The first public decapitation was carried out by La Familia Michoacana in September 2006, when several gunmen opened the doors of a bar in the Mexican state of Michoacán and threw five severed heads on the dance floor. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. "[101], On 15 May 2012 Los Zetas allegedly put up five narco-banners from bridges or in other public places of San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas[103] denying responsibility for the Cadereyta Jiménez massacre. After being taken into custody, Jimenez and his sisters were transported to a local office of Mexico's attorney general where the boy confessed to his role in gruesome killings to waiting reporters. 7. He wanted to do the seemingly impossible: Unite Mexico’s warring drug factions into a single cartel. President Felipe Calderon who launched an offensive to crack down on the cartels four years acknowledged that as quickly as they arrest young boys, more are being recruited. Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a six-year term, 128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years. [21] In addition, Los Zetas is a transient cartel without real territory or a secure stream of income, while the Sinaloa Cartel has a lucrative cocaine trade and the control of smuggling routes and territories. They were apparently trying to get to Tijuana on the U.S. border to then travel to San Diego where their mother lives. Sinaloa cartel run by Joaquín “El Chapo” Gúz-man, and the Gulf cartel, based on the east coast. Fleeing: Jimenez was caught with his two sisters, Elizabeth (left) and Oliva (right) who were trying to get to San Diego where their mother lives. Constant population increases in the city have only fuelled the problems. Jimenez Lopez was affiliated with the Zeta Cartel at a very early age. The Cadereyta Jiménez massacre occurred on the Fed 40 on 12–13 May 2012. [5][6] The forty-three men and six women killed had their heads, feet, and hands cut off, making their identification difficult. [60] Several hours later, 14 decapitated bodies were abandoned inside a vehicle in front of the Customs Agency;[61] the severed heads were left inside several ice coolers in front of the municipal palace. Many of them took place in northern states, where Los Zetas have waged a war against rival drug trafficking organizations for the control of the smuggling routes into the United States. "[17] A string of mass slayings have convulsed Mexico in 2011 and 2012. border from El Paso, Texas. The siblings were living in a poor neighbourhood of Jiutepec, a working-class suburb of Cuernavaca, known as a weekend getaway for Mexico City residents. Enrique "Kiki" Camarena Salazar (July 26, 1947 – February 9, 1985) was an American intelligence officer for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Sincerely, The Crazy, Miguel Treviño Morales (Z-40), and Commander Heriberto Lazcano. Published: 08:47 EDT, 29 June 2012 | Updated: 14:24 EDT, 29 June 2012 [23] Los Zetas, unlike the other traditional drug cartels, act like urban guerrillas; a police chief in Mexico explained how the Zetas would make anonymous phone calls to get the police out in the streets, block the road where the police were, and then open fire from all sides. [26] The Kaibiles had been trained to intimidate the local population with beheadings during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996). [90] Javier Del Real, the secretary of Public Safety in the state, mentioned that the purpose of the massacre was to bring people's attention, "and it did. El Lazca) and Miguel Treviño Morales (a.k.a. The area has an industrial area with Nissan, Unilever and other factories and has rustic single-level concrete homes and some farms. [22] The Sinaloa cartel uses tit-for-tat attacks as a way of bringing down the newcomers; for Los Zetas, it is about maintaining their violent reputation – the organization's most valued asset. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. [98] The Secretaría de Gobernación (Segob) offered its support to aid the authorities of the state of Nuevo León to find those responsible. Attorney General Pedro Luis Benitez said that the young boys are easily manipulated. [20] On the supply side, the increased pressures on Sinaloa kingpin Joaquín Guzmán Loera, whose operations in Colombia in 2012 prompted his organization to grab larger shares of cocaine from Peru and Ecuador, threatened the supply-lines of Los Zetas, and triggered tit-for-tat attacks among both cartels. 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[25] Now, decapitation is a tactic often used by the criminal organizations in Mexico—primarily by Los Zetas and its two main rivals, the Gulf and Sinaloa cartels. [25] Instead, they used different "codes of murder" established between the mafias. José Manuel Mireles Valverde (24 October 1958 – 25 November 2020) was a Mexican medical doctor and leader and founder of the paramilitary self-defense groups that fought against the Knights Templar Cartel, and other cartels, in the state of Michoacán and others, in México. Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. 'I participated in four executions, but I did it drugged and under threat that if I didn't they would kill me', the teen said calmly. [119] According to the authorities, El Loco joined group of hitmen in 2008 that was looking to expand the presence of Los Zetas in Guatemala; during his time in Guatemala, he engaged in many armed confrontations with local drug traffickers, including one that killed Juan José León Ardón alias El Juancho, one of the country's most-wanted drug lords. People being incarcerated in Mexico's federal prisons have more than doubled in the last two years. General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. [19] In March 2012, thirteen Los Zetas' members were killed and dismembered by the Sinaloa Cartel in a turf war; Los Zetas responded in kind, killing at least 10 members of the Sinaloa cartel in their rival's turf. "[102] Alongside the bodies, they placed a banner: "This is going to happen to all the Gulf and Sinaloa cartel members; the Mexican marines; Federal police; and government forces. [117], After the discovery of the 49 corpses, the Mexican military implemented "Operation Rastrillo" to coordinate the regional commanders in the states bordering Nuevo León to seal and prevent the movement of offenders into other areas of the region. [27] Los Zetas, however, responded with their own butchery by leaving 26 corpses in the state of Jalisco and over a dozen in Sinaloa. 'When we don't find the rivals, we kill innocent people, maybe a construction worker or a taxi driver', one teen said. [101] The video, recorded by an anonymous man who at the same time gave instructions to his henchmen, lasts for about 7 minutes. [44] The Jalisco New Generation Cartel was also responsible for 67 killings in Veracruz on 7 October 2011. Edgar Jimenez, known as 'El Ponchis' (The Cloaked One) is believed to have worked as a … [23] In addition, the goal of Los Zetas differs greatly from other drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. [61] The Mexican police said the second massacre could have been an act of revenge by the Gulf Cartel against Los Zetas for the earlier killings. [26] Wherever it stems from, decapitations is "now a staple in the lexicon of violence" in the Mexican Drug War. Other young boys have been enlisted to work for the cartels who sometimes post videos of interrogations to expose the crimes of their rivals online. Play it now. [70] Reports of forced disappearances have not been uncommon in the past years. [71] The municipality of Cadereyta is the most violent municipality in the state of Nuevo León that does not form part of the Monterrey metropolitan area. [48] As a response to the Sinaloa cartel incursions in Veracruz, Los Zetas carried out reprisal killings in the Guadalajara. Read breaking headlines from Mexico on NBCNews.com. [48] During the night, 10 more bodies were found throughout several different municipalities. Felix Gallardo played a key role in the formative years of Mexico’s cartels. [66][67][68] Eighteen heads were found along the dismembered bodies; some had been frozen, others were covered in lime, and the rest were found in an advanced state of decomposition. [72], Initially, the Mexican authorities reported the discovery of 37 bodies early in the morning on 13 May 2012 in the town of San Juan, 75 miles (125 km) southwest of the border city of Roma, Texas. With Scoot McNairy, Diego Luna, José María Yazpik, Fermín Martínez. [54] CNNMéxico stated that the message left behind by the criminal group said that they were going to "clean up Nuevo Laredo" by killing Zeta members. [29][30], On 20 September 2011, violence erupted between Los Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel in Veracruz, a strategic smuggling state with a giant gulf port. [25] The practices of beheading victims in Mexico is believed to have come from Guatemala in the year 2000, when Los Zetas extended their criminal network into Central America and eventually incorporated with the elite jungle military squad known as the Kaibiles. [80], The attorney's office declared that the victims were dismembered to prevent them from being identified. "[17] Moreover, the new tactic of leaving huge body dumps may be used by the cartels to draw law enforcement into a territory to disrupt the activities of a cartel's rival in its home or disputed territory. [11] The organized crime groups often leave multiple bodies in public places as warnings to their rivals; these criminal groups have been fighting for the control of the drug corridors to the United States, the local drug markets in cities, extortion rackets, and human smuggling. [110] The authorities stated that they have not formally accused Los Zetas for carrying out the massacre, and that they only stated the content of the banners found alongside the bodies. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Another teen sister accompanying them is not suspected of being involved with the cartels. [14] The authorities have blamed much of the violence on Los Zetas – a cartel originally set up by ex-commandos that deserted the Mexican Army in the 1990s – and the Sinaloa Cartel, an organization originally headed by Joaquín Guzmán Loera (a.k.a. The army said he was with his two sisters, one of whom was reportedly the lover of a cartel boss. [9] Four days before this incident, 18 people were found decapitated and dismembered near Mexico's second largest city, Guadalajara. [27] These new cartel tactics were used for the first time by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in September 2011 when they dumped over 30 bodies on a busy avenue in the state of Veracruz. [125] The five individual graves, at a ranch known as 'La Gloria' just on the border with Tamaulipas and identified by members of Los Zetas, were exhumed by the authorities. [68], In 2012, the state of Nuevo León and its surrounding territories have become a battleground for a brutal conflict between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, two drug trafficking organizations from northeastern Mexico. [20] The Sinaloa cartel and Los Zetas are "regional and cultural opposites," because the Sinaloa organization has been moving drugs north from the ranch country parts in Mexico into the U.S. for generations, while Los Zetas are newer arrivals from the more urban eastern coast. [69] The Mexican authorities confirmed that a message was left behind by the killers, presumably from Los Zetas and the Milenio Cartel. The Sinaloa cartel and Los Zetas are "regional and cultural opposites," because the Sinaloa organization has been moving drugs north from the ranch country parts in Mexico into the U.S. for generations, while Los Zetas are newer arrivals from the more urban eastern coast. [99] In addition, SEGOB emphasised that as for the Monterrey casino attack and the San Fernando massacre, justice would be served.[100]. The powerful Sinaloa Cartel, the Zetas' mortal rivals, has stood up and fought Los Zetas too. The rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in Mexico. But the former are heavily armed, while the latter's enforcement arm is weaker. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. [86] A large black "Z 100%" was spray-painted on a road sign close to where the bodies were found. [123] The Mexican authorities confirmed on 21 May 2012 that Daniel Elizondo El Loco was given orders by Heriberto Lazcano and Miguel Treviño Morales to carry out the massacre in Cadereyta to "cause confusion" among the population and the authorities. These kinds of tactics are media measures taken by organized crime to solicit the attention of the public and their rival groups. Mexican newspaper La Razon reported last month that El Ponchis was paid $3,000 for each murder he committed. The municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez – a middle-class, industrial community where the bodies were found – is known for its broom factory, an oil refinery, and its historical role as one of the first places where baseball was played in Mexico. [113] Officials of the Secretariat of National Defense stated that the cartel members were captured during a military operation in the area in which cocaine was allegedly seized. [98] The Mexican authorities then asked the population to stay calm, since the massacre took place in a remote area and in the darkness of the early morning. Leyva has been blamed for the increase in violence in the region this year, said to be over his control for power. [11] The natural gas wells and pipelines running through Cadereyta and the U.S-Mexico border have also been the most tapped by thieves, supplying gasoline and other natural resources to Mexico's criminal underworld. An isolated El Chapo tries to build a friendship with a guard. A 14-year-old U.S. citizen suspected of being a hitman for a drugs cartel in Mexico has been captured. [24] His military-led approach shortly after taking office spiraled the violence in the country, and has eroded the support of Calderon's conservative National Action Party (PAN), which did not regain the presidential seat in the 2012 presidential elections. [122] The bodies were transported from Los Herrera to Cadereyta, two municipalities between the city of Monterrey and the Rio Grande, and then dumped on the highway by Elizondo and 30 other gunmen. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Offenders under 18 are prosecuted in a separate legal system for most of their crimes. "[12] The cartels also fight for the control of local drug markets and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. The Jalisco cartel is one of the main distributors of synthetic drugs on the continent, according to the US government. [125] The bodies were calcined and in an advance state of decomposition. Z-40), who used to head Los Zetas drug cartel. [62][63] The decapitated bodies were found with a message allegedly signed by Joaquín Guzmán Loera, demanding recognition presence of the Sinaloa cartel in the area. [18] The Los Zetas gang dates back to 1999, when deserters of the Mexican Army Special Forces joined the ranks of the Gulf Cartel. [115] The massacre was viewed as an attempt by the Gulf Cartel to stoke law enforcement crackdown in Los Zetas territory – a tactic known as "heating up the plaza. [58] A banner left behind reportedly stated that those killed were the perpetrators of the car bomb in the city on 24 April 2012. In 2009, Baez Garcia also received multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine from two brothers-in-law, Canciano Marquez Mayorga and Candelario Tovar Garcia, who, in turn, were receiving the cocaine from a Mexican drug cartel. [119][120][121] El Loco was the leader of an important cell within the Los Zetas that was responsible for the massacre. [87] The Mexican police have taken this spray-painted message as a reference to Los Zetas, which often leaves messages signed "Z" at crime scenes to intimidate both authorities and rivals. [94], The Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) attributed the escalating violence in the country to the criminal organizations headed by Joaquín Guzmán Loera (a.k.a. Edgar Jimenez Lugo, now 17, was released and flew to be reunited with family in Texas today, although Mexican officials hesitated when asked if he had been rehabilitated. El Mayo), who head the Sinaloa cartel; and to Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano (a.k.a. Find out more about the greatest Mexicans, including 6ix9ine, Guillermo del Toro, Frida Kahlo, Salma Hayek and Eiza González. [23], The drug violence in the state of Nuevo León and all across Mexico has left more than 50,000 people dead since President Felipe Calderón took office in 2006. [126][127][128] The authorities, however, said that the corpses found were "complete skeletons," ruling out the possibility of them being the victims of the Cadereyta massacre. 'Child killer': The young boy said he was drugged and forced to commit heinous crimes by drug lords. Hence, the bodies will most likely be sent to local cemeteries, although many civil organizations protested against this. Created by Carlo Bernard, Chris Brancato, Doug Miro. Guzmán, Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, has allied with the Gulf cartel to fight off Los Zetas and take control of their territories. He is one of the 37 fugitives that escaped during the Apodaca prison riot in February 2012, where 44 Gulf Cartel inmates were killed. Jimenez said that he was employed by the cartel when he was just 11-years-old. [83] Nuevo León's security spokesman said that the 49 people were killed up to 48 hours earlier at a different location, most likely in the neighboring state of Tamaulipas,[84] and then transported by truck to where they were found. [33][34][35] All of the victims were alleged to be members of Los Zetas,[36] but it was later proven that only six of them had been involved in minor crime incidents, and none of them were involved with organized crime. [95] According to the Mexican government, the two cartels have committed "irrational acts of inhumane and inadmissible violence in their dispute" and have created "the most definitive of all the cartel wars" in Mexico. In 2008, there were about 4,500 inmates in jail - now there are 11,000 which has been accredited to the government's crackdown on the drug cartels. [48] At 07:00 hours, another burning vehicle was discovered in the northern city limits of Culiacán, inside which were four bodies handcuffed and clad in bulletproof vests. [112], The Mexican military detained eight Gulf Cartel members in the small, northeastern town of China, Nuevo León on 17 May 2012. "[116] Nonetheless, the Mexican authorities later confirmed that the actual perpetrator of the massacre was Los Zetas, and not the Gulf cartel. [107] The banners suggested that the massacre was perpetrated by the Gulf Cartel, saying that Los Zetas would have dumped the bodies inside the city of Reynosa, Tamaulipas (within the territory of the Gulf cartel), instead of in Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, its own territory;[108] Los Zetas, however, assumed responsibility for the 18 killed in Jalisco and the 9 hanged in Nuevo Laredo. Edgar Jimenez, known as 'El Ponchis' (The Cloaked One) is believed to have worked as a hitman for a Morelos drugs gang, based just outside of Mexico City. One of his sisters, aged 16, was also allegedly involved in the criminal gang. He said: 'These minors are still not fully developed and so it is easy to influence them, to give them a gun, pretending it is plastic, that it is a game'. She apparently disposed of her brother's victims by dumping the bodies on streets and freeways, officials said. [24], In the 1990s, the drug cartels in Mexico did not cut off the heads of the victims. [40][41] Four further bodies were confirmed separately by the state government of Veracruz. [13] In addition, the discovery seems to echo several other mass murder events where the drug cartels have left