The suspect killed a woman near Orlando on Wednesday morning, then returned later in the day and killed a 9-year-old girl and a journalist who was covering the original shooting, the authorities said. His son, Javier, said via Twitter that his father was ill and unable to comment: My father has been in a hospital since April; this is a fact that you can easily corroborate; he suffered a stroke in April and has been in intensive care ever since. Youre very handsome, read a message to him from the account. She is one of three people to testify in front of the Border Security and . The murder is the third of its kind in Mexico for 2022 and the second in Tijuana over a 7-day period. At least, not in the way they had hoped. Follow @Borderland_Beat . With every payment, a new hope sparkled for Mrs. Rodrguez. At the time, the Veracruz government had set up a secret espionage unit to monitor critics, among them local journalists, according to two former officials with knowledge of the unit. She froze when she found a stack of personal belongings tossed in a pile. 34. In three years, Mrs. Rodrguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted her daughter for ransom, a rogues gallery of criminals who tried to start new lives as a born-again Christian, a taxi driver, a car salesman, a babysitter. [The sniper rifles flowing to Mexican cartels show a decade of U.S. failure]. Colorado-Cessa was ultimately convicted in a scheme involving the purchase of racehorses. A colleague of Martnez said that she had calculated that the number of dead had increased tenfold in Veracruz between 2000 and 2012, a toll not reflected in official records. For four more years, he is known to have killed 30 people total, acting as a hitman for the Zeta cartel. Martnez reported it all: The rape and homicide of a 72-year-old Indigenous woman by army soldiers. On the bridge, she scoured the vendors for flower carts, but that day he was selling sunglasses instead. He said they found a Glock 40 handgun that was still hot to the touch in the suspects pants. Even before her death, Herrera was facing mounting allegations. To gather information for this account, reporters traveled to Veracruz for interviews and to obtain documents. She was a police officer in Veracruz, Mexico. He had one last customer, a young, slender man browsing hats. LEFT: Signs mark clandestine graves where almost 300 bodies were found in Colinas de Santa Fe, in Veracruz, in 2018. The only professional, working journalist to die while covering the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City was photojournalist Bill Biggart, who was killed by falling debris as he was taking photographs. In the first shooting on Wednesday, the suspect fatally shot Ms. Augustin around 11 a.m. as she was in the car with the suspects cousin, Sheriff Mina said, adding that it was unclear whether the suspect knew the victim personally. A day after Coronel Aispuro's court appearance, Jessica Oseguera, the 34-year-old daughter of El Chapo's rival cartel boss, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, was sentenced to two and a half years in. As the funeral crowd dispersed, Luis and Azalea went to their mothers grave, a church-like structure lined with cypress trees. Mrs. Rodrguez raced home and dove back into her research, discovering that Ms. Betancourt was involved romantically with one of Karens kidnappers, who was in prison for an unrelated crime. And they knew their prosperity had made them obvious targets, even more so than the Rodrguez family. The international collaboration was organized by Forbidden Stories, a nonprofit group based in Paris whose mission is to continue the reporting of murdered journalists. You are taking our hearts with you.. And I wouldnt kill anyone because Im already dying bit by bit since I have HIV., Coq described Silva as the perfect scapegoat.. To pay the first ransom, Mrs. Rodrguezs family took out a loan from a bank that offered lines of credit for such payments. Many bars and restaurants had closed for fear of shootouts. One morning, while stretched across the sofa, she discovered a Facebook photograph tagged with the name Sama. They needed a bit more money, they said, just $500. As for the people who ordered the hit, who feared her activism more than they feared the repercussions of killing her, they remain shrouded in secrecy. They gave news conferences. In custody, he filled in details missing from Mrs. Rodrguezs investigation, coughing up the names and locations of some accomplices. For many in the northern city of San Fernando, her story represents so much of what is wrong in Mexico and so remarkable about its people, their perseverance in the face of government indifference. La Voz is one such example of this, as the newspaper is not real . When the police finally arrested the young woman outside the home, Mrs. Rodrguez tripped as she ran toward them, fracturing her foot. Karen was buried there, too, beside her mother. Neither matched anyone in the countrys crime databases. He pleaded guilty to some charges and admitted to working with criminal elements. He was sentenced to nine years in prison but has appealed, and media reports say he could be released early. