2015: 80 Homicides of U.S. Citizens in Mexico, 260 deaths

by Chivis for Borderland Beat

Ann Devert at the New York memorial of her son Harry.  Harry disappeared in Michoacan

in January 2014, his body was located in July 2014.  Although many U.S. deaths go largely

without much reporting in news outlets, because of Ann's advocacy his disappearance 

became news in Mexico and the U.S..  He is known as "The traveler", in Mexico   

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n the year of 2015, there were 20,916,000 Americans that visited Mexico.  Another million legally reside full time in Mexico, and an estimated 1.5-2 million reside in Mexico illegally.

The total of U.S. citizens who died in Mexico in 2015 was 260.  260 represent the culmination  of all deaths, homicide, suicide drug and accidents.

The statistics below are murders of Americans in Mexico for the year of 2015.  These figures are from the United States State Department. 

The records reflect a total of 80 homicides of U.S. citizens while in Mexico.  These are homicides that differentiate from what the state department classified as “Drug Related” and other types of deaths.   

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"The Engineer " Pleads Guilty to Cocaine Trafficking in the US

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat  from  Zeta Nov 6, 2016

by Carlos Alvarez

Mexican businessman Antonio Reynosa Gonzalez, 72 years old, also known as " The Engineer" , who was extradited to the US in October 2015, pled guilty  to cocaine trafficking Wednesday in Federal Court in San Diego, CA, 21 years after being accused of organizing shipments for the Sinaloa Cartel.

According to the LA Times, the now confessed drug trafficker, was also accused two decades ago of managing the first cross border tunnel found in 1993 near Otay Mesa and San Diego. "The Engineer" was extradited to the US after being arrested in Playas Tijuana.

The criminal faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years for conspiracy to import cocaine and possession with intent to distribute. However, US prosecutors agreed to recommend a sentence of about  8 years, asking the judge to take into consideration the age, health and the acceptance of responsibility, among other factors of Antonio Reynoso.

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Clandestine Mass Grave Found Near Tijuana

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from Zeta Nov 1, 2016 

By Saul Ramirez Esparza

Midday on Monday Nov 1 dozens of human remains were found among tires and other garbage in an excavation about three meters deep between Villa del Alamo and Colinas de Presa in Tijuana.

           

The search operation was conducted by forensic experts from SEIDO, the PGR and the staff of PGJE and the Division Gendarmerie.

The president of the United Association for the Disappeared of Baja California, Fernando Ocegueda Flores, said the despite the secrecy surrounding the discovery and investigation, the authorities estimated there to be about eighty human remains, including bones and dental plates.

During this past week, investigators for SEIDO and PGJE were, in addition, searching  areas in Ejido Maclovio Rojas and others in the vicinity of Tijuana and Tecate.

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Tijuana: The assassination of an Informant

Excerpt taken from Gente de la Tia Juana
Translated by El Wachito

The assassination of Julian Daniel Corona Maldonado, alias "El Chiquis" a US government informant.

During September 2nd, of 2013, El Chiquis attempted to cross the border of Tijuana into the United States. He was accompanied by a lady that was well known in the social circles of criminal organizations and a couple of friends. They were heading to Las Vegas, Nevada, to assist to the boxing match of Floyd Mayweather vs "Canelo" Alvarez, a fight that resulted a fraud to many Mexicans, however that's another story.

A passenger identified as Cristian Tamayo Lizarraga also died after several armed man shot them from a white Ford Ranger-ZETA  

Well, El Chiquis couldn't even watch the fight through a television, because he was detained and arrested at the border. During the interrogation, he accepted to collaborate with information of the structures of drug trafficking organizations in exchange of a reduction in sentence to 3 years of the 15 that he was supposed to spend in jail.

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"Operation El Gross", an assassination in Mencho's house

Excerpt taken from Gente de la Tia Juana
Translated by El Wachito

Sunday October 23rd,  information of two of the principal enemies of the Tijuana Cartel arrived to Culiacan, Sinaloa. Monday October 23rd, Aquiles sent a discrete small group of three hitman with handguns hidden in a secret compartment of a vehicle. 

In Guadalajara, Jalisco the boss of the Aguascalientes "Plaza" known as "El 30" was waiting for them in order to support  Aquiles. They knew that the following day, Tuesday one of the enemies was going to eat at a restaurant. The enemy eats at the expected restaurant, in an exclusive area of Zapopan, Jalisco.

The area was highly patrolled by the State police, the famous "Zapopanos", that's why they couldn't assassinate him at the place. At the moment that the sicarios followed him they lost him because they were unfamiliar with the city, the plan of the group of sicarios was ruined, and they decided to go back to their hotel and the people from Aguascalientes decided to bring more "Alcones" (Punteros as they known them in Tijuana=Lookouts).

