By: Dalia Villegas Moreno
| Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat
Three years after the
emergence of the autodefensa groups in Michoacán, Dr. José Mireles Valverde, an
emblematic figure of the movement, said that the federal government betrayed
those who carried out a “real social fight” and left them “worse”, because they
disarmed them and left them in the hands of organized crime.
Through an audio
recording that circulated throughout social networks, Mireles Valverde, who is
imprisoned in a federal prison in Sonora since June 2014, accused of bearing
arms that are not allowed, said that “there is nothing to celebrate” during the
third anniversary of the autodefensa movement.
In any case, Mireles
Valverde said that what should be celebrated is the dignity and the courage of
the population of Tierra Caliente who faced organized crime with their limited
resources. “Unfortunately, the awakening
was very painful, but in the moment when we faced our fears, we realized our
greatness”.
He recounted when on
one occasion, “those murderers,” which he says: were killing his people, “tying
their hands and feet,” that a young 14 year old faced them with a shotgun; “he
made them run, and there were six trucks filled with them armed, that’s dignity,
and that is what we should be celebrating.”
Mireles Valverde said
that during the 17 months that the autodefensas movement controlled the
security in 36 municipalities, mainly in Tierra Caliente, the occurrence of
crime reduced significantly. “At that
time, no one lost a needle,” he says.
In contrast, he said
that the police and military apparatus of the Federation, of the state and the
municipalities, with all the operational capacity and resources, couldn’t control
both local jurisdiction crimes nor federal crimes.
In weighing the courage
that the autodefensas had in order to fight against organized crime,
particularly against the Caballeros Templarios, Mireles Valverde brings to mind
the adage, “the coward lives as long as the brave wants him to.”
At the end of the
audio-message, Mireles Valverde says: “I planned to no longer fight this year,
but…no, I won’t fight anymore, I want peace in the nation,” he concludes.
Source: Cambio De Michoacan
Put the man to trial if they have the evidence. What's the hold up?
ReplyDeleteNo, no need for a trial, until the dictor has some good size le chunk of money, Then his papers and archives...
Delete"MAAAYGHT BE REVIEWED"
and we will have a resolution 4 or 5 years later...
--Meanwhile Dr Mireles will remain under arrest, but not imprisoned, he can't make bail because of his unforgivable crimes eeither, total, you don't like it, talk to the hand, I mean to the judge.
El que se mete a redentor, siempre sale crucificado...
--Redeemers always end up crucified...
Exactly. What is the hold up here?
DeleteThe 'dotor' cain't make bail, and that is OK.
Delete--That the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia can't even try to prove their spurious charges and accusations in a court full of THEIR peers, IS UNFORGIVABLE BESTIALITY...
What bail? He can post bail?
DeleteMy heart aches for this man and this country that is kept helpless in the face of such corruption.
ReplyDeleteSo does mine. He was doing the best he can!
DeleteSo I'm guessing he never wants to be freed. He never will If he keeps spewing this anti government rhetoric.
ReplyDeletePlenty of auto defensas became part of the official police forces. They worked together with the state to fight the crime in their own backyard in an officially sanctioned, state-supported rural police forces.
Mireles was and still Is a pendejo who was waging a war with the State as well as the criminal groups. He wanted nothing to do with federal forces and so he was arrested. For good reason: he was waging a war directly with the criminal gangs but he was preaching to the auto defensas to openly defy their Mexican government.
"He wanted nothing to do with federal forces and so he was arrested. For good reason: he was waging a war directly with the criminal gangs but he was preaching to the auto defensas to openly defy their Mexican government."
DeleteProbably because the government is corrupt as hell and rightly afraid of losing power.
You sound like a Mexican government mouth piece. I guess it's not your family being robbed, raped, and killed by thugs and useless government.
DeleteSo you call him pendejo because he was protecting his family and his community from all the violence and corruption? I think next time you want to call any body pendejo make sure your looking in the mirror
DeleteEver think maybe he is fighting the Mexican government as well because the government is corrupt and working with the cartels?
