Naturally, Mrs. Rodrguez began attending service. 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. He was frightened during questioning. Duarte, had used public funds to purchase fake chemotherapy medication for children. The intersection where Mrs. Rodrguezs daughter, Karen, was kidnapped. In March of 2017, nearly two dozen prisoners escaped the penitentiary in Ciudad Victoria, where Mrs. Rodrguezs efforts had put her daughters killers. Living in San Fernando means accepting certain realities. The weeks after Karens abduction had become knotted into a single, nauseating progression of calls, threats and false promises. She had known Ms. Betancourt ever since she was a child, abandoned by a prostitute at the local brothel. Pablo Escobar died in a rooftop shootout in Medellin on Dec. 2, 1993. In 2015, Pea Nieto gave Herrera a consul position in Barcelona even though he had no diplomatic experience. Cartels controlled the state, she told readers, even promoting themselves in YouTube videos. Editors and colleagues said they were unaware that Martnez had any relationship with Anonymous. 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. Rarely did she talk to her co-workers about her sensitive investigations. And then, by pure chance, Sama turned up. He outlawed crime reporting on social media an action that was quickly overturned in court. Martnez pored over state spending records, writing in 2008 that Herrera invested millions from the budget in a failing soccer team called the Red Sharks owned by a friend. She parked on the street and lumbered out of the car, moving slowly because of her injury. Prosecutors said the woman who waved her arms, Christina Langford Johnson, was. Police sources are saying that you should stop investigating these leads.. She used to give her Karens old clothes. But they felt they had nothing to lose. Ever since 2014, she had been tracking the people responsible for the kidnapping and murder of her 20-year-old daughter, Karen. Farmers and politicians. But Karen stayed, to finish school and help run her moms small cowboy apparel shop, Rodeo Boots. In June of that year, nearly a month after Mrs. Rodrguezs death, officials in the state of Veracruz, acting with information she had provided, arrested yet another suspect in Karens case. Armed men forced their way into her pickup truck and took off, with her in it. The demonic cartels left a message on the body: "This is for ALL [] Sign in Women Are Being Killed With Impunity. A Mexican drug cartel used Twitter for evil after murdering a doctor and. Meanwhile, she wrote in 2006, Herrera assures Veracruz that nothing is happening, that there is social tranquility in the state. 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. About five hours later, several 911 calls came in from the site of the first shooting. 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. Details about the report, which contained U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration data and cited 14 protected witnesses, were published by Grupo Imagen Multimedia, a Mexican media conglomerate with television, radio, newspaper and Internet holdings. Female reporters and their family members have been murdered in the drug war for writing anti-cartel articles for newspapers or posting messages on the internet. Mrs. Rodrguez picked through the debris left by the kidnappers: grisly stains on soiled tabletops, bones of varying sizes, some mere shards. She worked to show that government forces were secretly burying hundreds of disappeared people in mass graves. Herrera belongs to the previous generation of governors, when accountability institutions lacked political power, said Alberto Olvera, a sociologist at the University of Veracruz. The corpses of 72 Central American migrants were discovered at this ranch.CreditVideo by Daniel Berehulak. Colorado-Cessa was ultimately convicted in a scheme involving the purchase of racehorses. Herrera has not been charged with a crime, and he denied all the allegations against him. 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. Never in my career had I seen such an altered crime scene. 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. She recognized him immediately from their lunch, the same slender frame and clean-shaven face. Mrs. Rodrguezs son, Luis, was closing down his own shop in Ciudad Victoria to attend the festivities. 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. Lucianos kidnapping stirred something in San Fernando. 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. Drivers circled town playing it over a loudspeaker. They needed a bit more money, they said, just $500. Other journalists and media workers killed on 9/11. Since then, at least 39 more journalists have been murdered. The gunman shot two other people in Pine Hills, Fla., the Orange County Sheriffs Office said in a news conference on Wednesday: the mother of the 9-year-old and a photographer who worked with the TV news reporter at Spectrum News 13 in Orlando. It was not an accident, she said. I would love to meet you one day.. LEFT: The family of slain Proceso photojournalist Rubn Espinosa during his funeral in Mexico City in 2015. The abandoned gas station on the edge of town where Lucianos father left the second ransom. In recent interviews, Borbolla provided new details about her investigation. The killers covered the site with trash to throw off anyone searching. Perhaps softened by her kindness, Cristian told them everything. Proceso paid a very high price for covering these issues: kidnappings, murders, threats, said