By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
A video capturing the mayor of Chilpancingo, Norma Otilia Hernández Martínez, having breakfast with a suspected leader of the criminal organization Los Ardillos, has sparked an investigation after surfacing online on July 5th.
The video shows the Morena party mayor seated at the table at a restaurant next to her husband, sitting across from a man in a black baseball cap, and a black shirt with a pistol on his belt. This man is alleged to be Celso Ortega Jiménez, the leader of Los Ardillos, a violent criminal group which operates in the state of Guerrero.
The mayor has claimed that the video is edited, and while admitting that the meeting happened, she argues that she was tricked and no pact exists between organized crime and the government. She also explained that the meeting occurred in 2021 when she had just begun her term as mayor. She told reporters that she was invited to the breakfast, but was not told who would be there.
This morning, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador said in his morning press conference that he has ordered the governor of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, to undertake an investigation into the matter.
According to InfoBae, the meeting occurred at a restaurant in the town of San Martín in Quechultenango municipality, a region under the control of Los Ardillos.
Who are los Los Ardillos?
Los Ardillos are a criminal group that operate in the state of Guerrero, tracing their criminal heritage back 20 years, beginning as poppy farmers. When the Beltrán Leyva Cartel declined, they emerged to fill the power vacuum in the state, according to InSight Crime. They are heavily focused in the criminal markets of kidnapping and extortion as well as drug trafficking.
Celso Ortega Jiménez is the current leader and the man in the video.
Los Ardillos gained widespread notoriety after the Attorney General's office of Guerrero blamed them for the killing of 10 indigenous musicians in January 2020.
Video of this meeting surfaces just two weeks after a narco message was found referencing a breakfast meeting between a criminal actor and the mayor. At the time, the bizarre contents of the message stumped journalists, but the narco communication has gained new meaning with this video. The message was left next to seven mutilated bodies in Chilpancingo, as reported by Borderland Beat.
Behind the five severed heads were two "narcocartulinas" or paper narco messages. The message on the left, written on a green paper reads:
Greetings, Mayor Norma Otillia I continue waiting for the second breakfast that you promised me after you came to look for me with such sweetness.
Your friend :-)
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Delete9:34 you are right, didnt pay attention to the CDG fans and if they are not as bad as CDS fans they do hold 2nd place, been reading BB since 2010 and yea CDS are the worst, at the begining i use to believe CDS was also the good cartel but i saw all the back stabbing, snitching, raping, innocent killing you name it and i came to the conclucion that all cartels are the same shit, i mean at the end of the day they are all criminals, the only difference is the rest of the cartels are not as hipocrites as CDS
Delete"this site is censored 🤬 af how lame"
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Have to agree with you Sol.Very few intellectuals and more morons.That's what I liked about the forum there were more intellectuals on that when I was Moderator on there.There was lots of 'food for thought' and ideas and opinions not all cheerleading like on Mainboard.I don't know how you have the patience Sol but I guess some days are better than others.Sigh........
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What did I tell you folks.
ReplyDeletePolitical curupt officials, working in collusion with Cartels, even have breakfast 🥞 with them.
Bro, literally everyone already knew that there were politicians in Mexico who were in collusion with the cartels. You’re acting like if this is brand new information.
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Well i told you guys lions eat meat 🤷🏼♂️
DeleteAMLO had photos taken with Chapo mom and brother at Chapo mom house. Mex. citizens did not revolt/care, business as usual.
ReplyDeleteI always have breakfast with unknown people when invited. And when I discover they're scumbags instead of leaving I stay and talk.
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DeleteYeah her saying she went to a breakfast with ppl she didn’t know then stayed was just as bad as the picture. She should have simply said “ I didn’t know who he was at the time” like politicians do here in the states.
ReplyDeleteNo one believes she blindly turns up to breakfast with unknown people. 2nd invitation to breakfast promised too apparently. Coffee, eggs and toast please!
ReplyDeleteLo que necesitamos en México es un líder como Bukele. No hay nada más que pueda arreglar todo esa corrupción y violencia
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DeleteThink it Champagne not coffee
ReplyDeleteWere the 5 victims somehow related to the mayor or does this fool Jimenez just go round beheading people when he wants breakfast?
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