The Devil Came Down To Mexico

[LilyPatToo]

My husband's best friend's Dad was murdered in Mexico. He had a house there and was entertaining when bandits burst in and shot him dead. A few years later, I noticed their family name on a list of supposed "Illuminati bloodline" families. No idea if that's true or, if it is, whether it had anything to do with the murder at all...well, aside from the likelihood that the attackers recognized the name as being one associated with an American fortune.

LilyPat

[monster]

Mexican violence spirals as 69 are murdered in one day

Violence in Mexico has spiralled to unprecedented levels as the country's drug war claimed a record 69 lives in one day.

The grim total included 26 deaths in Ciudad Juarez, the city on the US border which is regarded as the front line in Mexico's fight against the cartels. Several of the victims there were beheaded.

The raging battle between rival drug gangs also reached a gruesome new low as a murder victim in the northern city of Los Mochis had his face sliced off and stitched onto a football.

[Occult Means Hidden]

I post this not as a response to a recent uptick of violence in Mexico but because the violence hasn't relented at all in Mexico. Just because there hasn't been a post in this thread for a year shouldn't mean to the outside observer of this thread that these incidents are rare. Weekly, it seems stories like this are reported. It's insane and shocking.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_mexico_drugs;_ylt=AjUMGRdVz9UhCIFWUCgr9UtH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTJ0amRhNTBqBGFzc2V0Ay9zL25tL3VzX21leGljb19kcnVncwRjY29kZQNtcF9lY184XzEwBGNwb3MDNwRwb3MDNwRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA2JvZGllc2JlaGVhZA--

ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco as drug violence in Mexico intensified.
The victims, all male, were discovered at dawn near a shopping mall along with threatening hand-written messages that are typically left as a calling card by drug cartels, authorities said.
At least a dozen more bodies were found at several scenes of violence around the city early on Saturday, local media reported in more examples of drug gang skirmishes.
The messages found near the headless bodies were signed by Mexico's most wanted man, Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, the leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel that is fighting rivals over the area, police added.
The half-naked bodies were mutilated and badly beaten, and machetes appeared to have been used, police said.

...

After a Christmas lull, violence has surged again across the country, with at least 10 attacks on police and a prison in the wealthy northern city of Monterrey.
In Coahuila state, also in northern Mexico, authorities confirmed the identity of a small-town mayor whose body was discovered on Friday afternoon. Saul Vara is believed to be the first municipal chief killed in 2011 after a year in which at least 13 mayors were killed by drug gangs.

Well at least they took Christmas off?

[8bitagent]

The war and chaos in Mexico reached an insane level in the last few months. Daily Baghdad style car bombs up and down the country, fierce fighting in even the most poshed upscape neighborhoods, Zetas now in Guatamala taking on the army there, cartels now specifically targetting random innocents(tossing grenades into shopping crowds or spraying them down with assault rifles), etc. There was a period last month were gunmen had massacred several dozen civilians, set off car bombs, etc all in one day

And Brown University in Texas closed last month when over the hill a fierce battle between cartels and the military could be seen and heard(about 47, including several marines, were killed in that particular incident)

Given the African genocide/conflicts have settled down a bit, analysts have been saying the situation in Mexico is the hottest war right now, even above Afghanistan(as far as geographic stretches, causalty rates, fighting etc) In other words, the fiercest war on the planet is taking place literally within miles in some cases from America..yet the media, government, etc is silent

Why dont the right wing hate filled "anti illegal" bigots direct their anger at Zetas and the cartels instead of innocent Mexicans? Hell they should go down to fight the Zetas if they think theyre so badass.
It's interesting, one former military analyst on MSNBC a few weeks ago said al Qaeda doesnt have anything on the Zetas as far as sheer brutality/mayhem

[cptmarginal]

Why dont the right wing hate filled "anti illegal" bigots direct their anger at Zetas and the cartels instead of innocent Mexicans? Hell they should go down to fight the Zetas if they think theyre so badass.