Carrasco, the Proceso editor, who left the country temporarily after receiving death threats when he tried to investigate Martnezs homicide. She stopped every few minutes to catch her breath and study the photo of her next target: the florist. A disturbing video surfaced of . Frightened colleagues sometimes tried to warn her off investigations. A month before she was killed, Mrs. Rodrguez broke her foot chasing down one of the last targets on her list, a young woman who had left town and begun working as a live-in nanny for a family in Ciudad Victoria. There is a drug war in Nuevo Laredo between rival drug cartels that . Everyone posts photos on social media, even small-time gangsters. International press groups consider Veracruz to be the most dangerous place in the world to report the news. "They killed the wrong woman, my . They stripped their hopes to something far more basic the return of their son. The kidnappers panicked and grabbed him, too, then fled. In Mexico, politicians rely on narcos for campaign funds. But by then, the cousins were nowhere to be found. 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. Rodrguez, already separated from her husband, moved in with her older daughter, Azalea. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. She urinated in cups and ran her car battery down listening to the radio in the dark. While many fled to escape the violence, others stuck it out because they had built a life in San Fernando and would not abandon it for the sins of others. Mrs. Rodrguezs son, Luis, 36, could not help but see the parallels, and wept when he heard the news. It was headline news in Mexico, with calls for a thorough investigation. The National Press Club said in a statement that it was horrified to learn about the shooting. She eventually left in protest over censorship and working conditions. Now she finally had one a widow called to tell her that he was peddling flowers on the border. Though he assumed leadership of his mothers collective, the movement faded in her absence. 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 (?-1993) was a Colombian journalist who had a romantic relationship with Medellin Cartel boss Pablo Escobar from 1981 to 1991. 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. She wrote of his increasing wealth at a time when the state debt soared without a clear explanation. Her friends often wondered if she was going too far. Herrera did not respond to emails to his office. He had his child back, in some way. He was like a clown in a rodeo. The extortion of 80 small-town mayors. 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. She would hunt them down, one by one, until the day she died. This is the first in a series of five articles, called "The Cartel Project," involving 60 journalists from 18 countries. Look, we all want to do what Miriam did, said the teenagers father, also named Luciano, on the three-month anniversary of his sons disappearance. Borbolla said the crime scene did not look like a robbery. She held him there for nearly an hour, awaiting the police to make the arrest. A murder in Veracruz: Slain journalists story a portrait of a violent, corrupt era in Mexico. The body of a woman was found nearby. Im going to take out the people who hurt my daughter and they can do whatever they want to me.. Standing beside him in the photo was a young woman, wearing the uniform of an ice cream shop two hours away in Ciudad Victoria. One, Cristian Jose Zapata Gonzalez, was barely 18 when the police grabbed him, young even by cartel standards. She went to the authorities local, state and federal but none would help her. [75] Female participants [ edit] Drug cartel assassin from Colombia, 39, said loved to kill people and killed many. In custody, he filled in details missing from Mrs. Rodrguezs investigation, coughing up the names and locations of some accomplices. For Karen, it was Cristian, the teenager Mrs. Rodrguez had fed. By the next morning, the kidnappers stopped answering their phones and the family knew Luciano was not coming home. Off the motorways, dirt roads in the scrubland provide a web of smuggling routes ideal for traffickers. Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodrguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails. The assailant broke her jaw with brass knuckles, then wrapped a rag around her neck, squeezing the life out of the regions best hope for accountability and justice. Authorities told. Even before her death, Herrera was facing mounting allegations. They either purge it and try to move on from their loved ones, or they sustain it, and it destroys them. Martnezs home was mostly undisturbed, and items of value remained little gold earrings on the dresser, her purse, her phones, a printer, kitchen appliances. Like everyone else in the city, Lucianos relatives knew the story of Karens kidnapping and Mrs. Rodrguezs tragic heroism. He sprinted along the narrow pedestrian pass, hoping to get away. Neither matched anyone in the countrys crime databases. In the first shooting on Wednesday, the suspect fatally shot Ms. Augustin around 11 a.m. as she was in the car with the suspects cousin, Sheriff Mina said, adding that it was unclear whether the suspect knew the victim personally. 