Dr. Mireles, the bad guy
Proceso (5-14-2014)
By Jose Gil Olmos
Translated by un vato for Borderland Beat
[This is a good overview by Jose Gil Olmos. -- un vato]
Without a leadership presence or a political voice independent from the government’s, Estanislao Beltran turned out to be more comfortable than Mireles in the government’s plans to eliminate the autodefensas, which by that time had become an icon for other groups dissatisfied with the government’s inability and ineptitude in dealing with organized crime.
On February 24, upon his return to Tepalcatepec and after his convalescence from the airplane accident, Mireles retook the streets and, among his peers in the autodefensas, assumed not just the role of spokesman, but was also designated general coordinator of the citizen self defense groups. With this designation, he became the “pebble in the shoe” of the Pena Nieto PRI government.
For weeks, Castillo met with the autodefensas without including Mireles. “Papa Pitufo”, Alberto Gutierrez, “El Comandante Cinco”, Nicolas Sierra, leader of the “Los Viagras” gang, and others would attend the meetings, in which the commissioner obtained the agreement for the disarmament and demobilization of the autodefensas after May 10.
Early in April, Mireles objected not being included in the meetings, and, after a series of mobilizations in several Tierra Caliente municipalities and Purepecha towns, he was invited to the subsequent meetings, where he was the only dissident voice against the plans by the federal government to eliminate the autodefensas. In addition, he denounced the enrichment of some of his fellow members and their ties to organized crime groups.
For the Pena Nieto government, Mireles’ presence became increasingly bothersome, and before the day for the disarmament came about, a strategy was deployed to nullify and discredit him, taking advantage of the leader of the autodefensas’ own weaknesses.
“Papa Pitufo” and “El Comandante Cinco”, who frequently acted as Castillo’s messengers, were the peons used in the government’s strategy: they accused Mireles of mental deficiency, of profiting from the movement, of the deaths of five young men in a confrontation in Caleta de Campos; the only accusation lacking was that he was also a Templario.
They betrayed him despite the fact that they were companions in the same cause. The commissioner sealed the strategy by stating that Mireles would be investigated for the death of the young men, in addition to confirming that he was no longer the intermediary with the autodefensas.
Today, the Michoacan autodefensas movement has ceased to exist in the Tierra Caliente. There are still some operating in the Costa and Purepecha areas, along with patrols and community police (“policias comunitarias”). The government turned the movement into a media phenomenon and nullified it by converting it into a rural force under the command of the State Public Safety Secretariat (SSP), the same agency that was infiltrated by organized crime.
Maybe the federal government is betting that, with the nullification of Mireles’s leadership, it will be able to control the Michoacan autodefensas movement and achieve the pacification in the state.
However, it is not taking into consideration that there are already municipalities like Los Reyes, Periban, Tocumbo, Tinguindin and Cotija which have rejected submission (to the government) and instead have expressed their support for the doctor from Tepalcatepec.
They have also pointed out that there exists a plan to form a national autodefensas movement that intends to channel the social dissatisfaction expressed throughout the country with the government’s inability to smother organized crime.
The nullification of Mireles’s leadership and the institutionalization of the autodefensas has not put an end to the problem of organized crime in Michoacan, nor has the arrest of the Templario leaders and the imprisonment of certain government officials, such as interim governor Jesus Reyna.
Worse, groups that previously were present in the state, such as the Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas and the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, have returned, and the social structure that for so many years supported the Templarios remains intact. Maybe there has been a pause in the violence, but the problem has by no means been resolved.
Source: www.proceso.com.mx/?p=372255
Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2014/05/dr-mireles-bad-guy.html
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