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Is Piedras the Next Juarez?Saturday, November 24, 2012 | Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis

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Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat

6 Dead 1 survivor critical and two children taken in latest incidentTexas sheriff says the border town is the new Juarez.

Piedras Negras; Four bodies were discovered in a taxi, while the other twodied in a second incident and found in a house in the Colonia Acoros.

Santos Vasquez Estrada the delegate of the Attorney General of NorthernCoahuila reported that at 4:30 am the Taxi was located on the old road toZaragoza, about a mile from the urban are. Onboard were 4 males and 2females with gun shots.
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In the back seat of the taxi were found two women with gun shots whi le thetaxi driver and front passenger also had gun shot wounds.

He said the taxi driver was identified as Fabian Martinez Ibarra 35 yearswhile the other companions were unidentified.In the second incident, two people died in the Colony Acoros from stabwounds, the authority identified Josefina Puneda Tamez, 49, and OscarPineda Oziel Gobea 19, a third was stabbed but survived. Gobea IgnacioVazquez, husband of the deceased, who is in critical condition.

It was reported that two children ages 3 and 5 years were kidnapped butlater found wandering the streets in a nearby colonia . The home thatcame under attack was at Tule Street # 1306 of Acoros Cologne.Piedras Negras has become a hot spot in the Mexican drugwar. The

Mexican city shares a border with Eagle Pass Texas. Logistically sitting ina prime location at the POE into Texas in Northeastern Coahuilaand connects with many major highways running through the south, west,east of Mexico feeding into Piedras and into the US.

Zetas and government forces have intensified presence, complicated bythe apparent growing presence of the SInaloa Cartel.Last week both Federal Police and the Coahuila GATES agency sentadditional convoys of troops to the area, focusing in Piedras Negras.
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The Zetas Cartel have enjoyed a comfortable presense and control of thestate of Coahuila since they split from the Golfo Cartel in 2010. Golfos,also known as CDG, can take "credit" for the creation of the violent Zetasas they recruited the group as an enforcer wing of CDG together the twogroups called themselves "La Compaa".Until the split, La Compaa controlled the state of Coahuila. After the splitZetas gained control of the majority of the state. Seemingly, with collusionfrom Saltillo, the media and municipalities.It is surreal to live in a Coahuila city where everyone knows who the Zs are,where they live, where safe houses are, easy to spot halcones, and justabout anyone can take a visitor to places such as staging lots filled withstolen boats, and vehicles of all types, mostly with Texas license plates.But, few speak of it, paralyzed by fear. That is changing, slowly but steadily

people are beginning to speak of it with friends. But the openess of narcoactivity exists and has changed little.It seems the new governor does not want to be completely married to theZs, or perhaps wants an open marriage of sorts. and that sparked thestruggle that was inevitable when a party refuses to play ball within Zetasrules.Ruben Moriera, is the current governor, Ruben is the brother of HumbertoMoreira, former governor who resigned to make a successful run for thechairmanship of the PRI party. Only to resign in disgrace whenimproprieties were made public of missing Coahuila funds

Much is spoken about Humberto's governorship and agreements he madewith the Zetas. Violence was abound but few spoke about the manydisappeared or dead, including the Coahuila press of which the Moreirashave a large investment in newspaper and radio outlets. Zetas have thelast say of what narco news regional newspapers run. For the killingsreported, many times more go unreported. The fact of the matter is thatCoahuila has never maintained an official count of drug deaths ordisappearances.

Because of the lack of media coverage and official counts, estimation is themethod used to tally deaths and kidnappings. The government of Mexicohas concluded that Coahuila may have the most "missing" persons, areasonable person would insist surely it is one of the top 3 or 4 states thathave high numbers of kidnapped persons never to be seen again. If onelooks at the Coahuila map it reflects a large land mass, but it has a small


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population rendering large masses of land that are vacant undevelopedand many prime locations to dump bodies. (see maps on page two)

In Acua, in one violent week while Humberto was governor, terror grippedthe city, as kidnappings and killings erupted in a narco rampage. Buildingsand homes burned to the ground-fire fighters were warned not to attempt toextinguish the fires, or pay with their lives-the chief of police was killed leftwith a narco message in the parking lot of a large candy warehouse,torched and destroyed.

