NARCOMEX: MEX
PRESIDENT SUCKS OFF BRIBES FROM DRUG CARTELS
WHILE THE U.S. SQUANDERS HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS AND TROOPS TO
DEFEND THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS WHO HATE OUR GUTS, MEXICO IS OVERRUN
AMERICAN WITH DRUGS!
GRAPHIC: Gulf Cartel Gunmen Burn Rivals
Alive in Mexico near Texas Border
Washington, D.C
(December 2, 2019 ) – The Center for Immigration Studies presents
arguments for and against the Trump administration’s actions to designate
some Mexican drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
(FTO). An FTO designation triggers powerful American authorities to
freeze financial assets, prosecute for activities that
support terrorism, and bar entry into the country. some
70 currently designated Islamic terrorist groups that aspire,
emphatically unlike any of Mexico's cartels, to kill as many Americans as
possible on American soil the present war on Jihadists.” He continues, “The
sometimes shrill calls, with each new gun battle or atrocity, that
Mexican cartels imminently threaten U.S. national security don't hold up
under scrutiny, at least not without more evidence. If the U.S. government
insists on adding a massive layer of new terrorists to existing U.S.
counterterrorism systems, plans for how to resource it and allocate the
greater burden among agencies, without taking from the war on terror,
should be laid out first.” Section
219 of
the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)? Section 219 provides that
the secretary of state may designate a group as a FTO on finding that it
engages in terrorist activity as defined at INA Section 212(a)(3) or
terrorism as defined at 22 U.S.C. Section 2656f(d)(2). Does Mexican Cartel
conduct meet the threshold definitions, including specifically as a threat
to the national security of the United States?
Mexico
Will Reject U.S. Designations of Cartels as Terrorists, Says AMLO
Mexico’s president announced Monday that he will reject any
designation of cartels as terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.
During his morning press conference, Mexican President Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said he would not accept the U.S.’s potential
designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations–which could enable
direct actions in Mexico.
“We will never accept that, we are not ‘vendepatrias’ (nation
sellers),” Lopez Obrador said.
The president’s statements come
after the relatives of nine U.S. women and children who died in a cartel ambush in
Sonora revealed they would be meeting with President Donald Trump. The family
is expected to ask for some cartels to be labeled as terrorist organizations.
Last week, Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Cabeza de Vaca used the
term “narco-terrorism” to refer to the brazen attacks on citizens of Nuevo
Laredo by a faction of Los Zetas Cartel called Cartel Del Noreste. Cabeza de
Vaca publicly called out Mexico City for past inaction in confronting Los Zetas.
On Monday morning, Lopez Obrador’s foreign relations minister Marcelo
Ebrard called designations unnecessary and inconvenient, adding that the U.S.
and Mexico have a healthy working relationship in fighting cartels. According
to Ebrard, terrorist designations would give the U.S. the legal avenue to take
direct action on cartels on Mexican soil.
Ildefonso
Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded
Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior
Breitbart management. 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 Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and
senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook . He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com .
Enough Is Enough’: Josh Hawley Calls for Sanctions on Mexican
Cartels
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that
“enough is enough” and called on the U.S. government to sanction Mexican
officials and cartel members complicit in trafficking meth and killing
Americans.
Hawley called for harsh
retribution against the Mexican cartels complicit in ambushing and murdering
nine American women and children near the New Mexico border.
In the wake of the attack on
Americans, as well as the Mexican cartels’ complicity in Missouri’s meth
crisis, the Missouri conservative called for the U.S. government to sanction
the cartel members who are “openly slaughtering American citizens.”
“With Mexico, enough is enough. US
government should impose sanctions on Mexican officials, including freezing
assets, who won’t confront cartels,” Hawley tweeted Wednesday. “Cartels are
flooding MO [Missouri] w/ meth, trafficking children, & openly slaughtering
American citizens. And Mexico looks the other way.”
Hawley said that just over the last
14 days, there had been over 40 drug overdoses coming from drugs across
America’s southern border.
Hawley continued, “In SW Mo last two
weeks alone, over 40 drug overdoses & multiple deaths from drugs coming
across [the] southern border. Story is the same all over the state. Cartels
increasingly call the shots in Mexico, and for our own security, we cannot
allow this to continue.”
