Another Mexican Journalist Murdered: 14th in 2018
Two gunmen in Mexico shot and killed a journalist who exposed political corruption in the state of Chiapas. The journalist had previously been targeted for kidnapping and death. The murder raises the death toll to 14 Mexican journalists killed in the first nine months of 2018.
The murder took place in the city of Yajalón, Chiapas when Mario Leonel Gomez Sanchez was as he left his home. Two gunmen went up to him and fired several times striking him in the midsection. Emergency medical personnel rushed the journalist to a local hospital, but he was dead on arrival. Hours after the murder, the Chiapas Attorney General’s Officecondemned the murder and announced that they would be handling the investigation.
Gomez worked for El Heraldo de Chiapas where he reported on political matters as well as crime. The 40-year-old journalist had been the target of threats and a failed kidnapping attempt in 2016 after he had exposed two corrupt public officials. According to the press freedom organization Article 19, in 2016 Gomez reported on the alleged embezzlement of public funds by federal congressman Leonardo Guirao Aguilar and substitute congressman Ricardo Lopez Montejo — both from Mexico’s Green Party. Following the exposé, the driver of one of the congressmen contacted him on social media to threaten him. At the same time, Gomez was warned about a group of gunmen setting up an ambush to kidnap him on his way to the city’s downtown area. Shortly after the threat, Gomez received protection from state authorities but the security measures in place had since been removed leaving him a vulnerable target.
Breitbart Texas reported that 2018 is yet another deadly year for journalists and media workers:
- August 29 — Javier Rodriguez Valladares was a cameraman and TV journalist for Canal 10 in Cancun, Quintana Roo. He was shot along one of the main avenues in the tourist hotspot.
- August 8 — Rodolfo Garcia Gonzalez was a freelance photographer who often worked with Semanario7. He was shot and killed in Guanajuato.
- July 24 — Ruben Pat Cauich was a veteran journalist who founded the online outlet La Playa News in Quintana Roo, not far from Cancun. He had been previously threatened and was ultimately killed at a bar in the tourist hotspot of Playa Del Carmen.
- July 3 — José Guadalupe Chan Dzib was a crime reporter for La Playa News, Aqui y Ahora, and other local outlets near Cancun, Quintana Roo. He was gunned down outside of a local bar in Playa Del Carmen.
- May 29 — Hector Gonzales Antonio was a national correspondent for Excelsior and worked in various local outlets. He was kidnapped, tortured, and dumped in a vacant lot.
- May 24 — Alicia Diaz Gonzalez, a financial writer for one of Mexico’s largest publications, was found beaten to death in her home in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.
- May 14 — Juan Carlos Huerta Martínez, a reporter and broadcast host, was killed by a team of gunmen outside his home in Tabasco.
- March 21 — Leobardo Vázquez Atzin ran the online news site Enlace Informativo Regional in Veracruz who reported on a local mayor tied to an illicit property grab and was killed by a team of gunmen.
- February 14 — Pedro Damián Gómez Bonifaz, director-owner of the Panorama Político, was found dead with obvious signs of trauma caused by a sharp-edged weapon at his home in Tijuana, Baja California.
- February 5 — Leslie Ann Pamela Montenegro del Real, a popular YouTube satirist and blogger who used the pseudonym “La Nana Pelucas,” was gunned down while eating dinner at a restaurant in Acapulco.
- January 21 — Agustín Silva Vásquez, a freelance police reporter from El Sol del Istmo, disappeared in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, according to his family members who reported his kidnapping. Silva Vásquez is presumed dead.
- January 13 — Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez was ambushed and killed by a team of assassins in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, who stabbed him to death in front of his family. Authorities arrested a relative of the former mayor of Nuevo Laredo and several other individuals allegedly linked to the case.
- January 6 — José Gerardo Martínez Arriaga, an editor with El Universal, was purchasing toys for his family in Mexico City when he was robbed and killed at gunpoint.
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. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the 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.
Tony Aranda from the Cartel Chronicles project contributed to this report.
GRAPHIC – 7 Human Heads Dumped in Mexican Border State
Breitbart Texas / Cartel
Chronicles
Police discovered seven heads abandoned in an ice cooler Friday morning
in the rural community of Bácum, Sonora–sparking fears of an escalation in an
ongoing territorial cartel war.
GRAPHIC: Cartel Gunmen Carry Out Early Morning Hits in Mexican
Border State
Breitbart Texas / Cartel
Chronicles
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen
escalated the number of executions in capital city of this Mexican border
state. Hitmen began a new tactic where they are now raiding homes early in the
morning. The raids are designed to surprise their sleeping victims and kill
them at point-blank range.
25 MINUTE
VIDEO OF ACTUAL MEX INVASION. Illegals pour over Texas rancher’s property.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mexican-invasion-25-minute-video-of.html
FOR EVERY
ILLEGAL CAUGHT AT BORDER IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 8 GET THROUGH AND ARE
LOOTING US NOW!
You
truly want wider open borders with NARCOMEX?
HIGHLY
GRAPHIC!
IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION… gruesome!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
BEHEADINGS
LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the
Border and Leave Heads
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/highly-graphic-la-raza-heroin-cartels.html
OPIOID AMERICA: CHINA AND MEXICO PARTNER TO ADDICT AMERICA
“While drug distributors have paid a total of $400 million in fines over the past 10 years, their combined revenue during this same period was over $5 trillion.”
“Opioids
have ravaged families and devastated communities across the country.
Encouraging their open use undermines the rule of law and will do nothing to quell
their continued abuse, let alone the problems underlying mass addiction.”
Tijuana Breaks All-Time Homicide Record amid Cartel War
AP File Photo Guillermo Arias
The cartel war raging Tijuana continues with 1,789 homicides registered
as of September 19, now breaking the 2017 record of 1,781.
GRAPHIC – 7 Human Heads Dumped in Mexican Border State
14 Sep 2018446
Police discovered seven heads abandoned in an ice cooler Friday morning
in the rural community of Bácum, Sonora–sparking fears of an escalation in an
ongoing territorial cartel war.
Security
elements of the State Public Security Police (PESP) and investigators assigned
to the State Attorney General’s Office responded to a report of heads in a
cooler at approximately 4 am, according to local media.
Authorities determined that all victims were males between the ages of 25 and
40 and were believed kidnapped several hours earlier in the town of Francisco
Javier Mina.
According to authorities and
Breitbart Texas law enforcement contacts, the Friday morning executions and the
general escalation in violence in the region can be attributed to a territorial
dispute between “Los Salazar,” aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, and Cártel
de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). This dispute began in 2017 as CJNG moved
into southern Sonora to challenge the Sinaloa Cartel’s dominance over routes to
the U.S. drug markets.
According to local media reports,
the small community of Bácum has registered 150 homicides.
Sonora Homicides per Year
2016 – 580
2017 – 693
2018 Year to July 31 – 653
Source: Mexican Secretariat of National Public Security
In
early August, Breitbart Texas reported that the United States Consulate General
in Hermosillo issued a security alert prohibiting
federal employees from traveling to the popular tourist locations of San
Carlos, Guaymas, and Empalme, Sonora, due to recent violent activity. Breitbart
Texas also reported that more than 200
federal and state police personnel supported by elements of the Mexican Army
were deployed to Guaymas amid increasing violence.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive
experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in
the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in
Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States
Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where
he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas,
Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com
GRAPHIC: Cartel Gunmen Carry Out Early Morning Hits in Mexican
Border State
15 Sep 201856
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen
escalated the number of executions in capital city of this Mexican border
state. Hitmen began a new tactic where they are now raiding homes early in the
morning. The raids are designed to surprise their sleeping victims and kill
them at point-blank range.
This
week, Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas, witnessed a series of
executions where a group of assassins arrived at the houses of their victims at
dawn and used assault rifles to kill them. The first execution took place in
the Horacio Terán neighborhood in the southern part of the city where
52-year-old Hortencia “N” and an unidentified man died after being shot three
times in the head.
According
to information provided to Breitbart Texas by state authorities, neighbors
reported hearing several gunshots at 6 a.m. so they called the authorities. By
the time authorities and emergency personnel arrived, the victims were already
dead and the gunmen escaped from the scene.
The
double murder occurred at about the same time that another group of hit men
killed an ex-convict named Ricardo “El Riki” Gonzalez Villanueva. According to
information provided to Breitbart Texas by authorities, the gunmen also caught
the victim by surprise at his home when two cartel hitmen entered and shot him
multiple times in the head.
Also
this week, a group of hitmen executed two men outside a house in the Luis
Echeverria neighborhood. The gunmen shot their victims with machine guns at
close range before fleeing. According to police sources, the executions are
related to the territorial disputes between rival factions of Los Zetas cartel
called Northeastern Cartel or Cartel Del Noreste and Old School Zetas or Zetas
Vieja Escuela.
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
“Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas.
DO YOU EVER WONDER WHY DEMOCRAT POLS NEVER
OPEN THEIR OTHEWISE MASSIVE MOUTHS ABOUT THE MEX CRIME TIDAL WAVE THAT IS NOW
BORDER TO OPEN BORDER???
40% of all Federal Border Crimes are by
invading Mexicans!
25 MINUTE
VIDEO OF ACTUAL MEX INVASION. Illegals pour over Texas rancher’s property.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-mexican-invasion-25-minute-video-of.html
FOR EVERY
ILLEGAL CAUGHT AT BORDER IT IS ESTIMATED THAT ABOUT 8 GET THROUGH AND ARE
LOOTING US NOW!
You
truly want wider open borders with NARCOMEX?
HIGHLY
GRAPHIC!
IMAGES
OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA MEX OCCUPATION… gruesome!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
BEHEADINGS
LONG U.S. OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX: The La Raza Heroin Cartels Take the
Border and Leave Heads
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/05/highly-graphic-la-raza-heroin-cartels.html
THE LA
RAZA MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS REMIND AMERICANS (Legals) THAT THERE IS NO (REAL)
BORDER WITH NARCOMEX!
