Mexicans march in support of 'Craziest' kingpin

[Bullfighter]

MORELIA, Mexico — A peace march called by local authorities in western Mexico turned into a show of support for a slain drug lord Sunday, with adults and children carrying signs lauding the capo known for handing out Bibles to the poor.

Hundreds of people turned out for the march in Apatzingan, the birth place of La Familia cartel leader Nazario Moreno, who was known as "The Craziest One" and reputedly indoctrinated his gang members in pseudo-Christian ideology.

The government says Moreno was killed in Apatzingan on Thursday in a shootout with federal police. The hunt for Moreno and other La Familia leaders set off two days of battles in key parts of Michoacan state, with cartel gunmen using torched cars and buses to blockade highways. At least 11 other people were killed, including a baby and a teenage girl.

The Apatzingan government convoked the march to call for peace and demand that federal troops and police leave the city. But local officials quickly distanced themselves from the event after people showed up with the pro-Moreno signs.

One man held up a sign that said: "Nazario will always live in our hearts." A boy in a checkered shirt held another saying "Mr. Nazario, for students your ideals live on." A little girl in pigtails held a sign reading "La Familia Michoacana is more than one state." A woman held one high over her head proclaiming: "Long live La Familia Michoacana."

The city government issued a statement saying it decided not to participate in the march "after determining the right conditions were not in place." It didn't mention the signs.

It was the second straight day that Apatzingan residents took to the streets to show support for Moreno. On Saturday night, hundreds marched with similar signs.

Also on Sunday, banners were hung from bridges in Petacalco, a town in southern Michoacan state, reading: "We support La Familia Michoacana. We will always remember Nazario Moreno, The Doctor" — another nickname for the kingpin.

La Familia burst into national prominence in 2006 by rolling five severed heads into a nightclub in the mountain town of Uruapan and proclaiming its intention to protect Michoacan from other cartels and petty criminals.

President Felipe Calderon, who was born in Michoacan, responded by deploying thousands of federal troops and police into Michoacan, vowing to crush a cartel that he warned was corrupting local officials, extorting businesses and growing in power.

He later sent thousands more troops to other drug trafficking hotspots across Mexico in an intensified crackdown that has at times taken on warlike proportions. More than 28,000 people have died in drug gang-related violence since late 2006.

La Familia distinguished itself from other cartels by making public proclamations, including a telephone interview with local media last year with its reputed No. 2, Servando Gomez Martinez, who remains at large.
But the march Sunday was one of clearest indications yet of popular sympathy for the cartel, which also gained a reputation as one of Mexico's most brutal, staging bold attacks on government security forces.

Moreno, 40, was considered the ideological leader of La Familia, setting a code of conduct for its members that prohibits using hard drugs or dealing them within Mexican territory. He purportedly wrote a religiously tinged book of values for the cartel, sometimes known as "The Sayings of the Craziest One."

A Mexican government profile said Moreno "erected himself as 'the Messiah,' using the Bible to preach to the poor and obtaining from them unconditional support." The profile also said his wife organized self-help seminars in Apatzingan.

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration profile says La Familia gives Bibles and money to the poor, funds schools and pays off local officials.
The cartel may have originated as "a vigilante group to counter local street crime and law enforcement corruption," the DEA says. "Now, La Familia Michoacana uses drug proceeds to fuel their agenda that encompasses a Robin Hood-type mentality — steal from the rich and give to the poor."

While the protests erupted in Michoacan, cartel violence continued in neighboring Guerrero state, where seven people were found dead Sunday.
The bodies of four men, their hands bound, were dumped in the highway linking Acapulco to Mexico City, according to the state Public Safety Department.

Three decapitated bodies were found in Acapulco, two of them hanging from a bridge and the other dumped by a river. The heads were found nearby.

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Mexicans love these drug cartels. What's news about that. These are the same Mexicans who filter into American society waiting for the moment when they will steal everything that 500 years of building America took.

Their envy of the American people is notorious and they hate the fact that they are stuck in their third world. Their lazy Latin American attitude makes them fail at everything from education to nation building.

The only thing they are good at is making bandito babies and breaking God's laws. It's not hard exposing these people for what they really are. They brag about it.​

 

[waltky]

Bullets flyin' ever'where in Acapulco...

11 people slain in Acapulco, Mexico
August 14, 2011 -- Nearly a dozen people were slain in violent attacks over the weekend in the Pacific coast resort of Acapulco, police said Sunday.

Eight of the victims were killed Sunday and three on Saturday, said a statement from the public safety department in the state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located. Early Sunday, four men were gunned down by assailants firing from two passing cars, the statement said. A fifth, 36-year-old man was injured.

Also Sunday, authorities discovered the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man who had been shot to death. The man's hands had been bound and his eyes blindfolded. In a separate section of the city, authorities found the bodies of two men estimated to be in their 20s who also had been shot to death. Messages believed to have been left by drug traffickers were found next to their bodies, the statement said.

On Saturday, the body of a man who had been beaten in several places was found half-buried in the ground wrapped in a bedspread, while two men who had been shot were found in a graveyard. One of them had died of a gunshot wound to the back of the neck and the other died of bullet wounds on the way to a hospital. Authorities had not detained any suspects. Acapulco has experienced a spike of drug-related violence in recent months.

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Another dead Mexican drug thug. Ole!

