Cartel Violence near Schools Not a Reason to Skip Class, Says Mexican Education Official
MATAMOROS, Tamaulipas — Education officials in the border cities of this state minimized the cartel violence experienced by local residents as convoys of gunmen fight in armored SUVs with machine guns and grenade launchers near schools.
After weeks of violent clashes amid rival cells of the Gulf Cartel, various schools in Reynosa and Rio Bravo closed after various gun battles occured near campuses and the father of a middle school student was hit by a stray bullet. As Breitbart Texas reported, the violence is tied to rival factions of the Gulf Cartel for control of lucrative drug trafficking routes.
However, Maria Elena Flores Montalvo, the head of the Center for Regional Educational Development (Crede) in Matamoros, minimized the situation–claiming that the lack of security conditions is no reason for students or teachers to miss school.
“When there are violent cases, these take place outside of education buildings, therefore it is not a factor for anyone to stop going to school,” Flores said.
The state official claimed that teachers know what to do in the case of an emergency, so students and teachers can attend classes without incident.
Despite the comments made by Flores, substantial absences in Reynosa and Rio Bravo were reported.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “J.A. Espinoza” from Tamaulipas.
Mark Levin: ‘There Is a Big, Ugly Side to Illegal Immigration’
Thursday on Levin TV, nationally syndicated radio show host Mark Levin warned about the dangers of illegal immigration saying, “There is a big, ugly side of illegal immigration,” Levin said. “There’s all kinds of crimes being committed by people who aren’t supposed to be here.”
42 Texas-Bound Tourists Robbed at Gunpoint by Mexican Cartel Gunmen
A passenger bus was shot at and carjacked in the border state of Coahuila while en route to McAllen, Texas.
Federal police sources revealed to Breitbart Texas that the robbery took place along the highway that connects the city of Torreon with Saltillo near the community of Parras. A team of gunmen fired at the bus to force it to stop so they could rob the 42 passengers on board.
A team of 10 managed to act with complete impunity as they robbed the passengers at gunpoint taking cash, jewelry, cell phones and important documents such as passports and visas.
The group of tourists left the Mexican state of Durango and were en route to the border city of McAllen, Texas, on a shopping trip. According to El Siglo de Durango, no injuries were reported.
Federal authorities carried out a search operation to locate the gunmen but no arrests were made.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Tony Aranda from Nuevo Leon and “J.M. Martinez” from Coahuila.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
Inside a neighborhood scarred by drugs and
despair: Life on the tough streets of Pablo
Escobar's hometown where drug addicts and
prostitutes struggle to survive
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456016/Streets-scarred-drugs-despair-Pablo-Escobars-hometown.html#ixzz4x1Biu8LV
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THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives
of American citizens are the Mexican drug
cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
"An important factor in our long-term
success requires securing our borders,"
Attorney General Sessions said.
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
THE MEXICAN HEROIN AND OPIOID CARTELS NOW OPERATE OUT OF ALL AMERICAN CITIES.
BELOW ARE IMAGES OF WHAT YOUR COMMUNITY WILL SOON LOOK LIKE AS MEXICO CONTINUES TO EXPAND THEIR INVASION, OCCUPATION AND LOOTING.
JUDICIAL WATCH:
“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”
“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH
"An important factor in our long-term
success requires securing our borders,"
Attorney General Sessions said.
THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO
Inside a neighborhood scarred by drugs and
despair: Life on the tough streets of Pablo
Escobar's hometown where drug addicts and
prostitutes struggle to survive
12 October 2013
It is one of Colombia's most dangerous neighborhoods, a crowded and dilapidated crush of drug dealers, prostitutes and the homeless fight for survival.
But despite the poverty and despair of Barrio Triste - Sad Neighborhood - photographer Juan Arredondo found glimmers of hope among the people who call it home.
For three years, the 35-year-old photographer has documented life in Medellín, once the most dangerous city in the world, where drug lords and paramilitary groups fight for power.
Survival: A homeless man cooks over an open fire made from bits of wood found on the street
Addicts: Hugo, 33, is one of many drug users who gather in deserted warehouses to smoke crack
Trade: The neighborhood has become a place to trade drugs
Refuge: A sex worker holds her daughter as she makes their meal in a rented hotel room
He became fascinated with Barrio Triste after meeting a mother-of-four who sought refuge in the neighborhood after a paramilitary group killed her husband.
