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Yesterday 23:45 #4477There is something seriously fishy about this story. It says they left Ensenada early, yet they were 30 minutes into the drive when they reached Rosarito. That is a minimum of an hour drive, and that's really flying. Some guy shoots everybody while yelling about dinero, yet takes nothing but a worthless iPhone? He was targeted because he had US plates? Like that's rare, or something? Man, do I have news for that family.
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None of that makes a lot of sense. Either this is seriously crappy reporting, and that is always a strong possibility. Or somebody isn't telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
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Yesterday 21:12 #4476Link to the above article https://ktla.com/news/local-news/fam...led-in-mexico/. Originally Posted by StRobert
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Yesterday 21:10 #4475
Southern California man gunned down by suspected thieves in Mexico
Local News.
Southern California man gunned down by suspected thieves in Mexico.
By: Vivian Chow.
Posted: Oct 9, 2024/06:46 PM PDT.
Updated: Oct 11,2024 / 05:47 AM PDT.
Loved ones are devastated after a Southern California man was shot and killed while visiting Mexico.
Isaac Lopez, 23, traveled to Ensenada for the weekend to visit his grandmother and attend his sister's vow renewal celebration.
Lopez, an aspiring singer-songwriter living in Riverside, was excited to reunite with family members during the short trip. He brought his boyfriend, Jake, and his cousin, Darlene, on the trip as well.
Early morning on Oct. 7, they began the drive back home to SoCal. Lopez hoped to get some rest before going back to work later that day. As they reached the town of Rosarito, however, the unthinkable happened.
Lopez's sister, Karen Lajud, remembers the morning she received the devastating phone call from Jake.
"They were like 30 minutes into driving and Jake said that he heard a pop and he looked over at Isaac," Lajud told KTLA's Shelby Nelson. "Isaac was driving and he saw Isaac's head immediately just went down and he grabbed the steering wheel. ".
The car drove into a ditch and moments later, a man suddenly approached their vehicle.
"They were like, 'Is everybody okay?' in Spanish and Jake was trying to get help," Lajud said. He was like, 'Please help us,' and when he said that, the guy took out a gun and shot Jake in the shoulder. He immediately went to the back and started saying, "Dinero, dinero, teléfonos!' and he looked at Darlene and he shot her. ".
The thieves reportedly only took Lopez's cell phone — his wallet was untouched — which leaves his family with even more questions.
Lajud said it took Mexican authorities over an hour to respond to the scene. Within that critical timeframe, Lopez died from his injuries. His boyfriend and cousin survived the shooting.
His family believes his vehicle was targeted because it had a foreign USA License plate. Still grieving over his death, his loved ones are now working to bring his body back home to California for a proper funeral.
"he was the sweetest person you could have ever met," Lajud said. "he was always there for me when I needed him. We want to bring my brother home. ".
Lajud said her family has been overwhelmed with the difficult process of bringing her brother back. She said they've been buried in paperwork and high costs while Mexican authorities have not been helpful during the process.
A GoFundMe page to help Lopez's family with funeral costs can be found here.
The USA Government has issued a travel advisory to various parts of Mexico. For Baja California, foreign visitors are advised to reconsider traveling to the area due to threats of crime and kidnapping.
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10-11-24 19:02 #4474Were I you, I'd be skeptical of such a post coming from a poster with zero prior history on the board. Maybe it happened exactly the way it was described. Maybe it didn't. If it happened at all. Originally Posted by Rambo1969
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But you can be stopped by a cop for no reason. They don't really have to have probable cause.
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10-11-24 09:47 #4473
I would advise against driving in Tijuana. The police target US drivers. Follow all the laws and do not do anything stupid like being drunk or urinating. Public. Do not carry anything illegal. Wjen I occasionally buy Ambien I always take it at the drug store. This because in Mexico you are required by law to have prescription. Avoid talking to the police. Awhile backy phone got stolen & I reported it to a cop. As I walking they stopped and searched me. I would not worry to much. This is the first time I have ever heard of a situation like this before. There is also a strong possibility that this not the complete story. Now that said it is good idea to use extra caution. I always try & keep apprised if crime is rising in Tijuana. The stuff we hear about in the news usually not affect us in the zona. It is more important to pay attention reports crime or other incidents on the zona. This helps us know if we need to be using extra caution.
