G.U. turncoats: 'Sierra Unida' group cleans up Iguala Plaza for 'Los Rojos'

Lucio R. Borderland Beat written using some material from Nueva Aera, Solo Chilpo, AcaSur, BB

Sierra Cartel challenging the weaken cartel Guerreros Unidos

for the all important Iguala territory

Media interest in the case of the missing normalistas of Guerrero has diminished.

The worldwide audience once hungry of any detail of the shocking case may assume that the situation in Iguala, Guerrero has improved after the events of last September 26^th and 27^th.

After all, the malevolent mayor Jose Abarca and his wife are imprisoned. Same goes for the municipal police, who acted on orders from the mayor’s office, to kidnap and kill the normalistas group.

And the leadership of the Guerreros Unidos Cartel are either dead or incarcerated.  

Federal forces have taken over policing of Iguala, one would hope security of the city would be exponentially better.

But according to the people of Iguala, that is far from the reality. In fact things are worse. Violence has exploded, and according to residents, the federal Gendarmerie is not doing much to control the situation.

For example; In separate incidents, four members of a family, and a taxi driver were killed last two days of February and first week of March recorded in the city of Iguala where the Federal Police Gendarmerie Division took over security after the slaughter and disappearance of the 43 missing normalistas Ayotzinapa.

 

In this multiple victim crime wave, 19 people were killed in a 5 day period,  in this strategic area for the Guerrero drug trade. 

Supposedly, 14 of the 19 killed allegedly had ties to the Guerreros Unidos Cartel.  However, people on the ground say it is a mix bag of narcos and innocents.  If there is a vendetta against an innocent for whatever reason, the "chapulines" (those that jump sides aka grasshopper) are using the opportunity to settle scores.

In an apparent  move to capitalize on the weaken state of  Guerreros Unidos, derived from the fall out of the normalistas case,  the organized crime group Cártel de la Sierra (AKA Sierra Unida) is challenging the remnants of G.U. for control of the region.  As of now, G.U. barely maintains control of the Iguala Plaza, but is compromised in strength because of key arrests and federal intervention.

The killings include:

A shooting was reported  in Colonia  Educación,   authorities found four people gunned down inside a  home on Calle Raúl Isidro Burgos.

The victims are: Marco Rojas Robles, 67, and his wife Arminda Avila Sanchez, 64, and their two sons Mark, 39  and Carlos Robles Avila, 20.

Earlier in the morning,  a body of  executed man was discovered inside a taxi on Juan N. Álvarez street in  colonia Educación.

The victim, Israel Benítez Diaz, 22, was the driver. His killers left a manta message  on the dashboard with the following threat against carriers:      

This will happen to those who work for ‘Los Tilos and ‘Yuca’ (G.U.) in Taxis and Combis.  We have the fucking list.  We will fight, not hide.

Attn:   S.U.

In another killing, armed men on motorcycles attacked people at the Los Peques car wash where a former municipal official identified as Luis Beltran Acosta was killed and a youth was injured. The assassins left behind a note that read:

“All Guerreros Unidos Get Out, Attn: Sierra Unida” 

The group has taken to the practice of leaving messages on many of the killings, so there is no confusion of who is conducting the killings and their motive.

 "We Came for Guerreros Unidos"

"We are here to clear out the scourge" 

One was left hanging next to the federal gendarmerie Iguala headquarters.

 It read in part:

“We do not kill children and innocent people for us the family is sacred, our  war is against Guerreros Unidos.  Sierra Unida disclaims the cowardly act of Guerreros Unidos, killing the doctor of the colonia educación,  killed along with three members of his family, and the executions of a mother and son in  col San José." Signed the avengers of the future S.U.

The text continues to point the finger at G.U. for all killings of innocents, saying they were victims of Guerreros Unidos group, including the normalistas and all the killings of innocents since the tragedy.  

Be mindful this group declaring they do not kill innocents were members of G.U. during the time when they killed hundreds if not thousands of people including innocents.  Additionally, G.U. sicarios have  implemented the cockroach plan and have abandoned Iguala 

Last October the federal government had located a cell called Los Peques or Los Tilos, who are a part of Guerreros Unidos.  

The latter maintains control of drug dealing in the area of ​​Iguala where municipal police and gunmen attacked and kidnapped 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa during the night of Friday 26 and Saturday morning September 27th.

The agency Apro announced that 100 members of this group of assassins, left the city of Iguala and retreated  an hour south, in the community of Carrizalillo, of the municipality of Eduardo Neri, 

Official reports state that brothers Víctor, ‘El Oso’; Mateo, ‘El Gordo’ and Salvador ‘El Chava’, Benítez Palacios, owners of a car wash located on Calle Juan N. Alvarez, along with municipal police,participated in the attack and taking of the normalistas.

Reports state that these brothers are at the service of Ángel, Adrián and Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, who are brothers of Mario Casarrubias, founder of Guerreros Unidos cartel, based in Mérida, Querétaro, Iguala and State of Mexico.

Residents have made complaints charging the Federal Police and the Gendarmerie with a failure of duty, and doing little or nothing to stop violence in a city where robberies, kidnappings and murder, remain the same or worse than the government of Jose Luis Abarca, now imprisoned in maximum security prison of Almoloya.

The Sierra Unida group (aka Sierra Unida Revolucionaria (SUR), are former members of Guerreros Unidos who joined Los Rojos to fight against what remains  their former cartel membership, after the federal crack down on G.U. rendered the cartel tentative and leaderless. 

Leaders arrested include; Sidronio Casarrubias “El Chino” and  Salomón Pineda Villa “El Molón” (left) brother of the former Iguala first lady María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, wife of  José Luis Abarca, and  Además Benjamín Mondragón Pereda “El Bejamón” who authorities say took his own life after being cornered by federal police.

Benítez Palacios brothers know as  “Los Tilos” or “Los Pelones” (G.U.) have also retreated from Iguala. With the plaza being void of leadership the Sierra Unida group joined Los Rojos.

Los Rojos, who have maintained a rivalry with G.U. and since October 2014, exerting power over G.U. through executions and harassment.  Both G.U.  and Los Rojos are divisions of cartel Beltran Leyva, whose head, Arturo, was killed in December 2009 in the capital of Morelos, Cuernavaca.