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Circumscribed by the violence, many live reduced lives. Mrs. Rodrguez stalked the store for weeks until she knew the womans hours by heart, and waited outside each shift until Sama showed. By Eduardo Medina,April Rubin and Christine Chung. . As the months passed, Mrs. Rodrguez continued to fill her bag with clues she wrung from the case files. They knew they were among the fortunate few who at least had somewhere to mourn them. Sheriff Mina emphasized that officials did not yet know the suspects motive for shooting five people or the nature of his connections to them. True to form, Mrs. Rodrguez spent days parked near the familys home, waiting for the young woman to emerge. Her stunning campaign recounted in case files, witness testimony, confessions from the criminals she tracked down and dozens of interviews with relatives, police officers, friends, officials and local residents changed San Fernando, for a while at least. They fired 13 rounds. As the local economy struggled, Duarte was hiding the states financial crisis, she wrote. 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. Israel. When they arrested him in the central plaza, Sama kicked and screamed, claiming he had a heart condition. The abandoned gas station on the edge of town where Lucianos father left the second ransom. (Flix Mrquez/AP). After tracing the fake Facebook account, the police discovered what Mrs. Garza had long suspected that several of her cousins were involved in organized crime and had teamed up with local cartel members to extort the family. In September 2011, two truckloads of bloody, half-naked corpses were dumped at a busy intersection in front of a shopping mall in the touristy beach city of Boca del Ro, just blocks from where state prosecutors were holding a meeting. Luis arrived late to the funeral, after the procession had already made its way down streets lined with residents watching little Lucianos casket en route to the cemetery. Sheriff Mina said on Thursday that the news vehicle didnt have any markings that stood out, adding that the suspect had passed by another news vehicle.. Two Mexican intelligence officials said in phone interviews that Martnezs homicide may be connected to the hackers known as Anonymous in 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. Escobar cheated with . Two to three times a week, they conducted searches. Like everyone else in the city, Lucianos relatives knew the story of Karens kidnapping and Mrs. Rodrguezs tragic heroism. The shootout, involving state troops, state police and the National Guard, happened in a. They called on friends and citizens to march with them, to demand the return of little Luciano. (Alberto Morales Garcia/Forbidden Stories) RIGHT: Martnez with Patricio Chirinos Calero, former governor of Veracruz. They either purge it and try to move on from their loved ones, or they sustain it, and it destroys them. A mother of two sons killed by fentanyl gave emotional testimony Tuesday at the House Homeland Security hearing on the border crisis. Reserved and private, she usually sat in the corner at office parties, one Proceso colleague remembered, itching to get back to work. The government said nothing about how it had found the grave site. Martnezs home was mostly undisturbed, and items of value remained little gold earrings on the dresser, her purse, her phones, a printer, kitchen appliances. A tough lawyer who had extradited cartel bosses, she brought 14 federal police officers with her. For the next several hours, Lucianos family fanned out across the city on a manic hunt. Even young women who attended their sex parties. The "execution" of six men and . He was shot three times: in the leg, torso and fatally in his ear. He was frightened during questioning. By Theodore Shoebat A Mexican drug cartel in Apatzingan brutally tortured and murdered a young woman in her twenties and left her corpse on the street. However, the International Federation of Journalists, which also counts media workers, said that six . ,federal,local police are sometimes paid to allow it or they try to stop them and be killed themselves or their family killed. Forensic agents claimed that Karen was not among the dozens of bodies they had identified at the ranch. He has not seen the questions, it is medically prohibited by his doctor.. Zetas kill and behead 4 women. During the trial, witnesses said he had. Mexican and U.S. authorities declined to say whether their investigations are still active. Sure enough, she found him there. And at 14, little Luciano helped them both when he wasnt at school. The first thing he asked was whether his two little sisters were safe. A lot of Narcos: Mexico is based on truth and is a retelling of historical events, but not everything is actually what happened. The cartel never had intended to keep him, and after they let him go Mrs. Rodrguez mined his memory for everything he had heard or seen. In 2010, federal authorities discovered the corpses of 72 Central American migrants at a ranch on the citys outskirts, believed at the time to be the most savage killings ever perpetrated by a cartel. Logan was in Cairo covering. Hardly a block has been untouched missing sons, loved ones murdered, houses abandoned. the woman would have been killed in retaliation after the United Cartels did the same with a CJNG hit man identified as La Guadaa. A suspect, whom the authorities identified as Keith Melvin Moses, 19, was in custody by Wednesday evening and was charged with one count of murder in connection with the killing of the 38-year-old, whom the police previously described as being in her 20s. SAN FERNANDO, Mexico Miriam Rodrguez clutched a pistol in her purse as she ran past the morning crowds on the bridge to Texas. Borbolla had other problems with the crime investigation, which was supposed to be done jointly with state authorities. He added that the suspect was not speaking to the police, and said that he had acted alone. The Forbidden Stories investigation found that U.S. and Mexican authorities had long been investigating some subjects that Martnez had been pursuing. 