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| Alejandra Villanueva Ibarra, Denver Colorado, trampled to death |
Reports from the ground
and in the media are insisting the shooting was cartel related. Authorities say it is the work of a lone
gunman. Details are slow to be
forthcoming. Including the number of dead, between 5 and 8, and the number
injured, between 12 and 18.
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| Injured American Heather Parham |
College student Alejandra
Villanueva Ibarra, 18 from Denver, was trampled to death in the chaos following
the outbreak of gunfire.
“She was talking about
how she was having so much fun and can’t wait to come back home and tell us
everything about her vacation,” her brother told the DailyMail of their phone conversation just a couple hours before his sister's death.
Alejandra was in Mexico
taking a break from working hard in college, as well as looking after two
younger siblings when she was tragically killed.
Festival organizer Kirk
Wilson, (below) who is originally from Canada, is believed to have been killed along
with three security guards, according to local reports.
Beautiful Playa del
Carmen, has long been considered one of the most popular and safe places for tourists
to visit in Mexico. The last thing
authorities want is bad press that would hinder tourism. Residents of Playa del
Carmen have placed flowers, candles and cartulina (poster) signs outside the Blue Parrot nightclub,
reading 'Peace in Playa', 'No more pistols', and translated from Spanish;
“'Enough
already, so much corruption and impunity'.
A Houston man, Ignacio Valencia, who was shot in
both arms while trying to escape, had been hanging out with Alejandra after
meeting her at the festival, he wrote this on his Facebook page:
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| click image to enlarge |
Trip
Advisor and other travel websites, lists the Blue Parrot as one of the best in Playa del Carmen for “nightlife”.
Good story from CBS news quoting a PDC local saying the Zetas control the drug trade there http://www.cbsnews.com/news/denver-teen-trampled-to-death-during-mexican-music-fest-shooting-in-resort-town-of-playa-del-carmen-family-says/
ReplyDeleteThanx :-)
DeleteThink this guy who was hanging around with the victim is looking to profit from this with a Go Fund Me . Nevertheless it's sad for what has transpired at the club. But then again violence is everywhere. Prayers for the families and victims
ReplyDeleteThe donations are for her dummy, did you read his post?
DeleteHe's raising funds for his dead friend not himself. Try comprehending the story before you comment
Deleteyou are stupid how can you even think that....
DeleteZ's long control cancun/playa del carmen. Of course this is narco related. All security guards were killed at the club, that tells me it is about piso in some way, rip off or non compliance
ReplyDeleteNarco related? And any place else this is an angry patron killing the security guards for not letting him in?
DeleteThen of course if this guy was kicked out the club by security guards then he would have a reason to attack them at gun point. I'm not saying narcos much less Zetas are saints but this could well could have been a personal issue.
DeleteVery good point Chivis. This is typical Z operations. The obvious assumption is that the club did not pay and this is what happened. The local media will be quite about this since they are also under their extortion cloud.
DeleteThere is only room for one Zeta
DeleteCatherine Zeta-Jones
Un pajarito nalgon de la municipal. me conto que fue el cdg....para calentar la plaza a la letra..de todas maneras mexico esta caliente...si te paras en mexico de vacasiones o a ver familia. la neta ya saben a que le tiran para que se pongan las pilas. El otro dia los de alta consigna En el pulgas En Tijuana le pusieron una putisa a un chavo inocente borracho a puras patas En la cabeza cuando lo tiraron En el suelo...En mexico no existe la ley menos el respeto....maldito gobierno corrupto. Saludos de Tijuana.
DeleteI'd call it 'calentando la plaza'. Probably CDS behind beginning an offensive against 'la ultima'.
DeleteAn act of terrorism anywhere else in the world. Under pathetic Mexican rule of impunity law - narco killings. Wake up and treat this incident for what it is a terrorist act.
DeleteWuuuh 6:10 you and your terrorist "ack"
DeleteDid you see talibanes or al Qaeda en Cancun signs anywhere?