With Mexico, enough is enough. US
government should impose sanctions on Mexican officials, including freezing
assets, who won’t confront cartels. Cartels are flooding MO w/ meth, trafficking
children, & openly slaughtering American citizens. And Mexico looks the
other way
In SW Mo last two weeks alone, over 40 drug
overdoses & multiple deaths from drugs coming across southern border. Story
is the same all over the state. Cartels increasingly call the shots in Mexico,
and for our own security, we cannot allow this to continue
Hawley spent much of his August
recess traveling across rural Missouri, learning what matters to the average
Missourian.
This AM I had the great privilege of
meeting Brittany Tune, a nurse, a mother of two, a follower of God, and a
remarkable woman. Born & raised in rural Shannon Co., she has raised two
kids on her own while putting herself through nursing school & dedicating
her life to others
Brittany says meth is hammering this
community. She has many friends & family members who have been touched by
this epidemic. She worries about what it means for her own kids, ages 15 &
10. It’s much worse now than when she was growing up, she says
In an interview with Breitbart News
in September, Hawley said that meth coming from
Mexico is destroying local Missouri communities.
“Come with me to any town, any town
in the state of Missouri of any size, and I will show you communities that are
drowning in meth, drowning in it. It is literally killing people; it is
destroying families it is destroying schools and whole communities,” he said.
“Missouri is a border state,” Hawley
said, adding that “we have to got to secure the border to stop the meth” and
“stop the flow of illegal immigration.”
Hawley’s remarks about the Mexican
cartel attack on Americans mirrors that of President Donald Trump, who said Tuesday that the
United States was ready for war against the drug cartels.
“This is the time for Mexico, with the
help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off
the face of the earth,” the president tweeted.
Trump has campaigned on cracking
down on violence on the southern border as well as handling the drug cartels.
During an exclusive interview with
Breitbart News, Trump said he is “very seriously” thinking of designating the
drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs).
“It’s psychological, but it’s also
economic,” Trump told Breitbart News in March. “As terrorists — as terrorist
organizations, the answer is yes. They are.”
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) told Breitbart News in May
that he would back Trump’s potential designation of the Mexican cartels as FTOs
and that seizing cartel leader El Chapo’s assets would build the wall and make
the cartels pay for it. In a similar manner to Missouri, Daines told Breitbart
News about how Montana has been ravaged by meth from Mexican cartels.
Daines said that by seizing
“billions” of El Chapo’s assets, it “would absolutely fulfill President Trump’s
promise to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it. In this case, it would be
a Mexican cartel paying for it would be an excellent idea.”
Sean
Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @ SeanMoran3 .
The architect of Mexico's war on cartels was just arrested in
Texas and accused of drug trafficking and taking bribes
LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images
·
Genaro
Garcia Luna, who was Mexico's public-security secretary between 2006 and 2012,
was arrested in Texas on Monday.
·
Garcia
Luna, the architect of Mexico's campaign against organized crime in the late
2000s, is the latest Mexican official accused of corruption and involvement in
drug trafficking.
A former high-ranking Mexican security official who led the
country's crackdown on organized crime in the mid-2000s was arrested in the US
and been charged with drug-trafficking conspiracy and making false statements.
Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, was arrested in Dallas by US federal
agents, according to the US district attorney for the Eastern District of New
York, which said it plans to seek his removal to face charges in New York.
"Garcia Luna stands accused of taking millions of dollars
in bribes from 'El Chapo' Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel while he controlled Mexico's
Federal Police Force and was responsible for ensuring public safety in Mexico,"
US Attorney Richard P. Donoghue said in the release.
Garcia Luna faces three counts of conspiracy to import and
distribute cocaine and a fourth count of making false statements with regard to
an immigration naturalization application.
Garcia Luna began his career with Mexico's Center for National
Security and Investigation in the late 1980s before moving to the federal
police in the late 1990s. He was then head of Mexico's federal investigation
agency, AFI, between 2001 and 2005 and secretary of public security, then a
cabinet-level position in control of the federal police, between 2006 and 2012.
Genaro Garcia Luna Felipe Calderon Mexico
ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/GettyImages
He was 38 when appointed to the latter position by
then-President Felipe Calderon but already had nearly 20 years of experience in
Mexico's security services, much of it spent tracking organized crime and drug
trafficking.
