Many justify their silence with the belief that victims were engaged in illegal activity themselves. to do drilling, to do cleanup, things like that anything that the government hired them to do, the accountant testified. Perhaps softened by her kindness, Cristian told them everything. Veracruz, once best known for its thriving port, lush beaches and colonial architecture, got a new name: The mass grave of Mexico.. He lashed out at critics. Woman Cries Out In Pain As Drug Cartels Slowly Dismember Her Alive Before Beheading Her On Video By Andrew Bieszad on July 5, 2020 in Featured, General While the world is filled with great concern about the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, economic collapse, and the future US election, there are a lot of suffering people in many places. Priest reported from Washington. Mrs. Rodrguez went to Aldama, his small hometown of about 13,000 people, and paid a visit to his grandmother. Mass graves containing tens of thousands have been subsequently discovered across the country. His mother thanked everyone for having risked their own safety to help find her son. Anabel Garza Rivera and Luciano Leal Vela kneeling before the coffin of their murdered son. Then president Donald Trump had even tweeted about it, offering to send in "an army" to defeat the cartels. Only after his sister opened his Facebook account did they realize what had happened. Mrs. Rodrguezs son, Luis, looking through his mothers belongings, holding a photo of Sama, right, among other evidence she kept in her black satchel with details of her daughter Karens kidnappers and killers. Farmers and politicians. As the funeral crowd dispersed, Luis and Azalea went to their mothers grave, a church-like structure lined with cypress trees. Disappearances undermine the very nature of grief, stripping families of even the most basic closure. Frightened colleagues sometimes tried to warn her off investigations. Mr. Moses criminal history includes charges of aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft and gun violations, Sheriff Mina said. A colleague of Martnez said that she had calculated that the number of dead had increased tenfold in Veracruz between 2000 and 2012, a toll not reflected in official records. After a week, he stopped answering the phone. By the next morning, the kidnappers stopped answering their phones and the family knew Luciano was not coming home. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the third son of El Chapo was born on March 29, 1990 and is 31 years old. Editors and colleagues said they were unaware that Martnez had any relationship with Anonymous. The murderer who went by that name was Melissa Margarita Caldern Ojeda, one of the most legendary female gang leaders in Mexico with an estimated murder toll of 150 murders over 10 years. Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime activist who founded neighborhood patrols against cartels, was killed in 2009. One of these five, who asked to remain anonymous for personal safety reasons, nicknamed this group the band of undesirables. Martnez and the other four journalists often coordinated to publish sensitive news simultaneously to cover up which one had done the work and to ensure that no one journalist was stranded at sea.. On Jan. 23, as Karen prepared to merge into traffic, two trucks pulled up on either side, stopping her. It was 2014, an especially grim time in San Fernando. Since that day, theories have proliferated as to who fired. With a heavy sigh, the elderly woman told her that the boy had always been trouble, but at least now he was going to church. In September 2011, two truckloads of bloody, half-naked corpses were dumped at a busy intersection in front of a shopping mall in the touristy beach city of Boca del Ro, just blocks from where state prosecutors were holding a meeting. She had been hunting him for a year, stalking him online, interrogating the criminals he worked with, even befriending unwitting relatives for tips on his whereabouts. She went to the authorities local, state and federal but none would help her. 25. At barely 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, she scratched and struggled to fight off her attacker, leaving skin under her fingernails. Weeks earlier, volunteers had passed the very spot and missed it. She carted her files everywhere, like a door-to-door salesperson for whom a no was never final. On Mothers Day, 2017, weeks after she had chased down one of her last targets, she was shot in front of her home and killed. They called on friends and citizens to march with them, to demand the return of little Luciano. Duarte was obsessed, she wrote in Proceso, with censoring the truth. The police said they sent periodic patrols by her home and work. and he used them to keep order in some regions of the state., In 2012, after Martnezs death, Herreras name also surfaced in sworn testimony at the U.S. money-laundering trial of Veracruz oilman Francisco Colorado-Cessa in U.S. District Court in Austin. But Karen stayed, to finish school and help run her moms small cowboy apparel shop, Rodeo Boots. The catalog is part of a body of work by photographer Flix Mrquez exploring their lives through the belongings they left behind. But with each passing day, the trails grew more faint. Naturally, Mrs. Rodrguez began attending service. (Miguel Tovar/LatinContent/Getty Images) RIGHT: Martnezs gravesite in Xalapa, Mexico. 