Sicarios, bodyguards are the new drug trafficking Capos

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Noreste article

Subject Matter: Narco trafficking people
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Infobae
Every time a drug capo falls in Mexico, there appears another: less known but more violent. We are not talking only about blood ties of the largest narco trafficking cartels, there have been sicarios who  rise through the ranks of their organizations and today head some of the 120 criminal groups that operate in the country.

This is the script of the film that Mexicans have seen since the Federal Government undertook the "wrong strategy of decapitation" of criminal gangs, says Martin Barron, a researcher at the Institute for Criminal Studies.

If at the start of the 21st Century there were seven large cartels in Mexico linked to drug trafficking, there are now approximately 130 groups, he says. "The authorities claim that there are nine large organizations, but they forget all the factions in the different States".

These factions are very violent, compact criminal gangs that control their territories of influence under fire, under the orders of leaders without the base or control capacity that the big capos once had. On the contrary, they are groups that operate in very specific areas, with a light structure and high capacity to multiply.

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Armed group attacks independent pre-candidate Marichuy's caravan in Michoacán

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Radio Formula                                                                             

[More information as details emerge - El Profe]

Although the status of the independent candidate is not specified, collaborators asked to be alert for the safety of their colleagues.


The National Indigenous Congress (CNI) reported that its spokesperson, the independent candidate for the Presidency, María de Jesús (Marichuy) was the victim of an attack by an armed group.

Through its social networks, the CNI explained that the events occurred on the highway between Tepalcatepec and Buenavista, in Michoacán, when two trucks stopped them and armed men threatened them "and removed cell phones and photographic equipment of journalists who accompany her on the route”. 



Although the status of the independent candidate was not specified, collaborators asked to be alert for the safety of their colleagues.

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Graphic Video: Viagras behead father and rips the heart out of his son

By Chivis Martinez for  Borderland Beat

I sat on this story for a few days.  I was not sure of the validity, or the age of the video as it was not posted on any of the MSM in Mexico or even regional media of Guerrero.  But the person who tweeted the story is known for breaking news and being credible.  

On January 18^th Mexican Tuitero Francisco Landeta, broke the story of a Guerrero policeman who the sicarios  accuse of being being a “Chapulín”, [traitor] providing information to “the enemy”. 

 His son was with him at the time of abduction and he was taken as well.  The son was forced to watch as his father was beaten then beheaded.   They turn their attention to the innocent son next.  His killing is possibly the worse I have ever heard of in Mexico.  I do admit I could not watch the video but the son has his chest opened while alive and his heart ripped out.

Some reports say the two executed were members of the  “Guardia Guerrerense”.

The reference to a group called Sangre Nueva Guerrernse, which was  founded by three Zihuatanejo police, one of the leaders is known as El Cadete.   He was a commander of municipal police before assuming command in Zihuatanejo.

"R18" are people of Mayo Zambada

This video is thought to be from Los Viagras who have control of the area.   

Below is the video.  I STRONGLY RECOMMEND YOU DO NOT VIEW this is the worse execution video ever in Mexico.  I have not watched it, think before you click on to the following page. . No further text on following page, YOU DECIDE, BUT YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

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Chalino Sanchez, the father of modern narco corrido, his history and death

Written by Otis B Fly-Wheel

Subject Matter: Chalino Sanchez
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Born Rosalino Sanchez in 1962 on a small ranch in Sinaloa named Las Flechas close to Culiacan and raised in Sanalona. He had seven brothers and one sister, Juana,  he was the youngest male sibling. Everyone in Mexico has a nickname and Rosalino was no different with various names being adopted by him at different stages in his life including his singing name of “Chalino”.

 Other names he had were Marcelino, El Pelavacas ( the cow skinner ), El Indio, Compa Chalino and El Valiente.El Valiente was a common name in this area of Sinaloa and was given to the rural tough guys who would shoot it out with as much relish as eating breakfast. Chalino started early with his criminal career, when Juan Quiroz lured away his sister as a concubine. Quiroz friend Hector El Chapo Perez  helped him, later boasting about it claiming that Juana was bad in bed and the kitchen, blemishing the good name of Juana, Chalino's sister. 

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"El Señor de los Tuneles" : A New Look at El Chapo's Old Tunnel

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: El Debate

The house to which "The Lord of the Tunnels" , El Chapo Guzman Loera  Escaped from Altiplano Prison, in Amoloya de Juarez,  on July 11, 2015

 Jan 19, 2018

Almoloya de Juárez.- Vigilance, eternal silence, bushes that refuse to dry up and a house that begins to show the ravages of abandonment is the panorama that is observed in the terrain where the tunnel is located, which on July 11, 2015 Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped for the second time from the federal authorities, this time from the El Altiplano Prison, in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico.

