Treacheries, Then Murder
May 9th, 2008 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
No sooner did Mexico give tribute to Edgar Millán, murdered head of the nation's federal police force, when the top boss of Mexico City's anti-kidnapping police force, Esteban Robles, was gunned down, dying this morning with a bullet to the eye.
Millán's killer waited in his home, shooting him ten times. Police tell El Universal it was an inside job; few knew his staggered routines. The killer was arrested, the government showed him on television yesterday, crouched, cuffed, his red and black striped shirt soaked in sweat, a bandage over his right eye.
Meanwhile, in Culiacán, El Debate's reporting a missile launcher attack last night, and everybody's saying, unofficially, that Joaquín "Shorty" Guzmán's son was killed in the firefight. Noroeste's front page shows some scenes from after the firefight.
Last month, Shorty's eldest son, Ivan Archivaldo, was released from prison after a judge threw his money-laundering case out.
Now, last night's fight in Culiacán was between two gangs; what's got myself and law enforcement intelligence sources curious is who is fighting whom.
Last week, banners announcing the return of Arturo Beltrán Leyva started surfacing throughout the city. Either Beltrán's lost it after the arrest of his brother Alfredo in January, or someone is crudely blaming him; not too different from those damning videos up on YouTube. Rats calling rats, rats.
Too early to tell right now, but if Guzmán and Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada are taking on the Beltrán Leyva family, that is one of the biggest acts of treachery since Rodolfo Carrillo Fuentes was taken out back in September '04.
It was Arturo Beltrán, together with Barbie Valdez, who helped Guzmán escape that maximum security prison seven years ago. He'd be nowhere without Barbas.
Now, it appears, a new treachery is born.
-- Michel Marizco
