But when he suggested that the searches be accompanied by dogs to smell for corpses, the family took umbrage, Luis said. The government dispatched convoys of soldiers, police officers and investigators to San Fernando. Now, after driving by the restaurant again, it dawned on her: Maybe the young woman knew something. Herreras presence set off alarms. Her team found two good prints that state police had missed. She had been hunting him for a year, stalking him online, interrogating the criminals he worked with, even befriending unwitting relatives for tips on his whereabouts. Disappearances undermine the very nature of grief, stripping families of even the most basic closure. The city placed a bronze plaque honoring her in the central plaza. Over the years, kidnappers had already ransomed several members of Lucianos family, including his father, held for 33 days in 2012. Los Zetas could not operate in Veracruz without his permission I dont care if they kill me, Mrs. Rodrguez once told Ms. Saldivar Villavicencio. Led. Sure enough, she found him there. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Networks Antonio Baquero in Barcelona and Procesos Jess Esquivel and The Posts Alice Crites and Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report. Martnez was considered by her peers to be the leader of a group of five journalists whose reputations were above reproach. For Luis and Azalea, it was hard not to hear the parallels with their own mother, buried not 100 feet away. The office announced that Isidoro Gonzles Gernimo, a suspected drug trafficker known as "El Isis" who operated in Guerrero, was also shot and killed in Oaxaca state on Friday. It was not an accident, she said. NEW! By then, everyone had. Duarte was taking money from everyone, said Kirk Seeley, a former DEA special agent and supervisor with 16 years of experience, much of it investigating drug crimes in Mexico. CNN and The New York Times sent reporters. . Authorities told. In September, when the state police detained a cartel leader in San Fernando, he refused to cooperate. Proceso paid a very high price for covering these issues: kidnappings, murders, threats, said Carrasco, the Proceso editor, who left the country temporarily after receiving death threats when he tried to investigate Martnezs homicide. (Alberto Morales Garcia/Forbidden Stories). Veracruz, once best known for its thriving port, lush beaches and colonial architecture, got a new name: The mass grave of Mexico.. Mexico: In a horrific cartel attack against Mexico police, a female cop was allegedly kidnapped, raped and mutilated when she was performing her duties in the area. Lpez Ramrez had made a career from defending some of Mexico's most infamous cartel leaders, representing clients such as the leader of Los Zetas . They spent weeks baiting Luciano with a false Facebook account of a young girl. Duarte is serving a nine-year sentence for embezzlement and money laundering. Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit group based in Paris that is dedicated to continuing the work of journalists silenced by homicide, organized the effort. The inquiries attempted to determine whether Herrera could be related to money-laundering networks and have criminal relationships with important drug traffickers in Catalonia, said Toni Rodrguez, chief of the criminal investigation division of the Catalonian police force. On Mothers Day, 2017, weeks after she had chased down one of her last targets, she was shot in front of her home and killed. He had learned the lesson her murder was meant to impart: one could only push so far for justice, at least publicly. But the fight was very different this time. Additional charges were expected for the other shootings in Pine Hills, about five miles west of Orlando, said the Orange County sheriff, John Mina, who said at a news conference on Thursday that he was 100 percent confident the gunman would be charged with homicide for the murders of Mr. Lyons and Ms. Major. . 4:38 A gunman shot and killed a journalist in Tijuana Sunday. U.S. Attorney Nick Brown's office announced Tuesday that 37-year-old Jose Barbosa of Kent was sentenced to 148 months in prisonjust over 12 yearsplus five years of supervised release once . I knew her quite well, he said of Martnez, who had covered one of his earlier campaigns. A MEXICAN cartel leader's sister was shot and killed at the church altar on her wedding day by rival gangsters, it has been reported. This happened to be a random act of violence that were still trying to figure out why this happened, he said, adding that body camera video footage would be released later Thursday. Luis said he had to sneak onto the street to give her a jump. They organized search parties. She was murdered by Los Pepes for being "Pablo's