Gunmen dump 35 bodies on busy street in Mexico--Veracruz
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Sep 20, 2011, 11:17:32 PM9/20/11
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Note that officials say they have determined that the bodies that have
been identified "all had criminal records and were linked to organized
crime..."
The Reforma article is also posted below.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44603823/ns/world_news-americas/#
Gunmen dump 35 bodies on busy street in Mexico
Motorists watch as corpses are left near a shopping mall
Image: Officials examine bodies dumped in Boca del Rio
Reuters
Police and members of a forensic team stand around bodies on a
motorway in Boca del Rio, on the outskirts of Veracruz Sept. 20. The
bodies of 35 people with suspected links to organized crime were found
in two abandoned trucks on a highway underpass Tuesday, the local
prosecutor said.
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
updated 1 hour 13 minutes ago 2011-09-21T02:54:06
MEXICO CITY — Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf
of Mexico coastal city Tuesday and dumped the bodies of 35 slaying
victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.
Veracruz state Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said the bodies
were left piled in two trucks and on the ground of an underpass near a
shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio.
Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal
records and were linked to organized crime, Escobar said. He didn't
say to what group the victims belonged to.
The Gulf and Zetas drug cartels have been locked in a bloody war for
control in Veracruz state over the last year.
Story: Mexico to lessen terrorism charge in Twitter case
Motorists first began tweeting Tuesday afternoon that masked gunmen in
military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard in Boca
del Rio and pointing their guns at civilians.
Local media reported that some of the slaying victims were among
prisoners who escaped from three Veracruz prisons on Monday, but
Escobar said he couldn't confirm that.
At least 32 inmates got away from the three Veracruz prisons. Police
recaptured 14 of them.
Earlier Tuesday, the Mexican army announced it had captured a key
figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing
violence in western Mexico.
Saul Solis Solis, 49, a former police chief and one-time congressional
candidate, was captured without incident Monday in the cartel's home
state of Michoacan, Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said during a
presentation of Solis to the media.
Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights
Templar, which split late last year from La Familia, a pseudo-
religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine.
He is accused in various attacks on the military and federal police,
including one in May 2007 that killed an officer and four soldiers,
Villegas said. Solis also is suspected of planting and harvesting
drugs, managing clandestine labs manufacturing synthetic drugs and
ordering attacks on police facilities in cities around the entire
state.
Mexico's attorney general had offered a $1.1 million reward for
information leading to his capture.
Solis is a cousin of one of the Knights Templar's main alleged
leaders, Enrique Plancarte Solis. Saul Solis served as director of
public safety in the Michoacan town of Turicato in 2003-05 and ran for
the federal congress in 2009 as a Green Party candidate, finishing
fourth in his district with about 11,000 votes.
Authorities said a judge had issued an arrest warrant for Solis on
charges of organized crime and drug trafficking at the time of the
vote.
Story: Latest Mexico zoo attraction: Narco pets
President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against organized
crime in 2006 in his home state of Michoacan, where much of the
violence had been attributed to La Familia. Knights Templar became a
splinter group after the leader of La Familia, Nazario Moreno
Gonzalez, was killed in a shootout with federal police last December.
A second La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, was arrested
in June, leading Calderon's government to say it had all but
dismantled the gang. But violence continues in Michoacan and other
parts of western Mexico where Knights Templar is trying to control
territory.
Both groups claim to be devoted to God and to be fighting poverty and
injustice under a strict code of conduct.
Late Monday, four gunmen died in a clash between drug cartels in the
Michoacan towns of Caracuaro and Tiquicheo, the army said in a
statement. It said residents told authorities several vehicles packed
with gunmen had been seen in the area earlier Monday.
Drug violence has claimed more than 35,000 lives across Mexico since
2006, according to government figures. Others put the number at more
than 40,000.
In northern Mexico, the army announced the detention of two more
suspects in a casino fire that killed 52 people last month in the
northern city of Monterrey.
The two men captured at a bar in Monterrey late Monday confessed to
being members of the Zetas drug cartel and participating in the
attack, federal prosecutors said.
Six others, including a Nuevo Leon state police officer, previously
were arrested in the case and 16 more suspects remain at large.
Last week, the parents and a brother of a police officer involved in
the casino investigation were shot to death at their Monterrey home.