237 points 27 comments. During the trial, FBI Agent Scott Lawson testified that Colorado-Cessa was established as an intermediary between Zetas leader Efran Teodoro Torres and the government of Veracruz to allow the circulation of drugs freely in the state of Veracruz and, at the same time, to help Fidel Herrera finance his campaign as governor.. They knew they were among the fortunate few who at least had somewhere to mourn them. For four more years, he is known to have killed 30 people total, acting as a hitman for the Zeta cartel. She cut her hair, dyed it and disguised herself as a pollster, a health worker and an election official to get their names and addresses. Hours before the body was found, the police discovered the cousin who had helped orchestrate little Lucianos abduction, in a hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg. The team of reporters discovered that law enforcement authorities in Mexico, the United States and Spain had opened inquiries into allegations that Herrera colluded with leaders of the Zeta cartel while he was governor and took money from them for his campaign, as well as allegations that he was involved in money laundering while later serving in a diplomatic post in Barcelona. She said state police badly damaged the fingerprints they found at the crime scene with smears and excess dusting powder. As Mrs. Rodrguez sat outside the interrogation room, the teenager asked whether he could see his mother. Having confessed to the murders of at least five men, she revealed she enjoyed both drinking the warm blood of her victims and having sex with the dead bodies following the homicide. "They killed the wrong woman, my . That case has stalled. Instead of answers, the family received threats, anonymous calls and messages warning them to stop the search. In 2015, Pea Nieto gave Herrera a consul position in Barcelona even though he had no diplomatic experience. [The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels], The violence became news all over the world. Now, after driving by the restaurant again, it dawned on her: Maybe the young woman knew something. Argumedo, who has never before spoken publicly about her investigation, said he remembers that the graves were so full that the bodies were overflowing., One co-worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for personal safety reasons, remembers telling her: Regina, be very careful. He escaped the country in a helicopter and was later arrested in Guatemala. Just outside city limits, a cluster of highways untangles, each leading to strategic border crossings with the United States. Then she donned a government uniform she had kept from an old, low-level job at the Health Ministry. Man being castrated alive by pit bull dogs bite. People took heart at her fight, and found indignation in her death. The killing came just a day after Lpez Esquivel, 21, a female member of the Jalisco cartel, died during a showdown with Mexican cops in La Bocanda. She wrote everything down and stuffed it into her black computer bag, building her investigation and tracking them down, one by one. When they arrested him in the central plaza, Sama kicked and screamed, claiming he had a heart condition. She is the Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland. Journalist Maria del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, who was killed by members of a drug cartel for threatening to expose them. The warning. Martnez was considered by her peers to be the leader of a group of five journalists whose reputations were above reproach. I have not done it, and I have never led a criminal network.. His son, Javier, said via Twitter that his father was ill and unable to comment: My father has been in a hospital since April; this is a fact that you can easily corroborate; he suffered a stroke in April and has been in intensive care ever since. Linares served as director at the Monitor Michoacan website, which on Tuesday continued to show an . A suspect, whom the authorities identified as Keith Melvin Moses, 19, was in custody by Wednesday evening and was charged with one count of murder in connection with the killing of the 38-year-old, whom the police previously described as being in her 20s. You have all taught my family that together we can fight back, she said. Under Duarte, the Zetas lost their monopoly on power in the state, and other cartels moved in, according to interviews and press accounts at the time. Luis said he had to sneak onto the street to give her a jump. The demonic cartels left a message on the body: "This is for ALL [] As a private lawyer, he was also representing the LeBaron family, a family with dual US-Mexico citizenship that lost nine. She would hunt them down, one by one, until the day she died. When professors at the University of Veracruz would not stop publicly criticizing him, he denied the university millions in state funds and created a new university where he handed out credentials to students loyal to him, according to press accounts at the time. In 2015, Virginia reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed during their live TV broadcast for CBS affiliate WDBJ7. Her death gave shape to the impunity that twists everyday life in Mexico, and