Recently, stories have been more depressing as the newly elected Mexican president has set the tone for a more "live-and-let-live" relationship with the cartels, while cracking down on the so-called "auto-defense" groups, citizens trying to fend off cartel oppression on their own.
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| Leticia Salazar, Presidente Municipal de Matamoros |
What Borderland Beat commenters make abundantly clear is that neither the U.S. press(Brownsville Herald, et al. . lol) or the reticent Mexican news media tell the real story of cartel/cartel, cartel/military violence and casualties within Mexico.
Here are a few of the comments made to the blog's recent article on the skirmish in Reynosa:
Anonymous said...
Never believe what the army says, there were more than 50 trucks that enteres from miguel alemán and dias.Ordaz and río bravo, 14 dead? yeah right.. I herd it was bad in anzalduas canal and some fed got hit with a 50 cal. in the waist and my cousin said there were many many more on the floo. the street was filled with blood... He said the bodies were too many to count and the soldiers wouldnt let them Take pic, I feel sorry for the people that lost their life i just hope this stuff calms down I Prat for peace in tamps
April 29, 2014 at 11:29 PM
Anonymous said...
Stay away from Reynosa in the foreseeable future. It looks like the rival factions of Reynosa are heading for a showdown. Commandante Polimenso and Commandante Pakito both want Reynosa plaza for themselves. Will any of the group's seek help from the outside of the plaza to help tilt the fight in their favor? Something about some groups called Ciclones and Zetas.April 30, 2014 at 12:18 AM
Anonymous said...
Man these guys go.to war for 200 dollars thats how fuck up life is in mexico . For only that you.risk your fucking life i am no one to say anything about them because i am hear in the usa working side by side with racist motherfuckers americans that one day they act friendly and the other very racist. And i am only making 400 bucks a week all i can say may god have marcy on us because we will pay hard for what we are doing. On the next lifeApril 30, 2014 at 2:18 AM
Anonymous said...
These are government units corrupted by individual groups of the cdg.. all news coming from Tamaulipas is heavily censoredApril 30, 2014 at 5:16 AM
Anonymous said...
The first comment is right ! About 72 killed included 42 federales and army. The Feds got hit from the roofs with RPGs and 50s ! The Mexican Government has censor all real figures as a policy. All of Tamaulipas is real bad. Death, Destruction and abandon fill its towns and valleys.April 30, 2014 at 8:18 AM
Stay away from Reynosa in the foreseeable future. It looks like the rival factions of Reynosa are heading for a showdown. Commandante Polimenso and Commandante Pakito both want Reynosa plaza for themselves. Will any of the group's seek help from the outside of the plaza to help tilt the fight in their favor? Something about some groups called Ciclones and Zetas.April 30, 2014 at 12:18 AM
Anonymous said...
Man these guys go.to war for 200 dollars thats how fuck up life is in mexico . For only that you.risk your fucking life i am no one to say anything about them because i am hear in the usa working side by side with racist motherfuckers americans that one day they act friendly and the other very racist. And i am only making 400 bucks a week all i can say may god have marcy on us because we will pay hard for what we are doing. On the next lifeApril 30, 2014 at 2:18 AM
Anonymous said...
These are government units corrupted by individual groups of the cdg.. all news coming from Tamaulipas is heavily censoredApril 30, 2014 at 5:16 AM
Anonymous said...
The first comment is right ! About 72 killed included 42 federales and army. The Feds got hit from the roofs with RPGs and 50s ! The Mexican Government has censor all real figures as a policy. All of Tamaulipas is real bad. Death, Destruction and abandon fill its towns and valleys.April 30, 2014 at 8:18 AM
Anonymous said...
Its was more like 2000 dead from friday to yesterday the streets were filled with blood & pieces of human remains.April 30, 2014 at 8:53 AM
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 | 
A total of 14 individuals, including twoPolicia Federal units were killed Tuesday in armed confrontations in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, according to Mexican official news accounts.
A news release published by the state government of Tamaulipas on the state website said that three separate encounters were recorded in the city.
The gunfights began at 1200 hrs in Beaty colony when an armed group attacked a Policia Federal road patrol. Two unidentified Policia Federal agents died in the encounter, one at the scene and the other later while receiving medical attention.
An attempt by a Mexican Army unit to respond to the gunfight was attacked by armed suspects traveling aboard a Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck, presumably near the area of the first encounter. Army return fire killed all four unidentified attackers.
Two others were found dead aboard two separate vehicles, hit by stray gunfire from the firefight. Both victims were in their 20s.
Later on, a Mexican Army patrol encountered armed suspects traveling aboard a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck in Aquiles Serdan colony, killing all six by return gunfire.
Criminal gangs inside the city blocked roads to slow security forces response to the fighting. Blocks were reported on the Reynosa-Matamoros highway, on Bulevar Morelos in Ampliacion Rodriguez colony, Libramiento Monterrey in José Lopez Portillo colony, on Libramiento Monterrey in Las Cumbres colony, on Bulevar Morelos in Petrolera colony and on Bulevar Hidalgo in Longoria colony.