DeleteWell of course you fucking pendeja the federal forces were on ct side. Why join forces with the law if the law would of have a lot of ad set up. He didn't want to risk his people lives. Why you mad because them bitch made ct got taken out. Them putos were an embarrassment to michoacan.
Delete9.21
DeleteThe whole state of Michoacan was being terrorized for years,kidnappings,rapes,murders of innocent people,every day,Mireles himself had relatives killed i believe.
And guess what?He and people got fed up with it,cause "their Mexican government " did absolutely nothing about it.So he let his balls hang(unlike you)and ended up dismantling one of the biggest cartels(good that isnt it)and when the ADs seemed to be spreading to other parts of Mexico(guess what)he got arrested carrying a gun.
So unlike you,he actually tried to make a difference,but,somewhat inevitably the Mexican gov stepped up and entombed him.Callate pendejo no sabes lo que dices hablas puras pendejadas.Now,go back to your planet and tell fuckin Clatu and Nictu what a bellend you are "defy their Mexican gov" fuckin classic
Very good point. Maybe he asked for it (Not saying he's a bad man. Who knows), he could had helped those municipalities if he had done things diff...
Delete9:21 Dr Mireles and the AD never once fought the government, not the army, or the navy, not the state police or government, and not even the municipal police or government, and said their fight was not against them, but against the Kabelleras kagadas, so, unless you are implying that the Kabelleras kagadas were the government, then you are full of SHIT! eureka!!!
Delete--the autodefensas chosen to be juersaz rurales, we're chosen by la Sexoterapista Cubana de alfredo Castillo's de cagada, from the worst of the worst the AD had to offer, the "redeemed ct" that turned out to have been unredeemed after all, while the new plaza boss giniral burrolas continued with the "murder in the night in the dark" campaign for the hearts and minds of the people, (like you, o sea, los pendejos) and los Conejos like the "new perredista" governor, Conejo...
--Mireles was arrested after being stopped to prevent him and his followers from helping el Gordo Valencia and his wife and children who were being murdered with guns and knives, like pigs by the juersaz rurales as retaliation for having quit their association, el Gordo and his family were squealing like a stuck pig asking for help over the radio, Dr Mireles did not fight the soldiers that prevented him and his followers from helping...
--after the AD took care of the CT, the government promptly replenished the forces of corruption with worse criminals, military, and politicians, of course, none of them elected or selected by mireles...
●● So, 9:21 I guess you are just desperately trying to show us you are UN PENDEJO mas, no problem, YOU ARE TODO UN pendejo, o toda una pendeja, o las dos cosas, pinche mamona...
Shut the fuck up coward you not even Mexican you just some coward who it doesn't take much to break whoreads about wat goes on in Mexico. By your comments alone you will sell out on the way to a meeting.....
Delete..."criminal gangs but he (Mireles) was preaching to the auto defensas to openly defy their Mexican government".... ...this is from a PRI shill.... had the "Mexican Government" done it's job and provided enough resources to protect the communities that Mireles represented, there would have been no reason for Mireles to become an activist. Instead they do little or nothing. Criminal extortion is rampant, kidnappings (then usually murdered) and almost always without any fear of retribution or prosecution. The local police are no help, more often than not, they work with the criminal gangs, so they are part of the problem, not the solution. The Iguala Tragedy.. There the local marinas/military sat on their god-damned asses while students were wantonly killed by gunfire, many abducted then later killed. Why did they not intervene? And more importantly, who told them not to? Someone should answer for that... but what do we have is federal government obfuscation of the facts, obstructing the investigation... nothing but lies and dishonesty from many 'higher up politicos' who don't want the truth to be known.
DeleteOh yeah, autodefences working with the federals has worked out really good if you happen to be the cartel or corrupt government. Otherwise your so screwed!
DeleteGovernor conejo has just appeared on a TV infomercial explaining that the state is short on cash, (and on credit too I guess) stealing it all left nothing there, el Castillo de kagada quit because of that...Arcelor/mittal does not pay enough taxes, nobody else pays, the independent miners got their product stolen...
