[83] Nuevo León's security spokesman said that the 49 people were killed up to 48 hours earlier at a different location, most likely in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas,[84] and then transported by truck to where they were found. The Sinaloa cartel and Los Zetas are "regional and cultural opposites," because the Sinaloa organization has been moving drugs north from the ranch country parts in Mexico into the U.S. for generations, while Los Zetas are newer arrivals from the more urban eastern coast. Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a six-year term, 128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years. In 2008, there were about 4,500 inmates in jail - now there are 11,000 which has been accredited to the government's crackdown on the drug cartels. [117], After the discovery of the 49 corpses, the Mexican military implemented "Operation Rastrillo" to coordinate the regional commanders in the states bordering Nuevo León to seal and prevent the movement of offenders into other areas of the region. 'I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn't they would kill me', the teen said calmly. [20] On the supply side, the increased pressures on Sinaloa kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, whose operations in Colombia in 2012 prompted his organization to grab larger shares of cocaine from Peru and Ecuador, threatened the supply-lines of Los Zetas, and triggered tit-for-tat attacks among both cartels. In February 1985 Camarena was kidnapped by drug traffickers in Guadalajara, Mexico. [94], The Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) attributed the escalating violence in the country to the criminal organizations headed by Joaquín Guzmán Loera (a.k.a. Sinaloa cartel run by Joaquín “El Chapo” Gúz-man, and the Gulf cartel, based on the east coast. [23] Their presence represents a new model for organize crime, unseating many older cartels with their brutal violent tactics that destabilize Mexico. [9] Four days before this incident, 18 people were found decapitated and dismembered near Mexico's second largest city, Guadalajara. 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[60] Several hours later, 14 decapitated bodies were abandoned inside a vehicle in front of the Customs Agency;[61] the severed heads were left inside several ice coolers in front of the municipal palace. [2][3] The Blog del Narco, a blog that documents events and people of the Mexican Drug War anonymously, reported that the actual (unofficial) death toll may be more than 68 people. Edgar Jimenez, known as 'El Ponchis' (The Cloaked One) is believed to have worked as a hitman for a Morelos drugs gang, based just outside of Mexico City. [22] The Sinaloa cartel uses tit-for-tat attacks as a way of bringing down the newcomers; for Los Zetas, it is about maintaining their violent reputation – the organization's most valued asset. [37] The Blog del Narco reported on 21 September 2011 that the message left behind was supposedly signed by Gente Nueva, an enforcer group of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the top boss of the Sinaloa cartel;[38] However, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel also claimed responsibility, and announced they were planning to take over Veracruz. [26] Wherever it stems from, decapitations is "now a staple in the lexicon of violence" in the Mexican Drug War. [15][16], Since 2011, Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel have emerged as the two main criminal syndicates in Mexico's drug war, with smaller gangs lining up on either side in a competition that now resembles a "full-scale war. Horrific video shows Mexican drug cartel decapitating five members of rival gang. Felix Gallardo played a key role in the formative years of Mexico’s cartels. With Scoot McNairy, Diego Luna, José María Yazpik, Fermín Martínez. [104] Other banners were also put up in Monterrey and Nuevo Laredo. Le groupe est issu d'une scission du cartel de Juárez en 1999. [27] Los Zetas, however, responded with their own butchery by leaving 26 corpses in the state of Jalisco and over a dozen in Sinaloa. More than 28,000 Mexicans have been murdered in the past four years. Find out more about the greatest Mexicans, including 6ix9ine, Guillermo del Toro, Frida Kahlo, Salma Hayek and Eiza González. Episode 8 41m. [33][34][35] All of the victims were alleged to be members of Los Zetas,[36] but it was later proven that only six of them had been involved in minor crime incidents, and none of them were involved with organized crime. José Manuel Mireles Valverde (24 October 1958 – 25 November 2020) was a Mexican medical doctor and leader and founder of the paramilitary self-defense groups that fought against the Knights Templar Cartel, and other cartels, in the state of Michoacán and others, in México. [101] Over the dark scene in the videotape, a voice was heard on the background yelling: "How many are left? Play it now. [24] His military-led approach shortly after taking office spiraled the violence in the country, and has eroded the support of Calderon's conservative National Action Party (PAN), which did not regain the presidential seat in the 2012 presidential elections. A 14-year-old