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- 541 Synicate Part 3 Final Chapter
- Z-40 says I'm a farmer who stews about La Ardilla in jail
- Amid death threats Dr Mierles appeals to Human Rights Commission
541 Synicate Part 3 Final Chapter Posted: 16 Oct 2013 05:48 PM PDT Written by Adán Germán for Borderland Beat
By the middle of the last decade, the Díaz family had ramped up production of high-grade marijuana to the point that it was moved around the country by the ton, and they had over a dozen runners supplying Chicago's Lower West Side, a group of Outfit connected old Jewish guys on the North side, and a group of Mexicans in North Jersey who had connections to remnants of the Gambino family. However, they began to experience hit after hit. First their drivers or runners, as they were called, began to be pulled over and searched, one after another. It became well known from the Rocky Mountains, east, that vehicles with plates from Western states were prime targets. Interstate 80 and, the northern route, Interstate 90, became like gauntlets, with runners caught like deer in the headlights of State Highway Patrols in places like Utah, Wyoming and South Dakota, and all the way east to New York. At the same time, the DEA and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division were having a field day, raiding farm after farm, based on nothing more than aerial photos proving the production of marijuana. The feds had pledged, as a rule, to leave alone those growers who followed state guidelines, but we all know about rules: They're made to be broken. Finally, their main connection in Chicago had to be cut off, after a South Side gang refused to pay a large debt that had been piling up for over a year. They continually promised to catch up, they just needed ONE MORE front. Then one more, then another one. At the end, they just said we're not going to pay, and there's nothing you can do about it. At the same time, their New Jersey connection experienced nearly the same problem with a group of Italians. With production disrupted, transportation and distribution a losing proposition, and the feds crawling so far up their asses they needed Vaseline, someone had to come up with a new plan. Their first mistake was bringing in some local good 'ol boys to manage and work the farms. Now the Díaz's were no stranger to Okies, because an uncle had married into a family of loggers named Nelson, who came from Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, and they were a rowdy bunch of thieving, hard drinking, meth users. There was a joke that the Nelsons didn't grow weed, they stole weed, so when a couple of Nelson cousins were arrested for growing marijuana, the family was surprised. It happened when Adán Díaz was away at college, and he was surprised his cousin's were growing marijuana, since they were known for being untrustworthy, and a few beers short of a six-pack. Well, as it turns out, they were arrested while stealing a garden that just happened to be under police surveillance. So, the Díaz family found some hardworking cow hands on one of their ranches, and some guys that knew the woods from their days planting trees. These fellows were trustworthy, hardworking, and reliable. The problem was, they weren't family, and they didn't come from the old ethic, that was tradition in the Díaz family: You do the crime, you do the time, because snitches are a dying breed. These new fellows lacked the blood alliance that had kept most of the Díaz family from ever facing a judge, even after losing dozens of loads or gardens. It didn't take long for the feds to develop cooperating witnesses, working from the inside. The next mistake they made was getting tight with an old hippie organized crime group called The Family. This group is not to be confused with the weirdo international sex cult that you may have read about elsewhere. This is a group that sprung out of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and devoted their activities to the production and distribution of psychedelic drugs, primarily LSD and psilocybin mushrooms. The Díaz's came into contact with members of The Family, after two Díaz family members were questioned at length by US Marshal's Service agents, who were wearing blue jeans and flannel shirts. The Díaz family members were bidding on a farm which had been seized by the IRS, as part of an investigation into The Family. The US Marshal's Service agents believed there was a large quantity of LSD that they had never located, and they wanted to know where it was buried. The Díaz family had no idea. However, after the interrogation, Adán Díaz befriended several other people who received the same treatment, and learned about The Family, which was under investigation in no fewer than 17 states. Years later, members of The Family informed the Díaz's that they had a huge market for high-grade marijuana in several states, primarily Florida, through a group of Cubans, and they knew how to transport it there undetected. They would use the same system that had been used to move their psilocybin mushrooms, which occupied roughly the same volume per dollar amount of product. Ironically, Gene Díaz had been involved with the Brotherhood of Eternal Love in Southern California in the 1960's, but the relationship ended badly after several BEL members were sent to federal prison, and the group blamed Gene Díaz for the arrests and convictions. The Family had a fleet of small motor homes, all of them built on a Toyota chassis'. These motor homes were discreet, were difficult