Delete--i'm sure but I did not see the gobernador conejo asking the people on "el norte" to send more and more dolares to his beloved state of Michuacan...
All you liberals out there, this will be our abyss once if they take our arms. I would bet a revolution would happen if they try. In mexico the government will not change. Either a mass uprising with the financial assistance of some group or the continuance of this failed Mexican state
ReplyDeleteThe mexican people do not bear arms as a rule, and the US and the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia would not have it any other way, so I guess they will have to take their piedras from their cold dead hands, because the Guerra will have to be a pedradas, cuerpo a cuerpo, and they ain't no 200 000 soldiers helped by marinas and poolice that can beat that...
Delete--meanwhile, states are pushing for "states' rights" even on the US, to defend their I'll gotten gains from the "socialistas and drug addicted narcos and Comunistas" they have exploited recklessly and mercilessly for the last 35 years...
--in mexico AND ON the US...
Won't happen US needs the drugs. Most of the politicos use coke
DeleteAnd the people who continue to stand by and do nothing!
ReplyDelete10:49 yep "anonymous", we all continue to do nothing, anonymously...
Delete--have YOU TRIED estupidos anonimos?
Its their passive nature. and that's ok
Delete"Its their passive nature. and that's ok"
DeleteThe question here is. . .
DeleteIts ok for whom?
The last quote is heartbreaking; it sounds as if the government has finally gotten their way and broken Mireles' fighting spirit.
ReplyDelete11:08 The last quote is there because the mexican governing narco-mierdocracia is trying to use him and his words to placate the masses, same thing the spaniards did when they paraded the carcass of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma, who was received with great joy by his people, a pedradas...
DeleteChapo snitched mireles
ReplyDeleteJoke ?
DeleteThat's not funny.
Deleteremember the Doctor is a more powerful than the PRI the people will follow him. That's why he the in jail. the peoples don't like him. The PRI rules with the Drugs
ReplyDeleteWhere's the guy that always says Chapos people cleaning house, no matter what the subject.
ReplyDelete1:00 that must be you, you just said it, nobody else...
DeleteSe durmio el wey.
DeleteSi no entendieron a buenas no nos queda mas que calar le de otra manera. Preparen las armas.... - El Sol Perdido
ReplyDeleteCalmese tu Rambo.
DeleteNecesitarias un millon de soldados, soldao perdido, aparte de lo demas.. ya ni un Panchon Villa es capaz de hacer eso en estos tiempos. Un NAPOLEON a lo mejor...
DeleteYou undestand soldao? Asi es que buscate un NAPOLEON pa ke te ayude. Si es ke te dejan...
DeleteSo we should just quit and call it a day? Wars will be waged untill the end of time. That's life. Todo cuesta. - El Sol Perdido
DeleteGrunt
ReplyDeleteGo watch Fox News
Save the liberal/ right wing bs for someone else
"Liberal is left bank of the banqueta...
Delete--neo-liberal is conservative tea party right of the right sided extremism...their idols are francisco franco, adolph hitler, August pinochet, mussolini, kissinger, david rockefeller, javier duarte de ochoa, epn, and their states right y reino de la ley con cucharadas de privatizacion...
We need an article about Los Justicieros in Lazaro Cardenas
ReplyDeleteDr. Mireles in his leadership and the autodefenses movement he inspires, as it turned out, indirectly became a threat to the authority of both the State and central governments. Dr. Mireles is essentially a political prisoner, and the intent of his imprisonment is to keep him out of circulation for as long as possible. Every tin-pot dictatorship, in Mexico thinly veiled as a democratic institution, sadly in name only, creates a plethora of laws and regulations designed to keep the populace in line the status-quo. And in Mexico that status-quo is rampant corruption, institutionalized graft, and criminality at every possible turn. The central government feared that Dr. Mireles movement while essentially sincere in fighting crime in their communities' might eventually evolve into a sort of 'orange revolution'. Better to have narco-crime than threaten the political elites existence and authority...
