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New Mexican cartel boss
Juan Jose Esparagossa Moreno also known as AKA El Azul & Blue. According
to high level Mexican government officials who insist on anonymity say
“he now controls the drug trade from Laredo Texas to San Diego
California using Los Zetas as his enforcement arm.”
According to newspaper
reports warring factions of Mexican gangs, cartels, and drug dealers
have been fighting and killing for control of the largest drug
trafficking enterprise along the border of Mexico and the United States.
Esparagossa Moreno has worked
his way to the top of the Juárez Cartelorganization along with several other men with close ties to cocaine
producers in Colombia and Afghanistan, according to the Mexican Attorney General's
office and the CIA.
According to
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Juárez Cartel is a powerful
Mexican drug trafficking cartel based in
Juárez,
Mexico.The cartel has most recently transformed itself into the
Golden Triangle Alliance, or La Alianza Triángulo de Oro, because
of its leaders in three Mexican border states:
Chihuahua,
Durango and
Sinaloa. Until 2004 the organization was headed by Juan José
Esparragoza Moreno, also known as El Azul. In late 2004 control
of the cartel was assumed by Ricardo Garcia Urquiza until his arrest in
Mexico City during November
2005.[1]
International bridge looking toward Ciudad
Juarez from El Paso
At its height, the
Juárez cartel was assumed to be responsible for some 50
percent of illegal drugs that pass through Mexico to the
United States. It rose in the past decade to become one of the
hemisphere's - if not the world's - most powerful crime
organization. Some US sources estimate the cartel's income reached as
high as $200 million a week under former boss
Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who mysteriously died in July
1997.
Members of the cartel were
implicated in the mass murder site in
Ciudad Juárez that was discovered in 2004 and has been dubbed the
House of Death.
The US government
reports that Juan Jose Esparagossa Moreno is now on theDEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Listings of Blocked Persons, Specially
Designated
Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Specially Designated Global
Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated
Esparagossa Moreno now
controls the enforcement arm of the rogue Mexican commandos known as the
Los Zetas, said a high ranking Mexican army officer, who wants to remain
anonymous.
As previously reported
by the Laguna Journal these same officials say of the Los Zetas that
they were the elite "special forces" of the Mexican military, trained in
the U.S. at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia and sent
to "wipe out" Gulf Cartel one of the most powerful Mexican drug cartels.
Investigators say the feared bands of ex-military elite forces are not
only operating in Mexico but also Texas and other parts of the United
States unchecked. These rogue Mexican commandos are blamed for dozens of
killings along the U.S.-Mexico border and has carried out hundreds of
drug-related slayings as far north as Dallas Texas. A sign that the
group is extending its deadly operations from Mexico into U.S. cities,
U.S. law enforcement officials said.
These men,
They're known as "Los Zetas former members of the Mexican army who
defected to Mexico's so-called Gulf drug cartel in the late 1990s. But
instead of bringing down the cartel they went to work for them. It is
believed that Esparagossa Moreno paid them millions to convert them to
front and be the enforcers for his organization.
"These guys operate like a military well trained and with precision,"
said Arturo A. Fontes, an FBI special investigator for border violence
based in Laredo, in south Texas. "They have their hands in everything
and they have eyes and ears everywhere. I've seen how they work, and
they're good at what they do. They're an impressive bunch of ruthless
criminals." Dallas and federal officials said that since late 2003 eight
to 10 members of Los Zetas have been operating in north Texas,
maintaining a "shadowy existence" and sometimes hiring Texas criminal
gangs, including the Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, M-13 and Texas Syndicate, for
contract killings. The Texas Syndicate is a prison gang that authorities
blame for several murders nationwide. Some U.S. officials suggested that Los
Zetas at the direction of Esparagossa Moreno and others
participated in other slayings, including the killing of women in
Juarez. Since 1993, more than 320 women have been killed, 93 of them
believed to be victims of rape-slayings, and scores more are missing,
many of them believed dead, according to Amnesty International.
It is now believed by the Mexican Federal Police that Esparagossa Moreno controls
most of the drug business in Mexico. Still other officials believe Esparagossa Moreno may not only have connections with Russian mafia but
also has Al-Qaeda and other terrorist contacts and many fear he maybe
helping them breach the U.S. borders. He is now wanted by the FBI.
on drug charges in Texas.
The U.S.-Mexico border is becoming like a war zone.
The feds in El Paso alerted law enforcement throughout the
country, warning them that Mexican commandos are now working for drug
cartels.
