Saltillo, Coahuila: CJNG leaves narco message gives 4 cartels 72 hrs to get out

By Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat

Yesterday morning, CJNG narcomantas were reported being circulated throughout the city of Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila. It says they have arrived, will clear out cartels now in operation, and gives warning to all who are cooperatives with the cartels.

The message orders cartels it claims are operating in the city; El Cartel Del Golfo, Los Zetas and  El Cartel Del Noreste, and Sinaloa Cartel,  to leave Saltillo within 72 hours.

The message chastises El Mayo Zambada and the children of El Chapo Guzmán, Ivan and Jesús Alfredo who are also known as "Los Menores ("The Minors) who tells them they should be ashamed of how low their cartel has fallen.

CJNG ended with a message to the Coahuila Governor Ruben Moreira.  Stating “It is a pity that in the capital of your state, four cartels operate and no one did anything to get them out.  We will.”

Tijuana: The Executors

Original article available at ZETA
Translated by El Wachito

To this date, 1071 executions have been reported in Baja California. This sum has already surpassed the executions in 2014, 2015, and its about to surpass the executions of 2016. The Coordination Group has decided to focus their efforts on the capture of the Cell Leaders, who in their insane war, they have dedicated themselves to fight over the small scale drug sale points. The executors are 3 from "Los Aquiles" and 2 from "Los Chompas" of the Sinaloa Cartel; 2 of the "Pilotos" who belong to CAF; and 3 from CJNG. Only 1 has apprehension orders. 

Víctor Hugo Mejía López, "El Griego". René Arzate García, "La Rana" Alfredo Arzate García, “El Aquiles” , "El Mayor".

With 165 murders in Tijuana and 197 murders in Baja California, May was listed as the bloodiest month in the border city. Then in June, with 206 executions across the state, became the most violent state of the country. In that context, during the last six weeks, the State Secretary of Public Security, Daniel de la Rosa Anaya, has repeated in speeches and interviews that the fact that until July 14 there were 1,071 executed in BC and 824 only in Tijuana, Does not mean that there are thousands of assassins. The reality is that they are a few hitman and most of them belong to three cartels.

De la Rosa has made an effort to point out that those responsible are barely a dozen of traffickers and that their hitmen are not many. He speaks about 60 hitman, but only eight account for the majority of the victims.

According to the Coordination Group, a member of the municipal order explained that the hitmen seem numerous because when arrested or killed, they are quickly replace. "For example, we are realizing that the life of a killer is not very long", and depends on the information that they have.

Terror in Guanajuato: 10 Executed Including Police Chief of Celaya

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from Proceso

Official Dodge Ram P-up of the Chief of Police of Celaya

 Additional Material from Debate

 July 31, 2017

GUANAJUATO, Gto. In two different attacks committed in the early hours of Monday the  director of the Police of Celaya and his escort were assassinated, while in Abasolo a police woman was riddled by bullets at her home in an attack by armed men that left eight dead, with a total of 10 victims in both events, according to the PGR.

Around three in the morning of Monday, an armed group arrived in several vehicles to an address on Allende Street in the Municipality of Abasolo, meters from the towns square, where the municipal police agent along with family members were murdered, according to the initial information. The group began firing towards the house and at those who were inside. Some were able to run towards the street, but were hit by the alleged assassins and killed.

One Million Peso Reward Offered for "El Bukanas"

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from Proceso

Reward Offered for Former Top Cop Turned Top Fuel Thief

Extra Material from El Cambio
July 27, 2017

The locality of San Marcos Tlacoyalco is surrounded by personnel of the Mexican Army, Marine Armada of Mexico and Gendarmerie.

A hundred federal soldiers are currently operating a strong operation in the town of San Marcos Tlacoyalco, according to the first unofficial versions indicate that they are  looking for the second in command  of "El Bukana's" criminal group who control the area.

Death at San Ysidro; border officers encourage teen to drink liquid meth at Point of Entry

by Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat

Cruz drinks meth as CBP officer smiles

Last Friday night, ABC news on their weekly news magazine 20/20, a report was presented whereby a 16 year old Mexican high schooler was encouraged to drink fluid the teen claimed was juice, but what custom border patrol agents suspected was meth. He complied multiple times. Four to be exact.

And within 2 hours he died an excruciating death, after congesting a concentrated form of liquid meth that was 100 times greater strength than normal.

