Criminal Group Offers 46K USD Reward for Location of 'Valor Tamps' Administrator

Borderland Beat: posted on BB Forum by Poster “777”

Valor por Tamaulipas was founded on January 1, 2012 as a citizens reporting network, offering security news and locations of 'hot' areas of violence

An organized crime group offers a "reward" of more than half a million pesos to the person that identifies the administrator of a Facebook page: "Valor por Tamaulipas".

The flyer contains a Tamaulipas phone number where the information can be delivered: 834 104 XX XX and warns to not be "fucking around" if they appreciate the lives of their loved ones. The flyers were confirmed distributed in Victoria, Tamps, as for other cities nothing has been confirmed.  The flyer above was from Victoria.

The "Valor por Tamaulipas" Facebook page was founded a year ago with the aim of alerting citizens about the 'risky situations' that occur in the different cities of the state, such as kidnappings, shootings and extortion of cartels that operate in the state: Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel.

"Valor Por Tamaulipas" has more that 133 thousand followers and is fed information by hundreds of citizens that report the insecurity and violence that is the order of the day in all parts of the state.

Facebook and Twitter became a popular tool for Tamaulipas citizens to alert one another about the insecurity, since none of the local media outlets publish the constant violent acts related to organized crime.

There is also the incident in September 2011 when Los Zetas hung two young people and killed a woman identified as "La Nena de Nuevo Laredo" for denouncing the actions of the cartel through blogs.
                       

                           Flyer Translation:
 

"600,000" [apx 46,000USD]  Pesos for the person that gives the accurate identity/location for the Administrator of the "Valor por Tamaulipas" page. Or in his case direct family members, be it parents, children, or wife.

This is just free speech, but in exchange for that, a good amount of money to shut the mouth of asshole pussies like these dumbasses. They think they are heroes.

Please refrain from fucking around. Value the life of your loved ones. The information shared will be confidential and be assured that the money will be given, if the information is correct, to the person that gives the exact identity of the Tamaulipas hero/pussy or family members".

The administrator of Valor por Tamaulipas issued a long response.  [translation by "777".
 

 Response Translation:"An organized crime group says they are looking for me or my family, I say to them that it is not necessary to look for my family… The problem for you ends with the root of one person that you should look for. I’m not even challenging you, I’m only making your job easier, I know that by starting this I decided that my end in this life would come before many others or that of a person who’s end comes naturally.

As a matter of fact I’m not playing the hero… I do my part as a citizen or member of a society before the challenge that organized crime groups represent for the stability of our state and our country.
 
I don’t play the hero, I play the believer that insists with all his being of hope that in some moment things change in us as humans and habitants of this country, that we shall say that’s it to abuses committed by the criminals that govern us and decide who lives or dies, to their liking.  

You criminals are the ones that are mistaken, in our state Zetas or CDG, you believe that the natural order of things is that we be governed by two organized crime groups, you think it’s right for them to control our authorities and that the justice in our state be the one they profess.


You believe that all of us have to surrender before you, and that is not the way it is. We don’t all surrender… there are countless cases in our state of those who have resisted you, in most cases the good ones are the ones that end up losing, but at least those people have more dignity than those that decide to put their head down and accept the tyranny and enslavement that you have imposed on us.

Even in that head that is down there is dignity, intelligence and valor, because besides all the fear or terror that we may have, we got to work, we strive, and earn our daily bread with the sweat from our forehead, the professional achievements or personal that make us feel proud of being righteous people, an example for the generation to come to collaborate and have a city, a state, a better country than when we arrived on this earth.

It’s intolerable yet its our reality that in these days good people have to hide from criminals that govern us, but I know that one day, something will move my people, the brave people, to demand by whatever means necessary, what belongs to us by right, libery, right to live. ...continued on next page
Tamualipas, I have been conclusive with many, at times vulgar, I’ve lost my patience, I’ve risked people’s lives for being irresponsible, or for not having all the information I needed, I haven’t been able to defend myself nor defend the web page from people linked to organized crime, I ask for forgiveness from everyone good or bad, because all I have done has been done with good intentions.

And to the main ones, the ones that everyday of my existence since I created VPT, I ask for forgiveness is my family. For being hardheaded and not stopping when you asked me to, but you know me and know that I cannot stop when something is presented before me that is so wrong, and I know that we are obligated to confront it.  

On other occasions I have made indications when some type of threat has presented itself, today won’t be the exception, I want to leave you a few written things incase anything happens.

To all who that have followed the page and collaborated I say thank you, and I say I will continue to be with you. I ask that if one day I don’t return, if you see a picture or video of me, don’t believe them, and believe that I am far away in another country, hiding like a coward, and like always organized crime in general of all colors and initials are responsible of another injustice committed against our country, to try and intimidate us.  

I ask for you to look out for each other like you always have and that you continue to show the world that people from Tamaulipas risk themselves to publish on a Facebook page, Twitter, or forums and tell their brothers to be careful when being out on the roads, going to work, or coming back from school. 

To my civil heroes and Military I ask that you never give up and don’t succumb to corruption and don’t allow for that to keep ruining the institutions you are part of.  

I ask god to not abandon me, like never before, and that he accompany me to continue till I can’t  anymore, because I don’t intend on stopping voluntarily.

Don’t stop taking care of yourselves Tamaulipas, this page may disappear but not its heart an its worry for others, be it a friend or stranger.    

I believe that I’ve said it a few times but I’m VERY PROUD you all, the ones that contribute, the ones that follow, the ones that look for information to warn your communities. Just know that, its silly to say that I love you, but what do I do if that is how I feel." 

Menny also reports this update:
Flyers were distributed at Lasalle College in Victoria, Tamps.  Interestingly the infamous mass killer of migrants "Kilo", has a relative that attends the college and was seen later handing out flyers.  One can surmise, if true, that this is the work of Zetas.

 

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