Tuesday, March 03, 2015

Tuesday 3rd March 2015…..a lovely easy day!!!!

Nothing special to report this morning except two hours of great tennis in brilliant sunshine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had some errands to do in town and came home in time for lunch before I went to Rita’s house for are usual chat and then Roger came over and we played our card game and Rita the winner again…..a lovely afternoon but this no dessert for lent gets hard at Rita’s house because she makes the best banana bread ever!!!!!!

This evening I went into town to go to the play readers night I have not been for a while and it is a good night out for 20 pesos the play tonight was good not great but enjoyable.

I was home in time to have tea and watch a pre recorded soccer game this was interesting for me because it was from my Brother’s home town…quite a good game that finished in a draw.

So as you can tell not too much to report except a nice day!!!

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Gomez aboard a police helicopter Friday. Cartel boss aboard a police helicopter Friday.

La Tuta in jail but will it make a difference?

Violence on rise in Michoacán, where drug trade continues

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Mexico News Daily | Tuesday, March 3, 2015

The arrest Friday of Caballeros Templarios leader Servando “La Tuta” Gómez represented the most important blow against a criminal organization in Mexico’s history, says the chief of the Federal Police.

Enrique Galindo said the capture of the country’s most wanted criminal leader means the retaking of Michoacán and a parting of the waters in terms of security strategy.

However, one analysis suggests that the leader’s power was mostly symbolic, his cartel’s power having been reduced significantly by the combined efforts of community self-defense groups and federal security forces.

Gómez was arrested at a house in the state capital of Morelia after months of surveillance of gang members, including a messenger who freely and foolishly used a mobile phone.

The messenger, who was followed for the past four months, became linked with Gómez’ girlfriend, María Antonieta Luna Avalos, and in the end it was her delivery of a chocolate cake and other food to help celebrate the cartel boss’s birthday that led to his downfall.

Over the course of the past year other people close to Gómez were also identified, along with 10 houses, which were put under surveillance. Unusual movements were seen in one of the houses in early February, days before Gómez’ 49th birthday on February 6.

Cakes and other food were delivered that day to a home in the Tenencia Morelos neighborhood of the city, and it too was put under surveillance.

On Friday morning, shortly after 4:00am, Federal Police made their move when a group of people left the house, accompanied by one man whose face was covered. The long hunt for Mexico’s most wanted had ended.

Galindo said there are two key members of the Caballeros who are still at large, but won’t be for long.

Meanwhile, an analysis by InSight Crime notes that violence is rising in Michoacán, and suggests the Caballeros’ decline in the past two years created a power vacuum into which other groups have moved, notably the Jalisco Nueva Generación, which itself might have created self-defense groups to help it take control.

Other factors working against security in the state are the illegal drug trade, which continues to function, and institutional shortcomings such as the lack of effective local police forces and an equally effective judicial system.

Servando Gómez had several rural hideouts but his home was a farm about 40 kilometers outside Apatzingan where, according to police chief Galindo, “he felt comfortable, he felt safe.” Another hideout was a cave near his hometown, Arteaga, where authorities found wine, 18-year-old whisky, food and clothes.

Gómez and his men controlled about 50 methamphetamine labs and were involved in illegal mining, extortion and kidnapping, Galindo said while taking reporters on a tour of the Caballeros’ leader’s territory.

 

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