[79] The Mexican authorities in the area had to cover their mouths and noses for the same reason. [19], Much of the violence between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel is the result of fighting over cocaine supplies from South America. [62][63] The decapitated bodies were found with a message allegedly signed by Joaquín Guzmán Loera, demanding recognition presence of the Sinaloa cartel in the area. [29][30], On 20 September 2011, violence erupted between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel in Veracruz, a strategic smuggling state with a giant gulf port. Authorities in the troubled country say crimes committed by minors have risen across Mexico this year. [110] The authorities stated that they have not formally accused Los Zetas for carrying out the massacre, and that they only stated the content of the banners found alongside the bodies. border from El Paso, Texas. [7] The arrested suspects have indicated that the victims were Gulf Cartel members,[8] but the Mexican authorities have not ruled out the possibility that they were U.S.-bound migrants. [25] Now, decapitation is a tactic often used by the criminal organizations in Mexico—primarily by Los Zetas and its two main rivals, the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels. Find out more about the greatest Mexicans, including 6ix9ine, Guillermo del Toro, Frida Kahlo, Salma Hayek and Eiza González. [23], The drug violence in the state of Nuevo León and all across Mexico has left more than 50,000 people dead since President Felipe Calderón took office in 2006. Jimenez was a member of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group which demobilized between 2005 and 2007. 2010 is on track to have the highest rate of killings in the country. In one video a youth admitted to taking part in random killings. [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. [77] The bodies were taken to the hospital in the University of Monterrey for DNA testing and further investigation;[9][83] dozens of military men were ordered to guard the surrounding area. 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. [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. In an army statement, Jimenez admitted to killing at least seven people while under the influence of drugs provided by a cartel leader. [129] According to the Mexican authorities, Barajas López delivered the 49 alleged Gulf Cartel members to a man known as Tula, who forward the victims to Rolando Fernando Sánchez González, a former policeman and the regional boss of Los Zetas in Santa Catarina, for execution. [130], Two months after the arrests, the Mexican authorities have not been able to identify the victims of the massacre. [72], Initially, the Mexican authorities reported the discovery of 37 bodies early in the morning on 13 May 2012 in the town of San Juan, 75 miles (125 km) southwest of the border city of Roma, Texas. Published: 08:47 EDT, 29 June 2012 | Updated: 14:24 EDT, 29 June 2012 [98] The Secretaría de Gobernación (Segob) offered its support to aid the authorities of the state of Nuevo León to find those responsible. [128], In the city of Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, the Mexican Navy arrested José Ricardo Barajas López on 3 August 2012, another cartel member responsible for the massacre. Jorge del Toro is linked to the Sinaloa Cartel and the DEA puts pressure on Esteban Prieto and Don Sol to capture El Chapo. [23] Los Zetas, unlike the other traditional drug cartels, act like urban guerrillas; a police chief in Mexico explained how the Zetas would make anonymous phone calls to get the police out in the streets, block the road where the police were, and then open fire from all sides. [59] The nine were reportedly members of the Gulf Cartel who were killed by Los Zetas. [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. [119][120][121] El Loco was the leader of an important cell within the Los Zetas that was responsible for the massacre. How many are left? The comments below have been moderated in advance. Z-40), who used to head Los Zetas drug cartel. [114] The detainees were initially believed to have been involved in the dumping of 49 mutilated corpses in Cadereyta. Other cartels focus primarily in drug producing and drug trafficking, while Los Zetas often move into urban areas to diversify their criminal agenda and carry out a number of crimes. Mr Benitez added: 'They're persuaded to carry out terrible acts, they don't realise what they are doing'. Play it now. [126][127][128] The authorities, however, said that the corpses found were "complete skeletons," ruling out the possibility of them being the victims of the Cadereyta massacre. '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. [4] The bodies were found in the town of San Juan in the municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León at about 4 a.m. on a non-toll highway leading to Reynosa, Tamaulipas. 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[78] According to the testimonies of several civilians from San Juan, late at night before the bodies were discovered, a foul-odor could be perceived from a distance, but none of them imagined that the stink actually came from dismembered bodies. Other young boys have been enlisted to work for the cartels who sometimes post videos of interrogations to expose the crimes of their rivals online. In February 1985 Camarena was kidnapped by drug traffickers in Guadalajara, Mexico. [18] The Los Zetas gang dates back to 1999, when deserters of the Mexican Army Special Forces joined the ranks of the Gulf Cartel. 