Authorities responded around 9:58 p.m. Saturday to the intersection of routes 130 and 32 . Police denied his claims, but Borbolla said she believes Silva. If you move, Ill shoot you, she told him, according to family members involved in her scramble to capture the florist that day. She needed a name. I died the day they killed my daughter. Ever since 2014, she had been tracking the people responsible for the kidnapping and murder of her 20-year-old daughter, Karen. And so the family, like Mrs. Rodrguez, broke the rules that governed how victims usually respond in such cases. They did that, but I didnt see who, since I was blindfolded. Her family was not satisfied, but she didnt let that stop her. Duartes public security secretary, Arturo Bermdez, was charged with heading a death squad that disappeared at least 15 people. He sprinted along the narrow pedestrian pass, hoping to get away. Recently, she has investigated Russian disinformation operations, censorship around the world, the massive national security state, CIA operations and veterans issues. Millan-Vasquez was found guilty last July of murder, violence, drug and weapons trafficking, and employing minors in a drug crime - a total of 10 counts. But the kidnapping of an innocent 14-year-old boy broke the quiet understanding that the cartels had with the people of San Fernando. Maria Guadalupe Lopez Esquivel, also known by her alias "La Catrina," was shot in the neck Friday as Mexico's army, National Guard and Michoacn state police raided the safe house where she stayed. One, Cristian Jose Zapata Gonzalez, was barely 18 when the police grabbed him, young even by cartel standards. With every payment, a new hope sparkled for Mrs. Rodrguez. Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times. He also said hed had good luck since childhood, which is how he explained twice winning the national lottery, pocketing $6.8million in 2008 and $3.6million the following year. Since that day, theories have proliferated as to who fired. She used to give her Karens old clothes. The local government could connect to peoples phones and know at any moment what they were up to, one of the officials said in an interview, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of safety concerns. Townspeople marched, demanding justice for Luciano. 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. For four more years, he is known to have killed 30 people total, acting as a hitman for the Zeta cartel. She was murdered by Los Pepes for being "Pablo's whore" in 1993. I would love to meet you one day.. 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 . Condemned to a life buoyed by even the tiniest bit of hope, the pain cycles on a loop, its own unique form of torture. They were both in critical condition on Wednesday night. The murder took place on Sunday night when a gunman shot and killed Lourdes Maldonado inside her vehicle, the Baja California Attorney General's Office revealed. At barely 5 feet tall and 100 pounds, she scratched and struggled to fight off her attacker, leaving skin under her fingernails. Luciano was kidnapped in one of the familys own trucks, just like Mrs. Rodrguezs daughter had been. The family doubted it would bring Karen home, but they sent the money anyway. He pleaded guilty to some charges and admitted to working with criminal elements. He was sentenced to nine years in prison but has appealed, and media reports say he could be released early. Luis took charge of the collective of San Fernando families with disappeared relatives that his slain mother had created. He slowly shrank, physically and spiritually, until his children struggled to recognize him. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced he is now permanently deploying National Guard troops to Cancun in a bid to curb the rise in crime. The report described two alleged meetings that Herrera had with Zeta cartel leaders when he was governor in 2008, one at the Maviel Hotel in the port city of Coatzacoalcos and the other during a party Herrera threw at one of his homes in Veracruzs capital city, Xalapa, in honor of a cartel founder and the cartels leader in the state. They either purge it and try to move on from their loved ones, or they sustain it, and it destroys them. Luis, Karens older brother, had moved away to escape the danger. By the time the government issued an arrest warrant, Sama had already skipped town. Additional charges were expected for the other shootings in Pine Hills, about five miles west of Orlando, said the Orange County sheriff, John Mina, who said at a news conference on Thursday that he was 100 percent confident the gunman would be charged with homicide for the murders of Mr. Lyons and Ms. Major. Her public campaign threatened more than just a few kidnappers. Are they waiting for them to kill us too?. Priest reported from Washington. Family, friends, even strangers. She scoffed. A white Nissan truck carrying men who had escaped prison quietly pulled up behind her, according to the police report. She said state police badly damaged the fingerprints they found at the crime scene with smears and excess dusting powder. The place where the body of 14-year-old Luciano Leal