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Posts Tagged drug cartels
The Warlord of Tamaulipas: Eduardo Costilla Sanchez
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Sep/2010 22:31
Eduardo Costilla Sanchez
“He grew up with Osiel Cárdenas Guillén and since 2003, he has headed the Gulf cartel, the second most powerful cartel in the country. Stealthy, Eduardo Costilla, El Coss, overcame internal divisions and now runs a fierce war in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León against their former allies, Los Zetas, who do not forgive him for his alliance to the Sinaloa cartel.
The PGR and the SSP claim that the capo has a presence in over 15 states and the United States, the DEA, including the Department of the Treasury consider him a threat to the security of the US.
Since late 1996 when Osiel Cardenas Guillen took over as head of the Gulf cartel, Eduardo Costilla Sanchez had a definite place in the structure of this criminal organization. Known as El Coss, he became the man most trusted to Cardenas Guillen and was known as “Mata Amigos” or “Killer of Friends” for his tendency to betray.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/warlord-in-tamaulipas.html
Biggest Newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city will restrict drug war coverage.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 20/Sep/2010 14:20
AP – A man mourns in front of the coffin containing the body of Diario de Juarez newspaper photographer Carlos …
Terrorism wins: Journalism muzzled by fear of violence.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – The biggest newspaper in Mexico’s most violent city will restrict drug war coverage after the killing of its second journalist in less than two years, just as international press representatives will urge the government to make security for journalists a national priority.
In a front-page editorial Sunday, El Diario de Juarez asked drug cartels warring in this city across from El Paso, Texas, to say what they want from the newspaper, so it can continue its work without further death, injury or intimidation of its staff.
At least 22 Mexican journalists have been killed over the past four years, at least eight of them targeted because of their reports on crime and corruption, says the Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S.-based media watchdog group that plans to present its report to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Wednesday. At least seven other journalists have gone missing and more have fled the country, the report says.
Many media outlets, especially in border areas, have stopped covering the drug war. Until Sunday, El Diario was not one of them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/lt_mexico_journalist_killed;_ylt=ArQATucxvqH6bWOxrLzbGWN0fNdF
Mexican Drug Cartels Cripple Mexico’s biggest natural gas fields
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:31
“The meandering network of pipes, wells and tankers belonging to the gigantic state oil company Pemex have long been an easy target of crooks and drug traffickers who siphon off natural gas, gasoline and even crude, robbing the Mexican treasury of hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Now the cartels have taken sabotage to a new level: They’ve hobbled key operations in parts of the Burgos Basin, home to Mexico’s biggest natural gas fields.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/mexican-drug-cartels-cripple-pemex.html
Mexican Senate: drug gangs dominate or influence 71% of municipalities in Mexico.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:28
A Mexican Senate committee reported last Tuesday that drug gangs have dominated the mayors of some 195 municipalities and influence another 1536, which account for a staggering 71% of the total two thousand 439 municipalities in Mexico.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/senate-narco-controls-71-of-mexican.html
Mexican who ordered assassinations of U.S. consulate and her husband appears in TX court
Posted by Jack Sinclair in Law, News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:22
Jesus Ernesto Chávez Castillo, known as "El Camello," or the camel,
“Jesus Ernesto Chvez Castillo, who told Mexican authorities that he ordered the assassinations of a a U.S. consulate employee and her husband, appeared in U.S. District Court in San Antonio on Friday after his extradition.
A man suspected of ordering the assassination of a U.S. Consulate worker and her husband in Juárez in March appeared Friday in a San Antonio courtroom under tight security and a shroud of secrecy.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/consulate-slayings-mastermind-in-texas.html
Mexico: Dismembered Bodies Dumped in Front of Children’s Museum
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 8/Sep/2010 01:17
Two dismembered bodies were found by police early Tuesday in front of a children’s museum in Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.State police received a call that two naked bodies with the heads, arms and legs cut off had been dumped in front of the La Avispa Museum.
The dismembered bodies were left near the part of the building that contains two mechanical dinosaurs. The bodies appeared to be men between the ages of 20 to 30 years old.At the scene were two torsos, two heads, one wrapped in duck tape, two complete legs from the femur to the foot, which had tennis shoes with a red stripe around the laces and the other two legs were cut in pieces. There were also four dismembered hands and arms, two of them up to the elbows.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/09/dismembered-bodies-found-in-front-of.html
WARNING: Graphic, disturbing images
Cartels use ultra-light aircraft to smuggle drugs into the United States
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 3/Sep/2010 18:49
“Mexico’s federal Public Security Agency reported that criminal cartels have adopted the use of ultra-light aircraft to smuggle drugs into the United States.
These aircraft have a 100 kilo payload and can land in unpopulated or vacant areas where they are awaited by other persons. They can also fly at heights that preclude both visual and radar detection.
The cost of the aircraft is relatively small in comparison with the price of drugs, so they are sometimes abandoned within the U.S. A kilo of drugs increases in value from 8,000 dollars in Mexico to 30,000 after it crosses the border, thus resulting in a profit of more than 2 million dollars per 100 kilo load.
Mexican army kills 25 drug cartel gunmen near the US border
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 2/Sep/2010 21:52
“The Mexican army says it has killed 25 suspected drug cartel gunmen in a clash near the US border.
The army said a patrol came under fire as it approached an apparent training camp that had been spotted during an aerial search.
In his state of the union address on Thursday morning, the president admitted the violence was worsening but defended his approach, saying the cartels were being weakened.
