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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Testimony of a Knights Templar Gunman

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Note: Narration has been translated into English-note some paraphrasing is used for easier comprehension...Thank you to the reader who sent me the video..Paz, Chivis
Testimony of a Knights Templar Gunman 

“They never shoot from a short distance; they always shoot from a long distance and what they use is a potato thrower, bazooka or a 50 caliber. That is to open up paths to cross.
Narration:
This is the story of M3, until a few months ago; he was one of the youngest gunmen of the Knights Templar in La Aguililla and the region of Apatzingan. His thin, small body and his sharp facial  features make his appearance of less age. He is now 18 years old but his career in the crime world was started at childhood, he was 14. He enrolled on New Year when he was looking for work to help his brothers; he started from the bottom as halcon (hawk).
“When I was with them, I simply followed the military. I was placed in each spot to watch them”.
With his abilities, he climbed positions and got to meet the cupola of the criminal group. He provided safety to the chiefs of the Knights Templar. That is how we knew La Tuta, Chango Mendez, Quique Plancarte and also knew Nazario Gomez, aka “El Chayo” or “El Mas Loco”, which is said that is not dead, he had a face surgery and now is called Ernesto Villa Zapata.
“It is said that he is dead”

Were you able to see him?
“Yes, of course, he is alive but he changed his face, he is an old guy now.
How did you know it was him?
“Well, because when he gets down off the car, he yells and says, I am El Mas Loco. He gets down from the cars very hallucinating.
But M3 since a few months ago no longer  belongs to the Knights Templar. Before the Federal Police entered Aguililla, the base, shelter and cradle of the main leaders of the Knights Templar, he had exited already.
He always liked the weapons but he disliked the treatment by the criminals towards the people and that is why he decided to separate and now fights against them. When he realized that Federal Police had entered the community and Aguililla rose against the Knights Templar, he decided to go back and support their effort.
“We have been threatened but we are not afraid because we also know how they protect themselves (security), we know how they handle things. And if they are thinking of something, we look and think of doing something better than them.”
Since he was a child, M3 learned how to use an wide number of weapons and calibers
“The potato thrower is handle like this (showing on the video) that is how it is going to fall (referring to the bullet or whatever it is). You are going to get it like this and buff (noise) you throw it. And when it is shorter you lower it, because when you throw that thing it goes like this and then it falls.
No it is not used for airplanes, for the helicopters, they use the 50 caliber
Do you know how to use that?
Those yeah, you have to have it like this and you have to have your mouth open because if you don’t have it open it will burst your eardrums. It makes a loud noise at the time of the gunshot.
Now he knows that his head has a price.
“I don’t know if they are going to kill me but we will die fighting, defending the town, which is ours. Those bastards are not even native to this place.
He hopes that his life is a lesson to others, to those who think that joining with the criminal groups is the best thing to do to overcome being poor and solve problems.
Did you get other types of bonuses or other type of support?
No, nothing. Sometimes my family got ill, my mom would get ill and I would ask them to take her to a doctor and they wouldn’t support me. 


Video:Alberto Torres and Marcos Muegano, El Universal Translation: C. Martínez

64 comments:

  1. CT is finished. Sr. Chapo Guzman is fedup of CT extortionist..

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    1. Chapo aint doing shit. He doesnt call shots in Michoacan he only controlled the the fools that got close to him and then he turned them all in but since he doesnt have any connections in Michoacan no more he cant do shit. Talk with facts, dont make ignorant remarks. ARRIBA TODO MICHOACAN ACA SI RIFAMOS LA VIDA CULEROS...

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    2. rifan la vida,like they put their asses on the line?yeah against the poor farmers,in complicity with corrupt government.why don't you?*$&@#! have a date and a place and stick it up each other arses,that what you"LLC do when and if you grow a pair,then you come here and brag!

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    3. Without Sinaloa backup CT is finished. CT has grown because Sr. Guzman has been kind and shown mercy to them rats who bringing bad name to Sinaloa.

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    4. People believe and know that the Knights Templar were a bunch of meth head petty thieves & drug peddlars who have grown because of help given to them by Sinaloa Cartel. Because of Sinaloa Cartel Tuta and meth head gangbangers have grown into a Drug Cartel. Very soon Michoacan will become Sinaloa Cartel territory.

