Tamaulipas, Mexico: The Mad Cows Cartel

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

Note to readers: For those of you who don’t speak Spanish. The governors last name is Cabeza de Vaca. Which in English translates to Cowhead. Hence why they call the family the Mad Cows Cartel.

Video translation is as follows:

The governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca - accused of organized crime by the Attorney General's Office (FGR) - recruited hitmen from the Gulf Cartel and made them members of his elite police force.

This was assured by the information portal EMEEQUIS. Alejandro Rojas Díaz Durán, the alternate senator for Morena who has delivered hundreds of evidences against Cabeza de Vaca to the federal government and whose contributions are considered key in this judicial plot.

In an interview with the journalist Óscar Balderas, Alejandro Rojas said that they are elite criminals that raid houses, that take people away with impunity and are never seen again. They also kidnap migrants, recruit them, train them to join them or bring drugs to the United States, and then they disappear and murder them.

Those whom Alejandro Rojas calls uniformed hitmen are part of the GOPES group - Special Operations Group - that pertain to the state governor and currently have 12 members in preventive prison for the murder of 19 migrants in Camargo, Tamaulipas.

“We have evidence, documentation, testimonies, that many of them are not even registered on the state payroll, that is, they are not public servants. The governor disguises them, unleashes them into the street and they have executed Mexicans and Central Americans ”.

Alejandro Rojas denounced, and has also said that he has evidence that Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca has hired assassins to commit "genocide" in Tamaulipas. They will be delivered soon to the FGR.

When questioned by the journalist Oscar Balderas: "Why are these police officers imprisoned today, if they are part of the 'governor's' group? Alejandro Rojas replied that the border is watched by US drones and that he knows from a good source that a camera captured these GOPES, unmasked, massacring the migrants in Camargo, Tamaulipas.

“Faced with the pressure that this could become an international scandal, Cabeza de Vaca betrayed his people and ordered them to be imprisoned… but very soon it will be known that they are his boys. He recruited them himself ”. Alejandro Rojas Díaz Duran said.

He said that the governor of Tamaulipas is a dangerous man, who amassed a fortune created under the protection of criminal power.

His fortune is estimated at about 952 million pesos, and has been accumulated through dozens of properties in Mexico and the United States bought secretly thanks to a money laundering network that includes businessmen and drug traffickers.

This is evidence that Díaz Duran gave to the Attorney General's Office said Emeequis

He also points out the existence of an accusation in the hands of the United States authorities, the testimony of a member of the Gulf Cartel who assures that the capo Osiel Cárdenas Guillén gave money to Cabeza de Vaca when he was running for mayor.

“The testimony is from the witness who has former Governor Tomás Yarrington in jail today. That same witness narrates how they gave money to Cabeza de Vaca so that they would let him control the Reynosa plaza during Felipe Calderón's six-year term”.

“It was always known that he was very involved with that group… what we didn’t know is that, as he was gaining power in Tamaulipas, Cabeza de Vaca would form his own cartel. In the state they have a name for them: The Mad Cows Cartel, ”Alejandro Rojas Díaz Duran told Emeequis.

"They call it the Cartel de las Vacas Locas (Mad Cows Cartel) because, although Governor Francisco Javier is the leader, his brothers are also part of his criminal network."

He affirmed that after years of investigations Díaz Durán feels safe in stating that the Cartel de las Vacas Locas is a family clan in which the brothers of Governor Cabeza de Vaca, his mother, his wife and his father-in-law participate. They have looted and gone through millionaire public contracts for phantom jobs and whose money they have transferred to more than 300 bank accounts in tax havens.

“The Financial Intelligence Unit already has these accounts located, they already have some frozen and they are going after more. It makes me sad that the ‘thieving governor’ has involved his mother in this… it’s terrible… the monetary ambition that these individuals have is bottomless”. Alejandro Rojas Díaz Duran told Emeequis.

The governor insists that everything is a campaign of harassment against him for his militancy in the opposition.

The charges that the FGR imputes to him are for organized crime, operations with resources of illicit origin and equal tax fraud. Díaz Durán says that it will be necessary to add theft of gasoline, natural gas, extortion, kidnapping and, if it’s proven his team of uniformed exterminators the GOPES. Crimes against humanity should also be added, he declared.

"He can say what he wants, he can invent the persecutions he wants … but the evidence is very solid. He and his family acted as if the state were his ranch and no, it’s not like that," says Díaz Durán.

"They will pay. Sooner or later they will have to answer for what they did to the beautiful state of Tamaulipas".

Alejandro Rojas Díaz Duran concluded in this interview that you see on your screens entitled “Cabeza de Vaca Hired Hitmen. He is the leader of the Mad Cow Cartel published by the information portal Emeequis.

We will provide you with the link to the article made by the journalist Oscar Balderas in case you want to read it.

Sources: Grillonautas2; EmeEquis