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Monday, June 21, 2021

Reynosa, Tamaulipas: The Hunting of Innocent Civilians

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Note: For the original post about the Reynosa killings, please click this hyperlink

Last Saturday, the city of Reynosa was again a ghost town of desolate avenues and closed shops. Messages circulating on WhatsApp asking people not to leave their homes and alert their families that the nightmare had begun again.

That day a caravan formed by trucks and sedan cars arrived in Reynosa from Río Bravo. Those who were part of the convoy toured four colonies in the east - Almaguer, Lampacitos, Unidad Obrera and Bienestar - shooting at the people they were encountering in their path.

Construction workers, workers repairing the sewer, a young newly graduated nurse, an elderly person who walked under the burning sun (and who was shot in the throat), the owner of a grocery store and a customer who was shopping at the time he passed the hitmen's armed criminal cell.

In total, 14 people whose lives were cut up on the chopping block at the whim of the murderers.

The citizens of Reynosa have learned to live between shootings that are recorded almost every day, at any time. It is common for citizens to check their social networks before leaving home or work, in order to avoid war zones: roads in which persecutions are recorded, or vehicles are burned.

It’s not strange that civilians lose their lives by being caught in the crossfire of the groups that dispute control of that border city.

But nothing like this had ever happened. The hunt for innocent people, without a criminal record or any relationship with organized crime. "Unpublished, unprecedented," said Attorney Irving Barrios.

In April 2017, a former bodyguard who had become leader of the Gulf Cartel, Julián Manuel Loisa Salinas, El Comandante Toro, was killed by the Navy.

Loisa was fleeing for the sixth time from an operation designed to stop him. On that occasion he couldn't escape. The truck in which he was fleeing crashed into a tree: he descended opening fire on the sailors. He was riddled on the spot.

His death unleashed two days of chaos and extreme violence in Reynosa. His men burned shops, cars, buses, cargo trucks. There were 32 blockades in the city.

The Gulf Cartel itself circulated audios ordering people not to leave their homes. There were versions that a group of Cyclones - one of the factions of the cartel - had been sent from Matamoros to take over the city, one of the main drug and migrant crossings: a kidnapping gold mine, "protection fee", hydrocarbon theft and extortion.

The command was assumed by Jesús García, El Güero Jessi. But other cartel leaders opposed: Alberto Salinas, El Betillo; Petronilo Flores, aka El Metro 100 or El Comandante Panilo; Lui Alberto Blanco, El Pelochas, as well as Juan Miguel Lizardi, nicknamed Miguelito 56.

Between April and July of that year, 90 executions were recorded in Reynosa. There was talk of a hundred disappearances. Clashes between Los Metros (fraction of the CDG whose stronghold is Reynosa), Los Ciclones (armed wing created by Alfredo Cárdenas Martínez, El Contador) and Los Escorpiones (fraction created by Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén, aka Tony Tormenta, and composed of ex-police officers) intensified.

The internal struggle ended in a bloodbath that plunged Reynosa into darkness. El Betillo and El Güero Jessi were killed. El Pelochas and El Metro 100, arrested. His successors continued to be engaged in a struggle that has made Reynosa one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico - and with the greatest perception of insecurity.

In 2019, 140 inhabitants of Charco Escondido, just 20 kilometers from Reynosa, left their homes: the hitmen had entered the community to burn several homes: seven people from the same family were killed days later.

In the middle of all that fire, the Northeast Cartel was also introduced into the area, commanded by a nephew of the bloodthirsty Z-40, former leader of the Zetas: Juan Gerardo Treviño, known as El Huevo.

For years, the bodies of executed people have appeared on rural roads, as happened in May 2021 when six men in tactical vests were found with gunshots in the head, or as happened in August last year, when the heads of three "bodyguards" of Commander Maestrín (a lieutenant of Miguelito 56) appeared.

For years, blockades have been a daily thing, as happened last March, when Mayor Maki Ortiz could not reach the celebration for the 272 years of the foundation of the city because criminals had crossed vehicles and placed caltrops on various avenues.

For years, in one of the main manufacturing and cross-border trade centers, classes have been suspended, shops close, people have equipped themselves in their homes: the streets become a cemetery.

And yet, nothing similar to what happened this Saturday had never happened: hitmen hunting people in the streets: murderers who go through four colonies killing at random, without anything happening: without being persecuted, arrested, judged.

The massacres are repeated. Violence in Mexico is out of control and the State is increasingly incapable of guaranteeing the security of citizens.

El Universal

49 comments:

  1. This is another reason this country doesn't need gun control. Another example is Michoacan and the citizens who took arms and went after the cartels. They almost liberated the entire state of cartel violence before the Mexican government turned on Dr. Mireles. Mexico needs to implement a death penalty and allow honest citizens to arm themselvese.

