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Authorities report that a group of gunmen attacked a rehabilitation center in the Coahuila city of  Torreón, leaving one dead and three injured.

The Laguna delegation of the Attorney General of the State said that about 7:45 am on Monday, a group of armed men burst into “Oasis” the rehabilitation center for addiction, located on Rodríguez Triana Boulevard, in the colonia “las Julitetas”.

The gunmen opened fire on the patients, subsequently leaving one dead, an unidentified person, about 30 years old, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds in his chest.

The three injured were identified with names: Jose Mena Eleno Alvarado, 58, who is treated at a local hospital for gunshot wounds to the abdomen and chest, Carlos Alvarado Mena, 39, injured by a bullet in the knee and Pedro Rivas Palacios, 31, who was wounded in the left side of the torso..

Just last June, gunmen killed eleven people in the Torreón center called " “Tu Vida Sobre La Roca AC”.

 

Source: Narco Mexico Drug Gangs (Texcoco’s Blog)



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The Mexican military is trying to dismantle an extensive network of radio antennas built and operated by the notorious Zeta drug cartel. But the authorities haven’t had much luck shutting Radio Zeta down. Not only is much of the equipment super-easy to replace. But the cartel has also apparently found some unwilling — and alarming — assistance by kidnapping and enslaving technicians to help build it.

At least 36 engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in the past four years, according to a report from Mexican news site Animal Politico, with an English translation published by organized-crime monitoring group InSight. Worse, none of the engineers have been held for ransom — they’ve just disappeared. Among them include at least one IBM employee and several communications technicians from a firm owned by Mexico’s largest construction company. “The fact that skilled workers have been disappearing in these areas is no accident,” Felipe Gonzalez, head of Mexico’s Senate Security Committee, told the website.

“None of the systems engineers who disappeared have been found,” Gonzalez said. Unlike Colombia, where drug traffickers control large amounts of territory and can keep hostages for many years, Mexico’s drug territory is more in flux. “When they need specialists they catch them, use them, and discard them,” said the father of one kidnapped engineer.

For at least six years, Mexico’s cartels have relied in part on a sophisticated radio network to handle their communications. The Zetas hide radio antennas and signal relay stations deep inside remote and hard-to-reach terrain, connect them to solar panels, and then link the facilities to radio-receiving cellphones and Nextel devices. While the kingpins stay off the network — they use the internet to send messages — the radio network acts as a shadow communication system for the cartels’ lower-level players and lookouts, and a tool to hijack military radios.

One network spread across northeastern Mexico and dismantled last year included 167 radio antennas alone. As recently as September, Mexican marines found a 295-foot-high transmission towerin Veracruz state. And while the founding leadership of the Zetas originated in the Mexican special forces — and who might have had the know-how to set up a radio system — relatively few of the ex-commando types are still active today.

One engineer, named Jose Antonio, was kidnapped in January 2009 while talking on the phone with his girlfriend outside a mechanics shop. He worked for ICA Fluor Daniel, a construction company jointly owned by U.S.-based Fluor Corporation and ICA, Mexico’s largest construction firm. Antonio’s family contacted the authorities, but were instead visited by a man claiming to be an ICA employee along with two Zetas. “They said they were going to help us, and that our contact would be ICA’s security chief,” said the kidnapped engineer’s mother. But the group’s message was implicit: Don’t pursue this, or else. The cartel members were later arrested, but Antonio never returned.

Alejandro Moreno, an IBM engineer kidnapped in January 2011 while traveling from Monterrey to the Texas border city of Laredo, hasn’t been heard from since. In 2009, nine contractors hired to build radio antennas in the border city of Nuevo Laredo — a Zetas stronghold — were kidnapped from a rented apartment by masked gunmen. They were taken with their vehicles and equipment.

Aside from the radios, the cartel’s extensive weaponry alone caused GlobalPost’s Ioan Grillo to note “whether [the Zetas] should continue to be labeled as drug traffickers — or need a more martial description.” Now add a military-grade communication system built with slave labor.

It’d also be one thing if jamming the radio network or tracking down and dismantling the equipment were enough to stop it. But that might not be enough.

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Zacatecas- Elements of the 97 Battalion of the Mexican Army managed to bring down in a confrontation that began in the community of El Fuerte and ended up in the community of Francisco Garcia, 12 alleged members of organized crime.

In a military report, it was reported that the incident took place around 14:30 hours on Wednesday in the city limits of Rio Grande, 94 kilometers from the city of Zacatecas.

Also, they explained that the alleged gunmen traveling in a dirt road two kilometers from the federal highway 45, on board of several trucks, when attacked with heavy weapons to the military convoy. 

Besides the chaotic reduction, they achieved the ensuring of vehicles, ammunition, firearms, AK-47 and AR-15, as well as satellite radio equipment.

In 2012 there were three thousand executions in Coahuila, Tamaulipas and NL

Saltillo  -  Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas closed 2012 with about three thousand homicides related to organized crime and a similar number missing.