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    5. Haha your comment is lame and for your information ct are protectors of humanity in michoacan they are a hard working class cartel chapo in the other hand is a snitch his tweaker ass will be caught soon and kt will reign supreme like the good ol' days and then everything will be back too normal just like the old days keep stroking chapos shaft looks like you love it

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    6. Haha you're comment is lame.. CT are a bunch of lazy , cracked out mother fuckers who rob the innocent people of michoacan to survive.. and if they weren't hidin CJNG would of finished them off.. The people of michoacan are hard working people and the ct are the real tweakers

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    7. I'm with you ^
      Ct are done. Nothing but history.

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  2. That was a short interview and ended when the intrview was gettn very interesting. Is there gunna b more of the interview posted or is that it??? Pretty shitty ending. So is el mas loco dead or not?? I thought they recovered his body and verified that it was his corpse

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  3. La clave M3 tiene un solo dueno y te queda muy grande.Arriba el Senor Samuel Borrego.
    Grupo Delta C.D.G

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    1. 5:44 no seas pendejo.. Si le pusiero esa slave es pare protejerlo.. no mames grupo delta.. ya crece y degate de pendejadas.. ala verga todo los mafiosos wuevones.. Si los pinches mafiosos se pusieran a trabajar como los hombres Mexico fuera otro pais diferente.. Mejor regresa ala escuela Nino tonto..

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    2. Estoy de acuerdo con tigo
      ...chuy

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    3. Grupo Delta son Los que tiene X-20

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    4. Pendejitos si siguen este blog es por que les llama la atención la narcocultura. Aparte jale es jale! Si alguien quiere drogarse y alguien se rifa el cuello para andar en el biz, por que chingados no hacer la feria. Nadie los obliga a tomar mierda! Nadie vale mas que nadie en este mundo. Pero pa que putas se ponen tan bravos en un blog, si en cara a cara se cagaran en los putos pantalones! Mejor callense y dejen que el mundo ruede. Y si se oponen a eso hagan algo putos! Metanse a la Marina y sirvan su pais putos, no hablen por hablar culos.

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    5. wow what a big men! why don't you hang a narco-manta stating who you are and asking for a date with your favorite enemy?hang the narco-manta from your neck.

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  4. "News reports about nearly 24 tons of cocaine transported by the U.S. Air Force to Miami on Saturday, July 27th 2013"

    http://news.co.cr/costa-rica-will-stop-sending-cocaine-to-miami/24277/
    http://www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Costa-Rica-sends-24-tons-of-cocaine-and-heroin-to-the-U.S.-for-destruction_Tuesday-July-30-2013

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  5. But get this the plane made stops in Nicaragua and Honduras, yeah right they got destroyed.

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  6. Chinga tu madre chapo guzman traicionero rata

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  7. How come BB hasn't yet run the story on rapper Pitbull and his ties to Los Zetas??

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    1. Stfu u stupid bitch fuck zetas puro michoacan hijo de tu puta madre ven a la sierra pa meterte en un tambo de asido aver si con eso she the kits lo pendejo y mongolo

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    2. El pitbull would be Caribbean islands,all east usa and wherever he parks his ass,(which me no like at all)but can you see the world is so much bigger than michoacan?ya bajate de la sierra y no seas mamon

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    3. your husband keeps you living up there on the hills?I wonder if he takes groceries up there once a week?come down girl,no self respecting lady lives like that anymore!

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  8. Thank you for these translations. Translation tools at least give us non spanish speakers some understanding for text albeit sometimes shitty, but for the videos we have chivis. I do not know of any other blog or source that translates the videos. and nothing is better at giving insight into the people of the war, than hearing the words from their own mouths.

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    1. Translation tools are only good for translating word by word. Any understandable text is bound to be quite crude and may be misleading. A good human translator is invaluable. It takes a human with cultural knowledge to properly translate between languages. I give praise to all of the hard work put forth by the BB contributors. It is a lot more work than you might think.

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  9. Why do people on here claim cartels..its like really you are proud of killing..and doing other dumb things.
    Take your asses to school. Get a real job.

