Tierra Caliente: Masked Man Exposes LFM Leaders in New Video

"Sol Prendido" & "HEARST" for Borderland Beat

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The masked man who made a video earlier this month has released a follow up video where he reveals the specific structure and leaders within La Familia Michoacana. 

The Video

As a review, on March 13, 2023, a masked man in military fatigues, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, announced that the people from the Tierra Caliente region of Mexico had suffered under the cartel group La Familia Michoacana (often shortened to LFM) for long enough. 

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In the initial video, he called upon President Lopez Obrador to send in the National Guard to the region to protect them from LFM leaders Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga, alias “El Pez” and José Alfredo Hurtado Olascoaga, alias “La Fresa”. 

On March 15, the same man uploaded a second video, which can be seen below. 

Video translation is as follows:

Mr. President, we thank you for sending the National Guard to the cities and towns of Tierra Caliente. But it seems there was a misunderstanding. Or we did not explain ourselves well in the first communiqué. We want there to be operations, we want there to be arrests. But arrests of the heads, of those at the top. We don’t want to see any more patrols. We want to see the heads of El Pez, El Fresa, El J.P. or their high-level subordinates brought down. Not just to have the troops come and walk around. With all due respect, we also want to clarify that this fight has nothing to do with politics.

And to be honest there are supporters of the Morena political party and other parties in this movement. I personally speak for myself. I don’t speak for others. I say that President Andres Manuel is one of the best presidents Mexico has ever had. But that is my opinion only. It has nothing to do with this fight. He, AMLO, is already fighting some powerful people, more powerful than these dumb asses. These adversarial figures are pieces of shit next to the ones the President is fighting. 

They are powerful. And therefore it is up to us as Mexicans to fight, not to leave all the work to him. You shouldn’t ask yourself what is he doing. Ask yourself instead what exactly are you doing for your country. Get that bullshit out of your head that this is a political movement or some shit like that. This struggle is exclusively happening because we want to live free. And those who say that we belong to another cartel, I will make it clear again. We initially thought we would ask for help from other cartels with the mindset that another evil would be better than this evil. 

But no, there are only two evils here, nothing else. It was either fight with the townspeople or not fight at all. Because it’s meaningless for us to engage in a fight, that blood be spilled, just to have other dumb asses to come along and be back at square one again. No, no sir. We don't want any cartel here. Not Jalisco or Sinaloa. They are all the cancer that is killing Mexico. We don't want any criminal organization here. And frankly speaking we’re all part of this problem. 

The parents who are proud of their children wearing plate carriers. Oh, how they defend the culprit who is charging them protection fees. Take a look at the daughters who surround these dumb asses like flies. The in-laws act so proud about this. Or the artists praising these criminals with their songs. Their narco ballads, pure lies, misleading the youth. And yet that very youth is so desperate to integrate themselves into the world of lies told by the narco ballads. Let’s speak the truth on this matter. 

Everyone needs to know that they spend their time stealing, that they live off the people, that they neither live nor sleep at ease. How brave are these assholes? They aren’t brave at all! They can’t go out to the corner if two or three individuals don’t make up a part of their security detail. We are all part of this. Even if we don't speak the truth it hurts. They come to the houses and these assholes can’t find who to fill their ranks. I would like to think that some are afraid. But there are some who keep licking the nuts of some of these assholes. Some people may be wondering why I’m concealing my face. 

It's because I'm protecting myself.  Because I'm breathing down their necks. My adversaries pass through here every day. And yes I can abduct one or two of them. The same goes for the bigwigs. But first I want to sow the seed in all the people of faith and hope that it’s possible to put an end to these assholes. They might kill me today, they might kill me tomorrow, or maybe it’ll never happen. But if that happens, there’s no point to this if the struggle doesn’t continue. And if the fight doesn’t continue I can assure you that after my death I will die again from the shame of seeing my people enslaved. 

It’ll mean that I didn’t perform my fight well on earth. But if this struggle continues I swear to you that I will never die. Emiliano Zapata will never die because the townspeople and many more individuals supported him. We have a lot of information. We are going to upload it all little by little to social networks since we can not print, since it’s so much information that we have on El Fresa and El Pez. We have intel on his family who live in Santa Barbara. Even the zoo that they have in Amatepec. In addition the veterinarian who takes care of the tigers, we have him located. His cousins, Cimiro, Juan Pistolas, their end will soon come. 

El Colima is a compadre of the general from the 34th battalion who hides plots of gold in El Potrero in the town of Tlataya. Chuk Norris hides in the meetings. He is the one who controls Tlataya in the State of Mexico. There in the gatherings we have the exact location where they have more than 30 people buried. And El Chivo, another worker of theirs, knows where they are buried. Chuk Norris' right hand man is El Chuyeno and he is in Tlataya in the State of Mexico. El Negro, El Choluyo are in Tlapehuala. All the routes there are full of spies. 

The municipal president in Tlapehuala is the only one who can and does sell tortillas. He closed all the tortilla shops because he is the only person who can have his business running. We have the locations of all the spies in Tierra Caliente, Los Ocotes, Amatepec, Puerto Frio, Cruz del Norte, La Presa, and Nopaltepec. El Mochi and El Braulio are in charge of communications in Ajuchitlán. Those individuals along with El Toto are from a deceiving criminal cell. We have them located. We know where all the antennas in Tierra Caliente are. 

The routes, the combis transportation drivers, they are all obligated to be spies. All this is now over. We already had El Zarco located as well. But these guys tend to betray each other amongst themselves. They killed El Zarco and his brothers like dogs. Those dogs deserved it. El Zarco served them so well, he was the commandanr who cleaned their plazas. They killed him. It’ll mean nothing to them to kill his hired killers who are nothing more than simple gunmen. We had located their houses, their girlfriends, their children, in differing locations everywhere. 

We have much more intel. But this dumb ass, El Zarco, is already wallowing in hell. Thank God the citizens of Tierra Caliente woke up. They are helping us by sending information. We know that El JP is going to party in Charago, Guerrero. And that the route they’re going to take is through Nuevo Galeana. We know you are hiding in Angova, in La Piña, in La Selva Seca, in El Condan. We know everything, old man. By the way how was the meeting you just had with Américo's Pan political party? 

Enjoy your last celebrations. May El Cejas and Jose Arandas continue to praise you with their narco ballads. We want to live free. We want our children to live free. For they are our struggle. They are the future of our land. So that they don't have to experience what we had to live through with these scumbags. We are not the owners of Tierra Caliente. But we are the children of the owner. And the owner is the Creator and therefore we all have the right to live free and in peace on his land. 

May the Virgin Mary protect us. Soon we will give you a phone number so you can keep sending all the information. Remember, I repeat again. Respect the National Guard, the Navy, all those ladies and gentlemen. Otherwise, we are going to make you respect them. They, the military, the Navy, the National Guard are people who also have families. They are risking their lives to help us, because of some dumb asses, not everyone from Tierra Caliente is like this. 

Just a select few dumb asses are out there blocking their way. But whoever stands in front of the Marines, the National Guard, currently they find themselves with their hands tied. Right now they can't do anything about it because of the human rights protestors. But we are are not being held back by anything. We don’t have our hands tied behind our backs. Respect the National Guard or we’re going to teach you how to respect them.

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