"Who own da Chiefs?"
Posted on 07/31/2014 7:07:06 AM PDT by mgist
¿ Quiénes son los dueños de la “bestia” ? 23 julio, 2014 en Ferroviario, Pasajeros, Últimas noticias Deja un comentario
Grandes compañías de Estados Unidos, magnates mexicanos, congresistas y ex funcionarios de Washington, tienen intereses en las empresas que operan los ferrocarriles de carga mexicanos conocidos genéricamente como La Bestia, según archivos públicos consultados por Univisión.
Las dos grandes empresas que manejan el servicio en México niegan que sus trenes sean parte de La Bestia, o consideran que las denuncias de lo que ocurre a bordo de sus vagones es un asunto por el que debe responder el gobierno.
Pero testigos y expertos sostienen que empleados de estas operadoras son parte de la cadena de abusos de los que son víctimas los indocumentados y que la responsabilidad debe ser compartida. Uno de los indocumentados explicó a Univisión que en su travesía en La Bestia, “los mismos trabajadores del tren querían dinero. Que si no les dábamos dinero nos podían bajar”. Otro compañero asegura que entregaron lo único que tenían, cinco pesos mexicanos. “¿Medio dólar más o menos?”, preguntó el reportero;”ni medio dólar, cuarto de dólar”, contestó el migrante.
Los indocumentados utilizan principalmente los ferrocarriles de Kansas City Southern y de Ferromex a partir del centro de México, en una ruta imprevista que comienza al sur en trenes de una empresa más modesta, la Compañía de Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab. Kansas City Southern
La Kansas City Southern México (KCSM) es la subsidiaria de Kansas City Southern (KCS), una empresa privada que cotiza en el mercado bursátil de Nasdaq, en Estados Unidos, y opera ferrovías del centro y sur de este país, así como a lo largo del Canal de Panamá con trenes de pasajeros y carga que unen los dos océanos. En México cubre rutas entre el norte y el centro del país, y toca los puertos de Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico y Veracruz. Según documentos de Nasdaq, el mayor accionista de la empresa ferrocarrilera es T. Rowe Price Associates, un gigantesco fondo de inversión con intereses en Bank of America y General Electric.
Entre los miembros de la junta directiva de Kansas City Southern, con base en Kansas City, Missouri, se encuentran el ex secretario de Transporte de Estados Unidos Rodney E. Slater y el ex embajador de Estados Unidos en México, Antonio Garza.
Slater, quien ocupó el cargo federal durante el gobierno de Bill Clinton, entre 1997 y 2001, es socio de la firma de cabildeo Patton Boggs LLP en Washington.
Garza fue embajador en México de 2002 a 2009. Es hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos, estuvo casado con la heredera del imperio cervecero Corona, y hoy es parte de White & Case, una de las firmas de abogados más grandes de Estados Unidos, con oficinas en México. Según documentos revisados por Univisión, los estatutos corporativos de KCS obligan a los miembros de la junta directiva de la compañía a tener acciones por no ser empleados de la empresa.
De acuerdo con la organización Maplight, en el último registro de la compañía, que data del 2012, aparecen como accionistas minoritarios de KCS el congresista demócrata Jack Reed y el republicano Kenny Marchant, quien se ha opuesto al paquete de emergencia presentado por el presidente Obama al congreso para los niños no acompañados. Univisión Investiga consultó con la subsidiaria de la empresa en México qué tipo de medidas ha tomado la empresa con sus empleados en relación con las denuncias de abusos con los inmigrantes. Doniele Carlson, portavoz de la firma, respondió que KCSM tiene problemas “mínimos” con los inmigrantes en sus trenes.
“Tenemos una seguridad bien entrenada y coordinada que ha prevenido exitosamente esta clase de cosas”, explicó Carlson. “KCSM no ha tenido que lidiar con temas de mala conducta de empleados como otros ferrocarriles mexicanos,” agregó.
Sin embargo, en marzo de este año el gobernador del estado de Veracruz, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, presentó una denuncia ante la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) contra las empresas Kansas City Southern de México y Ferrosur, por su “presunta responsabilidad por acción u omisión en ilícitos y violaciones a los derechos humanos contra migrantes”, según un comunicado oficial de la gobernación.
