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Squads in Sinaloa? Macabre Criminal Puzzles? August 31- Sept 2:
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Over the past few months, there's mounting evidence and belief that death Creechan)

squadrons are behind several ajusticimientos in Sinaloa. The state has always
Mad as Hell and Can't
contributed a disproportionate number of sicarios to narco armies, but this Take it Any More:
cohort of hit men seems to be qualitatively different from earlier generations of Crime news for August
29 and 30
Sinaloan killers. Their weapons and bullets aren't much different, but victims are Published 3 days ago from
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much more likely to populate the lowest notches of a criminal underworld, and Creechan)
their corpses are increasingly disposed in bizarre and carefully staged scenes.
Mexico Crime News
Reports: August 27-
Reports in Noroeste, el Debate and Rio Doce link at least 35 homicides of minor 28
Published 5 days ago from
criminals to unknown vigilantes —referring to them using the term "los noreply@blogger.com (James
Creechan)
matarobachoches". The shooters routinely produce multiple victims at each hit,
and leave narcomensajes warning other potential car thieves to expect similar
Sexta Encuesta
consequences. Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah—both book and movie— included Nacional Sobre
eerily parallel narratives describing the pathetic fate of sad characters hoping to Inseguridad: 6th
National Victimization
worm their way into big time crime but finding an early grave instead. Survey measuring
worm their way into big time crime but finding an early grave instead. Survey measuring
Insecurity
Published 6 days ago from
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Many of the current sicarios eschew traditional 'levantones', and are more likely Creechan)
to carry out the mission in company with shooters descending suddenly from
luxury SUV's to mow down targets in a spray of raw firepower. Ironically, many Mexico Crime News
Mon-Wed August 24-
vehicles carrying them to the hit are stolen. Sicario armaments haven't changed 27: "Estallido Social
too much— they still use AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles — but there is a Previsto"
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noticeable absence of remorse shown by shooters when they accidently— and noreply@blogger.com (James
Creechan)
regularly— bring down innocent bystanders in their saturation "bombing" of
targets. One attack, in Navolato early Sunday morning, left 8 young people lying Statistics and Damned
dead in a heap, including the two men with criminal records of robbery and car Lies, Gun Shipments
(Weekend Crime
theft who were probably the intended targets. Investigan vínculos en crímenes Update August 21-23)
Published 1 week ago from
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Creechan)

Another difference in this new generation of shooters is that the aftermath of the
Crime in Mexico Aug
shooting adds many bizarre twists and elements not seen before in Sinaloa. 19-20: What has the
Increasingly, victims of violence are mutilated by chopping off heads, hands and Acuerdo Nacional
accomplished?
limbs. Chopping hands is widely understood as the traditional punishment for Published 1 week ago from
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car theft. But this new generation of sicarios has introduced other symbolic Creechan)

elements to re-emphasize this warning and send more complicated messages.

Last Sunday, a mutilated corpse was dumped at a hotel on Mazatlan's malecon
— but the victim's extremities were mingled with a pig head in half of a 40-
gallon barrel and the narcomensaje. The victim's head was dumped elsewhere Sexy Tattoos
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and later identified as Iván López Toledo, "El Jeringas" (Confirman identidad Layouts, Backgrounds...
del descuartizado) Disposing of a corpse in a sealed barrel is known as "un MyWebTattoo.com

