A total of 9 clandestine graves have been found and federal authorities looking for the masterminds who planned and ordered the Iguala student massacre in late September.
By H. Nelson Goodson
October 11, 2014
Mexico, D.F. - On Friday, the Mexican federal Attorney's General's Office confirmed that four additional suspects have been arrested in connection with the Iguala, Guerrero murders. The suspects who are alleged members of the Guerreros Unidos (GU), a criminal organization have confessed to participating in the mass murder of students and took authorities to where an additional four graves could be found. The suspects admitted, that students were tortured, murdered and some buried alive in shallow graves.
Jesús Murillo Karam, Mexico's federal Attorney General says, that authorities are excavating the newly discovered grave sites to recover bodies, if found. So far, Karam has not confirmed that any of the missing students or their bodies have been found.
28 burnt bodies were recovered more than a week ago from five clandestine graves and DNA is being used to identify those remains. But, two other suspects who told authorities where the five graves were located admitted that missing students who had been murdered were buried in those graves.
Karam says, that the federal government is doing everything they can to get credible information that would lead to the arrest of the masterminds who ordered the student mass massacre in Iguala. So far, Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez, aka, "Chucho," his wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa and Felipe Flores Velázquez, Iguala's Secretary of Public Safety have been implicated in the student murders. Abarca Velázquez, Pineda Villa and Flores Velázquez have disappeared and are wanted for questioning in connection with 35 murders, including 32 students.
Karam confirmed that 34 suspects have been arrested by the federal government and the number of suspects could reach 40 in connection with the Iguala student massacre, during a radio talk program with Carmen Aristegui, Noticias MVS on Friday.
An undated video surfaced on Monday, where previously kidnapped victim María Leonor Villa de Pineda Orduño then 59, Mayor Abarca Velázquez's mother-in-law alleged that he was getting paid $2M pesos ($153,000 U.S.) per month to protect members of the GU who were implicated for the late September mass murder of students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos school in Ayotzinapa in the municipality of Tixtla. Abarca Velázquez is married to Orduño's daughter, María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa. Orduño is also the mother of Mario Pineda Villa, aka, "MP," Guadalupe Pineda Villa, Salomón Pineda Villa and Alberto Pineda Villa, aka, "El Borrado" ex-member of the Arturo Beltrán Leyva Cartel. Both Mario and Alberto were killed in September 2009 after selling out Arturo Beltrán Leyva, according to Orduño's undated video testimony. Her choffer who was also bound is questioned as well.
Orduño is the older sister of Salomón Pineda, aka, "El Molón" one of the leaders of a GU drug cells. The GU was affiliated with the Beltrán Leyva Cartel.
Salomón Pineda was arrested on Thursday in Morelos by Mexican Marines and is being questioned about the student murders. Salomón is also implicated in the Iguala homicides.
Orduño who had her hands tied and eyes covered while being questioned by an unidentified person confirmed that Guerrero Governor Angel Aguirre Rivero is the cousin of one of the main leaders of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco. She said, that her sons supported and funded Rivero's campaign from state representative to his election as governor.
Last Sunday, Iñaky Blanco Cabrera, the Guerrero State Attorney confirmed that 52 alleged suspects including 22 Iguala municipal police officers and 29 alleged members of the criminal organization the GU had been detained in connection with the murder of 35 victims including 32 students. Three other GU suspects are being sought and remained at large.
Cabrera confirmed that 28 burnt bodies were found in a remote area near the Pueblo Viejo in the municipality of Iguala after several suspects confessed where the victims were buried in five shallow graves. The state and federal forensic departments are working to identify the bodies through DNA testing, but some of the suspects confessed that 17 of those victims were students that were kidnapped by the GU and corrupt municipal police officers when they ambushed three student buses from the Raúl Isidro Burgos school in Ayotzinapa in the municipality of Tixtla on September 26 and early September 27.
DNA results will take at least three weeks. To date, 43 students are still missing since September 27, according to authorities and family members of those still missing.
Two of the suspects, Martín Alejandro Macedo Barrera and Marco Antonio Ríos Berber told authorities where the victims bodies were buried in 5 graves in Pueblo Viejo. Both suspects confessed to participating in the kidnappings and murder of 17 students.
Barrera and Berber said, that Francisco Salgado Valladares, from the Municipal Public Safety told them to go to the Pueblo Viejo area and that El Chucky, the leader of the GU ordered them to kidnap and to kill as many of the students they could capture.
Apparently, Pineda Villa, the mayor's wife was having a public civic event and believed the students were planning to disrupt her activity and told Flores Velázquez to keep the students from disrupting her event. Corrupt municipal police under orders of Flores Velázquez stopped three buses transporting students and fired upon them killing students. Other students were detained by police and handed over to the GU to be slaughtered.
Murder charges were filed against Felipe Flores Velázquez, Alejandro Tenescalco Mejía, Luís Francisco Martínez Díaz, former secretary of Public Safety and Civil Protection. Luis Alberto José Gaspar, aka, "El Tongo" and Norma Angélica Bruno Román were charged with organized crime and being Halcones (look outs) for the CU.
In early October after the confrontation with students, 19 of 22 Iguala municipal police officers tested positive for gun powder residue or had fired a weapon. They were identified as, Emilio Torres Quezada, Raúl Cisneros García, Baltazar Martínez Casarrubias, Abraham Julián Aguado Popoca, Miguel Ángel Hernández Morales, José Vicencio Flores, Juan y/o Iván Armando Hurtado Hernández, Zulai Marino Rodríguez, Salvador Herrera Román, Osvaldo Arturo Vázquez Castillo, Mario Cervantes Contreras, Juan Luis Hidalgo Pérez, Arturo Calvario Villalba, Rubén Alday Marín, Marco Antonio Ramírez Urvan, Margarita Contreras Castillo, Alejandro Andrade de la Cruz, Hugo Salgado Wences and Nicolás Delgado Arellano.