the government scrambled to react. Rebecca Kiessling lost her two sons, 20-year-old Caleb and 18-year-old Kyler, to fentanyl poisoning on July 29, 2020, after the boys ingested a "fake Percocet" in a hotel room. Mexican and U.S. authorities declined to say whether their investigations are still active. They did that, but I didnt see who, since I was blindfolded. The restaurant where Mrs. Rodrguez met with a cartel member in San Fernando. Hope is a toxin that poisons many families of the missing. Karen was buried there, too, beside her mother. Under Duarte, now 47, corruption and violence increased dramatically. In articles for the national investigative weekly Proceso, Martnez, who was killed at age 48, told her readers that two successive governors in her home state of Veracruz looted the treasury and allowed cartels to operate freely with the help of local and state police. The now-abandoned market where Mrs.Rodrguez had a cowboy apparel shop. We dont care about the rain, or anything else, Lucianos mother told local television reporters as her group sheltered under downtown awnings. When I heard him just now it was like my own child.. His mother, Anabel Garza, charismatic and fearless, became a spokeswoman for the staggering number of missing people in Mexico more than 70,000 nationwide and the unrelenting tide of loss in a country where homicides have nearly doubled in the last five years alone. Laura Borbolla, a senior prosecutor in the Mexican Attorney Generals Office who investigated Martnezs homicide in 2012, said in interviews that state police and prosecutors made serious mistakes in their handling of the case. Abigail Geiger contributed reporting from Orlando, Fla. New Details Emerge in Killing of Reporter, Woman and 9-Year-Old, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/florida-shooting-news.html. Her son, Luis, took over the group she had started, a collective of the many local families whose loved ones had disappeared. In June 2011, the deputy editor of the largest newspaper in the state, Notiver, was shot dead in his home along with his wife and son. She became a social media sleuth, spending countless hours trawling Karens Facebook profile, looking for clues. The series examines the power and activities of Mexican cartels and their collusion with corrupt government officials. They organized search parties. The inquiries attempted to determine whether Herrera could be related to money-laundering networks and have criminal relationships with important drug traffickers in Catalonia, said Toni Rodrguez, chief of the criminal investigation division of the Catalonian police force. Within a few months, it arrested two of the culprits, and killed another in a gunfight. She had eaten there with Azalea only two days after Karens kidnapping. The reports led to a government investigation that eventually stalled. He sprinted along the narrow pedestrian pass, hoping to get away. Cartel violence has long scarred San Fernando, Mexico. T'yonna was killed Wednesday when a gunman barged into her home outside Orlando and shot the third-grader and her mother, who survived the attack. [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] The girlfriends, [74] wives, and daughters of male journalists and media workers have been murdered. After the shooting, the deputies found Mr. Moses, who was uncooperative, the sheriff said. He had one last customer, a young, slender man browsing hats. Luis, Karens older brother, had moved away to escape the danger. The corpses of 72 Central American migrants were discovered at this ranch. Journalist and activist Gildo Garza, right, reads the names of murdered journalists at a demonstration outside the federal attorney general's office in Mexico City. Are they waiting for them to kill us too?. Bullet holes pockmarked the outer walls of the adobe house, remnants of a gunfight months earlier. Cinemas, nightclubs and shops were almost empty, a consequence of the violence, she wrote. If you move, Ill shoot you, she told him, according to family members involved in her scramble to capture the florist that day. Recently, she has investigated Russian disinformation operations, censorship around the world, the massive national security state, CIA operations and veterans issues. Police denied his claims, but Borbolla said she believes Silva. Families have suffered kidnappings and cartel-imposed curfews much as big city residents endure traffic and pollution. The story of Martnezs death and her work is the first of a five-part series, The Cartel Project, which involved 60 journalists from 25 media outlets. They needed a bit more money, they said, just $500. They snatched innocents for ransom to finance their war, or for conscripts to fight it. The justice system in Veracruz is rubbish, Borbolla said in her most extensive comments about the case to date. Frustrated, Mrs. Rodrguez redoubled her efforts to identify the rest of the crew, and before long had a stack of photos of Sama posing with others. With an official-looking ID in hand, she spent the better part of a day conducting a fake poll of the neighborhood until she got basic details on one of her daughters captors. At around 4 p.m., Mr. Moses returned to the site and shot two Spectrum News 13 journalists who were in a vehicle near the homicide scene, Sheriff Mina said. Lakhani, of