The event transpired in November, 2013 at the San Ysidro Port of Entry.  The San Ysidro POE is the land border crossing between San Diego and Tijuana, and the busiest land border crossing in the world. 50k plus southbound vehicles, and 25k plus northbound vehicles cross the POE each day.  Once ongoing construction to modernize and expand is completed, that number will experience a   substantial  increase.

By all accounts, from those who knew him best, 16 year old Cruz Velazquez, of Tijuana, always was a good kid.  His future plans included earning a university degree.  However, his sister says he had recently begun associating with a group of dubious young people that were different than his regular group.

Financier of El Mini Lic arrested in Atizpan

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article

Subject Matter: Nahum Abraham Sicairos, El Quinceanero
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

Reporter: Cesar Velazquez
Personnel of the Investigative Agency of the PGR, with support of the army, detained this morning Nahum Abraham Sicairos Montalvo, El Quinceanero, alleged financial operator of Damaso Lopez Serrano, El Mini Lic.

Sicairos Montalvo was apprehended as part of an operation in the Residential Franccionamiento Real Esmeralda, in the town of Atiapan de Zaragoza, in State of Mexico.

A little after 7am, the detained was taken from a house and transferred to the installations of SEIDO, in Mexico City, under a strong security operation.

Rosarito Beach, Baja California: Mexican Journalist killed, eighth this year

Chivis for Borderland Beat from La Jornada

It does not appear, from first reports, that the murder was related to his profession, nonetheless he died a hero........

At  dawn today, Rosarito Beach Journalist Luciano Rivera was killed by gunfire, according to the Public Security Directorate of that municipality.

The events transpired inside the bar La Antigua, located in the center of town  around 1:40 in the morning; According to the first reports, it occurred when the young reporter entered the bathroom and according to witnesses was assaulted after he defended a woman who was harassed by the alleged murderers.

By the time the Red Cross paramedics arrived, Rivera had died. The reporter participated in various tasks of the CNR Channel 54 of Playas de Rosarito.

Mexican Cyber-Mercenaries

 Translated from Proceso by Erin Gallagher ...follow Erin on Medium

After reporting threats against him, Mexican journalist Alberto Escorcia is more threatened than ever.

The following is a translation of a July 22, 2017 report by Mathieu Tourliere in Proceso magazine...

Mexico City (Proceso): When Alberto Escorcia Gordiano decided to dedicate himself to social network analysis about three years ago, he thought that he entered in a “calmer” world that he could “control.”

However, he started receiving death threats that forced him to leave the country twice. He even had to change his address after two individuals forced the door of his apartment open the night June 9. The police told him that they were “probably thieves,” reports Escorcia in an interview with Proceso.

- What part of your work could set off these attacks? he’s asked.

- I don’t really publish very severe things, but I do show that the cyber attacks and threats are coordinated operations; They’re not just two or three accounts spreading a rumor. My graphs and articles show that they are the product of two or three thousand organized accounts that have a purpose and an impact.

El Culichi, CDS plaza boss in Torreon, Coahuila killed by Police

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Noreste article

Subject Matter: Oscar Santiago N, El Culichi, CDS, Coahuila
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required

During the early hours of Sunday the 30th of July, there was a gun battle registered between an armed commando and elements of the Coahuila Force, in the Eduardo Guerra colonia in Torreon.

The Police managed to take down with gunfire an alleged leader of the Sinaloa cartel, identified as Oscar Santiago N, alias El Culichi, 30 years of age approximately.

The events occurred around 2 am in the morning, when the emergency system received reports that Coahuila Force were attacked by gunfire, and that the subject were aboard two vehicles on the crossroads of Lazaro Cardenas.

Guerrero: 7 killed as Police Escort ambushed transporting 1 Million MXN, funds slated for social programs

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from El Manana

 5 Dead Municipal Police Escorts for Bansefi Delivery
 for the Mexican Federal Gov't Program Prospera
Two Bansefi Employees also were murdered

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Note from Yaqui   A description of the Prospera Program can be found here.   The idea was simple enough: give money to a mother to encourage her to send her children to school and to the health center. That simple idea, which began in the 1990s, has now become a nationwide program in Mexico, benefitting 5.8 million families – a fourth of the country’s total population.
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An armed commando of up to 15 men shot to death five municipal police officers and two employees of Bansefi to strip them of $977,000 thousand Pesos in Federal support monies that would be distributed to marginalized communities of Ahuacuotzingo, Guerrero.