Garza was found. Sheriff Mina emphasized that officials did not yet know the suspects motive for shooting five people or the nature of his connections to them. The cartel has unlimited resources to have all weapons, ammunition, armored vehicles, military gear . I want to say that they hit me on the back and I feel pain, Silva said in a statement provided by his attorney, Diana Coq Toscanini. Most officials held a grudging respect for Mrs. Rodrguez, despite complaining about her foul language and pugnacious manner. Prosecutors said the woman who waved her arms, Christina Langford Johnson, was. Last year, one female killer known as "La Peque" was captured by the authorities for her work for the Sinaloa Cartel in north-western Mexico. It is much more attractive to present Chapo Guzmn as the great mastermind of organized crime that controls the country than to assume responsibility for the insecurity or to investigate those who have allowed the growth of organized crime, Jorge Rebolledo Flores, a government and business security consultant with a decade of experience in Veracruz, said in an interview, referring to the infamous Sinaloa crime boss Joaqun El Chapo Guzmn. People took heart at her fight, and found indignation in her death. About five hours later, several 911 calls came in from the site of the first shooting. She also documented a 40percent surge in violence under Herrera a family wiped out with submachine guns; a mayor shot at the airport; even the governors bodyguard, dead. Proceso documented that he owned a private jet and 22 cars, including an armored vehicle, as well as ranches, a hotel and a yacht. Lpez Ramrez had made a career from defending some of Mexico's most infamous cartel leaders, representing clients such as the leader of Los Zetas . He insisted that the cartel did not have her daughter, but offered to help find her for a fee of $2,000, and Mrs. Rodrguez paid. Never in my career had I seen such an altered crime scene. [The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels], The violence became news all over the world. And I wouldnt kill anyone because Im already dying bit by bit since I have HIV., Coq described Silva as the perfect scapegoat.. Lakhani, of the Guardian, is based in New York. La Voz is one such example of this, as the newspaper is not real . They slept in tents pitched in the city center and wore ponchos to weather the seasonal storms. And they already did that to us.. LEFT: The family of slain Proceso photojournalist Rubn Espinosa during his funeral in Mexico City in 2015. As Mrs. Rodrguez sat outside the interrogation room, the teenager asked whether he could see his mother. Enrique Pea Nieto, who once described Herrera as his best friend, ran and won the presidency instead. She had already confirmed his involvement in Karens kidnapping, thanks to the mechanic abducted along with her daughter that night. Blog dedicated to reporting on Mexican drug cartels on the border line between the US and Mexico. Sheriff Mina said his office would be conducting additional ballistic testing on the recovered gun. In the time since Martnezs death, her instincts have been validated. He was shot three times: in the leg, torso and fatally in his ear. The brutality is now spilling into popular tourist areas, particularly in the Quintana Roo state. Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues. . 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 . Families have suffered kidnappings and cartel-imposed curfews much as big city residents endure traffic and pollution. Longer video, but gore starts about halfway in. It has been a relentless attack against journalists, said Roberta S. Jacobson, U.S. ambassador to Mexico from 2016 to 2018. They were forced out of the field of play. Three people, including a reporter and a 9-year-old girl, were shot and killed, and two others were shot and injured in a series of shootings in . Cartel violence has long scarred San Fernando, Mexico. The family followed every instruction to the letter. Luis obsessed over who they were. They knew they were among the fortunate few who at least had somewhere to mourn them. Mr. Moses had walked into a brown house nearby and shot the 9-year-old girl and her mother, he said. A man riding in a car with his cousin shot and killed another passenger then returned to the same neighborhood near Orlando hours later and shot four more people, killing a journalist covering. Herrera has not been charged with a crime, and he denied all the allegations against him. 