By the only road to reach this house it seems that things have not changed much. Sharp stones and potholes are the norm of these roads to reach the now infamous spot, which is only visited by journalists and curious residents who want to take a tour of the place where the most famous capo in the world fled, who now lives in a prison in New York City.

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Guess who now occupies EL Chapo's old cell at altiplano?

Chivis Martinez

El Chapo leaves cell

Altiplano Cell #20, made famous by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, was vacated and remodeled after his escape on July 11, 2015.  Thousands of cubic meters were removed creating a .07 mile long 28 foot deep escape tunnel from which he mounted a motorcycle and fled.

One year after El Chapo’s extradition to the United States, and two years after  the famous escape, the tunnel was sealed with 2 thousand meters of earth.

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Mini Lic earning his plea deal, already snitched on 125 Sinaloa cartel members-and chapo?

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat translated and republished from Rio Doce

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ámaso López Serrano, the Mini Lic , revealed names of more than 100 members (several of high rank) of the Sinaloa Cartel who, whether free or incarcerated, continue to operate, including Ismael Zambada Sicairos, el Mayito Flaco, Ismael Zambada Imperial el Mayito Gordo, and Serafín Zambada Ortiz, Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa el Chino Ántrax, among others.

Father and Son

That information, published by Univisión, would have been one of the agreements for the Mini Lic in a plea agreement in order to be protected by the government of the United States, from his fate of a probable, imminent death.  The danger initiated after the war broke out between his father, Dámaso López Núñez, El Licenciado, against the children of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, for the control of the plaza.

These names and mode of operation, which the Mini Lic had access to, will strengthen the accusations that exist against members of the Sinaloa Cartel, as it not only provides the necessary tools for prosecutors Adam L. Braverman and Matthew Sutton to have the evidence necessary for, to convict those facing accusations by the United States, but that Lopez Serrano himself could provide his testimony against drug traffickers in judicial confrontations.

Right after revealing that information, Mini Lic pleaded guilty to each and every one of the charges for which he was charged in a federal court in Southern California, which is the same court that conducts the trials against el Chino Anthrax, and Ismael Zambada Imperial.

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He sold antiques in Florida, before he helped ‘El Chapo’ launder $100M of dirty gold

posted by Siskiyou_kid for Borderland Beat By Jay Weaver And Nicholas Nehamas

A Miami Herald investigation

The Chicago drug dealers working for notorious Mexican gangster El Chapo had a big problem on their hands: What should they do with the millions of dollars in cash they earned from selling cocaine?

They bought gold. Tens of millions of dollars worth from pawnshops — rings, necklaces and watches. Then they had to find a place to fence it all.

More than a thousand miles away, in an industrial warehouse in South Florida, they found the perfect partner: an obscure gold-trading company called Golden Opportunities. El Chapo’s crew shipped the metal in dozens of FedEx deliveries to the Hallandale Beach company, according to federal court records.

Never miss a local story.

The owners of Golden Opportunities, Jed and Natalie Ladin, may not have known they were working with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as El Chapo — but between 2011 and 2014 his brutal Sinaloa cartel laundered nearly $100 million of cocaine cash through Golden Opportunities, court records show.

A drug cartel’s Midas touch

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7 Sicarios taken down in San Jose del Cabo were Terogripenos or Guzmanes

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Zetatijuana article

Subject Matter: Terogripenos, Los Guzmanes
Recommendation: Read this article posted by myself on the original event

In the confrontation, Luis Alfredo Guevara Franco and or Jose Guevara was identified by intelligence forces as sicario and right hand man of Luis Fernando Villalobos Graciano, El Guero Rumble or El Guero Ruffles, who was at the service of Los Damaso, In Comondu there are also outbreaks of violence.

Reporter: Zeta Investigations

Just after eight o'clock on the night of January 6, when elements of the Ministry of the Navy made a stop of two vehicles that circulated through the streets of the Costa Dorada neighborhood in San Jose del Cabo, Los Cabos municipality. At that time, Navy personnel affirmed:"The Navy was obliged to respond, the citizens were already reporting, because of the ineffectiveness of the intelligence strategy that had been proposed by other corporations; the confrontation in Cabo is the result of the pressure and the desire to present immediate results. 

"We had in sight two vehicles, a pick-up double cabin green olive, with plates of the State of California, USA, on board three people were seen of the male sex with tactical vests and long arms, apparently of those known as ' cuerno de chivo or AK 47 ' ; a second gray family van, with plates also from the State of California, you could see four people of the male sex with tactical vests and long weapons ".

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Niece of ex Mayor of Coatzacoalcos kidnapped, narco manta left

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Noreste article and NOTIMEXPR

Subject Matter: CJNG, Coatzacoalcos, Isis Morales de Madrazo
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Jesus Azamar
This Wednesday morning, a narco manta was discovered against Memo Wong and the kidnapping of the niece of the ex Mayor Lemarroy, who is a political operator of Governor Miguel Angel Yunes Linares in the south zone of the State.

