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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Youths abducted off buses and forced into narco recruitment

Borderland Beat

In broad daylight and while a bus driver was changing a tire on the busy stretch known as the "Y" in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, gunmen entered the bus  and took six young men.

Cartel commandos are recruiting, forcibly and with impunity, abducting young passengers on highways in Tamaulipas, despite the federal surveillance in the state.  A witness described Thursday an experience he  lived that through about three weeks ago. 

"We left  around 17:00 hours in a Transpaís bus”, related the man, who requested anonymity. 

"We had left Victoria (towards Matamoros), but stopped because one of the wheels became disabled, and the bus slid off the road."  While the driver exited the bus change the tire,  said the witness, the driver of a  late model truck, came and offered help in a friendly manner, but was told help was not needed. 

About 5 or 10 minutes passed, and the man returned in the truck, but now was accompanied by two pickups and at least 10 armed men in plain clothes. 

On the bus the witness estimated there were about 20 passengers, mostly men. "Two armed men boarded the bus and asked six male youths to get off the bus. Women were ordered to stay in their places and that failure to obey would result in consequences, so they all stayed in their seats.”

“The youths who were taken off the truck obeyed orders and did not resist”, he described. 

"Through the window, I was able to see that the boy’s faces were covered with their own shirts, the commando put them into separate groups and then they shoved them into the trucks.” he said. 

Overall, the intrusion of the commando, who was unknown, lasted only about 10 minutes.
Immediately, he added, the bus operator, who had no interaction with criminals, finished changing the tire and the truck kept going. "Nobody said anything," he said. "We were all terrified and speechless by what we had just experienced." 

Reforma published yesterday that the coordinator of federal police In Tamaulipas, Norberto Luis Montoya, revealed that these recent assaults are actually actions involuntary recruitment by cartels. 

They attribute forced recruiting in Tamaulipas, is  due to infighting in criminal organizations and the battle between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, said the recruitment National Anti-kidnapping Coordinator, Renato Sales Heredia.



30 comments:

  1. The gulf cartel is getting desperate bunch of pussys nobody wants to join them now they are forcing young people to do it

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  2. This is very reminiscent of the 2011 San Fernando massacre (even in the same area), except that now that Z40 is not in charge, they just recruit instead of making the passengers fight each other to the death.

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  3. Hope those who were forcibly recruited shot those cartel members the first opportunity they got once armed.

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  4. It used to be that only Zs resorted to this shit. now cdg also.
    but the worse is lfm and ct they kidnap kids from their homes. especialy indigenous kids that no one in mexico gives a rata ass about.

    sad

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  5. How do you know it was cdg?

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    1. cdg o zetas son la misma mierda pero segun ellos vienen a salvar al pueblo ya esta mas quemado que nada

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  6. "They attribute forced recruiting in Tamaulipas, is due to infighting in criminal organizations and the battle between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, said the recruitment National Anti-kidnapping Coordinator, Renato Sales Heredia."
    NO, NO, NO this isn't the reason. The real reason is more Ominous is just my opinion. Hint: Mexicans have hardly been known to come up with original ideas most are copy cats. I'll let you figure it out, hopefully I'm wrong.

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  7. the 72 migrants killed in Tamaulipas after refusing to work for zetas. I have always wondered if any said yes just to buy time, but couldn't follow through with killing the others. the survivor said they would not give information about their relatives.

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    1. It was the mexican army that murdered the 72 imigrants. The zetas just got the blame for it.

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    2. No, the zetas did it and you want to blame the army.

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    3. Actually it was the army dressed as civilians

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  8. whats wrong with this people if they are so bad why do this.or they don't got the balls to do it them self all that fighting.

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  9. this is happening in the same country that is pressing charges against Hannah Montana

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  10. Zetas power struggle

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  11. Wake up Mexico before you become like the Middle East!

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    1. Wake up united states before you become Nazi Germany.

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    2. Beheadings? Indiscriminate murders, killing of children! WTF?

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  12. What ever happened to having the balls to be a real man! Mexico is overrun by cowards!

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    1. You're illogical, fallacy of insufficient sample.

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  13. How do they ensure that these kids will be loyal. sounds like they are gonna send them on suicide missions. if not they will have a bunch of unloyal soldiers who will run or turn on them.

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  14. In Nvo laredo is happened the samething
    Watch out youth dudes , forced to ride or die

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  15. HAHAHAHAHAHA :-))))))

    >>"Anonymous said...
    this is happening in the same country
    that is pressing charges against Hannah Montana"

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  16. The guilty always pointing fingers away from themselves, manuel cavazos lerma, el chamuco mayor de tamaulipas, is to be blamed, he started all this rigmarole, and now enjoys the glories of living in la capital as a federal senator in charge of making look legal the rape of pemex and the mexicans and pena nieto's pretty boy...

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  17. Nazi Germany? Is that why every Ex Mexican president and politician, except Fox retires in the USA? You would think with all the beautiful beaches and beautiful mountains they would stay in Mexico. They used Mexico to steal the money and then retire where they can rub shoulders with Americans and live the good life, and safely. The president here in Mexico just bought a 7 million dollar jet. He said it was for official use. I believe his wife just used it to go on an expensive shopping spree in Paris. While I am driving around the main roads here in Chihuahua City dodging giant pot holes.

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  18. Pinchis proles, le tienen envidia al presidente y a la segunda primera dama de segunda mano de mexico, porque la gaviota ya estaba bien ponchada y tenia muchas pero muchas millas en el mofle, aparte de que le cabian unas antenas parabolicas... ver: yo lleve a la gaviota a prostituirse a televisa desde los 14 años/youtube

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  19. 9:53 it would be "logical" to post the time you are answering to troll around, now we don't know what your problem is, or wi who...
    8:30 z40 said he did not order that massacr in tamaulipas, and tat the boys got carried away, but that he himself killed those guys who ficked up there, so much for your LATE excuse of a blaming the army; tearing down people's houses seems to be one of the favorite tactics of z40, like he did in the coahuila massacre and to the house of el taliban z50 in fresnillo zac, tear down the house...

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    1. Sept 23 @3:04am

      Adding the time stamp is not a matter of logic, practical for those who are not on a cell phone. If you're implying I committed a fallacy please name it.

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