Mexico - kidnapped journalist found dead

[angelburst29]

Another Mexican journalist, kidnapped and found dead. To date, 89 journalists in Mexico have been killed between 2005 and 2015.


Kidnapped Reporter Anabel Flores Salazar's Body Identified By Family
http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/02/kidnapped-reporter-anabel-flores.html

Tehuacán Puebla.Veracruz, Mexico - The body of Anabel Flores Salazar, 32, has been identified by family members, according to the Veracruz Attorney General's office. Salazar, a freelance reporter for El Sol de Orizaba and former reporter for El Buen Tono was found dead along the Cuacnopalan-Oaxaca highway near the municipality of Tehuacán Puebla.

Salazar was abducted on Monday around 2:00 a.m. from her home in the municipality of Mariano Escobedo in Veracruz by a commando militia group of armed men. The armed men wearing military clothing told family members that they had a warrant for her arrest and then took her. Her body was found on Tuesday in the neighboring state of Puebla partially dressed with feet and hands tied behind her back and showed signs of torture.

El Buen Tono reported that Salazar was dismissed about eight months ago and was no longer connected with the newspaper. The newspaper administration became suspicious that Salazar was driving a 2015 Patriot SUV when she wasn't earning enough salary to afford the SUV and had connections with organized crime. El Sol de Orizaba confirmed that Salazar was a freelance crime reporter for the last six months.

Salazar was suspected to having a relationship with a known criminal. The Mexican military in Acultzingo on August 30, 2014 arrested Victor Osorio Santacruz, aka, "El Pantera" who was accompanied by Salazar at the time of the arrest.

At least 6 journalists including Salazar had reported to authorities that they had received threats by unknown persons for reporting about crime. Several newspapers have suspended all crime reporting as a result of the threats and Salazar's homicide.

Salazar is survived by two children including a recent birth of a child.


A killed journalist, and the latest blow to press freedom in Mexico
http://kuow.org/post/killed-journalist-and-latest-blow-press-freedom-mexico

At a museum in Mexico City, an exhibit memoralizes Mexico's killed and disappeared journalists. The displays names 89 journalists who have been killed between 2005 and 2015.

 

[caballero reyes]

This just keeps getting worse. It seems that here and in the world no one can solve any problema.
And now:

52 killed in clash in Topo Chico prison in Mexico
Juan Paullier
BBC World, Mexico City (juanpaullier)

Fifty-two people were killed and 12 wounded on Thursday in a dispute between inmates at a prison in northeastern Mexico, in the most serious incident in a prison in the country in at least three decades.
The confrontation between inmates recorded this morning was held in the prison of Topo Chico city of Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo Leon.
Governor Jaime Rodriguez confirmed at a press conference the death toll and said five of the injured were in serious condition.
"The facts are extremely unfortunate and painful for the entire state of Nuevo Leon," he said.
Topo Chico prison, MonterreyImage copyrightAFP
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The governor of Nuevo Leon, Jaime Rodriguez, said that the tragedy is derived from the "difficult" situation in prisons.
"We are living a tragedy resulting from the difficult situation they are in prison," he added.
The fight
Rodriguez said on Wednesday 23:30 (5:30 GMT) a clash between two groups of inmates led by Ivan Hernandez Jorge Cantu, "The Creed" was reported, and Juan Pedro Saldivar Farias, "The Z-27".
In the scuffle, the prisoners set fire to the cellar supplies from one sector of the prison said Rodriguez who ruled out the use of firearms during the incident

 

[Marina9]

Today is the 2nd anniversary of another journalist who was killed, and still, "no one" can tell what happened.. Things are getting really bad for journalists in Mexico who openly talk about corruption. This was something we saw a long time ago when the party PRI had power, and now that they're back, things are going back to those times.. On another note, yesterday another journalist from magazine "Proceso" (which investigates on lots of corruption situations in the country) was threatened via Twitter...

I study journalism and live in Mexico, yesterday things mentioned by a teacher got me thinking. We were talking about the journalist who was killed two years ago which I mention previously, he said: "well, we cannot relate his murder to his job, it was more of a vengeance thing cause he was writing about the corruption in a night club, the owner of this night club threatend him she would kill him, so it was vengeance..." I myself thought What?! Did he just say that?! So it really got me thinking how government may be sending notes on how they want their journalists to be... It was very disappointing to hear this and to see how the country is really drowning...

