Borderland Beat
Sources: Indigo Report and Narco Mexico Drugs Gangs
THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL
THE NEW GROUP FORMS
The rupture of
the Zetas establishes a new splinter group now with the Gulf Cartel (CDG), Presently, they are in San Luis Potosi, and
some regions of Huasteca and Zacatecas.
After the death of Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, El Lazca, new alliances
between the different factions of the zetas have increased.
According to
a recent military intelligence report, not only division and confrontations
existed among the zetas group lead by “El Lazca” and Miguel Angel Treviño ,
aka, Z-40, but one of the principal operators regional level, Ivan Velazquez
Caballero, aka Z-50 or Taliban, had distanced himself from both of them and once again became a part of CDG. The Taliban was chief of plaza in San Luis Potosi, Guanajuato,
Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Monterrey and parts of Coahuila.
On the other
hand, Ivan had tested divisions among the loyal people of Jorge Eduardo
Costilla Sanchez, aka El Coss, and the people of Cardenas Guillen. Intelligence
information suggested that El Coss – arrested on September 12th by
the Navy- had turned in Mario Cardenas Guillen, aka M-1 or El Gordo, and Juan
Gabriel Montes Sermeño, aka El Sierra.
"Los Rojos" the faction
formerly commanded by the brothers of Osiel has now formed a new
group with commands given by “El Taliban”. The new group is using the name of " Los-hijos-del-diablo“, (The
sons of the Devil”), with a presence only in San Luis Potosi, some zones
of the Huasteca and Zacatecas.
The 42 year old Z-50, , confessed, after being arrested by the Army/navy, that he had
started his delinquent career on with of Gulf Cartel and that he had never
stopped belonging to that group, according to the same source.
He attributes
the responsibility for the deaths of the previous months in San Luis Potosí, to
Los Zetas, but denies being part of them. Similarly, rejects joining the
Knights Templar and accepts that he had always belonged to the Gulf Cartel.
"Since I started working, I started with them," he says.
DEATH OF A SON
In his battle
with Z-40, he explains that Z-40 began to act in a psychotic way, “doing
shitty stuff and killing many people." But above all, he accuses Treviño
of killing his eldest son, Carlos Velazquez.
According to
the description of El Taliban, Treviño killed his son in Anahuac. He recognizes
that some people had said that his son might be alive, but he says that he
doesn’t believe that.
“I know the
Zetas very well, they say that they have him alive but they don’t, just as they
said with a brother in law”. I even have information that they were burned
alive in Monterrey, he remarks.
The
kidnapping of the son of Taliban was one of the motives that provoked the
clash between the the leaders.
But Taliban,
for which PGR offered 30 million pesos to the person that collaborated with his
capture, also had clashes with the Zetas of Lazcano, seeking independence and
staying with the control of the entities that had been assigned to him by
Lazcano.
Unofficial
reports refer that Trevino had turned in the Taliban to the authorities, as well
as El Lazca and at least a dozen local leaders, with the intention of taking
over the remainder of the Zetas in the country.
This entire
situation caused the return of Ivan Velazquez to the Gulf Cartel, specifically
with the faction of Cardenas Guillen.
On the
report, El Taliban said he was native of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas; started his
criminal activities stealing cars on his native town and that he has a passport
issued by the government of the United States with a picture of him with a
mustache that he has not use in a long time.
Ivan
Velazquez also denies allying with the Knight Templar, under the orders of
Servando Gomez Martinez, aka “La Tuta”.
100 PERCENT SURE
After the PGR announced that they will exhume
the remains of one of the parents of Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, William
Brownfield, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Affairs,
said that the United States has no doubts that the stolen corpse is that of
"El Lazca".
In an
interview with The Guardian, Brownfield said that before the body disappeared
that they took enough DNA samples to verify his identity, so it is
"almost a 100 percent certainty " that the former leader of Los Zetas was killed.
For its part,
the PGR reported that within two to three weeks the results of the genetic sample analysis will be available of
samples taken from a relative of Lazcano Lazcano.
However, PGR reiterated
that the identity of "El Lazca" is fully confirmed, but it is to
comply 100 percent with legal requirements.
To the Secretary,
the death of capo on October 7th in Progreso, Coahuila, represents a
strong blow to "the most powerful organization in Mexico."
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