To me it looks like a criminal act of a gang of muertos de hambre bitching for their plaza.
Blame the secretary of tourism for misleading these young tourists to the trap to make some coin, but knowing what is going on, why go 2 mexico?
Are you kidding me right now ? Look up the word terrorist . Just because you are not al Queda or isis doesn't mean you are not a terrorist, terrorists TERRORIZE people and that's what these cartels do to whole communities and pueblos and the whole country . Look up the word terrorist before you identify terrorists as only two groups of people in the whole damn world !
DeleteI guess then, that according to your definition of terrorist acts says there are 2000 terrorist attacks in the US per year https://www.reference.com/government-politics/many-gang-related-deaths-occur-year-81d438d69ed97cc6
DeleteStreet gangs in the U.S. routinely get charged with street terrorism charges.
DeleteNot every criminal "ack" is terrorism, no matter how terrorizing, as of right now only people trying to obtain contractz from the US government are seeing visions and mirages of terrorism and terroristas on their toilet paper...
Delete--giniral Michael Flynn saw directions to ISIS in the arab language caves in texas, I bet he wrote them himself...
--giniral "mad dog mattis" aka CHAOS made himself a few millions of dollars as a civilian since his retirement, milking his contacts he made as a military man, he really earned his keep while his men put their lives on the line, of course he professes to believe in civilian control of the defense department, to make coin he and others can't make in the service, wonder what you have to sell as a general to earn millions of dollars as a civilian?
--More than 8 000 men and women killed in these wars for profit would like to know why they died, how much of the loot their ginirals and colons make is theirs, if they ever say their name or drink a cold one for for them...
Old School Zetas just released a narco-manta claiming responsibility for the shooting
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jorgecastronoriega.com/aparece-narcomanta-en-playa-adjudicando-a-grupo-criminal-ataque-al-blue-parrot-ya-estamos-aqui-fue-por-no-alinearse-advierten/
I thought chapo was badass why dosent he control cancun??? Quickly komander make a corrido so chapo can take control of this plaza!
ReplyDeleteWhat. You really wasted your time to put this comment.
DeleteYou might have issues buddy
-ElBlancoNieves
7:12 NO, porque se te puede caer la tanga a media calle.
DeleteAtentamente: El Komander
Apparently the Narco's want a a cut of something they did not create. What a shame this is happening all over Mexico. Mexico cannot move forward and flourish at all levels, until they put a stop to this. Start with getting the corruption out of government from all levels to make things better who also get a cut from the violence, extortion and kidnappings.
ReplyDeleteThe event organizer from Canada got killed with security guards so it was most likely a cartel that didn't get their cut. Most businesses in Mexico have to give taxes to cartel or they get killed. That's the reason so many people in Mexico that owned a small shop decided to shut down. They take a big chunk of money from them. Real spit
ReplyDeleteCould be did not pay "piso," from the people I spoke to over there when I went.....in Cancun and PDC they did not mind the piso (not like they have. Choice) but their argument was that the narcos and their goons utilized their services and spent money in their business so they made a lot of it back.....(that's what I was told).
DeleteSo much for seats giving away presents for dia de Los Reyes
ReplyDeleteSome reports are saying the gunman[men] was from CDG, who were pressuring club managers to let them take over drug sales at the club, and that a CDG dealer had been kicked out the night of the shooting.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2017/01/17/playa-del-carmen-habia-como-200-vendedores-de-droga-0
Así se mueve la droga en Quintana Roo:
ReplyDeleteTres grupos se pelean la distribución en Cancún (Benito Juárez) y Playa del Carmen (Solidaridad), donde ocurre el mayor número de detenciones
http://lasillarota.com/asi-se-mueve-la-droga-en-quintana-roo#.WH5QbvkrKUk
@9:14 At the risk that I will sound like I am from NY or New Jersey instead of Texas, the only thing if can think of to say is "Geez, Tu Fren, you just keep coming up with good stories" Again thank you very much.
