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### Viewing cable 10MONTERREY43, BORDER VIOLENCE SPREADS TO NUEVO LEON

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10MONTERREY43 | 2010-02-26 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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    2010-02-26 19:11:00
    10MONTERREY43
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    CONFIDENTIAL
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    C O N F I D E N T I A L MONTERREY 000043

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/26
    TAGS: ASEC KCRM SNAR CASC PGOV MX
    SUBJECT: BORDER VIOLENCE SPREADS TO NUEVO LEON

    REF: NUEVO LAREDO 31; NUEVO LAREDO 33; MONTERREY 41; MATAMOROS 37
    MATAMOROS 33

    CLASSIFIED BY: Bruce Williamson, Consul General; REASON: 1.4(B), (D)

    ¶1.  (C) Summary:  Organized gang violence has spread into Nuevo
    Leon from neighboring border areas, with drug gangs attacking
    several eastern municipalities in the state.  At least three gang
    members died during a battle with army soldiers in one city and, in
    another, gangsters attacked a local police station, killing two
    officers.  State and military forces have assumed control of
    security in several towns near the border with Tamaulipas.  Gang
    banners have appeared in Monterrey, including one near the
    Governor's offices, and the city has undergone a record wave of SUV
    thefts, presumably to supply cartel forces fighting along the
    border.  If the fighting continues, Zeta-dominated Monterrey could
    see a sharp uptick in cartel related violence.  Post is concerned
    that muted coverage by a leading local newspaper is an indication
    that the organization has caved in to gang influence.  Local
    military sources state that the continued tensions between the Gulf
    Cartel and the Zetas, will make the situation unstable - and
    subject to sudden eruptions of violence - for the foreseeable
    future.  End summary.

    On-Going Border Violence Impacts Nuevo Leon

    -------------------------------------------

    ¶2.  (SBU) In a spillover from battles between the Gulf Cartel, the
    Zeta Drug Trafficking Organization (DTO) and, at times, the
    military, occurring along the border, (refs A, B, C, and D), drug
    gangs have gone on the offensive in some parts of Nuevo Leon.  On
    February 23, according to media reports, armed groups besieged the
    Nuevo Leon municipalities of Bravo, Cerralvo and China, ordering
    residents to take cover and shutting down local businesses.
    Gangsters kidnapped at least 12 people in the towns, including two
    children from the family of a local business owner.

    ¶3.  (SBU) On the afternoon of February 24, three drug cartel
    members died during a 30 minute firefight with soldiers outside of
    a restaurant in the Nuevo Leon town of Las Ramones.  Troops
    captured two other cartel members.  Around 7:00 p.m. that day,
    assailants killed at least two China police officers and injured
    one during an attack on police headquarters, next door to the
    town's city hall.  Media reported that the city's police force
    deserted and the local state attorney general's representative
    remained in his residence due to fears for his safety.  A call by
    police officials for military or state reinforcements went unheeded
    for almost five hours.  Post has also heard reports of further
    violence between the Gulf Cartel, Zetas and the military west of
    Monterrey in Saltillo, Coahuila and to the southeast in
    Montemorelos, Nuevo Leon.

    ¶4.  (SBU) In the aftermath, businesses shut down and residents
    remained hidden in their homes.  Nuevo Leon Attorney General
    Alejandro Garza y Garza announced that state and military forces
    would take control of security in China and other towns near the
    border with Tamaulipas, including General Bravo and Cerralvo, both
    of which have essentially shut down in the face of the ongoing
    narco-threat.  A Laredo, Texas business delegation cancelled a
    planned trip to Monterrey, citing concerns over security.  (This is
    only the latest U.S. group to defer travel plans to the state due
    to security concerns.  On February 17, a group of 100 U.S. students
    called off a trip to participate in the International Model United
    Nations Conference at the American School Foundation in Monterrey
    (AFSM) for the same reasons.)

