Jorge Guadalupe Martínez Campa, a reporter for Radio Estrella in Matamoros, filed a formal complaint with the Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) against high-ranking members of Matamoros Mayor Lety Salazar administration for continuing death threats he received at his office since last May.
The broadcast newsman says the death threats started since he began reporting about the death of three American citizens and a Mexican national at El Control, part of the Matamoros municipio,
A year ago on Oct. 13, siblings Alex, 22, Erica, 26, and Jose Angel, 21, Alvardo and the woman's Mexican national boyfriend Jose Castañeda, 32, were beaten and taken into custody by el Grupo Hercules, a paramilitary group formed as a personal bodyguard for Salazar.Nine days later, their bodies were found dumped in a ditch in a desolate roadway in state of decomposition, each with a bullet through their head.
Witnesses told the siblings' mother Raquel Alvarado that El Grupo Hercules had seized them as they ate in an outside taco stand alongside an highway overpass.
The deaths and lack of cooperation from Matamoros authorities prompted U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela Jr. to called for Mexican authorities to investigate the murders and placed his call for justice in the Congressional Record.
The news of the murderes and the role of high-ranking officials in the Salzar administration have made news reporters targets for its supporters.
Martinez Campa's complaint names Luis Alfredo Biasi, the former director of Social Development and now under a federal charge of fiscal evasion, Jorge Salazar, the mayor's brother, Luis Miguel Fuentes, the Matmoros City Treasurer and Biasi's business associate, Joe Mariano Vega, another member of the Salazar administration, and Jorge Martínez Medina, linked to all three.
Translated, the hand-written note left at Martinez Campa's office, he is waned to "quit fucking around, or do you want to be the fifth the same as the ones at El Control. Take what you are given asshole."Martinez Campa told the PGR in his complaint that Jorge Martinez Medina had come repeatedly into his office to threaten him for his continuing reporting on the deaths of the siblings and the woman's boyfriend and linking them to Salzar and her administration.
The mayor has sought to distance herself from the paramilitary group she had announced with much fanfare only months earlier. In a live interview with Televisa's Adela Micha, she denied any involvement with the group or its formation, this in spite of the fact that she had worn the paramilitary outfit her self complete with their trademark beret. Salazar has been on the U.S. side forging political alliances with the City of Brownsville and Harlingen administrations. She even attended the so-called BiNED conference which seeks to forge a binational alliance to increase commerce.
The paramilitary group is said to have been disbanded with its members placed in similar positions with the city's public security force.
Last February, during the Charro Days parade, Salazar rode in a luxury car belonging to her city treasurer and came face to face with Alvarado who unfurled a banner calling her an "asesina," or assassin.
That's Martinez Campa in the graphic above when he filed the complaint with the police and the PGR.
3 comments:
Death threats turn very real, once you're in Mexico. Talk about getting armed. I sure as hell would.
Dags.
And dear Letty is a close personal friend of our Mayor, Tony Martinez. Tony probably wishes he had the power that she has and exercises. Tony just knows that the public here is ignorant, apathetic, and so busy collecting their entitlements, that most don't even know who is mayor. But is Mexico, there is no law and order; the cartels run the local governments and have great influence on the national government....government officials there, as here, are for sale.
And the shooting goes on in Matamoros and in Mexico. The government is impotent to reduce the fighting because the cartels have more money than the government. While the government money goes to make a few rich, the cartels are passing out money to the community and therefore the citizens of Mexico are more loyal to the cartels than to the government. The Mexican government is like a "pinata".....it hangs there, does nothing and just waits to be hit hard enough to cause its "goodies" to be thrown out.
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