Deletei thought cjng took over lol
ReplyDeleteAccording to locals when I was there in June seven months ago it was their plazaz
DeletePeople are going to start selling their Condos/Townhomes. Mexico is already hurting because of Trump, this does not help, Mexico needs to catch person
ReplyDeleteTrump's not even in office. MEXICO has been fucked because of MEXICO. The corruption runs much deeper than 1 person in another country!
DeleteAlfredo hodoyan free?????
ReplyDeleteCAF is waiting with open arms! Or better yet Ramon is waiting.
DeleteFuck. I used to be one of the ones saying "bunch of fucking crybabies scared to go into Mexico, there's places where it's not bad". And then here goes this shit. Bad bad situation all around. There will always be corruption in Mexican government, so it goes without saying there will always be shit storms when it comes to public safety and the dope trade. But god damn where are the old school guys who used to keep this kind of shit in check. Narcos been around since the beginning of time in Mexico; these dickless sons of bitches are all just a bunch of yakked out addict piece of shit wannabes with guns.
ReplyDeleteWhen the american addicts failed to consume more drugs quicker, american wise guys invented crack, and industrialized METH, and when it was not enough they forced their narcos and capos to create addiction all over mexico by not paying cash for their drugs, so, don't facking tell me who has mexico all facked up.
DeleteWhat? What are you borderland beat Einstein? No mames pinche 759 make sense puto put down the meth pipe for a minute when you type
DeleteFlashing red light:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sdpnoticias.com/local/quintana-roo/2017/01/17/zetas-se-adjudican-tiroteo-en-el-blue-parrot
At your own RISK,Caution stay OUT of Mexico,Mexico is NOT responsible for your death. Come on people the WARNINGS are out there.
ReplyDeleteAt your own RISK,Caution stay OUT of Mexico,Mexico is NOT responsible for your death. Come on people the WARNINGS are out there.
ReplyDelete@10:38 Perception is not always the reality. Many years ago I was considering running for office in the state legislator and I went to visit with a old political pro who I guess every candidate touched base with before they filed. I asked him how did it race I was considering look. His answer was very simple. "It depends on which direction you are looking". I knew his perception of my chances were the same as mine. I din't run.
DeleteWhen I asked my now wife (Mexican) to marry me I asked her if she wanted to live in the US or in Mx. She didn't hesitate before saying Mexico. I asked her why and she said Norte Americanos are not friendly and they are rude, that there was too much violence there - drive by shootings, mothers killing their babies and too much drug usage.
So it kind of looks like our perceptions depends on which direction your are looking. North or South.
Well, dd what I see is greed coming and going separating the chaff from the wheat, I mean the poor from the money, which according to "Capitalist Jesus" doesn't go fAR enough fast...
Delete@11:11
DeleteIf I could am sustain my self the way I do here in the states I would live in Mexico.....I still might once I retire and my kids are grown, I love it there.... The people, the culture..... Such a beautiful country
"Norte Americanos are not friendly"
DeleteAwww cry us a river,do you hate gringos as well dd ?
@dd
DeleteTell that to the million Mexicans who cross the border each year. Outside of Detroit Mexico is MUCH worse and MUCH more violent than the US.
a local told me this place has had a history of problems starting with the owner who was dating the mayors daughter
ReplyDeleteI am going to assume if what you say is true that the owner was trying to use the "I am the mayor's yerno" card to get out of paying piso.
DeleteDesde Tierra Caliente
ReplyDeleteEstimado Chivis. ¿No es más correcto decir que este es el trabajo de un sicario y no el trabajo de cómo se dice narco? Muchas personas que toman piso no tienen trabajo con drogas. Muchos secuestradores nunca ven drogas excepto las suyas. ¿No es una guerra contra el crimen más que una guerra contra las drogas? Está haciendo confusión para decir drogas y robo, drogas y Tomando piso No entiendo gringos. Lo siento. Ellos compran drogas, dan dinero. Vienen a México y creen que los problemas de México no pueden tocarlos. Es posible que esta violencia les demuestre que no son de aislamiento porque no son Méxicanos. Nuestros turistas quieren drogas legales. Los Méxicanos quieren seguridad. Esto es confusión.
