Bullet holes pockmarked the outer walls of the adobe house, remnants of a gunfight months earlier. Police denied his claims, but Borbolla said she believes Silva. They stripped their hopes to something far more basic the return of their son. The woman, who started being a hit woman aged 15 said killed pregnant women. His son, Javier, said via Twitter that his father was ill and unable to comment: My father has been in a hospital since April; this is a fact that you can easily corroborate; he suffered a stroke in April and has been in intensive care ever since. Mexican and U.S. authorities declined to say whether their investigations are still active. Miroslava Breach, 54, was shot eight times in her car while pulling out of her driveway to take one of her children to school. She was born in a small town in Veracruz, one of 11 children. No one challenged organized crime, never mind put its members in prison. A MEXICAN cartel leader's sister was shot and killed at the church altar on her wedding day by rival gangsters, it has been reported. Instead, he agreed to become a political adviser to the PRI, Mexicos long-ruling conservative party. Murietta was a high-profile figure, known for his outspoken views on crime. She was never able to find the mysterious witness. She said state police badly damaged the fingerprints they found at the crime scene with smears and excess dusting powder. Mrs. Rodrguez went to Aldama, his small hometown of about 13,000 people, and paid a visit to his grandmother. The family followed every instruction to the letter. Her body had been quickly discovered when a neighbor alerted police to her open front door. She carted her files everywhere, like a door-to-door salesperson for whom a no was never final. Fontes, who now runs a security company, Fontes International Solutions, said the problem is endemic to Mexico. One, Cristian Jose Zapata Gonzalez, was barely 18 when the police grabbed him, young even by cartel standards. He has not seen the questions, it is medically prohibited by his doctor.. The kidnappers panicked and grabbed him, too, then fled. Even young women who attended their sex parties. One official claimed that investigators had managed to triangulate the location based on cellphone tower pings. A man who fatally shot a 38-year-old woman on Wednesday morning in Orange County, Fla., returned to the scene later in the day and went on a shooting spree, the authorities said, killing a 24-year-old TV news reporter who had been covering the original homicide and a 9-year-old at a nearby home. But Mrs. Rodrguez fought the government on its analysis, and rightly so. The vicious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are considered the most dangerous and powerful criminal enterprise in Mexico. [75] Female participants [ edit] Lucianos father expressed gratitude. Police officers responded and cleared the scene, he said. At 17, he was convicted for two murders and sentenced to 70 years in a Texas states prison . Shop clerks brought them water in the 100-degree heat. She recognized him immediately from their lunch, the same slender frame and clean-shaven face. For Mrs. Rodrguez, the pursuit of justice was an escape from the pain. During the trial, FBI Agent Scott Lawson testified that Colorado-Cessa was established as an intermediary between Zetas leader Efran Teodoro Torres and the government of Veracruz to allow the circulation of drugs freely in the state of Veracruz and, at the same time, to help Fidel Herrera finance his campaign as governor.. Cinemas, nightclubs and shops were almost empty, a consequence of the violence, she wrote. The city of San Fernando has been scarred by a decade-long war between cartel factions. Many of her peers believe he or Herrera was behind her homicide. Mrs. Rodrguez, whose courage and determination to find her daughter offered a guiding light for the campaign to save Luciano years later, was also a warning of what awaited anyone who pushed too hard. Dec. 6, 2020. She would hunt them down, one by one, until the day she died. He had learned the lesson her murder was meant to impart: one could only push so far for justice, at least publicly. In 2011, the group announced it would begin releasing the names of cartel members and their accomplices in government, which it had obtained through hacking. The team of reporters discovered that law enforcement authorities in Mexico, the United States and Spain had opened inquiries into allegations that Herrera colluded with leaders of the Zeta cartel while he was governor and took money from them for his campaign, as well as allegations that he was involved in money laundering while later serving in a diplomatic post in Barcelona. Sometimes, they organized death matches between captives for sport. Police sources are saying that you should stop investigating these leads.. Martnezs home was mostly undisturbed, and items of value remained little gold earrings on the dresser, her purse, her phones, a printer, kitchen appliances. The cartel never had intended to keep him, and after they let him go Mrs. Rodrguez mined his memory for everything he had heard or seen. She knew their habits, friends, hometowns, childhoods. A catalog of objects recovered by families of Veracruz journalists slain over the past decade. Last month, Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) drug cartel, which is among Mexico's most powerful, released shocking footage of a rival gangster being interrogated and then slaughtered. It was very clear that the elements of torture had been carried out by the state government, by local authorities, she said. LEFT: Martnez in an undated photo. Farmers and politicians. As a private lawyer, he was also representing the LeBaron family, a family with dual US-Mexico citizenship that lost