I know this is a somewhat rhetorical question, but here's some answers anyway:



http://www.madcowprod.com/07152010.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-2 ... -deal.html

“A conspiracy theorist who runs a popular Web site continues to link both (Frederic) Geffon and (Brent) Kovar to the Mexico bust,” sneered St. Petersburg Times reporter Aaron Scharockman.

“The blogger calls the plane "Cocaine One" because of its presidential-looking paint job.”

Apparently, that’s me to whom he's referring

The St. Petersburg Times' incredibly obtuse coverage of the scandal may owe something to it's status as the hometown newspaper of the drug trafficking operation in question.

...

The story of the willing participation in laundering drug money by what was then America’s 4th largest bank puts a welcome spotlight back on a case with a number of troubling and so-far unanswered questions about two American planes from St Petersburg busted in Mexico carrying 5.5 and 4 tons of cocaine... with no repercussions to their American owners.

The first, an American DC-9 (N900SA) whose livery convinced even savvy planespotters that it belonged to the Dept of Homeland Security (and perhaps it did), was carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine neatly packaged inside 128 identical black leather suitcases, each of which bore a stamp on the side reading “Privado.”

The second, a Gulfstream II (N987SA), had used by the CIA, when it wasn’t running drugs, in Colombia, and to fly extraordinary renditions, making several trips to Guantanamo documented by the EU Commission which was instrumental in charges being brought against a half-dozen CIA agents in Italy.

[justdrew]

January 11, 2011
Bit by Bit, a Mexican Police Force Is Eradicated
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD

GUADALUPE DISTRITO BRAVOS, Mexico — Her uncle, the mayor who gave her the job nobody else wanted, warned her to keep a low profile, to not make too much of being the last remaining police officer in a town where the rest of the force had quit or been killed.

But in pictures for local newspapers, Érika Gándara, 28, seemed to relish the role, posing with a semiautomatic rifle and talking openly about the importance of her new job.

“I am the only police in this town, the authority,” she told reporters.

Then, two days before Christmas, a group of armed men took her from her home, residents say, and she has not been seen since.

It was an ominous punctuation mark on the wave of terror that has turned this cotton farming town near Texas into a frightened outpost of the drug war. Nearly half of its 9,000 residents have fled, local officials say, leaving block after block of scorched homes and businesses and, now, not one regular police officer.

Far from big, infamous cities like Ciudad Juárez, one of the most violent places in the Americas, the war with organized crime can batter small towns just as hard, if with less notice.

The cotton towns south of Juárez sit in territory disputed by at least two major drug trafficking groups, according to government and private security reports, leading to deadly power struggles. But the lack of adequately trained police officers, a longstanding crisis that the government has sought to address with little resolution, allows criminal groups to have their way.

“Small cities and towns are really highly impacted,” said Daniel M. Sabet, a visiting professor at Georgetown University who studies policing in Mexico. “They offer strongholds organized crime can hold and control.”

Some towns consider themselves so vulnerable that they have gone out of their way not to antagonize criminals. Believing that those involved in organized crime would be less inclined to harm women — and because fewer men are willing to take the job — local officials have appointed a handful of women in the past year to senior police ranks in small cities and towns here in Chihuahua, the country’s most violent state.

After a spate of violence in a neighboring town, Praxédis Guerrero, local officials selected a 20-year-old college student in November as police chief to run the force of nine women and two men, hoping that criminal networks would see her as less threatening.

Marisol Valles, the young police chief, has made it clear that she leaves major crimes to state and federal authorities to investigate. Really, she said, she just reviews civil infractions issued by other officers and rarely leaves the office. “I am more like an administrator,” said Ms. Valles, who does not carry a gun or wear a uniform.

But the criminals have not discriminated. Hermila García, the woman appointed police chief of Meoqui, a small city in central Chihuahua, was killed on Nov. 30 after only a month in the job.