As Medellín, the hometown of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, cleaned up its act, Barrio Triste remained a battleground for other dealers.
It was once named the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but now mechanics and sex workers trade on its grease-stained streets, and turn to paramilitary group Los Convivir for protection.
But despite the poverty and crime, Arredondo remains optimistic for its future.
'Barrio Triste serves a window to the violent past that once plagued the city of Medellín. It reminds me of a past I left behind and the hardship the citizens of this city and this country have endured over many years,' he said.
Tragedy: A family say goodbye to a child placed in a tiny coffin
Oppressive: It make look uninviting but hotel Rest Stop of the Traveler offers cheap shelter to those displaced by violence
Despair: Orejas, 21, has been living on the streets of Barrio Triste since running away when he was 12
Displaced: With nowhere else to go, this drunk is forced to sleep on the sidewalk
Faith: A cathedral dominates the dilapidated neighborhood
Icon: A painting of Sacred Heart of Jesus, the old name of the town, hangs in a workshop
Worn: Pieces of metal and wire from the mechanics' shops are encrusted in the sidewalk
Savior: A large painting of Jesus is carried through the bustling streets
Down time: Workers play parqu during an afternoon break
Boxed in: A framed photo of a wedding day hangs on the flimsy walls of this man's hut
Home: Carmen Salgado, 67, has been living is this room for 17 years. She pays $6.50 a day in rent
Trapped: A pregnant woman smokes marijuana from the back yard of a repair shop
Hardship: A man who has lost both hands and one leg showers in the ruins of a house
Crowded: Laundry hangs over the bed in a tiny room shared by this family
Cramped: Eight-year-old Jenny shares this rented room with her four brothers, mother and step-father
Comfort: A mother hugs one of her children in their tiny home
Motor city: By day mechanics and car workshops are the main trade
Homeless: Men bathe in the streets among street vendors and traffic
Break: A mechanic rests inside a bus to escape the heat of the afternoon
Pit stop: A worker rests in a local bar in Barrio Triste
Celebration: A pig is slaughtered for a traditional New Year's Eve party
Deprived: Homeless teenagers gather in a sewage tunnel that runs under the neighborhood
Youthful: Despite the despair, children still play happily on a rooftop
Grime: Workers repair vending carts on the street
Broken: Barrio Triste lives up to its name as Sad Neighborhood but Juan Arredondo says there is
hope
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police and soldiers have discovered two tunnels in the border city of Tijuana that lead into California.
The tunnels were found in an area of warehouses across from Otay Mesa.
Prosecutors said Monday that one of the tunnels reached to San Diego, California, and the other was unfinished.
The Attorney General's Office said the tunnels were apparently used by the Sinaloa drug cartel to move drugs into the United States.
It said it found the tunnels after the U.S. consulate in Tijuana determined the tunnels were being reactivated after apparently falling into disuse.
A 15-year-old Mexican boy driving a minivan near the Texas-Mexico border was arrested Thursday for attempting to transport $1.1 million worth of marijuana into the United States, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release issued Monday. Border Patrol agents working near the Harlingen Station in the Rio Grande Valley on Thursday morning witnessed large bundles being loaded into a red minivan. The agents followed the van until the driver pulled over, jumped out of the car and ran away. Agents successfully chased down the driver. An inspection of the van yielded 1,380 pounds of marijuana, which have an estimated U.S. street value of more than $1 million, according to the release. This is a prime example of how transnational criminal organizations are exploiting the youth. These young lives are deliberately put in danger for the profit of smuggling drugs and immigrants, chief patrol agent Manuel Padilla Jr. said in a statement. We continue to work with the community by presenting to local schools warning our children of the outcomes of working for these organizations, not only by potentially facing prison time, but also death.
Nearing the Falls in America’s Drug Crisis
Never before in American history has our country faced a drug abuse, drug crime, and drug overdose crisis of the magnitude now confronting our society. Last week, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that more than 50,000 Americans last year died from drug overdoses. That is a surge of death around us.
