Duarte was obsessed, she wrote in Proceso, with censoring the truth. Living in San Fernando means accepting certain realities. 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. She wrote everything down and stuffed it into her black computer bag, building her investigation and tracking them down, one by one. The parents speeches brought tears to the crowd, to Luis and his sister Azalea in particular. Within a few months, it arrested two of the culprits, and killed another in a gunfight. She studied journalism in college and began her career in the early 1980s at a state-run television channel. When I heard him just now it was like my own child.. She was an incorruptible, professional journalist.. A murder in Veracruz: Slain journalists story a portrait of a violent, corrupt era in Mexico. Under Duarte, now 47, corruption and violence increased dramatically. 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. On the bridge, she scoured the vendors for flower carts, but that day he was selling sunglasses instead. Priest reported from Washington. 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. She was identified as Christina Langford Johnson. In Washington, the White House reacted Wednesday night to the news that journalists were among the victims in the latest spate of gun violence. 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. 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. Since that day, theories have proliferated as to who fired. She was murdered by Los Pepes for being "Pablo's whore" in 1993. Two weeks later, the tortured and decapitated body of Notivers police reporter was discovered. Blog dedicated to reporting on Mexican drug cartels on the border line between the US and Mexico. She knew their habits, friends, hometowns, childhoods. Law enforcement officers at the scene of a shooting in Pine Hills, Fla., on Wednesday. I want to end this. They needed a bit more money, they said, just $500. Bermdez has pleaded not guilty, and the case is pending. But with each passing day, the trails grew more faint. 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. 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. Even young women who attended their sex parties. 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. Authorities discovered Vanessa Torres Galn's mutilated body, which bore signs of torture. The weeks after Karens abduction had become knotted into a single, nauseating progression of calls, threats and false promises. Mrs.Rodrguezs son, Luis, at the ranch where the remains of his sister, Karen, were found. For Karen, it was Cristian, the teenager Mrs. Rodrguez had fed. His grandfather, Luciano, ran a trucking business he started from scratch, and a prosperous cinder block factory. 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. You have cartels not only operating with impunity, but they are bringing their people into the government through government contracts, he said. The series examines the power and activities of Mexican cartels and their collusion with corrupt government officials. The abandoned gas station on the edge of town where Lucianos father left the second ransom. They either purge it and try to move on from their loved ones, or they sustain it, and it destroys them. 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. Mr. Moses criminal history includes charges of aggravated battery, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and grand theft and gun violations, Sheriff Mina said. The presence of multiple, competing cartels provoked turf battles and an increase in killings. 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. [The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels], The violence became news all over the world. The child. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Eight others have disappeared. This also deprives real businesses of business., Herrera, now 71, has always denied the allegations. 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. . Mrs. Rodrguez stalked the store for weeks until she knew the womans hours by heart, and waited outside each shift until Sama showed. Just before her killing, Martnez had begun visiting pauper cemeteries in Veracruz to compare the number of bodies buried to official death records. Standing beside him in the photo was a young woman, wearing the uniform of an ice cream shop two hours away in Ciudad Victoria. . Like everyone else in the city, Lucianos relatives knew the story of Karens kidnapping and Mrs. Rodrguezs tragic heroism. In all, she was instrumental in taking down 10 people, a mad campaign for justice that made her famous, but vulnerable. Now, after driving by the restaurant again, it dawned on her: Maybe the young woman knew something. Mass graves containing tens of thousands have been subsequently discovered across the country. Families have suffered kidnappings and cartel-imposed curfews much as big city residents endure traffic and pollution. Her death gave shape to the impunity that twists everyday life in Mexico, and the government scrambled to react. And at 14, little Luciano helped them both when he wasnt at school. Two Mexican intelligence officials said in phone interviews that Martnezs homicide may be connected to the hackers known as Anonymous in Mexico. In 2015, Virginia reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot and killed during their live TV broadcast for CBS affiliate WDBJ7. 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 . But the kidnappers knew exactly how to strike. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. When she returned, the officer asked her what she had been thinking. Her mother was a different person after that. Murietta was a high-profile figure, known for his outspoken views on crime. Only her tape recorder and computer were gone. A Mexican drug cartel used Twitter for evil after murdering a doctor and. 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. NEW! Martnez was one of the very few reporters who dared to refuse bribes or to ignore cartel threats aimed at censoring the news. Martnezs homicide shocked many who assumed a reporter at such a respected national outlet was too high-profile to be killed. Through the static, she heard someone call him by name: Sama. Journalist and activist Gildo Garza, right, reads the names of murdered journalists at a demonstration outside the federal attorney general's office in Mexico City. The Barcelona City Council and Catalonian police launched confidential inquiries looking at Herreras links to people in Barcelona with their own legal problems, according to documents and interviews. She scoffed. I want to thank you for being the perfect son, for bringing joy to all of us every day you were here, he said. 