Mexican Cartels And Their Allies Unite To Fight Against Los Zetas Cartel Along The Southern Bordertowns

Top photo: Mexico's Drug Cartel graphic design prepared by Stratfor and the Mexican Attorney's General Office.
Bottom photo: A truck marked with a side door sign "C.D.G." for the Gulf Cartel is confiscated by Mexican authorities. (Photo Narco Trafico en Mexico)

Banners posted in Reynosa and other areas say the Gulf Cartel and its allies have united against Los Zetas

By H. Nelson Goodson
March 5, 2010

Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico - Unofficial reports indicate a raging drug war between a front of organized drug cartels united to defeat Los Zetas has been in operation for a few weeks. Sporadic gun battles between drug cartels have been reported along the Southern U.S.-Mexico border towns.
Last weekend, at least 5 five gun battles between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel in Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, and Camargo, Tamaulipas, and the state of Nuevo Leon, resulted in multiple e-mail warnings from the U.S. Consulates from the Southern border towns between Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo warning U.S. Citizens and officials to avoid travel into Mexico.
Ramón Garza Barrios, Mayor of Nuevo Laredo acknowledged only two attacks. Garza said, the first was reported on February 19, and the second one was reported on February 26. The second attack targeted two police stations and did "minor damage," Garza confirmed. Laredo, Texas is adjacent to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The recent drug cartel wars along the Southern border towns has caused an economic effect, attributing to tourist avoiding travel into Mexico, U.S. residents from shopping and eating at restaurants in Mexico's side, and development investment along the U.S. to stall and major corporations investing and developing in areas far from the border.
The U.S. Consulate in Reynosa has been closed until further notice. Last month, a couple of U.S. International bridges in Southern Texas were closed temperarily to prevent the drug war to spill over to the U.S. from Mexico.
Home made banners from alleged members of the newly formed United Mexican Drug Cartel Federation (UMDCF) against Los Zetas were posted around Reynosa and other areas in the region telling the Mexican Military Police to leave and vowing that the Gulf Cartel and its allies would get rid of Los Zetas. Recently, UMDCF have launched attacks on Los Zetas along the border towns. Their search and attack operations have led UMDCF to go from border town to border town tracking and attempting to kill suspected members of Los Zetas. Members of the UMDCF are heavily armed with granade launchers and high caliber weapons, which Mexican federal authorities have yet to confirm. Media blockout in the border towns and region including Camargo, Matamoros, Reynosa and Mier have made information difficult to confirm, while media outlets are left to rely on "human intelligence" through Facebook, Twitter, e-mails and social networks in the affected areas. 
Los Zetas once were the strong arm of the Gulf Cartel, but broke away and began their own Los Zetas Cartel. They extended their enforcement work to other cartels, according to Mexican authorities. Los Zetas are known for kidnapping, torturing and beheading their rivals, and extorting local businesses for protection.
The united UMDCF alliance is composed of the Gulf Cartel, La Familia Michoacana, the Cartel de Sinaloa, Cartel Mileño and other allies, feuding against Los Zetas, Cartel Juarez, Beltran Leyva Cartel and some municipal police departments who work with the Zetas. The disputed territories are the municipalities of Reynosa, and Matamoros in Tamaulipas. Factions of the cartels have extended their dispute to municipalities of Monterrey and Guadalupe in the state of Nuevo Leon.
Both Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel have been recruiting men to help fight counterparts from Veracruz, Puebla, Chiapas, Oaxaca, Sonora and Coahuila, the Mexican military police confirmed.
Mexican authorities have found within the last two weeks about 50 abandon vehicles with traces of blood, but the cartels seem to pick up bodies and their wounded men to avoid detection by authorities.
A surge of violence is expected to reach Miguel Alemán and Nuevo Laredo, which are seen as strategic cities for control by the cartels due to their close proximity to the U.S. border.
Within the last two months in 2010, a total of 52 executions were reported in Matamoros, Reynosa, Miguel Alemán and Camargo, according to Mexican federal authorities.
Last Friday on February 26, a major assault and confrontation between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel lasted for more than 7 hours in Camargo. Residents were cut off from communication networks and a woman disappointed with local and state officials in Tamaulipas who were denying any deadly confrontations, went out the next morning and video recorded the aftermath of the drug war with her cell phone video camera.
Camargo residents have been staying in their homes under a siege, according to the unidentified woman who narrated the aftermath video scene. (http://bit.ly/9u9GIT)
Near Mier city, Mexican military police intercepted a convoy of 10-20 trucks and SUV's with signs taped to the side door marking the initials "C.D.G." for the Gulf Cartel. The C.D.G. convoy had just attacked a local police station believed to support Los Zetas and had taken 10 municipal police officers hostage after the attack. The confrontation between military police and the C.D.G. lasted at least two hours, and federal military police could not confirm, if in fact the 10 police officers were actually working with Los Zetas.

