Drivers circled town playing it over a loudspeaker. Man being castrated alive by pit bull dogs bite. Townspeople marched, demanding justice for Luciano. On the bridge, she scoured the vendors for flower carts, but that day he was selling sunglasses instead. He lashed out at critics. A Mexican drug cartel used Twitter for evil after murdering a doctor and. She was murdered by Los Pepes for being "Pablo's whore" in 1993. 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. The following year, the family said, a group of scientists found a piece of femur belonging to her daughter. Half of them were already in prison, not because the authorities had cracked the case, but because she had pursued them on her own, with a meticulous abandon. Lourdes Maldonado Lpez, a highly respected veteran local reporter was shot and killed on Sunday in the Santa Fe neighborhood of the northwestern border town of Tijuana, just south of San Diego, California, the Attorney General's Office of Baja California said in a published statement. The reports led to a government investigation that eventually stalled. A catalog of objects recovered by families of Veracruz journalists slain over the past decade. She froze when she found a stack of personal belongings tossed in a pile. 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. . To help her hunt down the people who took her daughter it was the greatest privilege of my career.. Murietta was a high-profile figure, known for his outspoken views on crime. At least, until the following year, when rampant abductions of bus passengers led to the unearthing of nearly 200 bodies dumped in mass graves along San Fernandos peripheries. Now he was on the run and back to what he knew, selling roses to make ends meet. 4:38 A gunman shot and killed a journalist in Tijuana Sunday. And with every failed bid to reclaim Karen, she fell further into despair. 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.. In 2011, the group announced it would begin releasing the names of cartel members and their accomplices in government, which it had obtained through hacking. At the burial site, as a crowd surrounded the rectangular pit, he stood to the side, weeping. She knew the florist had sold flowers on the street before joining the Zeta cartel and getting involved in her daughters kidnapping. She was an incorruptible, professional journalist.. [The search for the disappeared points to Mexicos darkest secrets], Martnez contacted photographer Julio Argumedo to take pictures for Proceso. But Ms. Betancourt played dumb, which Mrs. Rodrguez had thought was odd. Some of her colleagues fled Veracruz the day she died and have never returned. This also deprives real businesses of business., Herrera, now 71, has always denied the allegations. Azalea hugged Lucianos mother for more than a minute, weeping. Jun 30, 2017, 01:01 PM EDT. Recently, she has investigated Russian disinformation operations, censorship around the world, the massive national security state, CIA operations and veterans issues. 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. Mrs. Rodrguezs husband was different after Karen vanished. You have all taught my family that together we can fight back, she said. For the second payment, Lucianos father drove two hours and left a bag of cash between two spent tires at an abandoned gas station. 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. 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.. The intelligence officials said one of those kidnapped disclosed that the group had contacted Martnez. Police sources are saying that you should stop investigating these leads.. . She joined Proceso in 2000. The woman, who started being a hit woman aged 15 said killed pregnant women. The place where the body of 14-year-old Luciano Leal Garza was found. A portrait of MiriamRodrguez hanging on the wall of her home, now owned by her husband. Mass graves were so common that finding fewer than 20 remains at a time barely merited a headline. 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. I want to thank you for being the perfect son, for bringing joy to all of us every day you were here, he said. 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 . to do drilling, to do cleanup, things like that anything that the government hired them to do, the accountant testified. She invented excuses to meet their families, unsuspecting grandmothers and cousins who gave her details, however small. The pressure worked. Once lively, he now seldom left home. She jammed her handgun into his back. He outlawed crime reporting on social media an action that was quickly overturned in court. They gave news conferences. 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.. Halle Berry has done it again: she's turned every head and made every jaw drop with a series of new bikini snapshots that show she's a confident superstar in every season. She parked on the street and lumbered out of the car, moving slowly because of her injury. Lucianos father expressed gratitude. Law enforcement officers at the scene of a shooting in Pine Hills, Fla., on Wednesday. He escaped the country in a helicopter and was later arrested in Guatemala. 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. The Veracruz government said the 35 people were Zetas and the perpetrators were from the warring Gulf Cartel. The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Networks Antonio Baquero in Barcelona and Procesos Jess Esquivel and The Posts Alice Crites and Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, the third son of El Chapo was born on March 29, 1990 and is 31 years old. Family, friends, even strangers. A lot of Narcos: Mexico is based on truth and is a retelling of historical events, but not everything is actually what happened. A disturbing video surfaced of . A scarf that belonged to Karen and a seat cushion from her truck lay near the top. 