to search without a warrant, because they were technically a "home", and if kept well maintained, they never broke down. In 5 years, with about a dozen motor homes, making hundreds of runs, The Family had never lost a load. The first few runs went well, although only about 50 pounds was sent in each run, because that much would be difficult to find, even if a motor home were to be searched by an inexperienced highway patrol officer. After about a half-dozen loads, managers from The Family convinced Adán Díaz that the Cubans in South Florida were ready for a 500 pound load, which could be easily moved in 3-4 motor homes, with each runner paid $25,000. The Family would receive $4,000 a pound in Florida, and pay the Díaz's $2,500 per pound, or $1.25 million for the load. Well, I'm sure everyone can see where this is leading. The Cubans did the same thing as the Italians in New Jersey did, and the South Side gangsters in Chicago did: They said "We're not paying, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it". The Family was supposed to be a sort of hippie mafia, but in reality they were a bungling group of aging baby-boomers with dreadlocks, and they didn't have any solution to the problem, except to say, "sorry, dude". What was Adán Díaz going to do, fly down to Florida and drive around with a carload of OG's, looking for the Cubans that ripped him off? He didn't even know who they were, and he had no resources to go cross-country, in search of an unpaid debt from people he didn't even know. POSTSCRIPT: Gene Díaz got out of the business years ago, and wholesales ethnic handicrafts manufactured in Asia to chain stores. He lives quietly on a tree farm in Oregon. Adán Díaz and his father invested well in real estate. They own a small strip mall and residential rentals, and he lives a quiet life with his wife and kids in the mountains of the Emerald Triangle. His small grass fed organic beef brand is marketed to a few local grocery stores, but most of it goes to friends and family. Rumor has it that he has rekindled old contacts, and may even open a legal marijuana dispensary in Washington State. I ran into Adán Díaz at a local hardware store last week, and I asked him about the old days. He's happy to be off the fed's radar and living quietly. In a simple twist, he owns the building where the hardware store is located. Asked about regrets, he said "I never killed anyone, and I never hurt an innocent person. I put smiles on the faces of my customers, and they were still smiling when their bag ran out. I contributed more to world peace than Barack Obama will in an entire lifetime." On Saturday night [October 12], two men dumped their friend at the local hospital, and drove off. The friend, 19 year-old Clyde McDonald, had two nonfatal gunshot wounds. It is believed the three were caught in the act of trying to steal from a local marijuana grower, but the victim has refused to give his statement to police.  | ||
Z-40 says I'm a farmer who stews about La Ardilla in jail Posted: 16 Oct 2013 04:41 PM PDT Borderland Beat Miguel Trevino Morales "40," detained leader of Los Zetas, designated as one of the most bloodthirsty men in the history of drug trafficking, told a judge in August that he is only a farmer who earns 40 thousand pesos a month and feared for himself in prison.   The alleged drug trafficker, is known inside as "El Mike," his alias and doesn't belong to any indigenous group, told judicial authorities. He has no vices: he doesn't gamble, drink alcoholic drinks, smoke cigarettes or do drugs. "The day he was arrested he was in a normal state," said a telegram sent by a court clerk of the prevention and Social rehabilitation penal facility. He is the son of Rodolfo Treviño Arroyo, deceased, and Maria Arcelia Morales Martínez, "El Z-40" says he has income of 40 thousand pesos a month from his work in the agricultural sector and has 5 financial dependents, his wife from a common-law union and 4 children. Noting his physical details, Treviño has two tattoos, one on the right forearm with the figure of a cobra, and the other on the back of the neck, in the form of a painting, with the logo 'Hecho enMexico. For the criminal who the Federal government, attributes hundreds of deaths in the last decade, it is remarkable that alleged leader of Los Zetas doesn't have a single scar, as referenced in the documents.  Diario  | ||
Amid death threats Dr Mierles appeals to Human Rights Commission Posted: 16 Oct 2013 08:28 AM PDT Borderland Beat "We are no longer afraid of being murdered by the Templarios. We're afraid of being murdered by the state because we are affecting their interests. ..."  I recently was sent information, a video (other than the video featured on this post), email addys, Paypal, wire transfer info to send donations. I actually translated the video but before I posted I attempted to send a test paypal donation and the account was closed. I have not tried the bank wire, yet. I have to determine how to do so without revealing personal information. I did however researched and found his office address, two personal email addys and his office phone. I plan to contact him directly and ask the best way to send donations from interested parties, I will keep you posted.....Paz, ChivisTranslated by J. Lopez Rather than a detailed transcription, here is a more detailed summary of Dr. Mireles' words: "We don't want to keep on burying innocent people. Just yesterday, some farm laborers were hung in an avocado farm that belonged to the Rangel brothers. Day before yesterday, the Templarios