“The capture or killing of important criminal leaders has made the crime organizations more desperate,” Mr Calderon said.
“It is an ever more bloody war between organized crime groups fighting for territory, markets and routes … If we want a safe Mexico for the Mexicans of the future, we must take on the cost of achieving it today,” he said.”
The Roots of Organized Crime in Mexico
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 31/Aug/2010 19:42
Daniel Arizmendi, alias "El Mochaorejas" (ear cutter)
“Organized crime in Mexico today did not form itself in a vacuum, its structure originates from the police and security forces of the Mexican State. That is why this drug war is so bloody and extends to all levels of government and society.
Over the past 30 years, corruption, impunity and the political and discretionary application of justice converted every police officer and every public safety agency into a criminal entity. Whether willing or otherwise, every Mexican police officer, every ministerial (investigative) official, to survive as such, had to break the law and abide by the codes of special privileges granted by the ruling political power, the PRI.
Police were segregated from society and their use in an ideology of political and social repression led to corruption. The political class for decades, and clearly after 1968 and 1971, found in this corruption a vein of gold and overindulged itself on it. The use of laws, rules and regulations for the purpose of extortion was institutionalized.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/roots-of-organized-crime.html
14 Men Executed in Acapulco
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 28/Aug/2010 23:27
Acapulco- Attacks on suspected members of the Cartel del Pacifico Sur headed by Héctor Beltrán Leyva left 14 men dead in execution style slayings in four different locations around the tourist destination of Acapulco, Guerrero during the morning hours of Friday, August 27.
The murders may have been a reprisal for the executions and public display of 4 mutilated bodies of men belonging to Edgar “la Barbie†Valdez Villarreal’s organization in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/14-executed-in-acapulco.html
According to the state of Guerrero’s Public Security Secretariat, the victims were beaten and tortured before being executed by gunfire from the usual weapons used by organized criminal gangs: .233 (AR-15), 7.62 x 39mm (AK-47) and 9mm calibers.
Three of the victims were identified as municipal policemen and one victim was a state government employee. As of late Friday evening the identities of the other victims had not been released.
Mexican Federal Judge attacked, one bodyguard killed
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Aug/2010 23:04
Armed assailants wounded a Mexican federal judge in the western state of Nayarit and killed one of his bodyguards, judiciary officials said on Friday.
Judge Carlos Alberto Elorza Amores “was attacked (Thursday afternoon) by gunmen at a housing estate†in the town of Xalisco, Jose Vilches, spokesman for the Federal Judicial Council, or CJF, said.
“The bodyguards who were accompanying him repelled the aggression, but one was gunned down,†Vilches said. The other two bodyguards assigned to Elorza were “slightly wounded†in the attack.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/federal-judge-attacked-by-gunmen.html
Narco-Censorship: Under threat from Mexican drug cartels, reporters go silent
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:20
Placards with pictures of slain journalists are seen this month at a Mexico City rally by journalists protesting the violence they face. (Ronaldo Schemidt, AFP/Getty Images / August 7, 2010)
By Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times
Journalists know drug traffickers can easily kidnap or kill them — and get away with it.
A new word has been written into the lexicon of Mexico’s drug war: narco-censorship.
It’s when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth in a country where members of the press have been intimidated, kidnapped and killed.”
Juarez Cartel Trains Beautiful Women as Sicarios (hired assassins)
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:16
“The armed wing of the Juarez drug cartel (La Linea), which operates on the border of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso is recruiting and training dozens of young, pretty women as sicarios (hired assassins), said a captured sicario hired by the criminal organization.
“They are beautiful teenagers, to deceive the enemy even more,” said the suspected member of the organization of La Linea, Rogelio Amaya, to an investigative team of the federal Public Security Secretariat (SSP).
This criminal organization has between 20 and 30 women, mostly “pretty” between 18 to 30 years old, trained to kill, he said.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/juarez-cartel-trains-beautiful-women-as.html
The Body of Cavazos, Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Found
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 19/Aug/2010 02:12
by Borderland Beat Reporter Buggs
“This one hit hard, don’t ask me why, it just did. Today I am writing this the day they found the body of the Panista Mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, who had been abducted two days ago by an armed commando.
U.S. educated Cavazos Leal, 38, and father of three children was abducted Sunday night from his residence in the Division of Cieneguillas. Alejandro Garza Garza, the Nuevo León state attorney, said Monday that the mayor was abducted by a commando wearing fake uniforms of the federal police of the attorney general (PGR).
Medina said this week that Cavazos, who took office last year, was probably targeted for his efforts to clean up Santiago’s corrupt police force, part of a nationwide effort to curb endemic police graft.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/body-of-cavazos-found.html
Zeta Leader Killed in Shootout in Monterrey
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 16/Aug/2010 18:00
“Following a pursuit and confrontation with the military, four members of an armed group were killed by gunfire after they come out shooting from an SUV in Colonia Caracol south of Monterrey.
Military sources reported that a convoy of three army units ran into two SUV’s along Avenida Chapultepec, about 500 meters east of the junction with Revolution.
When the military attempted to stop the two vehicles for an inspection, the vehicles sped away at full speed on a west bound direction.
While fleeing, the gunmen launched an attack against the military that forced the military to respond back with gunfire.
Mexican police say narco-blockades are becoming more common in Monterrey, with the most recent occurring Saturday. Earlier this month, soldiers stood guard around stolen trailers used by gunmen to form a barricade on a main road.
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/08/zeta-leader-killed-in-shootout-in.html