By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Areas around Fresnillo, Villanueva and Sombrerete municipalities in Zacatecas state heated up since last Sunday as rival armed gangs engaged in firefights killing at least three. Also in Sombrerete municipality, a small aircraft crashed in a remote area of the municipality killing three according to Mexican news accounts.
According to a news item posted on the website of El Sol de Zacatecas news daily, a small aircraft crashed near the village of Charco Blanco en Sombrerete municipality. Four unidentified individuals were killed. The report added the authorities at the time of the news posting did not know if the aircraft was a government or private bird.
Meanwhile, armed groups presumably associated with the drug cartel fought each other in several engagements in Sombrerete, Villanueva and Fresnillo municipalities since Sunday.
Two individuals were found Tuesday in two separate vehicles abandoned after a Sunday shootout between armed groups in Fresnillo municipality. The first unidentified victim was found in a stolen abandoned Volkswagen Jetta sedan near the village of Purisima del Maguey. Inside the vehicle was found one AK-47 rifle, 1,000 rounds of ammunition and at least 24 packages of marijuana.
Near the village of Enrique Estrada, also in Fresnillo municipality, a second shooting victim was found dead aboard a Volkswagen Bora sedan, and was identified as Fernando Dueñas Acevedo. The news report said the second victim may have also been involved in Sunday's shootout in Villanueva municipality, which took the life in a police agent.
Also in Fresnillo municipality, police agents raided a safe house in El Triunfo seizing undisclosed quantities of drugs and weapons. No detainees were reported in that raid
A separate El Sol de Zacatecas report said that numerous gunfights have taken place since Tuesday between armed groups in the hills between Valparaiso and Sombrerete municipalities. The report did not mention any casualties.
In Valparaiso last March five unidentified individuals were killed by elements of the Mexican 52 Infantry Battalion. A second relief element dispatched from a base in Fresnillo to reinforce the fight was attacked. No one was reported wounded or detained in that second shootout.
Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com
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looks like carteles unidos has made there way up that region after holdin ground in los limites of zac y jal recently they took over the city of jerez zac chasing zetas out so they could establish a base to fight sombrerete and fresnillo might get bloodier
ReplyDeleteDo you know if they are helping jalpa zac also. cus there are some bad guys there to.
DeleteCarteles unidos no longer exists. It's CDJNG and CDS fighting the z/milenio, la familia and CT's right now in the region.
DeleteI can tell you Los altos de jalisco is controlled by CDS and CJNG (Mario Gonzalez's people). I have family up there and they say they live very peaceful and and Los zetas can't get in . As far as agauascalientes and zacatecas I'm not sure.
Delete@June 13, 2012 10:55 PM ............wtf are u talking about ...carteles unidos taking over jerez jajajajajaj bro stop hearing cds corridos and blog del narco.there all payed off by cds jajajajaj stupid kid jaja.jerez is zetas pendejo and u should know that but i bet u just a hater not willing to accept jajaja
ReplyDelete"Numerous gunfights in the hills, no reported casualties...."
DeleteThere is no way there are no casualties, that 55,000 dead (or 100,000 even) is so far off the mark it's not even funny. Would say 1/4 million is more realistic
FUCK ZETAS N WAT THEY STAND 4! THEY GETTN RUN OUT OF ZACATECAS SLOWLY BUT SURELLY THEY HAVE BEEN RUN OUT THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE EVEN IN JALPA THEY DONT HAVE A STRONG PRESENT NO MORE BESIDES THE PRISON! I GOT A FRIEND THAT TURNED ZETA N HE SAID HIMSELF CDS N CDG GETTING STRONGER N MOVING FASTER EVEN THERE BACK YARD TAMALIPAS IS GETTING MOVED ON NOW! SO WAT DOES THAT TELL U LAZCA N 40 R SUM PIECE OF SHITZ ORDERING KIDDNAPPINGZ WTF IS THAT N RAPING WOMEN THATZ WAT U CALL SUM PIECE OF SHITZ
Deletefound a story at m3report.wordpree.com
ReplyDeleteQue Curioso! U.S. Army Cultural Advisers Now Eyeing Mexico
By Noah Shachtman
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May 2, 2012 |
1:56 pm |
Categories: Army and Marines
Back in 2006, the U.S. Army began a controversial program to send cultural specialists to unfamiliar warzones. Now the Human Terrain System is investigating the idea of sending social scientists to a place that’s neither alien nor a declared battlefield for U.S. troops: Mexico.
i keep telling my friends we will be going to mexico but they didn't believe me. my buddies don't disagree with me anymore.
@1:56: The only thing that might get a point across to these fucking cartels is dropping a couple of daisy cutters on their hideouts. The war is coming. It's only a matter of time. Drones can already be seen flying in the New Mexican & Arizona deserts.
Delete@4:31, Zeta cheerleader? They are the worst kind of human beings. No ONE likes those low life ramen noodle eaters. Their bosses eat lobster and buy million dollar horses while the workers eat ramen noodles and sleep on shacks. HAHAHA, I don't know why someone would risk their life to become a Zeta.
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ReplyDelete"jerez is zetas pendejo"
Speak on some shit hermano,tell us whats up.
Man,you get some clowns talkin as though they cartel related,some are on here,but most of the time?Anyway,preach man preach,don't be shy,tell us whats goin on sometimes.I,m not sayin you a player,but who knows,fuck knows there's enough actors up in here.
We got fam in chihuahua, michoacan,and durango. We stay in touch with them constantly. The word over there is totally different. Im told that in dirango carteles unidos came in but then the bosse from different clicks couldn't get along and started a small war with each other. And now nobody knows who runs what. In chihuahua same thing. That when la linea or zetas retaliate nobody even runs the story. But when chapo people ride it's a front page story. About how he is winning. And michoacan is full of zeta cells waiting to be called upon. I dont know what to think. I hope these cartel scum get whats coming to them. Just that the math don't add up is chapo losing and the media is covering it up. I hope they all lose and die.
ReplyDeletemichoacan is run by caballeros n familia n those guerrero cartel my wife been staying out there for tha last past month.
Deletethe chapo have them cornerd in muzquiz/coahuila hope they kill all them good job mexacan marines gay zetas
ReplyDeleteWe need something done in zacatecas we need to clean out all the zetas they are destroying the state here in jalisco my family says it is very peaceful without zetas. there are chapo's gente and CJNG here and they respect people And are keeping jalisco peaceful
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