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| La Familia Michoacana Disbands? |
| 2011-01-27 |
| Google Translate. For a map, click here. For a map of Michoacan, click here. "Narcobanners" placed in several locations in the Mexican state of Michoacan have announced the dissolution of the La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, according to Mexican news reports. Earlier in the month following two major counternarcotics operations by Policia Federal, spokeman Luis Cardenas Palomino said that the drug cartel was near its end as a criminal organization. La Familia Michoacana in emails to select news outlets since the first of this year have continually offered a truce, and has in the recent past offered to go out of business in exchange for the absence of Mexican federal security forces in that state. Security forces were alerted to the presence of the messages through calls originating in Morelia, Patzcuaro, Apatzingan and Lazaro Cardenas municipalities (counties). The messages reiterated its commitment to go out of business since December 2010, and said that the director of the Mexican federal Secretaria de Seguridad Publica Federal (SSPF) General Garcia Luna has been lying to president Felipe Calderon Hinojosa about conditions in Michoacan. Michoacan state and Mexican federal security forces were dispatched to the various locations of the banners, and removed them. Plenty of reasons exist for doubting the origin of the messages. Drug cartels in various location have in the past used "narcobanners' to make announcements, but so have police in the guise of cartels. Narcobanners are used occasionally between the Juarez cartel and the Sinaloa cartel, but it is also known that police have placed banners as well in the guise of cartels. In a press conference in Mexico City Wednesday, the director of the Mexican national security council (Consejo de Seguridad Nacional) (CSN), Alejandro Poire Romero, announced that federal security forces would not ease up counternarcotics operations in Michoacan, and would continue to attempt capture of the remaining principles of La Familia Michoacan. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Sigh. So which cartel has displaced them in Michoacan? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-01-27 14:40 |
| #1 La Familia Michoacana in emails to select news outlets since the first of this year have continually offered a truce, and has in the recent past offered to go out of business in exchange for the absence of Mexican federal security forces in that state. HAW HAW HAW HAW I can easily hear every cop in Mexico Laughing about that one. If all cops go away, we'll be good. Yeah sure. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-01-27 11:15 |
