Women: Their condemnation is a double sentence

Video translation is as follows:

Female # 1: Maybe I’m here for a very serious crime, but the truth is there is more humanity in here than out there.

Female Reporter: Between the night of December 12 and 13, 308 women were taken from the Topo Chico Prison to be transferred here to the new Escobedo Women's Social Reintegration Center.

Female # 1: My family was left homeless, without property and without money, and here I am. I'm going to leave here matured. And, people who have a lot of money, a lot of power, can come and go.

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Ovidio Guzmán: I’ve got friends in high places

Alfonso Durazo's son, currently in charge of the Secretariat of Citizen Security and Protection, shared classrooms several years ago with Ovidio Guzmán, one of the heirs and offspring of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, journalist Lourdes Mendoza revealed exclusively.

"Many people won't believe it, but checking the yearbook of a school that would rate @lopezobrador_ as a fifi, everything seems to indicate that they were in the same grade," she wrote on her Twitter account.

According to the data of also the columnist of El Financiero, Ovidio and Durazo's son would have attended the sixth year of primary school together in an exclusive school.

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Cruz Soto Had Ties to CDS, the Other Side of the Story

"Yaqui" for Borderland Beat

According to investigations by the State Attorney General's Office, regarding the deprivation of liberty and subsequent lifeless finding of Cruz Soto Caraveo , they have determined that the deceased had a threat and his death is related to a betrayal he made to "El Chueco", Jesús Noriel Portillo Gil, a criminal leader of the Gente Nueva, armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel in the Sierra Tarahumara, to whom he had "rented" some land in 2013.

Among the information given by the State Attorney General's Office, it was that in that year, Cruz Soto handed over some hectares of land located in Monterde, to his cousin Carlos Hugo Soto Lucero known as “El Calín”, so that they would rent them for the drug sowing and harvest, especially marijuana and poppy, and they would have a series of monthly payments for "lending" that space to the criminal group that operates in that area.

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Who is "Pepé Sierra" ? Head of "Chapitos" Hitmen

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Vanguardia

Who is "Pepe Sierra"? ... former military man and head of hit men for Iván ''Chapito'' Guzmán, was key in the release of Ovidio Guzmán.

He is an ex-military man who revealed the location of the homes of soldiers families in Culiacán, helping the liberation of the Ovidio, son of 'El Chapo' Guzmán.

According to the information that accompanies the publication, "Pepe Sierra" is a deserter of  the Mexican Army , an institution where he worked for a long time and thanks to which he has a great knowledge in the use of firearms, as well as in tactics of combat .

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Tarahumara Activist Cruz Soto Assassinated in Chihuahua

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Vanguardia y ElHeraldo

Cruz Soto Caraveo was reported missing since October 13, when armed men approached him in the municipality of Guazapares, Chihuahua. 

Through its Twitter account, the association Cencos (National Center for Social Communication)  announced that the activist Cruz Soto Caraveo was found lifeless in Chihuahua , after being reported missing since last October 13.

Soto Caraveo was a member of the group of families forcibly displaced from the Sierra Tarahumara of that State.

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Former Gulf Cartel Commander Sentenced

El Armadillo-BorderlandBeat from DEA

HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Mexican man has been ordered to a federal prison sentence following his conviction of conspiracy to import large amounts of cocaine and marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.

Luis Ivan Nino-Duenez, El Control, Tamaulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty June 3, 2014.  

Today, Senior U.S. District Judge Hilda G. Tagle sentenced Nino-Duenes to a total of 20 years in federal prison.

During the hearing, the court heard evidence to support possible increases in the calculated sentencing guideline range. Nino-Duenes utilized automatic weapons, grenades, homemade cannons and body armor to provided security during the purchase, transportation and distribution of narcotics. He also commanded, directed and engaged in violent confrontations with other criminal syndicates to maintain control of the plazas in Mexico. 

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Culiacan: Sinaloa Cartel sicarios sent government videos depicting military hostages and one soldier executed

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat Forbes TY Gus

A reason why the federal government gave up the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, would have been the sending of videos with military hostages of hitmen, according to  The Wall Street Journal ( WSJ).

According to a former government official with knowledge of the situation that Culiacán experienced on Thursday, the order to release the son of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel was given after it was reported to senior officials in Mexico City that at least six soldiers were abducted by armed men.

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Cartel War in Guanajuato

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat POPlab

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Anatomy of war

All armed conflict maps are photographs of the moment. The displacement of troops, conquests of territories, retreats and offensives are subject to fluctuations due to the disposition of resources, reactions of the adversary, errors, successes and blows of luck, common in any armed conflagration. The radiography presented below is necessarily provisional. It is a first approach, by bird flight, of the current position occupied by the armies participating in the war for Guanajuato on the battlefield. Some tendencies can be established in the course of the cartel war. But they are that, tendencies that tomorrow can be reversed, accentuated or diluted.

Let's move on to a first conclusion

Because of the number of municipalities they control and the territories that occupy the main cartels (Jalisco Cartel New Generation -CJNG- and Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel -CSRL-) it is clear that it will take a long time before we can expect the end of hostilities . The cartels have accumulated too many troops, resources and consolidated many territories that are under their control. They have regular funding sources, recruitment schemes and alliances that allow them to remain active.

