With The Cartel taking serious pressure at the top of U.S.
DEA’s Hit List, the lesser ranking drug organizations are more active in the
city. The Ismael “Mayo” Zambada drug cartel is now taking control of certain
segments of drug operations in Tijuana. Violent Inter-Cartel clashes are certain
to increase.
The editor of the Tijuana weekly paper Zeta, Jesús
Blancornelas, who was a close observer of the drug trafficking groups actually
survived being perforated by their lead laden antipathy toward him. Not everyone
at the newspaper survives such encounters. Hector Felix Miranda, co-founder of
Zeta, was murdered by two Cartel gunmen. But there’s more.
Francisco Ortiz Franco, another editor of Zeta, departed our
world while sitting in his car with his children (8, and 10) at his side when
two youths wearing masks put four bullets into his face. While the children were
“unharmed” they won’t forget “dead daddy” for a long, long while. The murder
occurred on a busy Tijuana street and only a block from Baja California State
Police offices.
Speaking about the violence and murder in Tijuana, Governor of
Baja California Eugenio Elorduy Walther said: “We consider this a challenge to
authority, but also a challenge to Baja California society.”
Baja California Assistant Attorney General Rogelio Delgado Neri
downplayed all such scurrilous comments as being “scurrilous comments.” Sr.
Delgado even put the total murder rate in Tijuana at “only” 261 a year.
But then Sr. Delgado was, and almost immediately, blasted into
the land of immortality while sitting at a popular Tijuana bar.
Do you have a minaret in your town?
Tijuana does.
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