SHOCKING
IMAGES OF CARTELS ON U.S. BORDERS:
“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.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
JUDICIAL WATCH
THE GRUESOME MS-13 GANGS FROM LOS ANGELES: THEIR
MURDER, RAPE, AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
The illegal stabbed her to death with a
screwdriver and then ran her over with her car.
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
“Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a
rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the
kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of
ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart
Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the
cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.”
“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.” Michael Cutler …..FrontPageMag.com
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
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/09/20/ag-sessions-touts-record-breaking-drug-seizure-san-diego/’
THE ILLEGALS’ AND THEIR CRIME TIDAL WAVE!
Heather Mac Donald
of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that
in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for
illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were
illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the
18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
A NATION DIES OF OPIOID
ADDICTION
AMERICAN BIG PHARMA,
RED CHINA and NARCOMEX PARTNER FOR THE BIG BUCKS
“The drug epidemic is the product of capitalism and the
policies of the capitalist parties, both Democrats and
Republicans. There is, first of all, the role of the pharmaceutical
companies, which have amassed huge profits from the
deceptive marketing of opioid pain killers, which they claimed were
not addictive. Prescriptions for opioids such as Percocet, Oxycontin and Vicodin
skyrocketed from 76 million in 1991 to nearly 259 million in 2012. What are the
numbers and profits now?
OPIOID AMERICA: CHINA AND MEXICO PARTNER TO ADDICT AMERICA
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-opioid-war-on-america-chin
PRINCETON REPORT:
American middle-class is addicted,
poor, jobless and suicidal…. Thank the corrupt government for surrendering our
borders to 40 million looting Mexicans and then handing the bills to middle
America?
OPIOID MURDERS BY BIG
PHARMA
“While drug distributors have paid a total of $400 million in fines over the past 10 years, their combined revenue during this same period was over $5 trillion.”
“Opioids
have ravaged families and devastated communities across the country.
Encouraging their open use undermines the rule of law and will do nothing to quell
their continued abuse, let alone the problems underlying mass addiction.”
NARCOMEX DRUG CARTELS OCCUPY
TEXAS
MCALLEN, Texas --
The capture of three top Mexican drug cartel bosses on the U.S. side of the
Texas border helps to illustrate the irony of how even narco's seek refuge from
the violence in Mexico.
LOS ANGELES – GATEWAY FOR THE LA RAZA MEX DRUG CARTELS
NARCOMEX in LA RAZA-OCCUPIED LOS ANGELES – Western gateway for the MEXICAN
DRUG CARTELS and MEXICO’S SECOND LARGEST CITY.
Federal agents raided Q.T Fashion and numerous other businesses in the
downtown fashion district Wednesday, cracking down on a scheme that cartels are
increasingly relying on to get their profits — from drug sales, kidnappings and
other illegal activities — back to Mexico, authorities said.
Nine people were arrested in raids targeting 75 locations, and $90 million
was seized — $70 million in cash. In one condo, agents found $35 million
stuffed in banker boxes. At a mansion in Bel-Air, they discovered $10 million
in duffel bags.
"Los Angeles has become the epicenter of narco-dollar money laundering
with couriers regularly bringing duffel bags and suitcases full of cash to many
businesses," said Robert E. Dugdale, the assistant U.S. attorney in charge
of federal criminal prosecutions in Los Angeles.
Tijuana Breaks All-Time Homicide Record amid Cartel War
20 Sep 20184
The cartel war raging Tijuana continues with 1,789 homicides registered
as of September 19, now breaking the 2017 record of 1,781.
The record-breaking year persists despite Mexico
City’s deployment of military assets to
the region in February to quell cartel violence. The bloodshed is generally
rated to turf wars involving Cártel Tijuana Nueva Generación (CTNG),
aligned with El Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, against the Sinaloa Cartel.
In some areas, rival factions within the Sinaloa Cartel are fighting for
control of the lucrative street-level markets and smuggling routes into the
United States. Those involved in the killings are primarily low-level dealers,
lookouts, customers, and enforcers. Many of the street-level dealers are
targets of rip-crews looking for cash and drugs.
One of the
factors blamed in Tijuana is that only 8% of homicide suspects are detained,
according to the president of Fundación EduPaz, Francisco García Burgos. He
said that the number of unsolved homicides, combined with the responsible
parties still on the streets, created an environment where citizens are fearful
of reporting crimes due to reprisals. Breitbart Texas previously reported on this problem when 132 of the first
homicides registered only produced 11 suspects detained. The 11 were from only
five registered homicides, according to local media.
Cartels fighting in the city do so with almost total impunity as
demonstrated early Thursday morning when alleged gunmen opened fire from two
vehicles against buildings housing the state attorney general’s homicide and
forensics units. No injuries were reported, but the gunfire caused damage to
windows, according to local media. Ministerial police were inside the
facilities at the time of the drive-by shooting.
A
recent photo captured by
photojournalist Gustavo Suárez of Frontera has
been used among Mexican social media accounts to demonstrate the indifference
some citizens apparently feel due to the constant cartel bloodshed. The
photograph was captured at a taco stand in colonia Murúa Martínez where a
smiling family can be see dining in the foreground amid an active homicide
scene.
Robert
Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working
Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq,
Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico,
working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State,
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional
Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon,
Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)
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