whore" in 1993. Those still on the street tried to forge new lives as taxi drivers, gas delivery men or, in the case of Enrique Yoel Rubio Flores, a born-again Christian. There is a drug war in Nuevo Laredo between rival drug cartels that . The country is so torn apart by violence and impunity that a grieving mother had to solve the disappearance of her daughter largely on her own, and died violently because of it. Mrs. Rodrguez stalked the store for weeks until she knew the womans hours by heart, and waited outside each shift until Sama showed. Her colleagues were right to be worried. This also deprives real businesses of business., Herrera, now 71, has always denied the allegations. Though he assumed leadership of his mothers collective, the movement faded in her absence. She became a social media sleuth, spending countless hours trawling Karens Facebook profile, looking for clues. Mrs. Rodrguez, already separated from her husband, moved in with her older daughter, Azalea. Zetas behead and dismember four women from the Gulf Cartel The video shows four women on their knees in a field, their hands tied behind their backs. Are they waiting for them to kill us too?. Not everyone got along with her, said Gloria Garza, an official in the state government. The details and information gathered by this woman, working all alone, were incredible., She had gone to every single level of government and they had slammed the door in her face, he recalled. Police officers patrolling a remote area, favored by cartel members to move undetected, outside Reynosa, Mexico. Rodrguez said the inquiries ended when Herrera, after 14 months, rushed home to Veracruz to answer allegations in a lawsuit that he and his successor, then-Gov. It is unclear whether the gunman knew that the reporter and photographer in the vehicle were journalists. Even then, they weighed the immense consequences of going to the police. At 10:21 p.m., she headed home; she was once again living with her husband in the small, orange house where Karen once stayed. But the kidnapping of an innocent 14-year-old boy broke the quiet understanding that the cartels had with the people of San Fernando. Just outside city limits, a cluster of highways untangles, each leading to strategic border crossings with the United States. They slept in tents pitched in the city center and wore ponchos to weather the seasonal storms. The woman, who started being a hit woman aged 15 said killed pregnant women. Mrs. Rodrguez just needed Sama to slip up. The demonic cartels left a message on the body: "This is for ALL [] A Mexican woman who doggedly pursued her daughter's killers in a region plagued by with drug cartel violence has been shot dead in her home, reflecting both the lawlessness plaguing large. It was Sept. 15, 2014, the day on which Mexican independence is celebrated. Graphics by Daniela Santamaria. About five hours later, several 911 calls came in from the site of the first shooting. She scoffed. In all, she was instrumental in taking down 10 people, a mad campaign for justice that made her famous, but vulnerable. They gave news conferences. (Flix Mrquez/AP). She says one scene of . What I can say is that I am innocent, Bermdez said at the time. She carted her files everywhere, like a door-to-door salesperson for whom a no was never final. In articles for the national investigative weekly Proceso, Martnez, who was killed at age 48, told her readers that two successive governors in her home state of Veracruz looted the treasury and allowed cartels to operate freely with the help of local and state police. A mariachi band played as mourners paid their respects at the burial. Last year, one female killer known as "La Peque" was captured by the authorities for her work for the Sinaloa Cartel in north-western Mexico. Follow @Borderland_Beat . Someone wanted to stop the news reports about the executions. With little to lose, Mrs. Rodrguez asked for a meeting with members of the local cartel, the Zetas, and to her surprise, they agreed. Longer video, but gore starts about halfway in. This is another tragic reminder that journalism is a dangerous business and that criminals and those that are the subject of reporting can become violent toward reporters who are doing their jobs, the organization said. Having confessed to the murders of at least five men, she revealed she enjoyed both drinking the warm blood of her victims and having sex with the dead bodies following the homicide. Two to three times a week, they conducted searches. And by then, the family knew who the masterminds of the kidnapping were: members of their own family. She joined Proceso in 2000. In custody, he filled in details missing from Mrs. Rodrguezs investigation, coughing up the names and locations of some accomplices. She