entambado", but this recent display included so many new twists that it is
difficult to know with certainty what message the executioners hoped to deliver
— and to whom it was directed. Nearby the 1/2-barrel, killers had carefully
staged a surrealistic scene with props that included a white rain boots and a
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mock-headstone. Hallan restos humanos mezclados con una cabeza de puerco
J A MES
and Encuentran restos de descuartizado en Mazatlán,
CR E EC H A N
T OR ONT O, ONT A RI O, C A NA DA
Malecón, the "observational and editorial daily column" of Noroeste offered a
Sociologist (Ph.D., Arizona).
comment about this and recent events in its September 1, 2009 version:
Member of American Society
"If we thought that we've seen the worst of violence in Sinaloa, we're of Criminology. Professor and
most likely fooling ourselves. The social decomposition has not reached visiting scholar at various
its highest levels of cruelty even with the massacre of 8 people in a public universities including the
place in Navolato, the beheadings, the dismemberments, "the blanked
University of Alberta
corpses", "the burned corpses", the bodies in barrels, the extermination of
car thieves and alleged criminals, the massacres, the three executions (retired), University of
each day, the narco-messages and the possible presence of a death Arizona (visiting scholar),
squad. Now, we have seen not only the execution of victims, but also a University of Southern
new style of dismemberment of their remains, in which the killers pull
California (visiting scholar),
out their eyes, cut off their hands and other extremities and mix these
with pig heads before tossing everything in a public place to create a El Colegio de Mexico (visiting
macabre criminal puzzle" scholar), Autonomous
University of Sinaloa-
"Si se piensa que en Sinaloa ya hemos visto lo peor de la violencia, hay
probabilidades de equivocarnos. La descomposición social y la violencia Culiacan (adjunct professor in
the Faculty of International
 probabilidades de equivocarnos. La descomposición social y la violencia
no alcanzaron sus más altos niveles de crueldad con las masacres de the Faculty of International
ocho personas en plena calle de Navolato, los descabezados, los Studies and Public Policy),
cercenados, "encobijados", carbonizados, "entambados", el exterminio de
University of Toronto
supuestos robacarros y presuntos delincuentes, los masacrados, las tres
ejecuciones diarias, los narcomensajes y la sospecha de la existencia del (visiting professor, sessional
comando de la muerte. Ahora nos encontramos no sólo con la ejecución professor), Queen's University
de las víctimas, sino una nueva modalidad de decuartizamiento de ellas, (visiting professor),
a las que le extraen ojos, cortan manos y extremidades que "mezclan"
McMaster University (visiting
con cabezas de cerdo y que abandonan en distintos lugares, en un
macabro rompecabezas criminal." professor). Resident of
Toronto.
These latest incidents are troubling, but we should remember that it's long been
V IE W M Y C O M P LE TE PR OFILE
a fact that narcos are firmly and deeply embedded in almost all aspects of
Sinaloan daily life. Culichis understand that messing with a narco carries this
ultimate risk. Capos and lugartenientes have also been a familiar presence in the
area and familiar to most people—and always given a wide-berth; it's a taken-
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recently been spotted. After recognizing a narco who had recently returned to
Beginning with Chiles: Order
Culiacán, one of my friends drove me several miles away to avoid having coffee from University of Arizona
at the regular spot. In fact, many Sinaloan observers believe that one
This is for the Mara
aggravating factor causing "El Barbas" Beltran Leyva's extreme rage after the
Salvatrucha: Inside the
arrest of his brother "El Mochomo" was an unexpected and blatant violation of MS-13
the unwritten rule to "never mess with narcos on their home turf".
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Execution of car thieves has always been a banal fact within the Sinaloa CRIMINOLOGIA Y A SU
experience. A few years ago, a student and good friend planned to take a METODOS
Canadian colleague and me to a Dorados football match. Ricardo bought tickets
Mexico's Narco-Insurgency
and presented them at our Friday breakfast meeting. But he calmly reported and U.S. Counterdrug
that he couldn't accompany us because his brother-in-law had been abducted Policy
('un levantón') the previous night along with 2 other men. The 3 bodies were
Menos Represión, Más
found Sunday morning where they had been dumped in a wealthy colonia. seguridad (Irvin Waller)
Ricardo's brother-in-law and his friend had been executed with a single bullet to
the back of their head, but the third had been violently tortured, mutilated and
his hands chopped off.