Una serie de reportajes preparados por el corresponsal de Univisión Pedro Ultreras sobre el drama de los indocumentados en La Bestia, muestra que el problema en los trenes de KCSM no es insignificante. “Me tocó ver personalmente a grupos pequeños de cinco, diez, cuatro o hasta veinte migrantes centroamericanos en el norte de México en los trenes de carga de la compañía Kansas Southern”, explicó Ultreras. Según el reportero, los migrantes usan los trenes de KCSM en las rutas hacia San Luis Potosí y Saltillo Coahuila, y de ahí hasta Piedras Negras o Monterrey.
El sacerdote Alejandro Solalinde, director del albergue Hermanos del Camino de Ixtepec, es quizás la persona que más conoce las penurias de los migrantes. Durante años ha dado refugio a cientos de ellos que van camino hacia Estados Unidos en el lomo de La Bestia. “Es un hecho que los maquinistas han estado vinculados con actos delictivos contra la población migrante”, señaló Solalinde. “Ellos han hecho parte de secuestros y de todo eso. Pero la responsabilidad no es sólo de ellos, ellos forman parte de una mafia donde están los carteles, operarios, funcionarios públicos y hasta corporaciones policiacas’.
Ferromex y Ferrosur Los trenes del consorcio Ferrocarriles Mexicanos (Ferromex) surcan también el mapa del país, llevando en sus más de 14,000 vagones automóviles, productos agrícolas y frecuentemente migrantes. En 2011 Infraestructura y Transportes Mexico (ITM), la empresa que controla Ferromex, adquirió a Ferrosur S.A. de C.V.
En el consorcio participan capitales del empresario Germán Larrea, el presidente de Grupo México, conocido como El Rey del Cobre por ser el dueño de la tercera empresa productora de este metal en el mundo. Carlos Slim, a través del grupo financiero Inbursa, también tiene influencia en Ferromex.
Un portavoz de Ferromex consultado sobre la posición de la empresa ante la crisis de los migrantes y las quejas de los abusos de algunos de sus empleados, respondió: “Todos estos temas son de competencia del Instituto Nacional de Migración que es el encargado de la política migratoria del país. La compañía no tiene opinión al respecto”. Varios expertos consultados por Univisión coinciden que la responsabilidad es compartida. “Yo creo que estas compañías y sus dueños, que en algunos casos multibillionarios como Carlos Slim, tienen una responsabilidad para que los operarios de los trenes y sus acompañantes no sean parte de la mafia que pone en riesgo a eso migrantes”, afirma la periodista Sonia Nazario, quien ha escrito extensamente sobre el tema y recibió un premio Pulitzer por “La Travesía de Enrique”, que relata la historia de un niño hondureño sobre el lomo de La Bestia.
Uno de los tramos más febriles de La Bestia está al sur de México. Su manejo fue adjudicado a la empresa Ferrocarriles de Chiapas Mayab. La compañía no ha empezado a operar el tren, según le dijo a Univisión un vocero de la misma.
La estructura de la propiedad de esta empresa es tema de un litigio en una corte federal de Miami. Dos socias del gerente general y accionista de la empresa Pedro Topete Vargas lo demandaron alegando que utilizó un crédito obtenido por ellas para comprar la concesión del tren sin su autorización. La empresa de ingeniería ICA también fue demandada. Los demandados alegan que la querella está basada en hechos falsos.
Ninguna de las partes respondió llamadas y correos electrónicos de Univisión Investiga. Fuente ©Univision.com
To sum it up:
There have been thousands of accusations of human rights abuse, and even reports of murder on trains transporting undocumented migrants to the US border. The migrants have also reported train operators standard practice of extorting money from the passengers.
The trains used and involved in these accusations are public companies, traded on NASDAQ, with "very influential stockholders", such as Clinton and Carlos Slim. Other stockholders include,T Rowe Price, Bank of America, and General Electric.
Have no doubt that these transportation companies are involved in the Narco trade, and in this report it makes it clear that the companies are aware of the abusive practices their train operators are engaging in.
Given that Carlos Slim owns the NY Times and the spanish language news stations, this article may not last long.
