Leader of CDN in Tamaulipas arrested

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Reforma article with additional information from Epoca Violenta

Subject Matter: Ismael Gilberto Lopez Guerrero, El Mayito
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Benito Jimenez
Elements of the Army detained a subject with the nickname El Mayito in Tamaulipas, identified as leader in the structure of the Cartel del Noreste and identified in a preliminary manner as Ismael Gilberto Lopez Guerrero.

The capo was captured in the Los Garza colonia, of this frontier city, together with another subject in possession of two rifles, an AR-15 and and AK-47 also known as Cuerno de Chivo or goats horn, as well as a 30-30 caliber rifle, a 12 gauge shotgun, two pistols, one 5.7mm and one .40, 4 weapon magazines for different weapons, 600 rounds of ammunition of different calibers, 50,000 dollars American and two vans.

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43 Student attack in Iguala was guided from Chicago

Posted and translated by El Profe from Reforma

Chivis Note; Intriguing events in the case of the Iguala deadly attack and disappearance of 43, (one murdered student left  the scene had his face skinned and eyes gouged, therefore there were 44 altogether) . It was during a drug trafficking bust,  and investigation of GU targets in Chicago, that the information was gleaned from Blackberries used by suspects and confidential informants.  Revealed in those transcripts were conversations with GU in Chicago and GU in Mexico from and about the Iguala massacre on September 26th and subsequent days. Mexico GU called to seek guidance regarding how to proceed.

read about the bust by using this link https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/eight-defendants-charged-distributing-heroin-chicago-area-behalf-guerrero-unidos

The entire massacre was from bad information.  GU was told Los Rojos were the targets.  And they worried that the mess would cause them the business.

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The omissions and negligence that leave femicides in Mexico unpunished

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Animal Politico

 

Women of different ages concentrated on the Angel of Independence on March 24 to place an offering in memory to Nefertiti and Grecia Camacho, 16 and 14 years, killed by municipal police in Rio Blanco, Veracruz. They also denounced the latest murders and attacks against women and demanded justice for the murder of Kenni, a woman attacked by her ex-husband in the commercial plaza, Reforma 222.  PHOTO: ADOLFO VLADIMIR/CUARTOSCURO.COM

Data collected on judicial action in cases of feminicide registered in the last four years at the national level allow us to document a road of impunity composed of resistance, omissions, negligence and acts that violate the rights of victims, according to a report by the National Observatory of Feminicide. 

by Andrea Vega

On October 4, 2010, at approximately 9:30 am, Rosa Diana Suárez Torres was alone in the kitchen of her home, in the municipality of Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, when she heard her door opening. It was Gilberto, her ex-boyfriend, who demanded she give him her cell phone. Faced with Rosa's refusal, he grabbed her by the neck and began to strangle her. Only because she handed him the phone, he released her, but threatened her with death.

Rosa went to the public prosecutor's office to report the facts and request a restraining order against Gilberto. The official who attended said that "that only existed in the United States." Nothing was done. Weeks later, on December 31, Rosa was murdered by Gilberto, who left her body in an area that serves as a playground for children on Avenida Felipe Angeles, in Atizapán de Zaragoza.

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Tamaulipas: Six bystanders killed in Reynosa shootout

Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat  Translated and Republished from El Norte

The State reports that six innocent bystanders were killed in a crossfire. Although policemen would have participated, Procuraduría blamed only the criminals involved.  This is not the first to be killed in the same manner, this is the fourth incident  in a few weeks.  Last time witnesses said it was the Marina that killed the innocents. 

REYNOSA .- The innocent population is paying for the resurgence of violence on this border.

In the fourth similar incident since Easter, six innocents died and another was seriously wounded on Wednesday, in a crossfire between gunmen in the Colonia Petrolera de Reynosa, the Tamaulipas Attorney's Office reported last night.

Although the shooting was recorded on Wednesday afternoon, the authorities did not report the deaths of civilians until last night after relatives went to identify their loved ones at the Forensic Medical Service yesterday.

During the violent day of Wednesday, state police confronted gunmen in the area, but the Attorney General's office stated that the innocents were victims of "an armed confrontation between criminal groups."

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Placed on U.S. 10 most wanted, Mexican Marina ordered to get Rafael Caro Quintero, "Dead or Alive"

Posted by Siskiyou Kid from Riodoce 3.20.18

Marines Search for Rafael Caro Quintero; they’ll get him down from the Sierra dead or alive...Citizens complain of being roughed up in the process.

Dozens of elite elements of the Mexican Navy [Marina] occupied a large part of the lower Sierra of Badiraguato last week, after receiving information that Rafael Caro Quintero was hidden in the area.