Supposedly this was the work of the Old School Zetas. A banner was hung which read:
ReplyDelete“Esto es una muestra de que ya estemos aquí fue por no alinearte. Phillip BPM. Es el inicio vamos a cortar las cabezas de Golfos, Pelones y chapulines. El Fayo Z Vieja Escuela”
It is being said that "El Fayo" is Rafael del Ángel Vélez Morales, who was arrested in May 2009. At the time he was reported to be the head of the plaza of Cancun for the Gulf Cartel.
Celula del sureste coming back?
DeleteGroups individuals who are willing to kill innocent people as part of their money making extortions should be public enemy number 1! Either by the government or by opposing cartels. Someone PLEASE take care of these kind of people. Don't fuck up the influx of $$$ that the tourist bring to your beautiful country!
DeleteSounds like bullshit looks like the CDN where behind this and they are putting fake mantas so the government go against Zetaz Vieja Escuela. Because in Tamaulipas Old School Z and CDG are allied CDG Matamotos and Old School Zetaz.
Delete@8:03 Amigo, let me give you some advice. Before you get in an argument with Itzli You might want to read an ongoing thread on the Forum that is written by Itzli and is called CURRENT EVENTS IN THE GULF CARTEL It has about 1600 comments and about 750 of those are Itzli. He knows more about CDG than all of us combined here on the Forum.
DeleteJust wanted you to know what you would be getting yourself into if you want to argue with him.
9:27 "him"? I have read iztli for a while and have been convinced she is a lady.
Delete@10:48 What difference does that make? do you think one gender is more intelligent than the other?
Delete@8:03 You make a good point about the possibility of a fake manta to burn an enemy group. Believe me I pick and choose my words carefully, when I said "Supposedly" in the back of my mind I was already considering the possibility that it was actually an enemy of the Old School Zetas writing the banner. So much smoke and mirrors when it comes to banners and messages.
DeleteFyi, the whole comment of being convinced I'm a lady gave me a good laugh. That is definitely not the case and not the first time it's come up online. In the past some people think it sounds feminine but don't take the time to look into the origin of the name Itzli.
We know that too often women have the better minds, but hold on to your bloomers iztli this is not a come on, just be glad your name is not Sue, boy, there is a song of Johnny Cash about that, aaight, nice to see boys and girls.
DeleteSee you at the inauguration, carry a lot of rotten tomatoes
DD Fake mantas are a reality. "supposedly" is not strong enough and a weak cop out, I like the newer post about the manta it is precise.
DeleteHeartbreaking,specifically Alejandra Villanueva Ibarra being the sole provider for her family,an 18 year old girl trying to have some chill time..
ReplyDeleteThe rats run in and spray bullets killing people they dont know or care about,then we hear the personal side of these stories and you start to imagine it could happen to anyone of us losing family?And for what?These innocent people paid the ultimate price for stinky zeta rats greed
18years old and the sole provider. Sympathy comments
DeleteI've been telling people for years of the dangers of being "tourist" in mexico, blame the tourism offices in both countries, criminals do what they do, governments are suppossed to help their citizens better than this instead if throwing "business" the way of the criminals...
DeleteHow low cartels are now.Plaza chiefs are stinky looking and run around with bags already cut up,and these are the plaza bosses of today,especially the scrub zetas,kidnap,tax,cars,CDs,murder, all kinds of snide shit,just like this.Sad story
ReplyDeleteShootouts through government offices in Cancun (Attorney General's, Cancun City Hall) - panicked news reporters reporting live. https://twitter.com/RuidoEnLaRed/status/821484520532824064
ReplyDeleteThey must have arrested the right guys and got 1 hell of a beating compromising tourism and they retaliated.I think the gov might clean house or at least drive them out of Cancun.