"By his late 20s, he was considered something of a
wunderkind," according to a 2008 New York Times
profile.
"He really was the architect of Calderon's war on
drugs," said Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the
US Drug Enforcement Administration, who worked with Garcia Luna in Mexico in
the 1990s.
That war comprised major military deployments inside the country
and the kingpin strategy, which entailed targeting high-level cartel figures in
an effort to weaken the cartels. This approach has been criticized for
fostering more violence, both by state
forces and fragmented cartels .
According to the release, Garcia Luna received millions of
dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel. In return, the release states, the
cartel received safe passage for drug shipments, sensitive law-enforcement
information about investigations targeting it, and information about rival
cartels — all of which allowed it to move multiton quantities of drugs into the
US.
Financial records obtained by the US government showed that by
the time Garcia Luna relocated to the US in 2012, he had a personal fortune
worth millions of dollars, according to the release, which said he is also
accused of lying about those alleged criminal acts on an application for
naturalization submitted in 2018.
'Another black eye for Mexico'
El Chapo Joaquin Guzman
Reuters
One detail in the release mirrors allegations made
during the trial of
Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was convicted on
drug trafficking and other charges in the Eastern District of New York in
February.
"On two occasions, the cartel personally delivered bribe
payments to Garcia Luna in briefcases containing between three and five million
dollars," the release states.
During testimony in November 2018, Jesus "El Rey"
Zambada — the youngest brother of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who is
considered Guzman's peer at the top of the Sinaloa cartel and now its de facto
leader — said the cartel twice made multimillion-dollar payments to Garcia
Luna.
A $3 million payment, which "El Rey" said was to
Garcia Luna at a restaurant in Mexico City between 2005 and 2006, was to ensure
he would pick a specific official as police chief in Culiacan, the capital of
Sinaloa state and the cartel's home turf.
"El Rey" said the other payment, between $3 million
and $5 million, was in 2007 and was to make sure "he didn't interfere in
the drug business" and that "El Mayo" was not arrested. Zambada
also said that the Sinaloa cartel and its partners also pooled $50 million in
protection money for Garcia Luna.
A press officer for the Eastern District of New York did not
immediately respond when asked by email whether the charges unsealed Tuesday
against Garcia Luna stemmed from allegations made during Guzman's trial.
At the time, Garcia Luna denied Zambada's claims, calling them a
" lie, defamation
and perjury ."
On Tuesday, Calderon said he had heard of Garcia Luna's arrest but was awaiting
confirmation and further details, tweeting that his "position
will always be in favor of justice and the law."
El Chapo Guzman home town
REUTERS/Roberto Armenta
Vigil, who was the DEA assistant country attache to Mexico
during the 1990s, was skeptical of the allegations made during the Guzman trial
and said he was "surprised" by the arrest on Tuesday.
"I worked with Genaro Garcia Luna," Vigil said.
"We, DEA, had a very good working relationship with Genaro. At that time
there were no allegations of corruption. There we coordinated investigations
with them, and we never saw any evidence of compromise."
The allegations made during that trial seemed "less than
credible," Vigil said, in large part because Guzman was arrested twice
during the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who followed
Calderon into office in 2012.
But it was possible that a high-ranking Mexican official could
obscure activities in one area from their work with the US in another area.
"In terms of what the US sees, [it's] very different than
what occurs within the Mexican government, but through time if he were taking
bribes, obviously some of those investigations, you would've known if they had
been compromised," Vigil said. "But there's some areas that could be
compartmentalized in terms of efforts by the Mexican government."
If convicted on the drug-conspiracy charge, Garcia Luna faces a
mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life in jail.
"Today's arrest demonstrates our resolve to bring to
justice those who help cartels inflict devastating harm on the United States
and Mexico, regardless of the positions they held while committing their
crimes." Donoghue, the US attorney, said in the release, thanking the DEA,
the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, as well as police in New
York City and New York state.
Regardless of the outcome of the case, it tarnishes a bilateral
relationship in which cooperation against organized crime and drug trafficking
has been a major component.
"I don't know what the evidence is against Genaro Garcia
Luna," Vigil said Tuesday, "but it certainly is another black eye for
Mexico."
By weight, 86 percent of heroin that entered the
United States in 2016 was of Mexican origin, according statistics from the Drug
Enforcement Administration.