came to the farm and ran them off and took their 80 hectare farm where they were growing avocados, but they kept the laborers. Then yesterday, they killed and hung 6 workers who had never been involved in the self defense forces. They were simple workers . We need help from the international community to get justice. We are not criminals and we don't want to be criminalized. We are simply civilian citizens who are defending our families, our lives, our rights. Death threats We want the nation to understand that we cannot go on with our eyes blindfolded, and that's the real tragedy, that we have opened our eyes. That's the tragedy for this government. They have already warned me to keep my mouth shut or they will come and pick me up, the system itself, the government itself. They want to disarm me. I don't use firearms. You've seen me in videos. The only weapons I have are justice, truth and reason. Those are the only weapons and they have given orders to take them from me. They've ordered a seal placed over my mouth, but I cannot live my life with my head buried in the sand, watching them kill my neighbors, who were born right in front of my house. It's impossible for a rational human being to accept those conditions: 'If you don't shut up, we're going to go there and pick you up and murder you." And I want to make it very clear: the threats are not coming from the Templarios, and there will be more evidence coming out. That's why we need your help to disseminate the truth. Those are the only weapons I can use; defend the truth, defend justice and defend reason. Those are the only weapons. But with them, I have annoyed a lot of people in very high places. We need your support, please help us. To the Commission on Human Rights in Mexico: I hope you listen to me. I called the Mexican Human Rights Commission and they responded four months after I called them for help. I hope the International Commission on Human Rights will be more effective, I hope they have people with the ideals to help us, because, after we're dead, why would we need human rights? When none of the ones standing here to fight survives, why would we need defense that only exists on paper? The human rights of Mexicans are enshrined in the Constitution. We also know about human rights in the Hague, in Colombia, in the U.N, and we hope they will listen. We demand intervention by the International Human Rights Commission. This is something that cannot be denied us. All we are doing is to keep on burying our dead, and sometimes we just bury their heads, because we don't even have the right to look for the bodies of our friends, of our neighbors. We urgently need international help. We know that the Secretary of the Interior does want to help put a stop to all of this. But obviously, they have to rely on the state government even if they won't get another cent. I hope they won't (?kill?) more people. But we need the federal government to help us. And if these people want to keep on killing innocent people, let them come after us men, we have weapons, don't kill people who are working the fields, picking lemons or avocados, whose only weapons are the boxes they use to collect what they harvest. That's why we remain barricaded in our towns, why we don't allow people through, although we are attacked every day. But it's necessary for the federal government to help us, to pressure the state government so it will not be so vicious, so brazen. They keep picking up innocent people and killing them, saying, "These are the men who murdered the congressman," when the people who were with him saw their faces because they were not even covered. You cannot hide the sun with a finger, even if you have total control of the mass media. Because we who live here, under fire, have opened our eyes. They cannot deceive us with the lies they spread through the media. Help us, please, so our message gets to the Secretary of Interior. We have a lot of trust in that gentleman because when the state government tried to lie about what happened in Michoacán, he told them he did not agree with them. The federal government needs to come here and do its job. We cannot do the job of the federal government. We are only civilians defending our families. You know that after this, they're going to come after me, but it's worth it, worth the lives of all of us [his voice breaks here] if justice is done. We urgently need protection and support of the International Commission on Human Rights and the U.N. Because the self-defense groups are being executed one by one, and our families, who have never been involved with the self-defense forces, are being decapitated in any ranch where the Templarios find them. It is urgent that you listen to us. We need it. The massacre has begun. Mr. Nazario threatened to execute 300 people this month. He has already killed more than 50. And to this day, we have not seen any response by the state to defend the people. We need for the International Human Rights Commission to give us any help it can, to defend us. I'm just a civilian citizen who is defending my family. We need help from the International Human Rights Commission. We are no longer afraid of being murdered by the Templarios. We're afraid of being murdered by the state because we are affecting their interests. We are productive, hard-working people, not criminals, so don't try to portray us as criminals. To the International Human Rights Commission, our lives and those of our families are in your hands. Thank you." |
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