This region became the country's most violent. To cite an example, Torreón, Coahuila, replaced Ciudad Juarez as the most bloody of Mexico.  

The insecurity of the northeast poses a challenge to the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who proposed a 50 percent reduction in violent crime during their first year of administration.

Peña Nieto divided the country into five regions as part of its strategy to fight organized crime, these points will create 15 units of the new National Gendarmerie specialized to combat kidnapping, extortion and murder.

Statistics from the PGR of Coahuila says that in 2012 there were 1,123 intentional homicides which occurred statewide. This figure does not account for the month of December, as the latest current count ended with  November.

The region consists of the municipalities of Torreón, Matamoros and San Pedro de las Colonias that accounted for over a thousand of these homicides, nine percent more than last year

La Laguna is disputed by the Sinaloa cartel and "Los Zetas", and in the past two years the "drug war" provoked massacres in bars, taverns, drug rehabilitation centers and prisons.

The violence in Coahuila is compounded when considering more than 1, 400 are missing and recorded with the Deputy for Research of Missing People.

In these statistics, add dozens of people who disappeared during the first three months of 2011 in the municipalities of Allende and Nava, which are investigated by the Attorney General of Coahuila.

In Nuevo Leon, the figures of Attorney General of Nuevo Leon show that in 2011,  2003 intentional homicides were committed and up until November of  2012, homicides totaled 1,700 

Since 2010, Nuevo Leon, the most industrialized state in northern Mexico, has been the scene of the largest massacres in recent years: the 52 victims of Casino Royale, which occurred in August 2011.

In addition, 22 people died after an attack in the Bar Sabino Gordo, 44 prisoners were massacred in the Apodaca prison and 49 dismembered bodies were abandoned in the town of Cadereyta.

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Looks like La Barbie may become El Gordo.....Though I must say this does not represent the menus I know that are served in medium and low security prisons.

Mamito

Arrested on August 30, 2010, the former chief of the Beltran Leyva gunmen was held at the Criminal Altiplano maximum security prison in November of the same year, inmates food and medicines cost on average 40 pesos daily (a little over 3USD)

Since last November 20th, 2010, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, identified as "La Barbie", has remained in the Penal Altiplano maximum security prison that houses some of the most dangerous criminals in the world of drug trafficking, serving 21 various menus for the more than 800 inmates.

Salads, tea, fruits, pork in green sauce, Aztec soup, fried chicken and pizza are just some of the dishes enjoyed by prisoners as "La Barbie" Jorge Balderas, "JJ" , Osvaldo Garcia Montoya, "El Compayito" or Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, "El Mamito", recently extradited to the United States.

Food has not reached the sophistication of what these characters ate when they were free, it is richer in nutrients and reaches equilibrium of the food pyramid recommended by experts and of course that many Mexicans do not have access.

Edomex El Universal made ​​a request for access to information to the Federal Public Security Secretariat to know what kind of food is inmates eat at Altiplano prison.

For each day of the week the menu is as follows:

MONDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, egg pasilla sauce, totillas, sweet bread and jelly.
Food: Water flavor pasta soup with carrot, banana rice, pork in green sauce with zucchini, beans, tortillas, apple.
Supper: Coffee, tea, potatoes with sausage, omelets, pastries and marzipan.

TUESDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, the Mexican zucchini panela cheese and grain corn, tortillas, pastries, flan.
Food: Water flavor pasta soup with mushrooms, poblano rice, chicken fajitas, beans, tortillas and apple.
Supper: Coffee, tea, cheese Navy brown sugar and a loaf of wheat  bread with amaranth (a rice like grain).

WEDNESDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, broth tlalpeño, tortillas, pan dulce, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, cream of squash, rice with green beans, Mexican steak, beans, tortillas, plantains .
Supper: Atole (thick chocholate drink), ham sandwich with cheese, crackers .

THURSDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, smoked ham grilled turkey, salad, tortillas, pan dulce, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, pasta with carrot soup, rice with banana, pasilla pork, beans, tortillas and apple.
Supper: Coffee, tea, poblano quesadillas, green salad, fresh bread, marzipan.

FRIDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, eggs in green sauce white bread, wheat bar and flan.
Meal: Aagua flavor, chayote soup pasta, rice and corn, rosemary in mole, beans, tortillas and guava.
Supper: Coffee, tea, soy ceviche, cookies, pastries and a .

SATURDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, grilled panela cheese, beans, sweet bread, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, Aztec soup, rice with peas, Veracruz steak, beans, tortillas, melon.
Supper: coffee, tea, pizza, cookies, tamarind.

SUNDAY
Breakfast: Coffee, tea, chorizo ​​quesadilla, beans, tortillas, pastries, gelatin.
Meal: flavored water, lentil soup, rice with carrots, fried chicken, green salad , beans, tortillas and apple.
Supper: coffee, tea, eggs with ham, omelets, pastries and cookies. 


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It is alleged that the leaders of Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and 22 others are indicted in Texas for murders they didn't commit.  Their complaint says they were framed.