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. [115] The massacre was viewed as an attempt by the Gulf Cartel to stoke law enforcement crackdown in Los Zetas territory – a tactic known as "heating up the plaza. A 14-year-old U.S. citizen suspected of being a hitman for a drugs cartel in Mexico has been captured. Jimenez said that he was employed by the cartel when he was just 11-years-old. [70] Reports of forced disappearances have not been uncommon in the past years. [5][6] The forty-three men and six women killed had their heads, feet, and hands cut off, making their identification difficult. [51] At around 7:00 pm, Guadalajara police received numerous reports of vehicles abandoned in a major avenue with more than 10 bodies. Find the latest Mexico news stories, photos, and videos. Investigations [ modifier | modifier le code ] En 2012, l'État de Nuevo León et ses territoires alentour sont devenus le champ de guerre d'un conflit brutal entre Los Zetas et le cartel du Golfe , deux organisations de narcotrafiquants localisées dans le nord du Mexique [ 10 ] . [101] Over the dark scene in the videotape, a voice was heard on the background yelling: "How many are left? Hence, the bodies will most likely be sent to local cemeteries, although many civil organizations protested against this. [122] The bodies were transported from Los Herrera to Cadereyta, two municipalities between the city of Monterrey and the Rio Grande, and then dumped on the highway by Elizondo and 30 other gunmen. PADRE una canción lanzado en un show mundial llamado ecuador tiene talentoWe own the rights for all the content from this video . Felix Gallardo played a key role in the formative years of Mexico’s cartels. [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. [57] At around 1:00 am on 4 May 2012, nine people were hanged from a bridge on the Fed 85D in Nuevo Laredo. Constant population increases in the city have only fuelled the problems. [49][50] On 24 November 2011, three trucks containing 26 bodies were found in an avenue at Guadalajara. 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[18] Since late April 2012, Los Zetas has been under immense pressure by the alliance between the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa cartel. Sincerely, The Crazy, Miguel Treviño Morales (Z-40), and Commander Heriberto Lazcano. 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. [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. By Rachel Quigley. [26] Others see the link with the religious cult of the Santa Muerte ("Holy Death"). Gov. [90] Javier Del Real, the secretary of Public Safety in the state, mentioned that the purpose of the massacre was to bring people's attention, "and it did. [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. [40][41] Four further bodies were confirmed separately by the state government of Veracruz. The siblings were living in a poor neighbourhood of Jiutepec, a working-class suburb of Cuernavaca, known as a weekend getaway for Mexico City residents. Watching the wealth of the corrupt world is appealing to some of the children who see it as a way out of their poverty-stricken lives. But the former are heavily armed, while the latter's enforcement arm is weaker. 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. Nonetheless, the two organizations split in early 2010, and have fought for the control of the trafficking routes since then. [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. [61] The Mexican police said the second massacre could have been an act of revenge by the Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas for the earlier killings. [48] At 07:00 hours, another burning vehicle was discovered in the northern city limits of Culiacán, inside which were four bodies handcuffed and clad in bulletproof vests. 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. [46][47] In the early hours of the morning in Culiacán, Sinaloa, they had set a vehicle ablaze. [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. [112], The Mexican military detained eight Gulf Cartel members in the small, northeastern town of China, Nuevo León on 17 May 2012. Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. [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. [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. [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. The Juárez Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Juárez), also known as the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug cartel based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, across the Mexico—U.S. El Chapo), once Mexico's most-wanted drug lord. Mexico, country of southern North America and the third largest country in Latin America. A 14-year-old U.S. citizen suspected of being a hitman for a drugs cartel in Mexico has been captured. Leyva has been blamed for the increase in violence in the region this year, said to be over his control for power. [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. The army said he was with his two sisters, one of whom was reportedly the lover of a cartel boss. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. [20] 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. Berta becomes suspicious of Don Sol's love life. "[17] A string of mass slayings have convulsed Mexico in 2011 and 2012. [124], Upon the arrests of 17 May 2012, the Mexican military obtained information of the existence of five clandestine graves in China, Nuevo León. Additionally, the Piedras Negras Prison (known as CERESO), which is under the responsibility of the government of the state of Coahuila, was converted into a center of operations for the Zeta cartel from 2008-2012. [70] Nonetheless, it had at least five municipal employees slain in April 2012; just a week before the massacre, a military general stepped up and took over the city's depleted police force. [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. [26] Wherever it stems from, decapitations is "now a staple in the lexicon of violence" in the Mexican Drug War. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Edgar Jimenez, known as 'El Ponchis' (The Cloaked One) is believed to have worked as a … He was interrogated under torture and murdered. 7. [55] The Monitor newspaper, however, cited a source with direct knowledge of the attacks stating the 14 bodies belonged to members of Los Zetas who had been killed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, now a branch of the Sinaloa Cartel. [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. Small towns, ranches, and isolated communities in Nuevo León have long been treasured by drug traffickers. [86] A large black "Z 100%" was spray-painted on a road sign close to where the bodies were found. [109] The banners were immediately removed by the Mexican authorities. They were apparently trying to get to Tijuana on the U.S. border to then travel to San Diego where their mother lives. 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