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- Lawyers: Dr. Mireles Will Be Freed In December
- General Gurrola: There Are No Cartels in Michoacán; There Is Organized Crime
- Chapo Guzman sends flowers to Jardines de Humaya cemetery
- Mexico Supreme court votes 4-1 in favor of recreational marijuana consumption and cultivation
- Missing Normalistas? Villagers find mass graves, say G.U. excavated on 9.27.14
Lawyers: Dr. Mireles Will Be Freed In December Posted: 04 Nov 2015 08:00 PM PST  Translated By Valor for Borderland Beat The leader and founder of the autodefensas of Tepalcatepec, José Manuel Mireles Valverde, will obtain his freedom in the month of December, “before the start of the holiday period,” assured his lawyers. At a press conference accompanied by the leader of the Movimiento Ciudadano (Citizens' Movement), Dante Delgado, they detailed that they presented an argument for the exclusion of the crime and an error of prohibiting that would invalidate the crime for the possession of a firearm for the exclusive use of the army. The fact is that according to his lawyer Ignacio Mendoza, the autodefensa leader had every right to carry and use weapons, as it was the authorities who had determined it, “it is proven that the State deceived the autodefensas,” he said. The law firm said that they were 100% sure that he would be released before the holidays. José Manuel Mireles is being held in the maximum security prison in Hermosillo, Sonora, since June 27, 2014. Source: Michoacán 3.0  | ||
General Gurrola: There Are No Cartels in Michoacán; There Is Organized Crime Posted: 04 Nov 2015 07:00 PM PST
By: Rodrigo Caballero | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat In Michoacán, there aren’t any drug cartels, but rather organized crime, assured the Coordinator of the Federal Forces in Michoacán, Felipe Gurrola Ramírez, while at the same time considering the word “cartel” as being relative. During an interview, General Gurrola said that security forces in Michoacán “are migrating” to pay more attention to ordinary crimes in larger cities of the state, because he considers that the Caballeros Templarios are “dismantled.” According to figures given by the special command, at this moment, there are 1,000 members of the Military Police patrolling the state of Michoacán of which 120 are concentrated in the city of Morelia. Felipe Gurrola said that this deployment is independent of the thousands of soldiers that the Secretariat of National Defense (SEDENA) has installed in the state, and will also only be there for a limited time until the installation of the State Police has been completed. On the other hand, General Gurrola ensures that the Michoacán Coordination Group will have “zero tolerance” for crimes committed by security forces, such as: the abuse of authority, negligence, or torture. Because of this, Gurrola said “I call upon the citizens, should they be subjected to abuse of any kind of an authority, to denounce it so that corresponding sanctions are imposed.” Source: Michoacán 3.0  | ||
Chapo Guzman sends flowers to Jardines de Humaya cemetery Posted: 04 Nov 2015 06:54 PM PST  An all capital written message in dark letters surrounding the floral arrangement reads, "FROM: JOAQUIN GUZMAN LOERA, TO: PERRILLO. "El Perrillo" was killed last October 24 when he arrived to a body shop. Two gunmen got out of a car and shot him dead. On his tombstone the name reads Adrian Arellano Ricardo Noriega. On that morning someone placed the arrangement in a crypt of this well known narco cemetery, the offering came from none other than El Chapo Guzman, the most wanted criminal in Mexico and the United States. Jardines de Humaya is famous because well known narco traffickers are buried here and those narco crypts are resembling miniature cathedrals.  Among the people on this cemetery are the remains of Arturo Beltran Leyva El Barbas, killed in Morelos during a confrontation with the Navy. Also Ignacio Nacho Coronel Villarreal, who died in 2010 in a shootout with soldiers in Jalisco, Francisco Pancho Arce Rubio, a member of the criminal group "Los anthrax". The graves are true mausoleums of white and pink marble designed to perpetuate the memory of its inhabitants. These constructions of the last 20 years have all the luxuries and services, making them unique to this cemetery.  The opulence includes solar panels, air conditioning, satellite television, bedrooms, bathrooms and surveillance cameras in the niches. Several tombs also have luxury fittings and finishes. In the past, this cemetery located in calzada Heroico Colegio Militar, in colonia Miguel de la Madrid, was the last resting place for the remains of middle-upper class and is one of the most traditional ones in Culiacan after the San Juan cemetery was saturated .  This article was translated from Proceso | ||