 

[angelburst29]

This just keeps getting worse. It seems that here and in the world no one can solve any problema.
And now:

52 killed in clash in Topo Chico prison in Mexico
Juan Paullier
BBC World, Mexico City (juanpaullier)

Fifty-two people were killed and 12 wounded on Thursday in a dispute between inmates at a prison in northeastern Mexico, in the most serious incident in a prison in the country in at least three decades.

Thanks for Posting this - Caballero Reyes. What makes this prison riot even more interesting, Pope Francis is scheduled to visit this area next Wednesday Feb. 17th.

'A new era for Juárez': pope's visit hails optimism for a city ravaged by drug wars
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/a-new-era-for-juarez-popes-visit-hails-optimism-for-a-city-ravaged-by-drug-wars

When Pope Francis visits the drug war crucible known as Ciudad Juárez he will be greeted by whitewashed walls, newly planted shrubs and pink-hued billboards proclaiming “Juárez is love” and “Proud of Juárez”.

Mexico’s gritty border city has pulled out the stops for the 17 February visit, prettifying the papal route and erecting a huge altar for a cross-border mass on a former fairground from which the pontiff will address hundreds of thousands of worshippers.

“We can show the world things have changed,” said Guillermo Dowell, a spokesman for the governor of Chihuahua state, which encompasses the city. “The pope’s visit marks a new era for Juárez.”


Gang riot wracks Mexican prison; 52 dead amid clashes and flames
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/gang-riot-wracks-mexican-prison-52-dead-amid-clashes-and-flames/2016/02/11/329efa5a-d0d6-11e5-b2bc-988409ee911b_story.html

It also comes less than a week before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit a prison in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, a former epicenter for battles between Mexico’s powerful drug networks.

Rodriguez said at least 52 inmates were killed and 12 were injured, including some burned in cell block blazes as mattresses and furniture were set aflame.


Mexico prison riot: at least 52 people killed and 12 injured in Monterrey (Video)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/11/dozens-killed-in-prison-riot-in-monterrey-mexico

Jaime Rodríguez, the governor of Nuevo León state, which encompasses Monterrey, confirmed the death toll on Friday morning and told reporters that the riot at the Topo Chico prison had begun shortly before midnight.

Rodríguez said that one of the factions involved in the violence was led by a leader of the Zetas cartel, Juan Pedro Saldivar-Farías, known as “Z-27”. The leader of the other group, Jorge Iván Hernández, “El Credo”, was identified by Mexican media as a leader of the Gulf Cartel.

Los Zetas, founded by a group of former special forces soldiers, were originally the Gulf Cartel’s enforcement wing, but turned on their former masters in 2010, triggering a vicious war for territory which has wrought havoc across north-eastern Mexico.


Mexico prison riot: 52 killed in rival gang battle
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/dead-mexico-prison-riot-160211125017159.html
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[Oxajil]

Today is the 2nd anniversary of another journalist who was killed, and still, "no one" can tell what happened.. Things are getting really bad for journalists in Mexico who openly talk about corruption. This was something we saw a long time ago when the party PRI had power, and now that they're back, things are going back to those times.. On another note, yesterday another journalist from magazine "Proceso" (which investigates on lots of corruption situations in the country) was threatened via Twitter...

Sounds a bit like Turkey where journalists who form a threat to the government are silenced. I wonder if there is also corruption among journalists, i.e. ignoring crimes/corruption from criminals they have a 'deal' with. For example, in the article posted by angelburst29 about Salazar, it was mentioned she "was suspected to having a relationship with a known criminal", but I guess that could be made up.

 

[angelburst29]

Mexico is starting to reflect a real war-zone?

Thousands of body parts were found at a ranch where authorities believe people kidnapped by a cartel were taken to be burned and buried.

Remains of About 400 Bodies Discovered at Ranch in Mexico (Map of disappearances by zones - 22,322 people missing to date)
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Remains-of-about-400-Bodies-Discovered-at-Ranch-in-Mexico-20160210-0027.html

Published 10 February 2016 - Mexican authorities from the southwestern state of Veracruz discovered thousands of human remains they believe belong to up to 400 people who were forcibly disappeared in the past few years, Veracruzan officials confirmed Wednesday.

“The forensic scientists have been working for three days at the El Limon ranch in order to pick up the remains and process them as they were being discovered,” a government source told Mexican news outlet Animal Politico.

Two of the bodies found at the ranch have been identified as belonging to the two students who were disappeared Jan. 11 by police, according to official sources.

Animal Politico, however, said the ranch was being used by an organized crime group, which they believe is working for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, an offshoot of the Sinaloa Cartel of world infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

The police sources who spoke with Animal Politico said they arrived at the ranch due to various citizen complaints, who among other things, told police that huge amounts of dirt and sand had been removed from inside the property.

“The police teams arrived to El Limon with dogs trained in locating human remains and once they detected the key areas where body fragments were, forensic experts began their work,” the news outlet added.

However, forensic scientists are facing problems with the blood, human parts and bones that are being found because the vast majority are in an advanced state of decomposition.

The Veracruzan state attorney general and federal authorities participating in the investigations have said they believe the victims were taken to the ranch and there their bodies were incinerated, crushed and then buried.

On Tuesday, the Ministry of the Interior's head of human rights, Roberto Campa, confirmed that the ranch was used for mass disappearances.

Authorities already know who one of the owners of the ranch is, but have refused to publicly identify him, saying it would hinder the ongoing investigations.

“The name has not been revealed, but authorities said that one person purchased the ranch about three years ago and that the person lives in Veracruz, although in a different area,” Animal Politico said. “The owner is not from Tierra Blanca.”

On Jan. 11, five students from the community of Tierra Blanca, Veracruz, were abducted by municipal police officers. Only two of them have been found dead among the remains in the El Limon ranch.

The Veracruzan attorney general has issued warrants for the location and detention of the alleged owner of the ranch. He will be asked whether he knew of the illegal activities taking place on his property.

One line of investigation, according to Animal Politico, is that the ranch was being used by a gang working for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and that the local leader of this cartel, Francisco Navarrete, was the true owner of the property. Navarrete was arrested Jan. 24.

But Navarrete's detention is plagued with irregularities, according to his relatives, who told Mexican daily Reforma that authorities “lied.”

Navarrete is from Tierra Blanca and according to his family he is an engineer who was working for the governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte.

The family showed photos and videos to Reforma proving that Navarrete was not detained where nor how authorities later claimed.

“To begin with, he and his son were not armed and they were detained in a routine police roadblock,” the relatives told Reforma, adding that since he had some kind of conflict with Duarte, the government decided to accuse him of the disappearance of the five students and of being the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Tierra Blanca.

The El Limon ranch is about 40 miles away from where the five students were arrested by state police, which means they could have been taken to the property within an hour and 15 minutes.

When the ranch was first raided by police last week, two stolen vehicles were found as well as tools and equipment used for the illegal extraction of fuel. Also found was a workshop used to make hidden compartments in vehicles which had clear signs that people were being held there.

The zone where the ranch is located used to be controlled by Los Zetas, but as of 2013 the CJNG took over and has since increased their presence across the whole region.

 

[Ca.]

Mexico seemed like another test bed of the many waves of the intentional and forced migration on the Worlds stages.

And there is also collateral damage and a silencing of the journalist whom bring light of the atrocities.

The Cartels and the underworld associates rack in billions with no regards if anyone gets in there way.

Charles Bowden on NAFTA, War on Drugs, and immigration.

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Sunday, February 7, 2016
Borderland Beat
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2016/02/introduction-how-to-live-with-el-narco.html
Introduction: Learning to Live With El Narco
How do we learn to live with el narco?

By: Dulce Ramos | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

“You learn to live with the pain.” Resigned, with glassy eyes, Emma Veleta Rodríguez recounts how eight men in her family disappeared on the same day in Anáhuac, Chihuahua, four years ago.

The local press said something, but no one asked, later, how a family survives on a day to day basis when it is left without providers.

In Tamaulipas, a reporter is summoned to a meeting with an organized crime boss. They inform him, or rather obligate, to receive a bribe. It can’t be denied. A journalist who breaks this rule appears dead.

How does the disappearance of an ordinary man’s son from Guerrero convert him into a “dog”, as they call the professional clandestine grave searchers?

We know that on the roads of Tamaulipas, they kidnap, extort, and disappear…but how do those who have no other choice pass through there?

Organized crime not only makes us fear for our lives. Its impact is felt beyond. For example, in the closure of shops that sell common supplies by narco harassment, forcing entire communities to travel kilometers in order to buy something as simple as milk.

Since the government of Felipe Calderón declared “war” against organized crime, the Mexican media has covered missing or dead, but has forgotten to narrate the day after.

The digital project “Aprender a Vivir con el Narco” (Learning to live with El Narco) has those stories.

We know that organized crime breathes at our neck, but what have we done to stand up to fear when the State- either missing, an accomplice, or exceeded at its ability to react, fails to guarantee minimum security?

