With an execution and narco message, Old School Los Zetas united with CdG declare war on CJNG in Veracruz

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

Subject Matter: Los Zetas Old School, Cartel del Golfo, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion
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Reporter: Noe Zavaleta
The violence occasioned by cells of organized criminals worsened in these last hours in the south of the state, with three executions in less than 24 hours, members of Old School Los Zetas in alliance with the Cartel del Golfo declared war on the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion.

Today in the town of Agua Dulce, 456 kilometres from the state capital, a youngster of 30 years of age was shot dead at a landfill site, his body had bullet impacts in the head and one more in the left hand, as well as visible signs of being beaten.

At his side, an narco message on red card with black letters, on which members of the Los Zetas Old School and Cartel del Golfo assured that they were united for battle against the traitors and those who flipped to and anyone who claims to be a member of the Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion.

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The message goes on ” so for those hiding in Villa, Xalapa, Poza Rica and Tijuana, we will find you, you ball of traitors”, recorded the message.

A couple of hours earlier, in the El Tesorero Colonia, Antonio Rodriguez, in charge of legal matters of the municipal DIF, was found tied up and slain. The official from the city council had been kidnapped some days before from a bar in the town.

A few days earlier, it was confirmed that Patricia Herrera Martinez, a student of business management at the Veracruz University, 24 years of age, had been beheaded and her head had been left near the Cosoleacaque-Jaltipan road, the rest of her body has not been located.

With her head, appeared a narco message that threatened members of a criminal cell and police forces that collaborate with them. The Attorney General of the state has kept the case files secret.

The youngster Herrera Martinez left her house in Minatitlan on Friday night, together with four friends and headed to the La Tecolota bar around 9pm.

Then some subject desceneded from a white Versa car with tinted windows, and immediately, said her friends, said “this is the niece of El H.”

Looking stupified, Patricia Herrera did not know what to say and was taken by the alleged kidnappers. Relatives contacted the media, that via telephone the CJNG had demanded one million pesos to return their daughter safe and sound.

The narco message left with her head said ” citizens, we are already here and like the head of the pig and this dog, we are going to stay for the other dogs mentioned, Civil Force and the Police are going to suck, we are not playing Pablo Herrera, this happens to those who flip, your children and all the dogs that hinder us”.

In Veracruz, according to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security, in Decemeber 2016 to June 2017, there were 1444 homicides, which Governor Miguel Angel Yunes himself acknowledged that 70% are felony homicides that are executions due to settling of accounts among organized criminals.

Just last Wednesday, the Secretary of Public Security, Jaime Tellez Marie, appeared with local deputies, and acknowledged violent crime rates, blaming the previous governments of Javier Duarte and Fidel Herrera for having been permissive with the entrance of criminal groups of drug trafficking.

Tellez also admitted that the SSP had no resources to operate as it wished, in return he said ” we work from the heart”.

The appearance became heated when the deputies, Ernesto Cuevas and Fernando Kuri demanded his resignation for the bad results, to which, Tellez Marie responded that Vuevas takes it personal because he has been caught drunk driving and that in the case of Kuri, had denied that he had let some trucks with stolen material pass by, and whose cars belonged to the family business of the legislator in the Cordoba-Orizaba region.

Tellez also acknowledged that it was not possible to advance the purge of the police as intended, for the same issue of economic insolvency.

Original article in Spanish at Proceso