Mexico Supreme court votes 4-1 in favor of recreational marijuana consumption and cultivation Posted: 04 Nov 2015 01:54 PM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat Reforma, BB archives and Jornada used to write this post  Mexico City. In an unprecedented and historic decision, the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) validated the "recreational" use of marijuana, planting and consumption for personal use, not including trade, supply or distribution. In closed session, the ministers were in favor of the measure were A four people to the Federal Commission for the Protection of Health Risks (COFEPRIS) grants them permission to produce and consume the grass.Later the decision was confirmed at a public meeting. The judgment issued authorizations "for performing acts in conjunction with personal consumption for recreational purposes (plant, cultivate, harvest, prepare, possess, transport) exclusively cannabis (marijuana and seeds). The resolution "in no way implies the authorization to carry out business activities, or any other provision that refers to the sale and / or distribution of the aforementioned substances." Public meeting In the open session of the First Chamber of the Supreme Court, having the lone vote against the measure, Minister Jorge Pardo Rebolledo spoke out against the draft prepared by Arturo Zaldivar. Pardo said that his refusal was because the proposal does not include how one would acquire the seeds to plant drugs and initiate the procedure that guarantees the right to the protection granted to the recreational use of the herb. "By excluding this issue, I cannot agree with the proposal." In 2009 Mexico decriminalization law The federal decriminalization law, which took effect Aug. 21, 2009 called for suspects caught with small drug quantities to appear before a prosecutor, who must determine whether the possession was for personal use or trafficking. The limits included: 5 grams for marijuana (about three to six joints, depending on size) and 500 milligrams of cocaine (roughly five doses, or "lines"). Those found to be users must be released with a referral to health authorities, though it's unclear how many referrals were made or whether they work.  | ||
Missing Normalistas? Villagers find mass graves, say G.U. excavated on 9.27.14 Posted: 04 Nov 2015 11:36 AM PST Lucio R. Borderland Beat
Residents report that on the night of September 27, 2014, they witnessed a convoy of about 3 dozen members of Guerreros Unidos, arrive in late model trucks and a backhoe. They report seeing the backhoe excavating two large holes, later evident by two large mounds of dirt. These residents notified the parents of the 43 missing normalistas, of a discovery on October 31st, of human remains. Villagers called on the media, showing them many bones, including the two jaw bones a skull, and a vertebrae discovered in a pit about 3 feet deep. The pit was 65 feet from the road in Los Cazahuates. The discovery was made soon after the detention in Carrizalillo last week of halcon Modesto Onofre Peña Celso, along with 9 federal officers, who are suspected of having links with the cartel. During questioning Peña Celso reportedly gave information to police about several clandestine narco-fosas ( graves) in the hills in the area. A group of residents accompanied by a federal prosecutor walked along the road that connects Amatitlan and Tenantla, in Los Cazahuates and where the bones were found. The people who discovered the grave asked that they remain anonymous, in fear of reprisals from Guerreros Unidos, who dominates the area. The (PGR) prosecutor’s office promised to return on Saturday to collect evidence, evacuating the graves and run tests on the bones, but that plan was then suspended. They did send the discovered remains to the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) of Chilpancingo Then yesterday, they issued this statement "With diligence we aim to locate the graves identified by the inhabitants of this town, and proceed in excavating the findings, " the PGR said. Further stating, that federal forces will work in coordination with collective authority The villagers believe the 43 missing students from the Ayotzinapa teacher’s college were taken to Carrizalillo and could possibly be found in the fosas. One Carrizalillo resident, who would only be identified as “Jacinto,” said he believed there were many graves in the area and claimed to know of one that contained 30 bodies. He adds, because of the size of the operation, and the timing, it is highly probable that many of the missing 43 are buried in the area. The commissioner of the community of Carrizalillo in the municipality of Zumpango de Neri, says 3 fosas have been discovered so far and that the two large fosas could have as many as 60 bodies. Residents say that federal police attempted to arrest and intimidate villagers, and attest to a long history of torture and abuse by the federal police. Information used for this post from: Reforma, Sinembargo, Jornada  |
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