This is all about human trafficking, narco trafficking, and government and corporate collusion. -------
La Kansas City Southern México (KCSM) es la subsidiaria de Kansas City Southern (KCS), una empresa privada que cotiza en el mercado bursátil de Nasdaq, en Estados Unidos, y opera ferrovías del centro y sur de este país, así como a lo largo del Canal de Panamá con trenes de pasajeros y carga que unen los dos océanos.
En México cubre rutas entre el norte y el centro del país, y toca los puertos de Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico y Veracruz. Según documentos de Nasdaq, el mayor accionista de la empresa ferrocarrilera es T. Rowe Price Associates, un gigantesco fondo de inversión con intereses en Bank of America y General Electric.
who’dah thunk
I see a whole BUNCH’A businesses that just folded and closed their doors.
Get this translated and post it again —
I can’t read no mexican words, pardner. If you have a ping list for the translated version, please add me to it!
Who are the owners of the “beast”? July 23, 2014 in Rail, Passenger, Latest News Leave a comment
Big U.S. companies, Mexican magnates, members and former officials in Washington, have interests in companies operating load of Mexican railroads generally known as The Beast, according to public records consulted by Univision.
The two big companies that manage the service in Mexico deny that their trains are part of the Beast, or consider allegations of what happens on board their cars is a matter for which the government must respond.
But witnesses and experts argue that employees of these operators are part of the chain of abuses that undocumented workers are victims and that responsibility should be shared. One of the undocumented told Univision that her journey in The Beast, “the workers themselves wanted money train. What if they gave them money we could lose. “Another colleague says gave all they had, five Mexican pesos. “Half a dollar or so,” asked the reporter, “or half dollar, quarter dollar,” said the migrant.
The undocumented use mainly railroads Kansas City Southern and Ferromex from central Mexico, in an unexpected route begins south in a more modest railway company, Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab Company. Kansas City Southern
The Kansas City Southern Mexico (KCSM) is the subsidiary of Kansas City Southern (KCS), a private company listed on the Nasdaq stock market in the United States, and operates rail lines from downtown and south of the country, as well as what Panama Canal along with passenger and freight trains linking the two oceans. In Mexico covers routes between the north and center of the country, and tap the ports of Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico and Veracruz. According to documents from Nasdaq, the largest shareholder of the railroad company is T. Rowe Price Associates, a giant investment fund with interests in Bank of America and General Electric.
Among the members of the board of Kansas City Southern, based in Kansas City, Missouri, the former secretary of U.S. Transportation Rodney E. Slater and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio Garza found.
Slater, who held the federal office during the Clinton administration, from 1997 to 2001, is a partner in the lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLP in Washington.
Garza was ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009.’s Son of Mexican immigrants, he was married to the heiress of the brewing empire Corona, and is now part of White & Case, one of the firms largest law in the United States, with offices in Mexico. According to documents reviewed by Univision, KCS corporate bylaws require members of the board of the company's shares have not be employees of the company.
According to Maplight organization in the last record of the company, which dates from 2012, appear as minority shareholders of KCS Rep. Jack Reed and Republican Kenny Marchant, who has opposed the emergency package presented by President Obama congress to unaccompanied children. Univision Investiga consulted with the company's subsidiary in Mexico what measures the company has taken its employees in connection with allegations of abuse with immigrants. Doniele Carlson, spokesman for the firm said that KCSM has “minimal” problems with immigrants in their trains.
“We have a well trained and coordinated security has successfully prevented this kind of thing,” said Carlson. “KCSM has not had to deal with issues of employee misconduct and other Mexican railroads,” he added.
However, in March this year, the governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) against companies Kansas City Southern de Mexico and Ferrosur for his “alleged responsibility for wrongful act or omission and human rights violations against migrants “according to an official statement from the government.
A series of reports prepared by Univision correspondent Peter Ultreras on the plight of undocumented immigrants in The Beast, shows that the problem of KCSM trains is not insignificant. “I personally got to see small groups of five, ten, twenty four or Central Americans in northern Mexico on freight trains Southern Company Kansas migrants,” said Ultreras. According to the reporter, migrants use KCSM trains on routes to San Luis Potosi and Saltillo Coahuila, and from there to Piedras Negras or Monterrey.