The following suspects were ordered detained and charged in connection with the deadly ambush and murder of 6 victims in Iguala. The suspects were identified as, Emilio Torres Quezada, Raúl Cisneros García, Baltazar Martínez Casarrubias, Abraham Julián Aguado Popoca, Miguel Ángel Hernández Morales, José Vicencio Flores, Juan y/o Iván Armando Hurtado Hernández, Zulai Marino Rodríguez, Salvador Herrera Román, Osvaldo Arturo Vázquez Castillo, Mario Cervantes Contreras, Juan Luis Hidalgo Pérez, Arturo Calvario Villalba, Rubén Alday Marín, Marco Antonio Ramírez Urvan, Margarita Contreras Castillo, Alejandro Andrade de la Cruz, Hugo Salgado Wences, Nicolás Delgado Arellano, Hugo Hernández Arias, Fernando Delgado Sánchez and Fausto Bruno Heredia for the murders of David Josúe García Evangelista, Víctor Manuel Lugo Ortiz, Blanca Montiel Sánchez, Daniel Solís Gallardo, Julio César Mondragón Fontes and Julio César Ramírez Nava.
Additional 28 homicide charges are pending against the suspects and others implicated including Mayor Abarca Velázquez. According to the criminal investigation, the detained students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos school were detained and taken to the municipal police yard and questioned. Then they were taken by police to the Pueblo Viejo area in Iguala where they were brutally tortured, shot and burned alive with diesel fuel. Afterwards the victims were buried in shallow graves, according to some of the suspects who witnessed the murders.
Additional 28 homicide charges are pending against the suspects and others implicated including Mayor Abarca Velázquez. According to the criminal investigation, the detained students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos school were detained and taken to the municipal police yard and questioned. Then they were taken by police to the Pueblo Viejo area in Iguala where they were brutally tortured, shot and burned alive with diesel fuel. Afterwards the victims were buried in shallow graves, according to some of the suspects who witnessed the murders.
In an unrelated homicide, Mayor Abarca Velázquez is also accused of personally killing Arturo Hernández Cardona, the leader of the United Popular organization from Guerrero in late May to early June 2013, according to a notarized affidavit from Nicolás Mendoza who witnessed the cold blooded murder by Abarca Velázquez. Abarca Velázquez shot Cardona in the face and chest while saying "I'm going to have the pleasure of killing you" as Flores Velázquez watched, according to Mendoza. Félix Rafael Bandera Román and Ángel Román Ramírez were also killed. Román attempted to escape and was fatally shot and Ramírez tried to run from another location where the remaining five kidnapped victims were taken to be executed. The victims had been tortured and beaten for several days. Mayor Abarca Velázquez and Flores Velázquez were not charged for the murders in 2013 because the Guerrero state Attorney General's Office filed the case and didn't act. Federal prosecutor, Karam confirmed to Aristegui that René Bejarano from the PRD political party had mentioned Mayor Abarca Velázquez 2013 Cardona murder case to him when Bejarano was at the PGRF talking to Karam for a different issue, but Bejarano never gave Karam the file and evidence to prosecute Abarca Velázquez as he promised. Karam has now taken up the Cardona, Román and Ramírez murder case against Mayor Abarca Velázquez. If Abarca Velázquez would have been prosecuted by the Guerrero state Attorney General's Office for the Cardona, Román and Ramírez murders in 2013, the Iguala student massacre could have been avoided, according to Karam.
Iguala Municipal Police Officers arrested were;
1. Fausto Bruno Heredia
2. Emilio Torres Quezada
3. Baltazar Martínez Cosarrubias
4. Abraham Julián Aguado Popoca
5. Miguel Ángel Hernández Morales
6. Juan y/o Iván Armando Hurtado Hernández
7. Zulai Marino Rodríguez
8. Salvador Herrera Román
9. Osvaldo Arturo Vázquez Castillo
10. Juan Luis Hidalgo Pérez
11. Arturo Calvario Villalba
12. Rubén Alday Marín
13. Hugo Hernández Arias
14. Fernando Delgado Sánchez
15. Marco Antonio Ramírez Urvan
16. Margarita Contreras Castillo
17. Raúl Cisneros García
18. José Vicencio Flores
19. Mario Cervantes Contreras
2. Emilio Torres Quezada
3. Baltazar Martínez Cosarrubias
4. Abraham Julián Aguado Popoca
5. Miguel Ángel Hernández Morales
6. Juan y/o Iván Armando Hurtado Hernández
7. Zulai Marino Rodríguez
8. Salvador Herrera Román
9. Osvaldo Arturo Vázquez Castillo
10. Juan Luis Hidalgo Pérez
11. Arturo Calvario Villalba
12. Rubén Alday Marín
13. Hugo Hernández Arias
14. Fernando Delgado Sánchez
15. Marco Antonio Ramírez Urvan
16. Margarita Contreras Castillo
17. Raúl Cisneros García
18. José Vicencio Flores
19. Mario Cervantes Contreras
20. Alejandro Andrade de la Cruz
21. Hugo Salgado Wences
22. Nicolás Delgado Arellano
21. Hugo Salgado Wences
22. Nicolás Delgado Arellano
Undated video of kidnapped victim María Leonor Villa de Pineda Orduño, the mother-in-law of Iguala Mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez during questioning by an unidentified man implicating Abarca Velázquez to be a corrupt mayor, taking bribes and getting paid to protect the Guerreros Unidos criminal organization. Video: http://youtu.be/nEx0gC8FLI4
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