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. She eventually left in protest over censorship and working conditions. No one slept. She went to the authorities local, state and federal but none would help her. Mrs. Rodrguez just needed Sama to slip up. She parked on the street and lumbered out of the car, moving slowly because of her injury. Living in San Fernando means accepting certain realities. (Marco Ugarte/AP) RIGHT: Posters of Espinosa and four slain women hang outside Veracruz state government offices in 2015, above posters of then-Gov. It had just been fired, and there were no more rounds left in the weapon, Sheriff Mina said, adding that it was possible the suspect would have continued his rampage had the gun still been loaded. He has since been charged with kidnapping and murder. A mariachi band played as mourners paid their respects at the burial. She's a journalist in the Mexican state of Veracruz, and the things she has endured for her work are comparable to the brutalities suffered by prisoners of war, including imprisonment, torture, and sexual assault. He called his mother and followed him, careful not to lose him before the police arrived. So many families never found their loved ones. Instead of answers, the family received threats, anonymous calls and messages warning them to stop the search. One official claimed that investigators had managed to triangulate the location based on cellphone tower pings. She joined Proceso in 2000. After that, the woman fled to Veracruz, where she drove a taxi while raising her young son. They drove her to the family home, where Karen lived during the week while Mrs. Rodrguez, who also worked as a nanny in Texas, was away. Sometimes, they organized death matches between captives for sport. The killers covered the site with trash to throw off anyone searching. They spent weeks baiting Luciano with a false Facebook account of a young girl. vila is the stuff legends are made of - one of the few women with access to the highest levels of cartel life. Hardly a block has been untouched missing sons, loved ones murdered, houses abandoned. It was very clear that the elements of torture had been carried out by the state government, by local authorities, she said. Frightened colleagues sometimes tried to warn her off investigations. Crime scene where El Diario Newspaper Crime Reporter Armando Rodriquez was murdered outside his home while warming up his car. Hope is a toxin that poisons many families of the missing. The four other parts can be found at forbiddenstories.org. A former Zetas cartel accountant, Jos Carlos Hinojosa, testified that Torres gave Colorado-Cessa $12million for the governors campaign in 2003. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the third son of El Chapo was born on March 29, 1990 and is 31 years old. At least 27 journalists have been killed in the state of Veracruz since 2003. Touched, Mrs. Rodrguez entered the room and gave the teenager her lunch, a piece of fried chicken, then went to buy him a Coke. Martnezs home was mostly undisturbed, and items of value remained little gold earrings on the dresser, her purse, her phones, a printer, kitchen appliances. We may never know who killed Regina, but I know who didnt kill Regina., Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said at a news conference in November that he would ask that the homicide case be reexamined. That case has stalled. Luis said he had to sneak onto the street to give her a jump. All were murdered during Mexico's ongoing cocaine wars. The problem is, American Dirt is none of those . Police said a witness had told them he had seen two men near Martnezs house hours before she was killed. The parent company of Spectrum News 13, Charter Communications, said in a statement on Wednesday night that we are deeply saddened by the loss of our colleague and the other lives senselessly taken today, the TV station reported. Martnez was considered by her peers to be the leader of a group of five journalists whose reputations were above reproach. She was not allowed to interview Silva without the presence of state police and prosecutors. 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. Her husband, inside watching television, found her face down on the street, hand tucked inside her purse, next to her pistol. 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. Law enforcement officers at the scene of a shooting in Pine Hills, Fla., on Wednesday. During the trial, witnesses said he had. When they arrested him in the central plaza, Sama kicked and screamed, claiming he had a heart condition. Then she donned a government uniform she had kept from an old, low-level job at the Health Ministry. 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. Valeria Velez worked as a news anchor during the early 1980s, and in 1981 she interviewed the famous cartel boss Pablo Escobar, forming a romantic relationship with him. Standing beside him in the photo was a young woman, wearing the uniform of an ice cream shop two hours away in Ciudad Victoria. The Zetas, once an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, had been warring with their one-time bosses for years. The restaurant where Mrs. Rodrguez met with a cartel member in San Fernando. Six months after the investigation was launched, Borbolla, along with the Mexican public, learned via a television news conference that the state prosecutor had successfully cleared up the murder of Regina Martnez.. Perhaps she had even been watching the ranch in case the police came. Duarte was taking money from everyone, said Kirk Seeley, a former DEA special agent and supervisor with 16 years of experience, much of it investigating drug crimes in Mexico. Some of her colleagues fled Veracruz the day she died and have never returned. Eight others have disappeared. Pablo Escobar died in a rooftop shootout in Medellin on Dec. 2, 1993. In 2011, the group announced it would begin releasing the names of cartel members and their accomplices in government, which it had obtained through hacking. In 2017, remains of 250 people were unearthed in Veracruz. Linares served as director at the Monitor Michoacan website, which on Tuesday continued to show an . In the U.S., we have big corporations that give money to politicians through legal lobbying, he said. Someone wanted to stop the news reports about the executions. When she returned, the officer asked her what she had been thinking. Cartels controlled the state, she told readers, even promoting themselves in YouTube videos. 