Editor: An email from a group representing the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, declares the innocence of particular individuals attacked during a wedding in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The wedding groom, 2 of his family members were kidnapped and found murdered. One friend was shot outside of the Church wedding. The complaint alleges the Sinola Cartel Leaders and Members have been framed.

We are choosing to publish the letter in its complete form. We have received contact from Mexican cartels in the past, but the information contained here is unusual, as follows, note that the reference to "I" is from the person representing the group of attorneys' that are representing the Sinaloa Cartel

This is a complaint for Joaquin Guzman Loera and Ismael Zambada Garcia, leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. This is a complaint for 22 other Sinaloa Cartel Members that were indicted with Ismael Zambada Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Loera. This complaint is also for Sergio Saucedo, La Linea Cartel Member.

This complaint is for Rafael Morales Valencia, Jaime Morales Valencia, Guadulupe Morales Arriola, Alonso Setelo Corral. Wedding groom and family kidnapped from a Church wedding in Ciudad Juarez Mexico. And the Bride and family members that were traumatized at the wedding, whose lives will never be the same.

This complaint is against Deputy Jesse Tovar El Paso County Sheriff, Chihuahua Govenor Cesar Duarte, President Barack Hussein Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr, Attorney General Marisela Morales, President Felipe Calderon, FBI Director Robert Mueller, DEA Administrator Michelle Leonhart, Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano...

ICE Director John Morton, Robert Pittman U.S. Attorney Western District, Joseph Arabit DEA Special Sgent in Charge El Paso Texas, Mark Morgan FBI Special Agent in Charge El Paso, ATF Special Agent in Charge Dallas Robert Champion, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State...

Stacia Hylton U.S. Marshalls Director, Ken Gonzalez U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, former Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, Ramon Eduardo Pequeno Garcia Mexican Federal Police, Police Chief Greg Allen in Texas...

Sheriff El Paso Terry Maketa, Public Safety Texas Steve McCraw, U.S. Attorney John Murphy, David Cuthbertson FBI Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Border Marfa Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jon Esparza, Richard Wiles El Paso County Sheriff, former Chihuahua Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez, Chihuahua Prosecutor Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas, Jose Reyes Baeza Terrazas.

This complaint is about the Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and 22 others indicted in Texas for murders they didn't commit. And the officials listed above knowing they didn't commit these murders. I am alleging the officials mentioned above conspired to have Rafael Morales Valencia and family and Sergio Rene Saucedo murdered so they could frame the Sinaloa Cartel.

The police suspected another cartel was responsible for the murder of Sergio Saucedo in 2009. Sergio Saucedo was murdered for a drug debt. I emailed you before and said he was stopped with the drugs by border patrol. But I am not sure of that. 4 other men were stopped with the drugs in a tractor trailer.

 I am not sure how Sergio Saucedo was involved in this drug transaction. But I do know that three men have been convicted of this kidnapping and I believe murder of Sergio Saucedo. These men were not the ones stopped with the drugs. One man Omar Obregon Ortiz received 100 months, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy. I am not sure if the conspiracy was related to the murder or drugs.

Two men, Rafael Vega and Cesar Obregon Reyes, were sentenced to life in prison, but they proclaim there innocence. I believe they are innocent. One will never know, the governments lied about the Sinaloa Cartel involvement, then they could have lied about everything related to these murders.

There were many questionable acts in the trial of these two men.

One person said they bragged at a party. Family members said they were never at a party. One of the men were living in a halfway house. There was a log signed by one of the staff that said he was at the half way house.

But the worker that signed the log said she didn't get to work until 3:30. But the log was signed at 3:00 that the young man was present. Two men in the halfway house testified that you could sneak out of the halfway house anytime.

I have never seen that in a halfway house. A cousin of one of the men alleged to have kidnapped Sergio Saucedo,was a prison detention officer. The cartel that is accused of murders of consulate members, the Juarez cartel murdered a Texas detention officer, he was the Husband of a u.s. consulate member.

Cartel members said he was murdered because he was too strict on cartel members in Texas prison. The cousin detention officer,testified that his cousin showed him a magazine with Sergio Saucedo on it and folded it and put in back in his pocket. He could of said that out of fear.

Or apart of there sick game. you don't mess with certain gang and drug dealers that law enforcement favor, they will make you pay. I know this from experience. A prosecution witness told the courts he had a vendetta against the young men.

The wife of Sergio Saucedo couldn't identify the men that were charged with the kidnapping of Sergio Saucedo. As I say, there were a lot of questionable acts at there trial. Sounds like railroading. The u.s. and Mexican government covering for the true murderers. As they have done, accusing the Sinaloa Cartel Members of murders they know they didn't commit.

The mexican and united states government said Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo was a Sinaloa Cartel Member. But they lied. There is no way a Sinaloa Cartel Member or Leader would have killed Sergio Rene Saucedo, a LaLinea Cartel Member for a drug debt owed to the La Linea or Juarez Cartel. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez gave a interview to the police that said he killed Sinaloa Cartel Members and there associates

.They were enemies. Also, Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo and Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez Juarez or La Linea Cartel leader, a reward for there capture was offered by the Chihuahua attorney general in 2009 for the massacre at Casa Aviliane rehab. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez admitted to the massacre of 18 people at Casa Aviliane.

