P-1-Caution Graphic Material - Z40: The aftermath of Miguel Treviño's Arrest and Looking at the Contenders Wednesday, July 17, 2013 | Borderland Beat Reporter Chivis
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By Chivis Martínez for Borderland Beat
During the early hours of Monday, the leader Miguel Treviño Morales, known as “Cuarenta” or “40”, was captured by the Mexican Marines in a municipality about 27 km south west of Nuevo Laredo.....reports idicate the capo was travelling visit his infant son, said to be living adjacent to Nuevo Laredo. Reportedly, he was making frequent trips to visit his child.
Setting aside the unproven, sensationalistic accounts, relayed by captured narcos, and perpetuated by the media, legends such as Miguel Treviño boiling babies, one only has to view the photos of 72 migrants slaughtered by Zetas to establish how brutal Zetas are. ..
Zetas
It was Zetas that crafted a drug business diversification, by expanding into the business of human trafficking. It is a substantial business for Zetas, who charge thousands of dollars to transport economic migrants into the US. But the process is not so precise.
Speaking directly with economic migrants through my work with the Casa Migrantes, I have learned that the journey is prepped by assuming two things will happen. They will be kidnapped, and females will be raped. All migrants prepare for the eventuality of being kidnapped, at the minimum of one time during their 2000 mile journey. Family members prepare and await the call from narcos demanding "ransom" money.
Zetas draw from these huge migrant pools to select recruits they deem best for narco work, or the sex industry. The outcome for those refusing to work for the Zetas, is depicted in the photos of the 72 slaughtered migrants whose bodies were discovered in an abandon ranch in Tamaulipas. (Above)
His criminal charges includes the authoring the kidnapping and murder of 265 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, a city 85 miles south of Brownsville Texas. The 265 tally represent two incidents; the 72 migrants discovered at an abandon ranch (photo above), and 193 migrants found in narco fossa.
It is because of the escape of a wounded survivor, we know what transpired at the ranch slaughter. Through his testimony he said they were taken off a bus/truck and were killed after their refusal to work as drug mules.
It is worrisome that Miguel has a focus charge of the mass murders because "el Kilo" and his cell were responsible for carrying out the massacre and Kilo has admitted to going beyond the order of recruitment. Nonetheless there are solid charges awaiting him in the US.
His criminal charges includes the authoring the kidnapping and murder of 265 migrants in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, a city 85 miles south of Brownsville Texas. The 265 tally represent two incidents; the 72 migrants discovered at an abandon ranch (photo above), and 193 migrants found in narco fossa.
It is because of the escape of a wounded survivor, we know what transpired at the ranch slaughter. Through his testimony he said they were taken off a bus/truck and were killed after their refusal to work as drug mules.
It is worrisome that Miguel has a focus charge of the mass murders because "el Kilo" and his cell were responsible for carrying out the massacre and Kilo has admitted to going beyond the order of recruitment. Nonetheless there are solid charges awaiting him in the US.
Decapitations
So yes they are brutal. Yes they kill innocents.
But brutality was a part of drug war apart and long before the formation of the Zetas, and contrary to popular belief they did not initiate the method of decapitation for the purposes of terror, it was La Familia Michoacán who shocked Mexico, in October 2006, when they tossed 5 decapitated heads on to the floor of a Michoacán disco.
The heads were accompanied by a “cartulina” (poster board with narco message) that read;
The heads were accompanied by a “cartulina” (poster board with narco message) that read;
“La Familia does not kill for pay; it does not kill women or innocents. Only those who deserve to die will die. Everybody understand: this is divine justice.”
In 2006, such acts were very rare, today decapitations are so common they are not shocking to those that follow the Mexican Drug War. Although previously rare, decapitations were a part of the cartel arsenal of terror and revenge prior to the lobbing of 5 decapitated heads in the Uruapan disco. It was the act of using multiple decapitated heads thrown into a public environment to send a message that was new.
Prior to this horrific occurrence, LFM had used decapitation to settle scores and revenge, but not to send a message. The victims were props, either low level narco or innocents, it was never made clear.
The “Hearts and Minds of Citizens”
A defining difference between Zetas and other cartels is that Zetas have never cultivated the hearts and minds of the people. They simply, at the most basic level, are uninterested and uncaring what people think of them or their actions. Most cartels have the opposite agenda, with PR machines intact they espouse their work as good, in the sense they are helpers of the poor, and infirm and never would harm innocents. This is a tactical maneuver called "pyops", that influences the value system of people, in which reality becomes shrouded. Whereas Zetas use fear and terror as a means of control.
In 2006, such acts were very rare, today decapitations are so common they are not shocking to those that follow the Mexican Drug War. Although previously rare, decapitations were a part of the cartel arsenal of terror and revenge prior to the lobbing of 5 decapitated heads in the Uruapan disco. It was the act of using multiple decapitated heads thrown into a public environment to send a message that was new.
