UNITED B'VILLE'S CONNECTION IN MATA BUSTED; BIASI NABBED FOR LAUNDERING MILLIONS $$$$ TO MEX. CITY

By Juan Montoya
A Matamoros public official arrested for money laundering and implicated in the execution of three American siblings is the same man who has figured prominently in the Bi-Ned scheme to link Brownsville and Matamoros in a scheme for economic development by United Brownsville.
Luis Alfredo Biasi is the Social Development Director under Matamoros Mayor Leticia Salazar.
Social media was abuzz with news of Biasi's arrest and interrogation at PGR (Procuradudia General de la Republica) headquarters in Matamoros before he was whisked off to Mexico City aboard a plane that departed from the Reynosa Airport.
Biasi, aside from having been cited previously for owning a warehouse full of smuggled American liquor and cigarettes, is also being investigated for the death of the three siblings from Progreso, Texas, after they were detained and hauled off by his Grupo Hercules, a paramilitary group formed ostensibly as a force to protect the citizens and city administrators.
This followed the arrest of two of his workers of his Alpha Corporate Customs Logistics firm who were caught at the Matamoros Servando Canales Airport hauling $1.6 million pesos and told investigators that it was the fourth trip carrying the same amount to unknown recipients in Mexico City.
The workers told authorities that they had hauled a total of $4.8 million in pesos and had delivered them to "unos licenciados" in Mexico City. They said the money had been given to them by Angelica Maldonado, Matamoros' Administrative Auditor who is also the chief administrator for Biasi's company.
Biasi is also the point man of the city for United Brownsville's counterpart in Matamoros, an outfit called Imagina Matamoros who are pushing for the Bi-Ned efforts of United Brownsville's movers and shakers like IBC Preisdent Fred Rusteberg, UTB's former President Julieta Garcia and Matamoros engineer Carlos Marin, the architect of the scheme.
That plan calls for the cities of Matamoros, Harlingen and Brownsville to commit themselves to a regional economic development approach in a document calling for "the creation of an advanced manufacturing zone straddling the border in order to capture a piece of the advanced manufacturing surge occurring in Mexico's interior."
However, the commitment to this plan has never appeared on the agendas of the City of Brownsville or Matamoros and has been moved forward by Rusteberg and his shadow government.
In this recent photo below taken during a BI-Ned meeting at Rancho Viejo, Biasi is pictured on the far right front row separated from Salazar by the man in the black suit.

Brownsville Mayor Tony Martinez is separated from Salazar by a man with a gray shirt with a white collar. Martinez is wearing a yellow tie. U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela is in the row behind Salazar smiling over her right shoulder. At the very rear is Rusteberg, the banker who has been pulling the strings of local government to have his plans and costly studies to justify them funded by publicly-funded entities pliant to his wishes. Marin is the smiling man directly behind Vela's left shoulder.
Biasi's arrest and transport to the Mexican capital came as a surprise to the mother of Erica, Alex and Jose Angel Alvarado Rivera.
"They have finally captured the murderer of my children," said Raquel Alvarado who was interviewed by telephone.
Salazar and Biasi are members of the opposition PAN political party. They announced the formation of the Grupo Hercules early September as the mayor's personal guard and security paramilitary group to protect the citizens of Matamoros against kidnappings and violence from armed groups.
The siblings were 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.
Their bodies were found some 10 days later in a vacant lot between El Control and Matamoros. Their parents recovered their two vehicles from an impound lot owned by Biasi's Alpha Corporate Customs Logistics.
State police say that the four were tortured and murdered the same day they were kidnapped, Oct. 13. They were found about two weeks later in an advanced state of decomposition.
The deaths of the U.S. citizens sparked an investigation by the Tamaulipas Attorney General, the FBI and the Mexican Commission of Human Rights. At least nine members of the Grupo Hercules have been questioned on the matter.
In a nationally televised interview with Adela Micha, 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 stating "We are all Hercules."
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.

Meanwhile, the Information Technology (IT) staff of the City of Matamoros seem not to have wasted any time in disavowing the city's relationship with Biasi.
The official site that contained information on him and the Social Development Department was erased hours after his arrest, an apparent clumsy attempt to write him out of the city's history, a practice documented as far back as the ancient kingdoms of Egypt and practiced notably by despotic governments ever since.
As a critic has stated: "Websites and social media have taken the place of monuments and testimonial notices carved on ancient buildings. The modern scribes still receive the orders to eradicate embarrassing history from the current record and they do their best, but now as it was then it still leaves messy chisel marks for all to see."
On the archive pages dedicated to Biasi, there is nothing now but a blank space.
With Matamoros trying to eradicate any sign of Biasi out of the annals of its organization, will United Brownsville and Imagina Matamoros follow the same course and eradicate any vestige of Biasi and Salazar from its past and future news releases?