Ricardo eventually explained that his brother-in-law had helped move his friend
to Mazatlán; the friend had involved another of his friends with a new truck — a
stranger to Ricardo's brother-in-law. The two innocent parties didn't know that
the new truck had been stolen from a mid-level narco operative. The three men
had been spotted in the truck in Mazatlán, and word got back to the owner. The Aqui, Tu Propio Negocio.
Muy Rentable, Desde Tu Orden
deaths were the revenge for truck theft: all three had been tortured before
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The latest latest wave of elaborately staged corpses and the commingling of Ajuste de cuentas (m):
human parts with pig heads introduces a bizarre element to the body dumps— Settling a score. Getting
and one can only hope that will remain a passing and atypical fad. But, as even. Revenge. alt.
Malecon laments, it's more likely that such atrocities will escalate and become ajusticimiento
even more fantastic and dehumanizing. ATF: Agency of Department
One possible explanation for the escalation is that internecine cartel wars and of Justice— the Bureau of
the army involvement in the drug wars has left the ranks of sicarios decimated, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and has forced cartels to recruit more indiscriminately among younger, less and Explosives.
competent, and inexperienced punks and thugs. The latest recruits are unlikely Aztecas (las):
to have gradually moved up cartel hierarchies in the manner that earlier narcomenudistas working
generations of sicarios. The newest recruits are tossed into the fray with little or for Juarez cartel.
no training, and with no appreciation of the rituals and traditions that served Controlled by La Linea.
older generations as a perverted form of moral compass and guidelines to be Cartel: 8 organizations in
observed by an immoral bunch of psychopaths. Now, it seems that those Mexico are the Golfo,
traditions have no hold on this generation of killers, and the new wave of narco- Sinaloa, Tijuana, Juarez,
sicarios is more influenced by the cultures of excess disseminated on the Beltran-Leyva, Amezcua-
internet. Contreras, Los Zetas, Diaz-
On the other hand, these incidents may simply simply indicate that the Parada, & La Familia
internecine war between the Beltran Leyva brothers and their former Sinaloan Michoacana
allies (primarily El Chapo and El Mayo) has resumed. Those white boots beside CECJUDE: Centro de
the dismembered body in Mazatlan appear to refer to "El Botas Blancas" — one Ejecución de las
of the many nicknames of Arturo Beltran Leyva. It is extremely unlikely that Consecuencias Jurídicas
these incidents can be attributed to an intrusion by "la Familia Michoacana" as del Delito
was suggested by Governor Jesús Aguilar Padilla (Ve Aguilar violencia al estilo CNDH: Comisión Nacional de
Michoacán). los Derechos Humanos
Until recently, Sinaloa, in spite of its long history in the narcotics trade and Coddehum: la Comisión de
expected levels of daily violence, has always gone about the "business of drugs" Defensa de los Derechos
within specific parameters and understood subterranean rules and rituals. But Humanos (Chihuahua)
now, the craziness and extremesroutinely expected from la Familia Michoacana, cortar cartuchos: armatillar.
Los Kaibiles and las Zetas is more and more commonplace in Sinaloa. Ready to fire. to cock a
weapon
 JC weapon
Cuerno de chivo: AK-47, the
EDITORIAL CARTOON preferred weapon of drug
cartels. Some (e.g. Roberto
Helguera: ejecutado con messaje Saviano) have claimed that
the AK-47 has been used to
kill more people than any
OPINION/ANALYSIS
other weapon. 90% of arms
used in Mexico originate
Minimiza Calderón el tema de los derechos humanos
from the United States and
arms dealers in Arizona
MÉXICO, D.F., 1 de septiembre (apro).- En su Tercer Informe de Gobierno,
and Texas.
Felipe Calderón apenas rozó el tema de los derechos humanos, pese a que
DTO: Drug trafficking
durante todo el año su administración fue duramente criticada por diversas
organization
organizaciones, nacionales e internacionales, por sus omisiones en la materia.
El Señor de los Cielos: Amado
[Proceso.com.mx - Nacional]
Carrillo Fuentes, the Lord
of the Skies who helped
Crimen organizado podría limitar recuperación económica, advierten expertos
consolidate the Juárez
Ciudad de México.- En México, como en cualquier país, la existencia del crimen
cartel. He died in 1997
organizado podría limitar la recuperación económica después de la crisis undergoing plastic surgery
mundial que se vive desde 2008, señaló Franco Avicolli, del Instituto Italiano de in Mexico City (Polanco).
Cultura en México.....El experto advirtió sobre el riesgo que representa para la
encobijado: a common way
economía de un país el hecho de que existan organizaciones criminales fuertes, that sicarios dispose of
trasnacionales y sin escrúpulos, pues su poderío económico es capaz de bodies — wrapped in a
manipular los títulos en las bolsas de valores.[MilenioNacionalEdition] blanket, rug, or tarpaulin
and taped.
Calderón, un presidente sometido...De un manotazo, la nueva realidad política FFL: US legal term for federal
del país hizo ver al presidente Felipe Calderón cuán sometido estará en la firearms licensees.
segunda mitad de su gobierno. La desmesurada estrategia publicitaria de Los Approximately 6700
Pinos, en vísperas del tercer informe, fue literalmente aplastada[Proceso.com.mx operate in American
- Titulares] Southwest
foco- crystal meth
Malecon: August 31 Is the Plaza heating Up Again?Malecón fuero (el): (jurisdicción)
´Recalientan´ la plaza ¿Reinicia la guerra? jurisdiction (privilegio,
derecho) privilege;
Navolato vuelve a ser nota de portada, nuevamente las malas noticias
acaparan la atención de los medios de información nacionales con una gente nueva (la): Chapo
masacre que "revuelve" y "recalienta" la plaza a los grupos antagónicos de Guzman sicarios
la delincuencia organizada en ese municipio que seguramente volverán a (Chihuahua)
sentir la embestida del Ejército mexicano y de las fuerzas federales ante
los altos niveles de inseguridad y violencia que regresan al municipio guachicol: oil product stolen
cañero, cuna de uno de los cárteles que desde 2004, y con mayor from PEMEX and then
intensidad en 2008, ha sido protagonista de una guerra sangrienta que sold back to business under
sólo el año pasado dejó una estela de más de mil muertos en el estado. duress. A practice common
in Tamaulipas
Es prematuro hacer juicios sobre el origen del atentado ocurrido la noche
del sábado en el que murieron ocho personas, entre ellos mujeres y hormiga (el correo de..): an
menores, pero bien pudiera entenderse como un posible motivo para ant run. Big result of lots of
generarse el reinicio de las hostilidades entre los grupos de la little additions and
delincuencia organizada, incluso con un nivel mucho más intenso que el
purchases.
que se vivió en Sinaloa desde el 30 de abril de 2008.