By now we're getting used to U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela Jr.'s call for this or that action knowing full well that nothing will come of it.
We heard him rail against the deaths of three American citizens killed in Matamoros, against the "inaction" of Veteran Administration officials for a hospital here, and now for the extradition of two former Mexican governors from the border state of Tamaulipas accused of working with Mexican drug cartels.
Vela and U.S. Congressman Michael Maccaul sent the letter to U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.
In the letter the two congressmen ask for the extradition of former Tamaulipas governors Tomas Yarrington and Eugenio Hernandez Flores so that they can be tried in the United States.
“These two former governors of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas are accused of being key players in criminal enterprises that had a significant negative impact on communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border,” the congressmen stated in the letter.
Tomas Yarrington served as the governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005 while Hernandez held the post from 2005 to 2010.
News reports indicate that both Yarrington and Hernandez continue to live peacefully in Mexico. Yarrington reportedly travels continuously from Mexico City to Ciudad Victoria Tamaulipas while Hernandez frequents ritzy restaurants in Cancun with his family.
Yarrington is accused of having worked with the Gulf Cartel, Los Zetas and the Beltran Leyva cartels to further their criminal enterprises. Federal officials have seized various houses belonging to Yarrington in South Texas, including a luxury condominium in South Padre Island.Hernandez is wanted on money laundering charges and federal officials have seized various properties in South Texas as well as in San Antonio.
Curiously, neither congressman demands that Lynch "immediately" take steps to extradite Matamoros Mayor Leticia Salazar, the main force behind the formation of the paramilitary Grupo Hercules under the direction of her Social Development coordinator Luis Biasi who are charged with kidnapping three American citizens in Progreso, (That's Fil and Lety in the photo at left. Get her, Fil!)
Progreso is part of the municipality of Matamoros.
The three U.S. citizens Alex, 22, Jose Angel, 21, and Erica Alvarado, 26, were picked up Oct. 13, 2014 by the group and their bodies were later found thrown in a roadside ditch.
According to their mother Raquel, the brothers came upon Grupo Hercules members beating up on Erica and her Mexican boyfriend and tried to intervene and all were hauled away in two trucks bearing the name of the Matamoros mayor.
Their bodies – showing signs of torture and beatings – were found in an empty lot west of Matamoros and east of El Control where they were picked up.Salazar said her administration was ready to cooperate with state authorities investigation the siblings disappearance and deaths. However, in nationally televised interviews, she denied any involvement with the group or its formation. (That's her in her cute beret announcing the activation of Grupo Hercules.)
Salazar's actions as mayor have come under heavy criticism for what some say is her authoritarian manner. She has outlawed altars to La Santa Muerte in Matamoros and stopped women in scanty clothing from serving alcoholic beverages in convenience stores arguing that it will lead them to prostitution.
Her remarks that "next to God, I am the maximum authority" in Matamoros has added fuel to the fire.
Now, with the FBI reportedly investigating the case, it is expected that members of the Grupo Hercules will be questioned on the role they played in the students' disappearance and deaths. According to Tamaulipas state police sources, the three siblings and the Mexican national were killed the same day they were picked up by the group and were found last Thursday. Their hands and legs were tied with rope and each bore a single gunshot to the head.
Their vehicles were later found in the impoundment lot belonging to Biasi. Despite her involvement in the matter, Salazar has been feted by Vela on the Brownsville side and rode a car in the Charro Days parade. Apparently, pink-collar criminals are out of bounds for Fil Vela.
7 comments:
Killers in high govt levels .
Mexico should extradite Da Blimp. We don't need or want him! ja ja ja Pinche Blimp!!! He is the ugliest lardass in Browntown.
In Mexicali, Mexico, temperatures can reach 125 degrees as heat envelops an arid desert. Without a body of water nearby to moderate the climate, the heavy sun is relentless — and deadly. During the summer of 1955, this is where hundreds of thousands of Mexicans were “dumped” after being discovered as migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Unloaded from buses and trucks carrying several times their capacity, the deportees stumbled into the Mexicali streets with few possessions and no way of getting home.
This was strategic: the more obscure the destination within the Mexican interior, the less opportunities they would have to return to America. But the tactic also proved to be dangerous, as the migrants were left without resources to survive. After one such round-up and transfer in July, 88 people died from heat stroke. At another drop-off point in Nuevo Laredo, the migrants were “brought like cows” into the desert.
Among the over 25 percent who were transported by boat from Port Isabel, Texas, to the Mexican Gulf Coast, many shared cramped quarters in vessels resembling an “eighteenth century slave ship” and “penal hell ship.”
These deportation procedures, detailed by historian Mae M. Ngai, were not anomalies. They were the essential framework of Operation Wetback - a concerted immigration law enforcement effort implemented by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954 - and the deportation model that Donald Trump says he intends to follow.
Juan, my son, I keep telling you we are Easy Culos. That's why the politicians do what they want with us. Only the poor pendejos get jailed, bro!
Dags
Filemon Vela is a good politician, lots of smoke and mirrors and a Great good dog & pony show, does not have anything other than that. Cant be compared to his dad, anyway VETERANS all this BS about a new VETERANS hospital will never happen in our Life time. Maybe in the afterlife but not here. So we are all wasting out TIME with this DUDE. CCA
They can put Letty under house arrest at my house.
Pinche letty, its only a matter of time until she's accused of money laundering, drug trafficking, corruption & of having cartel connections like the rest of her fellow politicians from Tamaulipas (erik silva, eugenio hdz, tomas yarrington, cavazos lerma, egidio torre etc etc!)
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