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. As Karen lay on the living room floor, bound and gagged, a knock came at the door: her uncles unsuspecting mechanic, who had come to work on the family truck. 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. Gunmen killed nine people in an attack on a house in central Mexico, in the latest outbreak of violence linked to suspected drug gangs, authorities said Wednesday. For the second payment, Lucianos father drove two hours and left a bag of cash between two spent tires at an abandoned gas station. At the burial site, as a crowd surrounded the rectangular pit, he stood to the side, weeping. Her articles had an outsize impact. But the kidnappers knew exactly how to strike. Anabel Garza Rivera and Luciano Leal Vela kneeling before the coffin of their murdered son. At the time, the Veracruz government had set up a secret espionage unit to monitor critics, among them local journalists, according to two former officials with knowledge of the unit. Someone broke in through the metal door from her beloved garden patio, the tiny patch of tranquility that kept her from . After the shooting, the deputies found Mr. Moses, who was uncooperative, the sheriff said. And by then, the family knew who the masterminds of the kidnapping were: members of their own family. They needed a bit more money, they said, just $500. to do drilling, to do cleanup, things like that anything that the government hired them to do, the accountant testified. And with every failed bid to reclaim Karen, she fell further into despair. 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. He lashed out at critics. Everyone posts photos on social media, even small-time gangsters. Her death gave shape to the impunity that twists everyday life in Mexico, and the government scrambled to react. Editors and colleagues said they were unaware that Martnez had any relationship with Anonymous. A day after Coronel Aispuro's court appearance, Jessica Oseguera, the 34-year-old daughter of El Chapo's rival cartel boss, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, was sentenced to two and a half years in. Just as she had with the ice cream shop, Mrs. Rodrguez waited for weeks outside of the prison during visiting hours until Ms. Betancourt finally showed. But the day after the news conference, Silva told a court magistrate that he was not guilty and that he had confessed only because he was being tortured. 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.. Borbolla is currently a prosecutor in a different part of the attorney generals office. In retaliation, the Zetas kidnapped several members to threaten them and to learn the names of people who had access to the hacked information. Violence akin to terrorism including beheadings, dismemberments and hangings, with bodies displayed as warnings pervaded the lives of its 8million residents. 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. Now he was on the run and back to what he knew, selling roses to make ends meet. We arent looking for a corpse, Luis recalled Anabel saying. Forbes magazine had by then dubbed him one of the 10 most corrupt Mexicans. But Pea Nieto argued that Herreras business acumen made him the perfect choice for the job. But by then, the cousins were nowhere to be found. If it was only a matter of time. In 2010, federal authorities discovered the corpses of 72 Central American migrants at a ranch on the citys outskirts, believed at the time to be the most savage killings ever perpetrated by a cartel. There is a drug war in Nuevo Laredo between rival drug cartels that . The National Press Club said in a statement that it was horrified to learn about the shooting. Government contracts offer cartels and corrupt officials a way to help one another prosper, Fontes said. They are surrounded by 13 masked men, apparently Los Zetas hitmen, who point their rifles at them. The unit also collected personal information about them, including the names of family members and co-workers, places they frequented, their political affiliations and sexual orientations. She cut her hair and dyed it bright red so Sama would not recognize her. Luis arrived late to the funeral, after the procession had already made its way down streets lined with residents watching little Lucianos casket en route to the cemetery. The weeks after Karens abduction had become knotted into a single, nauseating progression of calls, threats and false promises. No one challenged organized crime, never mind put its members in prison. But