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    1. The mexican goverment needs to stop being greedy to have some morality and grow some balls first.

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    2. 2nd amendment in the USA has never stopped crime.

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    3. 8:13 lol yes it has buddy don't be speaking bullsh*t. It might not stop all crime but trust me there's a lot of criminals that have been layed down by law abiding citizens thanks to the help of glocks.

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    4. Those groups were CJNG...

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    5. 813 Do you see the mess México is in? Guns in the us have prevented way more crime by honest gun owner than the liberal media would ever admit to... research shows México has continually had the most dangerous cities in the world.

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    6. Dr. Mireles was working CJNG

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    7. Yeah let’s make it more easier to obtain weapons in Mexico. That will definitely stop the killings!

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    8. 5:52 That's great thinking, but unfortunately, that would lessen the bribes to government curupt officials, they let all the criminals run free to do whatever they want, a good example happening in Reynosa, innocent people getting killed, how would that Cartel like it, if we armed ourselves and went killing thier family members. Also to answer you about guns for citizens, government will say no.

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    9. 4:59 PM You are still stuck in 2014 and 2015 with the whole Cartel Land documentary that was all propaganda and lies.

      The Autodefensa movement was a massive bowl of narcos those who the templarios hurt and those who fell for what Mireles was preaching.

      Ex Zetas like Hipolito Mora, Omar Mora, Poncho La Quiringa and his brother in law wicho el de los Reyes, Balta de Periban ect. Ex Milenio Cartel like El Abuelo Farias, Ex Familia Michaocana like the Mendez Vargas, Ex Templarios like the Viagras, Frutoso Comparan, Ex Templarios like El Toro in La Costa. People like Cemei Verdia Zepeda his cousin Hector Zepeda Navarette who is apart of Carteles Unidos today with El Toro.

      The Autodefensas in Tepaltepec, Cotija, Los Reyes, Buenavista, Aguillila, La Costa, Apatzingan, Zamora, La Piedad were all being funded by CJNG. Mireles who got caught up in the United States with large amount of Cannabis was the face of the Autodefensas he was the face of El Abuelo Farias.

      The Autodefensas were created by an agreement between CJNG and El PRI because El PRI didn't want to fullfill the promises they made Nazario Moreno Gonazlez basically the Templarios wanted full control of Michaocan everything that was done in the state would benifit the Templarios they would become the law.

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    10. Don't forget CJNG has their own munitions/gun making factory.

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    11. I rather have a gun than not in nearly any situation (violent or not). That is my argument for gun control. If I use a gun, I should expect all consequences and responsibilities that come after that. But not allowing citizens to be able to protect themselves and their household is absurd.

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  2. This has Cartel Del Noreste name all over it by a new CDN wing that used to be part of CDG Reynosa.

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    1. This is cdg vs cdg. Cdn cant get to reynosa. They wld have to cross the frontera chica first and thats wld be almost imposible.

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    2. Es la táctica pendeja que a ningún contra espanta, solo atemorizas al ciudadano de a pie al que le vale madre cualquier facción.

      No es el CDN son las mismas Golfas que les encanta decir que la Mugre (Zetas/Norestes) esto que la mugre lo otro, que nosotros somos el Cartel del Golfo y son mas corrientes que nada, el CDN poco a poco esta volviendo a Reynosa le guste o no a los Metros, le guste o no a los Primitos, pero ya aprendieron a que deben manejarse bajo perfil hasta que tengan suficiente personal para hacer un tronadero bien hecho.

      Ahí andan varios Zetones que son de Reynosa que ya salieron de la escuela y otros del exilio, las Golfas se han cegado en su propia wila y ni saben por donde las Norestitas les van a pegar, aparte a los Cardenas ya nadie los quiere ya no tardan tanto que hasta entre ellos se matan.

      La unica facción decente de los CDG son los Tampicos.

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    3. Toon. Que no la facción de Tampico está aliada a la de Matamoros? Cual facción de Matamoros?

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    4. Si tienen una relación comercial con el Contador, pero cuando ves que anden con este tipo de mamadas entre Ciclones y Metros, con esto no quiero decir que son blancas palomas, pero al menos como los gatos saben tapar su cagazones regularmente, conozco gente en Tampico y pues ninguna queja de la gente de R3 y el Comandante Sierra en el sur veo mas atrocidades de la ZVE que de los Fresitas o bien algun grupo que fue CDG y se quedaron de cobradores de cuotas y cuatreros como el Pantera 24

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    5. El CDN poco a poco domina las rancherias de la frontera chica y Noreste de Nuevo Leon. Según escuche que en Mier y Miguel A ya lo tienen bajo su control. Comalez y el Brasil y Dr coss ya están bajo el CdN.

