gunmen armed with CERESO AR-15’s and small arms to “madrear” (mess up) Zetas. They return between 12:00 and 1:00 am after the “desmadre” (disorder/fighting) is over. They hide their vehicles inside the CERESO compound.

At 9:02 he repeats that all this occurs in the CERESO prison #2 in Gomez Palacio overseen by Margarita.

It is already dark when Najera is executed.

The video was uploaded last week onto the internet.

On Thursday and Friday, July 22 and 23, Margaritas Rojas Rodriguez and the administration and prison staff of the CERESO 2 prison in Gomez Palacio are taken into custody by federal police and are questioned based on the information revealed in the Rodolfo Najera video. Evidence pertaining to the investigation is also seized

The questioning of the prison population is begun. However it can be safely assumed that all the inmates who were members of the death squads were probably moved out of the prison before the federal police arrived.

Federal and state policemen and the military take custody of the prison on Friday.

On Sunday, July 25, the Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora, and the press secretary for the PGR, Ricardo Najera convene a press conference


Francisco Blake and Ricardo Najera confirm the facts revealed in the video that a death squad composed of prisoners operated from within the CERESO-2 prison in Gomez Palacio with the support of the prison director and her staff using CERESO weapons and vehicles.

Ricardo Najera stated that the prisoners are allegedly responsible for up to 38 murders in 3 separate massacres in Torreon Coahuila including the latest multiple murder of 17 victims in the Italia Inn last Sunday.

The spokesman for the PGR vowed "to get to the bottom of the facts and the truth about the unfortunate events of recent months in Torreon, Coahuila."

“Inmates are allowed out at night, with the permission of Margarita Rojas, director of the CERESO and used weapons and vehicles belonging to the prison staff for executions of rival gang members linked to organized crime.” Said Ricardo Najera “Unfortunately the cowardly criminals also killed innocent civilians only to return later in the night to their cells”

“It was determined that four AR-15’s .223 caliber, Colt brand, were used in the events of July 18 in the Italia Inn. These weapons were also used in the executions at the Ferrie bar, which occurred on February 1, 2010, and the bar Juanas, committed on May 15, 2010, both in the city of Torreon," he explained.

Forensic evidence such as matching the gun specific marks on empty bullet casings from all 3 crime scenes were used to make this crucial determination

Interior Minister Blake Mora provided a lengthy discourse on the deterioration of security institutions within the country and challenged the state and local governments to address corruption.

No plan of action was addressed to halt the increasing attacks against the rule of law except a commitment to follow President Calderon’s National Security Strategy.

Monday July 26, back in CERESO 2 in Gomez Palacio

About 11:00 am, 35 inmates climbed to the roof of the jail and with banners demanded the release and reinstatement of the director Margarita Rojas Rodriguez to her post.

State police and the Mexican Army surrounded the site to prevent a riot.

Rojas Rodriguez was appointed to her post on August 17, 2009, after a riot inside the prison where 19 inmates died and 20 were wounded

At approximately 2:30 pm a prison guard, Ofelia Rodriguez Veronica Lares was found murdered in one of the visiting areas within the prison compound.

Investigating authorities reported that at first glance the guard died of chest and abdomen wounds.

12 comments:

  1. Evil has taken over. May God have mercy on their souls and watch over the innocence. Mexico has become a place where Godless people dwell. When those who are sworn "officers of the state" to protect are no better than the drug cartel's, who can the innocent people trust. I pray for all the good people and children.

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  2. These corrupt people must know there will be consequences for their stupid actions. The cartels are not gunna protect them, they'll just find someone else to threaten and corrupt. This man was/ is one of the stupid ones to get involved. He shouldve known his day would come, just like everyones does. It's not a matter of if you'll get caught but WHEN you'll get caught. God is all powerful and loving but there is only so much he can do. If the bad,stupid, worthless, waste of oxygen people are gone that more room for others that may do good or make a difference. I seriously doubt anybody actually cares that these worthless people are disappearing. Now on another not heavenly father please watch over and protect the innocent people who must deal with such stupidity and danger on a daily basis.