And Federal Officer Ramon Eduardo Puqueno Garcia gave a press conference in which he states Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo was wanted for the Casa Aviliane massacre. The same massacre Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, Juarez Cartel Leader admitted he

ordered.Which means that Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo is a Juarez or La Linea Cartel Member. Sergio Saucedo is a La Linea Cartel Member. In the indictment someone alleged that Sergio Saucedo was kidnapped from Texas and taken to Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo.

This is murder, conspiracy to murder, perjury, killing in a foreign country, crime against humanity, abuse of power, cruel and unusual punishment, kidnapping, genocide, running a criminal enterprise.

We are seeking justice. We are asking that all indictments on Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and all Sinaloa Members are dismissed, in all states in the United States. The other indictments charge them with drug trafficking, they are national security assets, a title given to Sinaloa Members by the federal bureau of investigations.

We are asking the true co conspirators of these murders, U.S. and Mexican government officials are brought to justice.

The U.S. government denied Sergio Saucedo involvement with any cartel, knowing he belonged to the La Linea Cartel, because they wanted to frame the Sinaloa Cartel. This also proves a conspiracy to murder, accessory before and after the fact of murder, by the U.S. government to murder Sergio Saucedo.

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Backstory: about the Saucedo kidnapping from El Paso Times as follows:

 30-year-old Sergio Saucedo, who was taken at gunpoint from his home in the 14000 block of Desert Sunset Drive about 3:40 p.m. Sept. 3. His wife told deputies Vega was tied up with duct tape and carried out the back door.

Witnesses reported hearing a gunshot and the victim struggling and yelling for help before he was taken away in a Ford Expedition. Children on a school bus also witnessed the daytime kidnapping.

On Sept. 8, Mexican authorities found Saucedo's mutilated body in Juárez. His hands were cut off and placed on his chest.
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Saltillo., (Proceso.com.mx.) - Members of the criminal group "Los Zetas" kidnapped and executed four women and threw them in a clandestine grave in the town of San Buenaventura, Coahuila.

Moreover, the criminals held four other kidnapped victims whom they planned on killing later, reported the Attorney General of the State (PGJE).

"Staff of the Deputy of Research Missing Persons located four female bodies in a clandestine grave in San Buenaventura," said a statement from the PGJE.

The "narcofosa" was located when thanks to the navy they captured a woman first and then three members of a cell belonging to the criminal organization "Los Zetas" in the city of Monclova.

On Sunday, the elements of the navy captured Juanita Villegas Elizabeth Ibarra, "La Chave", 22, originally from San Buenaventura, who told of the location of the safe house and where they found kidnapped hostages.

Arriving at the safe house of the criminals, they were attacked with bullets. Marines were  searching the house in neighborhood of Las Flores in Monclova. In one of the bedrooms on the upper floor they found four hostages who said that criminals planned to kill them later."


In the safe house, agents "managed to rescue four people who had been held captive, exhibiting signs of torture from being tied hand and foot. They seized an arsenal of weapons for use by the Army and Air Force," added the report

Those arrested were identified as Guadalupe Reyna Martinez, Jesus Martinez Villanueva and Hugo Adam Lopez Alvarado.

"During the investigation, the accused said they had kidnapped the 4 women who had been buried in San Buenaventura."

In first statement, both Guadalupe Reyna Martinez and Jesus Martinez Villanueva reported that they took the lives of women because they belonged to an opposing group. 

The four bodies were found handcuffed "and two of them covered over the head with closed black plastic bags. Head trauma and contusions were the cause of death "

"The ages of the deceased varied between 18 and 30 years, and the time of death was within 72 hours. PGJE personnel are working on establishing the identity of the victims, "the statement said.

From the detainees were confiscated an arsenal of two fragmentation hand grenades  K-400, ovoid, olive green, with lot numbers: HWB95K605-029 and EC-89E605.

Two percussion grenades M-118, 40 mm caliber, of high explosive, olive green and gold, a type assault rifle AR-15 Rock River Arms brand, model LAR-15, 5.56 x 45 mm caliber, illegible brand (deleted ), American manufacturing, retractable stock.

A square pistol, brand Colt .38 Super, registration 29291, American manufacturing.

Also: 21 magazines up to 30 cartridges caliber 5.56 x 45 mm, 6 magazines with a capacity of 30 cartridges caliber 7.62 x 39 mm.

Also: 1,301 cartridges caliber 5.56 x 45 mm caliber cartridges 150 5.7 x 28 mm and 95 cartridges caliber 7.62 x 39 mm and two aluminum baseball bats.

"The defendants could get life imprisonment and a minimum sentence of 60 years in prison on charges of homicide, illegal deprivation of liberty and burial underground," concluded the official statement.

