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Cancun's newly appointed anti-drug chief murdered in less than 24 hours on the job!!
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| tjpatel |
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americ...ral/index.html
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A recently retired Mexican army general whose bullet-riddled body was found Tuesday near Cancun had taken over as the area's top antidrug official less than 24 hours earlier, officials said.
A soldier guards the forensics office where the body of a slain former general was taken in Cancun, Mexico.
Retired Gen. Mauro Enrique Tello Quiñonez, his aide and a driver were tortured before being killed, said Quintana Roo state prosecutor Bello Melchor Rodriguez y Carrillo. He said there was no doubt Tello and the others were victims of organized crime.
"The general was the most mistreated," Rodriguez said at a Tuesday night news conference monitored by El Universal newspaper. "He had burns on his skin and bones in his hands and wrists were broken."
An autopsy revealed Tello also suffered broken knees and was shot 11 times, Mexico City's Excelsior newspaper said.
Tello had just been appointed a special drug-fighting consultant for Gregorio Sanchez Martinez, the mayor of the Benito Juarez municipality, which includes the city of Cancun. Tello, who retired from the army in January at the mandatory age of 63, had moved to the resort area three weeks ago.
The three victims were found inside a white Toyota pickup truck outside of Cancun on the road to Merida.
The truck belongs to the Benito Juarez municipality, Excelsior said, citing Luis Raymundo Canche, an assistant prosecutor for Quintana Roo state.
The three men were abducted Monday night, possibly in Cancun, tortured and then later shot to death, El Universal said, citing prosecutor Rodriguez. The bodies were found with their hands bound, the newspaper said.
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The killings happened around 4 a.m., the prosecutor said.
The other two victims were identified as Lt. Julio Cesar Roman Zuniga, who was Tello's aide and the chief bodyguard for Mayor Martínez, and civilian driver Juan Ramirez Sanchez.
Tello is the second high-ranking army officer to be killed in the area in the past few years. Lt. Col. Wilfrido Flores Saucedo and his aide were gunned down on a Cancun street in 2006. That crime remains unsolved.
The killings come as Mexico grapples with the highest violent-death rates in its history -- around 5,400 slayings in 2008, more than double the 2,477 reported in 2007, according to Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora.
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has characterized the battle among drug cartels and with government authorities as a "civil war."
On Tuesday, 12 men were gunned down in Chihuahua state in northern Mexico, Excelsior reported Wednesday. Eight other people were shot and killed in Chihuahua last weekend.
More than 200 people have been killed this year in Ciudad Juarez, the largest city in Chihuahua and considered the most violent town in Mexico, El Tiempo newspaper said, citing local authorities.
Last year, according to the National Commission on Human Rights, there were 1,900 organized crime killings in the state of Chihuahua. About 1,600 of those slayings occurred in Ciudad Juarez. |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
| wow... i'm suprised that happened around Cancun. |
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| Brian Scott |
| Damn, I lost my bet. The over/under was set at 12 hours and I took the under. |
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| Nerologic |
| Well we are kind of lucky that TJ isn't so crazy right now like Juarez. Because when the killlings are at that rate it spills over to this side of the border. |
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| bscarbro |
| That is pretty crazy! I thought the border cities were bad but this is way worse. I was just down in Cancun 2 years ago for a vacation and it seemed pretty chill for the most part. that! Won't be going back there at all, or anywhere near the state of Chihuahua for that matter. |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
| quote: | Originally posted by bscarbro
That is pretty crazy! I thought the border cities were bad but this is way worse. I was just down in Cancun 2 years ago for a vacation and it seemed pretty chill for the most part. that! Won't be going back there at all, or anywhere near the state of Chihuahua for that matter. |
YEAH, we were there last year and it seemed pretty cool. |
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| R!CH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nerologic
Well we are kind of lucky that TJ isn't so crazy right now like Juarez. Because when the killlings are at that rate it spills over to this side of the border. |
not really. drug gangs won't be blowing up police stations and assassinating judges and politicians in the united states no matter how bad it gets in tj. |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
| quote: | Originally posted by R!CH
not really. drug gangs won't be blowing up police stations and assassinating judges and politicians in the united states no matter how bad it gets in tj. |
correct. if they wanna get crazy in the states, they're gona have to deal "Los Pepes" reincarnated
(check out Killing Pablo, Los Pepes soldiers were trained by Delta Force members... me thinks??) |
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| Nerologic |
| quote: | Originally posted by R!CH
not really. drug gangs won't be blowing up police stations and assassinating judges and politicians in the united states no matter how bad it gets in tj. |
Really? This report was just published today:
| quote: | Mexican drug violence spills over into the US
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press Writer
Posted: 02/09/2009 01:33:53 PM MST
Just as government officials had feared, the drug violence raging in Mexico is spilling over into the United States.
U.S. authorities are reporting a spike in killings, kidnappings and home invasions connected to Mexico's murderous cartels. And to some policymakers' surprise, much of the violence is happening not in towns along the border, where it was assumed the bloodshed would spread, but a considerable distance away, in places such as Phoenix and Atlanta. |
http://www.elpasotimes.com/nationworld/ci_11664584
I never said it was going to be all out corruption like it is in Mexico, i just said the violence was going to spill over here like over border cities where people are getting assassinated on the streets day in day out... |
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| naeblis |
| quote: | Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
correct. if they wanna get crazy in the states, they're gona have to deal "Los Pepes" reincarnated
(check out Killing Pablo, Los Pepes soldiers were trained by Delta Force members... me thinks??) |
ya i saw the history channel special on Los Pepes. OMG CRAZY!:nervous: |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
| quote: | Originally posted by naeblis
ya i saw the history channel special on Los Pepes. OMG CRAZY!:nervous: |
'n CRAZZYYY!!! an eye for an eye kind of deal...
electrophile would probably know more info about those guys. |
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| DizkokidD |
| quote: | Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
'n CRAZZYYY!!! an eye for an eye kind of deal...
electrophile would probably know more info about those guys. |
why would a restaurant be on the history channel?? i would think more on the food network no?? :stongue:
i saw that one, and the one about los avenues freaking mexis |
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