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Financieel leider drugskartel Mexico opgepakt

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Mexicaanse militairen hebben de financieel leider van het drugskartel Los Zetas aangehouden. Bij zijn arrestatie had Alfonso Zamudio Quijada een semi-automatisch geweer, 300.000 Amerikaanse dollar in contanten, een vals rijbewijs en 500 pakjes cocaïne bij zich. Dat hebben de autoriteiten donderdag (plaatselijke tijd) gemeld.

Zamudio werd opgepakt, toen hij een huis in de stad Monclova in het noorden van Mexico verliet. Los Zetas geldt als een zeer gewelddadig drugskartel. De leden worden geworven onder de elitetroepen van de strijdkrachten. De bende voert vooral in het noorden van Mexico een bloedige strijd tegen andere drugskartels.

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vrijdag 10 mei 2013, 10:32 uur #1

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vrijdag 10 mei 2013, 10:33 uur #2

StateOfMind

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quote:
De leden worden geworven onder de elitetroepen van de strijdkrachten.

Niet alleen onder elitetroepen wordt geworven:

The Houston Chronicle's journalist, Dane Schiller, had an interview with a drug cartel member in a restaurant in Texas on the condition that his identity remained completely anonymous.[69] He referred to the hitman as Juan, who wore "designer sunglasses" and was carrying "Nordstrom shopping bags."[69] Juan reportedly moves more than $5 million U.S. dollars of cocaine each month, and in his interview he explained that Los Zetas have been using an "ancient Roman gladiator blood sport" to groom new assassins and find recruits for their organization.[69]

Once captured, the kidnapped victims were forced to fight to death with the other victims.[70] Men were given knives, hammers, and machetes, and were ordered at gunpoint to fight for their lives like a "gladiator-style contest." The winners of the fights were ordered to go on suicide missions and shoot at rival drug cartel members at other towns and cities.[70] Those that did not win the "fight-to-the-death gladiator matches" were buried in clandestine mass graves.[69] The idea behind this tactic is to find new recruits who are willing to kill without mercy.[70] Almost all of the corpses found in the mass graves had features of "blunt force trauma." Juan, the cartel member, confessed that the game is called: "Who is going to be the next hitman?"[70] Peter Hana, a retired FBI agent with years of experience in the development of the Mexican drug cartels, said that these reenacts of the gladiator contests, where victims "cut guys to pieces" for the "amusement" of the drug lords,[71] was something that people a few years ago would not think possible, but that now is a "commonplace."[71]

The testimony of a cartel member tried in Laredo, Texas claimed that the fighting contests between the kidnapped victims were ordered by Miguel Treviño Morales, alias Z-40, a high-ranking Zeta lieutenant, and that they were used to make the killers "lose their fear."[72] In addition, he mentioned that 100 Zeta recruits were being trained in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, and 300 more in San Fernando, Tamaulipas on January 2012.[72]
Alleged survivor's story

El Informador newspaper published a story of an alleged survivor of the massacres in San Fernando; below is the translated story of incidents involving the kidnappings and the killings done by Los Zetas:

A transportation bus of the company Autobuses de Oriente made its obligatory stop at San Fernando, Tamaulipas before reaching its destination in Reynosa.[73] At the terminal, two people got off the bus, and a couple of others got on board, making a total of 15 passengers. The bus then left the terminal at around 8:30 p.m. on 25 March 2011 as quickly as possible, fearing that they may be victims of the cartels that operated in the city.[73]