you respected her mission.. I very much regret each death and each person who receives some mistreatment. The woman had beaten and tortured Karen during the kidnapping, hanging her up like a boxing bag and punching her. But Karen stayed, to finish school and help run her moms small cowboy apparel shop, Rodeo Boots. It was 2014, an especially grim time in San Fernando. A disturbing video surfaced of . Sign in Women Are Being Killed With Impunity. Jesse Walden, the News 13 photographer who was shot, remains hospitalized but is speaking to detectives, Sheriff Mina said. Police had apprehended one of them, Jorge Antonio Hernandez Silva, who was known as El Silva. He was an illiterate drug addict and low-level criminal, reporters learned. mexican woman sound . The vicious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are considered the most dangerous and powerful criminal enterprise in Mexico. 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. (Flix Mrquez/AP). In Washington, the White House reacted Wednesday night to the news that journalists were among the victims in the latest spate of gun violence. . Cinemas, nightclubs and shops were almost empty, a consequence of the violence, she wrote. Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime activist who founded neighborhood patrols against cartels, was killed in 2009. Azalea watched as her mothers sadness hardened into resolve and her hope gave way to revenge. body of work by photographer Flix Mrquez exploring their lives through the belongings they left behind. 25. Mexican marines had killed six of the accomplices, Cristian said in his statement. Karens father dropped off a bag of cash near the health clinic, then waited in vain at the local cemetery for the kidnappers to free her. For Luis and Azalea, it was hard not to hear the parallels with their own mother, buried not 100 feet away. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Networks Antonio Baquero in Barcelona and Procesos Jess Esquivel and The Posts Alice Crites and Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report. Duarte sent a huge flower wreath to Martnezs funeral. She held him there for nearly an hour, awaiting the police to make the arrest. The catalog is part of a body of work by photographer Flix Mrquez exploring their lives through the belongings they left behind. [The search for the disappeared points to Mexicos darkest secrets], Martnez contacted photographer Julio Argumedo to take pictures for Proceso. They stripped their hopes to something far more basic the return of their son. The details and information gathered by this woman, working all alone, were incredible., She had gone to every single level of government and they had slammed the door in her face, he recalled. Source: Twitter. Mrs. Rodrguez, 56 at the time, grabbed him by the shirt and wrestled him to the rails. As he drove back to San Fernando, the kidnappers called. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Armed men forced their way into her pickup truck and took off, with her in it. With little to lose, Mrs. Rodrguez asked for a meeting with members of the local cartel, the Zetas, and to her surprise, they agreed. Halfway through the year, Adame's death brings to seven the 2017 toll of slain press . After a week, he stopped answering the phone. Mass graves containing tens of thousands have been subsequently discovered across the country. ,federal,local police are sometimes paid to allow it or they try to stop them and be killed themselves or their family killed. Mrs. Rodrguez went to Aldama, his small hometown of about 13,000 people, and paid a visit to his grandmother. (Alberto Morales Garcia/Forbidden Stories). In September, when the state police detained a cartel leader in San Fernando, he refused to cooperate. She had known Ms. Betancourt ever since she was a child, abandoned by a prostitute at the local brothel. Four days after local police began investigating her killing, Borbolla, the federal prosecutor, arrived in Veracruz from Mexico City to do a parallel investigation for a new unit designed to probe crimes against journalists. Even before her death, Herrera was facing mounting allegations. Unlike Mrs. Rodrguezs relentless pursuit of her daughters killers, Lucianos parents did not seek to punish the powerful cartel. Within a few months, it arrested two of the culprits, and killed another in a gunfight. Borbolla had other problems with the crime investigation, which was supposed to be done jointly with state authorities. She has lived, worked and. Disappearances undermine the very nature of grief, stripping families of even the most basic closure. Lucianos kidnapping stirred something in San Fernando. Those were early days, before they were willing to consider their son might be dead, when hope was all they had. Graphics by Daniela Santamaria. Karen was buried there, too, beside her mother. She Stalked Her Daughters Killers Across Mexico, One by One, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/world/americas/miriam-rodriguez-san-fernando.html. The parents speeches brought tears to the crowd, to Luis and his sister Azalea in particular. 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