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. True to form, Mrs. Rodrguez spent days parked near the familys home, waiting for the young woman to emerge. The cartel never had intended to keep him, and after they let him go Mrs. Rodrguez mined his memory for everything he had heard or seen. Her stunning campaign recounted in case files, witness testimony, confessions from the criminals she tracked down and dozens of interviews with relatives, police officers, friends, officials and local residents changed San Fernando, for a while at least. The risk is asymmetric. They were both in critical condition on Wednesday night. He pleaded guilty to some charges and admitted to working with criminal elements. He was sentenced to nine years in prison but has appealed, and media reports say he could be released early. His grandfather, Luciano, ran a trucking business he started from scratch, and a prosperous cinder block factory. He has not seen the questions, it is medically prohibited by his doctor.. On Jan. 23, as Karen prepared to merge into traffic, two trucks pulled up on either side, stopping her. On the drive back from the ranch, Mrs. Rodrguez passed a barbecue restaurant near the entrance of the dirt road to the ranch. In reality, organized crime is a middleman. SOUTH BRUNSWICK - Police have asked for the public's help in the investigation of a hit-and-run crash that killed an East Windsor woman Saturday night, announced the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office. She says one scene of . The vicious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are considered the most dangerous and powerful criminal enterprise in Mexico. And they knew their prosperity had made them obvious targets, even more so than the Rodrguez family. Instead, he agreed to become a political adviser to the PRI, Mexicos long-ruling conservative party. By the time the government issued an arrest warrant, Sama had already skipped town. The gunman, a former reporter for the TV station . She wrote of his increasing wealth at a time when the state debt soared without a clear explanation. Some of the culprits were dead, others in jail. Photos of a woman who was allegedly dismembered by drug traffickers of the Elite Group of the Jalisco Nueva Generacin Cartel (CJNG) were disseminated on social networks . They felt almost perfunctory now, performative. A murder in Veracruz: Slain journalists story a portrait of a violent, corrupt era in Mexico. The killers covered the site with trash to throw off anyone searching. The day after, the kidnappers said they wanted more. 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. Her public campaign threatened more than just a few kidnappers. They called on friends and citizens to march with them, to demand the return of little Luciano. Others interviewed current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials in the United States, Mexico and Spain, former senior U.S. diplomats and a dozen experts on cartels, Veracruz and Mexican politics. The city of San Fernando has been scarred by a decade-long war between cartel factions. 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. She was still wearing her cast, and using crutches, on Mothers Day. (Alberto Morales Garcia/Forbidden Stories) RIGHT: Martnez with Patricio Chirinos Calero, former governor of Veracruz. Sign in Women Are Being Killed With Impunity. mass graves along San Fernandos peripheries. But even he had learned the lesson his mothers murder had been meant to impart: only push so far for justice. 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. But Mrs. Rodrguez fought the government on its analysis, and rightly so. Only after his sister opened his Facebook account did they realize what had happened. As Karen lay on the living room floor, bound and gagged, a knock came at the door: her uncles unsuspecting mechanic, who had come to work on the family truck. Police officers responded and cleared the scene, he said. With an official-looking ID in hand, she spent the better part of a day conducting a fake poll of the neighborhood until she got basic details on one of her daughters captors. They organized search parties. We just want our son back.. Like everyone else in the city, Lucianos relatives knew the story of Karens kidnapping and Mrs. Rodrguezs tragic heroism. Her death gave shape to the impunity that twists everyday life in Mexico, and the government scrambled to react. 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. As the local economy struggled, Duarte was hiding the states financial crisis, she wrote. After that, the woman fled to Veracruz, where she drove a taxi while raising her young son. Only the inquiry in Spain is known to be closed. She said state police badly damaged the fingerprints they found at the crime scene with smears and excess dusting powder. The brutality is now spilling into popular tourist areas, particularly in the Quintana Roo state. Rodrguez said the inquiries ended when Herrera, after 14 months, rushed home to Veracruz to answer allegations in a lawsuit that he and his successor, then-Gov. She scoffed. Argumedo, who has never before spoken publicly about her investigation, said he remembers that the graves were so full that the bodies were overflowing., One co-worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for personal safety reasons, remembers telling her: Regina, be very careful. 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