Mother's day dawns and with it, the discovery of 49 bodies dumped at the entrance to San Juan NL
Sunday morning, Mother’s Day in the US, 49 bodies, most decapitated, some missing limbs and others in an advanced state of decomposition, were found on a highway east of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, according to various news sources.
The grisly find was made at Kilometer 47 on Mexico Federal Highway 40,which leads to Reynosa, Tamaulipas. Police were dispatched to the area based on a telephone call. Mexican Policia Federal agents were the first on the scene and found several black garbage bags containing the remains of 49 individuals. The actual location is 10 kilometers east of Cadereyta, near the village of San Juan. Cadereyta itself is about seven kilometers east of Monterrey.
It is being reported that six women and 43 men were among the dead. Some reports have said a narcomanta was left at the scene but had been removed, reportedly said “100 percent Zetas”
At this point in time, authorities still don’t know who the victims are and rumors are flying. Some are saying that the victims were migrants heading to the United States because some of the victims had the facial features of individuals from South America. The report also said the narcomanta had the symbol of Los Zetas only, probably the letter Z, suggesting Los Zetas likely committed the crime.
Jorge Domene, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state Secretaria de Seguridad Pública (SSP)
Jorge Domene, spokesman for the Nuevo Leon state Secretaria de Seguridad Pública (SSP), also that some of the victims had gang tattoos, suggesting the deaths were a settling of accounts between gangs. He also said that most of the victims had been killed two days prior to their discovery. Due to the arrangement of the bodies, it appears the bodies were transported and dumped by a large dump truck in the early dawn hours when traffic was light.
Mexico Highway 40 is the “free road” used by motorist and truckers that want to avoid the toll road between Monterrey and Reynosa.
Let’s keep in mind as we explore this story, that very little official information is forthcoming from the agencies investigating this crime due to the blackout on releases from government agencies during the 90 days prior to the voting July 1, for Mexico’s next President. However, due to the nature of this crime, the large number of victims, some in government are ignoring the mandate of Article 41, and speaking out, such as Jorge DOmene. Last night, the government of Mexico announced a $30,000,000.00 mxn reward for information leading to the capture of those responsible. In US dollars, that comes to $2,201,446.12. (Hell for that amount of money, I’d turn my own mother in and give them a map showing where she’s buried.)
Anyone having information on this crime and possible claim the reward can do so by calling 01 800 831 3196 or by email denunciapgr@pgr.gob.mx
People are assuming that members of Los Zetas are responsible for this because of grafitti featuring the letter “Z” found on the gateway into the city and the narco banners which were removed. Others are saying the victims are in fact members of Los Zetas, murdered by the Sinoloa TCO. And some are also saying it could be retaliation against the government for their recent arrest of Marco Jesus Hernandez Rodriguez aka Jesus Ruiz Marcos Rodriguez, nicknamed “El Chilango”, jefe of sicarios (boss of Zetas’s assassins), who is credited with masterminding the kidnapping, torture and killing at least four Mexican Marines on April 18, 2012. For those of you who are not aware, Mexican Marines are the baddest of the bad in this country, and like our Special Forces troops, they take care of their own.
Personally, I think the scenario that this was a planned statement by Los Zetas for Mother’s Day is more believable as reported by Borderland Beat.
It just makes sense. Whatever it is, it’s a scouring of the gene pool from the bottom up.
There’s several reasons I’m writing this on a blog that generally has to do with trucking. First of all, James P. Hoffa’s Teamsters are using this as yet another reason that Mexican trucks should not be allowed into the US. Although no American’s were involved nor truckers, either Mexican or US, the truth doesn’t matter to Hoffa in the least.
In an article titled “49 more reasons not to open the border to Mexican trucks” an unidentified Teamster, thought to be Hoffa himself writes;
Trade deals are supposed to be two-way streets. The U.S. is supposed to give Mexican truckers access to our highways, Mexico is supposed to give U.S. truckers access to its highways.
But if the Mexican government can’t guarantee the safety of U.S. citizens, then Mexico isn’t giving the U.S. equal access to its highways. Mexico isn’t living up to its part of the deal.
The good news is that only a handful of Mexican carriers are allowed to travel beyond the border zone as part of the second cross-border trucking pilot program. And even fewer trucks are actually using our highways.
