Posted on 03/26/2011 9:44:09 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
In Monterrey, Mexico, an armed commando stole the body of a TV personality moments after another commando had dropped the body on a street near a narco message.
Jose Luis “La Gata” Cerda Melendez was found dead Friday morning along Miguel De La Madrid Boulevard, according to information released by the Nuevo Leon Attorney General’s Office.
Cerda was reported missing Thursday evening after he was picked up near the Televisa station in Monterrey by a group of hooded gunmen. He was host of the show called “El Club.”
Authorities didn’t release the content of the message, which was scrawled on a wall, or who had kidnapped Cerda, but a source with firsthand knowledge of criminal activity in Mexico said Cerda was killed by members of the Gulf Cartel for his alleged ties with the Zetas.
The source said the Gulf Cartel is expected to make a big push in Monterrey in the coming days by targeting what they say are authorities under the employ of the Zetas.
The message read: “Stop cooperating with the Zetas. Sincerely: CDG (Gulf Cartel).”
While several media representatives were on the scene, ministerial police officers ran them off moments before the second armed commando arrived to take the body, the source said.
No photograph or video of the arrival of the gunmen has surfaced. Blog Del Narco, a popular website known for its crude crime scene photographs, did upload some photos of the scene and the body, but it did not post any images of the commando who took the body.
All of this occurred one day after 715 media outlets, including powerhouses Televisa and TV Azteca, signed an agreement that set up guidelines for covering the drug-related violence that has claimed more than 35,000 lives in Mexico since 2006. The agreement calls for basic journalism principles, such as protecting sources, not interfering with law enforcement and not becoming a voice for cartels.
The Nuevo Leon Attorney General’s office was quoted by Milenio Noticias as stating that eight ministerial police officers are under investigation for letting the gunmen take the body.
The Mexican media are as complicit in the narco/police corruption as the American media are with the crony-capitalism in the US. Death to all collaborators.
Potentially more damage caused by the ATF/DOJ program filtering guns to Mexico drug cartel.
Millions of dollars and hundreds of American lives wasted in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya ... when we should have invaded the hell-hole to our south.
Nice folks these little brown people the United States of Obama are taking in here to control us honkies.
I prefer “cracker”. thank you.
Jose Luis “La Gata” Cerda Melendez
Not “El Gato”?
Unfortunately, in Mexico, it’s just like being in jail. You cannot assume a position of neutrality and doing your time.
If you’re supporting one side, it will be assumed that you are supporting the other side and you will be treated as if you have betrayed the side you don’t support.
Mexico is the USA’s Gaza strip.
Help with local knowledge, please. Who are the Gulf Cartel? I presume just a rival narco gang?
How many American print or electronic journalist do you know that would die after being tortured for a story . We can't even find journalist to go after SEIU, Kerrys fake purple heart, corrupt unions or anything of importance. Couric, Shepard Smith, Walter "f'ing" Cronkite, Dan Rather, Geraldo "Jerry rivers" Rivera???? You have no clue as to how some in Mexico have died for the honor and pride of being a journalist or a cop. That is what is so frustrating about the cesspool that is Mexico. As a country we need to decide that the drug gangs and their accomplices in the corrupt Mexican government are a clear and present danger to our country and national security in order to have some of our guys go TDY to start up Los Pepes Mexican version.
Los Zetas used to be the Gulf Cartel enforcement wing, now they’re bitter rivals.
ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Cartel
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