Why
does it matter? Well, because the U.S. under President Trump is trying hard
to get along with the new Mexican administration, run by the leftist
Andrés Manuel López-Obrador. His followers are the top suspects in this
mysterious helicopter crash, which, if the investigation leads anywhere, is
likely to cast a Putinesque pall over López-Obrador just as it gets its
grounding. Prepare for relations to deteriorate if that grows as a
backstory.
Mexican Arkancide?
Sometimes,
the coincidences get just too...coincidental.
Now
we have, in Mexico, the sudden helicopter crash of a newly elected governor,
after an apparently very bitter election. Here's the Globe
and Mail report :
A Mexican governor and her senator husband were
killed on Monday in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central
Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a
bitterly contested election.
Martha Erika Alonso, a senior opposition figure
and governor of the state of Puebla, died with Rafael Moreno, a senator and
former Puebla governor, when their Agusta helicopter came down on Monday
afternoon shortly after take-off, the government said.
This
seems to happen a lot in Mexico, quite unlike any comparable place in the
region that I know of.
A number of Mexican politicians have died in
aircraft accidents in recent years, including federal interior ministers in
2008 and 2011. The latter two were also members of the PAN.
Maybe
it was just the wildest of coincidences, but given the
savage character of Mexican politics, I think it's natural to be a little
suspicious. In most of these incidents, the motive is suspected but not
utterly obvious. This one is different: it came after a bitterly
contested election that the rabid left says was stolen. It sounds like
the sort of fury we saw from the left when Trump won – except that now we see
Mexican politics at play, potentially a straight-up assassination, possibly by
the embittered left.
Mexico
sees a lot of these helicopter downings, and what's more, it sees a lot of full
blown assassinations. A presidential candidate from before Mexico got
into multi-party politics, Luis Donaldo Colosio , was straight-out
assassinated in 1994, and his wife died under murky circumstances shortly after
that. Other elected officials have been gunned down or else died in
mysterious car crashes. There was definitely one of those in Michoacán.
Yes, some probably were the work of drug-dealers. But others were
far more likely to be Mexico's toxic politics. It does happen.
Yet
the Mexican government can get real touchy when you bring up any
suspicions about the helicopter crash phenomenon. I remember how furious
Mexico City's response was to an actually sympathetic editorial I wrote for
Investor's Business Daily, I think in 2008, when a Mexican official was
similarly killed in a helicopter crash. At the time, they were obviously
worried about the potential impact on foreign investment, but my thought was
to praise the Mexicans for their resolve and sacrifice in fighting
drug lords. That's not the way they think over there.
Why
does it matter? Well, because the U.S. under President Trump is trying
hard to get along with the new Mexican administration, run by the leftist
Andrés Manuel López-Obrador. His followers are the top suspects in this
mysterious helicopter crash, which, if the investigation leads anywhere, is
likely to cast a Putinesque pall over López-Obrador just as it gets its
grounding. Prepare for relations to deteriorate if that grows as a
backstory.
Perhaps
even more, it matters because Mexico's politics seems to be the model for
Democratic Party politics these days as rage over Trump dominates. In
California, ballot-harvesting has been adopted as a legal practice, in what's
a straight-out cultural appropriation
of Mexican politics . If the Democrats are planning to make themselves the
"perfect dictatorship" along the PRI model of one-party rule,
starting in California and taking that style national, well, the unhappy
question is, what else are they borrowing from Mexican politics as they
(without saying so, of course) borrow from the Mexican Model? Yes, it
sounds far-fetched. But we also know how implacably angry the
Democrats still are at the election of Donald Trump and how they like to get
away with things.
President Lopez-Obrador and the Wall
Over
the last few years, I've had conversations with friends in Mexico. We
usually end up talking about the border. For us, the border is illegal
immigration. For Mexicans, it's guns and cash corrupting a very fragile
political system.
As
a Mexican friend said recently, the cartels have the politicians in their
pockets, especially in the small towns where many of these vans full of cash
and guns drive through.
By weight, 86 percent of heroin that entered the
United States in 2016 was of Mexican origin, according statistics from the Drug
Enforcement Administration.
"After 9/11 we shut down the border. When we
shut down the border, drugs didn't come in," Bennett said. "If you
shut down that border, if you close it off, if you build a wall, it can have a
real and profound difference."