large numbers of bodies in public places as warnings to their rivals. [42] The discoveries led to the resignation of Reynaldo Escobar Pérez, the State Justice Attorney General. [128], In the city of Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, the Mexican Navy arrested José Ricardo Barajas López on 3 August 2012, another cartel member responsible for the massacre. [79] When the forensic experts began to pick up the bodies, they had to use facemasks because the intensity of the odor was intolerable. [73] However, upon more detailed examination at the scene, the official figures reached 49 dead. Small towns, ranches, and isolated communities in Nuevo León have long been treasured by drug traffickers. [70] In fact, the municipality of Cadereyta Jiménez is under dispute by Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel, and the Sinaloa Cartel;[71] the area is a strategic point for human smuggling, drug trafficking, and oil theft. [93] And for more than seven hours, the stretch of Mexican Federal Highway 40 where the massacre occurred was blocked by federal agents and state police officers. 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The municipal authorities of the state were also asked to maintain coordination and work in unison with the Federal government. More than 28,000 Mexicans have been murdered in the past four years. [70] Nonetheless, it had at least five municipal employees slain in April 2012; just a week before the massacre, a military general stepped up and took over the city's depleted police force. En réponse, 10 membres du cartel de Sinaloa ont été tués par Los Zetas dans le territoire de leurs rivaux [9]. In February 1985 Camarena was kidnapped by drug traffickers in Guadalajara, Mexico. [27] In earlier instances, some of the victims turned out to be students, bakers, and brick layers—none of them with criminal records. Watching the wealth of the corrupt world is appealing to some of the children who see it as a way out of their poverty-stricken lives. 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[64], In the morning on 9 May 2012,[65] Los Zetas left the chopped-up remains of 18 bodies inside two vehicles in Chapala, Jalisco, just south of Guadalajara. [26], Intended to terrorize the civil population and intimidate rival cartels, the public display of butchered bodies has replaced the traditional Mexican drug cartel practice of burying people in clandestine mass graves, as in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas. [11] The Mexican drug trafficking organizations have been fighting for the territorial control of the smuggling routes to the United States, and this massacre may be the "latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs. In effect, anyone who can be abducted from the streets is fair game for use in these mass slayings designed to "cause terror. consumers. Le cartel de Milenio, ou Los Valencia, est une organisation criminelle mexicaine, originairement basée dans le Michoacán et dirigée par Luis Valencia Valencia. Horrific video shows Mexican drug cartel decapitating five members of rival gang. A bullet through the back of the head, for example, signified that the victim was a traitor; a bullet through the temple, however, signified that the victim was member of a rival drug gang. [101] It shows how the bodies were transported by a dump truck to the area where they were found; once the truck stopped, several young men dumped the bodies on the highway one by one. Jimenez and his sister are suspected of working for the South Pacific Cartel run by Hector Beltran Leyva whose brother Arturo was killed by Mexican Marines last year. [7] The arrested suspects have indicated that the victims were Gulf Cartel members,[8] but the Mexican authorities have not ruled out the possibility that they were U.S.-bound migrants. [55] The Monitor newspaper, however, cited a source with direct knowledge of the attacks stating the 14 bodies belonged to members of Los Zetas who had been killed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, now a branch of the Sinaloa Cartel. [2][3] The Blog del Narco, a blog that documents events and people of the Mexican Drug War anonymously, reported that the actual (unofficial) death toll may be more than 68 people. Gunmen suspected of being drug cartel members ambushed three vehicles occupied by Mormon U.S.-Mexican dual citizens on a highway in Sonora, killing nine, including six children. [79] The Mexican authorities in the area had to cover their mouths and noses for the same reason. Cartel leader's body is found stabbed on a park bench just hours after he accused Mexico City's security chief of working with him to take down the Jalisco New Generation Cartel 19/03/21 21:23 Family business: One of Jimenez's sisters is alleged to have helped her brother dispose of bodies after he had killed them. How many are left? No one can stop us. 'In the most violent areas of the country, there is an unending recruitment of young people without hope, without opportunities'.