While the bus was leaving San Fernando, the bus driver saw at a distance that there were several trucks blocking the highway up ahead, and that there were several men wearing ski-masks and holding AR-15s. The gunmen ordered the bus to stop, and the bus driver obeyed. The cartel members approached the bus pointing their guns and yelling, "Open the door, asshole! Move, you son of a bitch, unless you want me to shoot you dead."[73] The chauffeur, trembling, opened the door for the gunmen, who quickly stormed the bus as soon as the door was opened. "You are all fucked," yelled one of the gunmen to the people on board; the passengers were frightened, and some of them cried, thinking it was simply a regular armed robbery. But that was not the case this time. The cartel members then ordered the bus driver to drive the bus deep into a dirt road for about ten kilometers before reaching a plain area, "in the middle of nowhere." In the area there were about twenty luxurious trucks and three passenger buses, some of them with bullet holes, flat tires, and broken windows.[73] The driver was then ordered to stop the bus, and all the men were then told to descend from the vehicle. They were asked to form a line, and the cartel members began to organize them from youngest to oldest and from strongest to weakest. Those who looked old or weak were separated from the group, tied from their feet, and then taken elsewhere.[73] Those who were left were ordered to take off their shirts and remain where they were. A man wearing black military uniform, a bulletproof vest, and a kit belt was called from the trucks that were parked nearby. All of the triggermen referred to him as Commander 40, better known as Miguel Treviño Morales, one of the top leaders of Los Zetas. The man approached the passengers that were lined up in front of him, and said in an energetic voice: "Let's see, assholes. Who wants to live?" But no one answered. One teenager accidentally wet himself out of nervousness, and Commander 40 shot him dead with a headshot.[73] Treviño Morales then yelled: "I will ask all of you one more time. Who the fuck wants to live?" All of the men raised their hands. "Good. We will test your abilities to see how capable you are. If you make it, you'll survive; if you do not, you're fucked." Commander 40 then asked his henchmen to bring the bats and clubs, and each of the passengers was given one. He then said, "Look, each of you will get in pairs and beat the shit out of each other.[73] Those who survive will work for Los Zetas, those who don't, well, they're fucked." All of the passengers were shocked, and could not believe that the orders the individual in front of them gave sounded more like those of a Nazi than those of a drug lord. Everyone got their bats and clubs, joined up as a pair, and stared at their partners nervously. Treviño Morales then said: "Now beat the shit out of each other."[73]

One of the passengers of the bus approached Treviño Morales weeping and saying: "Please, sir. I do not want to do this. I will give you all the money I have and my own house, but please let us go."[74] Treviño Morales stared at him firmly, took away his club and then said, "Okay, stupid asshole. Leave," and while the crying man was walking away, Treviño Morales swung his bat and hit him in the back of the head--and then struck him more than 20 times until his head was completely destroyed.[74] He then turned around and said to the kidnapped victims: "This is what you have to do. Have some balls (courage). Anyone who does not want to can tell me and I will beat the hell out of you."[74] All of the men started fighting. Several other Zeta members, who were still on a bus with other passengers, ordered the women whom they considered the most beautiful to descend the vehicle so they could rape them.[74] Then they took away the children from their mothers, and shot the rest of the bus passengers. The women were taken to a warehouse where many other women were held captive. Inside a dark room, the women were reportedly raped and beaten, while the one heard the screams of the women and of the kids being put in acid.[74] A driver of one of the buses was then asked to turn on the bus engine, and then ordered to move the bus to where the kidnapped victims were handcuffed and laid down on the dirt floor. "Drive on top of them," one of the killers told the bus driver, who stood there motionless. "Drive on top of them or I will put you there too, asshole," the killer repeated.[74] The driver had no other option but to drive over the victims. As he rode over his own passengers with the bus, he felt like the vehicle was passing over speed bumps, but the only difference was that the bus driver and the passengers could actually hear the cries of the people as their being run over. The gunmen, once the driver was finished, gave him a headshot and them dosed several bullets to those on board. Then several Zeta gunmen set the bus on fire.[74] Treviño Morales then gathered all the Zetas and said, "We have had enough fun for tonight. Bring the winners."[74] His triggerman brought all of those who had passed the gladiator-like competitions, and were gathered in front of Treviño Morales.

Commander 40 then said to everyone, "Welcome to Los Zetas special forces, the 'other' military."[74]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_San_Fernando_massacre

En verder staat er voor elk opgepakt kopstuk al lang en breed een nieuwe klaar.

Perhaps you've seen it, maybe in a dream.
A murky, forgotten land.

vrijdag 10 mei 2013, 10:45 uur #3

Vout

Who cares...

Wie niet rookt, drinkt of autorijdt is een belastingontduiker.

vrijdag 10 mei 2013, 10:47 uur #4

gatochkrassen