“Long live peace in Tamaulipas”: on covers, the Gulf Cartel ensured the truce after the massacre

In the early hours of Monday, in the federative entity of Tamaulipas, appeared narcomantes announcing a supposed truce: in them it is indicated that the fights internal in criminal organizations they finished after making a pact of peace.

It happened after more than a month of slaughter recorded in the city, where a suspected Gulf Cartel group murdered 15 people.

The messages were placed and distributed in blankets in different cities from Tamaulipas.

Some narcomantes were mainly in Reynosa, in the agglomerations of Tampico, in the town of Padilla, in Matamoros, Yes Near the border with the United States in Rio Bravo.

Reynosa is fought between groups Matamoros Scorpions Yes Meters of Reynosa.

“To all citizens of the state, we inform you that today, July 19, We agree on a truce of tranquility and we stand in solidarity with the people and with principles and ideologies compatible with generate peace“, Says one of the covers, according to the photographs released.

The message is signed by “Gulf Cartel Boss” and bands identified as SC-XIX Grupo Scorpion, Primito Grupo Metros and Tampico Grupo Rojo.

“We have family and we are dedicated to what really matters to us in our business. The main thing is that the peoples who have our presence feel safe with her without any worries (…)

“Signature peace between us and the strengthening of the union of our places demonstrating above all that the Gulf Cartel has principles and that its highest priority is the tranquility of the state and the well-being of the peoples, in honor of comrades fallen in the war and in sample of the respect and solidarity we have for you to everyone in general. Long live peace in Tamaulipas“The letter reads.

The arrest of those responsible for the massacre of 15 innocent civilians in Reynosa tamaulipas, far from having closed one of the darkest chapters in the history of the entity, it seems that it only further animated the speculations and the questions.

Almost two weeks after the attack on civil society, which experts and authorities have called a fact “unprecedented», The interpretations which tried to explain the reasons were insufficient, including the authorities’ own version.

The only consensus that security analysts, journalists and human rights activists seem to reach is that what happened in the border town on June 19 has no point of comparison. The type of violence that had been observed in recent years in Tamaulipas was due to clashes between criminal groups vying for the place, considered the nerve center of the entity due to the size of its population and its economic importance.

“All that is said is just speculation. The authorities have not provided us with any proof that what they are saying is correct. They keep repeating that it was a heat the place“, said to Infobae Mexico Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, expert on drug trafficking issues.

The official version, endorsed by the governor Francisco Javier Cabeza de Vaca, detailed that through the coordination of one of the largest “operational deployments“The timely arrest of the first alleged perpetrators of the massacre was achieved, during which citizens with no apparent connection to organized crime were murdered, including masons, nurses, taxi drivers, traders and students.

Among the detainees –so far 25– it was Jorge Iván Cárdenas Martínez, alias The cow, which has been identified as “place manager“From the cartel of the city of Río Bravo and as the alleged perpetrator of the massacre.

One of the detainees, identified as Jonathan Balderas Rodríguez, who was also the first to be linked to the process, assured from a hospital bed that the attack on the population was plain and simple “heat the square”, And that he and the rest of the contract killers had followed the orders of an individual identified as The Maestrin, presumed head of a cell of the Gulf Cartel.

In the world of drug trafficking, when you say “heat the square”What we mean is that for strategic reasons, a criminal group commits impact offenses in a certain region to distract from state and federal authorities.

KEEP READING: