Who needs a wall? Two Mexican Mayoral Candidates Executed in One Day + 115 murdered in 10 months.

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Two Mexican Mayoral Candidates Executed in One Day

Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
22 Jun 201883
Teams of cartel gunmen executed two mayoral candidates in less than 24 hours in the Mexican state of Michoacan, making the current electoral cycle one of the bloodiest in history. In 10 months, Mexico saw more than 115 murders of political candidates.
The most recent murder took place in Ocampo, Michoacan, when a team of three gunmen in tactical clothing barged into the home of Fernando Angeles Juarez and killed him. Officials have not revealed details about motive, however, in less than a week, Michoacan witnessed three political candidates’ executions.



The murder of Angeles Juarez came a few hours after a team of gunmen shot and killed Omar Gomez Lucatero, an independent candidate for mayor of Aguililla during a campaign event. Law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas that the current mayor of Aguililla, Israel Mendoza Mendoza, is living in exile in Morelia after being the target of numerous threats. The city does not have a police chief or a working department.



Soon after Gomez’s murder, his nephew streamed a video blaming the attack on gunmen working for another mayoral candidate named Osvaldo Maldonado. The nephew claimed that one day before the hit, gunmen approached Gomez and told him to drop out of the race or they would kill him. Maldonado issued a statement claiming he had nothing to do with the assassination.


Last week, cartel gunmen shot and killed Alejandro Chavez Zavala, the mayor of Taretan, Michoacan, as he made his way to a political event for his re-election, Breitbart Texas reported.

Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.

 

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Breitbart: 130 Mexican Political Candidates Assassinated in 10 Months


130 Mexican Political Candidates Assassinated in 10 Months

28 Jun 20183,819
Political assassinations, murders, and violence continue to escalate as Mexico’s elections approach. In the 10 months since the election cycle started, nearly 130 political candidates were murdered.
The most recent took place this week in Buena Vista Michoacan when a team of cartel gunmen shot and killed Javier Ureña Gonzalez, the acting mayor for the municipality as he visited a small village. Ureña assumed the role of acting mayor while his boss Lorenzo Barajas took leave to run for re-election.


Ureña’s murder comes one day after a Oaxaca state congressional candidate was gunned down along with four of his associates. A team of gunmen killed Emigdio Lopez Avendaño as he was visiting the town of San Vicente Coatlan in the southern part of the state.

Earlier this week, a local campaign worker in the border city of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, died when he drove up to the scene of a cartel gun-battle. Leonardo “El Chino” Diaz and another campaign worker were driving along the highway when they were caught in crossfire. The van that Diaz was riding in caught fire, charring his remains. In response, local candidates canceled their campaign events.

The murder in Miguel Aleman follows a drive-by shooting at the governor’s mansion in Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas. During the attack, the gunmen fired several shots out of an SUV, injuring a police officer that was guarding the building.

Mexico is experiencing one of the bloodiest electoral cycles in history with more than120 candidates murdered since September 2017. The most recent accounting for assassinated political candidates as of June 25 is 130, according to Etellekt.

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 “A.C. Del Angel” from Tamaulipas, “Tony Aranda” from Nuevo León, and Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán

 

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32 Mexican Journalists Murdered Since 2016
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AFP
28 Jun 2018139
Mexico continues to be the most dangerous place for journalists where most attacks on press freedom come at the hands of organized crime and government officials. Despite the constant assurances by the Mexican government, since 2016, the nation suffered the murders of 32 journalists with most of those cases still unsolved.

The escalating violence against journalists in Mexico and the impunity with which attacks take place earned the country in 2017 the ranking for the most dangerous place for journalists, according to the International Press Institute. During that year alone, the press freedom organization documented the murders of 14 journalists. In 2016, there were 11 journalists murdered in Mexico, with the death tolls only being higher in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mexico’s Proceso reported. Six months into 2018, Mexico saw the murders of six journalists; however other groups claim the figure is seven to include the murder of a newspaper editor in Mexico City during a robbery gone wrong.

The international press freedom organization Article 19 reported a rate of 1.5 attacks per day against journalists in 2017; the attacks included threats, physical attacks, and murders.

As Breitbart Texas reported in 2017, Los Zetas carried out one of many attacks against El Mañana in Nuevo Laredo, forcing the publication to stop printing for two days. In prior years, cartels threw grenades, kidnapped editors, and carried out other attacks against El Mañana in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, and Matamoros.

The IPI claims that since 2006, when Mexico is said to have officially started its war on drugs, there have been more than 80 journalists killed in Mexico.

More violence is expected in the coming days as Mexico prepares for its presidential election on July 1. The likelihood of violence and the expected protests pushed the Center for the Protection of Journalists to publish a safety advisory for those covering the process. The 2018 electoral cycle is Mexico’s bloodiest with at least 130 candidates murdered in a span of 10 months.