    Attn:
    U

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    1. So why do you even care to be on this blog? Oh yeah because caryels intrigue you. And dont give me the b.s. that "I want to know whats happening in Mexico", because there is a ton of other media outlets you can get you giggles from.

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    2. mitt Romney and friends took all the jobs to china,no!not China nuevo Leon,China comunista, and then the Chinese send everything back to the USA where they paint "greetings"to our mothers,and secret messages to the American Chinese saying "chingue su madre Mitt Romney"because he only pays them one dollar a day and a bag of cucarachas,because that's what they eat

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  10. Highest Yoga TantraAugust 6, 2013 at 8:08 PM

    2013 ▪ 08 ▪ 06

    An excellent article Madame Chivis... and thank you again for the translation. We (citizens living in the U.S.A.) will never have a grasp of the lives of these young sicarios. I can assume that the level of poverty is rampant in rural areas and these youngsters can't or unable to obtain a higher education. What choices do they really have? Trying to support their parents, siblings and bringing home enough food and providing shelter?

    I noticed that this youngster has a collection of "rings" - I wonder if these were collected from the "dead" or taken from innocent locals. I'm not being judgmental, just a curious observation. I also wonder if this youngster has a FaceBook account? And if he does have FB, does he follow the «narcissist sicario» movement as well, parading with high-powered weapons, telecommunication gadgets, money, large trucks/SUV...

    /\__/\
    (=';'=)
    (")_(")

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    1. Finally a person that tries to understand, and is not quick to judge. Kuddos to you.

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  11. C.D.G estamos ya aqui en acuna salganle al topon zetitas donde estan ?

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    1. eres tenible,se me hace que nada,pero nada,nada se te para enfrente.y arriba los machos calados

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  12. Muy cierto kompa.......M 3 ....le pertenese al Sr. Borrego.... puro. ramps.

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  13. Ya salieron los traga mecos del chapo aver cuando van y le limpian el culo tambien bola de pendejos pinches chiapanekos ..

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  14. Asta la perra del borrego le kedo grande el M3 lo tumbaron a la mera hora donde tenia k ponerse cabron y Mira onde esta en la tumba

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  15. Cdg en cd acuna jajaja donde estan ustedes,este es plaza zeta compa usted diga donde y cuando pa darles,pila pues puro Zeta comando

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    1. Primero salga al atace pinche puñeta vente a moros

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    2. zeta40 se carranceo los centavos de los zetas y ni es de coahuila,ahora no tienen ni pal coyote.you know,estupido?

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  16. He's named after a BMW haahaha how about el dodge neon

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  17. Chivis, when is tijuano gunna post part 3 of the AFO story??

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  18. I lived in Apatzingan for quite a while not long ago and we used to sit outside my husband's cousin's house near downtown where we lived in the eve's as it was cooler outside and watch all the big trucks and 4 wheelers drive by kids and young men and women just cruising and acting like they were all great and we always wondered where these young kids got all the money for these trucks to cruise. There were bands on every corner everyone seemed to have money. Sometimes we saw large convoys of trucks driving from Uruapan area with guys standing in them all masked with guns they never stopped us or bothered us ever never had any problem with the military or anybody there either but my husband's Tia Rosa knows some big time older guys they are really quiet and don't say much but they have some kind of control in the town there maybe that's why we never got bothered and I'm a white girl my husband was born in Apatzingan. We want to go for a visit with our 3yr old daughter in October but not sure it is safe.

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    1. Don't visit Mexico.. Boycott that Fucking place... I'm Mexican and I'm telling you that.. We were in Nogales, az for a wedding not long ago, and my cousin has a nice truck from the states of course.. we got stopped by cops and they asked us for some money or they would take the truck.. They didn't even tell us why we got pulled over , they just pointed they're guns at us.. The only reason they let us go because my uncle knew one of the cops..if the corrupt cops don't get you the lazy ass no good for nothing sicario will

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    2. they may take your daughter and you will have to pay a lot of money...

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    3. You fake asmexican. A real mexican kmpws mexico and how to survive. Is the law of thw jungle. If yoi want to act rich and show off n mexico you will be a target. Is a simple rule know tp real mexicans. Show offs is what we hate. If you want to peacefull living. Be norm drive a nprma car. You probably another nigga tryibg to downgrade your own people. And im glad your car got stolen.

