Jose Ives Soberon
Posted on 09/09/2010 6:12:47 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Mexican prosecutors say hooded gunmen on Wednesday killed the mayor of a small town just beyond the southern border of Tamaulipas state. He is the third mayor to have been slain in the last month, apparently by Mexico’s drug cartels.
This comes a day after Jose Ives Soberon Tijerina, the head of public safety in Tamaulipas, resigned amid the escalation of violence in the northern Mexican state.
Also on Tuesday, the bodies of two other officials were found – officials who were helping with the investigation of the 72 migrants who were massacred last month in the city of San Fernando.
The slaying of the mayor occurred in El Naranjo, a rural township of about 20,000 people in San Luis Potosi on the state line with Tamaulipas.
The prosecutors’ office for the state of San Luis Potosi said Mayor Alexander Lopez Garcia was killed Wednesday by a squad of four hitmen who pulled up in a vehicle, with two of the attackers bursting into his office and shooting him.
All the attackers escaped.
In Tamaulipas, Soberon stepped down Tuesday afternoon from his post as head of public safety. Governor Eugenio Hernandez presided over a small ceremony and presented Soberon with a plaque acknowledging his service, according to a government press release.
During the ceremony, Hernandez also introduced Antonio Garza Garcia as the new public safety secretary.
Garza has more than 40 years of experience as a police officer, having begun his career with the Federal Highway Patrol. The release states that Garza has previously served as the head of federal police in the states of Michoacan and Coahuila and also has been coordinator of public safety in Nuevo Leon.
Earlier Tuesday, authorities recovered the bodies of Roberto Jaime Suarez Vasquez, an agent with the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s office, and Juan Carlos Suarez Sanchez, the secretary of public safety for the city of Mendez.
The two officials went missing shortly after the investigation began into the massacre in San Fernando of 72 migrants from Central and South America.
According to a press release from Tamaulipas State Police, the two men were missing for three weeks until they were found on a dirt road near Mendez. Identification was found on the bodies, and Tamaulipas state police confirmed the identities with DNA testing.
The two bodies turned up two days after federal officials announced the capture of seven members of the Zetas criminal organization who allegedly took part in the San Fernando massacre.
Guess there won’t be any panic til those killers in Mexico show up at the WH.
Maybe then they’ll wake up. Too little, too late.
CLEAN UP THE DRUG CARTELS. LEGALIZE DRUGS. I can’t believe I’m saying that.
Oh hell, it’d be something else. Kidnapping...ransoms...whatever.
Will the evil never end...actually, maybe sooner then we think.
Jose Ives Soberon
Hats off to men like Antonio Garza Garcia for taking on such a dangerous job. I pray he’s not a cartel plant.
May he rest in peace.
dont ya just suppose some of their leaders are in on this.
Ping!
Very sad.
Thanks you for the ping SwinneySwitch.
......All the attackers escaped....
A better sentence would be “All the murderers escaped”
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