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### Viewing cable 09MONTERREY386, VIOLENCE SPIKES AS NEW ADMINISTRATION TAKES THE REINS

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09MONTERREY386 | 2009-10-16 20:08 | 2011-02-10 12:12 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Consulate Monterrey
Appears in these articles: http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/02/10/index.php?section=politica&article=006n1pol

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    PP RUEHCD RUEHGD RUEHHO RUEHNG RUEHNL RUEHRD RUEHRS RUEHTM
    DE RUEHMC #0386/01 2892017
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 162017Z OCT 09
    FM AMCONSUL MONTERREY
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3998
    INFO RUEHME/AMEMBASSY MEXICO PRIORITY 5073
    RUEHXC/ALL US CONSULATES IN MEXICO COLLECTIVE
    RUEABND/DEA HQ WASHDC
    RHMFIUU/FBI WASHINGTON DC
    RUEFHLC/DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
    RHMFIUU/HQ USNORTHCOM
    RUEHMC/AMCONSUL MONTERREY 9609

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    230107
    2009-10-16 20:17:00
    09MONTERREY386
    Consulate Monterrey
    UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
    09MONTERREY250|09MONTERREY379
    VZCZCXRO2368
    PP RUEHCD RUEHGD RUEHHO RUEHNG RUEHNL RUEHRD RUEHRS RUEHTM
    DE RUEHMC #0386/01 2892017
    ZNR UUUUU ZZH
    P 162017Z OCT 09
    FM AMCONSUL MONTERREY
    TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3998
    INFO RUEHME/AMEMBASSY MEXICO PRIORITY 5073
    RUEHXC/ALL US CONSULATES IN MEXICO COLLECTIVE
    RUEABND/DEA HQ WASHDC
    RHMFIUU/FBI WASHINGTON DC
    RUEFHLC/DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY WASHINGTON DC
    RHMFIUU/HQ USNORTHCOM
    RUEHMC/AMCONSUL MONTERREY 9609

    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 MONTERREY 000386

    SENSITIVE
    SIPDIS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: ASEC SNAR KCRM PHUM PGOV MX
    SUBJECT: VIOLENCE SPIKES AS NEW ADMINISTRATION TAKES THE REINS

    REF: A) MONTERREY 250  B) MONTERREY 379

    MONTERREY 00000386  001.2 OF 002

    ¶1.  (SBU) Within two weeks of taking office, Nuevo Leon Governor
    Rodrigo Medina and his security team face a dramatic increase in
    violence.   While such violence is hardly new to the state, its
    capital Monterrey has in the last week experienced three
    dramatic gun battles in public spaces, two of them sowing panic
    as citizens ducked for cover in an attempt to escape the
    crossfire.  Heightened tensions between security forces and
    increasing brazenness on the part organized crime may indicate a
    desire to test the resolve of the new administration in making
    good on its campaign promise to cleanse public security forces
    of corruption and take the fight to organized crime.

    Gunmen Attempt to Rescue Accomplices at Rush Hour on Major
    Highway
    --------------------------------------------- --------------
    -------

    ¶2.  (SBU) On October 8 at approximately 3:00 p.m., municipal
    police pulled over a driver for drinking alcoholic beverages
    while operating his vehicle.  What started as a routine traffic
    stop apparently turned violent as police discovered firearms and
    determined that the vehicle was stolen.  Juan Jose Vazquez
    Marin, AKA "El Orejon," or "El Guero,"  attempted to assault
    officers, who took him and his four companions, Jose Enrique
    Perez Guerrero, Angel Mario Valdez Navarro, Juan Antonio Aguirre
    Garcia, and Candalario Mendoza Rodriguez, into custody.  Shortly
    after delivering these individuals to the custody of federal
    police in Linares, a municipality approximately 80 miles
    southeast of Monterrey, those agents started receiving phone
    calls demanding the release of the detainees:  they elected to
    transfer the suspects immediately to their regional headquarters
    in downtown Monterrey.

    ¶3.  (SBU) Driving northbound on the Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada
    as it passed by the neighborhood Contry la Silla, federal police
    spotted an approaching convoy of four vehicles led by a Hummer,
    and immediately called for reinforcements.  The convoy
    intercepted the federal police at approximately 4:50 p.m., and
    both sides exchanged gunfire amid rush hour traffic for
    approximately 10 minutes before reinforcements arrived and the
    gunmen fled the scene, abandoning three vehicles and carjacking
    another to escape.  The fight took place among congested
    traffic, which locked up almost immediately as drivers attempted
    to take cover and avoid the crossfire.  Surprisingly, this
    firefight lead to only minor injuries among bystanders.  Vazquez
    and his companions were ultimately transferred to the regional
    headquarters, under heavy military escort, then later to
    military custody, and now await proceedings in the maximum
    security prison at Cadereyta, 15 miles east of Monterrey.
    (Comment:  Reports conflict as to the role Vazquez and his men
    play in local criminal organizations.  Some indicate that he is
    a member of the Zetas, taking over for Saul Bonifacio Martinez
    Hernandez, AKA "El Tiburon," killed in an engagement with the
    army on September 4 at Presa la Boca.  Others identify him as
    simply a member of the Gulf Cartel.  End comment.)

