When political columns of the media in the capital of Tamaulipas Thomas spoke of Gloria Requena, they referred to him as "the mayor of San Fernando corruptazo".
Now that the state gained the opposition began to leave the misdeeds of the current delegate of the National Peasant Confederation (CNC) in Veracruz and looting of public resources, claim that appropriated land and real estate of victims killed by Los Zetas during the period in which this group dominated San Fernando and coincided with the mayor of Gloria Requena.
The corruptazo Mayor Tomas Gloria started his three - year administration in late 2010. His political campaign was funded by the Gulf Cartel (CDG), denounced citizens whose names are omitted to protect them against possible reprisals.
Months before the dispute had begun San Fernando between the CDG and its former allies, Los Zetas. In late March of that year they arrived in San Fernando dozens of trucks crowded with armed men. The trocastenían painted on their windows and doors the last letter of the alphabet.
Los Zetas gunmen seized the members of the Gulf Cartel that strategic plaza. The groups were divided the first days of March.
The CDG controlled the Plaza de San Fernando since 2001. It was inaugurated by Rafael Cardenas Vela Junior in that year. It was a federal former policeman sent by his uncle Osiel Cardenas Guillen to "set square" because at that time no one controlled this strategic region, which is essential for the transfer of narcotics.
"Osiel told me to talk with the Ministerial Police Commander Noah Hinojosa because he was going to help me. When I arrived, I started step by step ", described the Junior in a trial in the Texas city of Brownsville, where he went as a protected prosecution witness.
Cardenas Vela said he came to San Fernando with $ 10,000 to provide payments to police, military and naval officers to "work for them" and people from the press and radio. He also recruited as informants dancers nightclubs.
To consolidate the square, the cartel gave $ 20,000 to the heads of the PFP in the region.
"The mayor did not need to pay as we had financed his campaign , " he said.
At that time the Gulf Cartel operations in San Fernando cost 95 thousand dollars a week, he said.
"I knew how to make. I learned watching my uncle drove Osiel other places, so I knew who had to arrange to have well controlled everything. "
"Knot road"
The relevance of San Fernando for drug trafficking summed General Miguel Angel Gonzalez, who was commander of the Eighth Military Zone based in Reynosa: "It is a hub where several roads".
He added: "There is a road that comes from the Gulf that is a drug trafficking route coming from Chiapas, Veracruz, Tampico and passes Soto la Marina. It is a very important step towards the border of Tamaulipas with the United States route, as they are almost 400 kilometers of a porous border that they want control for the smuggling of drugs, people trafficking and conversely arms smuggling to Mexico and a lot of goods. "
In addition to roads and highways, he said the general, the vast region is connected by dozens of roads and desolate gaps that only know their people, which extend towards the border area.
The Laguna Madre Gulf of Mexico was also strategic to move narcotics by vessels confused with fishermen and where a continuous smuggling of weapons bought on the black market in Central America is made.
On March 31, 2010, Los Zetas and the CDG staged a battle that will last for many years in the minds of its inhabitants. Before noon grenade destroyed the rumblings business, bursts of "goat horns" and R-15 impacted house facades and gnashing of tires broke the peace and tranquility that the people had enjoyed for decades.
After the battle, bloodstains and dozens of bodies were scattered in all directions from the main street. It was the prelude to barbarism posesionaría the village at least three years. The Zetas expelled to CDG and imposed a dictatorship represented by the bulky figure of Martin Omar Estrada Luna, Kilo and his entourage of 30 teenagers who made the role of guards or "hawks".
The command structure remained Los Zetas led by Salvador Martinez Escobedo Squirrel as regional head; The ex - soldier Edgar Huerta Montiel El Wache as plaza boss and Commander The commanding Kilo about 100 gunmen who took possession by all the people , and less than 60 thousand inhabitants. In addition, 40 municipal police were on their payroll.
Since they took control of the town, Los Zetas were devoted to kidnap and kill suspected collaborators of the CDG. From that time the terror took possession of its inhabitants who saw gunmen in broad daylight came to draw families from their homes. Many people fled and the economy collapsed because big business emigrated from San Fernando.
The attraction that had the town thanks to its proximity to the Laguna Madre was also completed. So it became a town where fear breathing. Its inhabitants took refuge in their homes in the evening, as El Kilo imposed a curfew from 18:00.
In those days, the funeral La Paz, the principal of the three that exist in the city, came to receive up to five deaths per day because of violence.
In addition, since April and for about two months, 40 policemen were dedicated to lower passenger bus lines as ADO, Transpaís, Omnibus, among others, supervised by gunmen who face uniformed and military were covered. Seeking "cons" of allied groups CDG: Sinaloa Cartel and La Familia Michoacana.
Young people were reviewing their cell and passengers from Michoacan and Sinaloa the trucks traveling in the area of El Arenal, where they were killed and buried in a pit escavaban heavy machinery owned by the municipality.
In many cases, buses continued their march towards the border only a few passengers traveling about 40. Those kidnappings were halted until the operators went on strike and asked their companies no longer go to San Fernando.
The slaughter of 72 migrants in August 2010 and the discovery of the narcofosas of El Arenal with 193 corpses officially registered, San Fernando became the icon of multiple murders and disappearances suffering Tamaulipas.
The unofficial figure in El Arenal recorded another 100 bodies that the government ordered no longer count and who were sent to a mass grave in the municipal cemetery instead of the Forensic Medical Service (Semefo) of Matamoros.
The current balance of the violence is around a thousand children and young orphaned. To support them , the municipality invests 42 million pesos to build the house of the Child, with a capacity to accommodate 200 children were virtually homeless.
Mayor "ostrich"
During the time of the violence generated by Los Zetas, former Mayor Tomas Gloria Requena became "ostrich".
Villagers have began to denounce the killings, kidnappings and extortion occurred in broad daylight, but the mayor did not see let alone denounced.
Instead, what he did was appropriate municipal land and property of employers victims of violence. It highlights the case of Erasmo Galvan Zarate, who was known as El Gringo. The Zetas killed him with heavy weapons outside the hotel America, its property, located on the main street of the village.
In addition, his brother Jaime Zarate Galvan, owner of another hotel in the Laguna Madre, was kidnapped by the criminal group.
Citizens interviewed said the American hotel, which was abandoned, is already owned by the family of Gloria Requena, as recorded in official documents.
They also reported that the now delegate from the CNC in Veracruz owner of the land where the school "Ponciano Arriaga" was located, and he put his wife as owner of the property was made.
There are other properties that were registered with prestanombres because their real owners were killed. However, due to self - government that kept Los Zetas at that time, no one denounced the irregularities committed Gloria Requena.
However, now that the governor and the mayor passed to the PAN, citizens demand to investigate and punish the former mayor for their unlawful acts. Above all, for complicity with the crimes they perpetrated against Los Zetas hundreds of residents of San Fernando.
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