The City of El Paso
El Paso, along with its sister city of Ciudad
Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, comprise the largest
bi-national metropolitan area in the world. Here, in the sun-swept,
mountainous desert of Texas's westernmost corner, is El Paso, the
state's fourth-largest city. Built between two mountain ranges on the
shores of the Rio Grande, the city is an urban history book, with
chapters dedicated to Spanish conquistadors, ancient highways,
gunfighters, border disputes, and modern sprawl. El Paso's rich history
is a result of its geography
Most Americans are shocked to learn where the commandos were trained.
A memo from the Justice Department warns that Mexican commandos were
trained by U.S. forces, but switched sides. They are now using their
deadly skills to work for the drug cartels often with the Mexican
regular army.
A recent Intelligence Bulletin meant for law enforcement that we were
able to obtain says,” Los Zetas are responsible for hundreds of violent
drug-related murders in Mexico. It goes on to say they've executed
journalists, murdered people in Dallas, El Paso, McAllen and Laredo,
Texas. They even detained two DEA agents and recently they've shot at
Border Patrol agents, County
sheriffs and according to at least one witness the US National Guard.
Picture of
the border between Arizona, on the left, and
Sonora, on the right.
At the Texas and Arizona
borders with Mexico agents are already seeing a major increase in murder
and other violence.
Perfecting their
commando training, Los Zetas are known to be extremely violent killers
and have been blamed for an outbreak of violence along the Mexican
border for some years now, with no real resistance from the US
Government. The Los Zetas
effort to control the U.S.-Mexico border from Nuevo Laredo to Tijuana
has left scores of people dead and even prompted U.S. officials to warn
tourists traveling to Mexico.
Federal agents stationed at the El Paso Criminal Intelligence Center
told local law enforcement, "that Not only did Los Zetas receive some
early military training but they developed their own internal training
as well increasing their violence far beyond their own original
capabilities."
U.S. Customs agents, US
Boarder Patrol and county Sheriff’s all along the boarder from
California to east Texas have been involved in shootouts with an enemy
they had not seen before. According to a sheriff’s deputy “ these guys
are equipped with automatic weapons, 50 Cal machine guns, M-60’s,
infrared technology body armor, Humvee’s and state-of-the-art
communications, they say it is a combination of Los Zetas, Mexican police and
Mexican military all working for Esparagossa Moreno.
Humvees were originally referred to as
Hummers, though that term was later reserved for a civilian
SUV based on the Humvee.
Another U.S. law enforcement official agreed to speak on condition of
anonymity. He says from the Maras to the Zetas warring, corruption and
death is what is going on in Mexico. In the southern state of Tabasco, a
commando group allegedly led by the Zetas attacked a police station
after a reputed Zeta leader was arrested but not before nearly freeing
the prisoner. Once-rare beheadings and dismemberments - with warning
notes sometimes left on the victims - now occur almost daily in the
cartels' turf wars.
Some analysts have suggested that former Guatemalan
anti-guerrilla forces called Kaibiles and Central American gang members,
or Maras, are now doing some of the dirty work for the Mexican narcos.
According to reports in The Dallas Morning News in Apatzigan, Michoacan,
the police force allegedly was purchased by the Nuevo Laredo-based
Zetas, the former enforcement arm of the Gulf cartel, according to federal
officials. An elite corps of 60 local officers was specially trained and
equipped earlier this year to defend their new bosses against members of
the rival Sinaloa cartel. Federal police moved in and took the local
force into custody.
Even
U.S. government officials are not except from the drug lords cash
influence. Cash on the border is king. In Laredo, Texas, a senior US
Border Patrol agent was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison recently
for allowing drug traffickers to move cocaine and marijuana through
South Texas checkpoints. Juan Alvarez, 36, had pleaded guilty in May to
conspiracy to bribe a public official and conspiracy to possess cocaine
and marijuana with the intent to distribute. Prosecutors alleged that
Alvarez and his brother, Jose Guadelupe Alvarez, 39, who got 17 ½ years,
received more than $1.5 million from traffickers in return for letting
70,000 pounds of pot and an unspecified quantity of cocaine pass
unmolested through the Hebronville checkpoint a few miles north of the
US-Mexico border. These brothers were
caught, how many others are on the
take where Cash really is king.
In Acapulco, where the Zetas are fighting the dominant Sinaloa cartel,
gunmen have killed dozens of people, including the head of security for
Mayor Felix Salgado and a military intelligence officer responsible for
major drug seizures.
A reporter for the El Paso times reported that in Ciudad Juarez,
assailants gunned down Marcos Arturo Nazar Contreras, chief of the
Chihuahua State Agency for Investigations in Ciudad Juarez, firing more
than 30 bullets into his vehicle. He had been appointed by state
Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez, who has waged an aggressive campaign
against drug traffickers during her tenure.