Though citizens witnessed the violence around the city, not a word of theviolence was reported on the radio, television or Coahuila newspapers.For three days, no reporting then finally a report of the chief, but little else.Fast forward to October 2012, the night of Lalo Moreira's murder, Lalo is

Humberto's son. Hours after the murder four men were killed and throwninto the Bravo, on the Acua side of the river.

One victim was not dead ,and despite being handcuffed, he managed todrift to the Del Rio side of the river where Border Patrol watching the eventsunfold, rescued the man and took him to the hospital. Upon his release hewas kept in GEO for deportation processing. The name he gave was"Jesus Pia". A strange thing is Jesus is a dead ringer for Victor Sifuetes-the police supervisor wanted for Lalo's murder- and when partiesconnected to the "Jesus" case were shown Victor's photo they made apositive ID as he being the man in the river calling himself "Jesus Pia..

Victor had disappeared directly after "finding" Lalo's corpse andwas on the run for weeks. "Jesus" was deported, then Victorwas apprehended in the Coahuila city of Monclova.. When hewas picked up Victor's face still bore the injuries andscabbing consistent with Jesus' injuries sustained from his latenight encounter in the Bravo, just hours after Lalo's killing.

None of this was reported in Mexican news. However, the story of the4 bodies dumped in the Bravo was in the Del Rio Herald, stating thebodies were dumped on the Acuna side. Four bodies and not a wordwritten about it in Coahuila nor Mexico. It is evident that Coahuila isno better off with Rueben Moreira. Corruption is still very much alive

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Ruben made the decision to send forces and fortify the border town ofPiedras Negras. Zs did not take kindly to that action, and successfullyexecuted a mass prison escape from the Piedras Prison of 131 inmates.When most inmates stayed close to and in the area it was obvious theywere freed to defend Zeta ground.

About and hour west of Piedras lies the border town of Acua, adjacent toDel Rio Texas. It was in this relatively peaceful city that all hell broke loose,pitting governor on governor, brothers on brother, split a powerful family,killed a nephew in retribution for the GATES killing of the nephew of MiguelTrevio aka Z40 leader of the Zetas.

Humberto left stands next to his brother Ruben
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Lalo Moreira

In early October in a conflict with GATES 4 gunmen were killed in PiedrasNegras. One of the dead gunmen was the nephew of Miguel Trevino, hisname; Alejandro Trevio Chavez. This incensed Z40 who ordered a hit onone of the Moreira family members.Banners began appearing in the region almost immediately. This was

confirmed by Carlos younger brother Ruben and Humberto. The bannerswarned "Family for Family" and were signed Z40. Jose Eduardo Moreirawas the most vulnerable. He was the son of Humberto and known as"Lalo". Lalo lived in Acua with his wife and infant son, he was 25 yearsold.His dead body was found in his truck 24 hours after Z40s nephew waskilled in Piedras.The absence of Ruben at Lalo's funeral brought to light the severity of theestrangement of the once close brothers. Followed by accusations by theyoung widow holding the governor culpable in the death of her husband.

Stating that Ruben knew of the warnings and did nothing to protect Lalo,even though he knew he was defenseless as one month prior Lalo's armortruck and state police body guards were taken from him with the governorsorderfor the municipal police to fill the roll of body guards. Ironic, as it wasthe police chief, and supervisor on duty that were two of the 6men suspected of Lalo's murder, the chief has already confessed to thekilling.
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If the relationship between the two governors ever had a chance in hell ofmending after that, the fate was sealed when Ruben said it was El Lazca,the other premierleader of the Zetas at the time of Lalo's death, as the onewho ordered the Lalo's murder. Convenient, since Lazcano is nowdeceased. Ruben announced the "case closed".

No one believed the governor's announcement and the action incensed theHumberto Moreira family further. This time Lalo's younger brother took toTwitter to accuse his uncle Ruben of being a liar.

Blame the dead guy-an often use tactic to close cases

In the weeks that followed, police and army presence increased in Acuaand Piedras, Zetas retreated from Acua seemingly to concentrate onPiedras. Meanwhile as this heavy deployment in to the area by federal andstate forces with the intent to fight off the Zetas and maintain peace, rumorsof CDS presense growing both in Acua and Piedras. The rumors havebeen persistent.