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10-11-24 07:08 #4472Wake the fuck up! You can't do a damn thing thing! Originally Posted by Rambo1969
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10-11-24 03:01 #4471
How to avoid being stopped by cops for no cause & then falsely accuses
This is scary. How can we avoid being stopped by cops without cause? Originally Posted by Harlem8878
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How can we avoid being falsely accused?
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10-11-24 02:58 #4470
How to avoid being stopped by cops for no cause and then falsely accused of crime
This is scary. Especially if there was no reason / cause for the cops to stop you. Originally Posted by Harlem8878
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How can we avoid becoming such victims?
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10-10-24 16:39 #4469
More thoughts.
Many are saying the economy will improve in Mexico. I. am hopeful. But crime and the drug caerts is the most important problem in. Mexico. There are cities in Mexico where the cartels control cities and the police are afraid to patrol. Just last year we saw a big cartel war on Tijuana. The gangs. Shut down parts of Tijuana &. Told everyone to stay home. In the end believe we can see significant improvements to to Mexico' economy. But this will not happen unless there is a significant progress with the crime issue.
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10-10-24 00:00 #4468
Mexico's president lays out a plan to combat cartel violence. But it looks like more of the same.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-pr...b1f5a935c564af
Mexico's new president intends to increase intelligence & purse the same policies. Personally I am a bit more hopeful. Claudia Sheinbaum seems more of a realist & a more hands on leader. As mayor she dramatically reduced crime in Mexico city. She held daily meetings with law enforcement officials. I believe the national guard a good interim solution to help stop cartel violence. The cartels still traffic lot of drugs and run protection rackets. It is ridiculous that the drug dealers still openly operate in the zona.
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10-08-24 16:25 #4467
A Cartel Double-Cross Turns a Mexican State Into a War Zone
Several officers in helmets and bearing rifles guard a crime scene.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/w...artel-war.html
Police officers guarding a crime scene last month in Culiacan, Mexico.
An explosive deception has ripped apart one of Mexico's most powerful criminal groups, the Sinaloa cartel, and ignited a war between the rival faction.
By Natalie Kitroeff and Paulina VillegasPhotographs by Meridith Kohut.
Reporting from Culiacan, Mexico.
Oct. 8, 2024.
Updated 9:22 am et.
Bodies dumped on the side of the road. Gun battles in upscale neighborhoods. Tractor-trailers set aflame on the highway. People plucked from their cars by armed men in broad daylight.
This is what it looks like when war breaks out within one of the most powerful criminal mafias in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel, pitting two rival factions against each other in a bloody struggle to control a multibillion-dollar narco empire.
The past few years had been relatively peaceful in Sinaloa state, in northwest Mexico, where the dominance of a single, cohesive criminal organization kept turf wars to a minimum, and official homicide rates were lower than in many major USA Cities.
Then, in late July, came an unthinkable betrayal: Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada García, a godfather of the cartel, was tricked by the son of his former ally, abducted, forced onto a flight to the United States and arrested by American agents, according to USA Officials.
Mr. Zambada described the treachery in a letter released by his lawyer, in which the drug lord said that on the day he was arrested, he'd been lured to a supposedly friendly meeting and then "ambushed" and "kidnapped" by one of the sons of his fellow cartel co-founder, Joaquíand Guzmán Loera, known as El Chapo.
The bloody struggle between two rival factions of one of the most powerful criminal mafias in the world, the Sinaloa Cartel, has cost Culiacan, a city of one million people, hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, business leaders say.
It wasn't the first time one of the capos' families double-crossed each other. Tensions have been simmering between the two sides since El Chapo was captured and put on trial in a USA Federal court, where one of El Mayo's sons offered damning testimony against the drug lord in 2019 that helped put him in prison for life.
