Decapitated Man Found in Cuauhtémoc

Decapitated Man Found in Cuauhtémoc

This article appeared in El Diario De Juárez on August 11, 2008. This translation is rendered as closely as possible to the original wording. (See the orginal article here).

Cuauhtémoc – August 11, 2008 – The decapitated corpse of a yet unidentified person was found on the road leading to Ejido Táscate Águila yesterday during the early hours.

The Deputy Attorney Justice of the Western Zone reported that it was a male between 25 and 30 years of age, approximately 1.70 meters high with brown hair and a dark complexion.

The deceased was wearing a pink long-sleeve shirt, black dress pants, black boots, and a black belt with a cross-shaped buckle. He had a rosary around his neck and was wearing a silver bracelet.

The body was in a prone position with arms bent towards the chest, and was beheaded with his head above the body. On the corpse, there was a card with a message not revealed by the authorities.

According to information provided by the spokeswoman of the agency, Alexa Lara Meraz, the macabre discovery happened around 9:30 am on Sunday, when police officers from the Anahuac branch, gave notice of the facts.

The body of the victim was found on the road leading to the ejido Táscate Águila, about a mile away from Gómez Morín boulevard , where units from the Municipal Public Security arrived and cordoned off the area.

According to forensic pathologists from the Office of Justice in the Western Zone, the cause of death was cerebral laceration caused by the discharge of a firearm.

Ministerial police authorities are investigating the case that joins the long list of executions with similar characteristics happening on a daily basis which the PGJE records in the state.

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Policemen Excecuted in Shootout

Ministerial Police Agents Killed in Shootout

Both Were Stationed in Ojinaga

This article appeared in Ojinaga Hoy on August 8, 2008. This translation is rendered as closely as possible to the original wording. (See the orginal article here).

Aldama – August 8, 2008 – The two ministerial police agents who were filled full of holes in downtown Aldama, Chihuahua, were on detachment for two years in Ojinaga.

Just when the Secretary of the Interior, Juan Camilo Mouriño was arriving in Chihuahua City, two Ministerial Police officers were executed with bullets in this town, outside of the building's Public Ministery, beside the Municipal Presidency.

The policemen killed were known by the names Victor Alfonso Parada Moreno, aged 29 and Angel Enrique Olivas Stirk, 37, informed the Attorney General of Justice in the State.

Witnesses told police that the hitmen were traveling in a black recent model van, color black, apparently lika a Dodge Durango.

The events occurred around 2 p.m., a few meters from the building where the offices of the Ministerio Publico and Posts and Revenue Collection are, located on Juarez Street, between First and Third streets.

The agents were aboard a green Ford pick up owned by the state government.

After the attack, municipal police approached to try to assist the agents until they could be reached by a Red Cross ambulance, in which they placed one of the agents, but he did not live to arrive at the Regional Hospital in this city.

Dozens of police and federal ministerial arrived on the scene sealing the area where the body of the other agent was.

The bodies were transferred to the facilities of the Forensic Medical Service of Chihuahua, where they will be studied.

INFORMATION FROM COMMUNICATIONS LOG:

I. General Data

1. Crime: Murder

2. Victim: Victor Alfonso Parada Olivas and Angel Enrique Olivas Stirk

3. Place of the acts: Renato Nieto street and Av. Juarez, in front of Recaudación de Rentas in Aldama, Chihuahua

4. Place where found: Renato Nieto street and Av. Juarez, in front of Recaudación de Rentas in Aldama, Chihuahua

5. Date of events: August 5, 2008.

6. Date and time of the report to the Ministerial Police: August 5, 2008, at 14:20 hours.

7. Who generated the report to the Ministerial Police: Radio operations of the State Agency of Investigations.

8. Probable weapon used: firearm caliber 7.62 x 39

9. Unit in charge of research: Specialized Unit for Investigation of Crimes Against Life.

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Death Penalty Requested for Kidnappers

Felipe Calderón Asks for Death Penalty for Kidnappers

This article appeared in La Opción on August 7, 2008. This translation is rendered as closely as possible to the original wording. (See the orginal article here).