Around 08:00 am, Mrs Isis Morales de Madrazo, niece of the ex Mayor of Coatzacoalcos, Rogelio Lemarroy Gonzalez, was kidnapped when various subjects intercepted her while she was dropping off her son to the Pearson College, one of the most exclusive in the city.

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The Murder of the Little Girl in Red Socks

Posted by DD Republished from Daily Times  and The Frida Medio Blog
Frida's Blog translated by Yaqui

Kneeling at four-year-old Lupita’s grave, Mexican activist Veronica Villarreal spoke to the murdered girl as if she had known her all her short life.

“Hey girl,” she said, laying flowers on the earth.

In reality, Villalvazo never met the child long known only as “the little girl in the red socks.” But she was determined not to let her be just another anonymous statistic in the wave of violence against women and girls in Mexico.

Lupita’s semi-naked body, beaten and sexually assaulted, was found in a Mexico City suburb on March 18.

No one came forward to claim her, and for months, she was known only by the clothing she had on when locals found her in a vacant lot: a pair of bright red socks.

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CJNG Narcomanta: "We have arrived" and "The Governor of Puebla is protecting Los Zetas"

Guest reporter "LR"  for Borderland Beat Translated and Republished  from Proceso 

PUEBLA, Pue. - Suspected hitmen of the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generation (CJNG) hanged a Narcomanta in Puebla. The Narcomanta launches a direct threat against Governor Antonio Gali Fayad, and his Secretary of State Security Jesús Morales, whom they accuse of protecting The Zetas.

The Narcomanta, hung on a bridge on the 16^th of September warns: 

"... the government gave entry to the filthy Z ... The population is asked not to cooperate with them since everyone who is detected will be executed, whoever it may be, especially you Gali and Chucho Morales who protect the Bukanas and the Cachetes”

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In 17 days, organized crime responsible for 90 murders in Chihuahua

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from La Jornada
                

Photo: Regeracion.mx

Photo: Regeracion.mx

The number of alleged homicides committed by organized crime groups rose to 90 in Chihuahua during the first 17 days of the year, according to a newspaper account prepared based on reports from the State Attorney General. The 11 most recent murders in this area occurred between Tuesday night and Wednesday.

An attack on Wednesday left three dead and one wounded, after men armed with high-powered rifles fired at their victims at the corner of 55th and Rosales street, in the neighborhood Popular, of the capital of Chihuahua. The assailants fled in a vehicle. 


Also in the Chihuahua capital, a young man was shot to death in Teófilo Borunda street in the Santo Niño neighborhood. Another young man was injured in the attack and the identity of the victims is still unknown.

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Video: Sicarios attack in Salvatierra Hospital, Guanajuato

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Esnoticiasdeveracruz article

Subject Matter: Sicarios storm into hospital to finish off injured person
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Five killed in Guanajuato, sicarios return to kill a survivor wounded in an earlier shootout

An armed commando of no less than four subjects broke into the General Hospital of Salvatierra this morning in Guanajuato, to execute a patient and the police who had him in custody.

According to preliminary reports, the gunfight was registered around 08:00 am Wednesday morning. The victim had been taken into hospital the night before after surviving another armed attacked in a house in the La Hacienda colonia where five persons lost their lives.

The information portal Agora, published a video that showed the moment when the assassins broke into the lobby and fired at the inhabitants of a particular room. At this time the identity of the victims are unknown, and the authorities have established a security perimeter around the area to carry out the corresponding investigations.

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The bloody battle for the Veracruz Plaza

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

Subject Matter: Veracruz, Los Zetas, CJNG
Recommendation: Read this article by BB forum contributor Mica

Reporter: Noe Zavaleta
In the first 12 days of January, a dozen human heads were abandoned in the insides of four vehicles, with the advertisement that a " criminal cleaning" was going on in the southern zone of the State. The dismembered corpses of the victims, alleged criminals, according to the governor Miguel Angel Yunes Lineares - were left in black garbage bags, the same were found inside of cars in Tlacotalpan, with five bodies, Sayula de Aleman with four bodies, Minatitlan two bodies, and Cosoleacaque with one. The macabre photos from the scenes were circulated in national and international media.

The capital saw a night of terror this past Saturday the 13th, when alleged sicarios of Z-35 ( old school zetas) left nine dismembered corpses in the inside of a minivan, as well as three cartulinas threatening the Secretary of Public Security, Jaime Tellez, and his Director of Operations, Gerardo Guzman, whom were responsible for "not respecting our agreement".

"More united than ever, the people respect", was the phrase that they left in the three messages. In the morning a man had been kidnapped in the Laureles colonia and executed with 14 bullets in front of the Judicial power base of the State.

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