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El Chapo Offered Arellano Félix to the DEA in 1998

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat Riodoce Oct 30, 2016

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman met with DEA agents in 1998 while incarcerated at Puente Grande Prison in Jalisco. He was accused of the murder of Cardenal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo and in the interview El Chapo offered to deliver the Arellano Felix brothers.

Larry Villalobos

In an Univision interview with Larry Villalobos, the ex head of the DEA in Mexico, said that the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, who escaped the prison in 2001, looked for them through an emissary to make a deal after spending five years in prison. “We talked with the emissary and he told us that El Chapo wanted to talk with the DEA", explained the ex-agent during the videotaped interview.

Mexican officials authorized the meeting so Villalobos, accompanied by another DEA agent, Joseph Bond and Jose Patino Moreno, the counter narcotics prosecutor for the PGR attended the meeting at the prison masquerading as human rights psychologists.

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Tijuana CAF: El Chore Captured

Guest Reporter Javier G

Alberto "N", alias "El Chore" of CAF ( the Arellano Felix Cartel), was captured by agents of the State Preventive Police in possession of more than 6 kilos of "meth" in an operation carried out at the Colonia Hipódromo in Tijuana. Intelligence reports indicate that  that "El Chore" served as principal body guard of a man identified as  "El Flaco", alleged leader of a criminal cell dedicated to the sale and distribution of drugs.

The arrest of the wanted man, took place on Tuesday afternoon, when agents were on patrol surveillance on Hipódromo Avenue, and  Ignacio Allende Street when they stopped the vehicle with “Alberto” driving.  He identified himself, and agents ran a police check into the data base and discovered the warrant for his arrest.

In the truck of the vehicle they found 6 kilos of meth.

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Sinaloa: Missing American found Dead in Mazatlán

Guest Reporter Javier G.
See update on next page

Ten years he lived a good life in Mazatlán, Sinaloa.  Then on the night 25th of October  he disappeared. 

O’Neil Patrick McGean, an expatriate, an Arizona transplant, told friends he was meeting someone Tuesday night at around 8:30, which was the last time anyone had heard directly from the man.

Relatives said that Patrick told them earlier on Tuesday, that he had plans to attend a  party at the Hotel Punta Pacifico.

He was not seen or heard from again until last night, when police discovered his dead body found inside a house in the city.  Two men were inside the house with McGean’s body and they have been taken into custody.  Some reports indicate the house was an abandoned home.

McGean was spotted at a party at a Cerritos Hotel, and later his vehicle was discovered at a Sabalo Mazatlán Hotel. 

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Humberto Moreira to be nominated for Mayor of Saltillo? Bishop says "they must be on drugs"

Posted by DD Republished from Mexico News Daily

DD;  For those of you who are new to Borderland Beat and may not be familiar with Humberto Moreira just enter his name on the Search box on the bottom right of the main page and you will find more than you probably want to read.  From stories about him being referred to as "Governor Z" (for Zeta) until he resigned as Governor and became President of PRI.  As such he was next in line to be the PRI candidate for President of the Republic in 2018  until he had to resign his position as head of PRI amid a scandal.  And there is much much more that you will find in a search.

Saltillo (capital city of Coahuila) Bishop  Bishop Raúl Vera López has  a reputation for not being afraid or hesitant to speak his mind.

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Tijuana: Threats against Los Chapito Uriarte

Original article available at ZETA
Translated By El Wachito



Happy day of the dead from Tijuana, Mexico!



The body of a man, along with a narcomanta, was hung from a bridge that is located in Blvd. Benitez, by the area of  the Comision Federal de Electricidad, in the Yamille Colony, of Tijuana.

The frightening finding was denounced to the Central Emergency around 10:30 PM, Wednesday, November 2nd, and indicated that there was a person hung from a bridge, the same bridge where last September the bodies of several individuals were hung with a narcomessage.

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Sinaloan government expects backlash from Los Antrax after deadly firefight

Original article available at RIODOCE
Translated by El Wachito

The Sinaloan State government expects a reaction from Los Antrax after 3 Antrax were shot and killed during a firefight against Mexican Marines.

A Video of Mexican Marines providing first aid to Antrax members has been released

The Secretario General de Gobierno del Estado, Gerardo Vargas Landeros mentioned that the three levels of government are coordinating to prevent an attack.

"There could be a reaction, I don't doubt it, but we also have to understand that we as the government and the affected ones who were the Marines have to do their job, us our job and exchange information and strategies", stated.