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Two weeks ago narcomantas -banners- began flooding Coahuila. In thebanners they accuse two men of being free to conduct narco business withthe blessing of the federal police in Piedras. The men are identified as
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member of the Golfo cartel. Sinaloa and Golfo have an alliance. So if thisis all true, and it appears so, what he have is a war zone with federal andstate forces, and three cartels. Is it any wonder if some are suggesting thatPiedras is the new Juarez?

Take a look at the Brewster County Sheriff's office entry on their FB pagethis week-though it says Acua, I am certain it is meant to read "PiedrasNegras". The men in the photo were the accused killers of Lalo upon thetransfer to the Acua prison from Saltillo this past week. The one on theleft is Victor Sifuetes, the police supervisor who "found" the body, andsuspected of his murder.
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The elements are in place for Piedras and Acua to become the hotbed ofthe drugwar violence. Much will depend on the Pea administration takingover in December. He has contradictions in explaining his vague "plan". Itwould be a waste of over 100K drugwar deaths if lessons were not learnedand taken into the new administration.

There were many lessons available from the Juarez tragedy. Lets hopethey are applicable in the strategy of Piedras Negras and other hot spots sowe will never reach a point of being able to declare a city as having "8Murders a Day". Let's hope those deaths were not completely in vain.
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I have written about President Calderon, sometimes not in a favorablelight, but I ever thought he was not brave, nor honorable, nor the one andonly hope Mexico has.

His downfall was perhaps his stubbornness, and inability to adapt, stickingwith plans that fail without making changes.

It is unfair to speak of him as the President of the Dead. No matter whowas in office the numbers would have escalated, because the playing fieldhas changed.

Many groups, gangs and smaller cartels have evolved, all wanting a pieceof the plaza. There are more players, more players result in more deaths.

One can easily argue a case that Calderon kept the number down fromwhat it would have been.

But he was the first, and the first is seldom the best. However, if I am to behonest he was the best that Mexico ever voted into office. No doubt in mymind about that.
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MAPS:(click any image to enlarge)Maps are valuable in assesing the importance of Coahuila to drugtraffickers. Major highways initiating from the southern border directlyconnecting into the "drug" states connect eventually into Coahuila, onto the57 hwy and on to Piedras or with a veering west into Acua, both cities siton the Mexican side of the border with international bridges being the onlyseparation for the United States. Once into Texas, the 90 or 35 hwy leadsinto one of the most important drug hubs in the United States, San Antonio,Texas. The last map depicts the highway interections from San Antoino toall otherparts of the US.

For an interactive map link here. Click on any tile to see roads and cities

Coahuila surrounded by:Chih, Dgo, Zaca, SLP and N. Leon
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12/15

West to east north to south major hwy lead to Piedras and Acuna
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14/15

Sources used to write the article of the 6 killed: Vanguardia, 24 Horas,Twitter

Sources for the remainder of the post:I used my previous BB Posts, and my Coahuila sleuthingpartner TexPatMex

See: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/11/6-dead-in-piedras-negras-is-piedras.html

See: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) - http://www.leap.cc/

S e e : LEAP Facebook page - h t t ps : / / w w w . f ac ebook . c o m /CopsSayLegalizeDrugs

See: Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad (MPJD) - http://movimientoporlapaz.mx

See: MPJD Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Movimiento-por-la-Paz-con-Justicia-y-Dignidad/124809987605763
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See: Summer of Just ice (SOJ) Facebook page - h t tps : / /www.facebook.com/makethedreamareality

S e e : S O J P h i l o s o p h y a n d P l a n o f A c t i o n - h t t p : / /ajmacdonaldjr.wordpress.com/philosophy-and-plan-of-action-summer-of-

justice-2012-dc/

See: Verano de Justicia Filosofia y Plan de Accion - http://ajmacdonaldjr.wordpress.com/el-verano-de-justicia-2012-dc/

VIDEO - MSNBC Rachel Maddow Show - Legalizing Marijuana What'sNext? Cheryl Shuman Video Diary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb3vcz5TXAE

VIDEO - Mexican Poet Javier Sicilia Brings Peace Caravan Into U.S. toCondemn Deadly Drug War - http://youtu.be/y6T71eL5_tQ

VIDEO - 40 Years of Drug War Failure: LEAP's Neill Franklin: http://youtu.be/qj3gnIGANhs
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