Prior to this horrific occurrence, LFM had used decapitation to settle scores and revenge, but not to send a message. The victims were props, either low level narco or innocents, it was never made clear.
The “Hearts and Minds of Citizens”
A defining difference between Zetas and other cartels is that Zetas have never cultivated the hearts and minds of the people. They simply, at the most basic level, are uninterested and uncaring what people think of them or their actions. Most cartels have the opposite agenda, with PR machines intact they espouse their work as good, in the sense they are helpers of the poor, and infirm and never would harm innocents. This is a tactical maneuver called "pyops", that influences the value system of people, in which reality becomes shrouded. Whereas Zetas use fear and terror as a means of control.
When I arrived in Coahuila a decade ago, Zetas were a presence but working as enforcers for the Golfo Cartel (CDG). Zetas were much less overt as enforcers, taking orders from CDG’s premier leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen.
Osiel was one of those leaders who thought it important to capture the hearts and minds of the people, to gain their support. He was fulfilling requests for medical and emergency assistance, throwing lavish parties for citizens with expensive giveaways, and celebrations at Christmas and Children’s Day (photo above).
However, behind the scenes he was ordering brutal murders, extortion and kidnappings. LFM worked for CDG as enforcers in the south. Osiel was captured after a shootout in 2003 and imprisoned in Mexico, although he continued commanding the cartel from behind bars.
The violence, including decapitations by enforcers were conducted on orders given by Osiel and the other CDG leaders. Osiel earned the nickname of “friend killer”, stemming from ordering the execution of his his good friend Salvador Gómez Herrera, aka "el Chava", then the co-leader of the Golfo Cartel along with Osiel. Osiel wanted to command solo.
The violence, including decapitations by enforcers were conducted on orders given by Osiel and the other CDG leaders. Osiel earned the nickname of “friend killer”, stemming from ordering the execution of his his good friend Salvador Gómez Herrera, aka "el Chava", then the co-leader of the Golfo Cartel along with Osiel. Osiel wanted to command solo.
To this day many citizens think of Osiel and a kind and generous leader that would never harm innocents, or extort or kidnap. The PR machine could not have done a better job.
His command stopped in 2007 when he was extradited to the US. He pled guilty in a US Federal courtroom where upon the brutal fearless leader broke down and wept. He received a 25 year sentence.
The Treviño Morales Family
Clearly, it has been a horrible year for the Treviño Morales family. Then again 2012 wasn’t so great either.
Clearly, it has been a horrible year for the Treviño Morales family. Then again 2012 wasn’t so great either.
Arcelia Morales, is the 74 year old matriarch, the woman that gave birth to all of the 13 Treviño children.
Juan, Arcelia, Irma, Alicia, Rodolfo, María, José, Ana Isabel, Jesús, Miguel, Ángel Óscar Omar, Cristina and Adolfo, born between the years of 1955 to 1980.
Juan, Arcelia, Irma, Alicia, Rodolfo, María, José, Ana Isabel, Jesús, Miguel, Ángel Óscar Omar, Cristina and Adolfo, born between the years of 1955 to 1980.
Arcelia and Rodolfo, father of the Treviño siblings, migrated to Texas from the Mexican border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. The family settled in a modest Pleasant Grove neighborhood of Dallas Texas.
Where Miguel appears chronologically in the family tree is in dispute, even by the US and Mexican Governments, his year of birth is either 1973 or 1980, although it is certain he was born in Nuveo Laredo where the family has always maintained a home.
Arcelia continues to live in the Dallas area and Nuevo Laredo.
Miguel grew up idolizing his older brother and the first born Treviño child, Juan Francisco. Juan had a landscaping business in Laredo Texas. 40 worked for his brother in the business, which included servicing the properties of well-placed narcos having homes in Laredo. He was recruited by “Los Tejas” of Nuevo Laredo.
Though he began as a go-fer which included tasks such as getting lunches, and running errands he was a fast learner, bilingual and had the ability to move between the US and Mexico freely. With his skills he was able to rise quickly in the ranks fortified by helping his brother Juan, who had by this time gone from pulling weeds to smuggling weed.
In 1995 Juan, he was convicted of conspiracy to smuggle hundreds of pounds of marijuana into Texas through Nuevo Laredo. Both Miguel and José were implicated in the investigation leading to the arrest of Juan; it fell short of enough to overcome the standard of reasonable doubt, so they were not charged in the case.
Juan was sentenced to 20 years in prison; he is in the Florence Federal Prison in Colorado. His original release date was July 2013 but has been delayed for an undisclosed reason to March 2014.
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