nine. Priest reported from Washington. In September 2011, two truckloads of bloody, half-naked corpses were dumped at a busy intersection in front of a shopping mall in the touristy beach city of Boca del Ro, just blocks from where state prosecutors were holding a meeting. She asked the government for armed guards, fearing the cartel had finally had enough. She knew the florist had sold flowers on the street before joining the Zeta cartel and getting involved in her daughters kidnapping. Neither matched anyone in the countrys crime databases. But they felt they had nothing to lose. Others interviewed current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials in the United States, Mexico and Spain, former senior U.S. diplomats and a dozen experts on cartels, Veracruz and Mexican politics. The "execution" of six men and . The gunman shot two other people in Pine Hills, Fla., the Orange County Sheriffs Office said in a news conference on Wednesday: the mother of the 9-year-old and a photographer who worked with the TV news reporter at Spectrum News 13 in Orlando. The shootout, involving state troops, state police and the National Guard, happened in a. Linares served as director at the Monitor Michoacan website, which on Tuesday continued to show an . Mrs. Rodrguez, already separated from her husband, moved in with her older daughter, Azalea. They fired 13 rounds. The authorities pledged to capture her killers. In 2015, Proceso photographer Rubn Espinosa, who had been physically harassed and verbally threatened for taking photos of crime scenes, finally fled to the safety of Mexico City, only to be tracked there and killed by assassins, his colleagues believe. Her friends often wondered if she was going too far. I have not done it, and I have never led a criminal network.. The Orange County sheriff said the same assailant killed two other people in the Pine Hills area a TV journalist shot in a vehicle outside and a 38-year-old woman slain hours earlier in the . LEFT: Soldiers and police block off an area in Veracruz where 35 bodies were dumped on a roadway in September 2011. Martnez was considered by her peers to be the leader of a group of five journalists whose reputations were above reproach. She told her daughter that she would not rest until she found the people who had taken Karen. And so the family, like Mrs. Rodrguez, broke the rules that governed how victims usually respond in such cases. Im going to take out the people who hurt my daughter and they can do whatever they want to me.. We must rid ourselves of the fear to stand up and speak out.. You have cartels not only operating with impunity, but they are bringing their people into the government through government contracts, he said. Mr. Moses had walked into a brown house nearby and shot the 9-year-old girl and her mother, he said. A 19-year-old Florida man is now facing three first-degree-murder charges related to shootings last week that killed a television news reporter, a 9-year-old girl and a 38-year-old woman, sheriff . Our hearts go out to the family of the journalist killed today and the crew member injured in Orange County, Florida, as well as the whole Spectrum News team, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said on Twitter. Indian . After that, the trust seemed to be broken, and Luis went his own way. For the next several hours, Lucianos family fanned out across the city on a manic hunt. Lourdes Maldonado Lpez, a highly respected veteran local reporter was shot and killed on Sunday in the Santa Fe neighborhood of the northwestern border town of Tijuana, just south of San Diego, California, the Attorney General's Office of Baja California said in a published statement. The nine American women and children killed in northern Mexico were victims of a territorial dispute between an arm of the Sinaloa Cartel and a rival gang, officials said on Wednesday, and may . Family members said Dawna Langford's 13-year-old son, Devin, watched his mother die and then hid his six. Eight years after Martnezs homicide on April 28, 2012, a team of reporters from Mexico, Europe and The Washington Post has picked up where Martnez left off. For the second payment, Lucianos father drove two hours and left a bag of cash between two spent tires at an abandoned gas station. But to force the police into action, she needed more than a location. A month before she was killed, Mrs. Rodrguez broke her foot chasing down one of the last targets on her list, a young woman who had left town and begun working as a live-in nanny for a family in Ciudad Victoria. Frustrated, Mrs. Rodrguez redoubled her efforts to identify the rest of the crew, and before long had a stack of photos of Sama posing with others. Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit group based in Paris that is dedicated to continuing the work of journalists silenced by homicide, organized the effort. 1 min read. He recognized her and ran. The child. Others fell into a void of silence, muted by her assassination. Israel. The killing came just a day after Lpez Esquivel, 21, a female member of the Jalisco cartel, died during a showdown with Mexican cops in La Bocanda. But the kidnappers knew exactly how to strike. Mass graves were so common that finding fewer than 20 remains at a time barely merited a headline. He slowly shrank, physically and spiritually, until his children struggled to recognize him. She was identified as Christina Langford Johnson. Police officers patrolling a remote area, favored by cartel members to move undetected, outside Reynosa, Mexico. While many fled to escape the violence, others stuck it out because they had built a life in San Fernando and would not abandon it for the sins of others. Some 50 young women disappeared over a three-day period after attending