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Ovidio Guzman: Military families flee from Culiacán

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat Reforma

"In Culiacán we accomplished the mission, although it is estimated that there were 700 or 800 criminals, only 350 of us faced them. We caused more than five casualties, which cowardly left their bodies abandoned, but we are sure there were many more the dead criminals…”

Out of fear, after being threatened after the failed operation to detain Ovid Guzmán, son of El Chapo, military families left their homes in the residential complex of Colonia 21 de Marzo.

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"El Tio" to be extradited shortly

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat Reforma

Raúl Flores Hernández "El Tío, the alleged drug trafficker who associated with the soccer player Rafael Márquez and the singer Julión Álvarez, will be extradited shortly to the United States.

The First Criminal Collegiate Court in Mexico City yesterday denied the amparo in review that it presented against its extradition to the U.S. exhausting all the legal remedies available to avoid it.

The alleged intermediary of the Cartels of Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación does not have pending proceedings for crimes committed in Mexico and neither claimed in its protection aspects that could be reviewed by the Supreme Court of Justice.

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Oct 17, 2019: The Day CDS put the Mexican Government on its Knees

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Infobae

                                   Sinaloa is an avid example of narco-violence in Mexico.

It is not surprising that Sinaloa appears in the lists of the entities with the highest number of homicides in the country - 909 murders from January to August of 2019. In the case of the city of Culiacán , the situation is mostly discouraging.

On Thursday afternoon, Oct 16, 2019 the authorities of the Sinaloa capital experienced one of the most painful defeats in modern history, when they were overcome by hit men from the Sinaloa Cartel.

So surprising and so violent were the events that unfolded on Thursday in Culiacán, that MSM US media has been covering it, the usual European Sites ( BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, etc) and the New York Times characterized them as "Scenes from a Bad Netflix Show". 

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Ovidio Guzman: Weapons used by Sinaloa Cartel sicarios in Culiacán, Mexico

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat TY Doc from ARES

Yesterday, Mexican law enforcement units, supported by elements of the Mexican military, arrested Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán Loera, during an operation in Colonia Tres Ríos, Culiacán. It remains unclear how targeted this operation was. According to government officials, a patrol came under fire from a house during routine operations and detained Mr. Guzmán López after securing the building. 

In response to this arrest, dozens of sicarios (‘hitmen’; sometimes translated as ‘soldiers’) of the Sinaloa cartel unleashed chaos in the streets of Culiacán, the capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Over more than four hours, they set up at least 19 blockades in the streets by seizing large buses and trucks, and setting fire to them. Armed criminals fanned out across much of the city. In effect, they managed to lay siege to the central area near the Humaya and Tamazula rivers. Reinforcements from both government (military, federal and state police, and Guardia Nacional) and cartel units streamed towards the area, but were hampered by roadblocks.

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Familia Guzmán’s Press Conference: Thanks to President Lopez Obrador

Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Infobae

Lawyers from the family of “El Chapo” Guzmán thanked AMLO for the release of Ovidio.

At a press conference, José Luis González Meza and Juan Pablo Badillo Soto, legal representatives of the family of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, acknowledged the decision of President López Obrador to release him.

Guzmán Loera's family lawyers confirmed the release of Ovid, who was detained for five hours but finally released at about 20 hours (Photo: Special)

This afternoon at the Journalists Club of Mexico, a press conference of the lawyers of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was held, where they thanked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the release of Ovidio Guzmán , son of the prisoner drug dealer in the United States.

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Sinaloa: 230 elite troops arrive into Culiacán

Video translation is as follows

Ciro Gómez Leyva: A couple of hours ago 230 special forces soldiers belonging to the Mexican army arrived in Culiacán. They’ve come to reinforce the security functions after the very violent, the fearsome day of yesterday. In which Olivio Guzmán López, the son of El Chapo was detained and then freed.

Carlos Ramón Carillo: By directive decision of the President of the Republic. And by order of the general citizen Secretary of the National Defense, you have just seen at this moment the arrival of the first 230 elements that have come to reinforce the strategy of citizen protection here in Culiacán. This strategy is aimed at creating the security and tranquility conditions for the civilian population in this city. And to allow it to resume its commercial activities. As of this moment, as you have heard, this force that has just arrived by air here to military base # 10 is now integrated.

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"There is no pact with criminals ... there is no failed state"

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat Reforma-El Debate

Security chief says; We were not informed in time of the arrest warrant about Guzmán Loera's son--Guzmán was not formally detained because the troops involved in the operation did not have a search warrant--

 

8 total deaths; 4 aggressors, 2 civilians, 1 military, 1 prison guard

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he Secretary of Security and Citizen Services, Alfonso Durazo, and the General  

Secretary of the National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, said that the operation to capture the son of El Chapo was failed, deficient and improvised.

"There is no pact with criminals ... there is no failed state, there was a failed operation," Durazo acknowledged at a press conference in Culiacán.

The head of the SSPC assured that an investigation of said operation will be carried out to punish those responsible.

He also informed that they were not informed in time of the arrest warrant for Guzmán Loera's son.

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