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Thursday, July 13, 2017

DEA warns of "Circle of Hell" in Mexico

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from an El Debate article

Subject Matter: Recent violence in Sinaloa
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

The country recently recorded its highest number of murders in a month for the last 20 years.


They found the bodies of the Martinez children in bloody soil, curled up next to their parents in a leased hut. Officials believe the six member family was massacred by Los Zetas, because they suspected that the father of the family had played a role in an attack by a rival gang in which a member of Los Zetas died.





The event leaves on the table the strategy without warning of the drug cartels, who are experiencing splits and wars for control of territory in much of Mexico. The country recorded its highest number of murders in a month in at least 20 years.

The violence has even surpassed the darkest days of the war on drugs launched by predecessors. "It has acquired the proportions of the circle of hell that could appear in "Dante's version of Hell",said Mike Vigil, former director of International Operations for the US Drug Enforcement Agency and author of the book "Deal".

"His strategy was to only go for the capo, El Chapo, of course that is not the way to do it , you know, because of the "Hydra Effect", you cut off a head and three more appear. "There are weak institutions, weak rule of law, weak justice, huge corruption, especially in the municipal and state police forces, all contributing to growing violence.

In the first five months of 2017 there were 9916 murders throughout the country, an increase of around 30 percent compared to the 7638 killed in the same period last year. In 2011, the bloodiest year of the war on drugs, the figure for the same period between January and May was 9466.


In some places, the bloodbath has accompanied the rise of the CJNG and rupture of the formerly dominant Sinaloa cartel in factions, faced after the arrest of capo Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, extradited in January to the United States.

At least 19 people were killed late last month in battles over the territory between the son of Guzman, his brother and former allies in the western state of Sinaloa, according to investigators.

The northern state of Chihuahua, at the border with the United States, at least 14 people were killed last week in gunfire between armed men from Sinaloa and the gang known as La Linea.

In the oil city of Caotacoalcos, in the Gulf of Mexico, Veracruz Governor Miguel Angel Yunes said that the assassination of an important hit man in late June, led Los Zetas to kill the entire Martinez Family: Clemente, his wife, Marimana, and his sons Jocelin aged 10, Victor Daniel, 8, Angel 6, and Nahomi 5. All of them died in a house where they washed cars for a dollar each.

"They had nothing, not even furniture, they slept on the floor", said grandmother Flora Martinez sobbing. " They had nothing, I do not understand why they did that to my children. They are innocent, they do not know anything".

For years it was understood that Los Zetas were untouchable in this part of the state. All you have to do is ask Sonia Cruz, who son was killed in Coatzacoalcos in July of 2016, in a case that remains unsolved.

The electoral victory of Yunes, who last year became the first opposition Governor in a traditional fiefdom of the PRI, could have broken old alliances between criminal networks and corrupt officials.

The new Governor has shown a certain willingness to pursue Los Zetas: the local leader of the cartel known as Commander H, allegedly ordered the massacre of the Martinez family, and was arrested a few days later.



Yunes said the man has been operating in Coatzacoalcos since 2006 with absolute freedom and accused members of the business sector in the city as acting as a front, pretending to be the owner of goods that actually belonged to the trafficker.

Raul Ojeda Banda, a local anti-crime activist said that some were forced to participate in the plot and that he knew that in some cases they were coerced and or threatened.

Violence in the area has also been aggravated by the incursions of the CJNG, and other pressures that have threatened key sources of income for the Zetas.

Part of Commander H's business model involved large scale kidnapping for quick bailouts. Among the targets were local oil workers or Central American migrants, who were tortured by members of the cartel to obtain payments from their relatives in the United States.

However, the Zetas kidnapped so many local people that those who could moved out of the city, and those who stayed began to block their neighbourhoods at night to keep the kidnappers out.

Low oil prices depressed the sector, implying that there were fewer energy workers to kidnap and then there were fewer migrants moving through. Donald Trumps electoral victory in the United States deterred some from attempting to reach the US, while some avoided Veracruz for fear of being attacked.