Related articles:

Mexican Tamaulipas State Officials Denied Deadly Confrontations, But Aftermath Video Proves Otherwise http://bit.ly/avXy41

Gulf Cartel kingpin sentenced to 25 years in a U.S federal prison http://bit.ly/c2Nt1Z

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Mexican Federal Warrants Issued Against Members Of Musical Groups Los Cadetes de Linares And Torrente

14 men, including members of two musical groups sought by Mexican federal governmment on criminal warrants alleging ties to criminal organizations, weapons charges and illicit activies

By H. Nelson Goodson
March 5, 2010

Mexico - This week, a Mexican federal judge issued arrest warrants for Hugo Dante Grajales Cantú, José Carlos Salinas Rodríguez and Rolando Ávila Muñoz members of two Mexican musical bands Los Cadetes de Linares and Torrente Musical, who allegedly were present or participated in a Holiday Mexican Party at Los Limoneros de Ahuatepec, in Morelos, on December 11, 2009. The party was sponsored by the Beltrán Leyva Drug Cartel, who SIEDO accused of being a criminal organization and associated with the late Arturo Beltrán Leyva, "Boss of Bosses," who was present at the party, and Édgar Valdez Villarreal, "La Barbie," and Sergio Villarreal, "El Grande."
Beltrán Leyva and 6 of his men were killed six days later in a luxury condo complex in Cuernavaca just South of Mexico City when 200 Mexican Navy Marines raided the building. The raid had been planned for two months and when the federal government confirmed Beltrán Leyva was present they executed the raid. One marine was wounded and another one was reported killed.
The Assistant Attorney General for Special Investigations and Organized Crime (Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada en Delincuencia Organizada) SEIDO filed weapons possession and criminal organization illicit activity charges against members of Los Cadetes de Linares and members of Torrente Musical.
The multiple arrest warrants were issued by a 1st District Penal Federal Judge of Nayarit. On Wednesday, SEIDO confirmed the following men, including members of the two musical groups are wanted by the Mexican federal government in the ongoing case, and were identified as:

1. Roberto Jaime Hernández (aka) “El Roberto"
2. Mario Alberto Vázquez Piñal (aka) “El Jarry"
3. Eduardo Alejandro Carballo Guillén (aka) “El Gallo” or “El Lalito"
4. Gerardo Leonel Gómez Guerra or Gerardo Lionel Gómez Guerra o Leonel Beltrán Ramírez (aka) “El Leo"
5. Alberto Juárez Cano (aka) “El Beto Juárez"
6. Nicéforo Nava Carbajal or Niséforo Nava Carbajal (aka) “El Nicéforo"
7. Marco Rogelio Robles Arias or Rogelio Robles Arias o Marco Aurelio García Guzmán o Rogelio Prado Arias o Marco Rogelio Romero Arias (aka) “El Suli” or “El Yeyo”
8. Antonio Ruiz González or Antonio Beltrán Araujo (aka) “El Antonio” or “Tony"
9. Atanasio Reyes Vizcarra o Ignacio Domínguez Corrales (aka) “Nacho”
10. Roberto Castillo Adame or José Alexander García Hidalgo (aka) “El Roberto"
11. Carlos Eduardo Martell Delgado (a) “El Carlitos"
12. Hugo Dante Grajales Cantú (del grupo musical Los Cadetes de Linares)
13. José Carlos Salinas Rodríguez (del grupo musical Torrente)
14. Rolando Ávila Muñoz (del grupo musical Torrente).

