Subject Matter: Ambush of Army in Guerrero
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Reporter: Ezequiel Flores Contreras
At least three soldiers killed, three wounded and three others missing was the result of an ambush carried out last night by an armed group against a convoy of soldiers of the 34th Infantry Battalion who were travelling in private vans in the mountain region of municipality of Coyuca de Catalán, in the Tierra Caliente region.
According to a statement from the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), the military personnel were guarding the El Pozo ranch, located in the town of Monte Grande and owned by the family of the PRI candidate to a local deputy for the region of Tierra Caliente, who was found executed yesterday in the urban area of Ciudad Altamirano, Abel Montufar Mendoza, indicate the official reports.
The official report indicates that around 23:00 hours, the soldiers who guarded the private property of the Montufar family received the report of "the presence of armed men in the vicinity of the El Pozo ranch".
"When arriving at the place of the report, the military carried out reconnaissance, at which point they were attacked with gunshots by a group of unknown individuals, leaving three soldiers dead, three more wounded and three missing." , indicates the official bulletin.
The same reports refer to the soldiers travelling aboard "private trucks without license plates," including a blue Nissan, Frontier model and not on official army patrols.
The murdered soldiers of the 34th Infantry Battalion based in Ciudad Altamirano, were identified as Lieutenant Pedro Chávez González; Second sergeant, Patricio García Hernández, and Corporal Raúl Bernal.
While the wounded are: the corporals Ofelio Cruz Pérez and Juan Guadalupe Balleza, as well as the soldier Lenin Ocaña de la Cruz.
While the soldiers reported as missing are corporal, Apolonio Noriega Tinoco and soldiers Edgar Daniel Vázquez Murga and Juan Rivera Reyes.
The military authorities announced an operation in the area to try to locate the aggressor group and locate their missing comrades.
They also carried out searches for wounded people in hospitals in the municipality of Huetamo, Michoacán, neighboring town of Ciudad Altamirano, Guerrero.
Why would they think it was ok to pull up to a private ranch in a blue frontier ? This was mistaken identity at the least. And at worst they were doing dirty business. Military uniforms are often stolen or replicated. Anyone would have thought they were sicarios undercover. Even other sicarios or other military
ReplyDeleteYeah no kidding. Also makes you wonder where the other 3 are, and if they were involved in some shady buisness.
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This says the 34th infantry battalion.Is this the 1 associated with the disappearance of the '43' if I'm not mistaken?If it is that explains a lot,that in this case these military guys were 'moonlighting' for some extra income.
DeleteYep seems shady as hell, 9 soldiers traveling on CIVILIAn trucks with no plates? Though a ranch where they just executed a politician, well thats kind of dumb, i don't think the marine will Cruise through Afganistán in an old beat up frontier Wearing their uniforms. Sitting ducks.
DeleteMilitary personnel are known to have vested interests / alliances with cartels. A well known fact in many parts of Mexico’s regions. Political shifts and criminal alliances go hand in hand.
DeleteThe documentary series The Trade explains the relationship between government / cartel involvement. Where political parties dictate how / who can operate.
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They went to shear the flock like sheep,
DeleteAnd got sheared by the Lord's Lambs.
Case of mistaken identity
ReplyDeleteWhen they kill Military, I can say, they will act fast in catching, whatever Cartel did this.
ReplyDelete1:11 WRONG.
Delete"TANHUATO, a crime of state" proves federal police and the military may take revenge, not on their offenders, but on anybody, if they are innocent it does not matter.
Can anyone explain why this state is so blood thirsty compared to most? Is it due to location?
ReplyDeletePorque son chaparros y picosos
Deletemany groups fighting for the drug market and trying to extort the other groups , they all want the plaza for themselves
Delete12th most populated state ,has some hard to reach areas nasty terrain lots of amapola fields, Cartels local gangs more cartels It’s a mess out there things were better when Beltran Leyva ran things atleast that’s what people from Acapulco say. That being said these soldiers look like they were in some shady businesses, truck with no plates! They’re not special forces Smh
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Deleteodian la vida porque estan prietos chaparraros y feos .lo bueno que yo solo estoy prieto y feo
DeleteTequileros are broke and ruthless
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DeleteAcapulco bro they fight for control of the ports where they receive shipments
DeleteAcapulco is for extortion more than anything else. Too many small gangs running around. Most of them have no connection to Colombia...
DeleteIts the fucking sun
DeleteGold all over the state draws foreign criminals, also the free thinking revolutionaries the normal school isidro burgos are sick and tired of taking government bullcrap, like PRI CANDIDATES FOR SHIT or PRD, PAN, PVEM, Encuero Social, Movimiento Suidadano, and soldiers abusing everybody.
DeleteGetting shot in the ass may serve some as a lesson, the military zone commander has some esplainin' to do, but wait until he pays the ransom for the 3 kidnapped ground meat...
It would be so easy to restrict fuel for the criminals troques, but they may be on horses.
Why not move families to safer areas?
