Mob In Mexico Burns Two Federal Agents Alive

[Minstrel Boy]

Mob In Mexico Burns Two Federal Agents Alive
Agents Beaten, Held For Hours, Set On Fire

November 24, 2004

MEXICO CITY -- A crowd angry about recent child kidnappings cornered plainclothes federal agents taking photos of students at a school on Mexico City's outskirts and burned the officers alive, the latest example of mob justice in a country beset by corrupt police and high crime.

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Federal police director Adm. Jose Luis Figueroa told local media that the three agents went to the southeastern Mexico City school in an unmarked car as part of an operation against drug dealing. The killings, filmed and broadcast on local television stations, were carried out by a crowd of people who cheered, chanted and shouted obscenities as they kicked and beat the agents. The mob then dowsed two officers with gasoline and set them ablaze.

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In the video, the agents, blood streaming down their faces, spoke into the cameras before the burning, saying they were federal anti-terrorism agents who had been sent to the area on official business.

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The violence began in the early evening, when locals collared three men staking out a school in the San Juan Ixtlayopan neighborhood. The area has been tense since two youngsters disappeared and were feared kidnapped from the school. Some in the crowd appeared to believe the agents were kidnappers. When asked about complaints that authorities had failed to respond to demands to investigate the disappearances, Figueroa said a full schedule had prohibited federal authorities from concentrating on the case.
http://www.10news.com/news/3946530/detail.html

[aquart]

1. Kinda like Iraq.

[alexisfree]

2. yes...

they do that very very often...one every two weeks..is getting really bad due to the lock of security in mexico.

[Jack_DeLeon]

3. Maybe the Mob knew something that the govt isnt admitting...

:shrug:

The police are corrupt in Mexico, I can only hope that the mob got some bad guys and good officers trying to do some good.

That being said why is thier government wasting so much resources on the drug trade when real crimes like kidnapping are happening.

[alexisfree]

4. you are very right..

now they said it was the drug dealers who start the beatting...so have to ask my people over there what really is going on...:shrug:

[Jack_DeLeon]

8. maybe its true, maybe its govt spin...

whenever a person or a group of people do something that the government doesnt like they almost always to paint them as something worse than they really are.

It could be that the government is just saying that so everyone else looking at the situation will just think that it was just a bunch of drug dealers and thugs who did this rather than just ordinary citizens fed up with the situation in thier country.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. I'm suspecting the same.

The official excuse for not investigating the abductions is absurd.

[seemslikeadream]

5. House of Death is starting to rot

By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Sat Nov 13th, 2004 at 12:32:09 AM EST
In April of this year, Narco New brought you a gruesome story about corruption and murder along the Texas border. The story began as follows:

Between August 2003 and mid-January of 2004, a dozen people were murdered and buried in the yard of a house in Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican border city of 1.2 million people.
Santillan (an alleged leader in the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes’ Juarez drug organization) and his cronies controlled the house. This group included the informant, known only as "Lalo," who was on the payroll of the U.S. Immigration and Customs (Enforcement) agency....

... The informant, “Lalo,” say the law enforcement whistleblowers, even brought the tape and the lime used to help dispose of the bodies. The law enforcement sources believe that he was at the death house during up to nine of the 12 murders known to have taken place there. Most of those killed were allegedly Mexican drug dealers, except for one individual, who was a U.S. citizen – "some kid from Socorro, Texas, just south of El Paso," says one law enforcement source.


What the Narco News story didn’t mention in its April story was the name of the murdered “kid” from Socorro. He was Luis Padilla. He left behind a wife and three small kids.

Padilla, who was 29 at the time of his death, is now silent, but his family is making a plea for justice. They recently filed a lawsuit in federal court in El Paso alleging that five ICE officials along with an Assistant U.S. Attorney in El Paso are complicit in the death of Padilla.
"Apathy, marred by incompetence characterized the operations run by ICE and the United States Attorney’s office in El Paso. Yet the facts would reveal that both agencies were consciously aware of the ongoing killings,” the lawsuit contends.

more
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2004/11/13/0329/5950


The House of Death
U.S. Prosecutors Protect an Informant Who Killed Mexican Citizens, as Two DEA Agents Barely Escaped Alive


By Bill Conroy
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
April 22, 2004

Mexican state police Commander Miguel Loya Gallegos disappeared in January.

Several of his associates disappeared, too, vexing law enforcement agents who say their mysterious disappearance – and consequent unavailability as potential witnesses to multiple murders – could prove very convenient to U.S. prosecutors and a confidential informant under their protection.

U.S. law enforcement agents, coming forward on the condition of anonymity, believe that the comandante – the U.S. Attorney indicted him in Texas as part of an alleged drug-smuggling organization – was witness to up to nine murders committed by a confidential informant while that informant was on the payroll of the federal Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Those same law enforcement sources don’t know if Loya is dead or alive, but they fear he is probably dead: If he were alive, they say, the comandante’s testimony linking the informant to the murders could derail two high profile, priority, cases currently being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

But the commander was last seen in the Mexican city of Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, and his assistants, are nowhere to be found.

The disappearance of these potential witnesses raises just some of the troubling unanswered questions involving the bizarre case against 49-year-old Heriberto Santillan-Tabares, who, U.S. prosecutors allege, is a top lieutenant in Vicente Carrillo Fuentes’ Juarez drug organization.

more
http://www.narconews.com/Issue33/article962.html

[sam sarrha]

7. There are over 700 young women murdered in Juarez, 5000 people missing

and the police say they wont investigate the young women's murders because they were just prostitutes.. actually they were all very young pretty girls from strict families the abductors knew were virgins.. they were abducted to be party favors at parties of police/government/drug dealers.. and the party members get to use them at will then kill them.. according to a new book an the testimony of some that escaped.

few years ago they said they found 7 bodies in a field.. my contacts said they removed 3 truckloads of mummified remains, that some of the bags could have only had lose bones in them..

[sam sarrha]

9. in Brazil not long ago a guy was stopped from abducting an 8 year old girl

the police came and let the guy go,.. neighbors got on the phone and notified people down the street and they threw their furniture out into the streets blocking the guy. a mob swarmed out and burned the guy alive also.. hundreds of young girls are being abducted and sold into prostitution because the Cocaine Trade is slowing down and their profits are off..

[Minstrel Boy]

10. The oil, drugs and sex slave trades share many nodal points.

And many of the same players.

Hey, it's only business.