Fraction guerrilla Templar

Fraction guerrilla Templar
With expansion veterans of that cartel was provided and now use military-style tactics to seize one of the most important corridors and racking planting poppy and marijuana
# Insecurity Mexico
SOURCE: 24 HOURS
Monday, July 22, 2013
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Mexico, DF. In recent months, facilitated and increased the expansion of the Knights Templar in Guerrero, a group that used the weakness of a segment of the Insurgent People's Revolutionary Army (EPRI) and managed to co-opt at least 50 of its fighters, forcing families flee to different communities of Tierra Caliente and the Costa Grande.

The integration of former guerrillas has allowed the organization a wide mobility for the top of the mountains of Guerrero, thanks to the knowledge of the area with former combatants.

From testimonies of members of the intelligence community and federal government, it is estimated that since 2011, when they began the onslaught of the cells of that cartel in Guerrero, have been killed over a hundred people, including children, youth , and adults.

To that number must be added to the families who have left their homes for fear and returning to try to recover their property, but to threats flee again.

And since Michoacán advanced by the State of Mexico and came to the top of the mountains of Guerrero. So they spread the Templars by the Tierra Caliente region and then to all the municipalities of the Costa Grande from La Union to Coyuca de Benitez, behaving in rural as guerrillas.

The only space that could not encroach on the Costa Grande is the lower part of the municipality of Tecpan, a historical stronghold of drug traffickers in the region, identified as Granados family members, who have a longstanding relationship with the cartel the Beltran Leyva brothers.

Weakness guerrilla

After the assassination of Ramiro commander in 2009 and before the onslaught of a paramilitary group created by chiefs in the area to kill the guerrillas, led to a weakening within the EPRI.

This fissure, said the testimonies of the residents of the area, took the Knights Templar who were able to convince 50 to 60 guerrillas and now work for the cartel, have great mobility in the top of the mountain due to prior knowledge they had.

The military intelligence confirms these data and indicate a fold of EPRI to other less accessible areas of the state to protect and regroup.

Investment in the mountains

The Knights Templar have widespread among Michoacán, State of Mexico and Guerrero to integrate drug runner, controlling the most productive areas for planting poppy and marijuana, distribution and sale.

In the case of Guerrero, for example, the middle part of the Sierra Madre del Sur ranks first nationally in the production of marijuana, while Filo Mayor Guerrero called generates an output not officially calculated, but growing in accordance with the records poppy rubber, derived from heroin, more expensive drug and listed in the U.S..

By displacing residents and groups such as EPRI and community policing, the Knights Templar would control territories very poppy and marijuana production in areas that are inaccessible to the authorities.

But the mountain also offers other riches: minerals and forest resources, activities also interested exploit organized crime, as in countries like Colombia, for example.

Enemies "revolutionary"

Last June, the intelligence showed that there was a greater presence of members of the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) in Costa Grande of Guerrero apparently to stop the spread of the Knights Templar.

One of the worst faces of this confrontation was just last July 4, when a command killed a group of children and young people who had gathered in an orchard adjacent to the Rio de Coyuca. Killed eight, just to create terror, said the residents.

Intelligence analyzes indicate that the growing presence of CJNG is the product of a new temporary alliance in the region of Costa Grande, between members of the Carrillo Fuentes cartel and the Beltran Leyva to fight block to the Knights Templar, who would by now a partnership with the Sinaloa cartel.

On 31 May, a group of 30 or 40 men, armed with AK-47 and AR-15, were identified as "warriors" CJNG and issued a statement to both the public as to the Federal Forces, in announcing a crackdown on the Knights Templar.

Through a video, the masked men had a list that supposedly identify the leadership of the Knights Templar, and included police commanders, Navy and Army, whom they accuse protect that group of organized crime. In his words also reflect knowledge of the territory of Costa Grande from Zihuatanejo to Atoyac, so count on the support of people who know the region.

But one of the most interesting in that speech is that this command is identified as a member of a drug cartel, but at the end of your video commander called on the name of Lucio Cabañas Barrientos, founder of the Party of the Poor (PDLP) as their motivation to "fight for the people."

Murders and displaced

Neither federal nor local authorities have slowed the progress of the Knights Templar, even though their presence has increased violence and displaced entire communities, which should migrate to lowlands to the threat of these groups that are located in the upper of the Sierra Madre del Sur, from Vallecitos de Zaragoza to Tepetixtla.

Since June news of attacks, murders, kidnappings and displaced families were recorded, such as increased intensity in upstate, particularly the municipalities of Iguala, and Apaxtla Teloloapan, where fear of the population continues.

The testimonies of the inhabitants of the upper part of the Sierra de Tecpan, denounce killings of their relatives, cases are not investigated. The numbers are not exact, no one has, but farmers estimated at more than 60 people killed in the upper area and a similar amount or greater in the lowlands.

So far, the state government spent only give temporary assistance to families who were evicted from the area of ​​La Laguna, on the crest of Filo Mayor, Tecpan and Petatlán, and dela Tierra Caliente area, from communities like The Guava , Arcelia, The Cube, Valle Luz and El Terrero, which means families have returned last weekend, but really only stay temporarily and to protect their few belongings.

FACT

On May 31, the Treasury Department of the United States included the Knights Templar in its list of designated drug traffickers.

IN BATTLE

In the entity organized crime groups that are fighting the drug market and extortion are:

- The Knights Templar

- The New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG)

- The Beltran Leyva

- The Carrillo Fuentes

- Warriors States

- The Reds

- The Family
Source: Vanguardia.com