To be specific, we just saw an 11% jump, in one year, to 52,404 drug-related deaths. By comparison, 37,757 died in car crashes, an increase of 12%. Gun deaths, including homicides and suicides, totaled 36,252, a jump of 7%. Here is the kicker: law enforcement would confirm that many of car and gun deaths go right back to the drug crisis. What is becoming of us?
Reactions have been interesting, and somewhat revolting. Dismissive comments have ranged from indifference (“who cares?”) and blaming the enormous jump in drug-related deaths -- another during Obama’s tenure -- on the dead, most of whom are young -- to “must be criminals,” move along. The implication, of course, is that we need not care.
Finally, some take the perverse position that we should shrug and concede. If legalization brings this pain, brace for ramped-up overdoses, drugged driving, domestic abuse, and drug-related crime. Or they indulge the parallel delusion -- these are “voluntary” deaths, just suicides and addicts indulging to death in “recreation.” What addled brain takes this low road?
These reactions, top to bottom, are horrific -- a dangerous variant of mob behavior and cognitive dissonance. Taken from a distance, having seen the tragic rise over the past eight years, a larger tragedy is afoot. What is that? Dulling public reaction to these mounting young deaths. If there are 50,000 dead young people -- starting with high-potency marijuana, ending dead on opiates, heroin, cocaine, and other synthetics -- there must be tens of millions of Americans content to ignore the tragedy at their doorstep.
Historical comparisons are difficult, but also foreboding. No society long endures knowing escalation of preventable, intentional death of innocents -- right in its midst. To be clear: If we look the other way, we are also complicit in the crime. Edmund Burke said it, and worth memorizing: All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. What to do? Start caring, learning, understanding and speaking up -- against this accelerating tragedy.
There are those actually promoting this turn of events. They advance the escalation of drug-related deaths by billing smoked marijuana as “medicine” or “recreation” -- the line grows blurry. And the pernicious fiction that opiate, heroin, cocaine, and synthetic addictions are not being properly “managed.” And the grotesque fiction that addiction is harmless. Note: ask the family of any addict, or those hundred thousand parents who just lost a child last year, or the sister who lost her brother, teacher who lost another student. No, this is not a victimless crime.
How did we get here? How do we shake this growing seduction, societal indifference, heartlessness toward the young, disrespect for scientific facts and law -- where law embodies the society’s moral norms, public health, and public safety?
Can you not hear the distant sound of falls, hear the roar growing? In my youth, we spent time in the great outdoors, often in canoes, sometimes on rivers. The sound of waterfalls, which can come up fast, got quick respect. You got off the river. Reason was simple: If you ignore reality, comes a point of irreversibility, that fateful point of no return. Societies can also face such a point.
Today, as numbers go exponential in many drug categories, gangs and drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) penetrate formerly safe cities along with rural America. Homicides track spreading DTOs, explaining spikes in heroin deaths and homicides in places like Chicago and Baltimore. Yet, still we look away. We refuse to hear the falls.
Some states, even in the last election, sold the idea that profiting from our collective moral indifference, from knowing encouragement of early death for children, irretrievable heartbreak of parents, grandparents, siblings, friends, and teachers, is or should be acceptable. It should not be. They imagine that tax dollars will offset the human pain of state-sponsored drug abuse, addiction, and death. They are wrong.
Crime is not made right by plebiscite. Nor by believing bad things will happen, but not to you -- so they should be allowed. Or that legal crime is just an experiment, reversible, like addiction -- only neither easily are. Or that addictive potency can be ignored -- imagining drugs are beer. Or that drugged driving is not so bad -- until the car opposite crosses into your lane. In a flash -- you are at the falls. Like the child who did not want to die, misled by public officials.
Be alert. The intertwined tragedy -- rising death numbers and public indifference -- are growing, not shrinking. A president who demoted his top official battling addiction and drug crime to sub-cabinet rank told us a lot. A president -- and members of Congress, and even governors -- who laughs at marijuana and cocaine use, tell us a lot. They do not know the families, clinics, ERs, trapped children, trapped adults, law enforcement and civilian funerals. They do not know what they are saying or doing to America.
Time now to reverse this public and official indifference, and reverse these fictions. Major categories of drug abuse have doubled or worse within the past ten years. This trajectory is not sustainable, and does not bring self-respect, peace, health, public safety, lawful behavior -- or restore the identity Americans should want. A new Congress and the Trump team have a chance to get out of this right -- get out of this current, avoid the falls, reverse the crisis. No one has to be brilliant. They just have to -- we just have to -- care. It is about time, isn’t it? Can you hear the falls?
Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement under George W. Bush, former Naval Intelligence Officer and litigator, who served in the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses. He wrote the book Narcotics and Terrorism, and writes widely on national security and law.
Inside a neighborhood scarred by drugs and despair: Life on the tough streets of Pablo Escobar's hometown where drug addicts and prostitutes struggle to survive
It is one of Colombia's most dangerous neighborhoods, a crowded and dilapidated crush of drug dealers, prostitutes and the homeless fight for survival.
But despite the poverty and despair of Barrio Triste - Sad Neighborhood - photographer Juan Arredondo found glimmers of hope among the people who call it home.
For three years, the 35-year-old photographer has documented life in Medellín, once the most dangerous city in the world, where drug lords and paramilitary groups fight for power.
Survival: A homeless man cooks over an open fire made from bits of wood found on the street
Addicts: Hugo, 33, is one of many drug users who gather in deserted warehouses to smoke crack
Trade: The neighborhood has become a place to trade drugs
Refuge: A sex worker holds her daughter as she makes their meal in a rented hotel room
He became fascinated with Barrio Triste after meeting a mother-of-four who sought refuge in the neighborhood after a paramilitary group killed her husband.
As Medellín, the hometown of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, cleaned up its act, Barrio Triste remained a battleground for other dealers.
It was once named the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but now mechanics and sex workers trade on its grease-stained streets, and turn to paramilitary group Los Convivir for protection.
But despite the poverty and crime, Arredondo remains optimistic for its future.
'Barrio Triste serves a window to the violent past that once plagued the city of Medellín. It reminds me of a past I left behind and the hardship the citizens of this city and this country have endured over many years,' he said.
Tragedy: A family say goodbye to a child placed in a tiny coffin
Oppressive: It make look uninviting but hotel Rest Stop of the Traveler offers cheap shelter to those displaced by violence
Despair: Orejas, 21, has been living on the streets of Barrio Triste since running away when he was 12
Displaced: With nowhere else to go, this drunk is forced to sleep on the sidewalk
Faith: A cathedral dominates the dilapidated neighborhood
Icon: A painting of Sacred Heart of Jesus, the old name of the town, hangs in a workshop
Worn: Pieces of metal and wire from the mechanics' shops are encrusted in the sidewalk
Savior: A large painting of Jesus is carried through the bustling streets
Down time: Workers play parqu during an afternoon break
Boxed in: A framed photo of a wedding day hangs on the flimsy walls of this man's hut
Home: Carmen Salgado, 67, has been living is this room for 17 years. She pays $6.50 a day in rent
Trapped: A pregnant woman smokes marijuana from the back yard of a repair shop
Hardship: A man who has lost both hands and one leg showers in the ruins of a house
Crowded: Laundry hangs over the bed in a tiny room shared by this family
Cramped: Eight-year-old Jenny shares this rented room with her four brothers, mother and step-father
Comfort: A mother hugs one of her children in their tiny home
Motor city: By day mechanics and car workshops are the main trade
Homeless: Men bathe in the streets among street vendors and traffic
Break: A mechanic rests inside a bus to escape the heat of the afternoon
Pit stop: A worker rests in a local bar in Barrio Triste
Celebration: A pig is slaughtered for a traditional New Year's Eve party
Deprived: Homeless teenagers gather in a sewage tunnel that runs under the neighborhood
Youthful: Despite the despair, children still play happily on a rooftop
Grime: Workers repair vending carts on the street
Broken: Barrio Triste lives up to its name as Sad Neighborhood but Juan Arredondo says there is hope
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456016/Streets-scarred-drugs-despair-Pablo-Escobars-hometown.html#ixzz4x1Biu8LV
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The growing list of those feeding the opioid crisis.
Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com, October 23, 2017
. . .
Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.
Immigration laws provide important weapons that can and must be used against transnational gangs, drug trafficking organizations and international terrorists and their organizations. This was made abundantly clear to me during my assignments with UID and then OCDETF. Yet this commonsense fact is willfully discounted and denied by politicians from both political parties and at all levels of government.