The government relocates peasants and burns their homes all the time, even the retarded guatermalans do that and make a military outpost in the rancho, later on the general can take title to the land and make hisself another "Parthenon" like Arturo "El Negro" Durazo Moreno, 5 Star General of the Mexican army, nobody messed around with him.
Es un movimiento de eliminación de testigos clave del caso ayotzinapa?
DeleteThe Mexican military must on a shortage by now, with all the ambushes
ReplyDeleteim not saying what happened in california im just saying its connected.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened in cali?
DeleteWhat some wack ass cocho waa busted with alot of drugs?
DeleteThis country is filled with gangsters damn wat a crazy world we live in hope the guys taken become heroes like in the movies 3 guys v the whole cartel lol steven seagal shit hahaha
ReplyDeleteFuckkkk. Those 3 soldiers missing are going to be found in a couple days with no heads. lifeless bodies will be displayed in grotesque fashion warning any who oppose them will suffer the same fate.
ReplyDeleteIs being captured alive worse then being killed? Nobody knows for sure if they will be killed or by some miracle make it back home alive. As sad as it is to say, but a quick death now might be the best choice for most instead of the days of torture they will almost certainly be facing now. It's very easy for us to say we rather be killed then captured, but when you're the one in that situation you might still have hope you'll somehow be rescued. Cant even imagine being faced with that decision. I feel that you'll turn into fight or flight mode and go on autopilot. Death now or hope that they dont torture you and you end up alive and rescued in the end. What a situation to find yourself in.
On the other hand was the unit maybe doing something they shouldn't have been doing? Working for the wrong jefe and they got caught by an antagonist group. Lots of policia, federales, and army personnel have been ambushed this past couple months.
If the trained men in the army cant even protect themselves then how the fuck are law-abiding citizens supposed to. Scary world we live in where kn Mexico this is happening and in the good ol USA you're more concerned with who the president put his dick into 15 years ago.
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DeleteHey 8:48: Are you serious? Ethics? Remember Benghazi. You need to go look in the mirror and apologize to yourself for being so gullible.
Delete@11:53 Damn,I didn't know that any cartels or the Mexican military were involved in the US mission in Benghazi Lybia in 2012.
DeleteIf they weren't what the hell is this comment doing here.
3:47 bring in "who the president was...15 years ago"
DeleteThat is the president of the Benghazi lobby and the Birther Movement, and it is about the collusion and the cover-up more than about the crimes that is bringing all the dirt out.
@6:45 If you are going to "talk" about comments, leave them there, Unless you can't handle the truth, or just don't have the integrity.
THANKS A LOT
Deletefor posting @12:17 and letting it up.
When did killing Mexicans own Military become so common, that it’s just another headline that’s ignored? Can’t blame the gringos using drugs up north for the numbness in Mexico. Blame Trump, Obama, EPN and all the other political figures. Mexicans you own this, the kids you raise, the blind eye you turn.
ReplyDelete5:02 Mexicans raise sons and daughters, some of them are taken by the Mexican military or police and some by criminals created by Foreignn Business opportunists, none of them their parents.
DeleteThe US has been helping militarized police operations and turning the military into police officers, and these are the results,..
--Mexicans may 'own' this shit,
--but we did not create the Bitch, or were consulted about adopting it, not even once...
this is life no one likes to see this but they are people fighting for their right to life off the land. that state is an opium country. it's a mind game everywhere uncontrollable
ReplyDeleteMexico needs to pass a gun reform allowing all law abiding citizens to own. Yes, the USA has crime, but criminals here don't just worry about the police, they worry about the guy/gal not breaking the busting a cap in their ass! Guns are never going away, let the people have a fighting chance!
Delete7:47 these soldiers were attacked by unknown assailants, a d left killed, wounded and kidnapped, Not by the whole mexico.
DeleteImagine what the inhabitants of that rancho were up against, what would they do with their pinchis pistolitas against the attackers of the soldiers?
Blue, Old Nissan frontier truck without plates and in camouflages they might be mistaken by army for being sicarios or maybe the the Sicarios mistook them for being rivals as lots of people that work as gunmen for cartel often dress camouflage and drive trucks without license plates
ReplyDeleteThe soldiers were guarding a PRI politician, presumably one that had received death threats for not taking the plata. The sicarios knew the soldiers would investigate any movement close to the house, so set up an ambush.
DeleteThe real target was the politician, the soldiers were just in the way so had to be dealt with.
They weren't guarding the PRI politician. They were searching "supposedly" for his murderers.....
Deletehttp://www.lorealdeguerrero.com/2018/05/09/emboscan-a-militares-en-coyuca-de-catalan-tres-muertos-tres-heridos-y-desaparecidos/
5:49 the PRI candidate had already been executed...
Delete"The soldiers were called at about 23:00 hours" by the family who saw or heard "suspicious activity" but maybe the ambushers themselves made the call to drag the gauchos to the trap, they got themselves a lieutenant and a truckload of corporals.
From the article, what part of “ they were guarding the pozo ranch” , didn’t you understand?
DeleteYeah, I know what *that* article *says* - there are more up to date articles out now.