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El Diario/Proceso 

12-29-2012

Anabel Hernandez

Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat

During the six-year Calderon administration, and as a result of his war against drug trafficking, 25,276 persons acquired the classification of "desaparecidos" (disappeared). They are 25,276 human beings who officially are neither alive nor dead. They simply are not there. They are only statistics, but behind each of them there is a woman, a man, or a child with names, last names and families, and of whom so far nothing is known. This weekly journal gained access to the "Integrated Database of Persons not Found" (Base Integrada de Personas no Localizadas) and  the report from all the attorneys general in the country, which was presented last July 17 (2012). From an analysis of both documents comes the first official count of the "disappeared" in Mexico, a phenomenon that is part of the inheritance that, like it or not, the government of Enrique Pena Nieto received and must confront.

Distrito Federal (Proceso).-- Disappeared Person No. 2,586: Martha Teresa Chacon Corral. Housewife born in Durango, Durango; 1.70 meters (5'7") tall, medium build, medium dark skin, wavy brown hair, has some facial discoloration.  On February 14, 2011, after 5:00 p.m.,she was with her son, Jose Angel Martinez Chacon, in her home, when two men entered all the way into the ironing room, where Martha Teresa was, and took her. She was wearing blue jeans, cap, grey T-shirt with blue sleeves, pink felt boots and a pink sweatshirt. Since then, her whereabouts are not known.

Disappeared Person No. 15,822: Newborn male whose parents did not have time to register. March 33, 2007, in Ciudad Madero, Tamaulipas, disappeared. The report was filed that same day.

Case No. 22,889: Juan Antonio Mota Macias, 28 years old. Commander of a Zacatecas corrections facility (Centro de Readaptacion Social). On March 11, 2010, at 1:30 in the afternoon he was in his home in the town of Trancoso, Zacatecas, with his wife and son, when a group of armed men came into his house and took him. He was wearing underwear only and was barefoot. At this time, his whereabouts are unknown.

Brothers Gerardo and Eduardo Bahena Cabrera are numbers 2,728 and 2,739 on the list. The first was 29 years old and the second, 26. Members of the Armed Navy (Marines), they disappeared on January 1, 2010, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and nothing is known about them since.

Numbers in the shadow

All are part of the list of persons who disappeared in Mexico during Felipe Calderon's war against drug trafficking, and they are in a report drafted by the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and the justice departments of all the states and the Distrito Federal. They are simply some of the thousands of women, men, children and babies that during six years appear to have vanished on a highway, a military road block, in their homes, on the way to grocery store or simply out walking.

While the government of Enrique Pena Nieto and local authorities have remained silent regarding the list of persons who disappeared in Mexico from December, 2006, to July, 2012, Proceso obtained access to the  "Integrated Database of Persons not Found" and to the most recent report created by the PGR and the attorneys general of 32 states and the Federal District (Distrito Federal) that was presented July 17 (2012) at the Interior Ministry  (Secretaria de Gobernacion).

The database and the report jointly reflect the horror of the "desaparecidos" in Mexico. The integrated database, updated to February, 2012, contains 20,851 cases, but the report presented on July 17 states that the number of disappeared persons reached 25,276. On Tuesday, December 18, Proceso had access to the documents and analyzed the statistics and facts. This is the first information about the Calderon's government human disaster.

According to the investigation and the official documents that  were accessed, the "Integrated Database of Persons not Found" and the attorneys general report presented on July 17, 2012, at the Interior Ministry was prepared and organized by personnel at the PGR's Planning , Analysis and Information Center against Crime (Cenapi; Centro de Planeacion, Analisis e Informacion para el Combate a la Delincuencia). Cenapi gathered and organized the information provided by the state attorneys general.

Each disappeared person was assigned a number, the date, state, township or police station and town where the disappearance took place were noted, and the date of each particular report. The name of the disappeared person was noted, along with the age, gender, occupation, nationality and aliases, if this was known. The report also details whether there are photographs of the person.

Also, there was a section where their physical and health characteristics were described, as well as the registration of any vehicle the person may have been traveling on and a brief description of the incident. Finally, it was thought advisable to also include data about the relative who reported the disappearance.

On reviewing the data, one can see that not all the states include the same degree of detail in the information about the victims. Some states provided very vague information.

 

The numbers in the database only reflect those disappeared persons for whom there was a report made or police complaint filed. Disappearances not reported (to the authorities) are not included, as in the case, for example, of undocumented immigrants that cross Mexican territory on their way to the United States.

Through the National Commission for Human Rights (Comision Nacional de los Derechos Humanos) it is known that there are hundreds or thousands more cases.

In addition to the reports provided by local authorities, Cenapi added information from the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN; Centro de Investigacion y Seguridad Nacional), according to the documents that were reviewed for this article.

The integrated database contains just one case from 2005, which was not reported until 2006, without specifying the date; there's also a report from August, 2006), but the rest involves persons who disappeared between December 1, 2006, and February, 2012. The figure of 20,851 (disappeared) persons was obtained from this document.