. . .
It is my contention that not unlike the way that DEA lost its authority to block the shipments of opiates when it is apparent that community safety is jeopardized, we have seen, for decades, parallel efforts to prevent the effective enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws and the securing of our nation’s borders in, what I have come to refer to as, Immigration Failure - By Design.
“Sanctuary cities” and now “sanctuary states” have crippled efforts to use immigration laws to combat violent transnational gangs, drug trafficking and human smuggling and even undermining national security.
On August 11, 2017 Fox News posted the incredible article, "Los Angeles Targets Contractors Who Might Work on Border Wall." The city of Los Angeles and the state of California have become sanctuaries and are now seeking to “blacklist” American companies that accept contracts from the federal government -- particularly when such companies have worked to help stem the flood of heroin and other dangerous drugs into the United States along with aliens engaged in criminal and/or terror-related activities.
. . .
The growing list of those feeding the opioid crisis.
Michael Cutler
FrontPageMag.com, October 23, 2017
. . .
Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.
Immigration laws provide important weapons that can and must be used against transnational gangs, drug trafficking organizations and international terrorists and their organizations. This was made abundantly clear to me during my assignments with UID and then OCDETF. Yet this commonsense fact is willfully discounted and denied by politicians from both political parties and at all levels of government.
. . .
It is my contention that not unlike the way that DEA lost its authority to block the shipments of opiates when it is apparent that community safety is jeopardized, we have seen, for decades, parallel efforts to prevent the effective enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws and the securing of our nation’s borders in, what I have come to refer to as, Immigration Failure - By Design.
“Sanctuary cities” and now “sanctuary states” have crippled efforts to use immigration laws to combat violent transnational gangs, drug trafficking and human smuggling and even undermining national security.
On August 11, 2017 Fox News posted the incredible article, "Los Angeles Targets Contractors Who Might Work on Border Wall." The city of Los Angeles and the state of California have become sanctuaries and are now seeking to “blacklist” American companies that accept contracts from the federal government -- particularly when such companies have worked to help stem the flood of heroin and other dangerous drugs into the United States along with aliens engaged in criminal and/or terror-related activities.
Immigration laws provide important weapons that can and must be used against transnational gangs, drug trafficking organizations and international terrorists and their organizations. This was made abundantly clear to me during my assignments with UID and then OCDETF. Yet this commonsense fact is willfully discounted and denied by politicians from both political parties and at all levels of government.
. . .
It is my contention that not unlike the way that DEA lost its authority to block the shipments of opiates when it is apparent that community safety is jeopardized, we have seen, for decades, parallel efforts to prevent the effective enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws and the securing of our nation’s borders in, what I have come to refer to as, Immigration Failure - By Design.
“Sanctuary cities” and now “sanctuary states” have crippled efforts to use immigration laws to combat violent transnational gangs, drug trafficking and human smuggling and even undermining national security.
On August 11, 2017 Fox News posted the incredible article, "Los Angeles Targets Contractors Who Might Work on Border Wall." The city of Los Angeles and the state of California have become sanctuaries and are now seeking to “blacklist” American companies that accept contracts from the federal government -- particularly when such companies have worked to help stem the flood of heroin and other dangerous drugs into the United States along with aliens engaged in criminal and/or terror-related activities.
. . .
Top Mexican Drug Lord Arrested in U.S.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of one of the top leaders in the Sonora region who was at one time part of the Sinaloa Cartel, but may have switched sides. While the man has been in U.S. custody for more than two weeks, federal authorities just announced his capture. It remains unclear if he surrendered.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, on October 11, Sajid Emilio “El Cadete” Quintero Navidad was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and was immediately taken before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan Adlers who formally charged him and unsealed the indictment against him, thus making it public. It remains unclear why Quintero’s arrest was announced two weeks after he went before the court.
Quintero is the cousin of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the kingpins responsible for the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Rafael “Kiki” Camarena. Caro Quintero had been serving a lengthy prison sentence in Mexico but was released before the U.S. was notified. The convicted drug lord is facing multiple charges connected to Camarena’s murder and to his trafficking activities.