For about a month after El Mayo's abduction and arrest, the state of Sinaloa was on edge, waiting to see whether the cartel heirs might come to a resolution. In early September, an answer came: An eruption of killings signaled the beginning of all-out civil war.
"We're still not at the end of this long period of violence, which is overwhelming us," said Governor Rubén Rocha Moya of Sinaloa in an interview, adding: "The government is not overpowered at all, on the contrary, we're increasingly better positioned to confront the violence. "
But the people of Sinaloa don't seem to trust that anyone has control over the brutality.
Residents now follow a self-imposed curfew, sheltering inside after dark. Parents refuse to send their children to school out of fear they may get caught in gunfire. Armed men forced two local mayors out of their vehicles and stole their cars on Monday, according to a spokesman for the state's attorney general.
The tables at a taqueria in Culiacan were empty on a Friday night, when it is usually bustling.
Paralysis has gripped the local economy, as many employees have stopped showing up to work and businesses have reduced their hours or suspended operations altogether. The capital, Culiacan, has already suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, business leaders sa.
With more than 140 people killed in just one month, officials fear the violence could soon spread across the country, raising the stakes for Mexico's new president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Mexico's First Female President Takes OfficeOct. 1, 2024.
As a Massacre Unfolded, a Frantic Call: 'Send for Help'Oct. 7, 2024.
"We are at a critical moment right now," said Eduardo Guerrero, a Mexico City-based security analyst. "If they don't stop what is happening in Sinaloa soon, it will become unmanageable."
The federal government sent 1,100 soldiers to patrol the streets, and the army seized the weapons of Culiacáand's municipal police force, a move experts say reflects concern about collusion between the cartel and the local officers.
Under former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the government tried to avoid direct confrontations with armed groups in an effort to limit mass casualties. Ms. Sheinbaum, his protégé, has vowed to continue that strategy.
"Entering with firepower would cause a war," Ms. Sheinbaum said recently, adding that security forces must prioritize protecting civilians "but not generate more confrontation that causes more deaths."
The Mexican federal government has sent more than 1,000 soldiers to Sinaloa state, in an effort to curb the violence after war broke out within the Sinaloa Cartel.
Gen. Francisco Jesús Leana Ojeda, who until recently was head of the armed forces in Sinaloa, told reporters that the state's security "doesn't depend on us, it depends on the rival groups stopping their confrontations. " he was removed from his post this month, local media reported.
Mr. Rocha Moya, the governor, distanced himself from the comments, which sparked outrage. "Obviously the state can't just wait and see when they decide to stop," he said.
Before stepping down, Mr. López Obrador blamed the violence on the United States, which he said only began "because of a decision they made that was not correct and that was hatched abroad," suggesting the USA Government orchestrated the plan to arrest El Mayo.
"There was no USA Law enforcement operation conducted in Mexico related to the arrest of Ismael Zambada García," the State Department said in a statement.
On a recent Friday, Sinaloa police found a white van spray-painted with "Welcome to Culiacáand" outside a taco shop in the capital. Crammed inside were the bodies of at least five men who must have been killed days earlier, said a police officer, judging by the smell of human decay filling the air.
When asked if the violence was slowing down, the officer exhaled sharply.
"No way," he said, "It has just begun."
A white van is cordoned off with crime-scene tape. Spray painted on it is "Welcome to Culiacan."
The bodies of six men were found crammed inside a white van, with "Welcome to Culiacan" spray-painted on the passenger side, in the capital of Culiacan.
In Elota, about an hour south of Culiacan, Rosario Salazar, 70, began taking cover as soon as caravans of armed men started rolling through town. At the sound of the heavy trucks, she and her husband would run inside their small cinder block house, turn off the lights and lock themselves in, sometimes for days.
"We wouldn't even dare to look out of the window," she said. Food distributors stopped coming to town. Residents turned off their lights at 8 pm Ms. Salazar closed her store and started rationing food.