The priest Alejandro Solalinde, director of shelter Hermanos del Camino Ixtepec, is perhaps the most knowledgeable person the plight of migrants. For years he has given refuge to hundreds of them on their way to the United States on the back of The Beast. “It is a fact that drivers have been linked to criminal acts against migrants” Solalinde said. “They have become part of kidnappings and all that. But the responsibility is not theirs alone, they are part of a mafia where posters, workers, government officials and even police forces’ are.
Ferromex and Ferrosur trains Ferrocarriles Mexicanos (Ferromex) consortium also ply the map of the country, bringing in more than 14,000 motor cars, agricultural products and often migrants. In 2011 Mexico Infrastructure and Transport (ITM), the company that controls Ferromex, Ferrosur SA acquired de C.V.
The consortium includes capital entrepreneur Germán Larrea, President of Grupo Mexico, known as El Rey del Cobre as the owner of the third producer of this metal in the world. Carlos Slim, through financial group Inbursa, also influences Ferromex.
A spokesman for Ferromex asked about the position of the company before the crisis of the migrants and complaints of abuse by some of its employees, responded: “All these issues are the responsibility of the National Immigration Institute who is responsible for policy immigration country. The company has no opinion. “Several experts consulted by Univision agree that the responsibility is shared. “I believe that these companies and their owners, in some cases as multibillionarios Carlos Slim, have a responsibility to train operators and their companions are not part of the mob that threatens to that migrants,” says journalist Sonia Nazario, who has written extensively on the subject and received a Pulitzer Prize for “Enrique's Journey,” which tells the story of a Honduran boy on the back of the Beast.
One of the wildest stretches of the Beast is south of Mexico. Its management was awarded to the company Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab. The company has not begun to operate the train, told Univision as a spokesperson for it.
The ownership structure of the company is the subject of litigation in federal court in Miami. Two members of the general manager and shareholder of the company Topete Pedro Vargas sued alleging that used a credit earned by them to purchase train concession without your permission. The engineering firm ICA was also sued. The Defendants contend that the complaint is based on false facts.
Neither party calls and emails answered Univision Investiga. Source © Univision.com
"Who own da Chiefs?"
A lot of these people are abused and taken advantage of by the "mafia". It is inhumane what our government is doing to them. How can they encourage minors to leave their homes, with false promises of something better, as a ruse for bringing in the cartel gangs.
Google translation of first four paragraphs. I’ll do more now:
Who are the owners of the “beast”? July 23, 2014 in Rail, Passenger, Latest News Leave a comment
Big U.S. companies, Mexican magnates, members and former officials in Washington, have interests in companies operating load of Mexican railroads generally known as The Beast, according to public records consulted by Univision.
The two big companies that manage the service in Mexico deny that their trains are part of the Beast, or consider allegations of what happens on board their cars is a matter for which the government must respond.
But witnesses and experts argue that employees of these operators are part of the chain of abuses that undocumented workers are victims and that responsibility should be shared. One of the undocumented told Univision that her journey in The Beast, “the workers themselves wanted money train. What if they gave them money we could lose. “ Another colleague says gave all they had, five Mexican pesos. “Half a dollar or so,” asked the reporter, “or half dollar, quarter dollar,” said the migrant.
That seems to be saying that the Illegal Alien Express is being run by American companies owned by leftist Clintonistas.
Am I missing something?
Good Lord. We’re knee deep in slime in this country these days.
And if I’m right, it sounds an awful lot like a book I’m currently reading ...
Seems as if corruption is rife in America, not only in government but business also. Wonder if we’ll survive.
Tort lawyers, get busy. There’s some seriously DEEP pockets there.
Google translation after the first four paragraphs as posted above:
The undocumented use mainly railroads Kansas City Southern and Ferromex from central Mexico, in an unexpected route begins south in a more modest railway company, Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab Company. Kansas City Southern
The Kansas City Southern Mexico (KCSM) is the subsidiary of Kansas City Southern (KCS), a private company listed on the Nasdaq stock market in the United States, and operates rail lines from downtown and south of the country, as well as what Panama Canal along with passenger and freight trains linking the two oceans. In Mexico covers routes between the north and center of the country, and tap the ports of Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico and Veracruz. According to documents from Nasdaq, the largest shareholder of the railroad company is T. Rowe Price Associates, a giant investment fund with interests in Bank of America and General Electric.