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. Over the years, kidnappers had already ransomed several members of Lucianos family, including his father, held for 33 days in 2012. Lucianos family stayed. The National Press Club said in a statement that it was horrified to learn about the shooting. (Flix Mrquez/AP). He had learned the lesson her murder was meant to impart: one could only push so far for justice, at least publicly. Now Mrs. Rodrguez was sitting down with one of them, imploring him to release Karen as his radio squawked sporadically. 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. And with every failed bid to reclaim Karen, she fell further into despair. But they felt they had nothing to lose. It was an indicator that she was getting close and that the response from drug cartels had to be certain and definitive.. Its really amazing, their bravery.. Duarte is serving a nine-year sentence for embezzlement and money laundering. Mrs.Rodrguezs son, Luis, at the ranch where the remains of his sister, Karen, were found. Within a few months, it arrested two of the culprits, and killed another in a gunfight. No one slept. Linares served as director at the Monitor Michoacan website, which on Tuesday continued to show an . She eventually left in protest over censorship and working conditions. He slowly shrank, physically and spiritually, until his children struggled to recognize him. For the second payment, Lucianos father drove two hours and left a bag of cash between two spent tires at an abandoned gas station. The brutal killing and mutilation of a 25-year-old woman in Mexico has sparked outrage and prompted calls for a change in the country's law, after several media outlets published a leaked. Indian . It is being published by Forbidden Stories and its partners beginning today. She recognized him immediately from their lunch, the same slender frame and clean-shaven face. Miroslava Breach, 54, was shot eight times in her car while pulling out of her driveway to take one of her children to school. And they already did that to us.. to do drilling, to do cleanup, things like that anything that the government hired them to do, the accountant testified. As Karen lay on the living room floor, bound and gagged, a knock came at the door: her uncles unsuspecting mechanic, who had come to work on the family truck. Borbolla is currently a prosecutor in a different part of the attorney generals office. Frustrated, Mrs. Rodrguez redoubled her efforts to identify the rest of the crew, and before long had a stack of photos of Sama posing with others. That Karen and Mrs. Rodrguez now lay together was a small solace. For Karen, it was Cristian, the teenager Mrs. Rodrguez had fed. 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. Update: An Orlando reporter is mourned as local journalists face more danger on the job. Prosecutors said the woman who waved her arms, Christina Langford Johnson, was. Mrs. Rodrguez, whose courage and determination to find her daughter offered a guiding light for the campaign to save Luciano years later, was also a warning of what awaited anyone who pushed too hard. Weeks earlier, volunteers had passed the very spot and missed it. She is the Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland. And then, by pure chance, Sama turned up. We arent looking for a corpse, Luis recalled Anabel saying. 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. At least 27 journalists have been killed in the state of Veracruz since 2003. XALAPA, Mexico Regina Martnezs death was brutal. And last night my chest was in pain. Laura Borbolla, a senior prosecutor in the Mexican Attorney Generals Office who investigated Martnezs homicide in 2012, said in interviews that state police and prosecutors made serious mistakes in their handling of the case. Rarely did she talk to her co-workers about her sensitive investigations. Her public campaign threatened more than just a few kidnappers. 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. She cut her hair and dyed it bright red so Sama would not recognize her. Cartel violence has long scarred San Fernando, Mexico. Longer video, but gore starts about halfway in. In the years after Martnezs death, the mothers of the disappeared across Mexico formed collectives to demand that authorities find the bodies of their missing loved ones. 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. A noose hung from the branch of a gnarled tree. Those who really control everything and who benefit most are powerful political figures and senior security-force officers., [Violent criminal groups are eroding Mexicos authority and claiming more territory]. The city placed a bronze plaque honoring her in the central plaza. The police came and arrested her, later discovering that some of the ransom calls had come from her house. The report described two alleged meetings that Herrera had with Zeta cartel leaders when he was governor in 2008, one at the Maviel Hotel in the port city of Coatzacoalcos and the other during a party Herrera threw at one of his homes in Veracruzs capital city, Xalapa, in honor of a cartel founder and the cartels leader in the state. Frightened colleagues sometimes tried to warn her off investigations. Cartels controlled the state, she told readers, even promoting themselves in YouTube videos. A man riding in a car with his cousin shot and killed another passenger then returned to the same neighborhood near Orlando hours later and shot four more people, killing a journalist covering. The weeks after Karens abduction had become knotted into a single, nauseating progression of calls, threats and false promises. Luis dropped what he was doing to take a closer look. She needed a name. The family followed every instruction to the letter. 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. 