There
is another reason, as any rational Mexican will tell you.
On
a weekly basis, lots of cash and guns go south. They are the profits and
rewards of the drugs going north. According to unofficial
estimates :
Officials in Mexico believe the tide of laundered
money could be as high as $50bn per year, a sum equal to about three per cent
of Mexico's legitimate economy -- more than all its oil exports or spending on
key social programmes. Internationally, money laundering represents between two
and five per cent of global GDP, or between $800bn and $2tn annually, according
to the UNODC.
It
would be more difficult for money or guns to go south if you had a wall on
the border.
So
President Trump should pick up the phone and call President
Lopez-Obrador. He should thank him for keeping the caravans in Mexico and
discuss the benefits of the border wall. Why wouldn't the Mexican president
support the wall? I'm sure that the Mexican army and police would love to
see that wall go up.
The
lack of a stable border hurts both sides.
This will
crack you up!
Mexican
Presidents Deny They Took Bribes from El Chapo
Two former
Mexican presidents publicly denied taking bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel. The statements
came after the legal defense for JoaquÃn “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera made contrary
claims this week.
The drug lord is facing several
money laundering and drug trafficking charges at a federal trial in New York.
In his opening statement, defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman spoke of bribes
“including the very top, the current president of Mexico and the former.”
Soon after the statements became
public, Mexico’s government issued a statement denying the allegations. Eduardo
Sanchez, the spokesman for current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said
the statements were false and “defamatory.”
El
gobierno de @EPN persiguió, capturó y extraditó al
criminal JoaquÃn Guzmán Loera. Las afirmaciones atribuidas a su abogado son
completamente falsas y difamatorias
Former Mexican President Felipe
Calderon took to social media to personally deny the allegations, claiming that
neither El Chapo or the Sinaloa Cartel paid him bribes.
Son
absolutamente falsas y temerarias las afirmaciones que se dice realizó el
abogado de JoaquÃn “el Chapo” Guzmán. Ni él, ni el cártel de Sinaloa ni ningún
otro realizó pagos a mi persona.
Under Guzman’s leadership, the
Sinaloa Cartel became the largest drug trafficking organization in the world
with influence in every major U.S. city.
The allegations against Pena Nieto
are not new. In 2016, Breitbart News reported on an investigation by Mexican journalists which revealed how Juarez Cartel operators
funneled money into the 2012 presidential campaign. The investigation was
carried out by Mexican award-winning journalist Carmen Aristegui and her
team. The subsequent scandal became known as “Monexgate” for the cash cards
that were given out during Peña Nieto’s campaign. The allegations against Pena
Nieto went largely unreported by U.S. news outlets.
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 .
Mexico: Where Is Your Shame?
At a demonstration Wednesday in
Mexico City against Arizona's law.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Immigration: Mexico's government
gloated triumphantly after a federal judge's injunction blocked Arizona's
immigration law. But it's no victory for Mexico. In fact, Mexico's leaders
ought to be mortified.
As radical immigration activists
crowed with glee and the Obama administration claimed victory, Mexico's
government joined the applause.
Calling Judge Susan Bolton's
injunction Wednesday "a step in the right direction," Mexican Foreign
Minister Patricia Espinosa declared: "The government of Mexico would like
to express its recognition for the determination demonstrated by the federal
government of the United States and the actions of the civil organizations that
organized lawsuits against the SB 1070 law."
In reality, it ought to be ashamed.
Supposedly framed as an issue of federal power pre-empting state power, it's
hardly Mexico's business. But Mexico made a big show of saying its interest was
in protecting its nationals from the dreadful racism of Arizona that its own
citizens, curiously enough, keep fleeing to.
Espinosa said her government was busy
collecting data on civil rights violations and her department had issued an
all-out travel warning to Mexican nationals about Arizona.
That's where Mexico's hypocrisy is
just too much.
First, Mexico encourages illegal
immigration to the U.S. Oh, it says it doesn't, but it prints comic book guides
for would-be illegal immigrants and provides ID cards for illegals once they
get here. In Arizona alone, Mexico keeps five consulates busy.
That's not out of love for its
own citizens, but because Mexicans send cash back to Mexico that helps finance
the government.
Instead of selling its wasteful state-owned oil company or
getting rid of red tape to create jobs in Mexico, Mexico spends the hard
currency from remittances. It fails to look at why its citizens leave.
