Mexican Police Helped Drug Cartel Massacre 314 Migrants

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/12/25/mexican-police-helped-drug-cartel-massacre-314-migrants/

After years of silence, the office of Mexico’s Attorney General declassified a document admitting police officers had participated in the kidnapping and massacre of hundreds of migrants throughout northern Mexico. While working for Los Zetas drug cartel, police provided illicit protection, assisted in kidnappings, and turned a blind eye to the investigation of numerous mass graves. Caught in a turf war between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, at least 314 migrants have died at the hands of the police and cartels.

According to a recently declassified memo sent from the office of Mexico’s Attorney General to The National Security Archive, local police in the city of San Fernando in northern Mexico have been working for the Zetas for years. A DEA cable from 2009 noted many Zetas had been recruited from an elite Mexican Army unit known as the Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE). No longer operating as the enforcement arm of the Gulf Cartel, the Zetas expanded into new territory and asserted control through murder, intimidation, and corruption.

In August 2010, San Fernando police officers set up roadblocks and pulled at least 72 mainly Central American migrants off intercity buses. Instead of detaining the migrants, police officials handed them over to the Zetas who extorted fees for safe passage across the border and forced them work as drug mules. The Zetas executed everyone who could not afford to pay or refused to smuggle drugs across the border. The bodies of 58 men and 14 women from Central and South America were later discovered at a remote ranch in San Fernando.

In a cable from the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey on March 23, 2010, the consulate reported that the governor of Nuevo Leon suspended 81 police officials working for the Zetas and setting up roadblocks around the city. On May 21, 2010, the consulate reported that 165 out of approximately 1,000 state police had been dismissed in recent months due to their ties to drug cartels. In April 2011, the U.S. Consulate in Matamoros noted that 17 Zetas and 16 members of the San Fernando police were arrested in connection with the murders of the bus passengers and hundreds of bodies found in dozens of mass graves.

[Jesus Malverde]

1. Disgusting.

Here is the theory. Illegal immigration into the united states is a very ugly business. The immigrants turn themselves over to criminal gangs who smuggle them across Mexico and into the united states. They pay something like 3000 to 5000 to these criminal organizations.

These migrants were being smuggled by a gang called the "cartel del golfo", they were intercepted by a gang called the ZETAS. It's well documented that they were not offered to be drug mules, they were offered the job of sicario, which is a gunman or assassin. Those that refused were killed.

By killing the migrants they were denying income to the cartel del golfo. 372 x 3000 = $942,000 real money to a criminal organization.

People have this peachy illusion of people trying to make a new life in the united states. The truth is almost every migrant journey starts with a payoff to a deadly criminal organization who are making millions off of them

Here is a link to the diplomatic cables the article is based on.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB499/

Sad to see the lack of interest in this story.

[elehhhhna]

2. the migrants are also held hostage when they get here to extort their families

And often are victims of sex slavery and regular slavery in general. In Houston, and beyond.

[Jesus Malverde]

3. Indeed.

Illegal immigration is criminal on all levels. That we tolerate it, only encourages more criminality.

It was eye opening to see how Mexico treats workers from foreign countries who lack residency or work permits. They arrest and deport them.

Lets say there are five million workers who are here without work visas, x 3000 is $1.5 billion dollars in the hands of criminal syndicates.

[VScott]

4. I'm schocked...

[Jesus Malverde]

5. Bump

All this happened right across the border.

[TorchTheWitch]

6. Mexico's police have always been insanely corrupt

Their judicial system is ludicrous, and their prison system is flat out evil.