They are active in more than one thousand American cities. He has been in detention since his arrest in Texas in 2015. You stay inside, and you put three or four locks on the door. … The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
The pace of drug-related violence is quickening. As for the Zetas, it wasn't hard for them to identify who within the cartel may have betrayed them since very few people had access to their PIN numbers. "The garbage that terrorized this beautiful city. Its modus operandi is to be more ostentatiously violent than anyone else around. How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico. "So they kill each other, they can do whatever they want, but the public, why are we to blame? Sons have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. "Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord has spoken. The video then skips to an image of his headless body. Many of the dead made their living in the drug trade and perished in a larger struggle for territory between a federation of cartels based in Sinaloa, on the Pacific Ocean, and the Gulf Cartel from the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, federal prosecutors say.
Mendoza couldn't be located, either. He then walked 14 miles for help. Torn apart: shoes, wedding invitations, medications, television sets, toys. When someone faces their imminent death they are who they are. Initial investigations suggested a squad of gunmen from the La Linea gang had set up the ambush to kill members of the rival cartel. The men are herded into a group and surrounded by smirking, laughing cartel members. They will saw off his arms and fingers if he stole drugs and cash. They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Being a decades-old and very successful criminal group, the Sinaloa Cartel's self-presentation is one of buttoned-down criminals whose oppressive rule comes with predictability and some level of moderation. How the Sinaloa Cartel rules. It is unclear who Ostion is. The brutal public killings that began about five years ago have worsened as Mexican drug cartels try to outdo each other in their quest to scare off rivals, authorities and would-be informers - and still stun Mexicans increasingly numbed to the gory spectacles. He is then beheaded. "There is fighting between groups there, " López Obrador said of the area around the village of Onavas, where the attack occurred. The Gulf cartel has been operating out of Tamaulipas state since the 1970s.
In short, in addition to moderating violence and extortion, the Sinaloa Cartel also provides other forms of regulations, and is effective in enforcing the rules it chooses to promote or adopt. The DEA takes credit for the captures but won't say what, if anything, it did to investigate how the information about the PIN numbers wound up in the hands of the Zetas. Mexican beheadings: Gulf drug cartel members decapitate rival Zetas during HORRIFIC 3 minute video –. At least 123 law enforcement officials, among them 2 judges and 3 prosecutors, have been gunned down or tortured to death. In my subsequent OpEd, on CJNG I continue to analyze the differences among the two cartels, such as in their approach to elections and international relations. Last February, inmates at a state prison in Apodaca rioted and broke free. June is on pace to be among the bloodiest months yet.
On my earlier trips, such as in Chiapas in 2013, I equally heard from local people and journalists about the Sinaloa Cartel suppressing petty criminality –thus obtaining political capital among local people. In early May, he told his wife that he had heard on the street that gunmen were looking for him. Rivals, took control of critical government agencies, turned local police into their henchmen and transformed the region into a haven for all kinds of criminality. Read a message opening the five-minute video posted on Friday. "So you will learn to respect, " said a red note next to them. Rodriguez said almost all the 57, 000 WhatsApp messages he received about his idea were supportive of it. Moderation of violence and being reasonable about extortion rates have been two elements of Sinaloa's acceptability to those who have to endure its rule. The phones to his right-hand man, Héctor Moreno. Mexican cartel cuts head off with chainsaw. America's appetite for drugs is the result of a spiritual sickness. Teloloapan is in the Tierra Caliente region of Guerrero, where the La Familia cartel and its offshoot, Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar), are fighting for territory. I mean the following with all due respect) It's like when you find your animal dead in the middle of the street.
He said the cartels were using Al Qaeda's methods to pressure the government to halt its crackdown against drug traffickers, which had fractured many of the gangs. In Iraqi videos, however, the aggressors use knives to cut off their victims heads. A sign next to his body read: "For playing with two bands. In contrast, as I will detail in my subsequent oped in two weeks, CJNG often merely taxes all local actors, without, at least initially, seeking full control across the entire vertical chain. In a 2009 prison break, security cameras caught 53 prisoners belonging to Los Zetas literally strolling from prison as the guards stood by and watched. The only hitch is that all the drug gangs have taken up beheadings. Mexican cartel cutting off headsets. A high-level Zetas operative to hand over the trackable cellphone identification numbers for two of the cartel's most wanted kingpins, Miguel Ángel Treviño and his brother Omar. This story was originally published April 01, 2010 4:20 PM. That was four years ago. MORE FROM MCCLATCHY. For years after the massacre, Mexican authorities made only desultory efforts to investigate. The elderly are promptly executed, shot in the head in full view of the onlookers. On Tuesday, assailants opened fire on two trucks carrying workers from the state-owned electrical power company on a highway.
Some cartels kill so many victims that they have a department devoted to corpse removal. Fearing for his safety, he asked to have his identity kept secret. The study found that 17 million people abuse marijuana, an increase of about 7 percent since 2007. The cartels are fearless and have no regard for authority. Cartel cuts off womans head. In 2005, a homemade DVD purporting to show four Zeta hit men being beaten and interrogated, and one of them being shot in the head, was sent anonymously to the Kitsap Sun, a newspaper in Bremerton, Wash. Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero blamed it on disputes between drug gangs and asked them to stop the violence. The two other Zetas prisoners are not shown. Her head had been sawed off her body. Whichever drug cartel is ascendant in any given region appears to exercise far more power than the Mexican government in those institutions" (National Interest, March 5; emphasis added throughout). The 34-year-old, known as "Chano", was a regional boss in the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras. Attorney Ernest Gonzalez determined that El Diablo was.
It shared the intelligence with a Mexican federal police unit that has long had problems with leaks — even though its members had been trained and vetted by the DEA. In one, police had found $802, 000, vacuum-packed and hidden in the. A businessman in Baja California Sur, for example, told me in November 2021: "Most of the big hotels in Cabo [San Lucas] pay Sinaloa.