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    4. BOYCOTT MEXICO hahaha what a coward put your tail between and go back to the U.S. and get raped legally because corruption in the U.S. is permitted without punishment. .

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    5. Esa palabra d nigga dejaselo alos afros no entiendo el por que la utilizan tanto lo peor del caso que adoptan las mismas costumbres d ellos.

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  19. I cant speak for everyone who visits this blog but Im not here because cartels intrigue me I despise the shits im here to know whats really going on especially with the self defense groups seeing how other media outlets either don't report or lie.

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  20. August 6, 2013 at 10:09 PM of course they didn't bother you the whole goal of cartels is to appear as heroes against the evil gov.despite the irony they are the reason the gov is corrupt and the disapearances among other atrocities they where behind long before 2006

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  21. To hell with zorraz mugrozaz vivan chapos cdg CT but not zorraz

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  22. "I can assume that the level of poverty is rampant in rural areas and these youngsters can't or unable to obtain a higher education. What choices do they really have?" The cartels have over the years manipulated the entire system in Mexico to create the poverty that puts those young people in positions of despair. It has all been done by design, they run the government, thats why there is no death penalty and they do not have a 2nd amendment as the US has. Thats why the chupacabra has had a stranglehold on the education system for decades. They run the prisons and they have control of large parts of the military. Shit rolls downhill starting from the very top!

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  23. August 6, 2013 at 11:42 PM
    "Nadie los obliga a tomar mierda! Nadie vale mas que nadie en este mundo"
    Yeah you are fuckin right,but what do you want to happen ?

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  24. Jale es jale, pues jale tu madre! Pendejo bolsa de mierda Como te llamas para buscarte

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  25. to August 6, 2013 at 7:36 PM : agreed. Reality is a poison for some people; it doesn't help anyone being a fantasist - people need to be Real in what they are saying / contributing...

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  26. August 7, 2013 at 6:20 AM
    "You probably another nigga tryibg to downgrade your own people. And im glad your car got stolen"
    Get the fuck outta here with your fake ass la raza shite you fuckin fool,he is stating a fact you asshole,he goes down there and they rob his car,you nobhead,pretty sure you wouldnt be bangin your gums if it was your car,oh i forgot"real people drive little cars"?What a prick ?

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  27. August 7, 2013 at 11:42 AM
    "BOYCOTT MEXICO hahaha what a coward put your tail between and go back to the U.S"
    Oh shit,heres all the nationalistic bullshit starting up,la raza an all that crap,get me out of here

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  28. all the mexican cartels aint nothing to brag about they have all the money and they do nothing but destroy mexico

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  29. elaborate on this! where did u hear this or see it???

    How come BB hasn't yet run the story on rapper Pitbull and his ties to Los Zetas??
    August 6, 2013 at 7:09 PM

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  30. Thanks BB for a rare article. Sad to see Mexico regress to what it is now.

    Those poor people suffering at the hands of armed thugs in what is supposed to be a first world nation. Armed thugs roaming the backroads of Mexican states in pickups commiting atrocities. Where is the UN Naciones Unidos ?



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  31. Chivis , did anyone hear what he said about
    Helicopters ?? There has been a
    rise in Helicopter crashes recently
    in Mexico. One in S.L.P
    Has anyone checked how many helicopter
    crashes there has been since the war
    started? Are they mechanically related
    or brought down by hostiles?

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    1. Simon blackhawk down casi d pelicula

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  32. @5:17
    That is the problem. authorities are not reporting the downed helicopters. I do know there was a "sort of" confirmation about the one that went down in this post
    http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2013/07/michoacan-bloody-tuesday-rolls-into.html

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  33. @ 8:56

    Don't hate bro. In my town El Dodge Neon and El Subaru Outback have the plaza on lockdown. Just went to war with El Ford Focus and smoked his ass!

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  34. A Man of Jesús dont extort or sell drug

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  35. How come nobody talks about this kid having balls? This guy knows he is gonna die soon and has the courage that many don't to show his face and agree to interview. I don't agree with the the way cartels work but Kudos to this guy for having big cojones !

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