The Mexican Army also claimed a total of 10 rifles, accessories, ammunition, weapons magazines and two vehicles were seized following the gunfights.
Fighting in Reynosa has exploded because a top drug gang leader, identified only as El Mono was executed Monday, presumably by Gulf Cartel shooters. Cartel related messages on narcoboards indicate that the drug gangs inside the city were vowing revenge for the killing.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Its was more like 2000 dead from friday to yesterday the streets were filled with blood & pieces of human remains.April 30, 2014 at 8:53 AM
Reynosa explodes: 14 die
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 | A news release published by the state government of Tamaulipas on the state website said that three separate encounters were recorded in the city.
The gunfights began at 1200 hrs in Beaty colony when an armed group attacked a Policia Federal road patrol. Two unidentified Policia Federal agents died in the encounter, one at the scene and the other later while receiving medical attention.
An attempt by a Mexican Army unit to respond to the gunfight was attacked by armed suspects traveling aboard a Ford Lobo (F-150) pickup truck, presumably near the area of the first encounter. Army return fire killed all four unidentified attackers.
Two others were found dead aboard two separate vehicles, hit by stray gunfire from the firefight. Both victims were in their 20s.
Later on, a Mexican Army patrol encountered armed suspects traveling aboard a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck in Aquiles Serdan colony, killing all six by return gunfire.
Criminal gangs inside the city blocked roads to slow security forces response to the fighting. Blocks were reported on the Reynosa-Matamoros highway, on Bulevar Morelos in Ampliacion Rodriguez colony, Libramiento Monterrey in José Lopez Portillo colony, on Libramiento Monterrey in Las Cumbres colony, on Bulevar Morelos in Petrolera colony and on Bulevar Hidalgo in Longoria colony.
The Mexican Army also claimed a total of 10 rifles, accessories, ammunition, weapons magazines and two vehicles were seized following the gunfights.
Fighting in Reynosa has exploded because a top drug gang leader, identified only as El Mono was executed Monday, presumably by Gulf Cartel shooters. Cartel related messages on narcoboards indicate that the drug gangs inside the city were vowing revenge for the killing.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
Go over there, Barton! Show bloggers you're the MAN!
ReplyDeleteSadly, your mother raised an idiot.
ReplyDeleteAn idiot? Well, you want to be a reporter! Go report the biggest story in the region! You scared? LOL!!!
DeleteJake.
Agree. Brownsville bloggers won't touch the border cartel story. Chickenshits every one of them! Oh, dump on Ernie Herandez and his daughter, but ignore the killings in Mata. Losers.
Delete"Agree. Brownsville bloggers won't touch the border cartel story. Chickenshits every one of them! Oh, dump on Ernie Herandez and his daughter, but ignore the killings in Mata. Losers."
DeleteOK. You're the winner: Dumbest comment of the year!
Sadly, even the Mayor of Matamoros is dating part of the problem. She is going out with one of the Gulf Cartel leaders, a good friend of Carlos Marin. He is in a picture you have posted before Jim...the one with Fil Vela, Carlos Marin and some other dignitaries from our great city. Sad, sad, sad. We need Pat Ahumada now more than ever. Only he has the balls to go to Matamoros, not like Tony Martinez.
ReplyDeleteThe government of Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto informed the marines and their American partners that they would have approximately three weeks to bring down the drug lord. A U.S. official involved in planning the operation told me that this was true. Fighting drug traffickers in Mexico has become a matter of triage, and the semar unit was soon to be redeployed to battle another cartel, the Knights Templar, in the restive state of Michoacán. (Eduardo Sánchez, the chief spokesman for the government of Mexico, denied that any such time limit was in place. “There was no window,” he said.)
ReplyDeleteAs the marines and their advisers moved into Los Cabos, they tried not to attract attention. A battleship anchored off the coast was used as a decoy, so that curious observers might conclude that the sudden influx of commandos was part of a standard naval exercise. But one reason that Guzmán had remained at large so long was his unparalleled network of informants. One person involved in the operation told me, “As soon as we landed, he knew.”
Chapo Guzmán had always been a master of escape. Born in the mountain village of La Tuna, in Mexico’s wild and craggy Sierra Madre Occidental, he was the oldest child of a subsistence farmer who dabbled in the drug trade. For generations, Sinaloan ranchers had cultivated cannabis and opium, and children were taken out of elementary school to assist in the harvest. Guzmán left school for good in third grade, and in the seventies, in spite of his illiteracy, he became an apprentice to two drug chieftains: Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who owned a fleet of airplanes and was known as the Lord of the Skies; and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, a police officer turned drug baron, who ran the Guadalajara cartel and was known as El Padrino —the Godfather.
Mexican Army invades US.
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Hey idiots, there is no difference between matamoros and brownsville
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