According to state authorities, the armed group ambushed agents and bank employees on the road leading to the community of Tecozaca, in the vicinity of the town of Zompazolco. In these events, registered yesterday morning, a employee  of National Bank for Savings and Financial Services who was injured in the attack reported it  by telephone.

How Mexican Cartels Prey on Chicago's Chaos

Republished by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from the Daily Beast

As Mexican Cartels manage to get more and more heroin into the U.S. each year, Chicago’s gangs are scrambling to be the ones to distribute it.

By: Jeremy Kryt
July 29, 2017

It’s summertime on the South Side of Chicago, and the sirens never seem to stop. In neighborhoods with names like Little Village, Back of the Yards, and Dolton, squad cars and ambulances scream day and night past shuttered storefronts and boarded-up houses. Welcome to the one of the most violent cities in America. There were 764 homicides here in 2016, according to a recent study by the University of Chicago Crime Lab. That’s a jump of more than 50 percent from the previous year, with most of them occurring in poor “ghetto” communities on the South and West Sides.

All that killing is fueled, at least in part, by the city’s booming drug trade.

Native poet Carl Sandburg once dubbed his home town “Player with Railroads and the Nation’s Freight Handler.” Add one of the country’s busiest airports and a cluster of major highway arteries to all those railroads and you get what DEA agent Mark Giuffre, of the Chicago Field Division, calls a “logistical hub” for narcotics trafficking.

The Heroin Highway Leads Into and Out of Southside Chicago

The Heroin Highway

Jaime Zapata killed with a gun from operation fast and furious

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from an El Debate article

Subject Matter: Jaime Zapata, Los Zetas
Recommendation: Read this article by BB Founder Buggs

Today a Judge in the United States found guilty two members of Los Zetas for the death of the frontier agent.

El Piolin confessed that the assassination of Agent Jamie Zapata was a mistake

This Thursday a Federal Judge found guilty two members of a narco trafficking cartel from Mexico involved in the assassination of an agent in the service of Immigration and Customs in the United States in February of 2011.

A communication from the Prosecutor reported that Jose Emanuel Garcia Sota, 36 years of age, and Jesus Ivan Quezada Pina, 29 years of age, both members of Los Zetas cartel, were declared guilty at a Federal trial in Washington for murder and intent to murder a Federal agent and weapons charges.

They were sentenced for the shootout that occurred on the 15th of February of 2011 in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, where they killed agent Jaime Zapata and wounded another agent.

El Taliban of Los Zetas sentenced to 30 years in prison in the United States

Translated by J. Cheever Loophole for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

Subject Matter: Ivan Velazquez Caballero, El Taliban
Recommendation: Read this article by BB Matriach Chivis

Reporter: Juan Alberto Cedillo
Micaela Alvarez, Federal Judge from Laredo, Texas, dictated a sentence of 30 years prison for Ivan Valezquez Caballero, El Taliban, ex plaza boss of Los Zetas in the North East of Mexico, for the crimes of narco trafficking and money laundering.

Vazquez Caballero, 47 years old, rose up the ranks of Los Zetas with Miguel Trevino Morales, a ruthless criminal in the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo accused of ordering killings in the United States, and mass killings in Mexico, said the San Antonio Express newspaper.

It was said that while Trevino lead the criminal organization, before being arrested in 2013, Velazquez became an informant for the Federal Drug Administration ( DEA ), eventually testifying against Francisco Colorado Cessa, a Veracruz businessman who helped Los Zetas to launder money buying quarter mile horses in US territory.

Mini Lic currently has no arrest warrants in Mexico or the USA

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Reforma article

Subject Matter: Damaso Lopez Serrano, El Mini Lic
Recommendation: Read this article by BB report J

Reporter: Abel Barajas
Even though he was identified as one of the visible heads of a new generation of narco traffickers, there are no known arrest warrants for Damaso Lopez Serrano, El Mini Lic, in Mexico or the United States.

According to the electronic system of the Federal Courts of the American Union, until yesterday, there has not been a registered indictment or accusation of wrong doing against the son of Damaso Lopez Nunez, El Licenciado, operator of the Sinaloa Cartel.

In Mexico he was part of the list of priority objectives of the Federal Government, however, there is no registration of orders of apprehension for cases of narco trafficking, nor amparos against capture for crimes of any nature.