Mexican cartels kidnap, kill illegal aliens headed to U.S.

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Mexico cartels kidnap, kill migrants headed to U.S. | Reuters

 

[waltky]

Mass kidnapping in Mexico City...

11 vanish from Mexico City bar in suspected kidnap
May 30,`13 -- Eleven young people were brazenly kidnapped in broad daylight from an after-hours bar in Mexico City's Zona Rosa, a normally calm district of offices, restaurants, drinking spots and dance clubs, anguished relatives said Thursday.

The apparent mass abduction purportedly happened sometime between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday morning just off the Paseo de la Reforma, the city's main boulevard, near the Angel of Independence monument and only about 1 1/2 blocks from the U.S. Embassy. The incident was the second recent high-publicity blemish for the city's largely unregulated entertainment scene, coming 20 days after the grandson of American civil rights activist Malcolm X was beaten to death at another tough bar in the downtown area.

Calling for authorities to find their loved ones, family members marched Thursday morning from the Interior Department building to the Zocalo, the city's main square. Later they protested outside the bar, which bears a sign that reads Bicentenario Restaurante-Bar, and demanded to see the bar's surveillance video. "How could so many people have disappeared, just like that, in broad daylight?" said Josefina Garcia, mother of Said Sanchez Garcia, 19, her only son. "The police say they don't have them, so what, the earth just opened up and swallowed them?" She said her son wasn't involved in any criminal activity, and worked at a market stall selling beauty products.

City prosecutors said they had received 11 missing-person reports, but Garcia said residents of the tough downtown neighborhood of Tepito where the victims live thought as many as 15 or 16 people could have been abducted. The known missing include six men, most in their 20s, a 16-year-old boy and four young women. While no clear motives had been revealed in the attack, residents of Tepito said there has been a wave of abductions of neighborhood young people in recent months that could be related to organized crime activities. Tepito is the center of black market activities in the city, where guns, drugs, stolen goods and contraband are widely sold.

Mass abductions have been rare in Mexico City, but are common in parts of the country where drug cartels operate and are fighting with rival gangs over territory. Prosecutors slapped closure stickers on the front doors of the Mexico City bar Thursday, with inscriptions saying the city's anti-kidnapping unit was investigating abductions at the site. Late Thursday night, dozens of members of a special police intervention unit, many carrying automatic weapons and wearing helmets and bullet-proof vests, blocked off the street in front of the bar and searched inside. Officers would not comment on what they were looking for.

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2 Mexico kidnap victims sons of drug traffickers
May 31,`13 -- The mothers of two of the 11 young people kidnapped from a Mexico City bar in a shocking, daylight abduction acknowledged Friday that the youths' fathers are serving prison sentences for drug-related crimes.

Authorities have been searching desperately for motives in the abductions early Sunday at a bar just off the city's leafy, skyscraper-lined main boulevard, blocks from police headquarters and the U.S. Embassy. It followed the May 9 beating death of Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of the late Malcolm X, in a fight over a bill at another rough Mexico City bar. Two waiters have been arrested in that killing. People who worked near the bar involved in Sunday's abductions long suspected it was connected to drug traffickers or criminals because of the shady characters, street disputes and flashy cars that were frequently seen outside.

But the mothers of those abducted said Friday that authorities may be too eager to look for a possible drug connection because of the fathers and the fact that the youths are from the rough-and-tumble Tepito neighborhood, known for decades as Mexico City's main contraband market. The fathers of two of the youths were arrested in 2003 in connection with killings, robberies and drug dealing. It was not immediately clear which of those crimes resulted in convictions, but both men - viewed as top criminal figures in Tepito - are now serving prison sentences at maximum-security facilities.

Photo composite of images taken from flyers made by relatives showing ten of the eleven young people that were kidnapped in broad daylight from an after hours bar in Mexico City last Sunday May 26, 2013. From left to right, top row; Josue Piedra Moreno, Aaron Piedra Moreno, Rafael Rojas, Alan Omar Athiencia Barragon, Jennifer Robles Gonzalez. From left to right, bottom row; Jerzy Ortiz Ponce, Said Sanchez Garcia, Guadalupe Morales Vargas, Eulogio Foseca Arreola, Gabriela Tellez Zamudio.

Leticia Ponce, whose 16-year-old son Jerzy is among the missing, acknowledged that his father is convict Jorge Ortiz Reyes, alias "The Tank." But she said nobody who wanted revenge for her husband's past crimes would have waited 10 years. "If somebody wanted to do something to us, they would have already kidnapped us," said Ponce, shaking with sobs. "It has nothing to do with this," she said of the disappearance of her son and his friends.

