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Posted: 28 Jul 2014 10:48 PM PDT Updates from Tijuana There has been no violent, cinematic aftermath in the wake of the arrest of El Inge, the fallen heir to the Arellano Felix name. Fernando Sanchez Arellano went quietly into the night, headed for Mexico City, confirming to authorities it was Chino Antrax who killed his uncle, Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, and refusing to cooperate further.  The plaza of Tijuana has no true owner, loose groups and cells continue to push north, control, and spill blood for the retail drug sale zones in the city, from Zona Norte, to Rosarito. Names float through the pages of Zeta, corridos played on both sides of the border, and in posters hanging in the border crossings. Sinaloa this, CAF that, Los Cabelleros Templarios, CJNG, thoseThe bodies pile up, in the streets of Eastern Tijuana, back alleys of Rosarito, Zona Norte, Zone Centro. Duct taped hands, wrapped in twine, sheets, blankets, blindfolds, signs of torture, bullets to the head, narco messages quickly scrawled on paper cheaper then the lives of the bodies they are pinned too. Variants on a theme of death, vengeance, business, and power. People are taken from nightclubs, shot up in restaurants, and it call continues. The stories make the paper, or the chismes whispered in Tijuana, and shouted in San Diego. Plaza bosses get executed for not leaving the city in a timely fashion, Inge goes down, La Rana comes back, no one knows anything. Three men are found executed in a van, left running. No one knows, but everybody does.  The brothers of El Mono, Roberto Toscano Carlos Rodriguez, and Antonio Rodriguez, El Shrek and El Twi are arrested with guns and drugs. El Mono is Luis Manuel Toscano, CAF's longtime strong hand in the Zona Norte, who has survived assassination attempts, and multiple arrests. The drugs are sold as usual in bars like Hong Kong, where the sex trade thrives, and in nameless, faceless tienditas lining the streets, vendors old and young sell their wares, tiendero's sell theirs.An alleged high ranking Caballeros Templarios leader is arrested in Playas de Tijuana, amidst reports of masked gunmen checking cars as they entered the area. Juan Carlos Alamaza Mendoza 'El Pillo', on the run from Michoacan, was hiding as a contractor, since late last year. Allegedly he was planning to organize a cell in the city, his time in the city was financed by CT upper management. Two months or so back, a man was found murdered with a note mocking the Michocanos who don't pay their piso.  El Wacho and El Tavo are arrested in a Taxi Libre, carrying 10 wraps of heroin and a revolver, allegedly en route to kill El Danny, on the orders of La Rana. The names are almost irrelevant, the drug addled pistoleros do not know why they kill, or whom they kill for, only who to kill.A large picture is not usually realized by those who kill and die in the war for Tijuana's retailed rug trade. It is barely realized by us. We can compile the names of the killed, or the killers, the make and model of the car, carefully count the amount of drugs and the way they are packaged, the markings on the kilos, the wraps on the bales, it's only tenuously real to us. Only real to the ones whose husbands don't come home, or whose children are killed, brothers and sisters separated, high caliber weapon shells and toast of blood and whiskey, welcome to Tijuana. Sources: Zeta Tijuana, AFN Tijuana  |
Tuta Complains Americano and others Owe him big time Posted: 28 Jul 2014 11:03 PM PDT by Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat Servando Gomez Martinez, "La Tuta", is once again reaching out to the public to share his woes. His beef this time is with the former Buenavista autodefensa group. The former group known as "H3" is the most controversial autodefensa group, as many in the group were made up of so called "former" Templarios. Many are now "Rurales" working for the government. Luis Antonio Torres, aka El Americano, was the Leader/Coordinator of Buenavista (H3) including all the communities in Buenavista. Originally, autodefensas labeled each group who raise arms with a "H" and a sequential number. H1 was La Ruana, headed by Hipolito Mora. In the video Tuta asserts that members of the Buenavista "community police", owe "The Company" (Caballeros Templarios) a large amount of money In the 51 second recording, Tuta says that, among others, 'comunitarios' (community police) such as, Luis Antonio Torres, aka "El Americano", H3, now has a leadership role in the government controlled "Rurales" group, and Adalberto Fructuoso Comparan, aka "Fruto" former mayor and founder of the Aguililla self defense forces, owe the cartel money for drugs or cash loans.  Americano has always maintained a close personal and business relationship with the seven Sierra Santana brothers, the founders of "Los Viagras", the first splinter group of Templarios. After they splintered, Viagras and Tuta came to a working agreement. Last fall a video surfaced in which Tuta is giving an ultimatum to Carlos Sierra Santana for not abiding with the conditions of the agreement encroaching on territory of Templarios. In the video El Americano appears.  What Tuta apparently did not know at the time, is that Viagras broke their agreement with Templarios and had allied with CJNG and Mencho. Carlos and his brother Mariano are the premier leaders of Viagras.  Viagras had discovered that Mencho had both the federal police and some former community police on the payroll allowing him to conduct business at will, that was enough to compel the brothers to jump ship. Based out of the Huetamo area, but when they joined CJNG they began operating in the Coastal Sur area of Guerrero. They conduct most of the kidnapping and killing in the area and is said to take care of Mencho's "dirty work". Dr Mireles says the Viagras are a very dangerous group, they have no loyalty and are even more brutal than Templarios. El Gavilan, jefe de plaza of Petacalco (CJNG), Guerrero, was recommended for the position by the Sierra Santana brothers. Gavilan was blamed, via a Guerrero banner, as the perpetrator of the Harry Devert kidnapping. He and/or his lieutenant El Tigre. Galivan hung banners disclaiming the crime. However, the brutal crime was done, no doubt, at the direction of Mencho by either Viagras or Gavilan, or in coordination of both. The Sierra Brothers are Godsons of El Chango Méndez, leader of La Familia Michoacana. Some of the LFM cells are now with Los Viagras. Self defense groups were split into two groups, one is the coastal group led by Dr Mireles. The other group was led by Americano, Cinco and Smurf. It was the Americano group that "allowed" reformed narcos to serve in self defense groups. The coastal group of municipalities have the reputation of being clean. It was in one of those commuities, La Mira, where Dr Mireles, coordinator for the coastal groups, was arrested. Purportedly, Americano now has control and operation of many of the drug labs in Michoacan. When he is not fighting crime with the Rurales, of course. Tuta mentions yet another video, with "Denisse Demerck", (I am sure he mean Televisa's Denise Maerker) . In the video, he says he speaks a little about "Fruto", " I was asked about him, and I answered I was not the person to ask, because they will say I am speaking bad about him, or to have attention drawn to him. to make him look bad for several situations that have occurred. He continues, "But I am going to tell you something, "La Mami", who was police in La Ruana, who owes a lot of money to the company. " "And, he owes drugs to almost all of the boys."  "El Americano from Buenavista owes us a lot of money. "Fruto" was loaned cash. I don't know if that was the reason or whether that was the real difference with "Tena". I know that he has said he has a lot of respect for us", La Tuta points out. He asserts that Maerker does not dare broadcast the video because because "She's Televisa, one of the government networks and they don't want to expose the situation." Several months ago, the Federal Commissioner for Safety for Michoacan, Alfredo Castillo, said that "La Tuta's" arrest would be the icing on the cake for the Federal operation that was undertaken in Michoacan. The government official insisted Tuta's capture "would take place".. That is yet to happen  |
