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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Ensenada: 6 executed, banner goes up, signed "Cartel De La Rana"

                     6 executed, banner goes up from "Cartel De La Rana"

El Sauzal Ensenada:

In 1997, 20 members of a family were murdered in El Sauzal, on the orders of Ramon Arellano Felix, during the last years of the CAF's control over Tijuana.  Gunmen, said to be drunk, and high on cocaine, descended on a family residence, and executed all the members. 

This was considered the most savage and brutal killing of it's time, making news reports nationally in the United States.  The homicide rate in Tijuana during that time, was around 300, which is 5 times less than what it is now.

Now, in the shadow of that former bloody massacre, in which children and women were murdered, over a families unpaid debts, the drug politics of Ensenada, and the Baja corridor have spilled over, in the new, chaotic, frenzied style of violence which is now commonplace. 


In the classic red and white styled letters often used by CTNG/CJNG in Tijuana, the banner was hung near a vacant lot, and leaves a lot of questions in it's wake. The banner is roughly translated to "The plaza is mine now, CJNG, CAF, and Cartel De Sinaloa fuck your mother from Cartel De La Rana"

La Rana, unless there is a new one operating inthe Baja region, is Rene Garcia Azarte, the brother of Alfredo Arteaga Azarte, El Aquiles, who has been on a long run, as El Mayo's point man in Tijuana, surviving year after year, since 2010, after a 120 ton marijuana seizure in Tijuana, which was the result of a dispute between Jose Soto Gastelum, El Tigre, Aquiles, and El Boxer. 

Aquiles was said to have brokered an alliance between the people of Fernando Sanchez Arellano, and Sinaloa, and responsible for the return of El Mayo Zambada's niece, who was kidnapped by Juan Sillas Rocha, in September 2010.  La Rana and his brother prospered beyond Tijuana, and have yet to be captured, though they are both under indictment in San Diego, named alongside other Tijuana plaza bosses, Los Antrax, and Ismael Zambada, and his sons. 

Los Aquiles, have held a presence across Baja for years, including Rosarito and Ensenada, if La Rana flipped, he is only announcing it in Ensenada, not Tijuana, or Rosarito, the former of which is much more valuable territory, which is unlikely. 

The banner looks like the kind of disinformation used to create chaos and heat up the plaza, usually a dispute between retail cells, rather than Sinaloa based traffickers.  If it is to be believed, La Rana has turned on his brother, or broken apart, and the Sinaloa Cartel.  The banner also mocks CAF and CJNG, though does not use the CTNG moniker more commonly used in Tijuana. 

In the eastern part of the city, 6 bodies, faces wrapped in adhesive tape were found in a subdivision of the city.  They were bound at the feet and wrists.  There is no connection, but the two incidents point to a dispute between retailers in Ensenada, which has had many arrests of plaza bosses, from CAF and Sinaloa in 2016 and 2017.  Some of the arrests were related to a 2016 shooting at a cock righting event, in which Sinaloa gunmen attempted to execute a CAF retail cell leader, killing three, and injuring at least a dozen.  

There have been 450 killings in Baja California in 2018, with at least 350 plus occurring in Tijuana, where the violence has become so commonplace, 5 people killed in a day is no longer a shock, but a headline, seen multiple times a week.  Last year, there were multiple occurrences of bodies being dropped across the vast county of Ensenada. 4 bodies in an early morning fog, in the stillness of the countryside farm areas, was one I write about, but there were others.  

After almost 10 years, I start to hear voices of old cliches about the drug business, about things changing but staying the same.  I start to wonder what kind of tape was used, duct, or electrical, and not who really hung the banner, or ordered the killing.


Sources: AFN Tijuana 



72 comments:

  1. Are the Cartels still using Chainsaw. Mexico has Gun Control. What is Mexico doing about Chainsaw Control. I know here California we supporting a new law for Out lawing these dangerous weapons

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    1. Yes, they also need to get rid of cars too.they are very dangerous!