Rather than focusing on the youths' backgrounds, she said, authorities should recognize that the mass abductions that drug cartels have carried out for years in other parts of Mexico have now arrived in Mexico City. "Today it is us, tomorrow who else will it be?" Ponce said. "Here in this city, this is already starting to be seen. Today it us, but tomorrow it could be your child, or yours," she said, pointing to reporters.

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Missing youth's bodies may have been found east of Mexico City...

Mexico City bodies may be missing youths
22 August 2013 > The authorities in Mexico say a number of bodies found on a ranch east of Mexico City may be those of 12 youths abducted in May.

So far they have recovered seven bodies, but some reports say there may be up to 13. The police said a suspect led them to two graves in a forested area near an eco-tourism park. They said they were carrying out DNA tests to establish the identity of the bodies. "We won't have any results before two days at least. The bodies are badly decomposed," said prosecutor Rodolfo Rios. The 12 young people disappeared in May after visiting the Heaven bar in the popular Zona Rosa entertainment district of Mexico City.

All of the missing are from the Tepito neighbourhood

Surveillance footage shows some of the missing being led to cars outside the bar two at a time. There is no obvious sign of force and the men who take them away are not masked and do not seem to be carrying weapons. A friend of the missing said at the time that the motive was warfare between two rival drug-dealing gangs. He said the abduction was linked to rivalry between the Union and Tepis gangs, engaged in drug-dealing in the Tepito neighbourhood of Mexico City.

All of the missing are from Tepito, with three of them related to jailed crime bosses from the area. An estimated 70,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico over the past six years, much of it committed by powerful drug cartels. The violence has mainly been concentrated in the northern states bordering the United States and in the west, with the capital largely spared.

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Mexico police working through night at mass grave
Aug 23,`13 -- Investigators dug and probed at a mass grave site through the night searching for more bodies and any connection to the mysterious disappearance of 12 young revelers from a bar in an upscale area of Mexico City three months ago.

Seven corpses covered in lime and sand were found Thursday in a shallow grave on a ranch in Tlalmanalco east of the capital, a federal agent said. By evening, more backhoes were seen entering the property as excavators continued the search. Mexico City prosecutor Rodolfo Rios, who confirmed the discovery of seven bodies, said DNA tests would take two to three days to determine if the remains belonged to the young bar-goers. They vanished from the after-hours Heaven club at midday May 26, just a block from the leafy Paseo de Reforma, the capital's equivalent of the Champs-Elysees. The bizarre disappearance resonated across the city of 9 million people because many had come to believe it was an oasis from Mexico's cartels and drug violence. The mass abduction of 12 mirrored crimes in drug-trafficking hot spots such as the western state of Guerrero, where 20 Mexican men from neighboring Michoacan disappeared, only to be found in a mass grave, or in Nuevo Leon, where the bodies of 17 kidnapped musicians were found at the bottom of a well.

Mexico City officials have insisted since the Heaven kidnapping that large drug cartels do not operate in the capital. But the case has been a political liability, with local polls saying the public is overwhelmingly opposed to how the administration of Mayor Miguel Mancera has handled the investigation. The federal agent at the ranch, who agreed to tell about the search only if not quoted by name because he was not authorized to discuss details of the case, said clothing found with the corpses made it "90 percent sure" that officials had found the Heaven victims. Authorities kept more than a mile perimeter around the excavation site on a hilly ranch known as La Negra, where federal police and attorney general's trucks and large white vans could be seen. The private property next to Rancho La Mesa Ecological Park is walled and surrounded by oak and pine trees.

The federal Attorney General's Office said agents had received information about possible illegal weapons on the property and obtained a search warrant. When they started looking around, they discovered the grave. "They found a home that looked like a safe house," Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam told reporters. "We were operating under the belief it was a weapons case." Later, some of the relatives showed up on the property being excavated, crying and covering their faces from the media. "We have had three months with this anxiety," Maria Teresa Ramos, grandmother of Jerzy Ortiz, one of the missing, told Milenio television. "We are dying every day, little by little." Prosecutors have said the abductions from the Heaven bar were linked to a dispute between street gangs that control local drug sales in the capital's nightclubs and bars. They say the gangs are based in Mexico City's dangerous Tepito neighborhood, where most of the missing lived. The families insist the missing young people were not involved in drug trafficking.

Surveillance cameras showed several cars pulling up to the bar at midday and taking the victims away. A witness who escaped told authorities that a bar manager had ordered the music turned off, told patrons that authorities were about to raid the establishment and ordered those inside to leave. So far, five people have been detained in the Heaven case, including club owner Ernesto Espinosa Lobo, known as "The Wolf," who has been charged with kidnapping. Among the arrested are another bar owner, a driver and a security guard. A fifth, Jose de Jesus Carmona, 32, is under arrest pending charges. One suspect is still a fugitive. In another element of the case that is reminiscent of cartel warfare, one of the owners of the Heaven bar, Dax Rodriguez Ledezma, fled authorities only to turn up dead, his body dumped and burned in a rural area with that of his girlfriend and another friend.