How sad is it that people like James P. Hoffa feel the need to use the deaths of 49 individual human beings to continue to push their isolationist agenda.
Units from Mexico Federal Police seal of crime scene where 49 bodies were discovered outside of Cadereyta, Nuevo Leon
The second and perhaps most important reason, for me anyhow, is that this story is being picked up internationally, and some in the mainstream media, thousands of miles from Mexico continue to portray Mexico as a crime ridden wild west 24/7 shootout which of course it’s not. Only a small fractions of Mexico’s municipalites (counties) have been effected by the ongoing was between the TCO’s (Trans-National Criminal Organizations) And civilians for the most part, are not the targets. Most of the victims in this period of violence have been found to have some connection, however minor to the bad guys.
A heightened presence of military units is seen in Cadereyta after the Mother's Day massacre that claimed 49 lives
People in the locales where the violence has been occurring continue with their lives as usual. What else is there to do. In Cadereyta, where the latest occurred, people haven’t lost faith in the military or the belief that their city and country will return to the safety it has known in the past.
One day after the slaughter which shocked this town and the nation, the main square of Cadereyta lived another day.
The park opposite the town hall was full of people, couples with their children enjoying a snack from street vendors or just talking.
Street vendors, clothing store owners, elderly people and even the street sweepers talk of the fear they feel about the violence.
Still others said nothing, just calmly observing the movement of people and vehicles around the main square of Cadereyta.
Because of this latest incident and others, the army has stepped up its presence in and around Cadereyta, with military patrols more frequently patroling the outskirts of the city.
And on Monday, the military took up positions opposite the town hall and around the square, watching and giving the citizens a feeling of security with their presence
Some of the troops got down from from their units and entered some of the businesses to interact with the owners and make purchases. Just another day as life continues in Mexico as it has for a 1000 years.
Operators of taxis, city bus and other public conveyances are being tested for new certifications to give better confidence to the daily rider.
NUEVO LAREDO .- Eduardo Cuellar Bridges, deputy representative of public transport in Nuevo Laredo, said that there have been 300 drug tests administered under a new anti doping regimen and so far only one operator tested positive out of a total of 6,900 public service operators who drive city buses, taxis and other public conveyances.
“We are contracted with a certified laboratory in Monterey, which immediately reports to the Delegation when positive results are obtained” Cuellar said Bridges.
The tests began on Monday, with a goal to finish by Friday with 500 tests remaining in addition to refresher driving and safety tests.
The cost for this test is 150 pesos, paid by the operator, which is turned over to the Red Cross of Mexico. the State government paid for the testing so the fee is donated to the Red Cross
Five substances are detected in this analysis: marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and PHP.
“Those that pass the tests will be issued new identity cards, some who haven’t been reissued in more than 14 years” Cuellar Bridges explained.
“Today we are beginning tighter control of operators of public transit within the delegation and Under-Secretary of State.” With these measures, the Delegation of Transportation has better control of the operators, since they are the cornerstone of public transportion, and to show they are of the ability to perform their work in a safe and professional manner and to show the public that the person driving the city bus or taxi has the capacity and skills necessary.
“We hope that within 18 days and all operators will have been tested for drugs and their driving skills reconfirmed,” the official said.
Cuellar Bridges also stated the next step in the reorganization of the city transport delegation will be to have all operators permits digitized for instant availability to inspectors and law enforcement.
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By Laurence Iliff
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's 2012 budget for building and repairing highways is likely to stay near historically high levels after making its way through Congress, and the planned projects shouldn't suffer from a weaker peso since materials and manpower are sourced locally, an official with the Communications and Transport Ministry said Thursday.
The ministry’s deputy minister for infrastructure, Fausto Barajas Cumming, said at a media briefing that the current year’s highways budget is nearing 57 billion pesos ($4.08 billion) after it had been originally proposed at MXN39 billion during the federal budget process last year. Among the most popular additions were rural roads. The proposed budget for 2012 is MXN41 billion, but that could be added to by legislators, he said.
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- Goal for administration is 22,000 kilometers new and fixed roads
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Private highway builders are expected to spend another MXN15 billion this year on federal highways, Barajas said, and the Congress is considering a bill for public-private partnerships that would give greater certainty to highway concessions and help spur investment.
