P.A.N. STARTS DEMONIZING TEXAN HOMICIDE VICTIMS

By Juan Montoya
It was only a matter of time before the supporters of the Partido Accion Antional (PAN) and Leticia Zalazar, the mayor of Matamoros, started demonizing the three U.S.citizens and their Mexican companion who were kidnapped, tortured, and killed by members of the mayor's paramilitary group, el Grupo Hercules.
The newspaper El Mañana, in Thursday's edition, featured a front-page story accusing the cartels in northern Mexico of blaming the mayor and her Grupo Hercules for the murders of the three siblings and the boyfriend of the girl.
Jorge Valdez, a state representative for the PRD and president of the Tamaulipas Commission on Public Safety, has already demanded in the state capital of Victoria that the mayor and her Social Development Director Luis Alfredo Biasi be relieved of their duties so as not to hinder the ongoing investigation into the kidnapping and homicide of the three siblings Erica, Alex and Jose Angel Alvarado Rivera and the girl's boyfriend Jose Guadalupe “El Negro” Castaneda.
The siblings are American citizens from Progreso, Texas who were visiting their father in El Control when they were reportedly kidnapped from a roadside carne asada stand by members of the Grupo Hercules and possibly Mexican marines.
El Mañana – citing of all things a blogspot from Texas – charges that the three U.S. citizens and their Mexican companion were engaged in stealing gas from Pemex pipelines and were hauled off by the military for questioning on the matter.
The newspaper says that the current criticisms against Salazar and Biasi – in whose impound lot the siblings' two vehicles were found – have been made the targets by opposition party politicians in concert with cartels in northern Mexico.
Idelfonso Ortiz, once a reporter for the Brownsville Herald, has been pushing the pro-Salazar story blaming the cartels for shifting the blame to Salazar, rumored to have designs on the Tamaulipas governorship in the future.
Ortiz writes in www.Breitbart.com  that the stories have been published "multiple times in order to place the blame on the Matamoros police and the city Mayor Leticia Salazar who was rumored to be running for governor in the next election. The multiple stories which all stem from (Raquel) Alvarado’s (the siblings mother) accusation have led to nine police officers undergoing questioning by state police.
Ortiz quotes unnamed sources "with direct knowledge of criminal activity in Tamaulipas told Breitbart Texas that the murder was in fact a dispute between Castaneda, a local crime boss for the Gulf Cartel who oversaw the sale of stolen fuel and Ariel “El Tigre” Trevino who is a regional boss for the criminal organization. The dispute appears to have been over moneys from the sale of stolen fuel, the two sources that spoke with Breitbart Texas said."

How the two male siblings who were on vacation from migrant work in Missouri could have been engaged in stealing gas from Pemex is not explained.

However, Matamoros reporters question that version saying that whatever the reasons that apologists fro Salazar, Biasi and el Grupo Hercules may give, the fact remains that the paramilitary group formed by Salazar and Biasi are linked directly to the four being kidnapped, tortured and killed. 

The siblings mother says she does not trust Mexican investigators to perform an impartial job and said that she is pinning her hopes in finding out who killed her children on the investigation being performed by the FBI.

In a nationally televised interview, Salazar denied she had formed the Grupo Hercules, only to be shown an interview where she claims she was the moving force to establish the paramilitary group.
According to the parents of the three U.S. citizens, eyewitnesses say they saw the official vehicles belonging to the Grupo Hercules participating in the initial arrest of the victims.