"We know he's still here, and that's why we continue in the area, because the command is to catch him dead or alive, and we're going to take him back. How are we going to take him? Let him decide, "said one of the agents of the Navy patrolling the area, and whom Ríodoce interviewed.

According to testimonies of residents of the communities of La Noria, Las Juntas, Babunica and Bamopa, the marines arrived there Wednesday March 7 in four Blackhawk helicopters, from where, without even landing, they rappelled down from the Aircraft to aggressively enter some homes in search of the drug trafficker.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Griselda Blanco in new film " The queen of cocaine"

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

Subject Matter: Griselda Blanco film
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

The pay per view channel "Lifetime" has made a film Griselda: The Queen of Cocaine, based on the real history of Griselda Blanco, the Colombian narco trafficker, who trafficked cocaine into the United States in the seventies and eighties.

Reporter: Columba Vertiz De La Fuente
The renowned actress Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Griselda, known as La Madrina, and will be directed by none other than Guillermo Navarro, who won the Oscar for photography for Pans Labyrinth by Guillermo de Toro.

The feature film Griselda: The Queen of Cocaine premiered last Wednesday in Mexico. Griselda was an important leader of the Medellin cartel and a pioneer in cocaine drug trafficking and participated in the Cocaine Cowboys war in Miami.

Zeta-Jones said about the role:
"This is not the first time that I play a woman of Latin descent, nor is it the first time I play a woman involved in the world of drugs. As an actress, it was very difficult to embody the role of this woman, who is very different from me in many ways, not only culturally, but in terms of the decisions she makes. But I have to say that this was a project done with a lot of passion."

 "We were able to take the story of Griselda to the Lifetime screen and, while there are other Griselda projects on the horizon, which will be performed by Latinas, this woman has occupied my life out of curiosity for many years. I worked hard to get this project to be created. And I had the blessing of working with our wonderful director Guillermo Navarro and incredible actors like Juan Pablo Espinosa. "

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FBI includes Caro Quintero among 10 most wanted; offers $ 20 million for capture

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from El Universal
                       
The Federal Bureau of Investigation added another accusation against him for the murder of the agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena; he is the first man also wanted by the DEA to be included in this list
 

by Diana Lastiri

CDMX.- The Federal Bureau of Investigation included Rafael Caro Quintero in the list of the 10 most wanted men, adding another indictment against him for the murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena.

Through a statement, the FBI described Caro Quintero as an "extremely dangerous" man and warned that he is armed. With this, he became the first man wanted by the DEA to be included in the list of top 10 FBI fugitives.

According to the deputy director of the FBI, David L. Bowdich, Caro Quintero is wanted for the role he played in the kidnapping and murder of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, which occurred in 1985.

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Community Police in Guerrero : "We are the majority who want tranquility, this is another revolution"

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Debate

Photo: Pedro Pardo

Two brothers join the community police after being kidnapped by La Familia Michoacana in the state of Guerrero

Tlacotepec, Mexico, 12 Apr 2018 (AFP) - In the mountains of the violent Mexican state of Guerrero (south), an almost repetitive story is heard among the armed civilians patrolling the area: "I was kidnapped by organized crime and that's why I raise arms."

Juan Carlos Ramos, 30, tells that story. Immersed in the violent vortex of Guerrero with a balance of 2,318 murders in 2017 - the largest figure in all of Mexico, which recorded its bloodiest year in two decades - houses Teloloapan, his native town, with rifle in hand and pistol in his belt.

"I was kidnapped seven months by the Familia Michoacana , my brother was kidnapped four months," Ramos told AFP, referring to the criminal group that was operating in the neighboring state of Michoacán. I was just released by the military.

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Ensenada: 6 executed, banner goes up, signed "Cartel De La Rana"

                     6 executed, banner goes up from "Cartel De La Rana"

El Sauzal Ensenada:

In 1997, 20 members of a family were murdered in El Sauzal, on the orders of Ramon Arellano Felix, during the last years of the CAF's control over Tijuana.  Gunmen, said to be drunk, and high on cocaine, descended on a family residence, and executed all the members. 

This was considered the most savage and brutal killing of it's time, making news reports nationally in the United States.  The homicide rate in Tijuana during that time, was around 300, which is 5 times less than what it is now.

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Chapo's prosecutors wants add-on evidence: murder, Fentanyl trafficking, "parts"of Sean Penn interview and more

by Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat      
                       

Prosecutors wants only the parts of the Penn video that can harm Chapo, but what may benefit Chapo precluded.  Meanwhile defense still requesting and waiting for cooperate witness information.  Despite what Mexican media states, defense has not been given names of witnesses to conduct investigations.  

A motion was filed with the court pertaining to the U.S. Government’s case against Joaquín Guzmán Loera, aka El Chapo.