Barajas said Mexico’s investment in highway projects has not only risen to historic highs in peso terms by doubling in three years, but has also grown as a percentage of gross domestic product during the administration of President Felipe Calderon, who will complete his nonrenewable six-year term in December 2012. Barajas said total investment in federal highways has grown to about to about 5% of GDP from about 3.4%.
By the end of the current presidential term, an estimated 22,000 kilometers of federal roads will have been built or renovated, Barajas said, adding that as of July, the figure stood at 16,500 kilometers.
With the Mexican peso weakening sharply against the U.S. dollar in recent days, Barajas said the exchange rate is unlikely to affect highway projects going forward, because materials and labor are sourced locally. “We don’t have problems in terms of the peso because, practically, the construction of highways is with Mexican labor and Mexican products.”
Likewise, Barajas said he doesn’t expect financing to become a problem. “We have not observed a lack of appetite [among investors],” he said, “and we don’t see it affecting what is coming up next.” The ministry expects to receive bids for a package of roads projects in the central state of Michoacan in November, and determine the winner by December, he said.
The attack on a popular Monterrey casino yesterday afternoon that left 63 people dead and dozens more injured, mostly women, has elevated the narco violence into Mexico into a de facto act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM and the response to this cowardly attack against innocent civilians should be treated as such.
An attack on the Casino Royale in the upscale enclave of San Joronimo, a wealthy suburb of Monterrey Nuevo Leon, left dozens injured and 63 dead, mostly women, can only be described as an act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM.
A $30 million peso reward has been offered by the PGR for information leading to the arrest of the individuals involved. One of the cars used by the gunman, a Cooper Mini has been found and is undergoing forensic examination and a sketch of one of the gunmen, based on witnesses, has been released. Surveillance video has also been posted.
Unlike most acts of violence in Monterrey and the rest of Mexico which to many have become commonplace, although far from the “wild west” scenario painted by most in the American media, this particular act of terrorism has elicited literally thousands of comments of outrage and protest on blogs and newspaper websites in Mexico. The people are finally fed up it seems and are speaking out.
Of course, President Calderon expressed his outrage at this “act of terror” as did President Obama. President Calderon is finally asking the US for help, a request long overdue. No one knows yet in what manner or form this help will come but it needs to be quick.
In my opinion, shared by others, Calderon needs to ignore entities such as the Mexico Human Rights Commission, the UN and any other “kumbaya” pacifists and release the military and Federal Police forces to put this down once and for all. Forget arresting the bad guys, parading them before the media and holding them for 45 days while a judicial system rife with corruption decides whether there is enough evidence to continue holding them for trial. Forget about holding them in prisons (Mexico doesn’t have county jails) awaiting trial, where they can live a life of luxury if they can afford it and leave at will. ARREST and SUMMARILY EXECUTE! PERIOD! From my 15 years living in this country and more than 30 years traveling Mexico, Federal law enforcement is very capable, rarely make errors and are amongst the most honest of the LE agencies in Mexico. That’s just my personal opinion and observations.
There is no death penalty in Mexico and a life sentence is 30 years, so let’s eradicate the trash and be done with it. Perhaps the others who would follow, would realize that Mexico and it’s citizens are fed up and mean business.
Around Mexico, we’re seeing citizens rising up and doing the job the local gendarmes can’t or won’t do and the same needs to happen in Monterrey. Time will tell.
A comprehensive gallery of photos of this massacre is available for viewing at IMMIGRATION CLEARINGHOUSE where they’ll be following this tragedy closely.
One thing people have to remember though is that no truckers were involved or harmed in the execution of the terrorist attack. In other words, for all those who try to use the violence in Mexico as an excuse to ban Mexican trucks from the US, don’t go there. This is an entirely separate issue..
Mexico's disaster response teams are some of the world's best trained and most competent emergency responders
Whatever you may think about Mexico, their disaster preparedness teams are some of the best in the world and first to step up to the plate, as out friends at MEXFILES explains:
Ten rescue dog teams, three structural engineering specialists and twenty rescue workers — pulled together from the Jalisco Civil Protection Unit, the Mexico City Fire Department, UNAM, Cruz Roja and CENPRED (the Center for Disaster Preparedness) are on their way to Sendai… one team having left Friday afternoon, the rest to follow on Saturday.
