In narco mantas, leader of Los Rojos advises of " rivers of money" for the Anaya campaign

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

Subject Matter: Political corruption
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In narco mantas located this morning in distinct point of the Morelos capital, Santiago Mazari Hernandez, leader of the criminal group Los Rojos, denounced the "rivers of money" destined for the campaign of Ricardo Anaya and accused Rodrigo Gayosso Cepeda, candidate for the PRD of the state government, of filtering information to effect this.

Reporter: Jaime Luis Brito
"Senor President you want to know the truth about how things are in Morelos, ask your allies Graco and Galloso about the rivers of money for the campaign of Ricardo Anaya and Victor Caballero Solorzano, already they are trying to avoid the inevitable political judgment and avoid prison, they are desperate because they will soon be imprisoned," reads one of the messages written on the narco mantas and signed El Senor de Los Caballos, another of the nicknames of Mazari Hernandez, El Carrete.

Also written was " Rodrigo Galloso and I know that you leaked information about the support I gave to the Municipal Presidents because they have been angry with my family, arresting my sister and my people."

In one more he denounced the brothers Julio and Roberto Yanez Moreno, leaders of the Social Democratic Party; " I know they prefer to kill me than to stop me for fear of telling you all of the information I have against them. Let Julio and Roberto Yanez say that when they arrested their brother in law in Australia with ten kilos of cocaine, they did not pay me and do not want democracy in Morelos, they are not fit to continue to govern this state that we have harmed so much, that I will not support, I will put you in jail because we will see each other even though I know its better for them to kill me because I have information that will take them to prison."




Finally, Mazari Hernandez or Mazari Miranda threatened in another message, the authorities in general; " continue messing with my family with their time running out, they will have little left when they go to prison and see what revenge is the sons of bitches, ATTE El Senor de Los Caballos."

In 2015, after the intermediate election, alleged sicarios of El Carrete threatened and subjected the mayor of Mazatepec, Jorge Toledo, who was forced to hand over resources and positions in the government.

A week ago, the newspaper Reforma published information accusing more than a dozen municipal presidents of giving protection to criminal groups. In response, the authorities of Morelos pointed out that the door to the prosecutors office is open to deal with the respective complaints.