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    2. I hope they use you to make a final statement about the dangers of chainsaws, onion knives, ice picks and prison shanks, but nobody could kill 50 or 100 people by himself and wound a few hundreds for icing on the cake with weapons of war and mass murdering, ban the GUNS! but leave onion cutting knives alone.

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    3. The old ways are always the best. 🔪 - Sol Prendido

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    4. I am selling my chsinsaw

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    5. Band knifes also

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    6. Hands, people, hands...don't yall know that hands are the most deadly weapon throughout history. Let's ban hands... just like Jesus said, better to gouge out your eyes and chop of the hand so as not to sin.

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    7. Have guns ever stopped violence in the USA?

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    8. These smug and half assed political statements bring nothing to the conversation.

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    9. The US is a shithole. It's fuckwits like this ass clown that think guns will help the situation. It's the Americans lust for drugs that fuels the cartels. They should build a wall to keep Americans out of Mexico

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    10. 1155 american tourists are the ones spending money in Mexico. You don’t even know what you’re saying

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    11. Yes Moron, do a little bit of research. Guns are used in about 2.5 million incidents every year to protect someone in the United States, so yes guns do save lives. This was an actual study conducted by Florida State University.

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    12. 10:43
      Keep playing video games.

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    13. The lust for drugs were created by the free samples from mexico nobody north invented coca or la negra and no one norte forced nadian to think to make coca, it was offered as viajes in Oaxaca along with ongos so blame is all around

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  2. Good for him...time to fly solo...its how it should be...fk the cartels trying to nationalize the dope business. But he will prolly go the way el 11 went when he pissed off the politicos of el mayo. The gov calls the shots not the sinaloan peasants..el lp

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    1. Just in case you missed it he signed cartel de la Rana so it’s still a cartel

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    2. Yeah your right my friend..guess i want to say is out out the major traditional cartels..sinaloa and gulf status ya know. El lp

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    3. 8:27 gangs of street corner grameros working for the maruchan are no cartel.

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  3. LA RANA ES GENTE DEL MAYO NO DE LOS CHAPOS SO MAYO IS NOT FUCKING WITH LOS CHAPITOS ANYMORE

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    1. keep dreaming boy, keep dreaming. in the manta it sais CDS not chapitos. you misinterpreted wrong. but i doubt that la rana has the balls to go against CJNG and CDS by his own, that's why i really think it's fake.

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    2. You know this for a fact. Or are just guessing. Please dont make stuff up this board is littered with false rumors.

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    3. 7:05 that "manta" may be good to make yourself some new calzones and little else.
      I could say Chivis hung it, of dd, or some other of our many geniuses here and many dumbos like you would believe it.

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    4. 7:05am what are you on?cds is a bunch of families from sinaloa,that includes chapos punk ass kids.

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    5. Well it was a bunch of families that formed cds back then now it’s mayos and chapos

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    6. Lol CDS has more powerful families then The Chapos

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  4. I heard "Los Parharitos Cartel", want that plaza they want it and will kill.

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  5. If true this might mean the rat basterds las chaputas r gonna have to know what it means to stand alone like a man

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    1. 7:28 stand alone guys just hang alone by themselves, homes.

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  6. La Rana is clicked up with Loz avengers and the wakana tribe .... wakana forever

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    1. Lmao,you clowns need better names.get off the chemo you're delusional.el mayonnaise was their before caf and still has a piece of the action.so rana is gonna get fried and ate.

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    2. At 7:08pm bro did you not get the joke?

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  7. He won't last.Someone will take him out.The question is how much damage he will do before that happens.

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    1. Bro rana will never turn on his brother or cds if anything its someone he knows that is trying to set him up or heat up his plaza

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  8. El mayo les quito el apoyo a la rana. That was one of the agreements to let the chapitos free when they got kidnap.

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    1. There was never an agreement. Chapo ultimately gave the order to do to mencho son as he would do to his. Mencho could've delivered a serious blow to Chapos linea ridding of those two idiots. It is well known Mayo/CDS is financing other criminal organizations to go after cjng interests which would make your "agreement" claim bogus or making no sense with mencho knowing they can come back for him when they regrouped. Fail, take this L back to the cjng fairyland.