In only five months, Mexico saw the murders of six journalists while only one of those cases is apparently resolved. In late May, authorities found the body of Hector Gonzalez Antonio in a vacant lot in the Estrella neighborhood of Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas. Gonzalez was a national correspondent for Excelsior and worked in various local outlets. He was kidnapped, tortured, and then left for dead in the vacant lot. His murder remains unsolved.

Five days before Gonzalez’s death, a similar homicide took place in the border state of Nuevo Leon when authorities discovered the body of Alicia Diaz Gonzalez, a writer for El Financiero. Diaz Gonzalez was also beaten to death and left in a pool of blood in her home near Monterrey. In that case, authorities tracked down the victim’s spouse and was charged for the murder.

Earlier in May, in the southern state of Tabasco, a team of gunmen shot radio journalist Juan Carlos Huerta as he was leaving his home in Villa Hermosa. The case was labeled a targeted assassination but remains unsolved, Breitbart Texas reported.

In March, a team of gunmen shot and killed Leobardo Vazquez Atzin in Veracruz. Vazquez ran the online news site Enlace Informativo Regional and recently reported on a local mayor tied to an illicit property grab. Soon after his reporting was published, the journalist claimed he was receiving threats from the politician, Breitbart Texas reported.

In February, a team of gunmen murdered satirist Leslie Ann Pamela Montenegro del Real at a restaurant in Acapulco, Guerrero. Montenegro, who went by the name “Nana Pelucas,” was a sharp critic of the Mexican government and social issues, but managed to upset drug cartels who threatened her shortly before her murder. The homicide remains unsolved.

In January, a team of assassins ambushed and killed Tamaulipas columnist and semi-retired journalist Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. Dominguez was stabbed 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 homicide.

Also in January, Jose Gerardo Martinez, an editor with El Universal, was purchasing toys for his family in Mexico City for the Three Wise Men celebration when he was robbed at gunpoint and killed, Breitbart Texas reported. In central Mexico, more families receive presents during the January 6 visit by the Three Wise Men than on Christmas Day.

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 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.

 

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Watch: Chaos and Terror Erupt near Texas Border as Cartel Clashes with Mexican Army
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Breitbart Texas / Cartel Chronicles
11 Jul 201823
NUEVO LAREDO, Tamaulipas — Cartel gunmen and Mexican soldiers clashed throughout the streets of this border city for more than a day in a series of gun battles, spreading terror among local residents.

The violence began early in the morning when Mexican military forces carried out a series of raids aimed at capturing the leadership of the Los Zetas faction called Cartel Del Noreste. Gunmen quickly responded, setting off a series of fierce battles in the neighborhoods called Nueva Era, Voluntad y Trabajo, and La Fe.


Citizen journalists recorded the various shootouts and shared them on social media to document the out-of-control violence spreading through the region’s border cities.


By the afternoon, the violence spread to several other sectors in the city with one of the fiercest skirmishes taking place outside the Plaza Las Americas shopping mall where patrons were forced to drop for cover.



Unlike other cities where Tamaulipas state police officers are leading the charge against cartels, in Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican Army and Navy take the fight to CDN.

The violence in Nuevo Laredo began over the weekend when a team of cartel gunmen shot and killed the warden of the local prison. The murder took place outside a local elementary school. Humberto Vega Avalos was driving his department-issued truck when a team of gunmen ambushed and fired more than 120 bullets at him.



Law enforcement information obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed that Vega’s vehicle was shot more than 30 times, while the victim’s body exhibited close to a dozen wounds. Authorities collected various types of ammunition, including 7.62×39, 9mm, and .40 caliber.

While a motive has not been established, the murder is likely tied to the recent transfer of inmates out of the city, law enforcement sources revealed.

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 “A.C. Del Angel” and “Francisco Morales” from Tamaulipas.

 

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26 Murdered in Day in El Paso-Juárez Metro Area
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File Photo: Jesus Alcazar/AFP/Getty Images
8 Aug 201847
A gang hit in a Chihuahua state prison targeting a high ranking Los Aztecas member is believed to have unleashed a wave of violence which resulted in the killing of 26 people during a 24-hour period. Eleven victims were discovered in a Ciudad Juárez residence alone.

Juan Arturo Padilla, aka “El Genio” believed to have been the second in command of Los Aztecas, was murdered inside the state prison on Thursday, August 2, according to local reports. The disturbance was believed to have been staged as a diversion to allow incarcerated hitmen to locate and kill the Los Aztecas leader; which then sparked a series of killings throughout Ciudad Juárez. “El Genio” was captured in Michoacán in early July and transferred to the Chihuahua state prison to face murder charges.