    Zetas in Monterrey

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    ¶5.  (SBU) February 23, police discovered five "narcobanners" in
    Monterrey and its surrounding cities, including one hung on a
    statue 100 meters from the state government seat.  The banners,
    claiming the Zetas were as widespread as McDonalds or cell phone
    signals, bore the Zeta emblem and taunted unnamed Zeta rivals.  It
    was the second display of such banners found in the Monterrey area
    this month.

    ¶6.  (SBU) On the next day, police arrested four Zetas shopping for
    clothes in the affluent Monterrey suburb of San Pedro, who were
    apparently fleeing the ongoing violence in Reynosa.  Three
    reportedly had outstanding warrants in the U.S.  Two other
    individuals accompanying the Zetas successfully evaded police.

    ¶7.  (SBU) By mid-day on February 24, Monterrey had experienced a
    record 18 carjackings and robberies in a period of only around 12
    hours.  Among the high profile attacks, criminals stole a car with
    a child in the backseat, and lifted the Chevrolet Suburban of the
    local soccer team's star goalkeeper.  The vast majority of those
    vehicles targeted for theft were SUVs, with 10 Chevrolet Tahoes
    topping the list.

    Comment

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    ¶8.  (C) Cosmopolitan Monterrey, situated astride a key northern
    transit route, is of significant strategic value to organized crime
    and the violence hitting rural Nuevo Leon may soon affect the
    metropolitan area, long considered Zeta territory, as the Gulf
    Cartel and its allies seek to inflict damage on the Zetas.  The
    city is a safe-haven, source of revenue (mainly from extortion),
    and supply center for the Zetas.  Post suspects the recent wave of
    car thefts in the city is in response to demands by Zeta leaders
    for vehicles to support their battles along the northern border.

    ¶9.  (C) Zeta influence here is longstanding and widespread
    throughout local and state government.  Gang members hung the
    recently discovered narcobanners in at least one area, near the
    Palacio del Gobierno, under state police observation.  RSO sources
    indicated that state police officers' calls for backup went
    unheeded.  Post has long connected former Nuevo Leon Director
    General of State Investigation Hector Santos (now serving in the
    same post in Coahuila) with the Zetas, and many other local and
    state police and government officials have ties to organized crime.
    It is telling that, in an advance copy Post obtained of a February
    27 El Milenio editorial, the newspaper lamented that corruption and
    indifference have hobbled state and municipal security forces and
    termed Nuevo Leon's Secretary of Security, Carlos Jauregui, as
    "pathetic and ineffective."  The editorial said state security
    forces could not control the current situation and would therefore
    be unable to contain rising levels of violence, even with military
    assistance.  The head of one prominent local industrial association
    told Consul General on February 26 that the business community
    would not stand for any further deterioration in the security
    environment.

    ¶10.  (C) Until February 26, the El Norte newspaper, long considered
    an outspoken voice against organized crime, had been surprisingly
    muted in its coverage of the recent border violence, characterizing
    residents fears' as "psychosis" resulting from living under
    constant narco-threats.  In contrast to its past policies, the
    newspaper gave the narcobanners full play, complete with a large,
    and legible, photo of the banners' defiant, pro-Zeta message.  The
    newspaper's owners relocated to Texas in 2008 due to ongoing
    threats from organized crime, and Post worries that pressure on the
    newspaper has only increased given the recent instability at the
    border.  Competing El Milenio has provided far more thorough coverage, but even it has taken a measured approach.  The newspaper
    has avoided depicting terming the conflict as between cartels,
    instead casting the military in the main adversarial role.

    ¶11.  (C) Monterrey is the home to the Fourth military region, which
    oversees army operations in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, and
    Tamaulipas, and local military sources tell us that they think the
    violence will eventually subside.  However, they caution that the
    continued tensions between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, will make
    the situation unstable - and subject to sudden eruptions of
    violence - for the foreseeable future.

    WILLIAMSON

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