DeleteCall it like it is AN ACT OF TERRORISM and pursue it as such.
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of parent let their 18 year old daughter/son go to mexico on vacation?!?! FFS fly a bit longer and avoid this crap.
ReplyDeleteFly a bit longer?
DeleteIt's called a cheap vacation for cheap people
Cancun is not cheap....buy a bottle of water in the Hotel Zone and you will be paying amusement park prices
DeleteLots of stuff kicking off in Cancun too. You can almost hear the billions of dollars, millions of tourists and thousands of jobs flushing down the toilet. Pinches pendejos de mierda!!!!
ReplyDeleteLol Billions in Mexico
Delete💰💳💲🔫💉CRACKDOWN ON SICARIOZ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一
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6:21 I hope it is closed for good, and all the tourism gets gone somewhere else, after all, the only ones who thrive are the big time investors and the government, find your fun somewhere else and I hope you have a whole Lotta fun.
DeleteSicarios out of control!
DeleteWith all the attention this getting the dummy puts a banner up with his name? They killed foreigners, not rivals. Is this Zone being contested?
ReplyDeleteMy friend that works down there seasonally is telling me they are heating up the plaza.....
DeleteI was just looking at hotels and airline tickets last night. Just when I thought I had found a safe place in Mexico. Guess not going after all. Hawaii, here we come.
ReplyDeleteIn June (2016) when I was there the people paying piso told me it was la Gente Nueva's plaza both Cancun and Playa Del Carmen. En Playa Del Carmen van and cab drivers alike were paying piso directly in Cancun it was done through the association...... It was confirmed too by an Escort (who is now friend of mine) that was working there from Guadalajara. (She is in rehab right now and trying to stay clean and get out of the lifestyle) I am taking care of her family......
ReplyDeleteThings might have changed, but this was7 months ago.
9;26-Interesting!That would make it Sinaloa no or do they have an alliance with zetas?
Delete9:26 Bless you for helping her, I hope she is a good woman and doesn't stab you on the back which does not matter to a good person that doesn't make it part of the deal👍
DeleteI don't know, this was in June, I asked a friend of mine that works down there via what's app and he told me that they are heating up the plaza.
Delete@10:20 LOL she did stab me in the back at first, but it was the addiction, that was making her do these things.....She is not a bad person, she just had to walk a journey that most people are lucky not to of had to, and made some bad choices, although some of them were through no fault of her own. She has baby girl who I love like she were my own...So that is one of the reasons why I am still trying to help her....Right now in rehab she is taking some classes to get her education done, I own a business that operates over there...and I made a deal with her. (I have kept my word so far) That if she stays clean, goes to her meetings daily when she gets out, and takes care of her baby girl. I will set up shop in her city and she can be my business partner...In the mean time I am talking care of her daughter and her grandma. Its a long story, and if I had not lived it I would not believe it if some one told me..my best friend that is a writer/author has told me that I should write a book about it...Long story short through a series of events... I met a hooker in Cancun, who is now like my baby sister.(Unofficially Adopted)LOL She says that I am her Guardian Angel and taught her alot, the truth is that I have been enlightened and have learned more about life and humanity since meeting her than I did in my 35 years of life. She has at least 3 more months to go. God willing once we get her set up I may just sell or gift my business, and go work for a non-profit for Women and kids, I dunno. We see...
DeleteHere's the Reuters story on the shootings at the Mexican government offices in Cancun http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence-idUSKBN1520D8
ReplyDeleteThe zetas control the beach areas of playa, their local boss is a creep... he likes to spank his workers bare assed with a wooden club if they don't earn enough... that's a sex offender if you ask me.. the gulfo's and a Sina loa faction also work close by, each have their own territory, but this happened in zeta hood.
ReplyDeleteGood post bro
Deletehttps://www.gofundme.com/tragedy-in-bpm-festival Here's Alejandra's fund me page made by her brother.
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