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  3. It sure looks and sounds like murder and mayhem have become first nature to these assholes, as is clearly evident in the two gunmens impatience and boredom during the interrogation. If this war ever ends the ones remaining are highly unlikely to have a conscience left to deal with for the rest of their miserable lives. Memories of the innocent dead will just wash away like so much blood.

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  4. Anything for a buck! CORRUPT to the core. I am beguining to believe that there is no position of any power that has not been infiltrated. Don't they have records roll calls audits sounds like a comlete lack of accountability. Sound like the FED is trying God Bless them What a job.

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  5. "clearly evident in the two gunmens impatience and boredom during the interrogation"

    Excellent observation my friend. You can actually sense that even more than poor Najera's fear or even sense that his life is about to end? After all, this interrogation stuff has been going on for awhile and they haven't wasted anyone all DAY!?

    What a sad state of affairs they've sunk to.

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  6. Some zetas that were captured in another video after this was released said that THIS VIDEo^ was fake and they made it up to have that Margarita lady arrested.

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  7. Some Zetas are also liars.

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  8. So from what I gather from the posts of the last month is that the CDG and other groups aligned against the Z are dressing up murders to look like the work of the Zetas, i.e. those 12 found murdered on the road in Matamoros a few weeks back. I may not be understanding this since the mayhem is so widespread with so many groups involved that its hard to put a name to whose doing what from one day to the next.

    "Some zetas that were captured in another video after this was released said that THIS VIDEo^ was fake and they made it up to have that Margarita lady arrested."

    So were these guys in the video not Z?

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  9. i dnt understand who is kidnapping these zetas?

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  10. The 2 armed men on the sides are Z. But I heard that this video was fake just to have that Margarita lady arrested because she was in the way of the z.

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  11. Well, my friends; if this was all fake then why did the forensics match up? And why did other people both inmates and honest prison guards come forwrd when the investigation started? When
    the corruption has hit the heights that it has in Mexico. I think it won't be long before the
    U.S. uses this unbelievable situation to Invade!

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    1. SADLY, the heights of corruption in mexico, is the norm for THE ENTIRE WORLD.
      do we really believe the USA spreads democracy-while destroying it at home?
      do people really think Ukrainian Nazis are taking our money-using it for good?
      the global elite think there are too many people in the world, approx 95% too many, they are killing us any and every way possible, they want us all dead, poor, enslaved, begging them to help us.
      people across the world are starting to rise up and fight. if they will burn 100s of kids alive in Maui for some land-what do you think they will do for the entire world?
      either they will kill or enslave us-those are our options as far as they are concerned. knowing that, i choose to depart this relm on my terms. fighting for freedom. justice,-for everyone-in every country. i honestly believe they will lose, but they will kill and destroy so much in the next couple years.
      they will be very hard for all of us-no matter where you live-but those who survive will be able to make the world the way it should always have been. free.
      governments are not the solution, they are all corrupt, money grubbing, war pigs, child raping, soulless Freemason SATANIC scum.
      we must all play a part in our communities-daily. thats where we went wrong-letting others do it.
      you have to do it, with your neighbor, your block, your town, take care of each other.
      its a full time job-it wont be easy-but it will be worth it.
      STAND UP, 95% OF POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT-WE DONT NEED THEM.
      THEY WANT MAUI SO BAD, I SAY WE ROUND UP ALL OF THE CORRUPT ONES-WHO PASS LAWS FOR BUSINESSES-NOT CITIZENS, WHO SEEK POWER AND CONTROL, NOT PEACE AND HAPPINESS.
      THE ONES WHO THINK THEY ARE BETTER THAN US, THEYRE NOT, IT MAY SEEM THAT WAY CAUSE THEY ARE SOULLESS AND HAVE TAKEN MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE, AND RESTRICTED WHAT OTHER CAN HAVE-KNOWING DAM WELL THERE IS ENOUGH OF EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE.
      AND PUT THEM ALL ON AN ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC, ONE WITH NO TREES, NOTHING. CLEANSE THE FILTH FROM THE WORLD, FROM OUR LIVES.
      THEY CALL US USELESS EATERS.
      THEIR TIME IS UP, WORLDWIDE.
      WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE-EVERYTHING TO GAIN.
      personally I'm excited to get it over with so we can all truly enjoy life for the rest of our days!

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