Guadalupe tried to put a nonthreatening face on law enforcement by appointing Ms. Gándara chief in October. But it appears that she tried — or at least talked about — taking the job more seriously, to the regret of her uncle, Mayor Tomás Archuleta. He had good reason to counsel a low profile: He took office after his predecessor was killed last summer, part of a wave of assassinations of local officials across Mexico.

“I told Érika, ‘Be careful,’ to not make waves,” Mr. Archuleta said, openly frustrated by the picture of her with the rifle. Like Ms. Valles, her role is more to issue citations, leaving serious crimes to state and federal authorities.

Guadalupe has plenty of them to investigate. There are as many abandoned homes and businesses — several of them gutted — as occupied ones. One recent morning, four homes smoldered from an attack and two people had been shot dead with high-powered weapons, the bullets leaving several gaping holes in cinder-block walls.

Few people here leave their homes after 5 p.m., and see soldiers and police officers only briefly after a major crime or when they are guarding the monthly delivery of government pension checks for retirees.

“We lock ourselves in most of the time,” said Eduardo Contreras, 26, as he watched residents douse and pick through the embers of their smoldering homes.

In a voice choked with tears, María Torres, 70, who grew up here, said, “This is so sad what has happened here,” as she carried a sign for a church service.

Mr. Archuleta, the mayor, said the town mainly gets its protection from soldiers based at a recreation center in Praxédis Guerrero. Maybe, Mr. Archuleta suggested, not having local police officers is better. He said local residents had told him that common crimes like burglary had dropped out of fear of drawing the attention of a military patrol.

“There aren’t any” minor crimes, he said, his voice dropping to a near whisper.

But townspeople disputed that, complaining that the soldiers or state and federal police officers were rarely seen except after major violence had occurred.

“There is no police, no fire department, no social services, nothing here,” said the middle-aged matriarch from one burned-out home, declining to give her name for fear of reprisals. “People get away with everything here. Nothing gets investigated, not even murders.”

Not long afterward, a four-truck caravan of federal police officers arrived from another town, hopping down from their vehicles, taking notes and asking her and other family members for a word. The family refused even to open the gate for the police, apparently out of fear of being seen talking to them, and the officers moved on. The officers appeared to be taking stock, driving from crime scene to crime scene and taking notes, but not mounting a forensic investigation.

At the site of the double murder in the morning, one officer dabbed at a pool of blood and body fluid on the driveway with a stick; another picked up a piece of flesh and playfully tossed it at a companion.

Ms. Gándara may not have investigated much deeper. Local police officers in small towns usually play a mostly preventive role, refereeing minor disputes, handling the town drunk and quieting rowdy teenagers, city managers said. Many are not armed.

Mr. Archuleta would say little else about his niece, Ms. Gándara, citing an investigation by the state prosecutor’s office, which would not comment on a motive. But he noted that he had turned to her when nobody else would take the job. She had experience as a security guard and appeared not to be involved in any criminal activity, he said.

“Who knows what people do in their private lives,” he said, “but I did not think she was involved in anything.”

[Occult Means Hidden]

President to send more troops to northeastern Mexico

Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday ordered the Army to send four battalions of soldiers to the country's northern borderlands, the site of increasing violence fueled by the drug trade.

Since Monday alone, gunmen have killed a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent, a man and his 8-year-old son were shot and set on fire Ciudad Juarez, and 13 people died in gunfire in that same Mexican border city, which has been wracked by drug-related violence.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/02/19/mexico.border.troops/index.html


Even by Juarez standards, a deadly 72 hours

Fifty-three people were killed in a 72-hour span in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, making it one of the deadliest three-day periods in recent memory, state attorney general's office spokesman Arturo Sandoval told CNN Sunday.
Among the dead were four police officers from three different agencies, Sandoval said.
"This is the worst violence we've seen this year," he said, referring to the three days from Thursday through Saturday.

The bloodshed started on Thursday with 14 people killed, including a municipal police officer.
Friday was the most violent day, leaving 20 people dead. A municipal police officer was killed by an assassin who belonged to a band of carjackers. Hours later, a state police investigator was executed on his drive home.