Members of Los Cadetes de Linares that were released from custody are, Ricardo Rosales Savall, Genaro Cruz Román, Gustavo Guerrero García, Guadalupe Tijerilla Peña, Jorge Luis Verastegui Lerma and Uzar Gerardo Pérez Valdez Cantú.
Members of Torrente Musical released from custody are, Jesús Muñoz Ibarra, Roberto Cifuentes Ledezma, José Francisco García Cortés, Jesús Escamilla Zavala and Mauricio Vitela Martínez.
Ramón Ayala y sus Bravos del Norte, also spent 80 days in jail in connection with the pending case, and were released. SEIDO and the Mexican Attorney's General Office said, if organized criminal illicit activities and evidence is found to further connect Ramón Ayala and members of his group to organize crime, they will press criminal charges. Ayala had been released from jail early for health issues.

SEIDO Press Release in Spanish: http://bit.ly/bosjWc

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Two Men Charged In Quadruple Homicides In Milwaukee's South Side

(L-R) Desmond Dejuan Laster, 21, and Anthony Edward Barnes, 23, were charged each with 4 counts of 1st-degree intentional homicide

Bottom photo: Brittney M. Robertson, 19, who allegedly participated in Thompson's homicide was found murdered in the Northwest side of Milwaukee (Photo MPD)

Top photo: Rachel Thompson, 24, and bottom photo, Jaden, 3, and Torian Thompson-Carter, 4, found murdered in a South side duplex.

By H. Nelson Goodson
March 4, 2010

Milwaukee -Two men have been charged with the quadruple homicide resulting from a robbery and alleged love affair. Both Anthony Edward Barnes, 23, and Desmond Dejuan Laster, 21, were charged with 4 counts of 1st-degree intentional homicide and use of a dangerous weapon, 1 count of arson of building and 1 count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
The criminal complaint details the confession made by Barnes in what transpired in the homicides of Rachel M. Thompson, 24, and her two sons ages 3 and 4, in the South side of Milwaukee, and the homicide of Brittney M. Robertson, 19, who was later found shot in the head. Barnes confessed to police that Robertson had planned to rob Thompson and had recruited him and Robertson's boyfriend Laster to commit a robbery.
On February 26, when they arrived at Thompson's upper duplex, they found her sleeping on a sofa. One of the suspects awakened Thompson with a punch to the face, and then they duct tape her eyes and mouth after Thompson had told them where the $800 and a gun were. Robertson stabbed Thompson repeatedly with a knife, which broke and Robertson got another one and stabbed her again. Then, Laster told Barnes to shoot Thompson who was barely alive.
Laster afterwards took both children to the bathroom, and placed plastic bags in their heads and then duct tape the bags to suffocate both children. Barnes said Robertson had also stabbed 3-year-old Jaden, according to the criminal complaint.
They spend several hours in a motel and Laster later decided to kill Robertson because she was too hot and police were looking for her. Laster suspected she would turn them in, if she was arrested. Later in the afternoon, Laster ordered Barnes to fatally shoot Robertson, which he did.
Barnes admitted to police that Robertson was in love with Maurice Visor Sr., the 6-weeks-old baby's father and she hated Thompson for being in the way. But, Robertson was murdered and could dispute Barnes alleged confession.
Last week Friday, Maurice Visor Jr., 6-weeks-old was discoverd missing after the homicides, The child was later found outside a North side church. Homicide investigators went to 836-838 S. 12th St., after firefighters responding to a fire in the upper duplex discovered Thompson, 24, and her two children, Torian Thompson-Carter, 4, and Jaden Thompson-Carter, 3, murdered.
Robertson was found murdered around 6:15 p.m. on February 26, in the Northwest side of Milwaukee. She was fatally shot in the head. Robertson shared the duplex with Thompson in the South side. Robertson had disappeared along with baby Maurice.
Police Chief Edward Flynn had confirmed, Thompson and her two siblings had been murdered before the upper duplex was set on fire.
The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office is reviewing the case and will most likely file lesser charges against three other suspects in connection to the quadruple homicides.

