In The Shadow Of Saint Death – Michael Deibert

The bodies of the alleged assassins were flung atop a grave with the sign The people they killed are buried here. The same day the mechanics disappeared, marines arrested seventeen suspected Gulf Cartel members around Tamaulipas, also seizing forty-nine assault rifles, six grenades, and two handguns. On Falcon Lake, a dammed section of the Rio Grande, which traverses the Texas-Tamaulipas border that had become a known narco smuggling hot spot, two Americans from McAllen, Texas, David and Tiffany Hartley, were attacked by gunmen while on their Jet Skis, Tiffany Hartley later said, as they were trying to take photos of a sunken church.

David Hartley was shot, fell into the water, and his wife fled. Speaking with several individuals familiar with the case in the Rio Grande Valley, one could surmise that the circumstances of the shooting may have been more complex than they might have at first appeared. The severed head of Rolando Flores, the Mexican police commander tasked with investigating Hartley’s disappearance, was subsequently discovered near Miguel Alemán. And the violence was continuing to spread, beyond Mexico’s border as well as within it. In October, it was the turn of the citizens of the town of Grano de Oro in Guatemala’s El Petén region along the Mexican border, when the Guatemalan military confronted a ten-car convoy of armed men believed to be Los Zetas in a series of encounters that left five dead.

Back in Mexico, Calderón sent a bill to Mexico’s senate calling for the dissolution of Mexico’s local police forces, citing their corruption and inefficiency. That month, two years after it was first announced, US and Mexican officials finally began implementing a program designed to trace weapons seized in Mexico to their origins in the United States.

Dubbed “eTrace,” the system had been delayed because not enough investigators in Mexico had been trained or given access to the electronic database at the center of the program. In Tijuana that October, Calderón feted former US vice president Al Gore, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone, and Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales at the opening of a two-week festival designed to show off the city’s economic and cultural potential, saying that Tijuana had “decided to show its true side.” In the midst of the festival, however, sixteen people were killed, with victims of decapitation slayings discovered in the city’s streets and others hung from bridges.

Copyright © 2014 by Michael Deibert ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher.

Requests for permission should be addressed to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, PO Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437. Lyons Press is an imprint of Globe Pequot Press. Project Editor: Lauren Brancato Layout Artist: Mary Ballachino Map: Alena Joy Pearce © Morris Book Publishing, LLC Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. ISBN 978-1-4930-1064-6 OceanofPDF.com To the hundreds of thousands of people in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, and other countries who lost their lives as their governments, at the demand of the United States, prosecuted a war that should have never been fought To all in those countries who have worked to give justice to the victims To all in those countries who worked to give their nations functioning institutions of governance, an endeavor which, in the face of the violence, money, corruption, and impunity arrayed against them, represented nothing short of a revolutionary act And in memory of Sebastian Montiel Quezada, the Mexican OceanofPDF.com The Mexican’s indifference toward death is fostered by his indifference toward life.

He views not only death but also life as non transcendent. . . . We kill because life—our own or another’s —is of no value. Life and death are inseparable, and when the former lacks meaning, the latter becomes equally meaningless. Mexican death is the mirror of Mexican life. And the Mexican shuts himself away and ignores both of them. —Octavio Paz, El Laberinto de la Soledad You can have everything. But it has a price.

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