Authorities said the attack could have been revenge because the
officer helped identify some of the alleged attackers.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2011/09/20&id=d46ecb5a4c71fc9878e3908d36f30d1f
Suman 35 cadáveres hallados en Veracruz
Reforma | 20-09-2011 | 19:32
Xalapa, Veracruz— Un total de 35 cuerpos fueron abandonados esta tarde
frente a la Plaza Comercial "Las Américas", ubicada en Boca del Río,
informaron fuentes del Gobierno del Estado.
Según el reporte, los asesinados son 24 hombres y 11 mujeres.
Los cadáveres, que fueron transportados en dos camionetas de redilas,
fueron arrojados debajo de un paso a desnivel que se ubica frente al
centro comercial sin que los conductores de las unidades hubiesen sido
detenidos.
La Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado, señalaron las fuentes,
ya inició la averiguación previa correspondiente para tratar de
identificar los cadáveres y determinar quiénes son los responsables de
los crímenes.
Este hecho, el más sangriento que se registra en Veracruz, se da a dos
días de que inicie la Conferencia Nacional del Procuración de Justicia
en la que se tiene programado que acudan todos los fiscales del País,
y un día después de que se registró una fuga simultánea de 32 reos de
3 penales de la entidad.
El Procurador General de Justicia del Estado, Reynaldo Escobar,
informó previamente que varios de los cadáveres que fueron abandonados
en la plaza comercial ya fueron identificados y tienen vínculos con el
crimen organizado.
"Se ha logrado la identificación de algunos de los cuerpos y se ha
confirmado a través de Plataforma México que todos ellos tenían
antecedentes penales y se dedicaban a actividades vinculadas al crimen
organizado, tales como secuestro, extorsión, homicidio, narcomenudeo,
entre otros delitos", aseguró.
El funcionario leyó un escueto comunicado en el que señaló que los
cadáveres fueron encontrados alrededor de las 17:00 horas en el paso a
desnivel del Bulevar Adolfo Ruiz Cortines abandonados en dos
camionetas.
Al menos 18 cuerpos fueron arrojados en zona turística de Veracruz
Arrojan cuerpos en paso a desnivel en Veracruz
been identified "all had criminal records and were linked to organized
crime..."
The Reforma article is also posted below.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44603823/ns/world_news-americas/#
Gunmen dump 35 bodies on busy street in Mexico
Motorists watch as corpses are left near a shopping mall
Image: Officials examine bodies dumped in Boca del Rio
Reuters
Police and members of a forensic team stand around bodies on a
motorway in Boca del Rio, on the outskirts of Veracruz Sept. 20. The
bodies of 35 people with suspected links to organized crime were found
in two abandoned trucks on a highway underpass Tuesday, the local
prosecutor said.
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
updated 1 hour 13 minutes ago 2011-09-21T02:54:06
MEXICO CITY — Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf
of Mexico coastal city Tuesday and dumped the bodies of 35 slaying
victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.
Veracruz state Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said the bodies
were left piled in two trucks and on the ground of an underpass near a
shopping mall in the city of Boca del Rio.
Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal
records and were linked to organized crime, Escobar said. He didn't
say to what group the victims belonged to.
The Gulf and Zetas drug cartels have been locked in a bloody war for
control in Veracruz state over the last year.
Story: Mexico to lessen terrorism charge in Twitter case
Motorists first began tweeting Tuesday afternoon that masked gunmen in
military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard in Boca
del Rio and pointing their guns at civilians.
Local media reported that some of the slaying victims were among
prisoners who escaped from three Veracruz prisons on Monday, but
Escobar said he couldn't confirm that.
At least 32 inmates got away from the three Veracruz prisons. Police
recaptured 14 of them.
Earlier Tuesday, the Mexican army announced it had captured a key
figure in the cult-like Knights Templar drug cartel that is sowing
violence in western Mexico.
Saul Solis Solis, 49, a former police chief and one-time congressional
candidate, was captured without incident Monday in the cartel's home
state of Michoacan, Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said during a
presentation of Solis to the media.
Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights
Templar, which split late last year from La Familia, a pseudo-
religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine.