34. We just want our son back.. At least, not in the way they had hoped. A tough lawyer who had extradited cartel bosses, she brought 14 federal police officers with her. . The presence of multiple, competing cartels provoked turf battles and an increase in killings. Violence akin to terrorism including beheadings, dismemberments and hangings, with bodies displayed as warnings pervaded the lives of its 8million residents. (Forbidden Stories). On Jan. 23, as Karen prepared to merge into traffic, two trucks pulled up on either side, stopping her. Luis dropped what he was doing to take a closer look. MEXICO CITY When Gildo . 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 . The police said they sent periodic patrols by her home and work. Duarte next to a Proceso headline reading Veracruz: State Without Law. (Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images), The United States took note of Martnezs homicide, too. That is, until July of this year, when a 14-year-old boy, Luciano Leal Garza, was snatched off the streets the most public kidnap-for-ransom case since Mrs. Rodrguezs crusade to find her daughter. He said they found a Glock 40 handgun that was still hot to the touch in the suspects pants. They had a sort of buzzer for giving electric shocks, and they put it on my chest and gave me shocks. 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. Homicide January 16 Drive-by shooter empties shotgun at British funeral mourners; girls, 7 and 12, among six wounded A gunman fired multiple shotgun rounds into a gathered crowd of funeral mourners. She joined Proceso in 2000. To gather information for this account, reporters traveled to Veracruz for interviews and to obtain documents. It was a burglary, and the killer had confessed. 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. Anyone can read what you share. The authorities pledged to capture her killers. And by then, the family knew who the masterminds of the kidnapping were: members of their own family. Azalea watched as her mothers sadness hardened into resolve and her hope gave way to revenge. Townspeople marched, demanding justice for Luciano. Mass graves containing tens of thousands have been subsequently discovered across the country. When I heard him just now it was like my own child.. The greatest fear one could have as a parent is losing a child, said his mother, Mrs. Garza. Veracruz officials awarded lucrative government contracts to Colorado-Cessas cartel-linked construction company, and government officials received 10 to 16 percent from each contract, Hinojosa testified. vila is the stuff legends are made of - one of the few women with access to the highest levels of cartel life. 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. Mexican Soldiers guard a crime scene where a man was killed by gun fire in downtown Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on April 21, 2019. . And last night my chest was in pain. The shootout, involving state troops, state police and the National Guard, happened in a. She was never able to find the mysterious witness. Feb. 23, 202203:17. Duarte had none of Herreras political charm. In the beginning, Luis had tried to help the family by introducing them to a police official who had worked on Karens kidnapping and his mothers death. It had just returned to power, 12 years after its seven decades of consecutive rule had been broken. CNN and The New York Times sent reporters. In total, reports indicate six cartel members were captured in the raid that killed her on Friday. Only her tape recorder and computer were gone. 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. She wrote everything down and stuffed it into her black computer bag, building her investigation and tracking them down, one by one. Only the inquiry in Spain is known to be closed. Her public campaign threatened more than just a few kidnappers. The risk is asymmetric. The series examines the power and activities of Mexican cartels and their collusion with corrupt government officials. In August of this year, the family went to Mexico City to pressure the government. They gave news conferences. On February 15, 2023, Vctor Hugo Lpez Ramrez, a criminal lawyer from Mexico City, was gunned down at a taco stand in the Zona Rio neighborhood of Tijuana. 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.. 1. 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. Sure enough, she found him there. The woman had beaten and tortured Karen during the kidnapping, hanging her up like a boxing bag and punching her. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. the woman would have been killed in retaliation after the United Cartels did the same with a CJNG hit man identified as La Guadaa. Update: An Orlando reporter is mourned as local journalists face more danger on the job. 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. Two Mexican intelligence officials said in phone interviews that Martnezs homicide may be connected to the hackers known as Anonymous in Mexico. 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. Duarte is serving a nine-year sentence for embezzlement and money laundering. The reports led to a government investigation that eventually stalled. The pressure worked. XALAPA, Mexico Regina Martnezs death was brutal. ,federal,local police are sometimes paid to allow it or they try to stop them and be killed themselves or their family killed. Condemned to a life buoyed by even the tiniest bit of hope, the pain cycles on a loop, its own unique form of torture. The promise, then, was of a book that could not only be a rewarding read but a transcendental one, a novel that would be emblematic, even canonical. Who knew how many tracts were scored with anonymous graves? On Thursday, the Sheriffs Office released the names of the victims: Dylan Lyons, 24, Nathacha Augustin, 38, and Tyonna Major, 9. Bullet holes pockmarked the outer walls of the adobe house, remnants of a gunfight months earlier. These horrific crimes prompted the 15 reporters who covered crime in Veracruz to flee town, according to an investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists. In three years, Mrs. Rodrguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted her daughter for ransom, a rogues gallery of criminals who tried to start new lives as a born-again Christian, a taxi driver, a car salesman, a babysitter. His mother made a heart-rending recording, pleading with the kidnappers to return her son. Others fell into a void of silence, muted by her assassination. And they knew their prosperity had made them obvious targets, even more so than the Rodrguez family. Two to three times a week, they conducted searches. 