the Guardian, is based in New York. He was frightened during questioning. Zetas kill and behead 4 women. Hardly a block has been untouched missing sons, loved ones murdered, houses abandoned. When he finally did, some was too damaged to analyze. (Marco Ugarte/AP) RIGHT: Posters of Espinosa and four slain women hang outside Veracruz state government offices in 2015, above posters of then-Gov. Her body had been quickly discovered when a neighbor alerted police to her open front door. She wrote of his increasing wealth at a time when the state debt soared without a clear explanation. The day came on July 8, 2020, with an agreement to meet briefly in a park. A white Nissan truck carrying men who had escaped prison quietly pulled up behind her, according to the police report. (Alberto Morales Garcia/Forbidden Stories) RIGHT: Martnez with Patricio Chirinos Calero, former governor of Veracruz. And the searches for Luciano had turned up nothing. She had said as much in her time, words now carved onto a plaque affixed to her mausoleum. A missing persons poster for Luciano Leal Garza on the window of a taqueria in San Fernando. Los Zetas could not operate in Veracruz without his permission Living in San Fernando means accepting certain realities. Law enforcement officers at the scene of a shooting in Pine Hills, Fla., on Wednesday. It was a witchs brew, said Seeley, who now runs Constos Global Risk Management. The 19-year-old suspect is in custody, police said. She was murdered by Los Pepes for being "Pablo's whore" in 1993. Luis obsessed over who they were. At 17, he was convicted for two murders and sentenced to 70 years in a Texas states prison . There was never a single illicit penny in my campaign, he told the outlet Grupo Frmula in 2014. I am a man with clean hands.. Our hearts go out to the family of the journalist killed today and the crew member injured in Orange County, Florida, as well as the whole Spectrum News team, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, said on Twitter. Martnez is one of 119 journalists and media staffers killed throughout Mexico since 2000, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. For Luis and Azalea, it was hard not to hear the parallels with their own mother, buried not 100 feet away. The child. He had his child back, in some way. Authorities responded around 9:58 p.m. Saturday to the intersection of routes 130 and 32 . She also pointed to evidence that the man convicted in Martnezs killing was tortured by Veracruz police and falsely confessed to the crime. The presence of multiple, competing cartels provoked turf battles and an increase in killings. The family doubted it would bring Karen home, but they sent the money anyway. A mother of two sons killed by fentanyl gave emotional testimony Tuesday at the House Homeland Security hearing on the border crisis. Ever since 2014, she had been tracking the people responsible for the kidnapping and murder of her 20-year-old daughter, Karen. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Murietta was a high-profile figure, known for his outspoken views on crime. When questioned about those holdings, the governor said they belonged to his wealthy wife. He called his mother and followed him, careful not to lose him before the police arrived. But by then, the cousins were nowhere to be found. The nine American women and children killed in northern Mexico were victims of a territorial dispute between an arm of the Sinaloa Cartel and a rival gang, officials said on Wednesday, and may . They traversed the vast expanses of San Fernandos arid edges, but no matter how far they searched, they could never cover it all. But the fight was very different this time. (Forbidden Stories). She needed a name. (Flix Mrquez/AP). She says one scene of . Over the years, kidnappers had already ransomed several members of Lucianos family, including his father, held for 33 days in 2012. In September, when the state police detained a cartel leader in San Fernando, he refused to cooperate. Led. Herrera was paid millions of dollars through liaisons to the cartels to let them operate with impunity., Rebolledo, the Veracruz security consultant, said: He was the boss of bosses. At least, until the following year, when rampant abductions of bus passengers led to the unearthing of nearly 200 bodies dumped in mass graves along San Fernandos peripheries. But the kidnappers knew exactly how to strike. She called herself The Devil and . She had known Ms. Betancourt ever since she was a child, abandoned by a prostitute at the local brothel. A former Zetas cartel accountant, Jos Carlos Hinojosa, testified that Torres gave Colorado-Cessa $12million for the governors campaign in 2003. Shop clerks brought them water in the 100-degree heat. In the years after Martnezs death, the mothers of the disappeared across Mexico formed collectives to demand that authorities find the bodies of their missing loved ones. Sometimes, they organized death matches between captives for sport. XALAPA, Mexico Regina Martnez's death was brutal. The four other parts can be found at forbiddenstories.org. Most officials held a grudging respect for Mrs. Rodrguez, despite complaining about her foul language and pugnacious manner. Rarely did she talk to her co-workers about her sensitive investigations. Without showering, she threw a