The Barnes and Laster criminal complaint posted by Fox 6 News: http://bit.ly/cqGLoo

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Mexican Tamaulipas State Officials Denied Deadly Confrontations, But Aftermath Video Proves Otherwise

Photo: Trucks and SUV's marked with side door signs "C.D.G.," the Gulf Cartel frequently roam throughout Mexican border towns and the state of Tamaulipas freely  (Photo Narco Trafico en Mexico)

On Tuesday, several U.S. Consulates and the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey along the U.S. -Mexico border are warning U.S. citizens and officials to avoid travel to Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo because of "several gun battles" recently

By H. Nelson Goodson
March 4, 2010

Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico - Last February 27, the residents of Camargo began to hear gunfire from late Friday around 11:00 p.m. to midnight, and lasting until early morning Saturday at about 6:00 a.m. An unidentified woman went out with her cell phone to video record the aftermath, to dispute previously Mexican local and state official statements that rumors of a drug war between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel for control of the region were untrue. She video taped the gun battle aftermath, next morning while her driver of the vehicle made the rounds throughout the area on the highway. A soldier warned them not to video tape at a check point.
The highway known as the four crossroads, leading to Nuevo Laredo, Camargo, Reynosa and Los Comales is the location where a deadly confrontation between Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel drug took place. A warehouse near Camargo where drug trafickers were stationed was attacked by rival drug trafickers. Few details have been released by Mexican authorities and the U.S. government due to a media blockout of the criminal activity in the region.
The Mexican Defense Department released, that earlier confrontations with Military police reported 4 suspected cartel members had been killed near the city of Matamoros. In another part of the same region, 6 suspected cartel members and one Mexican soldier were killed, and 10 soldiers and a police officer were reported wounded.
Camargo and Reynosa residents have been using Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube to post actual incidents of the feuding cartels carnage and effects it has on their economy along the border towns. 
The Mexican government says residents should check the state goverment web site to get accurate accounts of what is transpiring in the area. A press release dated February 25, Jaime Rodríguez Inurrigarro, the State of Tamaulipas Attorney General with the Department of Justice confirmed there were only rumors and no major battles of deadly confrontations between rival drug cartels have occured in any region of the state or at any area within the capitol. Inurrigarro said, we are following Governor Eugenio Hernández Flores request that all information relating to what is transpiring concerning illicit activities in different regions of the state and the capitol should be made public. (Press Release in Spanish: http://bit.ly/9uRLcH)
But both governments have acknowledged the feuding drug war between both criminal organizations along the border from Reynosa to Nuevo Laredo adjacent to Laredo, Texas.
Last Tuesday, the U.S. Consulate in Reynosa closed temperarily until further notice by Consul Michael Barkin, and the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey have confirmed several gun battles along the U.S.-Mexico border in their warnings to U.S. citizens and officials to avoid travel into Mexico while the drug cartel feuds continue.
The unidentified woman narrated in the video that people living in Camargo heard at least 20 granades go off between 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., including high caliber gunfire. While video taping the aftermath, she saw late model SUV's and semi-trailers riddle with bullets on the side of the highway. Even a couple of gas stations and trucks belonging to a Mexican gasoline company were damaged by gunfire. Several bodies layed on the side of the highway and multiple military vehicles and soldiers were checking vehicles passing through, according to the woman and video (http://bit.ly/9u9GIT).
She said, Camargo once a tourist attraction has ended up with deserted streets and residents are afraid to venture out and are experiencing a siege for more than a week. The mayor of Camargo and the governor of Tamaulipas have downplayed or denied any deadly confrontations in the area, but the video indicates other wise, the unidentified woman said.
Since the siege in Camargo, residents have experienced food shortages, no garbage pickup, utilities, satelite television signals and cable access have been cut off temperarily.
Camargo residents say that trucks and vehicles with initial signs posted on the side doors "C.D.G.," which they say means "The Gulf Cartel" are allowed to roam the streets in Camargo and in the state of Tamaulipas without any intervention by local, state, and federal authorities. A photo of a truck with a sign C.D.G. was posted in the narcotraficoenmexico.blogspot.com, as well as the cell phone video taken by the woman in Camargo.
On Wednesday, KVUE News border bureau reported Mexican military police intercepted a 10-20 convoy of vehicles SUV's with signs on the side marked C.D.G., the confrontation and gun battle between the military police and members of the Gulf Cartel lasted almost two hours. Stratfor, a global intelligence firm reported the Gulf Cartel had kidnapped about 10 municipal police officers at the city of Mier, after attacking a police station. Stratfor says the information came from "human intelligence," citing a media blockout of information by the Mexican government and makes it difficult to confirm.
The recent border drug wars from Reynosa to Nuevo Laredo and other Southern border towns have kept tourists from shopping and crossing into Mexico's border towns and kept school children from attending school in the U.S. last week. Several U.S. International bridges along the Southern border were closed temperarily in late February for fear of a drug war spill over into Texas from Mexico.
On February 26 in Houston, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, 42, drug lord for the Gulf Cartel was sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison by Hilda G. Tagle, federal judge for the United States District Court for Southern Texas. Guillén's conviction has left a void in the leadership of the Gulf Cartel and a drug war to control the Southern Texas border drug trafficking routes between Los Zetas and factions of the Gulf Cartel ignited recently in Mexico's border towns.
Judge Tagle sentenced Gullén after pleading guilty to five counts of drug trafficking, money laundering, and attempted assault and murder of federal authorities during a closed court proceeding, which was closed to the public. Tagle sealed all documents pertaining to Gullén's confession and deal he made, for his cooperation with federal authorities.