He is accused in various attacks on the military and federal police,
including one in May 2007 that killed an officer and four soldiers,
Villegas said. Solis also is suspected of planting and harvesting
drugs, managing clandestine labs manufacturing synthetic drugs and
ordering attacks on police facilities in cities around the entire
state.
Mexico's attorney general had offered a $1.1 million reward for
information leading to his capture.
Solis is a cousin of one of the Knights Templar's main alleged
leaders, Enrique Plancarte Solis. Saul Solis served as director of
public safety in the Michoacan town of Turicato in 2003-05 and ran for
the federal congress in 2009 as a Green Party candidate, finishing
fourth in his district with about 11,000 votes.
Authorities said a judge had issued an arrest warrant for Solis on
charges of organized crime and drug trafficking at the time of the
vote.
Story: Latest Mexico zoo attraction: Narco pets
President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against organized
crime in 2006 in his home state of Michoacan, where much of the
violence had been attributed to La Familia. Knights Templar became a
splinter group after the leader of La Familia, Nazario Moreno
Gonzalez, was killed in a shootout with federal police last December.
A second La Familia leader, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, was arrested
in June, leading Calderon's government to say it had all but
dismantled the gang. But violence continues in Michoacan and other
parts of western Mexico where Knights Templar is trying to control
territory.
Both groups claim to be devoted to God and to be fighting poverty and
injustice under a strict code of conduct.
Late Monday, four gunmen died in a clash between drug cartels in the
Michoacan towns of Caracuaro and Tiquicheo, the army said in a
statement. It said residents told authorities several vehicles packed
with gunmen had been seen in the area earlier Monday.
Drug violence has claimed more than 35,000 lives across Mexico since
2006, according to government figures. Others put the number at more
than 40,000.
In northern Mexico, the army announced the detention of two more
suspects in a casino fire that killed 52 people last month in the
northern city of Monterrey.
The two men captured at a bar in Monterrey late Monday confessed to
being members of the Zetas drug cartel and participating in the
attack, federal prosecutors said.
Six others, including a Nuevo Leon state police officer, previously
were arrested in the case and 16 more suspects remain at large.
Last week, the parents and a brother of a police officer involved in
the casino investigation were shot to death at their Monterrey home.
Authorities said the attack could have been revenge because the
officer helped identify some of the alleged attackers.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2011/09/20&id=d46ecb5a4c71fc9878e3908d36f30d1f
Suman 35 cadáveres hallados en Veracruz
Reforma | 20-09-2011 | 19:32
Xalapa, Veracruz— Un total de 35 cuerpos fueron abandonados esta tarde
frente a la Plaza Comercial "Las Américas", ubicada en Boca del Río,
informaron fuentes del Gobierno del Estado.
Según el reporte, los asesinados son 24 hombres y 11 mujeres.
Los cadáveres, que fueron transportados en dos camionetas de redilas,
fueron arrojados debajo de un paso a desnivel que se ubica frente al
centro comercial sin que los conductores de las unidades hubiesen sido
detenidos.
La Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado, señalaron las fuentes,
ya inició la averiguación previa correspondiente para tratar de
identificar los cadáveres y determinar quiénes son los responsables de
los crímenes.
Este hecho, el más sangriento que se registra en Veracruz, se da a dos
días de que inicie la Conferencia Nacional del Procuración de Justicia
en la que se tiene programado que acudan todos los fiscales del País,
y un día después de que se registró una fuga simultánea de 32 reos de
3 penales de la entidad.
El Procurador General de Justicia del Estado, Reynaldo Escobar,
informó previamente que varios de los cadáveres que fueron abandonados
en la plaza comercial ya fueron identificados y tienen vínculos con el
crimen organizado.
"Se ha logrado la identificación de algunos de los cuerpos y se ha
confirmado a través de Plataforma México que todos ellos tenían
antecedentes penales y se dedicaban a actividades vinculadas al crimen
organizado, tales como secuestro, extorsión, homicidio, narcomenudeo,
entre otros delitos", aseguró.
El funcionario leyó un escueto comunicado en el que señaló que los
cadáveres fueron encontrados alrededor de las 17:00 horas en el paso a
desnivel del Bulevar Adolfo Ruiz Cortines abandonados en dos
camionetas.
Al menos 18 cuerpos fueron arrojados en zona turística de Veracruz
Arrojan cuerpos en paso a desnivel en Veracruz
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