Thread: Mexican General Identifies Corrupt Officials

Mexican General Identifies Corrupt Officials

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Mexican general identifies corrupt officials

El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coah.) Reforma , El Universal (both Mexico City) 4/24/08

Last week the Att'y. Gen. of Baja Calif., Rommel Moreno Manjarrez, asked Mex. army General Sergio Aponte Polito, the commander of Mexico's Military Region II, to present proof of the alleged collaboration oif police agencies with organized crime. The military chief responded with a letter not only to the AG but also to the media. The letter said that personnel of various law enforcement agencies provide protection to "narcotraffic" leaders, participate in kidnappings, executions, robberies and protection to smugglers of undocumented persons. He also referred to instances of executions of city, state and federal police officers such as the one of "AFI" (Fed. Inv. Agency) commander Jorge Rodriguez which took place in Mexicali in Sep. '07, adding that it was the result of the theft by Rodriguez of 100 thousand dollars from the Arellano Felix drug cartel.
The General's letter identifies 10 "Ministerial agents", 5 "AFI", 3 "PGR" ( Dep't. of Justice ) & one federal police. Additionally, 16 Tijuana, Rosarito and Mexicali officers are mentioned, plus 14 from the state's "PGR" including the state's ex-Att'y. Gen., all for participation in murders, kidnapping & "acts of corruption." His reply lists even such cases.
The Governor of Baja Calif. declared that all police agents and public servants identified by Gen. Alponte will be investigated for presumed collusion with organized crime.

In an interview at San Luis Rio Colorado with a reporter from La Cronica,(4/24) a Mexicali, Baja Calif. paper, Gen. Alponte commented that corruption is "narco's" means of support. The general's personal security staff has now been reinforced. This last mentioned paper also reports that Ramon Buelna Valenzuela, who was mayor of Onacas, Sonora from 2003 to 2006, was caught with 34 packages of marihuana in the trunk of a car.

Note: General Alponte's long letter (in Spanish) may be accessed at
http://eluniversal.com.mx/notas/501268.html
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El Debate (Culiacan Sinaloa) 4/24/08

Sinaloa's "Ministerial State Police" fear that one of their own, Zenon Sainz Lopez, may have been the victim of a kidnapping. Sainz, in charge of the robbery detail, has suddenly disappeared. And also in Sinaloa, the state prison has had thirteen escape incidents in the last three years; a total of 23 escaped convicts are still unaccounted for.
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El Financiero (Mexico City) 4/24/08

The state of Hidalgo's AG office is investigating the disappearance of three Pachuca city police officers presumably involved in a shootout during which two men were killed earlier this month. Now, eight Pachuca P.D. officers have been arrested in connection with this and with their possible involvement in retail drug trafficking.
In Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua three off-duty police officers were in a vehicle at a shopping center in Juarez when they were fired upon by "an armed group." One officer was killed, a second is in critical condition and the third survived with lesser wounds.
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Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 4/24/08

Short breaks from today's edition:
- The bodies of two men were found in Tijuana's "Los Pinos" area last night. They'd both been shot repeatedly. One had one of his fingers cut off and placed on his chest "together with some other objects."
- Not much later, the body of a woman was found in Tijuana's "Baja Malibu" area. Her body had been dumped there; her hands, feet and head were wrapped with tape.
- At dawn today (Thurs.) an armed group busted into a house in Tijuana's "Colonia Reynoso" and fired shoulder weapons. Police at the scene later found the garage door forced open, empty ammo clips, spent cartridges and no one home.
- In the Playas de Tijuana area, a woman just arriving home in her car escaped being kidnapped when she screamed and resisted when the thugs tried to force her out of the car. The screams alerted her brother and when he came out the black clad assailants fled.

In a meeting to discuss a recently approved judicial system initiative Pres. Calderon acknowledged that Mexico's citizens have no confidence in the country's legal system and perceive that it is not prompt or expeditious. He added that one of the basic tasks which give meaning to the nation-state is to consolidate the fight against insecurity and to apply justice.
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El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 4/24/08

The murder of a state of Mexico government worker, along with those of five other persons in the states of Sinaloa, Guerrero, Durango & Queretaro, have now brought Mexico's execution tally up to 1,280 so far this year including the executions of military personnel and also that of state and federal officers. The state of Chihuahua heads the list at 197, then follows Baja California with 112. The list includes 10 federal agents, 34 military, 39 city police officers, 10 state police officers. a judge and 12 lawyers. Fifty-nine human remains have been found in 29 "narco graves"; 13 persons have been burned to death and 10 have had their heads cut off.
And UNICEF reports that 47% of Mexico's children under 14 years of age live in poverty and are the main victims of physical violence, labor exploitation and sexual abuse.
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Entorno a Tamaulipas (Matamoros, Tamps.) 4/24/08

A federal inspection highway checkpoint on the Ciudad Victoria to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, highway detected 600 kgs. of weed inside the double bottom of a northbound 18-wheeler. The checkpoint is said to be equipped with "laser ray" gear. The driver, one Jose de Jesus Munoz Rocha, 35, was arrested.
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Expreso (Hermosillo, Sonora) 4/24/08

"SEDENA" (Mex. Dep't. of Defense) reported that a "shrimp boat" with two outboard motors hit shore after being pursued by Mex. military and that the occupants fled into the mangroves. They left behind 2 tons of weed and a "goat's horn" (read: AK47). The event took place on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Baja, between Huivuili and the Bay of Lobos, an area west of Ciudad Obregon & south of Guaymas, Sonora.
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La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, Baja Calif.) 4/24/08

Another 925 kgs. of weed in 264 packages turned up in a truck supposedly taking soft drinks to Mexicali.
The find was at the highway checkpoint some 20 kms. from San Luis Rio Colorado on the highway from Sonoyta, Sonora. Two men were arrested.
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Milenio (Mexico City) 4/24/08

"AFI" (Mex. Fed. Inv. Agency) officers seized 93 kgs. of cocaine after aerial reconnaissance detected a clandestine airstrip and men unloading a light aircraft. The Cessna 206 managed to take off and escape but a search of the brush by the strip revealed 86 packages of cocaine. The location was some 150 kms. N.E. of Hermosillo, Sonora, near the town of Opodepe.
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The letter said that personnel of various law enforcement agencies provide protection to "narcotraffic" leaders, participate in kidnappings, executions, robberies and protection to smugglers of undocumented persons.

Now why am I NOT surprised that someone's finally admitted this? I pray the General gets enough security and is not assassinated like the others who stand for the law in a lawless land.

Say it's time for another "letter writing campaign" to those who represent US in DC along with any wannabe's?

May also be good to forward this information to your local law enforcement as organized crime, drugs, gangs, etc. go hand in hand.

Wonder what my local police chief and sheriff will have to say when I forward this one to them!