    Residents Call for Help as Gun Battle Rages Outside
    --------------------------------------------- ------

    ¶4.  (SBU) According to eyewitness accounts, on October 12,
    around 6:20 p.m., eight men in three vehicles pursued another
    two to four individuals - all armed - back to a residence in the
    metropolitan Monterrey neighborhood of Indeco Naranjo, where
    they engaged in an extended gunfight for approximately 30
    minutes before fleeing, leaving behind shells matching the
    calibers of AR-15 rifles and hand guns.  Neighbors testify that
    they took cover and made repeated calls to the local police
    station, located only a few blocks from the incident.  However,
    police did not respond to those calls, arriving only after the
    army was already at the scene.  According to government sources,
    one unidentified individual was apprehended at the scene.
    (Comment.  A similar event occurred in the Monterrey
    neighborhood of Cumbres Oro in Monterrey on Aug 13, when a
    gunfight between approximately 15 assailants and presumed
    members of the Arturo Beltran Leyva organization raged for
    approximately one hour, with no police response.  End comment.)

    Soldiers and State, Municipal Police Exchange Gunfire
    --------------------------------------------- ---------

    ¶5.  (SBU) According to media reports, on the night of October
    12, the army received an anonymous phone call alerting it to an
    exchange of cash filled briefcases between elements of organized
    crime and police units in the neighborhood of Santa Martha in
    Escobedo, a municipality of metropolitan Monterrey.  The army
    deployed to the location in Santa Martha shortly after midnight

    MONTERREY 00000386  002.2 OF 002

    on the morning of October 13, where soldiers confronted state
    and municipal police units.

    ¶6.  (SBU) Further details of this confrontation are unclear.
    One source claims that a conflict ensued, with soldiers striking
    four to five police officers, and somebody discharged a firearm.
     According to this account, as soldiers attempted to leave the
    area, they were met by a second group of approximately 70 state
    and municipal police officers and an exchange of gunfire ensued
    in which only one police officer was injured.  (Note:  Pablo
    Tomargo, Director of the state's Center of Computing,
    Communication, Coordination and Control (C5) told the media that
    a confirmed source called the C5 to alert it to the initial
    conflict between soldiers and police, resulting in a second
    large deployment of state security forces.  End note.)  Another
    source presents a slightly different story, suggesting that four
    soldiers attempted to search a group of state police they met in
    a gas station, who resisted the soldiers, and, joined by more
    police, actually surrounded them and threatened them with arms.
    According to this source, the situation was defused and the
    soldiers released on the condition that the Seventh Military
    Zone would identify the soldiers, and in case of legal
    proceedings, would submit them to military justice.  This
    version of events concludes with state and municipal police
    voicing invectives against state Secretary of Public Security
    Carlos Juaregui, whose agency oversees state police operations.

    Comment:
    --------

    ¶7.  (SBU) Post acknowledges that neither version of this
    conflict seems credible.  More significantly, officials have
    done little to clarify the details of the confrontation, instead
    making efforts to minimize the event.  In a public meeting
    between state Secretary of Government Javier Trevino, Secretary
    of Public Security Carlos Juaregui, Attorney General Alejandro
    Garza, and Seventh Military Zone army commanders of the,
    officials dismissed the confrontation as an "argument between
    cousins."  Secretary Trevino was careful to emphasize that the
    event "did not represent a conflict between institutions, but a
    concrete situation between individuals."  He did acknowledge
    that some individuals had been detained, and one injured in the
    foot; however, according to Escobedo Mayor Margarita Lopez, five
    policemen appear to have been beaten, with one suffering a
    concussion, and another fractured ribs.  (Note: this is not the
    first time security forces have faced off against each other in
    Monterrey.  On June 8 of this year, municipal police, many also
    from Escobedo, engaged in a tense standoff with Federal Police
    in an attempt to prevent the detention of a colleague accused of
    working with the Gulf Cartel.  Army units later stripped these
    municipal police of their long arms (reftel A.)

    Things Likely to Get Worse Before They Get Better
    --------------------------------------------- ----

    ¶8.  (SBU) While all three of these events have antecedents in
    the prior year, it seems that the open defiance on the part of
    organized crime as well as the tension between security forces
    has increased in recent weeks.  This takes place in the context
    of new state and municipal administrations taking office and
    proposing dramatic changes intended to confront organized crime,
    ranging from Governor Medina's initiative to unify municipal and
    state police forces under a single command to the formation of a
    special "cleansing" unit to search out criminals under San
    Pedro's Mayor Elect Mauricio Fernandez (reftel B).  At an
    October 16 meeting with the Consul General and Legatt, incoming
    Nuevo Leon state Attorney General Alejandro Garza y Garza
    acknowledged drug cartel infiltration of city, state and even
    federal police.  It seems likely that with a new team in charge,
    many extant agreements between compromised security forces and
    criminal groups are falling apart.  Reforms to public security
    forces proposed by new leadership - if effective at all - will
    take significant time to realize any real gains.  Meanwhile,
    Nuevo Leon will likely see a continued increase in violence as
    competing forces struggle to reach a new equilibrium.
    WILLIAMSON

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