"We have always been poor, so we know how to adjust and live off little to nothing," she said, "but the fear is more difficult to handle."
At one point, a tiger named Tita escaped from a house that was set on fire, which officials say belonged to a supposed cartel member.
In a federal indictment against Sinaloa cartel leaders, USA Prosecutors say that the group fed its enemies, "dead or alive," to tigers owned by the sons of El Chapo, though residents say that Tita was kept as a pet. She was eventually captured and is now in the Culiacan zoo.
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Shattered glass is seen in a burned-out room. A police officer walks by outside the broken windows.
The burned-out living room of a cartel member in Elota, where some of the heaviest fighting has occurred between two rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Among the only items to survive the fire in the home — found nestled among charred debris by Times reporters visiting the scene — was a small vial of naloxone, the drug used to reverse opioid overdose.
The violence in and around Elota may be part of a battle for land that is well suited for marijuana fields and synthetic drug labs, said Juan Carlos Ayala Barróand, a security analyst and professor at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa.
"The labs are usually installed in the mountainous side" of the region, Mr. Ayala Barrón said, "where they can be hidden under the thick tree canopy. "
The municipality was home to two brothers accused by the Drug Enforcement Administration of being major fentanyl traffickers for the cartel — until August, when one of the men, Martín García Corrales, was found dead on the side of the road and his brother disappeared. Their houses were left burned out and riddled with bullet holes.
The State Department says the Sinaloa Cartel "is largely responsible for the massive influx" of fentanyl into the United States.
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Two police officers guarding a street corner.
Police officers outside the former home of Martín García Corrales, who was accused of being a major fentanyl trafficker working for the Sinaloa Cartel. In August, his body was found on the side of the road.
Outbursts of violence have rocked Sinaloa before, but residents say the current wave is more intense than anything they've experienced.
In 2019, Mexican security forces briefly arrested Ovidio Guzmán López, one of El Chapo's sons, in Culiacan and then were forced to release him after cartel gunmen laid siege to the city.
When Mr. Guzmán López was recaptured last year, his henchmen again caused mayhem in the streets, forcing the airport and government buildings to shut down.
But those episodes were over in a few days.
In southern Sinaloa, many residents remain trapped inside their homes a month after the conflict began.
"How am I supposed to feed these children?" said Luis Sapiens, a farm hand in Elota.
Mr. Sapiens, 37, normally works seven days a week in a greenhouse to provide for his wife and two daughters, 5 and 7. Now he only goes in every few days, when his boss says it's safe enough.
The local government delivered food to his neighborhood a couple weeks ago, but other than that, residents are fending for themselves. The local school is still shut, said Mr. Sapiens's wife, Esmeralda, because the teachers are too scared to come to town.
"They're falling behind," she said, as the two girls watched cartoons. "And there's nothing I can do about it. "
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A woman stands next to a five-gallon jug of water.
Esmeralda Sapiens, 27, has been afraid to leave her home in Elota, where some of the heaviest fighting has occurred between the two rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega contributed reporting from Mexico City and Alan Feuer from New York.
Natalie Kitroeff is the Mexico City bureau chief for The Times, leading coverage of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. More about Natalie Kitroeff.
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10-08-24 03:56 #4466
It's not the latest documentary, but still the saddest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKhQ_ZfcLAE
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10-07-24 22:22 #4465Anyone who didn't spend significant time growing up in a Latin American country is considered a gringo to Latin Americans. Mexican Americans who grew up in the US and only visit Mexico from time to time are still considered gringos to Mexicans. Originally Posted by FlapJacK
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10-02-24 17:31 #4464I guess Hispanic guys can be gringos too? Originally Posted by MagicRancher
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"The woman added that she knew the victim's client as 'Bryant Rivera,' and that he was a 'gringo, the complaint states.
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10-02-24 16:39 #4463
Continuing Saga of the Murder of Ángela Acosta Flores from Jan 2022 at Hotel Cascadas
Here's the update:
https://www.thedowneypatriot.com/art...ijuana-murders
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