Mexican literature at the crossroads of three cultures
USA: The Anger of the Hispanics
Tension Mounting High in Mexico
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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
Moscow is prepared to end the relationship with the European Union if the bloc introduces sanctions that put the Russian economy at risk, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated.
A Devastating Indictment of the European Union (EU)
Rejected by the people, Jovenel Moïse loses legitimacy
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Socialist China
Celebrating the ascendency of Kamala Harris to the vice presidency
Economists Call for Concrete Solidarity
Britain’s communists sign open letter on international response to Covid-19
How to weaponise human rights against Hong Kong
The Uyghur Issue: How Can the U.S. Dare Lecturing China About the Rights of the Muslims?
Rwanda : An occasional French memory
Refugees : EU to the dock
Americans will not win from the confrontation with China" Interview of Jean-Claude Delaunay by L’Humanité
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.