Among the members of the board of Kansas City Southern, based in Kansas City, Missouri, the former secretary of U.S. Transportation Rodney E. Slater and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Antonio Garza found.
Slater, who held the federal office during the Clinton administration, from 1997 to 2001, is a partner in the lobbying firm Patton Boggs LLP in Washington.
Garza was ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009.’s Son of Mexican immigrants, he was married to the heiress of the brewing empire Corona, and is now part of White & Case, one of the firms largest law in the United States, with offices in Mexico. According to documents reviewed by Univision, KCS corporate bylaws require members of the board of the company’s shares have not be employees of the company.
According to Maplight organization in the last record of the company, which dates from 2012, appear as minority shareholders of KCS Rep. Jack Reed and Republican Kenny Marchant, who has opposed the emergency package presented by President Obama Congress to unaccompanied children. Univision Investiga consulted with the company’s subsidiary in Mexico what measures the company has taken its employees in connection with allegations of abuse with immigrants. Doniele Carlson, spokesman for the firm said that KCSM has “minimal” problems with immigrants in their trains.
“We have a well trained and coordinated security that has successfully prevented this kind of thing,” said Carlson. “KCSM has not had to deal with issues of employee misconduct and other Mexican railroads,” he added.
However, in March this year, the governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) against companies Kansas City Southern de Mexico and Ferrosur for his “alleged responsibility for wrongful act or omission and human rights violations against migrants “according to an official statement from the government.
A series of reports prepared by Univision correspondent Peter Ultreras on the plight of undocumented immigrants in The Beast, shows that the problem of KCSM trains is not insignificant. “I personally got to see small groups of five, ten, twenty four or Central Americans in northern Mexico on freight trains Southern Company Kansas migrants,” said Ultreras. According to the reporter, migrants use KCSM trains on routes to San Luis Potosi and Saltillo Coahuila, and from there to Piedras Negras or Monterrey.
The priest Alejandro Solalinde, director of shelter Hermanos del Camino Ixtepec, is perhaps the most knowledgeable person the plight of migrants. For years he has given refuge to hundreds of them on their way to the United States on the back of The Beast. “It is a fact that drivers have been linked to criminal acts against migrants” Solalinde said. “They have become part of kidnappings and all that. But the responsibility is not theirs alone, they are part of a mafia where posters, workers, government officials and even police forces’ are.
Ferromex and Ferrosur trains Ferrocarriles Mexicanos (Ferromex) consortium also ply the map of the country, bringing in more than 14,000 motor cars, agricultural products and often migrants. In 2011 Mexico Infrastructure and Transport (ITM), the company that controls Ferromex acquired Ferrosur SA de CV
The consortium includes capital entrepreneur Germán Larrea, President of Grupo Mexico, known as El Rey del Cobre as the owner of the third producer of this metal in the world. Carlos Slim, through financial group Inbursa, also influences Ferromex.
A spokesman for Ferromex asked about the position of the company before the crisis of the migrants and complaints of abuse by some of its employees, responded: “All these issues are the responsibility of the National Immigration Institute who is responsible for policy immigration country. The company has no opinion. “ Several experts consulted by Univision agree that the responsibility is shared. “I believe that these companies and their owners, in some cases as multibillionarios Carlos Slim, have a responsibility to train operators and their companions are not part of the mob that threatens to that migrants,” says journalist Sonia Nazario, who has written extensively on the subject and received a Pulitzer Prize for “Enrique’s Journey,” which tells the story of a Honduran boy on the back of The Beast.
One of the wildest stretches of the Beast is south of Mexico. Its management was awarded to the company Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab. The company has not begun to operate the train, told Univision as a spokesperson for it.
The ownership structure of the company is the subject of litigation in federal court in Miami. Two members of the general manager and shareholder of the company Topete Pedro Vargas sued alleging that used a credit earned by them to purchase train concession without your permission. The engineering firm ICA was also sued. The Defendants contend that the complaint is based on false facts.
Neither party calls and emails answered Univision Investiga. Source © Univision.com
THE END
Thanks, it’s a pretty good translation.
Has anyone even checked inside those boxcars???
Is there anything even in them aside from illegals and drugs??
Thanks —
The United States of Bannanas.
It’s unreal how far we’ve slidden.
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