 

[waltky]

20 Dead In Mexico Violence...

Police find 7 bodies dumped in Pacific resort
2 Oct.`11 - – The bullet-riddled, bound bodies of seven men were dumped Sunday at a downtown bus stop in the Pacific resort town of Zihuatanejo, police said, as drug violence claimed at least 20 people this weekend along a stretch of coastal tourist destinations.

A photograph published in the local newspaper El Diario de Zihuatanejo showed signed messages lying near or on top of the bloody, half-naked men, whose feet were tied to a street pole. The messages claimed to be from The Knights Templar, an offshoot of the pseudo-religious La Familia drug cartel. Drug gangs are known for leaving threatening messages at crime scenes. Guerrero state police said agents found the bodies early Sunday in the beach town, which is popular with both Mexican and U.S. tourists. Less than two weeks ago, 35 tortured bodies were dumped onto a main avenue in the Gulf coast seaport of Veracruz. Police did not suggest any motives for Sunday's crime, but drug cartels have been battling each other in Pacific coast resort cities.

Police reported another homicide in Zihuatanejo hours before the bodies were dumped. In Acapulco, just to the south of Zihuatanejo, 10 men and two women were killed in separate attacks Saturday and early Sunday, including one in which gunmen stormed a bar and shot a couple dead, police said in a statement. Three other young men were gunned down inside a taxi cab on a popular avenue of Acapulco Saturday, police said Sunday in a news release. Also, two gunmen shot to death a 22-year-old man near a Walmart store on the beachside avenue Costera Miguel Aleman on Saturday. Authorities said they don't know whether the attacks are related. Drug-related crime has increased in Acapulco and other cities in the southwestern state of Guerrero since the arrest of Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez, a Texas native captured last year who is suspected of trying to seize control of the Beltran Leyva cartel following the death of gang leader Arturo Beltran Leyva.

Mexican officials have said that the remnants of the Beltran Leyva gang appear to be fighting the Knights Templar and the Zetas cartel in Guerrero. In addition, there is evidence that Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is moving to take back strongholds of his former allies, the Beltran Leyva cartel, the officials said. Guerrero police chief Ramon Almonte told The Associated Press that agents have found posters at homicide scenes with threatening messages signed by the four cartels plus smaller, local gangs that work as enforcement wings. On the Pacific coast to the north, gunmen killed three women and two men early Sunday as the victims were driving away from a supermarket in a busy area of Mazatlan city, Sinaloa's Attorney General's Office said in a statement.

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[Xchel]

sometimes these kingpins gather support by helping the communities financially..essentially they buy their silence...because they need the money they don't talk...and when something happens that endangers that money they protest. It is frustrating really, because the cartel members sometimes financially assist the people in communities and the government does not..so the people align with the cartel instead of the corrupt police...why? Because there is nothing to motivate them to help the government...even if they do help the police often times the same police tell the cartel who snitched.

 

[waltky]

Teenaged Mexican druglord...

Teenager says he ran Mexican drug gang, killed women
Mon, Oct 24, 2011 - Prosecutors said on Saturday that a 15-year-old boy has confessed to running a drug trafficking gang on the Mexican resort island of Isla Mujeres and murdering two women who reportedly worked as drug dealers.

It was the second time in less than a year that an extremely young male has been detained as a purported drug gang killer in Mexico. In November last year, soldiers arrested a 14-year-old US citizen who confessed to killing four people whose beheaded bodies were found hanging from a bridge. Mexican officials say the involvement of youths in such crimes reflects the difficulty drug cartels are having in recruiting adults, but it also raise fears that Mexico’s drug violence may have accustomed young people to extreme levels of violence.

‘LITTLE ROOSTER’

The Isla Mujeres cases involve a youth who prosecutors in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo identified only by his nickname, “El Gallito” or “The Little Rooster.” Heavily tattooed, El Gallito appears more mature than his age, prosecutors said. State Attorney General Gaspar Garcia Torres said the boy claimed to have been in charge of the lucrative Isla Mujeres drug market for a local gang known as “Los Pelones,” equivalent to the Bald or Shaved Heads. The gang is reputedly fighting the Zetas cartel for control of the area around the coastal resort of Cancun.

A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office said the boy told investigators that he and two older associates slashed the throats of the two women at a hotel on Isla Mujeres. The women’s bodies were found before dawn on Thursday, and El Gallito was detained on Friday. “He confessed to having full participation in carrying out these deeds and from the start he claimed to have been in charge of drug sales in the area, in this case for the Pelones, and that his duties were to receive the drugs,” said the spokesman, who was not allowed to be quoted by name.

BETRAYED

The women were purportedly killed after they betrayed the Pelones gang by selling drugs they obtained from other sources. The boy was turned over to a youthful offender facility to face homicide charges. Because of his age, he cannot be identified or tried as an adult. In most parts of Mexico, youths are tried and sentenced in juvenile courts, but cannot be held after they turn 18.

Last year’s case involved a 14-year-old US citizen, who was identified by his family as Edgar Jimenez Lugo, known as “El Ponchis.” He was sentenced in July to three years in prison for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession. It was the maximum sentenced allowed for a minor. Authorities say the teenager confessed to working for the South Pacific cartel, which is allegedly led by Hector Beltran Leyva.

Teenager says he ran Mexican drug gang, killed women - Taipei Times

 

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It's standard operating procedure for drug gang thugs. Escobar was a hero to the poor folks in Colombia for years. They spread a pittance of their money among them and buy, among other things, their silence if and when they have to hide out among them from the authorities. The poor know the spigot gets turned off if they don't play the game, so they're happy to accommodate.