The man known as El Cadete has also been described by prosecutors as a close partner of top Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. As Breitbart Texas’ Robert Arce reported, El Cadete is believed to have been operating as a regional cartel leader in Cajeme, Sonora, and is believed to have turned on the Sinaloa Cartel. Currently, the border states of Sonora and Chihuahua are seeing a spike in violence as various factions of the Sinaloa Cartel and their rivals continue to fight for territorial control.
Quintero’s arrest comes months after his ally turned rival, Damaso “Mini Lic” Lopez Serrano, surrendered himself in to authorities at a port of entry in California, Breitbart Texas reported. Damaso Lopez’ father, Damaso Lopez Nunez, also known as “El Licenciado” or “The Attorney,” made a move to take over the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexican authorities arrested Lopez before he succeeded.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
Brandon Darby is managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexican Cartels Carry Out 20 Executions in One Day
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, on October 11, Sajid Emilio “El Cadete” Quintero Navidad was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and was immediately taken before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan Adlers who formally charged him and unsealed the indictment against him, thus making it public. It remains unclear why Quintero’s arrest was announced two weeks after he went before the court.
Quintero is the cousin of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the kingpins responsible for the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Rafael “Kiki” Camarena. Caro Quintero had been serving a lengthy prison sentence in Mexico but was released before the U.S. was notified. The convicted drug lord is facing multiple charges connected to Camarena’s murder and to his trafficking activities.
The man known as El Cadete has also been described by prosecutors as a close partner of top Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. As Breitbart Texas’ Robert Arce reported, El Cadete is believed to have been operating as a regional cartel leader in Cajeme, Sonora, and is believed to have turned on the Sinaloa Cartel. Currently, the border states of Sonora and Chihuahua are seeing a spike in violence as various factions of the Sinaloa Cartel and their rivals continue to fight for territorial control.
Quintero’s arrest comes months after his ally turned rival, Damaso “Mini Lic” Lopez Serrano, surrendered himself in to authorities at a port of entry in California, Breitbart Texas reported. Damaso Lopez’ father, Damaso Lopez Nunez, also known as “El Licenciado” or “The Attorney,” made a move to take over the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexican authorities arrested Lopez before he succeeded.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
Brandon Darby is managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Mexican Cartels Carry Out 20 Executions in One Day
MORELIA, Michoacan — Mexican authorities appear powerless to stop the cartel violence that continues to rage in one southern state. The fighting between rival criminal organizations left 20 people dead in a single day.
The executions on Friday followed a week of gun battles that continue spreading terror in this state located west of Mexico City. Despite the large-scale gun battles, state authorities continue ignoring the violence. The government has yet to issue any security alerts.
The violence began on Friday at 1:30 a.m. in the town of Buenavista Tomatlan where authorities collected the body of a man who had been tortured prior to his execution.
By 3:20 a.m. in the city of Apatzingan, gunmen left a body behind near the municipal graveyard. The cartel left behind a message targeting “El Boto,” the local head of a criminal cell known as Los Viagras. On Thursday, in the same place, gunmen left behind another body. They left a threatening message on the body pointing to “El Gallito,” a local leader for Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Soon after, authorities responded to the town of Antunez along the highway that connects Apatzingan with Cuatro Caminos. Responding officers found the body of Esteban Rubio Ruiz, the water director for Nueva Italia, who has also been linked to CJNG. In June, police arrested Rubio Ruiz’s brother, Daniel Rubio, and Ignacio “Cenizo” Renteria Andrade, the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel.
In the town of Puruaran, police found the body of the president of the local committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Artemio Murillo Villanueva, and his secretary, Veronica Ambriz Carrillo. The pair had been kidnapped four days earlier.
Authorities found the bodies of two men executed in the town of Chucandiro and three more bodies in the state capital of Morelia a short time later. The five victims presented multiple similarities. They all had their heads wrapped in bandages, their hands tied with a similar type of plastic, rope and were shot with a pistol.
In Morelia, two gunmen died during a shootout with law enforcement. The two men had been trying to avoid a checkpoint and while escaping fired at law enforcement setting off the shootout.
In the city of Zamora, authorities found the body of one man wrapped in a blanket. Gunmen left the body behind along with a message signed by the Nueva Familia Michoacana. The cartel warned they will continue “cleaning from kidnappers and traitors.” In the same city, a man was gunned down when he was trying to take an underage girl from a house. In the town of Tlazazalca, authorities found four bodies who had been tortured before being executed. According to the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office (PGJE), the bodies were identified as 23-year-old Fernando G, 32-year-old Jorge Luis A., 42-year-old Guadalupe L., and 44-year-old Antonio M.