Cell phone video of aftermath gun battle between cartels: http://bit.ly/9u9GIT

Related Gulf Cartel article:

Gulf Cartel kingpin sentenced to 25 years in a U.S. federal prison http://bit.ly/c2Nt1Z

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Nfoque Latino Debuts At Spanish WJTI 1460 AM Radio Station

Photo (L-R): Local 1460 AM radio personalities, H. Nelson Goodson, Zonia López, Patricia De La Torre, and Mario Moreno Fuentes.   (Photo by Nfoque Latino)

Innovative, dynamic and informative Talk Show "Nfoque Latino" to debut at local Milwaukee Radio Spanish Station

March 2, 2010

Milwaukee (HNNUSA) -Nfoque Latino, a radio talk show will debut on Saturday morning adding an innovating, dynamic and informative venue, with a Hispanic approach focusing on issues important to the Latino community and surrounding communities. The talk show will be directed and produced by four well known local personalities, H. Nelson Goodson, Zonia López, Patricia De La Torre, and Mario Moreno Fuentes.  
Nfoque Latino will be aired from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Saturday's at Spanish La Nueva WJTI 1460 AM Radio Station. Nfoque Latino will focus on issues affecting our Spanish speaking community in the Milwaukee and surrounding communities. Such as and not limited to Immigration Reform and Rights of immigrants; business, South side area comprehensive and economic development; local news briefs; community updates of current events; city, county and state government passage of regulations, resolutions and laws affecting the Hispanic community; education; housing and ect.   
The Nfoque Latino crew chose to debut at La Nueva Spanish WJTI 1460 AM Radio Station after John Torres, CEO of EL Sol Broadcasting boosted the station wattage output radio signal of more than 1,000 watts of power last November, which today reaches more than 1,400,000 people throughout the metro area and surrounding counties.