...

Elsewhere Sunday, Mexico's Public Security Secretariat reported that 13 taxi drivers were killed in the resort town of Acapulco in a rash of violence that began early Friday.

Suspected drug traffickers are believed to be behind the violence, setting cars ablaze and destroying street lights and security cameras. Among the casualties, a human head was discovered on a street and another body was found near a charred vehicle.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/02/20/mexico.violence/index.html

[8bitagent]

Whenever they show footage of driving through Juarez on the news, everywhere they go has to be blurred out as theres always mutilated dismembered corpses hanging from freeway overpasses and the side of the road with warning signs. The place literally looks like its out of that scene in Apocalypse Now when the boat gets closer to Kurtz' hideout.

Nowhere on earth at the moment, according to all sources, is there the kind of unimaginable public "wtf" horror going on as there is in Mexico(often just a few miles from America's border)
There's even reports that the Zetas are even absorbing other cartels and smaller gangs, forming a giant gang. The Zetas were always the most vicious and sophisticated, having of course been trained
in the school of America's program. Monterrey, Mexico's most upscale and richy rich exclusive cities, is now completely wrecked by chaos and mass violence.
Some of these cities have near daily car bombs, making some cities akin to Baghdad circa 2006. No doubt the cartels are now randomly targeting civilians, not just government/police/rival cartels.

It's only a matter of time before the chaos in Mexico reaches the states. And I bet those racist "illegals" hatin' tea party right wingers who worship their guns would be too chickenshit to take on the Zetas.

[cptmarginal]

This could've fit just as easily into the War on Drugs, Money Laundry and Plan (Destroy) Mexico thread.

Because it's always about the drug trade at some level, isn't it?

The next day, negotiations being successfully concluded, the Gulfstream took off for Colombia. Nothing unusual was noticed. The plane was on a well-worn path. The airport in Cancun was the busiest drug port in Mexico.

After loading its cargo of cocaine the following day, the Gulfstream took off from the international airport just outside Medellin, in Rio Negro Colombia, bound once more for the exclusive Mexican Caribbean resort of Cancun, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.

(I'd personally have put the term femicide in quotation marks if it was going to be in the title of the article but that hardly matters, doesn't it? I'm paying attention.)

Series of femicides cast a dark shadow over Mexico's 'sunshine state'

Horrific murders of Mexican women in region that includes Cancun and Playa del Carmen has community demanding justice



A march in Cancun by several thousand people protesting the murder of women in November.

Wednesday 25 November 2015 07.30 EST

Quintana Roo is Mexico’s sunshine state, a booming tourists’ playground which draws record numbers of holiday-makers to its golden beaches, coral reefs, Mayan ruins and all-inclusive package deals.

But in recent weeks, the Caribbean region has been badly shaken by a string of brutal murders of women – which authorities have seemed keen to downplay.

Within the space of three weeks, seven women have been murdered, bringing the total to 18 so far this year. At least two of the victims were strangled, and several had been sexually assaulted before their bodies were dumped in public places. All the women were Mexican.

This latest surge in murders has renewed tensions between activists against gender violence, and government officials who accuse them of trying to derail tourism and economic progress.

Celina Izquierdo Sánchez, from the Quintana Roo Observatory of Social and Gender Violence, said that a “time bomb” of violence against women had exploded because state officials played down the scale of the problem. “Nothing was done due to the false belief that recognising and tackling gender violence would affect tourism,” she said. “Justice will not reduce tourism.”

Situated on the lush tropical Yucatan peninsula, Quintana Roo is the jewel in the crown of Mexico’s flourishing tourism industry. A record 10 million holidaymakers and four million cruise ship passengers visited the state in 2014, accounting for almost 30% of tourists to the country, according to the Tourism Board (Sedetur).

This year is looking even stronger, with millions of North Americans and Europeans expected in Cancun and Playa del Carmen during the winter months.