parties with Zetas and local officials, according to media accounts. The murder is the third of its kind in Mexico for 2022 and the second in Tijuana over a 7-day period. They knew they were among the fortunate few who at least had somewhere to mourn them. That is, until July of this year, when a 14-year-old boy, Luciano Leal Garza, was snatched off the streets the most public kidnap-for-ransom case since Mrs. Rodrguezs crusade to find her daughter. A former Zetas cartel accountant, Jos Carlos Hinojosa, testified that Torres gave Colorado-Cessa $12million for the governors campaign in 2003. She had eaten there with Azalea only two days after Karens kidnapping. Three people, including a reporter and a 9-year-old girl, were shot and killed, and two others were shot and injured in a series of shootings in . What I can say is that I am innocent, Bermdez said at the time. In 2016, the Mexican Attorney Generals Office charged Duarte with embezzlement, illicit enrichment and money laundering. The local government could connect to peoples phones and know at any moment what they were up to, one of the officials said in an interview, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of safety concerns. Martnez pored over state spending records, writing in 2008 that Herrera invested millions from the budget in a failing soccer team called the Red Sharks owned by a friend. Rebecca Kiessling lost her two sons, 20-year-old Caleb and 18-year-old Kyler, to fentanyl poisoning on July 29, 2020, after the boys ingested a "fake Percocet" in a hotel room. Now Mrs. Rodrguez was sitting down with one of them, imploring him to release Karen as his radio squawked sporadically. She worked to show that government forces were secretly burying hundreds of disappeared people in mass graves. Eight others have disappeared. She eventually left in protest over censorship and working conditions. Martnez reported it all: The rape and homicide of a 72-year-old Indigenous woman by army soldiers. Then, there was another 911 call, Sheriff Mina said. Only her tape recorder and computer were gone. The murder took place on Sunday night when a gunman shot and killed Lourdes Maldonado inside her vehicle, the Baja California Attorney General's Office revealed. At barely 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, she scratched and struggled to fight off her attacker, leaving skin under her fingernails. The Forbidden Stories investigation found that U.S. and Mexican authorities had long been investigating some subjects that Martnez had been pursuing. Other journalists and media workers killed on 9/11. Someone broke in through the metal door from her beloved garden patio, the tiny patch of tranquility that kept her from . Enrique Pea Nieto, who once described Herrera as his best friend, ran and won the presidency instead. The first thing he asked was whether his two little sisters were safe. Where was his compassion when they killed my daughter? her family said she had replied. Duartes public security secretary, Arturo Bermdez, was charged with heading a death squad that disappeared at least 15 people. SAN FERNANDO, Mexico Miriam Rodrguez clutched a pistol in her purse as she ran past the morning crowds on the bridge to Texas. And by then, the family knew who the masterminds of the kidnapping were: members of their own family. When she pulled her files onto the table, I had never seen anything like it, said the officer, who remains an active duty commander and asked not to be quoted by name because he had not been authorized to speak publicly. Circumscribed by the violence, many live reduced lives. They drove her to the family home, where Karen lived during the week while Mrs. Rodrguez, who also worked as a nanny in Texas, was away. One morning, a few weeks after the last payment, she came downstairs and told Azalea that she knew Karen was never coming back, that she was most likely dead. Female reporters and their family members have been murdered in the drug war for writing anti-cartel articles for newspapers or posting messages on the internet. Borbolla is currently a prosecutor in a different part of the attorney generals office. Armed men forced their way into her pickup truck and took off, with her in it. This also deprives real businesses of business., Herrera, now 71, has always denied the allegations. It had just been fired, and there were no more rounds left in the weapon, Sheriff Mina said, adding that it was possible the suspect would have continued his rampage had the gun still been loaded. Led. We dont care about the rain, or anything else, Lucianos mother told local television reporters as her group sheltered under downtown awnings. Mrs. Rodrguezs son, Luis, 36, could not help but see the parallels, and wept when he heard the news. After that, the woman fled to Veracruz, where she drove a taxi while raising her young son. As the funeral crowd dispersed, Luis and Azalea went to their mothers grave, a church-like structure lined with cypress trees. Many justify their silence with the belief that victims were engaged in illegal activity themselves. At 10:21 p.m., she headed home; she was once again living with her husband in the small, orange house where Karen once stayed. . He also said hed had good luck since childhood, which is how he explained twice winning the national lottery, pocketing $6.8million in 2008 and $3.6million the following year. In September, when the state police detained a cartel leader in San Fernando, he refused to cooperate. Proceso paid a very high price for covering these issues: kidnappings, murders, threats, said Carrasco, the Proceso editor, who left the country temporarily after receiving death threats when he tried to investigate Martnezs homicide. On Thursday, the Sheriffs Office released the names of the