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[R.C. Christian]

And liberals want these people to come here?

 

[Rct_Tsoul]

Waltkey ........... I know what's going here.
Those abducted were waiting for an escort to a brothel ......... that specializing in young teen hotties ........... unfortunately a vigilante group intercepted them first and falsely posed as the child brothels escort.
These vigilante must be dealt with quickly before they gain support for their cause ............. apparently this group of vigilantes is upset about the fact that their younger sisters have been kidnapped in cooperation with the Mexican government to put their baby sisters to work in child brothels to service the Mexican Elite.
Now do you all see how American gun clinging has now spread like a cancer to Mexico, just because these Mexican gun clinging fags have guns, they think they can stand their ground against child brothels & forced child brothel labor of young girls ........... this is an outrage to kidnap & kill the child brothels customers.
These vigilantes must be found, their guns confiscated, and put in jail.

 

[R.C. Christian]

The gun grabber wannabe seizes the opportunity to ramble on about guns. ^^

 

[waltky]

Another mass grave discovered in Mexico...

Mexico: 54 bodies found in mass graves
November 28, 2013 -- Investigators say they've found human remains of 54 victims; Many bodies show signs of being bound, gagged and tortured; They have not yet been identified; Drug cartels operate in the region and are battling for control

Police digging up mass graves in western Mexico have now found human remains from at least 54 victims there. The grim figure released by Mexico's Attorney General's Office Tuesday was the latest since authorities made the startling find this month of dozens of hidden graves during an investigation into the disappearance of two federal agents. So far, authorities haven't said whether the missing agents' bodies have turned up in the hidden graves found in La Barca, a town near the border of Mexico's Jalisco and Michoacan states.

Prosecutors say they haven't identified the bodies they've found. Some of the victims showed signs of being bound, gagged and tortured, investigators said this week. Authorities believe municipal police officers were tied to the federal agents' disappearances, Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said. "We detained them, and from that investigation, we found a place where the federal agents might have been buried," he said.

For years, authorities have described police corruption in Mexico as one of their top concerns as they combat drug cartels. Federal officials have said the lower salaries of local police officers make them more susceptible to corruption. Last month 13 police officers in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco were arrested and accused of running a kidnapping gang. The discovery of the hidden graves comes amid high tensions in the region, where cartels are battling for turf and government forces are cracking down on emerging citizen self-defense groups.

Mexico: 54 bodies found in mass graves - CNN.com

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Mexican drug cartels now make money exporting ore
Nov 29,`13 -- Mexican drug cartels looking to diversify their businesses long ago moved into oil theft, pirated goods, extortion and kidnapping, consuming an ever larger swath of the country's economy. This month, federal officials confirmed the cartels have even entered the country's lucrative mining industry, exporting iron ore to Chinese mills.

Such large-scale illegal mining operations were long thought to be wild rumor, but federal officials confirmed they had known about the cartels' involvement in mining since 2010, and that the Nov. 4 military takeover of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico's second-largest port, was aimed at cutting off the cartels' export trade. That news served as a wake-up call to Mexicans that drug traffickers have penetrated the country's economy at unheard-of levels, becoming true Mafia-style organizations.

The Knights Templar cartel and its predecessor, the La Familia drug gang, have been stealing or extorting shipments of iron ore, or illegally extracting the mineral themselves and selling it through Pacific coast ports, said Michoacan residents, mining companies and current and former federal officials. The cartel had already imposed demands for "protection payments" on many in the state, including shopkeepers, ranchers and farmers.

But so deeply entrenched was the cartel connection to mines, mills, ports, export firms and land holders that it took authorities three years to confront the phenomenon head-on. Federal officials said they are looking to crack down on other ports where drug gangs are operating. "This is the terrible thing about this process of (the cartel's) taking control of and reconfiguring the state," said Guillermo Valdes Castellanos, the former head of the country's top domestic intelligence agency. "They managed to impose a Mafia-style control of organized crime, and the different social groups like port authorities, transnational companies and local landowners, had to get in line."

Valdez Castellanos said that even back in 2010, the La Familia cartel would take ore from areas that were under concession to private mining companies, sometimes with the aid or complicity of local farmers and land owners, then sell the ore to processors, distributors and even, apparently, foreign firms. Mexico's Economy Department said the problem was so severe that it prompted the government to quietly toughen rules on exporters in 2011 and 2012 and make them prove they received their ore from established, recognized sources.

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[Katzndogz]

And liberals want these people to come here?

Of course they do! That's the whole point of open borders. It will be much better for liberals when it's Americans being kidnapped and killed. It will reduce the opposition to open borders.