But in an attempt to protect its idyllic image, authorities have long preferred to minimize the state’s problems.

In 2005, investigative reporter Lydia Cacho exposed the involvement of high profile businessmen and politicians in a child pornography and prostitution ring operating in Cancun. She was arrested for defamation, tortured and threatened with rape in what was later revealed to be a plot to silence her.

“I’ve been systematically accused by the governor and his news outlets of being ‘an enemy of the state’ because I’ve demonstrated institutional weaknesses, high levels of impunity, corruption and violence – including gender-based violence, the increase in torture and use of the justice system as a punishment tool against political enemies,” Cacho recently wrote.

Quintana Roo still has one of the highest rates of human trafficking in Mexico, according to UN’s World Tourism Organization. The state law against trafficking remains stuck in Congress due to a party political deadlock.

Quintana Roo also has the highest level of reported sexual violence in the country. It has no DNA lab and only one women’s refuge.

This latest grisly wave of gender violence began on 18 October when the naked body of Rebeca Rivera Neri, 24, was found dumped in Cancun. Originally from the state of Veracruz, Rivera had been strangled and badly beaten.

The next victim was tourism undergraduate student María Carrasco Castilla, 19, who was raped, murdered and abandoned at a vacant lot.

Her murder drove thousands onto the streets of Cancun’s upmarket hotel district to demand the declaration of a ‘gender alert’ – an emergency mechanism introduced into law in 2007 following a surge of hate crimes against women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez. But just hours after the protest, the body of another murdered woman was found in the city.

The state governor Roberto Borge Angulo, who was attending a tourism convention in London at the time, issued a statement in which he claimed the murders were all cases of family violence.

Previous threads on Lydia Cacho:

Key Evidence Blocked in Mexican Child Sex Ring Trial

Writer Who Exposed Child Sex Ring Fears the Worst

Mexican pedophile ring sends children to Fla

[Wombaticus Rex]

Whenever they show footage of driving through Juarez on the news, everywhere they go has to be blurred out as theres always mutilated dismembered corpses hanging from freeway overpasses and the side of the road with warning signs. The place literally looks like its out of that scene in Apocalypse Now when the boat gets closer to Kurtz' hideout.

And if there's anything we can trust the news on, it's objective reality. Most of the footage you see on any given half hour of CNN coverage is real-time cam footage, not anything edited or selected to promote some kind of agenda. Those poor motherfuckers! They just call it how they see it, and keep taking flak from paranoid civilians like all you guys here.

Nah, tho. The power of atrocity is undeniable, but the biggest force multiplier that Satan/Nihilist/Salafist actors have is the breathless media response. There is a balance of terror. The conditioning power of violence has as much do to with intervals as it does with outbursts. Just because Vice keeps running the same DSLR footage of some cartel messaging doesn't mean every Tuesday commute involves driving past dozens of dangling corpses.

Which is not to minimize the many nightmares that have gone down in Juarez -- just trying to point out shit isn't full Hieronymus Bosch and it is a city where people lead lives every day.

Fuck the War on Drugs.

[cptmarginal]

I was thinking of calling it a kind of "punctuated equilibrium" but John Robb already thought of that ten years ago. Maybe punctured rather than punctuated.

[zangtang]

James Mills' underground empire........staggering massive achievement.

an updated version of the global situation that is as accurate & comperhensive......is probly not possible,
what with organised crime taking over the world,
& would in any case be too
fucking depressing.

[semper occultus]

BLOOD TRILOGY

From the Aryan Brotherhood to the Mexican Cartels: Headpress announces new blood-soaked crime histories from John Lee Brook



www.worldheadpress.com

In 2011 Headpress released Blood In Blood Out: The Violent Empire of the Aryan Brotherhood, a history of the notorious white supremacist prison gang, written by John Lee Brook, a writer who had served time and got to know members of the gang personally. The resultant ‘insider’ history was shocking yet compelling, a tale of violence, meth, and sociopathic genius. The book has since fascinated readers.

