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Monday, May 1, 2017

Tijuana: Man executed in gym in La Mesa

Man executed in gym

In the seemingly endless onslaught of violence consuming the colonias of Tijuana, another murder occurred this morning. A man was found with multiple gunshots in the gym "Pitbull" in La Mesa, his name was Jose Carlos Madrid Montiel.  Another victim in a death count that, as summer looms over Baja California has spiraled to nearly 600 killing, 417 in Tijuana, increasing every month since January.  Tijuana will see 1,000 killings or more, by the time there is a chill in the air, and Christmas lights line the city.

This is unprecedented, for a city that has endured years of disarticulated bodies, severed limbs, narco mantas pinned to corpses, bodies swaying across bridges, tongues in plastic bags, while children walk to school, burned bodies dropped, ash staining the concrete beneath them.  Years of violence and insecurity, which began during "The Black Years", as Fernando Sanchez Arellano and Teodoro Garcia Simental savagely tore into each others retail dealers, girlfriends, leaving dozens of victims, innocents among them in their wake. 

Years later, the cards have all shuffled, and the violence remains, even more so then before. The violence is seeped into the concrete of the colonias, the crystal sold cheaper then cigarettes, the weapons imported from the United States, the frigid bodies in the morgue, or still laying across the taxi, their brain matter on the upholstery. The people just want to live a life, the violence is a contagion infecting everyone in it's path, children, who have seen things no one should see.

Today a man is gunned down in a gym. Tomorrow at Calimax.  At the gym, the taco stand, the mariscos bar, the bar, the backseat of a car, bullets, killers, will find their targets in moving vehicles, unloading magazines into 4 door SUV's, tearing lives apart, shattered glass on the seats, shattered lives all around a city of 453 killings. Each bullet traces it's way through a family, through a person, an infection of blood, shell casings, misery and pain. 

Sources: AFN Tijuana, Zeta Tijuana 


25 comments:

  1. According to World Atlas.com (Feb. 9, 2017), the Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the World are:

    1. Caracas, Venezuela
    2. San Pedro Sula, Honduras
    3. San Salvador, El Salvador
    4. Acapulco, Mexico
    5. Maturin, Venezuela
    6. Distrito Central, Honduras
    7. Valencia, Venezuela
    8. Palmira, Colombia
    9. Cape Town, South Africa
    10. Cali, Colombia

    Brazil has 20 cities listed out of the Top 50 Cities. Only 6 of the 50 cities listed were located outside of Central or South America. Tijuana was listed #40.

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    1. Culiacan is on that list right now Sinaloa se la rifa

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    2. The difference between all those countries is that Mexico manipulates the dead or missing people in Mexico. Multiply the actual dead times 3 and that should give you the right numbers.

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    3. My God to think I have been to 3 of the top ten.Scary!

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    4. St. Louis is more dangerous than Culiacan and Tijuana.

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  2. They don't even wait anymore to stalk their victims in a private place when publicly will do putting all at risk.Goes to show the impunity they operate with.

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  3. Worked himself to death hahaha

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  4. The civilians need to see politicians being shot at their desk next;

    then, the live politicians will need to decide:

    Do they allow the killings to continue?
    or
    do they charge course?

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  5. The only way violence will stop is if Sinaloa and Cjng come to an agreement.

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    1. I agree 1000% The only way to contain and control a lot of the violence would be if the 2 CDS & CJNG come to some agreement or agrangment ( Just don't know how that's gonna happen). CJNG should be the ones trying to align with CDS not the other way around. Obviously Zambada's been doing something rite to be the longest in the game.
      CJNG should be taking notes but they believe in a different infrastructure then CDS
      (I'm not glorifying any of this just stating the facts)...

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  6. The increase in the rate of murders in Baja Sur is much higher. 8 dead today in shootout in San José, Los Cabos:

    http://www.bcsnoticias.mx/confirman-8-muertos-en-tiroteo-entre-marinos-y-supuestos-delincuentes-en-san-jose-del-cabo/

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    1. That's different tho. This is Cartel vs Cartel

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  7. Obviously Cjng and Sinaloa are fighting a war for Tijuana and the border crossing. The thing is, there shouldn't be a war. Aquiles and Sinaloa have been there for years since the 90's. Now whats left of Tijuana wants to try to get power from Cjng and fight but they will not win. Tijuana should have formed and strengthened its existing cartel instead of becoming Menchos' bitch. Watch, Mencho will be captured or killed by the end of the year and Ctng? will suffer loses and Tijuana will be controlled by Sinaloa like it basically has been.
    Mayo is very old and non-violence is his preferred way of doing business. He will be left alone and Mex with pressure from the U.S State Dept. will focus on Mencho and neutralize.
    You think La Marina forgot about the losses they suffered from Cjng? Never, they will come for him and he will fall.
    SD Padre...

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    1. Hablas mucho y sabes poco...

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    2. Where did you get your info from?lol...you really sound confident about what you rally said.. Stop with. The ASUM😂

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    3. In the 90s,early 2000s, the CAF reigned supreme. Zambada and Guzman envied them so much they actually convinced each other that snitching (present day they continue to snitch) was a strategic move. Mayo is non-violent because his bosses(mexican government) dont allow him to get out of order. Chapo started believing he was above the government and they had the rat crawling through the sewers covered in poop trying to escape.

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  8. It is sad how people seem not to care the loss of a life the value of a life sad sad world.

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  9. I have a question and a serious question for anyone with insight. What is the point of cartels fighting in a major border town? Is it that one cartel has more product not getting through the check points at the crossing? If you have a level headed CJNG leader and a level headed Sinaloa leader in that city, why not truce? Would more money not be made on both sides? It may sound like a dumb question but maybe my cartel
    Knowledge isn't as great as someone who I hope can give some good insight. Thanks.

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    1. Easy why have a truce when you can just kill the enemy and have everything for yourself. It's not like the leader is the one dying. It's just the gunmen
      -El Blanco Nieves

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    2. Would make sense 5:14 am . Unfortunately these borders are the jewel for profits. And greed is definitely a factor for such violence.

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  10. In life 2 things are certain death and taxes

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  11. Bloodshed in Tijuana!
    An epic movie title with a gory truth to it.
    Will be looking for it on Netflix!

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  12. People that join a gang or cartel should already know that death or prison is the total outcome. It's sad that people can't be satisfied with the simple things in life and join cartels because they think they will be the next mencho or the next chapo. I think social media is one major factor to people being so materialistic now in days with people posting their fake lives in those social networks and such. It's actually a fact that most of what people put on there is fake lol but that's the world we live in..

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  13. When someone writes an piece of writing he/she retains
    the idea of a user in his/her mind that how a user can know
    it. Thus that's why this article is great.
    Thanks!

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