ReplyDeleteCriminals do not harbor political prisoners, they take hostages, and if you are not lucky, forget about the ransom...
DeleteStory just came out that el chapo will agree to extradition upon condition they incarcerate him in medium security prison.
ReplyDeleteOf topic but does anyone know who controls the towns of Delicias, Camargo, and Jimenez in Chihuahua?
ReplyDeleteYou believe mx is the only place that is going through tough times? In this side of the world we don't see the other part of the world...
ReplyDeleteI guess I am always gonna C the Mexican government as a fuckN joke....unfortunately that's what their about always.they kare more about Feria N being skoundrels than having self respect
ReplyDeleteMexico hasn't changed in damn near 200 years and they (government) break the spirit of those who want to change the modus operandi. Unless major changes occur within every level of Mexican government the Mexican citizens will either continue to be slaves to the narco machine or jump ship to another country. Mind you I love everything Mexican without being from Mexico myself. My children are half Mexican and it truly pains me to see what is happening to the country. One day I pray that I can take them to their mothers birthplace without being fearful of violence. In the US I have the ability to do certain things to protect them but that all changes when we cross the border. I know bad things can happen any where whether in the US or any other country, but the reality is there is a different set of rules in Mexico. One day....One day
ReplyDeleteThe autodefensas are a real threat to the mother of all cartels in Mexico: the federal government! Why? Because the autodefensas are a real threat to corruption and corruption is what feeds the politicians, the military, the judges, the police commanders and the bureaucrats with their monopoly on power.
ReplyDeleteNO
Delete7:34 a güebo cabrón, you make it hard or make it easy.
DeleteAutodefensas need to reorganize and infiltrate the local police of their town and cities until they outnumber the corrupt officers. Once that occurs, start cleaning house. Begin to kill them off all at once if possible and fill the positions with more Autodefensas or like minded people. Their approach was too straight forward, and they made themselves vulnerable to the enemy, who disguised himself as being for the people...
ReplyDeleteTo get in, you must commit a crime, or no job as a police officer, and you must deliver proof, otherwise you may want to find yourself another job...
DeleteOn another note; More violence in Acapulco ; http://www.red-noticias.com/?p=74294 http://www.red-noticias.com/?p=74306
ReplyDeleteIf there no cartels there's no revenue going into the politicans hidden bank accounts
ReplyDeleteYou nailed that want one on the head.Just reading between the lines it's obvious.
DeleteAnd this morning the state government sent in 200 additional security forces to Apatzingán due to huge increase in violence in the area. Sound familiar?
ReplyDelete"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results."
That is why some of us keep repeating the same old other comments, to add to the daily body count of yesterday's dead...
DeleteIsn't that something to think about?
ReplyDeleteWhat other options do they have
ReplyDeleteYour right brother, as much as politicians and leadership try to pacify with hypocrisy and half truths, the reality is, sadly,very different, all over the the world and political spectrum.Mexico as with other countries could be so much more.A great leader with vision and humanity is needed badly..
ReplyDeleteDesde Tierra Calente:
ReplyDeleteGobernacion (Godoy) says los autodefensas are ejercitos privados to make right problems entre los pueblos y municipios. This was true and that is bad for justicia auténtico. Gobernacion makes a verdad chico A un punto de pruebas. How it is posible to fight this thing? Una mentira el mejor tipo tiene algo de verdad .
The AD who became juersaz rurales became the castillo de kagada's private armies, the others became political prisoners or dijuntos, only the government officers believe in hacerse pendejos...
DeleteTo fight the government lies, you have to be "beery" alert and debunk them 24/7, it is a very expensive and time consuming operation...welcome to hell...
DeleteGodoy is a motherfacking liar, I mean, "a sad lying sack of dog shit", to quote a real conoissieur, Whoopi Goldberg...
ReplyDelete--how come the government, police and soldiers escorted the AD when they started their movement AND until they got the job done?
--que chingue a su puta madre "godoy" y sus putas mentiras...