Mexican literature at the crossroads of three cultures
USA: The Anger of the Hispanics
Tension Mounting High in Mexico
Побеги восстания, растущие на почве политического кризиса
Mexico: Obrador’s Supporters Set up their Camp in Mexico City
Mexico: The Ball is in the Electoral Tribunal’s Court
The Mexican left nears victory
Over 200 Migrants Lost in the Mediterranean Sea
Climate. The United States, Fighting against the Tide of History
Trump: Behind the Smoke-Screen of Abuse of Power, Social Destruction
The Future of the Middle-East is Being Decided in Raqqa and in Mosul
In Japan, US soldiers commit crimes with complete impunity
The Assassination of Maurice Audin, a Crime d’État
Yvan Gil: Constituant Assembly to Resolve the Crisis in Venezuela
Trump introduces his team as “the best sharks in America.”
Afghanistan. Bloody Ramadan at Kabul
Greece Debt Relief: Berlin Still Stalling
Venezuela – opting for the worst right wing policies.
Indonesia, a Step Toward Political Islam
ORIGINAL FRENCH ARTICLE: Grosse prise au Mexique dans la guerre contre les cartels
A Big Haul in Mexico in the War Against Cartels.
Translated Monday 15 August 2011, by and reviewed by Bill Scoble
Oscar Garcia Montoya has been arrested in Mexico City. The leader of an ultra-violent gang admits to having personally participated in 300 executions and having ordered a further 300.
Montoya is the supposed leader of the gang “La Mano con Ojos” (the hand with eyes), plaguing the Mexico City area. Whenever he wanted to deliver a “message”, he would do so by displaying the decapitated heads of his enemies in public places in and around Mexico City.
Montoya started out in the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, where he was first a chauffeur, then a bodyguard, for one of the family leaders, before creating his own gang around the capital city.
He recently turned against his original cartel, Beltrán-Leyva, after trying to take control of it in 2009 following the death of its leader, Arturo Beltran. His gang, La Mano con Ojos, is allegedly responsible for no fewer than 900 murders in a few years. Montoya admits to having participated in 600 of them. La Mano con Ojas acted as henchmen recruited by the big cartels, rather than being directly involved in drug-trafficking.
In five years, the crackdown and fighting between cartels have led to more than 42,000 deaths in Mexico.
