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### Viewing cable 09MONTERREY79, CONTINUING NARCO-DEMONSTRATIONS CHALLENGE NUEVO LEON

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09MONTERREY79 | 2009-02-18 19:07 | 2011-02-10 12:12 | CONFIDENTIAL | Consulate Monterrey
Appears in these articles: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/02/10/index.php?section=politica&article=006n1pol

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    C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 MONTERREY 000079

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL:  2/18/2019
    TAGS: SNAR PHUM ASEC PGOV KCRM CASC ECON MX
    SUBJECT: CONTINUING NARCO-DEMONSTRATIONS CHALLENGE NUEVO LEON

    REF: MONTERREY 074

    MONTERREY 00000079  001.2 OF 002

    CLASSIFIED BY: Bruce Williamson, Consul General, Monterrey,
    State.
    REASON: 1.4 (b), (d)
    ¶1.  (C)  Summary.  Nuevo Leon residents are demanding that the
    state government do more to stop narco-funded demonstrations.
    Although the Nuevo Leon Governor and Secretary of Public
    Security have publicly said that organized crime is behind the
    protests - specifically naming the Gulf Cartel and their armed
    enforcers, the Zetas, municipal police have done nothing and
    state police have been very slow to disperse the protestors over
    the last week.  One protest leader, a cell leader of the Zetas,
    was arrested, and the arresting officer was killed two days
    later.  We believe that the Zetas are staging these
    demonstrations to challenge the state government and prove that
    they can disrupt the city at will.  End Summary.

    Protests Continue; Police Officer Killed

    ¶2.  (C)  A series of protests against the Mexican military
    turned violent on February 12 (see reftel).  Gunmen killed a
    commander of the judicial police two days after he arrested one
    of the organizers of the protests.   Juan Antonio Beltran Cruz
    was arrested on February 10 after a protest in Monterrey
    disrupted large part of the city.  Ten minutes after the arrest,
    the commander of the judicial police in charge of his case,
    Ramon Jasso Rodriguez received threats against his life.  Two
    days later Jasso was killed near his home.  A reliable contact
    described Jasso as one of the few honest police on the state
    force.  Beltran is a known member of the Zetas, a drug
    trafficking organization, and is accused of organizing the
    police protests.  Zetas are reportedly paying Monterrey
    residents up to 500 pesos or US$35 to protest the military
    presence in Monterrey.

    Public Pressure for a Solution

    ¶3.  (C) Governor of Nuevo Leon Jose Natividad Gonzalez Paras and
    Secretary of Public Security Aldo Fasci have acknowledged a link
    between organized crime and the protests.  On February 17, for
    the first time they named  the Gulf Cartel and its armed wing,
    the Zetas, as the entities responsible, adding that Nuevo Leon
    state police commanders and their officers had been the subject
    of numerous death threats.  Nevertheless, the public is
    demanding that they do more to stop them.  The road blocks in
    the city have taken place on major roads grid-locking large
    parts of the city and little has been done to break up them up.
    A long term Amcit resident has never seen demonstrations like
    this before.  One day the police waited two hours to break up a
    protest.  The next day they broke up the demonstration quickly
    and arrested protestors, but later the leading newspaper El
    Norte reported that they had released the protesters within 30
    minutes, conveniently within walking distance of the next
    protest.  Now that a drug connection has been officially
    acknowledged,  police officers are reluctant to take action.   A
    contact with inside knowledge of the police said that following
    Jasso's killing, police officers are hesitant to effect
    detentions because they do not want to sign documents linking
    themselves to an arrest.

    ¶4.  (SBU)  According to a poll conducted on the third day of the
    demonstrations by El Norte,  93% of Monterrey area residents
    support the military presence in the state, 4% were not sure and
    3% wanted the military to leave.  In addition, even prior to the
    Governor's February 17 statements,  the public generally
    believed drug traffickers were behind the protests.  There is
    speculation that the Zetas are using the demonstrations as a
    response to the military's success against their operations as
    there does not appear to be any other catalyst for the
    demonstrations.   El Norte carried quotes from residents in a
    working class neighborhood who stated that the protest
    organizers went door to door offering cash and school supplies
    to those who joined the protest.  A recent El Norte photo showed
    multiple back packs filled with school supplies in the car of
    one of the detained protestors (who was later released).  The
    most recent tactic has been to recruit mothers carrying young
    infants to take part in the demonstrations, with the rationale
    apparently being that frustrated motorists would be less likely
    to aggressively challenge maternal figures standing in their way.

    ¶5.  (C) Comment.  The drug cartels have intimidated the
    municipal and state police forces for some time.  For example,
    only the Mexican military, with some assistance from the federal
    police, conducts active operations against the drug cartels.  A
    story related to the Consul General by a Nuevo Leon state
    legislator illustrates the situation.  A fellow state
    legislator's car was stolen.  When the legislator reported the
    theft to the police, officers said that they could do nothing.
    The legislator's staff went out to search for the car and found
    it several blocks away.  However, when the legislator asked the
    police to retrieve the car, the police said that they needed to
    check with the Zetas first.  After checking with the Zetas, the

    MONTERREY 00000079  002.2 OF 002

    police received the go-ahead and they finally returned the
    stolen car.

    ¶6.  (C)  Continued comment.  These protests could have two
    purposes: to try to intimidate the Mexican military; or to
    influence the upcoming election for Governor in July 2009.
    Either way, the demonstrations are important because they
    constitute a direct challenge to the state, and they prove that
    the cartels can disrupt the city when they choose.  We will
    follow closely whether the state and local governments have the
    political will to answer this challenge.  End Comment.
    WILLIAMSON

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