Next month, Headpress publishes the latest work by Brook, Blood + Death: The Secret History of Santa Muerte and the Mexican Drug Cartels. Here Brook not only details the history of Mexico’s gruesome drug wars, but shows how the cult of Santa Muerte (or Holy Death) has influenced the culture of the cartels, and helped fuel the bloodshed that has blighted Mexico’s recent history.

Although Brook’s latest work – the second in the ‘Blood Trilogy’ – focuses on the cartels, Blood + Death’s monstrous cast is not confined to drug runners and cartel assassins. The book also features satanic priests, occult consultants to the cartels, prolific kidnappers, recreational sadists, and other assorted, real-life psychopaths, all bonded by their devotion to the so-called Skinny Lady.

It’s a unique, and, yes, very dark book, written in Brook’s distinctive, unblinking prose, and serves as a great primer on cartel history, as well as a vivid depiction of the dark faith at the centre of it, a faith where shots of tequila, packages of coke, and lots and lots of blood serve as sacraments and sacrifices to the insatiable lust of Santa Muerte.

In order to whet everyone’s appetite for Blood + Death, Headpress is releasing a special edition of Blood In Blood Out. It is not only the first time Brook’s bestseller has received the hard back, special edition, collectible, no-ISBN treatment from Headpress, but it comes with a new, full-length epilogue, The Eclipse of the Aryan Brotherhood, which brings the terrible tale of the gang right up to date, an extra chapter exclusive to the special edition and the special edition only.

Bloody hell!

[cptmarginal]

Now that another overpass mass hanging has happened it is clear once again just how out of the ordinary that level of carnage is. The pictures of previous incidents (including piles of body parts left on streets) that one can see in this book are beyond disturbing:

19 bodies hung from bridge or hacked up in Mexico gang feud

50 minutes ago

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19.

The killing spree in the western city of Uruapan marked a return to the grisly massacres carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico’s 2006-2012 drug war, when piles of bodies were dumped on roadways as a message to authorities and rival gangs.

Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks, half naked, were women, as was one of the dismembered bodies.

While the banner was not completely legible, it bore the initials of the notoriously violent Jalisco drug cartel, and mentioned the Viagras, a rival gang. “Be a patriot, kill a Viagra,” the banner read in part.

Adrian Lopez, the attorney general for the western state of Michoacan, said the killings appeared to be part of a turf war.

“Certain criminal gangs are fighting over territory, to control activities related to drug production distribution and consumption,” Lopez said. “Unfortunately, this conflict results in these kinds of acts that justifiably alarm the public.”

For years, Mexican cartels had seemed loath to draw attention to themselves with mass public displays of bodies. Instead, the gangs went to great lengths to hide bodies, by creating clandestine burial pits or dissolving corpses in caustic chemicals.

But the Jalisco gang, which has gained a reputation for directly challenging authorities, appears to have returned to showy killings as a way to intimidate rivals.

In 2011, the then-smaller Jalisco cartel dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. In 2012, the Zetas drug cartel dumped 49 decapitated bodies on a highway in northern Mexico, and that same year they strung nine bodies from an overpass and left 14 severed heads near the city hall.

Meanwhile, in another part of Mexico, an angry crowd beat and hung five suspected kidnappers, leaving some of their bodies dangling from trees.

The suspects had been detained by about 180 villagers in the central state of Puebla. The state government said police and soldiers were sent to the area to try to stop the attack, but villagers from the hamlets of Tepexco and Cohuecan wouldn’t let them.

“Unfortunately, this conflict results in these kinds of acts that justifiably alarm the public.”

Unintentional comedy.

[Karmamatterz]

Now that another overpass mass hanging has happened it is clear once again just how out of the ordinary that level of carnage is. The pictures of previous incidents (including piles of body parts left on streets) that one can see in this book are beyond disturbing:

What the heck? Were they climate change deniers?