victims: Dylan Lyons, 24, Nathacha Augustin, 38, and Tyonna Major, 9. The lifeless body of the young woman had signs of torture and was found with gunshot wounds Sunday morning. When professors at the University of Veracruz would not stop publicly criticizing him, he denied the university millions in state funds and created a new university where he handed out credentials to students loyal to him, according to press accounts at the time. Millan-Vasquez was found guilty last July of murder, violence, drug and weapons trafficking, and employing minors in a drug crime - a total of 10 counts. He drove over in a truck that his family let him use to get around town, and within seconds, armed men forced their way in, shoving him to the side and driving off just as the kidnappers had done to Karen six years earlier. She also documented a 40percent surge in violence under Herrera a family wiped out with submachine guns; a mayor shot at the airport; even the governors bodyguard, dead. Mexico: In a horrific cartel attack against Mexico police, a female cop was allegedly kidnapped, raped and mutilated when she was performing her duties in the area. Then she donned a government uniform she had kept from an old, low-level job at the Health Ministry. Two weeks later, the tortured and decapitated body of Notivers police reporter was discovered. 1. Mr. Moses criminal history includes charges of aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft and gun violations, Sheriff Mina said. Those who really control everything and who benefit most are powerful political figures and senior security-force officers., [Violent criminal groups are eroding Mexicos authority and claiming more territory]. I very much regret each death and each person who receives some mistreatment. Colorado-Cessa was ultimately convicted in a scheme involving the purchase of racehorses. The relatives took precautions, at times monitoring their children with an intensity that bordered on surveillance. His mother, Anabel Garza, charismatic and fearless, became a spokeswoman for the staggering number of missing people in Mexico more than 70,000 nationwide and the unrelenting tide of loss in a country where homicides have nearly doubled in the last five years alone. Newspapers are dropping the Dilbert comic strip after the creator's racist rants. Its really amazing, their bravery.. No one slept. Very NSFL. It was a company to build highways The gunman, a former reporter for the TV station . They needed a bit more money, they said, just $500. Just as she had with the ice cream shop, Mrs. Rodrguez waited for weeks outside of the prison during visiting hours until Ms. Betancourt finally showed. (AP) RIGHT: State forensic experts, aided by crime-scene investigation students, work at analyzing the bodies. They did that, but I didnt see who, since I was blindfolded. The catalog is part of a body of work by photographer Flix Mrquez exploring their lives through the belongings they left behind. I want to end this. On the bridge, she scoured the vendors for flower carts, but that day he was selling sunglasses instead. Under Duarte, the Zetas lost their monopoly on power in the state, and other cartels moved in, according to interviews and press accounts at the time. At least, until the following year, when rampant abductions of bus passengers led to the unearthing of nearly 200 bodies dumped in mass graves along San Fernandos peripheries. The cemetery emptied, but they stayed, clinging to the moment. It is being published by Forbidden Stories and its partners beginning today. The inquiries attempted to determine whether Herrera could be related to money-laundering networks and have criminal relationships with important drug traffickers in Catalonia, said Toni Rodrguez, chief of the criminal investigation division of the Catalonian police force. She urinated in cups and ran her car battery down listening to the radio in the dark. I dont care if they kill me, Mrs. Rodrguez once told Ms. Saldivar Villavicencio. You have all taught my family that together we can fight back, she said. 34. She also pointed to evidence that the man convicted in Martnezs killing was tortured by Veracruz police and falsely confessed to the crime. A decrepit tractor marked the grave at the abandoned ranch, at the end of a dirt road. Now, after driving by the restaurant again, it dawned on her: Maybe the young woman knew something. Are they waiting for them to kill us too?. Halfway through the year, Adame's death brings to seven the 2017 toll of slain press . The pressure worked. Her family was not satisfied, but she didnt let that stop her. [The sniper rifles flowing to Mexican cartels show a decade of U.S. failure]. The city placed a bronze plaque honoring her in the central plaza. It is much more attractive to present Chapo Guzmn as the great mastermind of organized crime that controls the country than to assume responsibility for the insecurity or to investigate those who have allowed the growth of organized crime, Jorge Rebolledo Flores, a government and business security consultant with a decade of experience in Veracruz, said in an interview, referring to the infamous Sinaloa crime boss Joaqun El Chapo Guzmn. Her public campaign threatened more than just a few kidnappers. Herrera has not been charged with a crime, and he denied all the allegations against him. Her team found two good prints that state police had missed. In custody, he filled in details missing from Mrs. Rodrguezs investigation, coughing up the names and locations of some accomplices. He called his mother and followed him, careful not to lose him before the police arrived. They either purge it and try to move on from their loved ones, or they sustain it, and it destroys them. 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