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    2. Lol 7:31 you are lost what happen here is La Rana has been having problems with chompas and Mayo is funding both of them so Rana is upset with mayo and by the leaving cds it will put pressure on cds to choose one or the other

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    3. 731 El Menchos son was never kidnapped. El Mayo gave Mencho one call and told him to let them go, or he would make Guadalajara tremble.

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    4. El chapo pago el rescate con billetes, droga y la plaza que tenían en la tía. Ni modo así es esto, puro bisne.

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  9. Big mistake el Rana. He will be killed soon. TJ and baja are lost to mencho, cds will be pisses off.

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    1. Cjng is about to get wiped out of baja norte and sur altogether what is this TJ is menchos? Nobody in TJ is saying that dude.

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    2. Tijuana es de los CTNG.

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  10. Possibly same people doing this to bring attention to frog people. Perla folks got it locked down w state n federal.

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    1. 10:25 thats not true. Cjng losing their footing in TJ and baja altogether.

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    2. 9:34 rana ain’t got shit in tj he got his own people fighting each other

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    3. Tj is, and will be home of the locals... Aqui nada es negociable... Americanos bienvenidos👍👍☕

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  11. Weird manta, doesn't make sense

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  12. mencha's men falling like dominoes

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    1. Haha cjng has tj tho thats why he had to move to ensenada and try to start his own cartel

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    2. Jajja he has TJ thats why 3000 people killed there last year? If he had TJ that wouldnt be the case. Mencho cant even control jalisco...

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  13. Can't travel to Tijuana,because one may come back home chopped up in an ice chest.

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  14. Rafael Caro-Quintero has been placed on the
    FBI 10 most wanted list.
    https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten....

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  15. Cjng is desperate rana and akiles are in culiacan it would be suicide for la rana

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  16. Matamores tamps. Sucks robbed at gun point got $8000 pesos. I cannot carry agun but the criminal s can . don't go.

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  17. Como ya no pudo en la tía ahora quiere ensenada

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  18. has anybody noticed anything sketchy on the la bocana dirt road leading to santo tomas?

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  19. El mayo and el mencho doing business, la rana didnt like it and decides to go on his own

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    1. You know cds, they always want to turn someone in. Maybe rana is not happy about that. You know his name has been popping out a lot... Best advise never make corridos for yourself

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  20. Doubt la rana would go against his own brother this is clearly fake

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    1. Who said he was going after his brother he is most likely going after chompas

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  21. Top part says "People of the FROG" LMFAO

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  22. What kind of tape was used? What the fuck does that matter?! It was hello kitty tape!!

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  23. Your last paragraph reminds me of Frank the tank when he’s talking to his marriage counselor about what type of tong the waitress at the restaurant might be wearing! Old school

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  24. Ramon was a true gangster

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    1. like that time he killed Guero Palma's kids.

      true gangster indeed

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    2. The order came from Don Miguel you dumbshit! Chaputo & La Huera were breaking rules and heating up the plaza so Don Miguel did order to put them niggas in their place.

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  25. CJNG is not in tijuas ,only people who decide to have contracts big diffrence.lots of party vans ready to smuggle for anybody !rana and associates want a cut of evrything that passes threw their snazolas.you pay to play!or else get dealt with.since they pay for the plaza and police are under their power .its their say or you get a visit from at armed commando.

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    1. Your an idiot, there are many reports if cjng in Tijuana. Cjng has more than half the plaza with the chapulines that jumped ship from CAF And cds. Get your facts straight before you comment dumb stuff!

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  26. https://www.proceso.com.mx/529715/matan-a-seis-civiles-en-fuego-cruzado-en-reynosa

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  27. We were playing golf at baja country club south of ensenada on back nine and heard screams like dude was getting tortured. We just played thru....

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  28. This could be all bullshit. Not the first time a fake message has been left. Someone trying to get La Rana in some shit. Who knows who wrote this. I don't he would be that stupid.

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