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. International press groups consider Veracruz to be the most dangerous place in the world to report the news. She told her daughter that she would not rest until she found the people who had taken Karen. Enrique Pea Nieto, who once described Herrera as his best friend, ran and won the presidency instead. 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. Even then, they weighed the immense consequences of going to the police. Then she donned a government uniform she had kept from an old, low-level job at the Health Ministry. So many families never found their loved ones. The intersection where Mrs. Rodrguezs daughter, Karen, was kidnapped. Everyone posts photos on social media, even small-time gangsters. They were both in critical condition on Wednesday night. A 19-year-old Florida man is now facing three first-degree-murder charges related to shootings last week that killed a television news reporter, a 9-year-old girl and a 38-year-old woman, sheriff . She jammed her handgun into his back. They stripped their hopes to something far more basic the return of their son. In retaliation, the Zetas kidnapped several members to threaten them and to learn the names of people who had access to the hacked information. [75] Female participants [ edit] When Borbolla transferred jobs in late 2015, she insisted Martnezs case remain open because we have those two fingerprints that implicated someone, and we didnt know who he was.. When they arrested him in the central plaza, Sama kicked and screamed, claiming he had a heart condition. She had already confirmed his involvement in Karens kidnapping, thanks to the mechanic abducted along with her daughter that night. As the local economy struggled, Duarte was hiding the states financial crisis, she wrote. Mexican marines had killed six of the accomplices, Cristian said in his statement. She knew the florist had sold flowers on the street before joining the Zeta cartel and getting involved in her daughters kidnapping. The gunman, a former reporter for the TV station . The extortion of 80 small-town mayors. Mexico: In a horrific cartel attack against Mexico police, a female cop was allegedly kidnapped, raped and mutilated when she was performing her duties in the area. Naturally, Mrs. Rodrguez began attending service. Borbolla said she believed Enoc Maldonado Caraza, chief of the Veracruz Investigative Agency, delayed handing over other evidence. Reporter Dylan Lyons and a photographer were on scene reporting sometime around 4:00 p.m. when they were shot while reporting on a homicide of a woman in her twenties, which occurred at approximately 11:00 a.m., WCJB noted. It was a company to build highways Drivers circled town playing it over a loudspeaker. 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. We urge all reporters in the field to take extra precaution and redouble efforts to work safely., Spectrum News on Thursday described Mr. Lyons, 24, as a motivated and talented professional who was living his dream in Orlando.. She was still wearing her cast, and using crutches, on Mothers Day. Duarte, had used public funds to purchase fake chemotherapy medication for children. But look at how things ended for her. Many justify their silence with the belief that victims were engaged in illegal activity themselves. In total, reports indicate six cartel members were captured in the raid that killed her on Friday. She froze when she found a stack of personal belongings tossed in a pile. The government said nothing about how it had found the grave site. He was running around with everybody.. 1 min read. 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. Dead.. He slowly shrank, physically and spiritually, until his children struggled to recognize him. She used to give her Karens old clothes. She is the Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland. She had eaten there with Azalea only two days after Karens kidnapping. But the kidnapping of an innocent 14-year-old boy broke the quiet understanding that the cartels had with the people of San Fernando. Duarte is serving a nine-year sentence for embezzlement and money laundering. At 17, he was convicted for two murders and sentenced to 70 years in a Texas states prison . She was born in a small town in Veracruz, one of 11 children. ,federal,local police are sometimes paid to allow it or they try to stop them and be killed themselves or their family killed. She went to the authorities local, state and federal but none would help her. Violence akin to terrorism including beheadings, dismemberments and hangings, with bodies displayed as warnings pervaded the lives of its 8million residents. Drug cartel assassin from Colombia, 39, said loved to kill people and killed many. 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. 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. Man being castrated alive by pit bull dogs bite. 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. to do drilling, to do cleanup, things like that anything that the government hired them to do, the accountant testified. Unlike Mrs. Rodrguezs relentless pursuit of her daughters killers, Lucianos parents did not seek to punish the powerful cartel. 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. Anyone can read what you share. I very much regret each death and each person who receives some mistreatment. No one challenged organized crime, never mind put its members in prison. Feb. 2022: Mexican TV host found dead in string of journalist killings. 237 points 27 comments. She is one of three people to testify in front of the Border Security and . [The search for the disappeared points to Mexicos darkest secrets], Martnez contacted photographer Julio Argumedo to take pictures for Proceso. A noose hung from the branch of a gnarled tree. The body of a woman was found nearby. She joined Proceso in 2000. 