According to official documents that Proceso has, on May 24 and 25, during the XXVII Ordinary Session of the Plenary Meeting of the National Conference on Procurement of Justice (XXVII Sesion Ordinaria de la Asamblea Plenaria de la Conferencia Nacional de Procuracion de Justicia) in Monterrey, the PGR and the state prosecutors agreed to complement and finalize the reports in the database no later than June 5, 2012, and to develop a permanent method for amplifying, updating and validating the information.

In that session, it was also agreed that, in order to comply with the requirements in the decree by which the Law for the National Registry of Facts on Lost or Disappeared Persons (Ley del Registro Nacional de Datos de Personas Extraviadas o Desaparecidas) was promulgated, information referring to the "general facts about persons not located" should be forwarded to the National System of Public Security.

According to the document, of which Proceso has a copy, "towards that end, on June 13, the PGR/Cenapi and the National Information Center of the National System of Public Security began to work on a project proposal, taking into consideration the structure of the database required and the legal document upon which to base the corresponding exchange of information, in order to comply with the referenced law."

As far as can be determined, the intent was to make the numbers public. But it didn't happen that way.

The numbers increased noticeably in the reports provided by the state attorneys general and Cenapi personnel began to clean up the list to determine how many of the disappeared persons had already been found, dead or alive, so they could have a figure that was closer to reality. 

The numbers were overwhelming. No government was safe, except the Nayarit government, which reported zero disappearances. All of them, including the federal government, maintained silence on the numbers.

On July 17, 2012, in the third national meeting of the Executive Secretaries of the state public security systems or councils at the Interior Ministry, a report was presented on the progress on the Collaboration Agreement for the Unification, Integration and Exchange of Information on the Matter of Persons not Found (Convenio de Colaboracion para la Unificacion, Integracion e Intercambio de Informacion en Materia de Personas no Localizadas).

The gross number of disappeared persons was 29,386, but it was cleaned up: 3,895 persons were found alive and 215 were found dead. The final number was 25,276. This report is not as detailed as the database, but is instead a summary, updated up to the day of the meeting, of the number of persons whose disappearance was confirmed.

Cenapi personnel had in their possession the database and the report was released by then-Attorney General Marisela Morales days before the Calderon administration ended. The former public servants have expressed fear that the information on disappeared persons was erased from the PGR archives, but they point out the National Public Security System and the state governments also have (the information), but have chosen to remain silent.

Presumably, this is the reason that they leaked part of the information to the Washington Post and another part to the Investigation and Training Center Civic Proposal (Centro de Investigacion y Capacitacion Propuesta Civica). The complete information was provided to this reporter on Tuesday, December 18.

 

2011 and the DF, the worst

From December, 2006, to July, 2012, the year with the greatest number of disappeared persons was 2011. According to the report from the state attorneys general, the number was 8,977; that was the year that had the most murders in the Calderon war against drug trafficking. In February of 2012, the PGR officially admitted to a figure of 12,903 deaths in executions or confrontations between organized crime groups.

From confrontations between criminal organizations,  48 persons a day were murdered and 24 (per day) disappeared, on average.

The year with the second highest number of  disappeared persons was 2010, with 7,246. It was also the second most violent year in the six year administration, with almost 11,500 murders by organized crime, according to tallies from several sources. The states in which there appeared to be less explicit  violence were the ones with the most disappearances.

According to the report presented on July 17, the entity with the most disappeared persons was the Federal District (Distrito Federal), with 9,268 cases, 36% of the 25,276 disappeared persons in the entire country.

(Anabel Hernandez/Proceso)

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Saltillo. - The commander of the South Delegation of the Municipal Police, César García Guevara, was killed in the line of duty in the early hours of Friday after being shot by a group of armed men in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

It was reported that at 0:38 hours, while on patrol duty in his official car, a Chevrolet Captiva  no.11208, the chief was attacked and killed by unknown gunmen at the intersection of Division and Rios in the southern sector of the city. 

As a result of the shooting, the commanding officer lost control of the police vehicle and impacted over the back of a parked Ford Model 79 truck.

 The officer was shot in the head and the body with various firearm projectiles in what  appeared to the naked eye to be the same that instantly took his life.

The Chief of Police of Saltillo, Yáñez Clemente Carrillo confirmed to Radio Zócalo the assassination of Caesar Eleazar Garcia Guevara commander, 39 years old, who early Friday was riddled with 12 shots from a high caliber weapon.

It was reported earliest at 12:38, when a witness at the scene took the dead commander's radio and used it to notify the base of his death. Immediately police moved to the scene at Division  and Rios Streets in neighborhood Buenos Aires where Garcia Guevara  was found dead aboard his Chevrolet Captiva patrol car.  The officer was hit by shots from persons in a gray Dodge car.  According to the witness, the shooters fired first into the back of the commander's vehicle, which swerved to the right of driver, and hit a parked truck and he was dead instantly," said the official.

Yanez Carrillo called the fallen Commander as an honest cop, courageous, with a very great future vocation with law enforcement. He had 13 years of service within the corporation. The fallen commander is survived by his parents, his wife and two small children.