Along the highway that connects the city of Morelia with Patzcuaro, authorities found the bodies of two women and one man who have not been identified.
The violence in this state comes after Michoacan had 1,278 murders in the state for 2016. That figure does not take into account the cases of kidnapped victims who have not returned and are presumed dead.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.
Mexican Cartels Carry Out 20 Executions in One Day
The executions on Friday followed a week of gun battles that continue spreading terror in this state located west of Mexico City. Despite the large-scale gun battles, state authorities continue ignoring the violence. The government has yet to issue any security alerts.
The violence began on Friday at 1:30 a.m. in the town of Buenavista Tomatlan where authorities collected the body of a man who had been tortured prior to his execution.
By 3:20 a.m. in the city of Apatzingan, gunmen left a body behind near the municipal graveyard. The cartel left behind a message targeting “El Boto,” the local head of a criminal cell known as Los Viagras. On Thursday, in the same place, gunmen left behind another body. They left a threatening message on the body pointing to “El Gallito,” a local leader for Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Soon after, authorities responded to the town of Antunez along the highway that connects Apatzingan with Cuatro Caminos. Responding officers found the body of Esteban Rubio Ruiz, the water director for Nueva Italia, who has also been linked to CJNG. In June, police arrested Rubio Ruiz’s brother, Daniel Rubio, and Ignacio “Cenizo” Renteria Andrade, the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel.
In the town of Puruaran, police found the body of the president of the local committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Artemio Murillo Villanueva, and his secretary, Veronica Ambriz Carrillo. The pair had been kidnapped four days earlier.
Authorities found the bodies of two men executed in the town of Chucandiro and three more bodies in the state capital of Morelia a short time later. The five victims presented multiple similarities. They all had their heads wrapped in bandages, their hands tied with a similar type of plastic, rope and were shot with a pistol.
In Morelia, two gunmen died during a shootout with law enforcement. The two men had been trying to avoid a checkpoint and while escaping fired at law enforcement setting off the shootout.
In the city of Zamora, authorities found the body of one man wrapped in a blanket. Gunmen left the body behind along with a message signed by the Nueva Familia Michoacana. The cartel warned they will continue “cleaning from kidnappers and traitors.” In the same city, a man was gunned down when he was trying to take an underage girl from a house. In the town of Tlazazalca, authorities found four bodies who had been tortured before being executed. According to the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office (PGJE), the bodies were identified as 23-year-old Fernando G, 32-year-old Jorge Luis A., 42-year-old Guadalupe L., and 44-year-old Antonio M.
Along the highway that connects the city of Morelia with Patzcuaro, authorities found the bodies of two women and one man who have not been identified.
The violence in this state comes after Michoacan had 1,278 murders in the state for 2016. That figure does not take into account the cases of kidnapped victims who have not returned and are presumed dead.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.
Mexican Cartels Carry Out 20 Executions in One Day
MORELIA, Michoacan — Mexican authorities appear powerless to stop the cartel violence that continues to rage in one southern state. The fighting between rival criminal organizations left 20 people dead in a single day.
The executions on Friday followed a week of gun battles that continue spreading terror in this state located west of Mexico City. Despite the large-scale gun battles, state authorities continue ignoring the violence. The government has yet to issue any security alerts.
The violence began on Friday at 1:30 a.m. in the town of Buenavista Tomatlan where authorities collected the body of a man who had been tortured prior to his execution.
By 3:20 a.m. in the city of Apatzingan, gunmen left a body behind near the municipal graveyard. The cartel left behind a message targeting “El Boto,” the local head of a criminal cell known as Los Viagras. On Thursday, in the same place, gunmen left behind another body. They left a threatening message on the body pointing to “El Gallito,” a local leader for Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Soon after, authorities responded to the town of Antunez along the highway that connects Apatzingan with Cuatro Caminos. Responding officers found the body of Esteban Rubio Ruiz, the water director for Nueva Italia, who has also been linked to CJNG. In June, police arrested Rubio Ruiz’s brother, Daniel Rubio, and Ignacio “Cenizo” Renteria Andrade, the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel.