urinated in cups and ran her car battery down listening to the radio in the dark. Linares served as director at the Monitor Michoacan website, which on Tuesday continued to show an . As the local economy struggled, Duarte was hiding the states financial crisis, she wrote. The extortion of 80 small-town mayors. One morning, a few weeks after the last payment, she came downstairs and told Azalea that she knew Karen was never coming back, that she was most likely dead. She was never able to find the mysterious witness. She jammed her handgun into his back. Hope is a toxin that poisons many families of the missing. Many bars and restaurants had closed for fear of shootouts. . Right now, what we are asking for, and what Miriam asked for a number of times, is security, said Lucianos father. People took heart at her fight, and found indignation in her death. One asked Mrs. Rodrguez for mercy. Karen was buried there, too, beside her mother. Police officers responded and cleared the scene, he said. When she pulled her files onto the table, I had never seen anything like it, said the officer, who remains an active duty commander and asked not to be quoted by name because he had not been authorized to speak publicly. She had eaten there with Azalea only two days after Karens kidnapping. She has lived, worked and. The authorities pledged to capture her killers. Condemned to a life buoyed by even the tiniest bit of hope, the pain cycles on a loop, its own unique form of torture. In retaliation, the Zetas kidnapped several members to threaten them and to learn the names of people who had access to the hacked information. She sat down with a slender young man at El Junior, a restaurant in town. He escaped the country in a helicopter and was later arrested in Guatemala. LEFT: Writer and journalist Elena Poniatowska holds a photo of Regina Martnez during a 2017 protest in Mexico City calling for an end to violence against journalists. She's a journalist in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and the things she has endured for her work are comparable to the brutalities suffered by prisoners of war, including imprisonment, torture, and sexual assault. . The assailant broke her jaw with brass knuckles, then wrapped a rag around her neck, squeezing the life out of the regions best hope for accountability and justice. (Flix Mrquez/AP). Source: Twitter. Duartes public security secretary, Arturo Bermdez, was charged with heading a death squad that disappeared at least 15 people. Lakhani, of the Guardian, is based in New York. He and others of his time were fortunate that the governors who followed them were successors theyd chosen from their own party who covered the traces of the previous corruption.. In reality, organized crime is a middleman. Mr. Moses was taken to a hospital, where Sheriff Mina said he fought with hospital staff and was restrained, before being transported to the Sheriffs Office. There was never a single illicit penny in my campaign, he told the outlet Grupo Frmula in 2014. I am a man with clean hands.. She used to give her Karens old clothes. Her friends often wondered if she was going too far. Scarred by a decade of violence, a brutal war between cartel factions, the slaughter of 72 migrants and the killing of Mrs. Rodrguez, San Fernando grew quiet for a time, as if spent by its own tragic history. I want to say that they hit me on the back and I feel pain, Silva said in a statement provided by his attorney, Diana Coq Toscanini. Im willing to take you to the ranch where they killed them and where their bodies should still be buried, he said in his statement to the police, referring to the victims of the kidnapping ring. But it came with a price. During the trial, witnesses said he had. And with every failed bid to reclaim Karen, she fell further into despair. Who knew how many tracts were scored with anonymous graves? Most officials held a grudging respect for Mrs. Rodrguez, despite complaining about her foul language and pugnacious manner. In Mexico, politicians rely on narcos for campaign funds. But Mrs. Rodrguez fought the government on its analysis, and rightly so. This is the first in a series of five articles, called "The Cartel Project," involving 60 journalists from 18 countries. FORMER CBS News reporter Lara Logan was gang raped "with flagpoles and sticks" while covering the Arab Spring in Egypt nine years ago, she says in a new interview. Gunmen killed nine people in an attack on a house in central Mexico, in the latest outbreak of violence linked to suspected drug gangs, authorities said Wednesday. Maria Guadalupe Lopez Esquivel, also known by her alias "La Catrina," was shot in the neck Friday as Mexico's army, National Guard and Michoacn state police raided the safe house where she stayed. At least 27 journalists have been killed in the state of Veracruz since 2003. Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodrguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails. Feb. 2022: Mexican TV host found dead in string of journalist killings. Even before her death, Herrera was facing mounting allegations. She eventually left in protest over censorship and working conditions. Frightened colleagues sometimes tried to warn her off investigations. He recognized her and ran. Hardly a block has been untouched missing sons, loved ones murdered, houses abandoned. In an email response to questions, Maldonado rejected each of Borbollas accusations and said the investigation was carried out in a timely and effective manner and that the man convicted in Martnezs killing was not tortured. Veracruz officials awarded lucrative government contracts to Colorado-Cessas cartel-linked construction company, and government officials received 10 to 16 percent from each contract, Hinojosa testified. LEFT: Martnez in an undated photo. The violence against a female reporter stood out as something unusual and unexpected, said Thomas A. Shannon Jr., former assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs. They needed a bit more money, they said, just $500. You are taking our hearts with you.. (Flix Mrquez/AP) RIGHT: Relatives try to identify their missing loved ones at the morgue in Cosamaloapan, Veracruz, after more than two dozen bodies were found in a mass grave in 2014. For four more years, he is known to have killed 30 people total, acting as a hitman for the Zeta cartel. Under Duarte, the Zetas lost their monopoly on power in the state, and other cartels moved in, according to interviews and press accounts at the time. The Orange County sheriff said the same assailant killed two other people in the Pine Hills area a TV journalist shot in a vehicle outside and a 38-year-old woman slain hours earlier in the . With a heavy sigh, the elderly woman told her that the boy had always been trouble, but at least now he was going to church. In Plain Sight: Van Zeller says one of the most surprising things about her work, particularly on Trafficked, was that she was able to find underground markets close to home. Hes still a child, no matter what he did, and I am still a mother, Mrs. Rodrguez said, according to her friend, Idalia Saldivar Villavicencio, who was with her at the interrogation. Some 50 young women disappeared over a three-day period after attending parties with Zetas and local officials, according to media accounts. We urge all reporters in the field to take extra precaution and redouble efforts to work safely., Spectrum News on Thursday described Mr. Lyons, 24, as a motivated and talented professional who was living his dream in Orlando.. With every payment, a new hope sparkled for Mrs. Rodrguez. Townspeople marched, demanding justice for Luciano. Four days after local police began investigating her killing, Borbolla, the federal prosecutor, arrived in Veracruz from Mexico City to do a parallel investigation for a new unit designed to probe crimes against journalists. The Barcelona City Council and Catalonian police launched confidential inquiries looking at Herreras links to people in Barcelona with their own legal problems, according to documents and interviews. The Client Who Got Him Killed. Lourdes Maldonado Lpez, a highly respected veteran local reporter was shot and killed on Sunday in the Santa Fe neighborhood of the northwestern border town of Tijuana, just south of San Diego, California, the Attorney General's Office of Baja California said in a published statement. And they knew their prosperity had made them obvious targets, even more so than the Rodrguez family. Anyone can read what you share. Youre very handsome, read a message to him from the account. Valeria Velez (?-1993) was a Colombian journalist who had a romantic relationship with Medellin Cartel boss Pablo Escobar from 1981 to 1991. Fontes, who now runs a security company, Fontes International Solutions, said the problem is endemic to Mexico. Halle Berry has done it again: she's turned every head and made every jaw drop with a series of new bikini snapshots that show she's a confident superstar in every season. The cartel has unlimited resources to have all weapons, ammunition, armored vehicles, military gear . True to form, Mrs. Rodrguez spent days parked near the familys home, waiting for the young woman to emerge. Zetas kill and behead 4 women. The gunman, a former reporter for the TV station . Her story offers a singular account of Mexicos deterioration by 2020 into an anguished nation, beset by cartel-corrupted government institutions and haunted by thousands of killings and disappearances. When Herreras term ended in 2010, he expressed a desire