According to the Heritage
Foundation-Wall Street Journal 2010 Index of Economic Freedom, Mexico's big
problem is — no shock — government corruption, where it ranks below the world
average.
That's where Mexico's cartels come in.
Mexico's encouragement of illegal
immigration undercuts its valiant war against its smuggling cartels. The
cartels' prowess and firepower have made them the only ones who can smuggle
effectively across the border. U.S. law enforcers say they now control
human-smuggling on our southern border.
Feed them immigrants and they grow
more cash-rich — and right now, immigrant smuggling is about a third of the
cartels' income.
Mass graves and car bombings are
signs of criminal organizations getting bigger, and more powerful. Juarez,
which has lost 5,000 people this year, bleeds because cartels fight over not
just who gets the drug routes, but who gets the illegal-immigrant smuggling
routes, too.
Aside from the cartel mayhem in
Mexico, the bodies are piling up in the Arizona desert and U.S. Border Patrol
rescues of abandoned illegals left to die have risen.
It's not the desert's fault,
and it's certainly not Uncle Sam's fault, as activists claim. No, it's the fact
that Mexicans are encouraged to emigrate. Criminal cartels don't fear
abandoning their human cargo in the desert, as long as Mexico does nothing and
blames Uncle Sam.
Hearing Mexico's government now cheer
the Arizona ruling, which will only encourage more illegal immigration, gives
the country's regime a pretty inhuman face.
If Mexico had any decency, it would
do all it could to discourage illegal immigration and keep a respectful silence
about Arizona.
It needs U.S. support for its war on
cartels. Instead of insulting American citizens, Mexico should confront directly
the reasons why its people are so desperate to leave, and do all in its power
to destroy the cartels that are slowly killing the nation. That includes
defunding the murderous gangs by halting illegal immigration.
Mexican Judge Denies Bond for Cartel Boss Wanted in Te xas
2:45
MONTERREY,
Nuevo Leon – A Mexican federal judge has ruled against the release of a
recently captured cartel boss. The man is wanted by U.S. authorities in
connection to a high-profile cartel-execution near Dallas.
In a court hearing, a federal judge
in Monterrey ruled against releasing Luis Lauro “La Mora or La China” Ramirez
Bautista. He ordered that he be held without bond until further hearings.
Officials removed the wanted drug boss to the Cadereyta state prison. As
Breitbart News first reported in an exclusive article, detectives with the
Nuevo Leon’s State Investigations Agency arrested Ramirez Bautista at a checkpoint after the wanted drug lord left a bar near the Barrio
Antiguo neighborhood in Monterrey.
Prior to his arrest, Ramirez Bautista allegedly attempted to run
over a law enforcement official at the checkpoint and then resisted the arrest.
During the arrest, authorities seized a.38o caliber handgun carried by the
wanted drug lord.
The man known as La Mora is a key
boss with a criminal organization that once belonged to the Beltran Leyva
Cartel but has since branched off and become independent and highly dangerous.
Under orders from his boss Rodolfo “El Gato” Villarreal, Ramirez Bautista is
believed to have played a role in helping mastermind the 2013 murder of Gulf
Cartel attorney Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa. As Breitbart News reported , Guerrero Chapa
was gunned down in the ritzy Dallas suburb of Southlake after a long-term
surveillance operation. The murder was personal in nature since Ramirez
Bautista’s boss El Gato blamed Guerrero Chapa for the murder of his father.
Ramirez Bautista is wanted by U.S. authorities in the ongoing case
against Villarreal and federal authorities had added him to a most wanted list
of fugitive cartel bosses in the Texas border region.
federal judges in Mexico have been releasing an alarming number of
cartel bosses by ruling their arrests as
illegal or alleging some other bureaucratic error. The man known as La Mora had
been arrested in 2017. However, a Mexican federal judge ruled at the time that
the raid that led to his capture was illegal and ordered his release.
Soon after the most recent arrest,
gunmen from El Gato’s criminal organization murdered 34-year-old Santiago Aaron
Urbina Arellano. This man managed Bar Ambria, where Ramirez Bautista visited
prior to his arrest. It is believed that the gunmen targeted the bar manager
suspecting that he may have tipped off law enforcement.
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.
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