Press Chief Confirms the criminal act against the municipal police 
Press Chief Confirms the criminal attack against the municipal police 

In the morning broadcast of Radio Zócalo Saltillo, the CP Francisco Juaristi contacted the press chief of the municipal police, Patricia Moreno, confirming the fact and location where the commander of the South Delegation, Cesar Garcia Guevara, was killed.
Moreno explained that around 1:00  on División del Norte, in the neighborhood of  Buenos Aires,  a police car on a routine neighborhood patrol was violently attacked. Garcia Guevara was traveling alone and died alone aboard his patrol vehicle.

For now, they haven't ascertained the identity or number of armed individuals who assaulted the officer. As of yet they have no details on the size of the bullets that took the life of the commander, except according to the authorities of the fourth group of Homicide Attorney General of the State, they found shell casings of high caliber at the scene. The investigations are proceeding.


Patricia Moreno said that Cesar Garcia Guevara had risen through the ranks of the police to become a commander of  the Southern Command Delegation, indicating he was the one who had previously personally informed families of slain officers on duty to fact that their funerals would have to be held privately for security reasons as well as for the tranquility of the bereaved.


They have had at least Five Chiefs of Police killed in Saltillo
The Chief of Police in Saltillo Yáñez Clemente Carrillo recounted fallen cops along the years and said there has been more than five, including Commander Marcial Barron, Captain Ignacio Meza, the official Reyna Barajas Munguia, Elisa Ugalde Maribel Torres and the latter, Commander Eleazar Cesar Garcia Guevara.

The prosecutor of Common Law, Rafael Martinez de la Rosa, verified the violent crime and ordered the the removal of the body and arranged transportation to the Medical Examiner for the autopsy.

Source: Zocolo,

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This is a recap that concentrates on Saltillo the capital, though events from other cities are included it does not capture the reality of the rampant violence of Piedras and Torreon.

 

 

 

The escape of 129 prisoners from the prison of Piedras Negras, the execution of Jose Eduardo Moreira, son of former Gov. Humberto Moreira, the killing of Heriberto Lazcano, the leader of the Zetas cartel, and the execution of electoral officer Nathaniel Rivera have been security events that have recapped the first years of Ruben Moreira as state governor.

In his campaign platform, Moreira made it clear that security would be one of the hallmarks of his administration, with the phrase "I'll handle security."

Here is an account of the violence  that have occurred in the state during the first year in office Moreira.

DECEMBER 2011  

 The first month of the current administration had no respite or any influence because it was the Christmas season. In December attacks continued in the bars and clubs of  Torreon  Also  there was a killing of a policeman chief  and his stepson in Saltillo, and the kidnapping of seven Police graduates.
 

[number signifies date]
 

3 Organized crime "welcomes" the new administration with an attack on bar "La Barra" of Torreon, where three people died.  

5 The municipal police chief  of Saltillo, Emmanuel Almaguer Perez and his stepson , are executed  while in their  vehicle.

7 Three men aged between 20 and 30 years old were gunned down in Vista Hermosa, in Saltillo.

9  Seven Coahuila police graduates are kidnapped, which unleashes a confrontation where two people are rescued and one dies.

13  Serafin Pena Santos, director of Cereso of Saltillo, is killed by eight bullets in front of a technical secondary University Avenue.

23  The municipal police  Gilberto Escobedo was kidnapped but later found 

 

good guys are really the bad guys



Eduardo "Lalo" Moreira

 

JANUARY 2012

The first month of 2012 shocked the city Saltillenses because it presented the first "hanging", common in cities like Monterrey and Torreon.

16 The director of Women Cereso [prison], Silvia Parra Perez of Saltillo, is ambushed and kidnapped in the morning by armed men.  later released.

18 Appears the first hanging in Saltillo. The body of Joel Espinosa Luis Sosa is found in the MDV,  after being executed and hung on that structure.

FEBRUARY

The month of "love and friendship" was not so, and was characterized by the killing of police and elements involved in drug trafficking.

4 The elements of Alfredo Peralta Police Investigating Oscar Ramirez and Jesus Ontiveros are riddled in Torreon.

14 Arturo Alvarez Andrade, police chief of Saltillo, was killed by three bullets in Saltillo outside his home in Lomas de Guadalupe.

16 After the capture of federal and state control by the PGR, an armed group attacked and killed Jorge Bazaldua, the trusted  Tobias Sergio Salas, is one of the state officials arrested, allegedly for his links drug trafficking.

APRIL 

During April, a zeta leader is arrested in  Saltillo, causing  violence to break out   including that massive shootout at the  building of the PGR, which injured three federal agents.

1 Three bodies of women are found in a clandestine grave in the ejido .

28 José Alberto González Xalate, "El Paisa", whom federal authorities identified as a member of Los Zetas is arrested, a fact that triggers a series of shootings in Saltillo.

29  Aboard two Humvees,  a heavily armed commando attacked and  shot the building of sub Attorney General's Office in Saltillo, injuring three federal agents and a civilian passing by.

JUNE

During the summer of this year, the shootings are intensified in Saltillo. In June it became necessary to shut down schools and close shops for the security of people.