to run for president. She worked to show that government forces were secretly burying hundreds of disappeared people in mass graves. She was born in a small town in Veracruz, one of 11 children. The kidnappers panicked and grabbed him, too, then fled. They snatched innocents for ransom to finance their war, or for conscripts to fight it. And last night my chest was in pain. . SOUTH BRUNSWICK - Police have asked for the public's help in the investigation of a hit-and-run crash that killed an East Windsor woman Saturday night, announced the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office. Luciano was watching one of his sisters and couldnt be long, he messaged. The international collaboration was organized by Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit group based in Paris whose mission is to continue the reporting of murdered journalists. Mexican authorities discovered the charred remains of Salvador Adame's body this week, more than a month after a group of armed assailants reportedly abducted the veteran TV reporter in the crime-plagued state of Michoacn. Luis, Mrs. Rodrguezs son, knew from his own experience that the only way to find a body was to get someone to talk. Mass graves were so common that finding fewer than 20 remains at a time barely merited a headline. As the months passed, Mrs. Rodrguez continued to fill her bag with clues she wrung from the case files. But Ms. Betancourt played dumb, which Mrs. Rodrguez had thought was odd. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A 19-year-old Florida man is now facing three first-degree-murder charges related to shootings last week that killed a television news reporter, a 9-year-old . It was headline news in Mexico, with calls for a thorough investigation. XALAPA, Mexico Regina Martnez's death was brutal. A missing persons poster for Luciano Leal Garza on the window of a taqueria in San Fernando. After a week, he stopped answering the phone. The intersection where Mrs. Rodrguezs daughter, Karen, was kidnapped. And the searches for Luciano had turned up nothing. Bermdez has pleaded not guilty, and the case is pending. When she finally found him, she got too excited, and too close. 1. nycboots 3 days ago. Authorities in Mexico say a journalist has been murdered in Tijuana, the second killing of a media worker in the border city in less than a week and the latest in a string of killings in one of . During the trial, FBI Agent Scott Lawson testified that Colorado-Cessa was established as an intermediary between Zetas leader Efran Teodoro Torres and the government of Veracruz to allow the circulation of drugs freely in the state of Veracruz and, at the same time, to help Fidel Herrera finance his campaign as governor.. Borbolla had other problems with the crime investigation, which was supposed to be done jointly with state authorities. [The sniper rifles flowing to Mexican cartels show a decade of U.S. failure]. SAN FERNANDO, Mexico Miriam Rodrguez clutched a pistol in her purse as she ran past the morning crowds on the bridge to Texas. Two weeks later, the tortured and decapitated body of Notivers police reporter was discovered. It is being published by Forbidden Stories and its partners beginning today. Eventually, she found a federal policeman willing to assist. Martnez was one of the very few reporters who dared to refuse bribes or to ignore cartel threats aimed at censoring the news. A dirt road where the first ransom for Luciano was dropped. LEFT: Soldiers and police block off an area in Veracruz where 35 bodies were dumped on a roadway in September 2011. Woman Cries Out In Pain As Drug Cartels Slowly Dismember Her Alive Before Beheading Her On Video By Andrew Bieszad on July 5, 2020 in Featured, General While the world is filled with great concern about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, economic collapse, and the future US election, there are a lot of suffering people in many places. The team of reporters discovered that law enforcement authorities in Mexico, the United States and Spain had opened inquiries into allegations that Herrera colluded with leaders of the Zeta cartel while he was governor and took money from them for his campaign, as well as allegations that he was involved in money laundering while later serving in a diplomatic post in Barcelona. Photos of a woman who was allegedly dismembered by drug traffickers of the Elite Group of the Jalisco Nueva Generacin Cartel (CJNG) were disseminated on social networks . Lucianos family paid two ransoms for their son, just as Mrs. Rodrguezs family had in its fruitless attempt to free Karen. Families have suffered kidnappings and cartel-imposed curfews much as big city residents endure traffic and pollution. 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