Mexico confirms capture of Gulf Cartel leader

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Saturday confirmed the capture of a leader of the Gulf Cartel, describing him as responsible for much of the violence in the U.S. border city of Reynosa in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.

Jose Tiburcio Hernandez Fuentes was captured on Friday and transferred to Mexico city, despite a shootout between the Mexican army and police and around 60 of Hernandez's gunmen who tried to rescue him.

Reports on Friday suggested authorities had detained a different leader, Jose Hugo Rodriguez Sanchez, who was arrested last year.

Hernandez worked his way up into the Gulf Cartel's hierarchy as its leaders were imprisoned or killed.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/18/us-mexico-violence-idUSKBN0N902320150418

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US | Sat Apr 18, 2015 1:36pm EDT
MEXICO CITY

[Xipe Totec]

1. Reynosa Gulf Cartel plaza boss captured; blockades, explosions, vehicle fires reported

Buses and other vehicles had been set ablaze across the city, including beneath the Bronco bridge along Boulevard Hidalgo, near the city’s baseball stadium, according to Reynosa newspaper El Mañana. Tamaulipas’ public security secretariat at 3:14 p.m. reported via Twitter a blockade in front of a Soriana supermarket along Morelos Boulevard.

Ismael García Cabeza de Vaca, the National Action Party candidate for Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies— the country’s lower house of Congress — called Friday’s violence “unfortunate,” lamenting the widespread extortion, kidnappings and violence in the city.

“Today we are living in a city under siege by organized crime,” he wrote in Spanish, using the violence to criticize the rival Institutional Revolutionary Party. He is a brother of former Reynosa mayor Francisco Cabeza de Vaca, one of Tamaulipas’ senators. “This is the Reynosa we are leaving the bad governments.”




http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/reynosa-gulf-cartel-plaza-boss-captured-blockades-explosions-vehicle-fires/article_a7d89ff4-e547-11e4-8c77-3fd1eeb6e187.html

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. There's always another one in line to succeed him.

The Mexicans have captured or killed dozens of top cartel figures, and there's always more.

This won't end until global drug prohibition does, and probably not even then. The cartels have branched out and are now full-fledged criminal organizations, with embezzlement, kidnapping, extortion, and all the rest.

[Cal33]

3. Yes. Too bad, but that's the way things are!

[okaawhatever]

4. Way to go Mexico!! There is a special spot in hell for people like him. nt

[a la izquierda]

5. And there are dozens more like him...

Waiting in the wings.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Not everything that happened was reported in the media

I have friends and relatives in Reynosa who report that two military helicopters were downed. and three or four dead bodies at several of the blockade points. Some, right in front of their houses.