Adding to the expanding climate of terror is the dramatic rise in
kidnappings, all along the U.S. Mexican border, particularly in border towns such as Nuevo Laredo,
Ciudad Juarez
and Tijuana major
trade gateways to the USA.
"There is a sign of real desperation as drug traffickers try to find
ways to subsidize their operations," a U.S. law enforcement official
said on condition of anonymity. "They have a lot of overhead costs that
have to be covered, and express kidnappings provide fast cash." Express
kidnappings involve brief detentions and ransoms that can be paid
quickly.
Three to five kidnappings were reported to occur daily in Nuevo Laredo.
And while
drug cartels are expending more resources in central and southern
Mexico, they continue their violent activities in northern border
states, such as Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and Chihuahua
In Monterrey, the 31-year-old son of a former police commander
Nuevo Laredo on the Mexican Side was
gunned down in his Hummer SUV, bringing to 35 the number of drug
killings this year in the state of Nuevo Leon, local Mexican police
said.
"We're seeing little Nuevo Laredo’s spread throughout Mexico," said the
U.S. law enforcement official, referring to the violence.
Now that there is a
clear boss at the top the drug cartel wars among themselves are expected
to turn down in intensity. However a Justice Department bulletin warns:
The dangerous and violence to US law enforcement is expected to spill
over the Mexican border into the United States and law enforcement
agencies in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California can
expect to encounter Los Zetas in the coming months and years.
The violence plaguing the border towns has led to dire warnings issued
by the State Department saying that drug- traffickers are on the hunt
for US citizens.
Many of the U.S. county sheriff’s complain that their
deputies are out gunned and out manned by the drug traffickers and
represent a real threat to law enforcement all along the US Mexican
border according to a south Texas sheriff recently appearing on the
national Glen Beck show.
The military training comes in handy with the arms Los Zetas carry,
including 9mm weapons and infrared technology - all parts of an armory
equivalent to an American special Forces unit A team. Drug money pays for it all.
The Los Zetas arsenal could make the group attractive to other groups,
like al-Qaeda or the Mara Salvatruchas. According to one of there own
jailed members during an interview said, he, been told there are
some of the Maras and al-Qaeda inside the organization. The phenomenon
of the Maras, is a violent Central American gang that originated in Los
Angeles and has become a nightmare in the region.
While Los Zetas are a problem for both Mexican and American authorities,
according to U.S. border law enforcement they also claim to be working
with drug dealers all across the United States. Their work includes
cold-blooded killings. They told us they knew of a hit on two men
outside a Rio Grande City restaurant, and the murder of two men watching
a cock-fight in Starr County.
Law enforcement including Sheriff’s, Police Chiefs and regular concerned
citizens along the Mexican American border say the US Government is
doing very little to support and protect our hundreds of miles of
borders. And say Los Zetas are operating with immunity and doing what
ever they like without and repercussions. They want something done and
right now it is already completely out of hand and is dangerous for
there kids and everyone else.
More than ever, an effective fight
against drug trafficking and terrorism requires interagency cooperation,
said current and former law enforcement officials, who added thatthe failure
of ICE and the DEA to share notes, or talk to each other, constitutes a
security risk.
The Mexican Secretary of Defense Galván said, "We'll win this fight." In
no way, never, are they (narco traffickers) going to win this battle. We
have a united front composed of all the sections of the executive branch
and we are surely already tipping the balance in our favor.
Galván, speaking
to the senate, warned that "this fight will not be won in a day" and
that it might take years to reach the goal of crushing the drug cartels
once and for all.
Galván emphasized that law enforcement was approaching ever closer to
the bases of the drug cartels, as evidenced by the narco traffickers'
violent reactions against civilian government and civil service
employees. Those actions included the attempted assassination of a
federal deputy in Nuevo Laredo recently.
PRI deputy Horacio Emigdio Garza Garza
was
hit by three bullets in a
drive-by shooting. His driver / bodyguard was killed. Garza is also a
two-term ex-mayor of Nuevo Laredo.
On Oct 22, 2007
the Bush administration released the
National Southwest Border Counter narcotics Strategy whereby
United States federal agencies
along the Southwest border are coordinating their efforts to implement
68 objectives under this new strategy in the following areas:
intelligence collection and information sharing, interdiction at and
between ports of entry, aerial surveillance and interdiction of
smuggling aircraft, investigations and prosecutions and countering
financial crime. It is estimated that U.S. is spending $1.9 billion to
implement this strategy in addition to funds being requested for the
Security Cooperation Initiative. On October 2, 2007 John Walters,
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy said that this
balanced strategy will serve as an effective response against violent
drug trafficking organizations that work to undermine democracy and rule
of law.