Nfoque Latino: www.nfoquelatino.com


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Mexican Reporter Disappearance In 2007 Solved

Reporter Rodolfo Rincón homicide solved, Los Zetas targeted him for reporting about drug cartels and crime organizations in Tabasco

By H. Nelson Goodson
March 2, 2010

Tabasco, Mexico -Last Sunday, the Attorney General's Office in Tabasco during a press conference finally acknowledged that the disappearance of reporter Rodolfo Rincón, 54, on January 20, 2007 has been solved. Silvia Gil, spokesperson for the Tabasco Attorney General's Office, said that a suspect with the crime organization Los Zetas confessed Zetas members had kidnapped, murdered and then dissolved Rincón's body in acid. Rincón worked for the Tabasco state El Diario newspaper, and had published several articles about crime organizations and their connection to drug trafficking in the state.
One of the main leaders arrested of los Zetas confessed he had ordered Rincón killed. Police had information leading to his disappearance, but could verify it until recently, according to Gil. Los Zetas worked for the Gulf Cartel and then split in a drug war feud. The Zetas were then hired by other drug cartels to carry out murder contracts against other cartel factions. Los Zetas are known for killing, beheading and leaving a Z symbol on their victims forehead or body parts.
Gil did not provide names or who would be charged for Rincón's homicide, but confirmed Rincón's disappearance and homicide case is now closed.
Numerous Mexican reporters and newspaper executives have been murdered for reporting on drug trafficking and drug cartels in the region and throughout Mexico. 

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Santos-Adams Advances To Spring Election For Kenosha District 5 County Board Supervisor

CEO of the Racine and Kenosha Urban League wins spot for the Arpil 6 General Election in Kenosha

By H. Nelson Goodson
March 2, 2010

Kenosha -Yolanda Santos-Adams, CEO of the Racine and Kenosha Urban League, Inc. secured a place on the Kenosha Spring election ballot for Apirl 6. Santos-Adams is a candidate for Kenosha County Board Supervisor District 5th, and was a former Kenosha Unified School Board member elected from 1999 to 2003. She did not succeed in a re-election bid for the Unified School Board.
Santos-Adams, 56, received 54 votes, and Attorney David E. Celebre, 47, received 176 votes in the February 16 Primary Election. Both Santos-Adams and Celebre advanced to the General Election, and who ever wins the election will replace outgoing 5th District County Board Supervisor Jim Huff. 
Santos-Adams has been CEO of the Urban League since 2006, and in 2009 was elected State Deputy Director for League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
Over the weekend Santos-Adams began a Facebook group following, "Yolanda Santos-Adams for County Board Supervisor #5," administered by Larry Zamba. On the public Facebook group following, Darryl D. Morin wrote, "Yolanda, In all the years we have worked together in service to the community, I have never met a person as selfless and committed to serving others as you. You have my full support and I look forward to working with you in making your campaign a tremendous success for both you and the good people of Kenosha County."  Morin is the President and CEO of Advance Wireless Inc. and Wisconsin State Director for LULAC.
The Urban League is a non-profit community organization, with national headquarters in New York City and affiliates in cities throughout the nation. The Urban League provides African Americans and other disadvantaged groups with services to help secure economic self-reliance, equality, power and civil rights through education,  pre-employment training, youth empowerment and crime prevention initiatives.

About Santos-Adams http://bit.ly/aD7DqE

Update: Kenosha election results, Tues. April 6, 2010, Kenosha County Supervisor District 5th, Reporting 100%, David Celebre won with 408 votes, 69% and Yolanda Santos Adams with 183 votes, 31%.

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