In the most shocking series of killings, police were summoned to a second story residence in colonia Pradera de Los Oasis where they made the grisly discovery of 11 victims who were brutally tortured in what is believed to be a gang safe house where cocaine and methamphetamine were sold. The 11 victims consisted of eight men and three women who were either strangled or suffocated to death. The women were reportedly sexually assaulted, according to police and local media.

The shocking escalation of violence in Ciudad Juárez is attributed to the resurgence of the Juárez Cartel or “El Nuevo Cartel de Juárez” and a recent split of a key leader from Los Aztecas to La Línea.

Los Aztecas, also known as Barrio Aztecas, operate in the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez Metropolitan Border Area by performing hits for the Juárez Cartel in addition to extortion, kidnappings, and street-level drug sales. Los Aztecas are also in the midst of an internal conflict between the Old School Aztecas and a second faction loyal to the recently captured leader of La Línea. The split between former allies set off a deadly turf war. Local and federal law enforcement sources also cite the presence of the Sinaloa Cartel as a cause for violence throughout the border state abutting western Texas and New Mexico.

One law enforcement source who spoke to Breitbart Texas on the condition of anonymity said it is believed that La Línea and the aligned faction of Los Aztecas are currently eliminating the rival Los Aztecas faction.

Breitbart Texas reported on the escalating criminal activity in Ciudad Juarez, recently noting that the United States Consulate General issued a security alert prohibiting federal employees from traveling into the downtown area without advance permission, due to cartel 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

 

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Tijuana: 100 Murdered in August’s First 12 Days
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AP File Photo/Gregory Bull
15 Aug 2018123
A total of 100 murders were registered in Tijuana during the first 12 days of August, bringing the grand total for the year to 1,547.

The record-breaking murder rate is on track to make 2018 the bloodiest in the border city’s modern history, according to local reports.

The most recent killings occurred on Monday during the early morning hours in various locations throughout the city.

At 2:30 am, municipal police responded to colonia Lázaro Cárdenas where citizens reported hearing gunfire coming from a residence. Upon entry, police located a male later identified as Arturo Fajardo Flores unconscious and suffering from gunshot wounds. First aid was provided, but the victim was declared deceased shortly thereafter.

In another incident, police were summoned to the eastern side of Tijuana to Ejido Francisco Villa at 3:51 am where an unidentified female suffering from multiple gunshot wounds was dumped by a road. Paramedics attempted to revive the victim, but she succumbed to her wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

July concluded with a total of 257 homicides, continuing the upward monthly trend.

Murders per Month

January – 211

February – 187

March – 195

April – 220

May – 229

June – 229

July – 257

August 12* – 100

The record-breaking numbers in Tijuana are attributed to ongoing 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 routes leading into the United States. Those involved in the killings are primarily low-level street dealers, lookouts, customers, and enforcers for these criminal gangs. Many of the street dealers are targets of rip-crews looking for cash and drugs.

A total of 15,973 murders were registered in Mexico during the first six months of 2018, making it the deadliest year since 1997 when a tracking system was implemented, as reported by Breitbart Texas.

Additionally, statistics indicate a 125.6% increase in murders involving the use of firearms over the last three years, according to reports gathered from the Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (SEGOB).

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

 

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Mexican Cops Find 166 Bodies in Cartel Killing Field
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Veracruz Attorney General's Office
6 Sep 2018316
Mexican authorities discovered the remains of at least 166 victims in a cartel killing field. The victims were buried in 32 mass graves. Authorities believe that more bodies are still buried in the area.

The gruesome investigation began in August when Veracruz Attorney General’s Office investigators received information from an individual about hundreds of victims buried at a ranch in the southern part of the state. According to information released by the Veracruz state government, authorities began combing the area and quickly began discovering numerous clandestine gravesites.



Veracruz is a state historically controlled by Los Zetas Cartel, a criminal organization responsible for several more mass graves and killing fields throughout Mexico. In the border state of Coahuila, Breitbart Texas carried out a three-month investigation into how Los Zetas were able to kidnap, murder, and incinerate more than 300 victims from the rural communities in the region. In 2011, Los Zetas were responsible for a large scale killing field in San Fernando, where authorities recovered 193 bodies in 47 mass graves, Breitbart Texas reported.

Authorities in Veracruz confirmed 32 mass graves from which they recovered 166 skulls in an area that is approximately 900 square feet.As part of the investigation, authorities found 114 identification documents and more than 200 items of clothing along with various accessories and personal items.



According to Veracruz state officials, the cartel killing field appears to be more than two years old. However, forensic investigations continue to search for more bodies for identification purposes.



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 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.