FBI Investigates FARC-EP Operation In Mexico: Jalisco
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The FBI and ATF are investigating the Tlajomulco bombings. According to the progress of their investigations, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP) and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were behind the explosions of seven explosive devices.
In an event never before seen in Mexico, seven explosive devices placed on a road in Tlajomulco, near Guadalajara, Jalisco, exploded on the night of July 11. The terrorist act caused the death of four public servants and two civilians, and caused serious injuries to 14 people, including three minors.
Since last week, a group from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) arrived at the scene to begin an investigation. According to public servants of the Mexican counterpart participating in the investigation, it has been discovered that, behind what the U.S. agencies call a “terrorist attack”, there could be elements that belonged to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP), considered by the U.S. government as a terrorist group, in complicity with the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation.
According to the investigation files I have collected for this DW collaboration, one of the main suspects in the attack in Tlajomulco is Carlos Andrés Rivera Varela, alias “La Firma,” born June 19, 1986, in Cali, Colombia. The files indicate that he is based in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and works for the CJNG, specifically for Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, better known as “Pelon” and “03,” stepson of Nemesio Oceguera Cervantes, leader of the criminal group.
“La Firma” would be the contact between FARC-EP and CJNG, and would have brought expert operators in the manufacture of explosive devices to Mexico.
.....Regardless of the FBI and ATF investigations, the CJNG’s ties to armed terrorist groups in Colombia are documented. The Mexican drug trafficking organization has been operating in that country since at least 2018, according to an investigation I have been conducting for months as part of my inquiries to understand the dynamics of organized crime in Mexico and its power.
Internal documents from the Colombian Attorney General’s Office, to which I had access, indicate that they have detected the operation of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation in Colombia. In 2021 they seized assets related to that organization located in Cauca, Nariño, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Valle del Cauca, Cesar, Norte de Santander, Guaviare and the city of Bogotá.
.....Despite the increasingly serious problems of violence and ungovernability in Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ignores, minimizes, and even claims they do not exist.
Instead of doing the job he was hired for, being president of all Mexicans and procuring justice and peace, AMLO occupies his time, public resources and efforts in illegally influencing the presidential elections of 2024, attacking with a misogynist and classist discourse the engineer Xóchitl Gálvez, of indigenous origin, successful businesswoman, who appears as one of the strongest candidates of the opposition to obtain the candidacy for the presidency of the Republic.
Even in moments like those experienced in Tlajomulco, AMLO puts the group interests of his party, Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (National Regeneration Movement), before the interests of the victims. It is not the first time, but it is increasingly unacceptable and scandalous, and the social cost is greater.
In the face of the explosions, on July 12, López Obrador refused to classify the attack with seven bombs as a terrorist act in order “not to give entrance, not to open the door for our ultra-conservative neighbors who want to have excuses, pretexts, to violate our sovereignty”.
López Obrador, frantic and blind, walks over a dynamited country. He does not realize that he is not walking alone, but with more than one hundred and twenty million people who, by his complicit omission, live in a climate of violence, death and disappearances.
Whoever wins the elections in 2024, what country will he receive if the president of Mexico prefers to defend the pyrrhic interests of his political group rather than those of a nation?
If the investigations confirm that the terrorist act that occurred in Jalisco on July 11 was indeed perpetrated by members of the FARC-EP in conjunction with the CJNG, an escalation of violence can be expected, with more serious and bloody episodes, putting the civilian population at greater risk.
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Terrorist orgs. operating right on our southern border thanks to FJB and his Mexican twin AMLO aka ELMO.
Plus with Mexico having elections in 2024 as well as the US 2024 is going to be an eventful year to say the least.
Officials See ‘Mexicanization’ of Costa Rica After Record-High Drug Murders
https://www.milenio.com/internacional/ven-mexicanizacion-de-costa-rica-por-el-narcotrafico
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The influence of Mexican criminal gangs and the increase in cocaine production in Colombia following the 2016 peace agreements have led to a surge in murders in Costa Rica. These murders threaten to reach their highest levels in history by the end 2023, according to data provided by the Minister of Security of Costa. For decades, Costa Rica had been recognized as an oasis of safety in the region.
Last. year Costa Rica had 656 homicides. It now has a homicide approximately every 10 hours. In the first half of 2023 alone, the official data shows that the number of murders has already surpassed that of the first half of the previous year by 42 percent.
“We are witnessing a ‘Mexicanization’ of crime...” said security expert Mario Zamora in an interview with Reuters. This increase in drug violence is a concern for Costa Rican citizens and politicians because it negatively impacts the country’s reputation given its heavy reliance on tourism.
The official explained that ten years ago, when the spiral of violence began, many of the gruesome criminal practices like torture and brazen displays of execution, were not present. He believes that these methods were “trained” and copied from Mexican drug cartels.
.....Costa Rica serves as a location to store part of the drug supply before being sent to the United States and Europe for further distribution.
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Most of the murders are between gangs but marking Costa Rica off as a tourist place because the killing will spill over. FJB’s foreign policy is nonexistant also.