Apparently, Government prosecutors are still not satisfied with their already ultra-strong case against, El Chapo, for they have filed a 106 page motion to add evidence.  The entire filing is below in a SCRIBD document.  I am pulling some of the elements that I found interesting.

At trial, the government expects to introduce cooperating witness testimony and other evidence proving that the defendant participated in and directed numerous acts of violence, including torture and kidnapping during the charged period.

This “evidence” the government is requesting admitted, 5 months before trial, appears to be reaped from cooperating witnesses and says as much below.

BLO Blames Chapo for the arrest of Mochomo

In 2008, Mexican authorities arrested a leader of the Beltran Leyva In 2008, Mexican authorities arrested a leader of the Beltran Leyva Organization, Alfredo Beltran Leyva, also known as “Mochomo.” The other leaders of that organization believed that the authorities arrested him at the defendant’s behest. This arrest triggered a series of events that fractured the longtime alliance between the defendant and Mayo Zambada on the one hand, and the Beltran Leyva Organization on the other. War broke out between the factions.

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Assinations, Torture, Kidnapping, Drug Trafficking in cans of Jalapenos: El Chapo will not have it easy

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

Subject Matter: Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera, El Chapo
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Assassination of Zetas at point blank, acts of torture, kidnapping and intent to import tons of cocaine in cans of jalapenos, are among the accusations that Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera will face.

Reporter: Sinembargo Redaction
on the morning of 8th of November of 1992, sicarios entered a disco-tec in Puerta Vallarta, Jalisco. Carrying weapons and seeking revenge, they fired on members of the criminal organization led by the Arellano Felix brothers.

No less than six people died in the shoot out. Chroniclers of the epoch attribute the massacre t to Joaquin Guzman Loera, a youngster known as El Chapo. A chapter in his life that follows him to his cell in New York and that could, according to Brooklyn prosecutors, soon appear on his charge sheet.

This was narrated by Alan Feuer for the New York Times, in the text " 7 tons of cocaine in cans of jalapenos: the evidence against El Chapo, where he presents the evidence that now confronts the Mexican.

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In narco mantas, leader of Los Rojos advises of " rivers of money" for the Anaya campaign

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

Subject Matter: Political corruption
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

In narco mantas located this morning in distinct point of the Morelos capital, Santiago Mazari Hernandez, leader of the criminal group Los Rojos, denounced the "rivers of money" destined for the campaign of Ricardo Anaya and accused Rodrigo Gayosso Cepeda, candidate for the PRD of the state government, of filtering information to effect this.

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“More should carry Narcan antidote to counter opioid overdoses”

By Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat

Thursday morning, the U.S. Surgeon General, while speaking at the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta,  urged those at risk, to keep the Narcan antidote on hand.

Further, he recommends family and friends learn how to use the antidote, saying you don’t have to be a first responder to save a life.  Adams says more than half of all overdoses occur at home.

Using Naloxone (Narcan) can reestablish a breathing after it is injected or even sprayed in the nostrils, bringing overdose victims back from the brink of death.

An naloxone shot, available without a prescription for untrained people, works much like the EpiPen, or sprayed in the nostrils swiftly  restores breathing and usually out of danger.

Overdoses have jumped in numbers, many can be attributed to Fentanyl being widely sold on the streets and also infused in heroin.   According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose each day.

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El Popeye of the CAF who killed Cardenal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, want to return to Tijuana

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

Subject Matter: Alfredo Araujo, El Popeye
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

A Unitary Court is providing the opportunity for Alfredo Araujo, a Cartel Arellano Felix sicario to apply for a transfer to La Mesa prison. Currently in a maximum security prison in Oaxaca, he was prosecuted for the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo; while he was not tried for the attack against journalist J. Jesus Blancornelas.

Reporter: Luis Carlos Sainz
Alfredo Araujo Ávila "El Popeye" won an injunction to reconsider the refusal of a Sentencing Judge to transfer him from a maximum security prison to a social reintegration center in Tijuana and continue to serve out his sentence.

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Gun battle between Ministerials and armed civilians in Miguel Aleman (video)

Posted by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from Twitter

Así fue la situación que vivió la gente en la balacera hoy en la tarde por Miguel Alemán parece un campo de guerra chingado volvemos de nuevo a tanta inseguridad amigos de #mtyfollow @_LASNOTICIASMTY @joluisgarcia RT pic.twitter.com/6ZHWb7d9KD

— 🚖Charly🐯eltaxista🚕 (@_taxista_regio_) April 7, 2018

A gun battle broke out last Friday in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon between Ministerials and armed civilians. The video was shot from inside a cafe by a civilian who had time to drink his coffee during the shoot out. I guess it was just another day for him.

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