Four Bodies, Including CFE Workers, Found in Oaxaca After Being Kidnapped in Veracruz

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Four men, three of them state electrical company (CFE) workers, were kidnapped by an armed group early this week in Tierra Blanca, Veracruz. Their bodies were found next to an abandoned CFE truck on a stretch of highway in rural Oaxaca last night.

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Farmer Killed by Gunmen Dressed as State Detectives in Ejutla de Crespo, Oaxaca

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

A farmer was killed by gunshot. Image: NVI Noticias

A group of armed men wearing Oaxaca state investigative officer uniforms killed a farmer after stopping his vehicle at a roadblock in the town of San Juan Lachigalla, in Ejutla de Crespo municipality, Oaxaca on Monday.

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Two Beheaded Bodies, Two Narco Messages Signed by CJNG in Oaxaca

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Authors warning: There are gruesome photos of corpses below.

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Three Men Linked to Controversial Mining Company Killed in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca

By “El Huaso” for Borderland Beat

Three men were killed by gunmen at a seafood restaurant in Salina Cruz, a coastal town in Oaxaca on Tuesday, April 4th. The attack may be linked to recent allegations of fraud by a mining company in the area.

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Gunfight Leaves Five Dead in Apparent Attempt to Storm Municipal Offices in Amoltepec, Oaxaca

 By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Five men were killed in a gunfight in front of the Municipal offices in Santiago Amoltepec, Oaxaca. A Facebook post by the current mayor claims the attackers are the sons of the previous mayor, who were trying to storm the mayors office and assassinate his administration.

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Two Dead After Gunmen Attack Taco Stand In Oaxaca City, Oaxaca

 By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Two men were killed and another was injured after gunmen opened fire on a taco stand early this morning in Oaxaca City, Oaxaca this morning. The owner of the stand and a customer were the victims.

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Five Families Have Been Gunned Down In Mexico In Two Weeks

Guerrero, Michoacán y Sinaloa have the highest number of homicides linked to organized crime.

Cuartoscuro/Archive photo

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

A couple and their three children were assassinated in Michoacán.  It is the fifth family gunned down in the last two weeks in the country.

Criminal groups in Mexico had previously avoided attacking the families of their rivals.  But in recent weeks, armed men have indiscriminately assassinated fathers, mothers, and their children.

Michoacán state prosecutors reported on Friday, July 22, that the latest killings occurred in the town of Arteaga, a town infested with drug trafficking and was once the headquarters of the leader of the Caballeros Templarios.

One person survived the attack perpetrated by unidentified gunmen, and is receiving medical care in the hospital.

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Oaxaca: 6 People Executed In 48 Hours Including 4 Political Leaders

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

Oaxaca, Oaxaca April 2, 2016— During the past 48 hours, there have been six people executed, including four political leaders, just hours after starting off gubernatorial campaigns in the state of Oaxaca.

The State Attorney of Oaxaca reported that the deceased were reported as members of the PRD party (Party of the Democratic Revolution) and MORENA, José María Caña Antonio and Enrique Quiroz Quiroz, respectively, as well as taxi leaders Carlos Alberto Luis López and Ezquiel Cruz Castillo, and an alleged undocumented trafficker, Manuel Fuentes Matus, and an undocumented immigrant.

The victims were killed in the municipalities of Oaxaca, El Istmo, La Cuenca de Papaloapan, and the municipality of San Andrés Huaxpaltepec, a coastal region, a few hours after starting the electoral process for the election of the governor of the state.

It’s worth mentioning that in January, another MORENA member, Marcos Hernández, was executed in the same municipality as Quiroz Quiroz, in which the general secretary of the state committee party, Sesul Bolaños, demanded that the state government clarify the facts.

Source: Noventa Grados

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The Murders of 2 Families, Including A Baby, Shakes Oaxaca

Translated By Valor for Borderland Beat

In the first incident, registered in the municipality of Pinotepa Nacional, located along the oaxacan coast, a 24 year old merchant with his seven month old baby and wife were killed.

This family was outside of a shop when they were attacked by gunfire around 20:40 hours on Friday.

 The State Investigation Agency has carried out the corresponding investigations to find out the murderers of the family, the report said.

On that same night in the middle of the municipality of Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, another three person family was executed, including their 14 year old daughter.

The information from the SSPE said that the 40 year old man and the 14 year old died at the scene, while the mother was transferred to a hospital, where she died hours later.

So far, the Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca has not provided further details or the motives for these crimes.