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.. Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime activist who founded neighborhood patrols against cartels, was killed in 2009. It is being published by Forbidden Stories and its partners beginning today. The 19-year-old suspect is in custody, police said. Enrique Pea Nieto, who once described Herrera as his best friend, ran and won the presidency instead. Mrs. Rodrguez, whose courage and determination to find her daughter offered a guiding light for the campaign to save Luciano years later, was also a warning of what awaited anyone who pushed too hard. 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. In all, she was instrumental in taking down 10 people, a mad campaign for justice that made her famous, but vulnerable. XALAPA, Mexico Regina Martnez's death was brutal. But Ms. Betancourt played dumb, which Mrs. Rodrguez had thought was odd. By Theodore Shoebat A Mexican drug cartel in Apatzingan brutally tortured and murdered a young woman in her twenties and left her corpse on the street. 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. One official claimed that investigators had managed to triangulate the location based on cellphone tower pings. If you move, Ill shoot you, she told him, according to family members involved in her scramble to capture the florist that day. Follow @Borderland_Beat . Family, friends, even strangers. Anabel Garza Rivera and Luciano Leal Vela kneeling before the coffin of their murdered son. 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. Her family was not satisfied, but she didnt let that stop her. Where was his compassion when they killed my daughter? her family said she had replied. For the second payment, Lucianos father drove two hours and left a bag of cash between two spent tires at an abandoned gas station. 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. She was identified as Christina Langford Johnson. I want to thank you for being the perfect son, for bringing joy to all of us every day you were here, he said. I have not done it, and I have never led a criminal network.. She was a police officer in Veracruz, Mexico. She was born in a small town in Veracruz, one of 11 children. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. (Alberto Morales Garcia/Forbidden Stories). She studied journalism in college and began her career in the early 1980s at a state-run television channel. [69] [70] [71] [72] [73] The girlfriends, [74] wives, and daughters of male journalists and media workers have been murdered. His father, also Luciano, owned a thriving construction materials store. Eventually, she found a federal policeman willing to assist. FORMER CBS News reporter Lara Logan was gang raped "with flagpoles and sticks" while covering the Arab Spring in Egypt nine years ago, she says in a new interview. He lashed out at critics. Last month, Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) drug cartel, which is among Mexico's most powerful, released shocking footage of a rival gangster being interrogated and then slaughtered. Her articles had an outsize impact. . Since that day, theories have proliferated as to who fired. 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. Sheriff Mina emphasized that officials did not yet know the suspects motive for shooting five people or the nature of his connections to them. Not long after Luciano was taken, the kidnappers called his father and handed the phone to the teenager. . It was a witchs brew, said Seeley, who now runs Constos Global Risk Management. You are taking our hearts with you.. He escaped the country in a helicopter and was later arrested in Guatemala. 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. If it was only a matter of time. The catalog is part of a body of work by photographer Flix Mrquez exploring their lives through the belongings they left behind. The city placed a bronze plaque honoring her in the central plaza. At 17, he was convicted for two murders and sentenced to 70 years in a Texas states prison . A man who fatally shot a 38-year-old woman on Wednesday morning in Orange County, Fla., returned to the scene later in the day and went on a shooting spree, the authorities said, killing a 24-year-old TV news reporter who had been covering the original homicide and a 9-year-old at a nearby home. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The condition of the 9-year-olds mother, whose name has not been released, was unclear. Luis obsessed over who they were. Mr. Lyons, born and raised in Philadelphia, graduated from the University of Central Florida and had previously worked in Gainesville as a television reporter, according to Spectrum News. 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