trench coat over her pajamas, a baseball cap over her fire engine-red hair and a gun in her purse, heading for the border to find the florist. It was not an accident, she said. Executions, not just of petty dealers but of prominent business executives, livestock farmers and peasant leaders. Cartel violence has long scarred San Fernando, Mexico. She was never able to find the mysterious witness. The problem is, American Dirt is none of those . I would love to meet you one day.. De Dinechin, of Forbidden Stories, and Espinosa, of Proceso, reported from Mexico. A lot of Narcos: Mexico is based on truth and is a retelling of historical events, but not everything is actually what happened. She eventually left in protest over censorship and working conditions. Pablo Escobar died in a rooftop shootout in Medellin on Dec. 2, 1993. He said they found a Glock 40 handgun that was still hot to the touch in the suspects pants. The suspect killed a woman near Orlando on Wednesday morning, then returned later in the day and killed a 9-year-old girl and a journalist who was covering the original shooting, the authorities said. Mrs. Rodrguezs son, Luis, 36, could not help but see the parallels, and wept when he heard the news. She scoffed. Mrs. Rodrguez raced home and dove back into her research, discovering that Ms. Betancourt was involved romantically with one of Karens kidnappers, who was in prison for an unrelated crime. After tracing the fake Facebook account, the police discovered what Mrs. Garza had long suspected that several of her cousins were involved in organized crime and had teamed up with local cartel members to extort the family. The family followed every instruction to the letter. The city placed a bronze plaque honoring her in the central plaza. The Orange County sheriff said the same assailant killed two other people in the Pine Hills area a TV journalist shot in a vehicle outside and a 38-year-old woman slain hours earlier in the . The lifeless body of the young woman had signs of torture and was found with gunshot wounds Sunday morning. When she pulled her files onto the table, I had never seen anything like it, said the officer, who remains an active duty commander and asked not to be quoted by name because he had not been authorized to speak publicly. 1. Im willing to take you to the ranch where they killed them and where their bodies should still be buried, he said in his statement to the police, referring to the victims of the kidnapping ring. Mrs. Rodrguez stalked the store for weeks until she knew the womans hours by heart, and waited outside each shift until Sama showed. The Zetas called Herrera Zeta Number One because he was the one who ran the state, former FBI special agent Arturo Fontes, who spent 28 years on Mexican and Colombian drug and money-laundering cases, said in an interview. Her family was not satisfied, but she didnt let that stop her. In custody, he filled in details missing from Mrs. Rodrguezs investigation, coughing up the names and locations of some accomplices. They are surrounded by 13 masked men, apparently Los Zetas hitmen, who point their rifles at them. The city lies along a principal route north through the state of Tamaulipas. The government said nothing about how it had found the grave site. For a city of about 60,000, San Fernando bears an infamy out of proportion to its size, a misfortune born of geography. His father, also Luciano, owned a thriving construction materials store. Men claiming to speak for Mexico's most powerful drug cartel have released a video threatening to murder a prominent female news anchor over what they deem to be unfair coverage. True to form, Mrs. Rodrguez spent days parked near the familys home, waiting for the young woman to emerge. Two weeks later, the tortured and decapitated body of Notivers police reporter was discovered. They would deliver little Luciano to the family home that very night. When Herreras term ended in 2010, he expressed a desire to run for president. U.S. Attorney Nick Brown's office announced Tuesday that 37-year-old Jose Barbosa of Kent was sentenced to 148 months in prisonjust over 12 yearsplus five years of supervised release once . Many of her peers believe he or Herrera was behind her homicide. Even before her death, Herrera was facing mounting allegations. She invented excuses to meet their families, unsuspecting grandmothers and cousins who gave her details, however small. Even young women who attended their sex parties. Others interviewed current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials in the United States, Mexico and Spain, former senior U.S. diplomats and a dozen experts on cartels, Veracruz and Mexican politics. Duarte is serving a nine-year sentence for embezzlement and money laundering. Herrera did not respond to emails to his office. She recognized him immediately from their lunch, the same slender frame and clean-shaven face. We felt that, on one hand, I was being told, Yes, of course, prosecutor, whatever you need. And I would turn around, and he would be talking to them and telling them not to give us anything.. The abandoned gas station on the edge of town where Lucianos father left the second ransom. After that, the woman fled to Veracruz, where she drove a taxi while raising her young son. 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