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 . 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. It was a witchs brew, said Seeley, who now runs Constos Global Risk Management. The demonic cartels left a message on the body: "This is for ALL [] International press groups consider Veracruz to be the most dangerous place in the world to report the news. It was not an accident, she said. The four other parts can be found at forbiddenstories.org. The promise, then, was of a book that could not only be a rewarding read but a transcendental one, a novel that would be emblematic, even canonical. The Zetas, once an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, had been warring with their one-time bosses for years. We must rid ourselves of the fear to stand up and speak out.. Forbes magazine had by then dubbed him one of the 10 most corrupt Mexicans. But Pea Nieto argued that Herreras business acumen made him the perfect choice for the job. Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues. Mrs. Rodrguez, already separated from her husband, moved in with her older daughter, Azalea. [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] The girlfriends, [74] wives, and daughters of male journalists and media workers have been murdered. Without showering, she threw a trench coat over her pajamas, a baseball cap over her fire engine-red hair and a gun in her purse, heading for the border to find the florist. They are surrounded by 13 masked men, apparently Los Zetas hitmen, who point their rifles at them. For the most part, residents dont speak out against organized crime. At the burial site, as a crowd surrounded the rectangular pit, he stood to the side, weeping. Karens father dropped off a bag of cash near the health clinic, then waited in vain at the local cemetery for the kidnappers to free her. 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. 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. When Herreras term ended in 2010, he expressed a desire to run for president. On Thursday, the Sheriffs Office released the names of the victims: Dylan Lyons, 24, Nathacha Augustin, 38, and Tyonna Major, 9. Many of her peers believe he or Herrera was behind her homicide. 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. Led. But the kidnapping of an innocent 14-year-old boy broke the quiet understanding that the cartels had with the people of San Fernando. Now she finally had one a widow called to tell her that he was peddling flowers on the border. But Mrs. Rodrguez fought the government on its analysis, and rightly so. Los Zetas could not operate in Veracruz without his permission She told her daughter that she would not rest until she found the people who had taken Karen. But by then, the cousins were nowhere to be found. Animal / Animal Attack / Cartel / Crime / Mutilation / Punishment / Pure Gore / Torture. NEW! Someone broke in through the metal door from her beloved garden patio, the tiny patch of tranquility that kept her from . 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. There is a drug war in Nuevo Laredo between rival drug cartels that . They traversed the vast expanses of San Fernandos arid edges, but no matter how far they searched, they could never cover it all. The Zetas called Herrera Zeta Number One because he was the one who ran the state, former FBI special agent Arturo Fontes, who spent 28 years on Mexican and Colombian drug and money-laundering cases, said in an interview. While many fled to escape the violence, others stuck it out because they had built a life in San Fernando and would not abandon it for the sins of others. Off the motorways, dirt roads in the scrubland provide a web of smuggling routes ideal for traffickers. Dead.. She was never able to find the mysterious witness. Only her tape recorder and computer were gone. 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 girl and a 38-year-old woman, sheriff . 1. nycboots 3 days ago. The killing came just a day after Lpez Esquivel, 21, a female member of the Jalisco cartel, died during a showdown with Mexican cops in La Bocanda. 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. Not everyone got along with her, said Gloria Garza, an official in the state government. She had already confirmed his involvement in Karens kidnapping, thanks to the mechanic abducted along with her daughter that night. 1. Police said a witness had told them he had seen two men near Martnezs house hours before she was killed. But even he had learned the lesson his mothers murder had been meant to impart: only push so far for justice. Martnezs homicide shocked many who assumed a reporter at such a respected national outlet was too high-profile to be killed. He insisted that the cartel did not have her daughter, but offered to help find her for a fee of $2,000, and Mrs. Rodrguez paid. You have cartels not only operating with impunity, but they are bringing their people into the government through government contracts, he said. Now, after driving by the restaurant again, it dawned on her: Maybe the young woman knew something. The woman, who started being a hit woman aged 15 said killed pregnant women. As Mrs. Rodrguez sat outside the interrogation room, the teenager asked whether he could see his mother. Perhaps she had even been watching the ranch in case the police came. By then, everyone had. Executions, not just of petty dealers but of prominent business executives, livestock farmers and peasant leaders. When questioned about those holdings, the governor said they belonged to his wealthy wife. Her articles had an outsize impact. A portrait of MiriamRodrguez hanging on the wall of her home, now owned by her husband. . 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