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. A missing persons poster for Luciano Leal Garza on the window of a taqueria in San Fernando. Im going to take out the people who hurt my daughter and they can do whatever they want to me.. And then, by pure chance, Sama turned up. 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. The intelligence officials said one of those kidnapped disclosed that the group had contacted Martnez. Indian . When questioned about those holdings, the governor said they belonged to his wealthy wife. 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. She held him there for nearly an hour, awaiting the police to make the arrest. The city of San Fernando has been scarred by a decade-long war between cartel factions. After that, the woman fled to Veracruz, where she drove a taxi while raising her young son. Israel. He and others of his time were fortunate that the governors who followed them were successors theyd chosen from their own party who covered the traces of the previous corruption.. The next year, 168. Now Mrs. Rodrguez was sitting down with one of them, imploring him to release Karen as his radio squawked sporadically. Abigail Geiger contributed reporting from Orlando, Fla. New Details Emerge in Killing of Reporter, Woman and 9-Year-Old, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/florida-shooting-news.html. Herreras finances were of particular interest to her. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A 19-year-old Florida man is now facing three first-degree-murder charges related to shootings last week that killed a television news reporter, a 9-year-old . Mr. Moses was taken to a hospital, where Sheriff Mina said he fought with hospital staff and was restrained, before being transported to the Sheriffs Office. The restaurant where Mrs. Rodrguez met with a cartel member in San Fernando. They had a sort of buzzer for giving electric shocks, and they put it on my chest and gave me shocks. 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. Hope is a toxin that poisons many families of the missing. Eight years after Martnezs homicide on April 28, 2012, a team of reporters from Mexico, Europe and The Washington Post has picked up where Martnez left off. Video: Mexican soldiers arrested for torturing woman after horrific video emerged of them helping a police officer suffocating helpless detainee with plastic bag. 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 . Raul aka "Mini 6", born in 1991 and was killed by police in Jalisco in 2010 when he was 18 years old. Mrs. Rodrguez went to Aldama, his small hometown of about 13,000 people, and paid a visit to his grandmother. Herrera has not been charged with a crime, and he denied all the allegations against him. Once lively, he now seldom left home. The city lies along a principal route north through the state of Tamaulipas. 1. A portrait of MiriamRodrguez hanging on the wall of her home, now owned by her husband. His mother made a heart-rending recording, pleading with the kidnappers to return her son. Every noise from the street startled them. 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. 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. Cartel violence has long scarred San Fernando, Mexico. She needed a name. Her colleagues were right to be worried. Herrera belongs to the previous generation of governors, when accountability institutions lacked political power, said Alberto Olvera, a sociologist at the University of Veracruz. Weeks earlier, volunteers had passed the very spot and missed it. There was never a single illicit penny in my campaign, he told the outlet Grupo Frmula in 2014. I am a man with clean hands.. When Herreras term ended in 2010, he expressed a desire to run for president. Source: Twitter. What I can say is that I am innocent, Bermdez said at the time. We learn how to do that in the first year of criminal studies and it didnt happen only once.. Herrera was paid millions of dollars through liaisons to the cartels to let them operate with impunity., Rebolledo, the Veracruz security consultant, said: He was the boss of bosses. The Forbidden Stories investigation found that U.S. and Mexican authorities had long been investigating some subjects that Martnez had been pursuing. She said it matter-of-factly, as though describing her sleep. It was Sept. 15, 2014, the day on which Mexican independence is celebrated. They have hired gravediggers and forensic experts. Signs were displayed around San Fernando during the long search for Luciano Leal Garza, who was lured to a park and abducted in San Fernando. The place where the body of 14-year-old Luciano Leal Garza was found. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. But when he suggested that the searches be accompanied by dogs to smell for corpses, the family took umbrage, Luis said. Armed men forced their way into her pickup truck and took off, with her in it. Never in my career had I seen such an altered crime scene. Her husband, inside watching television, found her face down on the street, hand tucked inside her purse, next to her pistol. She cut her hair, dyed it and disguised herself as a pollster, a health worker and an election official to get their names and addresses. To help her hunt down the people who took her daughter it was the greatest privilege of my career.. Halfway through the year, Adame's death brings to seven the 2017 toll of slain press . Her friends often wondered if she was going too far. Mr. Moses had walked into a brown house nearby and shot the 9-year-old girl and her mother, he said. In 2017, remains of 250 people were unearthed in Veracruz. No one slept. Hes still a child, no matter what he did, and I am still a mother, Mrs. Rodrguez said, according to her friend, Idalia Saldivar Villavicencio, who was with her at the interrogation. insider. Journalist Maria del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, who was killed by members of a drug cartel for threatening to expose them. Women Are Being Killed With Impunity in Mexico - YouTube 0:00 / 14:49 Sign in to confirm your age This video may be inappropriate for some users. The Zetas, once an armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, had been warring with their one-time bosses for years. Graphics by Daniela Santamaria. Townspeople, long accustomed to looking away in silence, watched the funeral procession crawl through the streets, slow enough for the hundreds of mourners on foot to keep up. 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