 

[Kondor3]

Culling the herd? Natural selection? It's always a tragedy when a human being dies, but they are citizens of another country, and are somebody else's problem. We have enough trouble keeping our own shoelaces tied, never mind worrying about killings on the other side of the border, and amongst those trying to intrude upon American soil without our express prior consent. Let Jorge (George) do it.

 

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Handiwork of the Knights Templar?...

5 DECAPITATED BODIES FOUND IN WESTERN MEXICO
Dec 28,`13 -- Prosecutors found five decapitated bodies in western Mexico Saturday, with a hand-lettered sign linking the killings to a drug cartel.

The bodies were found in two different locations on the outskirts of Morelia, the state capital of Michoacan. At one spot, the bodies of three of the men were found lying against the curb of a traffic circle. The state attorney general's office said their heads had been cut off and placed next to the bodies. A little later Saturday, the bodies of two other men were found in another community on the outskirts of Morelia. Both had been decapitated, and the heads were placed a little farther away. A bloody kitchen knife was found on a nearby road.

Michoacan has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Caballeros Templarios cartel and the Jalisco New Generation cartel, known by its initials in Spanish as "CJNG." A hand-lettered sign left with some of the bodies read "We are here now ... respectfully, CJNG."

While Morelia has been quieter than other parts of Michoacan, violence has recently surged there. On Dec. 23, the assistant mayor of one of the suburbs of Morelia was found shot to death in his car. And in September, four men hacked a state legislator to death with machetes on a road near the capital.

The Jalisco gang has been moving into Michoacan, displacing the pseudo-religious Knights Templar cartel, which earned the enmity of many inhabitants because of its systematic extortion demands on businesses and residents. Authorities have said that some of the self-defense groups formed by Michoacan communities seeking to oust the Knights Templar have been supported by the Jalisco gang.

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Knights Templar diversifying into iron ore business...

Chinese iron trade fuels port clash with Mexican drug cartel
Wed Jan 1, 2014 - When the leaders of Mexico and China met last summer, there was much talk of the need to deepen trade between their nations. Down on Mexico's Pacific coast, a drug gang was already making it a reality.

The Knights Templar cartel, steadily diversifying into other businesses, became so successful at exporting iron ore to China that the Mexican Navy in November had to move in and take over the port in Lazaro Cardenas, a city that has become one of the gang's main cash generators. This steelmaking center, drug smuggling hot spot and home of a rapidly growing container port in the western state of Michoacan occupies a strategic position on the Pacific coast, making it a natural gateway for burgeoning trade with China. Lazaro Cardenas opened to container traffic just a decade ago, and with a harbor deep enough to berth the world's largest ships, it already aims to compete with Los Angeles to handle Asian goods bound for the U.S. market.

But that future is in doubt unless the government can restore order and win its struggle with the Knights Templar, who took their name from a medieval military order that protected Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Mexico's biggest producer of iron ore, Michoacan state is a magnet for Chinese traders feeding demand for steel in their homeland. But the mines also created an opportunity for criminal gangs, such as the Knights Templar, looking to broaden their revenue base into more legitimate businesses. "The mines were mercilessly exploited, and the ore was leaving. But not in rafts or launches - it was going via the port, through customs, on ships," said Michoachan's governor, Fausto Vallejo, soon after the Navy occupied the port on November 4.

Already a thriving criminal enterprise adept at corrupting local officials and squeezing payments from businesses, developers and farmers, the Knights took to mining with aplomb, according to entrepreneurs and miners working around the port. Hidden behind mountain roads about an hour from Lazaro Cardenas, one small town mustered hundreds of trucks this year to lead the gang's scramble to the port, a local miner said. That town - Arteaga - is the birthplace of Servando Gomez, the former school teacher who leads the Knights Templar. Gomez understood the potential of Lazaro Cardenas, which was a village best known for its coconuts until the government decided to build a steelworks there 40 years ago. The gang's trucks sped around Michoacan's iron mines to supply Chinese buyers, helping to push ore exports to 4 million tons by October from 1-1.5 million tons a year previously.

Their business rests on several pillars, according to accounts of local officials, miners and entrepreneurs. Firstly, the Knights controlled how the ore moved, having imposed protection charges on local transport unions after becoming the dominant gang in the city a few years ago. It also helped local prospectors stake claims to mine areas either unclaimed by others or beyond the control of the existing concession-holders. Then the Knights took their cut. Finally, the gang pressured customs officials to ensure the ore passed through the port smoothly. "Most of the groups mining are Knights Templar or belong to them. They have the whole chain," a local official told Reuters.

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[Moonglow]

Good thing the Russian mafia is in the Yucatan, it helps balance out the business.

 

[Gracie]

mexico is no better than nazi germany

 

[Moonglow]

I know several native Mexicans that don't like the govt. The political system is corrupt and extorts votes with jobs.