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Six Men Found Executed In Oaxaca

By: Pedro Matías

Saturday March 29, 2014, Oaxaca, Oaxaca—Today the Attorney General found six people executed with a coup de grace to the forehead and several bullet wounds throughout the body in San Miguel Soyaltepec.

Apparently three of the victims are from Oaxaca and the rest are from Tierra Blanca, Veracruz.

The discovery was made on Saturday around 10:00 a.m. on the diversion of Calería, near Pochota de Chichicazapa, where a taxi from Tierra Blanca, Veracruz was also left abandoned.

Attorney Héctor Joaquín Carrillo confirmed that the Assistant Attorney General’s Office for High Stakes Crime is already investigating the case in which six people were killed and left in Oaxaca territory.

The official believes that this is a result of a “cockroach” effect following the operation that took place in Veracruz in which 10 alleged Zetas were killed.

Carrillo said that among the six executed, two people have a history of selling narcotics.

Elements of the State Investigations Agency (AEI) headquartered in San Miguel Soyaltepec moved to the dirt road leading to the site Nuevo Paso Nazareno where six male bodies were found.

The Regional Attorney, Pedro Antonio Ruiz, learned about the case and ordered the removal of four bodies that were found in a white Pontiac van with license plates MFW6009 belonging to the State of Mexico.

The other two men were found dead at the side of the van, in a white Nissan Tsuru taxi, with red stripes, and license plates 14-54SCH belonging to Tierra Blanca with taxi number 314, Veracruz.

Ruiz said that the six bodies were tied up.

It was reported that three are from Oaxaca, Abel Thomas Miguel “El Mocho”, 38, his brother Ángel “El Peyuco”, 22, Francisco Javier Vega Gómez, the taxi driver from La Reformita Oaxaca ; Javier Sarralangue (Father) and Javier Sarralangue (Son) who were nicknamed “Los Tigrillos” were from Tierra Blanca and another man with an alias of “El Muletas” was also identified.

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Vehicle of Missing Journalists Found

Vehicle of Missing Mexican Journalists Found Riddled with Bullets.

Oaxaca - The car carrying two journalists missing since an attack two days ago on a caravan of human rights activists in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca was found riddled with bullets, the reporters’ boss said Thursday.

“The car of our comrade reporters has more than 30 bullet impacts,” Contralinea magazine editor Miguel Badillo told a radio station in Mexico City, complaining that state and federal authorities are doing nothing to find his missing employees.

Four vehicles carrying some 40 people were ambushed Tuesday while on a mission to deliver food to residents besieged in San Juan Copala, located some 300 kilometers (186 miles) west of Oaxaca city, the state capital.

Two people, Beatriz Alberta Cariño Trujillo and Finnish national Jyri Antero Jaakkola, were killed in the attack, while another activist was wounded and at least four people remain missing.

“Really, there is no search for our comrades,” Badillo said. “We don’t know ... if they are wounded, in hiding, or ... kidnapped.”

The editor said he and the families of Contralinea reporter Erika Ramirez and photographer David Cilia were “very worried” about their safety.

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Gunmen Kill 13 People in Oaxaca

Massacre in Oaxaca.
Gunmen kill 13 people in the southern state of Oaxaca.

"When the time comes to die, it happens no matter where it is. I regret the delicate state of my fellow colleagues,"
Solomon Rojas, a Oaxaca police officer.

The Associated Press

Oaxaca - Police forces in Oaxaca and Veracruz were searching for the armed commandos that executed 13 people which included police and civilians in the community of Vicente Camalote, while a commander of the State Preventive Police is missing, according to the regional attorney for Justice Fernando Santiago Hernandez.

Gunmen stormed a rural town of Vicente Camalote in southern Mexico and killed 13 people, while the U.S. government warned Americans against traveling to cities in a northern border state where shootouts have left 19 people dead over three days. This town is located about 40 minutes from the state of Veracruz, which appears to be the place where the "gatilleros" (gunman) came from to target their objective. Besdies the four killed in a ranch, the sicarios also killed 9 others that included state and municipal police officers and humble labor workers. They opened their path while spilling blood with gunfire.

Hooded assailants in several vehicles killed nine police officers at a checkpoint in San Vicente Camalote, a town in southern Oaxaca state, state deputy attorney general Netolin Chavez said Wednesday.

The incident occurred in the community of Vicente Camalote when a group of 30 to 40 sicarios aboard seven trucks type Hummer with license plates from the State of Veracruz arrived at the ranch of the trader and rancher Alfonso Maciel Sosa, the brother of Adán Maciel Sosa, a PAN (National Action Party) candidate for mayor.

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