The majority of them were assaulted, and only the lucky ones were not, said priest Joel Ireta Munguia, head of the Coatzacoalcos migrant shelter run by catholic church. He estimated that the number of Central Americans passing through the city has reduced by two thirds. The wave of violence has also reached regions that have long been considered quiet.

It is believed that the CJNG has allied with a Sinaloa cartel faction in a war for the city of Los Cabos and in the nearby port of La Paz in the State of Baja California Sur.

Dismembered bodies, heads cut off and clandestine graves have become almost routine in these previously quiet tourist areas. Dwight Zahringer, born in Michoacan and living in a luxury Los Cabos neighbourhood, said he recently found a victim at the entrance to his sub division.

"It was more like a message that drug traffickers wanted to deliver, like saying we can go inside your Beverly Hills and leave dismembered bodies at your door", Zahringer said, "I'm from Detroit, we are accustomed to seeing delinquency, but heads left in ice coolers, that's a little extreme".

Original article in Spanish at Debate

52 comments:

  1. Catch these animals, torture for information and kill on the spot. Commander H should be first...

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    1. Dude did you not understand the 'hydra effect'??? The concept is quiet applicable to organized crime in today's Mexico. Google it!

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    2. Guess effect..in theory 3 weaker heads pop up and they battle each other contributing to death count. Don't see a problem...

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    3. too little, too late, towns with many chapos wanna b's, places where many rats in suits are amongst the biggest crooks, goons in town. circle of hell in many regions like guerrero among other similar ones known for what is seen on this site everyday. nothing new, is only going to get worse for each kilo of dope they move..

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    4. 9:58 The quite applicable concept applies to the mexican federal government, that greenlights the governors shenanigans in exchange for their support, like epn did with fidel herrera beltran, rodrigo medina, miguel angel osorio chón, yarrington and viejidio cantu, javier duarte de ochoa, the moreiros, among others from the past like manlio fabio beltrones "la secre", and Manuel cavazos lerma, mentioned as drug trafficking money launderers by the US that did not dare pursue the matter, as in the case of "Semion Mogilevitch, top russian mafioso mobster and the only man the FBI has ever taken of their 10 MOST WANTED POSTER without killing or aprehending him", and a Felix Sater, russian mobster and ex american con who has been getting away with shit because he is a FBI informant"
      All the government's involved (US and Mexico) need is "some plausible evidence" and Voilá all over again, a patsie, or two or three, MUCHOS!!! WHAT BETTER THAN THE MEXICAN NARCOS???
      They've gone a looong way since Super Nacho got US Weaponized

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    5. I don't believe in that and, anyways, in the original story the hydra is killed.

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    6. 7:55 you leave me speechless with your pendejismo, what, who where, when, why???

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    7. These demons deserve to be burned alive.

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    8. 9:46AM
      If you don't know the original Hydra from Greek mythology then continue along in your obscene befuddlement.

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  2. Looks like furniture next to their bodies

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  3. Commander H and his minions should be corralled into a dead end corner within the jail and set ablaze. Straight to hell where they belong.

    Debts are charged from the those who owe not innocent children.

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  4. The US/DEA/CIA's 'Kingpin Strategy' = 'Whackamole Strategy'.

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    1. You always type that no one cares.

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    2. When they say wackamole they mean taking side with the drug trafickers from sinaloa, why do some want those ppl to run mexico? Isn't those narcos from that place that have spread corruption and hell all over that country? The bitches from dea/cia must be wrong if they believe those snakes are always going to be obeying orders from those corrupt pigs in the us.

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  5. Go back to the old ways, assume the drug trade will happen, select a few capos, carve up the geographic areas, let them clean up the area, do business, and leave the populace alone.

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    1. The "old way" continues. What's happening is the Mexican govt does not want to take orders from the good ol boys from You Ess Aye.

      I wonder why BB hasn't gone head first into breaking down the corruption and chain of command of cartel del pri, or may be they fear the repercussions of outing all the slimeballs we call our leaders and business magnates!?

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    2. Makes the most sense to me, it sounds extreme but maybe the only thing that will work. Divide territories, turn a blind eye to trafficking only on the condition of no massacres, extortion, kidnapping, etc, or trying to take over each others territory. Come down hard on those who don't comply. I can't see many other solutions at the min.

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    3. 11:15 rebuilding Mexico represents billions of dollars for the foreign contractors that will come with reddy cooked deals with the US govrrnment.
      Bombs and IEDs will be given for free to all participating war sides as they were given in iraq and afghanistan, please order your poison bombs on time, before anybkdy discovers who supplied them. And hoard food and toilet paper in your concrete refuges

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    4. The territories are divided, and the more they fragment the more crime, less the mini narco-capos are left without chertos, nachos doritos, fruitsis and have to go on a diet of puro pinchi maruchan all over again.
      The excuse of destabilization also opens a Wonderful World of Opportunities for security specialists that work as "subcontractors for "foreign security.corporations" that have discovered that creating the problem leads to billion dollar contracts on their target countries.
      open your 'eyeis', ayayays...

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    5. They already tried that.Didn't work or doesn't work anymore.Honour is missing and gone.

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    6. Problem when "they did tat, canna, was that they sold the same territories to different cartels a few too many times.

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  6. -Desde Tierra Caliente-

    Tengo miedo. La gente va a tomar tanto de la matanza de los niños. Entonces la gente va a hacer lo mismo que es lo que está ahora en las islas filipinas. Lo que vendrá es un nuevo presidente de México. Habrá elegido una nueva secretaria de gobernaion. Ese hombre usará las fuerzas armadas para usar la violencia y la fuerza para cazar sicarios y jefes de los cárteles. Será tan exitoso que la gente lo elegirá como presidente. Ese hombre creará una hermana a la justicia filipina.

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    1. Esperemos que sea cierto hermano.

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    2. 5:06 tás mas güey, valeee!
      Luckily El Loco Duterte (now part of the new Warsaw Pact with the donal, Sissi of egypt, the house of Saudi, Erdogan's turks, 5he israelis, the chinese, the russians of putin and the United Arab Emirates among other wannabes without $$$)
      Said Loco duterte, is, luckily, murdering his own voters at the first sight that proves that their broke asses must be drug traffickers and addicts, you will go on the first train to the gas chambers.

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    3. Practicamente es lo que necesitan en paises como esos, pero que la cosa sea pareja sin andar con lados, los malandros la traen facil en esos lugares por eso se duplican mas y mas cada año que va pasando. En la filipina hasta turistas matan, mientras que en otros te matan pero por la droga.

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  7. I would like to know what happen to mayito Gordo chavo Felix cheyo ....otis can you do a report of where are they now...gracias my friend

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  8. It is hard to kill your way out of such things as these. Install capos let it run in peace while the state works on fixing the poverty. Will be a long tough road. May never work Americans like our drugs. US needs to stop our failed war on drugs. No easy answers.

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  9. Jorgito de ensenada was murdered along with 4 others and 15 were injured at a cock fight.

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    1. jorgito was killed in tj november 2015

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  10. Honestly innocents civilians cannot trust anymore in U.S agencies nor Mexican ones!

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  11. Mataron a el Chapo Trini de Sonora

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  12. EL CHAPO TRINI EJECUTADO EN GDL ????
    atte : yo

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  13. No demand no supply! Isn't this what cops in the U.S. say about prostitution???

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    1. Sex is natural. Trafficking humnans for the purposes of sex is not natural. Drug use is not natural and killing others so viciously and children at that to keep profits is not natural. Demented at best. These people are nothing more than cowards, all of them. I am sure that people who were killed in the holocaust camps went to their graves with more dignity than any cartel member ever has or will. COWARDS!!!

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    2. Greed requires money, and will create supplies to offer satisfy the demand as needed, the target customers rarely care about the business side except for they know they need their 2 or 3 dollars for the crack ho and the crack ho know she will need about 20 customers a day to buy her supply.
      High end aristocrats just know they will need thousands a day and that they will be paid by the more pendejos,
      It is like in the 60s, uppers and downers and grifa, cocaine, LSD, heroin, were trafficked, but to really make.money, they needed to be trafficked to more people, and the CIA created testing marketing, propaganda and all the tricks of the trade to ensure their survival, they reamed LBJ's ass, and Richard nixxon had tk create the DEA (AND THE EPA) TO FIGHT DRUG TRAFFICKING, BUT he lost that war because the deep.state sprung Watergate on his ass.
      After nixxon and kissinger it has been wars on LatinAmerica to make sure the good boy keep the business of the narco on the up.and up, no matter who is prezident of the US.