Makes me think of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina when Mexico sent troops and mobile kitchens to New Orleans to provide relief to the Katrina victims. The US would not allow their ships to offload nor the convoys to proceed past San Antonio. And to add insult to injury, Bexar County authorities would not allow them to prepare and serve the tons of beef and other staples they had brought with them.
I wonder if Japan will be so welcoming? Somehow, I think not.
Brigada de rescate Topos Taletelolco are on their way to Japan today.
The mole-men, those extraordinary ordinary Mexican men and women whose only requirement is tremendous balls (that goes for the women too), better known as la Brigada de rescate Topos Taletelolco, are on their way to Japan today.
Dig they must, as they have since their spontaneous appearance following the 1985 Mexico City quake, and dig they do… anywhere, any time earthquakes, fires, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions (or even nuclear plant melt-downs) require digging though unstable and dangerous debris — preferably with construction equipment, but with pick and shovel, or by hand if need be.
They are not paid by their government nor their employers for their services. Nor do they charge for them, but these men and women are volunteers — ordinary Mexicans (well, ordinary Mexicans with extraordinary balls), with ordinary jobs, and ordinary family responsibilities and expenses, as well as providing for their own food, lodging and supplies when at a disaster site.
You can help by donating to these national heroes
PAY PAL (this means YOU, gringos… and Germans, Canadians, Peruvians, et. al.) to donativos@brigada-rescate-topos.org
Direct Deposits within Mexico to:
Cuenta Santander: 92-00070929-4
Sucursal: 0479 San Fernando. Referencia: Brigada de Rescate Topos Tlaltelolco, A.C. CLABE: 014180920007092942
Other Links of Interest:
The Mole Men | Magic Made in Mexico
Los Topos – The Mole Men « WRITING FROM MERIDA
A bus owned by Estrella Blanco of Sonora collided Friday night with a double tanker carrying 40,000 liters of gasoline on the highway outside of Palmillas Escuinapa, resulting in 21 fatalities.
The tanker, owned by Specialized Transportation Robles and driven by Ruben Santos Padilla, had loaded at a PEMEX facility in Mazatlan earlier in the afternoon. The bus, was traveling from Mexico City, where it departed at 0600 with it’s final destination being Tijuana.
The bus company is taking care of all funeral, travel and per diem expenses for the victims and the victims families, even though, according to officials, responsibility for the accident has not been determined.
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The good people of Mexico have has enough and the attempted kidnapping of a young woman in Ascension, Chihuahua, a small town south of the New Mexico border, could well be the catalyst for Mexican citizens to begin to take back their country from the grips of the narco terrorists.
The blatant abduction attempt abduction of a 17-year-old female worker of a seafood restaurant touched off a burst of mass outrage that left two suspected young kidnappers dead and a small town in open rebellion.
Alerted to the kidnapping, townspeople and soldiers mobilized, freed the victim and detained five alleged kidnappers; one suspect reportedly escaped. Hundreds of angry residents beat two of the detainees, teenagers, and blocked police from rescuing the suspects, who were later pronounced dead. Reportedly, the mother of one of the suspects witnessed her son’s demise.
“La Chona Lights the Fuse,” headlined Ciudad Juarez’s La Polaka newsite, whose director was just granted political asylum in the United States. The news organization couched the report in historical and contemporary terms: “The new Mexican Revolution could have begun this Tuesday in Ascención…”
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Federal agents escort alleged cartel hitmen, front to back: Roberto Salas, Luis Alfredo Galindo, Fernando Monte Godina,partially seen, Sergio Estrada Gutierrez and Julio Cesar Aleman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday Sept. 25, 2009. Police said Friday the men, who are accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city, are members of the Sinaloa cartel. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Police have arrested five men accused of dozens of murders, including two mass killings at drug treatment centers in this northern Mexico border city.
Police say the men were members of the Sinaloa cartel, a violent gang entrenched in a brutal turf war for control of drug routes to the United States.
The men are accused of 45 different executions in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city. They were arrested by law enforcement agents during a routine street patrol, according to a statement released Friday by federal police.
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