U.S. citizen suspected of being a hitman for a drugs cartel in Mexico has been captured. [88], The authorities noted that there had been no forced disappearances in the area in the previous days,[89] and so did not discount the possibility that those killed were US-bound migrants. He said: 'These minors are still not fully developed and so it is easy to influence them, to give them a gun, pretending it is plastic, that it is a game'. President Felipe Calderon who launched an offensive to crack down on the cartels four years acknowledged that as quickly as they arrest young boys, more are being recruited. [26], Intended to terrorize the civil population and intimidate rival cartels, the public display of butchered bodies has replaced the traditional Mexican drug cartel practice of burying people in clandestine mass graves, as in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas. [73] However, upon more detailed examination at the scene, the official figures reached 49 dead. Jimenez said that he was employed by the cartel when he was just 11-years-old. In effect, anyone who can be abducted from the streets is fair game for use in these mass slayings designed to "cause terror. In 2009, Baez Garcia also received multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine from two brothers-in-law, Canciano Marquez Mayorga and Candelario Tovar Garcia, who, in turn, were receiving the cocaine from a Mexican drug cartel. [119][120][121] El Loco was the leader of an important cell within the Los Zetas that was responsible for the massacre. [24] The city of Monterrey was long been a bastion of the PAN, and the local business community has been "livid" about the violence in their city. "[12] The cartels also fight for the control of local drug markets and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States. [79] When the forensic experts began to pick up the bodies, they had to use facemasks because the intensity of the odor was intolerable. [52] Reports identified twenty-six victims as alleged Sinaloa Cartel members, and mentioned that Los Zetas and the Milenio Cartel were responsible for their massacre. "[102] Alongside the bodies, they placed a banner: "This is going to happen to all the Gulf and Sinaloa cartel members; the Mexican marines; Federal police; and government forces. [74] The bodies were discovered on the Mexican Federal Highway 40 at about 4 am, forcing the Mexican police and the federal troops to close the highway. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 00:57 EDT, 4 December 2010, Caught: 'Child killer' Edgar Jimenez was captured by Mexican officials last night while trying to flee the country. The first public decapitation was carried out by La Familia Michoacana in September 2006, when several gunmen opened the doors of a bar in the Mexican state of Michoacán and threw five severed heads on the dance floor. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Z-40), who used to head Los Zetas drug cartel. Gov. [28] Violence has erupted in several parts of Mexico between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel, who fight to take over each other's territories. One of his sisters, aged 16, was also allegedly involved in the criminal gang. Episode 7 43m. Another teen sister accompanying them is not suspected of being involved with the cartels. 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[53], Dismembered remains of 14 men were found in several plastic bags inside two vehicles in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on 17 April 2012. border from El Paso, Texas. Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar (July 26, 1947 – February 9, 1985) was an American intelligence officer for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). [1] Mexican officials stated that 49 people were decapitated and mutilated by members of Los Zetas drug cartel and dumped by a roadside near the city of Monterrey in northern Mexico. It now boasts nearly fi ve million inhabitants, with 50,000 new-comers yearly, whose objective is obviously to reach the promised land of America. "[116] Nonetheless, the Mexican authorities later confirmed that the actual perpetrator of the massacre was Los Zetas, and not the Gulf cartel. People being incarcerated in Mexico's federal prisons have more than doubled in the last two years. [31] Two trucks containing 35 dead bodies were found at an underpass near a shopping mall in Boca del Río,[32] having reportedly been abandoned there by armed men in the middle of the highway. The powerful Sinaloa Cartel, the Zetas' mortal rivals, has stood up and fought Los Zetas too. [2] Those killed also bore signs of torture and were stuffed in plastic bags. [18] The Los Zetas gang dates back to 1999, when deserters of the Mexican Army Special Forces joined the ranks of the Gulf Cartel. [118] In Guadalupe, Nuevo León on 18 May 2012, the operation led to the capture of Jesús Daniel Elizondo Ramírez, nicknamed El Loco (English: "The Crazy One"), a member of the Los Zetas. Le cartel de Milenio, ou Los Valencia, est une organisation criminelle mexicaine, originairement basée dans le Michoacán et dirigée par Luis Valencia Valencia. [99] In addition, SEGOB emphasised that as for the Monterrey casino attack and the San Fernando massacre, justice would be served.