 He pointed out that these type operations are implemented by federal forces after last September 30, were 5 soldiers were murdered and 10 wounded.

"This is part of all the operations that are currently undergoing, don't doubt it, when they act that way, there will be a reaction from all the levels of government, and that reaction will be bigger, because no one can beat the government, absolutely no one!', stated.

           Video on following page contains graphic images***There is no further text

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US Citizen dissapears in Sinaloa, kidnapping investigation in progress

Original article available at ZETA Translated by El Wachito

O'Neil Patrick McGean , a US citizen disappeared October 25, of 2016, while driving a vehicle of his property of Mazatlán, while driving in Culiacan, Sinaloa.

The Procudaruria General de Justicia del Estado, through Jose Antonio Sanchez Solis, Subprocurador in charge of the South Area, announced that there is a formal complaint and an ongoing investigation for the possible kidnapping of Patrick, who is from the state of Washington, DC.

He left the house, in which he has been living for the last 10 years, driving a white Chevrolet Spark, on  Tuesday, 25 at 9 AM in the morning; he never came back. As of Saturday 29 October, Sinaloan authorities have not been able to obtain any information on his location or his car.

"We are coordinating with Culiacan, we already submitted the order to search for him", explained Sanchez Solis.

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After spending 31 years in jail, one of the assassins of Kiki Camarena is now free

Original article available at ZETA  Translated by El Wachito

Francisco Javier Tejeda Jaramillo, one of the accused of the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar, an active Drug Enforcement Administration officer, was released Friday morning, of October 28 from the Reclusorio Norte in Mexico City, after spending 31 years and 4 months in prison.

The assassin of the DEA agent, started his sentence on June 11 of 1985, and at the moment of his departure from prison he claimed that he was innocent and that the Mexican government "forced him" to confess his involvement in the conspiracy to murder "Kiki" Camarena, according to Milenio newspaper.

After DEA Agent Camarena Salazar was able to infiltrate the ranks of the Guadalajara Cartel, funded by Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, alias "El Padrino", the druglord ordered his kidnapping in February of 1985 and agents of the extinct Direccion Federal de Seguridad, at his service, kidnapped Camarena and torture him until he died.

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Narco-Corridos; a historical overview

Posted by Chuck B Alamda for Borderland Beat from Regeneracion & Vanguardia articles

Starting with Calderon’s war, the violence was also reflected in the lyrics.

Couples are committed to invading the dance floor. The band prepares the instruments and the lights point toward the stage. The whistling is loud so that the waiting can be over. The technicians adjust the sound equipment and from several speakers you can hear:

 “Con cuerno de chivo y bazuca en la nuca/ volando cabezas al que se atraviesa/ somos sanguinarios locos bien ondeados/ nos gusta matar/ pa’ dar levantones somos los mejores/ siempre en caravana/ toda mi plebada/ bien empecherados/ blindados y listos para ejecutar…/ soy el número 1 de clave M1/ respaldado por El Mayo y por El Chapo/ la JT siempre presente y pendiente/ pa’ su apoyo dar”.

(With an AK-47 and a bazooka on the neck/ blowing off the heads of whoever gets in front/ we’re ruthless, crazy, and high/we like to kill/ for kidnappings we’re the best/ always in a caravan/ all the homeboys/ with bullet proof vests/ armored vehicles and ready to kill, execute/ I’m the number one with radio sign M1/ backed by el Mayo and el Chapo/ The JT (Javier Torres Felix) always present and on stand by to provide his support)

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Tijuana: Arturo Giovanni Herrera 'El Gross' executed in Jalisco confirmed

El Gross killed in Jalisco  from AFN Tijuana....translated and posted by "J"

One of the principal figures in the alliance of CJNG and CTNG in Tijuana may have been killed in Guadalajara, Jalisco, yesterday.  Initial reports state Herrera was getting his haircut between Calle Independencia and Sierra Madre, when two gunmen entered and executed him.  

Herrera was also said to have been killed in early statements on September 3rd. in Tijuana, when the disarticulated bodies of three men were found thrown on the ground beneath a  bridge, a narco manta waving above.  The narco manta was threatening Herrera, and his principle lieutenants and caused some confusion.  It was later recanted, and said that Herrera was hiding in interior Mexico.  

Herrera, and El JP/R4 have driven many of the killings in Tijuana, esp. in Colonia Sanchez Tadoaba, as they fight a war of attrition against other Sinaloa leaders, including Los Aquiless, and El Griego. Herrera is a former retailer, who started under Teo lieutenants, and eventually worked for Aquilles, before switching to CJNG, pledging an allegiance to El Mencho, through narcomantas and corridos.

Graphic photo on following page....

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