Cartel Land documentary this summer
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Estero
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Here is another one that is on Netflix http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2504022/?ref_=nv_sr_1
This might provide a bit of further background also.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-boullosa-wallace-20150607-story.html#page=1
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-boullosa-wallace-20150607-story.html#page=1
BootNHat
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Reminds me of the gang (a.k.a cartel?) war in Boston in the mid to later 60's. Almost once a week the news would report bodies found, usually in the trunk of a car. When they reported the last name of the victim you would know which side they belonged to. The Irish and Italian names were easily distinguished. I didn't like living in Boston, but this wasn't the reason.
AZRob
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I was shocked to hear he was arrested. He helps the police and Government clean up crime and that's the Thanks he got. I found this on the net.
José Manuel Mireles Valverde
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
José Manuel Mireles Valverde is a Mexican medical doctor and leader of a group of paramilitary self-defense groups that work against the Knights Templar Cartel in the state ofMichoacan, México. Mireles emerged as an important figure within the self-defense militias during the fall of 2013 as self-defense groups were fighting against the Knights Templar Cartel inApatzingán, Tepalcatepec, and other municipalities on the Michoacán coast. He describes his motivation to participate in the armed self-defense groups as stemming from the abuse of the Knights Templar Cartel against himself and his family – he has himself been kidnapped by the cartel, which has also murdered several of his family members causing him to take up arms in defense of his community of Tepalcatepec.[1]
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Early life[edit]
After serving time in prison for marihuana production in 1988, he traveled to the US where he worked as a social activist, and in upon his return he participated as a candidate for the Mexican Senate in 2006.[2][3] Mireles himself states that his 1988 imprisonment was not for drug trafficking but for loitering and for practicing medicine in Michoacán without a state license.[4]
Involvement in Autodefensas[edit]
On 4 January 2014, Mireles was injured in a plane crash as he was traveling to the community of Zicuiran.[5][6][7] Two weeks later the Mexican Government initiated efforts to control the escalating violence in Michoacán by deploying the Army against both the cartels and the self-defense militias. Initially, a video of Mireles was published in which he urged the self-defense groups to lay down their arms and cooperate with the Army. But subsequently he appeared in a different video in which he stated that the self-defense groups would not lay down their arms until the Army had taken steps to secure their safety by curbing the activities of the Knights Templar Cartel,[8] including the capture and/or death of the cartel's top leaders: Servando Gómez Martínez (alias "La Tuta"); Nazario Moreno González (alias "El Chayo"); Enrique Plancarte Solís (alias "El Kike"); Dionicio Loya Plancarte (alias "Tío Nacho"), among others.[9] Mireles later stated in an interview with Carmen Aristegui that the first message was the result of goivernment officials requesting him to read a message written by them, which they then edited to make it look as if he was making the statement of his own opinion.[10][11] The Mexican Secretary of State Miguel Angel Osorio Chong denied that the government had any role in producing the initial message.[12] In March 2014 the council of Autodefensas distanced themselves from Mireles, stating that he was no longer a member of the leadership nor the official spokesperson of the Autodefensas in Michoacan. Mireles earlier functions were taken over by his former bodyguard Estanislao Beltran alias "Papa Pitufo".[13][14][15]
Arrest[edit]
On 27 June 2014, Mireles was arrested with 45 other people in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán by Mexican authorities for violating Mexico's Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives.[16] The government had pledged to arrest civilians that were armed and did not form part of the Fuerza Rural ("Rural Force") police.[17] This action happened one week after a TV interview in Channel 13 that was cut short as a consequence of a phone call ordering the interview to stop, in which he was denouncing the Mexico President involvement on the Michoacán irregularities.
José Manuel Mireles Valverde
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
José Manuel Mireles Valverde is a Mexican medical doctor and leader of a group of paramilitary self-defense groups that work against the Knights Templar Cartel in the state ofMichoacan, México. Mireles emerged as an important figure within the self-defense militias during the fall of 2013 as self-defense groups were fighting against the Knights Templar Cartel inApatzingán, Tepalcatepec, and other municipalities on the Michoacán coast. He describes his motivation to participate in the armed self-defense groups as stemming from the abuse of the Knights Templar Cartel against himself and his family – he has himself been kidnapped by the cartel, which has also murdered several of his family members causing him to take up arms in defense of his community of Tepalcatepec.[1]
Contents
[hide]
Early life[edit]
After serving time in prison for marihuana production in 1988, he traveled to the US where he worked as a social activist, and in upon his return he participated as a candidate for the Mexican Senate in 2006.[2][3] Mireles himself states that his 1988 imprisonment was not for drug trafficking but for loitering and for practicing medicine in Michoacán without a state license.[4]
Involvement in Autodefensas[edit]
On 4 January 2014, Mireles was injured in a plane crash as he was traveling to the community of Zicuiran.[5][6][7] Two weeks later the Mexican Government initiated efforts to control the escalating violence in Michoacán by deploying the Army against both the cartels and the self-defense militias. Initially, a video of Mireles was published in which he urged the self-defense groups to lay down their arms and cooperate with the Army. But subsequently he appeared in a different video in which he stated that the self-defense groups would not lay down their arms until the Army had taken steps to secure their safety by curbing the activities of the Knights Templar Cartel,[8] including the capture and/or death of the cartel's top leaders: Servando Gómez Martínez (alias "La Tuta"); Nazario Moreno González (alias "El Chayo"); Enrique Plancarte Solís (alias "El Kike"); Dionicio Loya Plancarte (alias "Tío Nacho"), among others.[9] Mireles later stated in an interview with Carmen Aristegui that the first message was the result of goivernment officials requesting him to read a message written by them, which they then edited to make it look as if he was making the statement of his own opinion.[10][11] The Mexican Secretary of State Miguel Angel Osorio Chong denied that the government had any role in producing the initial message.[12] In March 2014 the council of Autodefensas distanced themselves from Mireles, stating that he was no longer a member of the leadership nor the official spokesperson of the Autodefensas in Michoacan. Mireles earlier functions were taken over by his former bodyguard Estanislao Beltran alias "Papa Pitufo".[13][14][15]
Arrest[edit]
On 27 June 2014, Mireles was arrested with 45 other people in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán by Mexican authorities for violating Mexico's Federal Law of Firearms and Explosives.[16] The government had pledged to arrest civilians that were armed and did not form part of the Fuerza Rural ("Rural Force") police.[17] This action happened one week after a TV interview in Channel 13 that was cut short as a consequence of a phone call ordering the interview to stop, in which he was denouncing the Mexico President involvement on the Michoacán irregularities.
AZRob
Guest
I will be watching that when it comes out.