[100]. [95] According to the Mexican government, the two cartels have committed "irrational acts of inhumane and inadmissible violence in their dispute" and have created "the most definitive of all the cartel wars" in Mexico. [26] The Kaibiles had been trained to intimidate the local population with beheadings during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996). The boy was caught late last night as he attempted to flee to the U.S., having boarded a plane in the city of Cuernavaca. An isolated El Chapo tries to build a friendship with a guard. [81] Nonetheless, the victims are believed to be more than 25 years of age,[82] and many of them had tattoos of the Santa Muerte ("Holy Death") – a female skeletal grim reaper – which could facilitate their identification. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group, Two teen girls accused of car-jacking and killing Uber Eats driver in D.C. 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Fleeing: Jimenez was caught with his two sisters, Elizabeth (left) and Oliva (right) who were trying to get to San Diego where their mother lives. [48] As a response to the Sinaloa cartel incursions in Veracruz, Los Zetas carried out reprisal killings in the Guadalajara. Hence, the bodies will most likely be sent to local cemeteries, although many civil organizations protested against this. [105][106] In the written banners, Los Zetas disassociated themselves from the slaughter in Nuevo León, and asked the Mexican federal government to conduct an investigation before blaming them. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Attorney General Pedro Luis Benitez said that the young boys are easily manipulated. Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (born January 8, 1946), commonly referred to by his aliases El Jefe de Jefes ("The Boss of Bosses") and El Padrino ("The Godfather"), is a convicted Mexican drug lord.He was one of the founders of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s. [5][6] The forty-three men and six women killed had their heads, feet, and hands cut off, making their identification difficult. Read breaking headlines from Mexico on NBCNews.com. 'Child killer': The young boy said he was drugged and forced to commit heinous crimes by drug lords. With the Mexican government turned against him, El Chapo gets cornered in Mazatlán. [57] At around 1:00 am on 4 May 2012, nine people were hanged from a bridge on the Fed 85D in Nuevo Laredo. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. [21] Moreover, Los Zetas pose a bigger insurgency threat to the Mexican government than the older cartels in the country because of the brutality of their attacks against the security forces, their disregard for civilians' lives, and their dangerous habits that go beyond the "unspoken codes of older traffickers." A bullet through the back of the head, for example, signified that the victim was a traitor; a bullet through the temple, however, signified that the victim was member of a rival drug gang. By Rachel Quigley. [70] Reports of forced disappearances have not been uncommon in the past years. Edgar Jimenez Lugo, now 17, was released and flew to be reunited with family in Texas today, although Mexican officials hesitated when asked if he had been rehabilitated. [112], The Mexican military detained eight Gulf Cartel members in the small, northeastern town of China, Nuevo León on 17 May 2012. [71] The municipality of Cadereyta is the most violent municipality in the state of Nuevo León that does not form part of the Monterrey metropolitan area. But they are calls for both the overcrowded adult prison system and that for the young boys to be reassessed. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. After being taken into custody, Jimenez and his sisters were transported to a local office of Mexico's attorney general where the boy confessed to his role in gruesome killings to waiting reporters. [19] In March 2012, thirteen Los Zetas' members were killed and dismembered by the Sinaloa Cartel in a turf war; Los Zetas responded in kind, killing at least 10 members of the Sinaloa cartel in their rival's turf. [11] The Mexican drug trafficking organizations have been fighting for the territorial control of the smuggling routes to the United States, and this massacre may be the "latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs. How many are left? The area has an industrial area with Nissan, Unilever and other factories and has rustic single-level concrete homes and some farms. [48] During the night, 10 more bodies were found throughout several different municipalities. [54] CNNMéxico stated that the message left behind by the criminal group said that they were going to "clean up Nuevo Laredo" by killing Zeta members. Spotlight: The teenager was placed in front of reporters where he admitted to killing at least seven people, four of which were decapitated. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. The violent reputation of Los Zetas has made northeastern Mexico a no-go zone for many. But the former are heavily armed, while the latter's enforcement arm is weaker. [85] The authorities have also not discarded the possibility that the massacre was the result of an "internal adjustment" between the Mexican criminal organizations. Small towns, ranches, and isolated communities in Nuevo León have long been treasured by drug traffickers. "[101], On 15 May 2012 Los Zetas allegedly put up five narco-banners from bridges or in other public places of San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas[103] denying responsibility for the Cadereyta Jiménez massacre. [124], Upon the arrests of 17 May 2012, the Mexican military obtained information of the existence of five clandestine graves in China, Nuevo León. It is a key player in the illegal … [101] It shows how the bodies were transported by a dump truck to the area where they were found; once the truck stopped, several young men dumped the bodies on the highway one by one. Jorge del Toro is linked to the Sinaloa Cartel and the DEA puts pressure on Esteban Prieto and Don Sol to capture El Chapo. [11] The natural gas wells and pipelines running through Cadereyta and the U.S-Mexico border have also been the most tapped by thieves, supplying gasoline and other natural resources to Mexico's criminal underworld. Its 71-year rule was "tainted by corruption," and critics have accused the PRI of making deals with the cartels to maintain peace in the country. The Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurred on the Fed 40 on 12–13 May 2012. The municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez – a middle-class, industrial community where the bodies were found – is known for its broom factory, an oil refinery, and its historical role as one of the first places where baseball was played in Mexico. [68], In 2012, the state of Nuevo León and its surrounding territories have become a battleground for a brutal conflict between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, two drug trafficking organizations from northeastern Mexico. [42] The discoveries led to the resignation of Reynaldo Escobar Pérez, the State Justice Attorney General. Cartel leader's body is found stabbed on a park bench just hours after he accused Mexico City's security chief of working with him to take down the Jalisco New Generation Cartel 19/03/21 21:23 [46][47] In the early hours of the morning in Culiacán, Sinaloa, they had set a vehicle ablaze. [96][97], The Mexican federal government issued a statement on 13 May 2012 condemning the attacks. The comments below have been moderated in advance. [19], Much of the violence between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel is the result of fighting over cocaine supplies from South America. Family business: One of Jimenez's sisters is alleged to have helped her brother dispose of bodies after he had killed them. [107] The banners suggested that the massacre was perpetrated by the Gulf Cartel, saying that Los Zetas would have dumped the bodies inside the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas (within the territory of the Gulf cartel), instead of in Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, its own territory;[108] Los Zetas, however, assumed responsibility for the 18 killed in Jalisco and the 9 hanged in Nuevo Laredo. Many of them took place in northern states, where Los Zetas have waged a war against rival drug trafficking organizations for the control of the smuggling routes into the United States. [80], The attorney's office declared that the victims were dismembered to prevent them from being identified. Authorities in the troubled country say crimes committed by minors have risen across Mexico this year. [92], Soon after the massacre, more than 50 police officers guarded the municipality of Cadereyta. [125] The bodies were calcined and in an advance state of decomposition. Jimenez and his sister are suspected of working for the South Pacific Cartel run by Hector Beltran Leyva whose brother Arturo was killed by Mexican Marines last year. [66][67][68] Eighteen heads were found along the dismembered bodies; some had been frozen, others were covered in lime, and the rest were found in an advanced state of decomposition. [17], The two-year rivalry between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel has killed thousands of people since early 2010, and has grown increasingly bloody in recent months after the participation of gunmen loyal to Joaquín Guzmán Loera of the Sinaloa cartel. Surveys showed that voters thought that the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which ruled Mexico uninterruptedly from 1929 to 2000, is likely to control and put down the violence. El Chapo) and Ismael Zambada García (a.k.a. [125] The five individual graves, at a ranch known as 'La Gloria' just on the border with Tamaulipas and identified by members of Los Zetas, were exhumed by the authorities. Mr Benitez added: 'They're persuaded to carry out terrible acts, they don't realise what they are doing'. [25] The practices of beheading victims in Mexico is believed to have come from Guatemala in the year 2000, when Los Zetas extended their criminal network into Central America and eventually incorporated with the elite jungle military squad known as the Kaibiles.
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