3 A total of 11 dead and over 10 wounded by gunfire was the aftermath of  the shooting attack by a command at the rehabilitation center  located in Ejido La Union in the rural area of ​​Torreón.

22 On this day occurred one of the most violent days in Saltillo, and chases after clashes throughout the day between gunmen and authorities, there was a total  of nine people killed: eight criminals, one civilian and three state troopers injured.

9  Zocalo reporter Saltillan Stephania Cardoso and her little son are kidnapped after attending a party. Days later she speaks  through social networks ensures that all right, but still in danger. [some doubts on this story]

JULY

These days, a shootout in middle of the night woke from their dreams to Saltillo.

5  A confrontation in Saltillo left a toll of four dead suspects, three soldiers injured and a woman traveling in the same vehicle as the attackers. The facts were reported around 3:32 am on crossing of Boulevards Luis Echeverria and Miguel Hidalgo.

AUGUST 

Shocking was meeting in Saltillo was a safe house where organized crime guarding hostages, even from other cities, including Monterrey.

9  Ten kidnap victims were freed and five suspects, including 16-year-old arrested in Saltillo, during a raid by federal police.

28  Three adults and a child are executed by a command inside a garage and car wash.

SEPTEMBER 

The now famous flight of dozens of inmates Cereso of Piedras Negras,

11 The municipal police in  Reyna Barajas,  assigned to the Coordination of alcohol, and Maribel Ugalde, the Police Special Unit for the Investigation of Family Violence, are found executed with bullets to the head on the highway Saltillo- Torreón.

17  In the largest mass escape in memory, 129 inmates escaped from Cereso of Piedras Negras.

18  Ignacio Meza Rueda, deputy director of the Municipal Police of Saltillo, is ambushed and executed in the MDV.

19  One dead, two injured are the casualties  of an assault of a commando into the restaurant "The Frigate"

 

 

Lazca

OCTOBER

Perhaps most shocking month: Jose Eduardo Moreira is executed, son of former Gov. Humberto Moreira, in an alleged "narcovenganza" in which police were involved in  Acuña. Also killed Heriberto Lazcano, top leader of the Zetas.

2  In a Piedras Negras clash between authorities and criminals, is killed Alejandro Chavez Trevino, nephew of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the second Zeta leader.

3 Jose Eduardo Moreira, son of former Gov. Humberto Moreira, Acuña is executed in revenge for the GATES killing of Alejandro Chavez Trevino.

7 In a confrontation in Progresso,  killed by elements of the Navy is  Heriberto Lazcano, top leader of Los Zetas.

12  Elements of the Federal Police arrested three men and rescued a person deprived of liberty  during a raid in Torreon.

NOVEMBER

The continued violence claiming the lives of security personnel, in this case a member of GROMS.

3  10 people are killed in Torreon in two different events. Six killed   when a commando broke into a ritual of Santa Muerte and four more to be found inside a car,  two couples dismembered.

5  After a series of clashes in Piedras Negras, six criminals are killed by federal forces, disrupting classes for 2000 students. That same day, in Saltillo, a narcomanta created panic by appearing in the MDV.

8   Omar Juarez, "The Peluso" Saltillo plaza boss of Los Zetas, is captured by the Navy of Mexico.

10  A local group element GROMS dies after chase and confrontation with criminals in the Metropolitan Park.


22. Military troops a property located five kilometers from the bypass  Berrueto Eliseo Mendoza,  where there were half-buried human remains.

24  Four people were executed inside a taxi were located on a road near the boundaries between Piedras Negras and Zaragoza.

28  In Saltillo, GROMS elements fought gun battles against a group of criminals, four killed 

DECEMBER

The 2012 violent closes December 1. The kidnapping and execution of Nathaniel Rivera and the appearance of 4 "hanging" in the MDV.  highlighted  the news this month.

1 During the first hours of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto and even before he received the presidential sash, a group of thugs appeared in Saltillo with attacks on government installations and the Institutional Revolutionary Party building. Through a statement, warning that it was the "first phase" of their conflict.

3  An ambush on  PGJE officers left  an officer dead and seriously injured  another in Jupiter Street North  in Saltillo.

7  The dawn of this day are four bodies hanging in Megadistribuidor. According to early investigations, this act would be part of a clash between two rival gangs of organized crime.

8  The execution of  a mining entrepreneur in the Carboniferous Region of Coahuila.

12 It is revealed that kidnappers are members of the PAN in Coahuila, some of them identified as Guillermo Anaya team.

17 In El Ejido Guadalupe Victoria, in Saltillo, are found the bodies of six people executed.

18  They confirm that Nathaniel Rivera, executive secretary of the IEPC, is among the six people found tortured and executed in Ejido Guadalupe Victoria.

27  Five children escape the Juvenile Detention Center in the Bellavista neighborhood, after beating guards, also  find in  Viesca six bodies.

28  Cesar Garcia Guevara, element Municipal Preventive Police, was killed from  15 shots in the Buenos Aires colonia of Saltillo.
 

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