DeleteYou might want to add some info from this one, he had no pants on when found? :eek:
https://suracapulco.mx/2018/05/10/llevan-de-coyuca-de-catalan-a-chilpancingo-el-cuerpo-de-abel-montufar/
Sorry Otis some people don't have reading comprehension skills, also if you tell them the sky is Blue, they will argue, for 39 min that it's pink.
DeleteCould also be those 3 that are missing, could have dirty hands, and where in cahoots with local criminals. Imagine those 3, killed thier partners and then went along with bad guys.
ReplyDelete7:16 are you aware that 3 are wounded and may testify?
DeleteYou are not supposed to arrive at a danger zone riding your horse or driving your confiscated jalopy truck, maybe send one driver ahead and get ambushers on the rear, it is a pity there were a lieutenant and a truckload of corporals...
The 3 missing escaped and turned up at the Military barracks, they were not kidnapped, according to the latest reports
DeleteSo, they cut and ran and left their comrades to the mercy of the enemy, or they just escaped alive and then moved on.
DeleteWere any women killed?
ReplyDeleteIt's only a matter of time before the Caretelonis completely overthrow the Mexican government and enslave the entire Mexican population.
ReplyDeleteThey did that years ago.
DeleteOpen your eyes , they already have. Who do you think profits more from these? Yep the corrupt politicians that run the "goverment of mexico".
DeleteMakes me remember the ambush in sinaloa bye ex militarys now I'm wondering if this guys where plain sicarios or ex wachos ,and like in sinaloa they send the GAFES to capture guano and nothing happened a doubt anything will be done here sad very sad
ReplyDeleteOtis,re read what you posted.The soldiers were protecting(I think they probably were about to rob/loot)the ranch in Monte Grande and the politician was executed the day before in Ciudad Altamirano.But maybe I have to re read?
ReplyDeletehttp://time.com/longform/joaquin-guzman-el-chapo-trial/
ReplyDeleteInside the Trial of Joaquin 'El Chapo’ Guzman, the World’s Most Infamous Drug Baron
By Ioan Grillo | Photographs by Kirsten Luce for TIME
8:00 AM EDT, May 10th
9:53 Ioan Grulla is so nice and well behaved, people who influence government and crime everywhere welcomes him and his reporting, always blaming the Biig Baaad narcos, for everything, pays, and don't let me get started with anabel hernandez...
DeleteI see...he's sooo cute
No one is immune from violence.
ReplyDeleteA sad situation where government can be held accountable for their role of being in cahoots with many criminal organizations.
This is the outcome of a society where bad government is applied!
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That sounds like a horoscope... the horoscope of Mexico...
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Cjng executed el Gaston leader of lnfm
ReplyDeleteIn Culiacan a group of soldiers were robbing businesses and private homes until they robbed a well connected person. Some general and police commander discussed it and the end result was to simply transfer the group of soldiers. No punishment whatsoever. How do I know this? My uncle was robbed twice while he was home. These soldiers might have been up to some5hing shsdy,the reality is no one really knows.
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EPN and giniral cienpedos have gotten the Mexican congress to give the melitary impunity for any past, present, and future crimes, rape and mass murder included, robbing a few dumbasses is nothing to brag about.
Delete@2:11 (STEEL RESERVE BTW)
DeleteHow much they take from Tio each time? I’m curious on the risk/reward factor for the Soldiers.
@2:11, is your uncle part of the game down there too?
DeleteDoes anyone know what town the trade was filmed in Guerrero and who Don Miguel is aligned with.
ReplyDeleteLooks like they apprehended El Gerardon in Colima. But then why would they say his name is Gerardo N?
ReplyDeleteGerardo Mendoza Chavez
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/seguridad/capturan-presunto-asesino-del-ex-gobernador-de-colima-jesus-silverio-cavazos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfJQytl2Jg
From what I have heard El Gerardon was at war with el Mencho but in the youtube video it says he is allied with el Mencho.
Intresting
lol they are cousins at 5:21
Deletehttps://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/suspect-in-colima-governors-death-killed-in-prison/
DeleteLOL they are Cousins if you don't know shit than get the f out of here.
El Geradrdon is dead he was killed in Puente Grande son.
Surprised BB hasn't made an article about it as he ordered the killing of a State Governor not an easy thing to do.
Just ask that state governor he knows
ReplyDeleteYou hit the wrong person with connections or (family) it will always go wrong once they investigate why they got touched! That's if someone sings like a yellow cannery! Everyone out to make money. Even if they are not the main cartel's doing the dirt, you got a lot of independent street guy's doing their own moves even the military has people that strain away from the farm. (That means they get greedy or lose their values).
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in that region, there was a single police vehicle with mounted machine gun. It came driving real fast from a side dirt road and sped down the highway. Made me wonder what they wanted to get away from. Of the sicario crews for La FamMich, LosRojos and GU, La FamMich looked just like the green beret might have in nam. Except they were in a red chevy pickup. LR was jeans and t-shirts and BF vests. Glad to out. Feel sad for those who just want to live and make a living. After the cargnage in Iguala saw lots of civilian looking vehicles with armed occupants.
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