“Today is a fact that violence is declining in Mexico.” Enrique Peña Nieto said this in his message for the third government report. Their sustenance: the reduction in the homicide rate in 2014, which according to INEGI was 24.3% lower than in 2012.

However, to close 2015, there is a number of data that contradicts-or at least- questions it. The first is that the downward trend in the denunciations of murder is over. The first half of 2015 closed with a rising trend. This is the first time in four years that something like this has happened. Compared to the same period as last year, the number grew 0.4%.

The second fact: the increase in the perception of insecurity in the year that Peña took the reins of government and its sustained performance since.

Between 2012 and 2013, the percentage of Mexicans over 18 years that believed it to be unsafe to live in his or her own state because of crime grew by almost six percentage points. It went from 66.6% to 72.3%. From then until now, the figure has hardly changed. This year (2015), 73% of citizens feels unsafe in their territory, according to the National Survey of Victimization and Perception of Public Safety 2015.

“The people in general that feel fear, is due to common crimes or property crimes,” said the director of the National Laboratory of Public Policy for the Center of Investigation and Economic Research, Carlos Vilalta, one of the academics who has most studied the fear in the country.

With that phrase, one might think that citizens fear common criminals and not drug traffickers, let’s remember that, for a decade, organized crime has changed the face of Mexico.

The Mexican “narco” has gone from settling as large organizations that traffic drugs internationally, to having among their ranks small local groups that terrorize the city with its power of violence, firepower, kidnapping, and extortion. This “new narco” plays in the field of Mexicans on foot and has them in fear.

And how has the government acted? At first, with silence. Education, telecommunications, energy, and other reforms were their center of speech. But incidents like the Tlatlaya massacre or the disappearance of the 43 normalistas in Iguala made the policy of silence fall under its own weight.

“To stop talking about the crime problem is not a policy of crime prevention. Nor is it a control policy, nor is it a communication policy to reduce the fear of crime (…). It is simply to silence things. That doesn’t work,” Said Carlos Vilalta.

Why do the consequences of learning to live with the narco become so important as to create this digital project? Not only because it is urgent to portray the faces of those who plant their face in fear, but because a country’s conflict, the fragility and the governance are being targeted by the international community.

Since the United Nations was running a discussion on the Millennium Development Goals-which countries had to complete in 2015- organizations such as Open Society Foundation, funder of this project, promotes a new more comprehensive agenda for 2030.

With an initiative called Goal 16, Open Soceity encourages states to not only commit to combating extreme poverty, its causes and consequences, but also to prioritize confronting organized crime, reduce all forms of violence, homicide rates, promote the rule of law, strengthen transparency at all levels of government, and involve citizens in public decision making. All these goals have a direct relation to tackle and eliminate fear experienced by Mexicans since the state’s ability to keep them safe broke.

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[angelburst29]

Photo of slain baby with dead family in Mexico sparks outrage against gang violence (GRAPHIC IMAGE)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/photo-slain-baby-dead-family-mexico-sets-outrage-article-1.2520733

Thursday, February 4, 2016 - A memorial for a murdered baby in Pinotepa, Mexico. The child's death was compared to Alan Kurdi, who died fleeing violence in Syria.

This photo from Mexico is tearing hearts across the country, the world and the Internet.

The haunting image of a dead 7-month-old baby lying in the arms of his slain parents after gunfire erupted in the Mexican state of Oaxaca is being compared to the chilling image of a Syrian child who drowned while trying to escape to Turkey.

The baby, not even a year old, was killed in a deadly shootout. His father, 24-year-old Juan Alberto Pano Colon was carrying him with his mother, Alba Isabel Colon, 17, on Jan. 31. The ruthless gunmen opened fire over a drug beef, killing the family at the scene.

The cold-blooded killing stemmed from a gang war that has engulfed the area, the Oaxaca State Attorney’s office said.

“A rival drug gang from [the neighboring state of] Guerrero located them and had them riddled with bullets,” prosecutors told CNN.

Just a day after the shooting, four people were arrested in connection with the innocent baby’s brutal death.

The disturbing image has sparked outrage across the Internet against the country’s endless gang violence in the country, which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims.

On the Facebook page “Solo Acapulco,” the horrifying photo was uploaded with this caption:

“Do you remember the Syrian boy? Do you remember how you became indignant and put a flag on Facebook? This is what happens in Mexico, to be precise in Pinotepa Oaxaca, where drug violence killed this family, including this little 7-months-old angel.”

