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### Viewing cable 09MONTERREY213, MEXICAN MILITARY ARRESTS STATE AND LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS

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09MONTERREY213 | 2009-06-05 20:08 | 2011-02-10 12:12 | SECRET | Consulate Monterrey
Appears in these articles: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/02/10/index.php?section=politica&article=006n1pol

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    S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 02 MONTERREY 000213

    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: DECL:  6/5/2019
    TAGS: ASEC SNAR CASC KCRM MX
    SUBJECT: MEXICAN MILITARY ARRESTS STATE AND LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS

    REF: MONTERREY 0210

    MONTERREY 00000213  001.2 OF 002

    CLASSIFIED BY: Bruce Williamson, Consul General, Monterrey,
    State.
    REASON: 1.4 (b), (d)
    ¶1.  (SBU)  Summary.  In ongoing operations, 74 police officers,
    including some high ranking officials, have been detained by the
    Mexican military for ties to organized crime.   The arrests
    highlight the level of infiltration of local security forces.
    While President Calderon has vowed to keep up the fight against
    corruption, several Monterrey-based opposition party members are
    claiming that these arrests are a cover to gain votes in the
    upcoming midterm election.  End Summary.

    Names of Arrested Police Officers Found on Payoff lists

    ¶2.  (U)  Starting on June 1, the Mexican military began what is
    an ongoing campaign in the Monterrey metropolitan area to arrest
    municipal and state law enforcement officers with presumed ties
    to organized crime.  After four days there have been 74 arrests.
     Of the 74 arrested, 58 are being held for 30 days pending an
    investigation, 6 have been released, and 10 are pending
    arraignments.   According to press reports, the military is
    conducting the arrest based on information found on payroll
    lists seized during recent drug raids.

    ¶3.  (SBU)   The arrests include the heads of municipal public
    security secretariats and several high ranking police officers.
    For instance, Fernando Torre y Cuevas a former Nuevo Leon
    sub-secretary of public security and Monterrey's current
    director of transit police, was one of those arrested and then
    released.   Of the 6 high-ranking officials that have been
    detained and released, the reasons why they were let go has not
    been made public.   It is possible that the derogatory evidence
    found against them was insufficient to make formal charges or
    that they were arrested  in an attempt to pressure them to
    reveal useful information.  In any event, the 6 released
    officials have not been reinstated to their previous posts
    pending a full investigation.

    ¶4.  (U)   The arrest of the police officers appears to be part
    of a larger effort by President Calderon to crack down on
    corruption and organized crime.  On May 26, federal police
    forces arrested 30 government officials (including 10 mayors) in
    the state of Michoacan.  In a June 2 speech following the arrest
    of the police officers in Nuevo Leon, Calderon openly admitted
    that organized crime had infiltrated government offices but he
    declared his government is working to root corruption out and
    that "Mexico will not go backwards in the war against organized
    crime."

    Opposition Claims Arrests Are Political

    ¶5.  (C)   Nationwide, security has been the top election issue
    and the PAN strategy has been to equate the opposition (namely
    the PRI and the PRD) with corruption and bad governance.
    However, there is no public evidence to suggest the arrests in
    Nuevo Leon and Michoacan were politically motivated but the
    opposition parties are crying foul.  In Nuevo Leon, the
    detentions took place in five municipalities:  Escobedo,
    Guadalupe, San Nicolas, Santa Catarina, and Monterrey.  The
    first two are governed by PRI mayors;  the last three by PAN
    mayors.   In addition, Nuevo Leon Public Security Secretary Aldo
    Fasci had advance knowledge of the military's raids and he
    reports directly to the state's PRI governor.  Indeed, all the
    prisoners were initially held at the state government's police
    academy.

    ¶6.  (SBU)    The day after the first round of detentions, Nuevo
    Leon Governor Natividad Gonzalez Paras read a message on behalf
    of all PRI governors welcoming the arrests of the corrupt police
    officers but warned the President not to politicize the arrests.
      The governor also called on the military to share more
    intelligence with state police forces so they could play a
    greater role in the investigations.

    ¶7.  (SBU)   If President Calderon is acting politically to
    influence the July midterm elections, there has been little
    impact locally.  A June 4 poll by El Norte showed the PRI and
    PAN candidates for governor statistically tied if the elections
    were to be held that day.  The poll results have remained
    relatively steady for the last three months.   Nationally,
    however, the PRI's favorability rating has fallen from about 45%
    to 39% since March according to a recent poll by La Reforma.

    ¶8.  (C)  Comment.  To date, the Nuevo Leon municipalities where
    the arrests have taken place are all areas dominated by the Gulf
    Cartel.  As reported in the press, Post law enforcement sources
    indicate that the information upon which the arrests are based
    comes from information gathered during previous military drug
    raids.  While the military arrests are ongoing, so far the
    influential suburb of San Pedro, where many state and business

    MONTERREY 00000213  002.2 OF 002

    leaders, live has not been touched.  This could be because San
    Pedro's affluence has allowed city leaders to instill a
    (slightly) higher degree of transparency in its municipal police
    force.  Or it could be because that municipality is dominated by
    the Beltran Leyva faction of the Sinaloa cartel, an organization
    about which military authorities in Monterrey have relatively
    less information.

    ¶9.  (S)  Comment continued.  Post DEA notes the Mexican
    military's increasing use of unilateral intelligence in its
    operations.  In addition to the recent detentions, the military
    also acted unilaterally in the arrests of two Sinaloa cartel
    leaders in Nuevo Leon:  Hector `La Burra' Huerta Rios, on March
    24 and his replacement, Rodolfo `El Nito" Lopez Ibarra on May 18.
    WILLIAMSONB

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