      No tarda una ofensiva en camargo/valadeses/Diaz ordaz..General Bravo y China corren peligro de ser blancos del CdN tmb.

      Ganando esas regiones tienen la carretera abierta a reynosa y nadie quien los detenga.

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  3. HERE COME THE SINALOENSES WITH THEYRE SALCHIPULPOS AND CHALINO SANCHEZ MUSIC 😃😃😃

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    1. Them salchi pullpos are fire not gun a lie lmfao

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  4. All this madness & chaos is permitted by those elected officials. Along with state officials who are being bribed.
    To cancel the town's birthday due to blockades and violence goes to show the cowardice of those elected & those who are paid to secure its citizens.
    Such incompetence of Mexican government. These fatalities like in other states shows the complicity of criminal associations.
    Prayers to those poor citizens.

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    1. It's very easy to point fingers and play the blame game but not so easy to fill another person's shoes. Go down to Mexico become the mayor of a city or town and fight crime. I wanna see how brave you are after receiving death threats.

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    2. Sounds like your comment approves & sides with criminal activities.
      Elected officials like their counterparts (police officers ect) have a duty to fulfill. Paid for by its citizens & its constituents. Not the other way around.
      The notion of death threats & hiding under one's bed for fear of reprisals goes to show who runs Mexico.

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  5. They should beg the USMC for assistance.

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    1. They're not good for low intensity non-war operations.

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    2. 5:34 Mexico and USA are two different countries. Lol

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    3. 8:14 Actually the US Marines are trained in Urban Warfare, it was first started in the late 90s, to assist police, it came to life after what happened in Los Angeles with the Rodney King verdict in 1992. So you answer the question it does exist.

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    4. 8:14 Actually the US Marines are trained in Urban Warfare, it was first started in the late 90s, to assist police, it came to life after what happened in Los Angeles with the Rodney King verdict in 1992. So you answer the question it does exist.

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  6. And some RANDOM NOBODY HAD THE AUDACITY TO SAY SOME OF THESE VICTIMS WERE DOPE DEALERS🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ PUT SOME RESPECT ON THE VICTIMS....


    - mencho still king.

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    1. Mencha is the worse innocent killer. His ppl strapped a dynamite stick to a father with his son and recorder it. You must must be retarded. Whos to say they were all innocent may be they sold drugd may be they stashed drugs may be their related to a cartel memeber.

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    2. 700
      No you're a fucken moron. This articles and several others across Mexico have been covering these victims innocence.
      You stupid fuck.

      Who are you to say who's worse if you're doubting these people are innocent, pendejo.

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    3. @7:00 when Gringo got killed is when the video was found on his phone. He already paid the price for his deeds. When will the muerto de hambre tragavergas who beat the father and decapitated him in front of his teenage son and then stabbed, cut off his stomach skin and opened his chest to cut out his heart and sliced in half pay? Those POS from your familia muertos de hambre aren't EVIL secret_management? "Whos to say they were all innocent..." Remember that imbécil and don't cry when you're in the same situation maricon

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    4. Sorry 550 I don't read comments with all capitals.

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    5. @ 550
      Gringo was one of Menchos main men and compadre so that shit dont fly.Mencho killed police in revenge for Gringo,you know all this!

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  7. Raait naw the one fighting for everything he's got is francisco javier garcia cabeza de cagadas de vacas, fucking Vacas Locas would be no strangers to heating up their own house to make people demand the return of their "favorite governor" in the style of other autocratic megalomaniacs, combinednwith the sharks smelling blood and money, like cagadas de vacas' "State of Tamaulipas Intelligence Services"

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  8. Going to get really bad. It's the well of the voters to continue the blood bath,

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  9. Reynosa - quiet, empty, desolate . . . because of the killings of the innocents who were on the path . . . f##k these people. Close the border to these assholes

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  10. This is only possible due to the omnipresent corruption of the people at the very top of the political hierarchy in Mexico.

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  11. Guarantee if gov actually got tough and drone strikes and just kill cartel scum alot would shit themselves and leave crime.

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  12. Wtf??? Why is Aljazeera or CNN or BBC reporting on this?

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  13. Calmanse. Hay que creer el Señor Presidente de su estimado país...aqui no pasa nada. Todo está perfectamente bién. Oye, abre los ojos, mira hacia arriba, disfruta las cosas buenas que tiene la vida.....¡ay, ay, ay!

    Hasta luego,
    AmigoAnónimo

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    1. El presidente Obrador es un menso.

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  14. Why is this dumb azz Cartel killing innocent pheasants, don't they have something else to do. The military should go finish them off. Hope they are not contributing to the bribe box, so they can be exterminated.

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  15. Any info on what’s happening in reynosa today

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    1. Balazos, balazos y más balazos y mucho calor.

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