For many, the photo was as troubling as the picture of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, who drowned when his family tried escaping war-torn Syria.

In the same way that Kurdi became a haunting symbol of the suffering that Syrian refugees endured, viewers hope the photo of the dead child in Mexico will have a similar effect.



24 members of El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel captured along Arizona border in 'Operation Diablo Express'
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/24-high-ranking-members-sinaloa-drug-cartel-arrested-article-1.2515437

TUCSON, Ariz. — The highly secretive, daylong law enforcement operation around the Arizona border with Mexico resulted in the arrest of two dozen alleged high-level Mexican drug cartel members, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman.

The sting known as Mexican Operation Diablo Express took place all of Friday as numerous law enforcement agencies converged onto Lukeville, Ariz., which sits on the border with Mexico.

Homeland Security Investigations, a unit of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, helped Mexican authorities nab 24 alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s biggest drug-trafficking organizations, who were operating around Sonoyta, Mexico, and the U.S. border, spokeswoman Gillian M. Christensen said. The DEA, FBI, Customs and Border Protection and Arizona state and local agencies were on hand to assist.

“The targeted Sinaloa cell has been responsible for the importation of millions of pounds of illegal drugs, including marijuana, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, into the United States from Mexico during its existence. The organization is also responsible for the smuggling of millions of dollars in U.S. currency, along with weapons, into Mexico,” Christensen said in a statement.

The operation was conducted “with utmost secrecy” and took all day Friday as numerous law enforcement officers worked in both Lukeville and Sonoyta, bordering cities that are on the route to the Puerto Peñasco, the popular beach destination many Americans know as Rocky Point.

ICE helped Mexican federal police into the U.S. to keep them safe during the operation, Christensen said.

The sting also netted the seizure of several assault-type weapons and hundreds of pounds of drugs.

“ICE applauds the Government of Mexico for their bold action in taking down this criminal organization and for their continued pressure on the Sinaloa Cartel throughout Mexico,” Christensen said.

The arrests are the latest blow to the Sinaloa Cartel after the arrest of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman on Jan. 8, six months after he tunneled out of a top-security Mexican prison for the second time.

The Mexican government says it is cooperating with an extradition request for Guzman from the U.S.

The 24 people arrested on Friday have not been identified. They are in the custody of Mexican authorities, and the U.S. will seek extradition.

 

[Ca.]

Investigation: US ATF Secretly Arming Mexican Drug Cartels (Mar 3, 2011 - CBS)

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Former Border Patrol agent warns what's coming............The complete Interview (sorry for the numerous corrections)

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Published on Jul 20, 2014

Zach Taylor is a 27 year veteran Border Patrol agent with supervisory experience. He has testified before Congress as an expert witness on criminal activity in wilderness areas. His message is credible. He accuses the federal government in a coverup that is deliberately shielding critical information from the public.

Taylor says that whoever is perpetrating the border crisis is engaged in a perfect asymmetrical military tactic. While the American people focus on "the children,"he points out that they are actually only a tiny proportion of the people crossing the border. That we are apprehending about 10 percent of the illegal border crossers, and that the other 90 percent are not children. Since only 10 - 15 percent of those apprehended are children, that means we are focused on about 1 percent of the problem. The adults that we are missing are bringing in weapons, personnel and supplies while our attention is diverted by the needs of the children.

He says a very credible informer told him that that the most dangerous crime element in Mexico City is Russian Mafia. That means KGB. Few people know this, but the Soviets entered a secret pact with Mexico very early in the last century, almost certainly with the eventual aim of utilizing Mexico's strategic position in offenses against the U.S. There is little doubt in my mind that the border crisis is an endgame strategy designed to bring in the people and weapons that will kill us. And Taylor asserts that Obama is in on the plan.

The only way to defeat this border swamping strategy is for state governments to initiate independent action with assistance from American volunteers. The federal government is betraying our country and its representatives are betraying their oath to "support and defend" our Constitution and country "from all enemies foreign and domestic."

Time for governors to stand up, seal the border and begin deporting aliens on their own. We need to get aggressive here. Otherwise Obama and his fellow communists will steal our country from us while we watch. And we are likely setting ourselves up for a terrorist attack. As Dick Cheney has warned, another attack is coming which will be far deadlier than 9-11.

False Flag Alert

CIA chief warns of Daesh chemical threat
Published on Feb 11, 2016

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[Ca.]

The Last post Contains Very Graphic and Explicit Materiel
My Error Apologies