In the town of Puruaran, police found the body of the president of the local committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Artemio Murillo Villanueva, and his secretary, Veronica Ambriz Carrillo. The pair had been kidnapped four days earlier.
Authorities found the bodies of two men executed in the town of Chucandiro and three more bodies in the state capital of Morelia a short time later. The five victims presented multiple similarities. They all had their heads wrapped in bandages, their hands tied with a similar type of plastic, rope and were shot with a pistol.
In Morelia, two gunmen died during a shootout with law enforcement. The two men had been trying to avoid a checkpoint and while escaping fired at law enforcement setting off the shootout.
In the city of Zamora, authorities found the body of one man wrapped in a blanket. Gunmen left the body behind along with a message signed by the Nueva Familia Michoacana. The cartel warned they will continue “cleaning from kidnappers and traitors.” In the same city, a man was gunned down when he was trying to take an underage girl from a house. In the town of Tlazazalca, authorities found four bodies who had been tortured before being executed. According to the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office (PGJE), the bodies were identified as 23-year-old Fernando G, 32-year-old Jorge Luis A., 42-year-old Guadalupe L., and 44-year-old Antonio M.
Along the highway that connects the city of Morelia with Patzcuaro, authorities found the bodies of two women and one man who have not been identified.
The violence in this state comes after
Michoacan had 1,278 murders in the state for
2016. That figure does not take into account
the cases of kidnapped victims who have not
returned and are presumed dead.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.
OPEN BORDERS:
IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG
THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
The executions on Friday followed a week of gun battles that continue spreading terror in this state located west of Mexico City. Despite the large-scale gun battles, state authorities continue ignoring the violence. The government has yet to issue any security alerts.
The violence began on Friday at 1:30 a.m. in the town of Buenavista Tomatlan where authorities collected the body of a man who had been tortured prior to his execution.
By 3:20 a.m. in the city of Apatzingan, gunmen left a body behind near the municipal graveyard. The cartel left behind a message targeting “El Boto,” the local head of a criminal cell known as Los Viagras. On Thursday, in the same place, gunmen left behind another body. They left a threatening message on the body pointing to “El Gallito,” a local leader for Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG).
Soon after, authorities responded to the town of Antunez along the highway that connects Apatzingan with Cuatro Caminos. Responding officers found the body of Esteban Rubio Ruiz, the water director for Nueva Italia, who has also been linked to CJNG. In June, police arrested Rubio Ruiz’s brother, Daniel Rubio, and Ignacio “Cenizo” Renteria Andrade, the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel.
In the town of Puruaran, police found the body of the president of the local committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Artemio Murillo Villanueva, and his secretary, Veronica Ambriz Carrillo. The pair had been kidnapped four days earlier.
Authorities found the bodies of two men executed in the town of Chucandiro and three more bodies in the state capital of Morelia a short time later. The five victims presented multiple similarities. They all had their heads wrapped in bandages, their hands tied with a similar type of plastic, rope and were shot with a pistol.
In Morelia, two gunmen died during a shootout with law enforcement. The two men had been trying to avoid a checkpoint and while escaping fired at law enforcement setting off the shootout.
In the city of Zamora, authorities found the body of one man wrapped in a blanket. Gunmen left the body behind along with a message signed by the Nueva Familia Michoacana. The cartel warned they will continue “cleaning from kidnappers and traitors.” In the same city, a man was gunned down when he was trying to take an underage girl from a house. In the town of Tlazazalca, authorities found four bodies who had been tortured before being executed. According to the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office (PGJE), the bodies were identified as 23-year-old Fernando G, 32-year-old Jorge Luis A., 42-year-old Guadalupe L., and 44-year-old Antonio M.
Along the highway that connects the city of Morelia with Patzcuaro, authorities found the bodies of two women and one man who have not been identified.
The violence in this state comes after
Michoacan had 1,278 murders in the state for
2016. That figure does not take into account
the cases of kidnapped victims who have not
returned and are presumed dead.
Michoacan had 1,278 murders in the state for
2016. That figure does not take into account
the cases of kidnapped victims who have not
returned and are presumed dead.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.
OPEN BORDERS:
IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG
THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
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