NOTE: The phrase ''cadena perpétua,'' used in the original article (literally, ''perpetual chain''), is sometimes translated as ''death penalty, and sometimes translated as ''life sentence.''

Los Pinos – August 7, 2008 – President Felipe Calderón announced a new initiative he will send to Congress to introduce capital punishment for kidnappers who are or have been policemen, who plagued people with disabilities and minors, for those maimed or killed their victims and for those who want to take minors out of the country for profit.

Referring to the kidnapping and murder of 14 year old Fernando Marti, a federal agent said that it was urgent that the authorities do their job to fight crime and curb impunity.

"This cowardly act reflects the urgency of putting an end to the impunity with which criminal gangs operate, is an significant act representing thousands of people in Mexico have suffered crimes which remain unpunished," he said.

The Executive recalled that in March last year an initiative was sent Congress to toughen punishment for kidnappers and announced that prompted lawmakers to resume his proposal to "analyze the proposal and my government to penalize with greater force, including the death penalty. "

"It is necessary to stop those for whom cruelty knows no bounds," said a message from his official residence in Los Pinos.

Accompanied by the Attorney General of the Republic, Eduardo Medina Mora, Calderón reiterated his call so that, regardless of political affiliations,agreements will be reached to strengthen the fight against crime.

"This requires us to agree and we join in the fight against crime and society and do the work that we have not done.

"The damage to society requires drastic measures, requires on the one hand that we dispense with the impunity of investigation of crimes and on the other hand that punishments be trully prohibitive," he said.

The head of the Federal Executive reiterated his request for state and municipal governments to modernize and purge their police agencies to improve coordination with federal authorities.

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Special Forces Preparing Against Narcotrafickers

Special Forces Being Prepared Against Narcos

Sedena Trains Special Forces against ''Los Zetas'' (The Zees), ''La Familia'' (The Family), ''Los Pelón'' (The Bald Ones), and ''Los Halcones'' (The Hawks).

This article appeared in El Ágora de Chihuahua on August 5, 2008. This translation is rendered as closely as possible to the original wording. (See the orginal article here).

México DF – August 7, 2008 – The Mexican army high command was ordered to strengthen operational capabilities and logistics of Special Forces Corps, through training courses in which the military is specialized; in parachuting and airmobile military intervention operations.

Training was redirected to specialize in Airtroop Brigade rifle paratrooper operations against the hired assassins known as Zeta (in Tamaulipas), La Familia (in Michoacan), Los Pelon (in Sinaloa) and The Hawks (in Chihuahua), who have been trained in part in joint operations in northern Iraq.

Military sources assured ''The Universal'' that the first phase of these courses was given between December 10th to the 13th, 2007, at the Center for Special Forces training, Temamatla, state of México, and continued until February this year in three steps (levels) at the Military Air Base Number 7 (at Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero) and the Military Air Base at Zapopán, Jalisco.

There the Special Forces Cells trained in leaping out at night, release of hostages, retaking buildings in urban areas and clashes against armed groups of more than 10 people.

The sources recalled that since April 2007, the Special Forces Rifle Paratrooper Brigade ceased to belong to the Corps, and Special Forces have come under operational and administrative control of the Brigade, whose commander is Brigadier General Pedro Escalera Cobián.

In late 2007, the high command received a detailed diagnosis on the operational capabilities of Special Forces in which they stated that they were not well trained to perform specific tasks, as they lacked the skills necessary to confront aeromobile insertion scenarios and, above all, required high level training to deal with a fire power of drug cartels that could be greater than that faced at other times.

The first phase was completed with difficulty, since the aeromobile insertion exercises were interrupted by flooding of homes in Tabasco and later in other parts of the country.

The Special Forces Brigade Integrated Rifle Paratroopers were sent to the operational headquarters in Chihuahua and Culiacan to confront heavily armed and hired assassins and to head operations against insertion of cells composed of hired assassins from former military (or defectors). According to data from the Army Second Section (Intelligence) and Seventh (operations against Drug Trafficking), they are highly mobile, moving in groups of no more than ten and have increased their capacity in handling weapons of high power.

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