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  14. Of course if the United States were to get involved by sending troops the corrupt politicians would cry that Mexico is a sovereign country so that they can continue getting their bribes under the table from the cartels.
    Mr. Pena, Big brother Trump is watching your every move.
    Control your bad hombres or else.

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    1. USA is getting paid as well.

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    2. El h fro veracruz. And he is not an original z

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    3. 5:09 mister "bad honbrei" has got his ass up to the ears on alligators, his lawyers are apologizing for terrorist treats, and lawyering up on lawyered up lawyers, because of all the fake news about their russian ties, all the smoke and the fires they are finding.
      Apparently the "fake news" were not so "fake" after all, but the trompetass has had his biggest lies printed on the new york post full page on the print edition, he lies like a born nazi-fascist mafioso and the Conman mafioso he is...
      He also does not know that epn lights a candles for bigger powers than "the donal"

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  15. What zeta cell this did. Cldnt be old school zetas they dont do shit like this.

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    1. Most probably 35Z they are a CDN cell that operates in Veracruz.

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  16. Soooo is it true chapo trino was killed in Guadalajara? Supposedly happened yesterday while at a taco stand

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    1. Yes my abuelito from Mexico has confirmed this

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    2. 12:26 tu agüelito anda de chismoso.
      Y tu agüelita anda buscando quien le haga zaso.

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  17. I guess im watching el chapo a series on netflix and it says there that the federal government locked up don neto from the Guadalajara cartel so the Mexican president or government can take over the game and be the biggest cartel wat ya think

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    1. 9:10 the president al the time when Don Neto, rafael.caro quintero and miguel angel felix gaardo participated in the kidnapping torture and murder of Kiki Camarena, was miguel de la Marid hurtado, a piece of shit, but el Chamuco Mayor Carlos Salinas de Gortari was working for de la madrid, as "secretario de programacion y presupuesto" on top of being his lover all day and night. He was the greedy one, tight with fernanda gutierrez barrios, and Manuel Bartlett THB DFS BOSS and fernando gutierrez barrios former boss of DFS AND ARMY CAPTAIN who had the drug trafficking and nicaraguan contra training going on in "veracruz" in a Caro Quintero owned "rancho".
      Of course, the government stole all they could from the narcos fallen in disgrace...

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  18. Hey let's legalize drugs in the US and Mexico will be like Switzerland:

    https://www.apnews.com/d6529c484f1d4262bfc660453f011bb4/Gasoline-thieves-are-out-of-control-_-and-deadly-_-in-Mexico

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  19. Please, Pres Nieto Pena is a poor excuse for a president as many before him all are greedy, money hungry and blood thirty only caring about their pockets and themselves.

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  20. Who the hell is Chapo Trini? If he is a criminal good riddance.

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  21. 5:09 peña Nieto is NOT POOR, please review your 'assyessment'
    He has been robbing and stealing with the best of the best for the last 25 years, and the rest of his life has been spent in "the Escuela de Rateros" building his own Equipo de Rateros.
    Not for nothing El Chamuco Mayor embraces and kisses him with wet sloppy kisses on the ass, and the respect is mutual.

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  22. 5:13 chapo trini era nomas un cabrón más que andaba ahi de aliente

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  23. -Desde Tierra Caliente-

    Quizás hablo tontamente. ¿Por qué México no crece mota y llevarlo al norte y venderlo legalmente a las personas que desean comprarlo legalmente? Desde los campos de cultivo hasta el transporte y las ventas, hacer que los militares y SSP más SAT para monitorear entre sí y girar a estas personas para mantenerlos más honestos. Vender mota al gobierno gringo significará dinero y esto significará interés por De los más grandes ladrones de toda la gobernación para recaudar tanto dinero como sea posible. Sé que esto es estúpido para sugerir, pero desprecio a los niños muertos por esto. No debe haber escasez de marijuanos para hacer crecer estas cosas correctamente.

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