The Nation: Military Help A Regret in Monterrey
The first one appeared on February 3, 2010, before sunrise. It hung from the statue of Jose Maria Morelos that faces the colonial statehouse at the center of Monterrey. Morelos was a priest turned revolutionary leader in Mexico's war of independence, and the large white sheet bearing a message from a drug cartel spanned the entire length of the hero's bronze horse. Here Comes the Monster, it read, and was signed "Z." That same morning, six similar handwritten messages, also signed "Z," appeared in the municipalities surrounding Monterrey. Soldiers came, removed them and drove off.
The narcomantas , as these public communiques of the cartels are known, presaged a horrific explosion of violence in Monterrey, a city of 4 million people in northeastern Mexico and the country's financial capital. In the months that followed, students would be gunned down at the gate of the city's elite university. A mayor would be abducted, tortured and murdered. City squares, police stations and even the US consulate would be attacked with grenades. Blockades controlled by masked gunmen would paralyze the city for days on end. At the root of this violence was a turf war between the authors of the narcomantas , the Zetas, and their former ally the Gulf Cartel.
It was the kind of violence one had come to expect in places like Ciudad Juarez or Tijuana — border cities that have long served as trafficking hubs to the United States. But how could thriving Monterrey, the "Sultan of the North," which only years earlier had been deemed one of the safest cities in Latin America, descend so quickly into chaos? If it could happen here, was anywhere in Mexico safe for long?
Yet what from the outside looked like a sudden collapse was in reality decades in the making. At its root was the decay of the institutions entrusted with providing law and order, ones that, despite their chronic dysfunction and corruption, had been able to contain drug violence in the old state-run system. But when that system crumbled, and when, in the face of "the monster" of organized crime, Monterrey's elite, politicians and public turned to those institutions to rescue them, they found them rotten to the core. And so, Monterrey's residents turned in desperation to the last power they felt they could trust: the military. It was a choice many would come to regret.
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Every city and town in Mexico has a plaza. It's where candidates are sworn in and protests staged, where concerts are held and local heroes memorialized. Kids congregate there after school, couples stroll there on dates and old men hold court over worn chessboards. The plaza is invariably flanked by a church and the local seat of government, which speaks to the importance of these institutions in Mexicans' lives.
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Once the Mexican independence movement began, Jose Maria Morelos, one of Mexico's founding fathers, waited for US arms on the Gulf Coast, but President James Monroe got Congress to restrict US citizens from giving aid to the insurgents against colonial
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SEGURIDAD PLENA EN JOSE MARIA MORELOS
El secretario de seguridad pública de Quintana Roo, General Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo, realizó una sorpresiva visita de cortesía al presidente municipal, José Domingo Flota Castillo en las instalaciones de este ayuntamiento. Sin dar los pormenores de la visita el alcalde y el jefe de la policía estatal permanecieron en el despacho de la presidencia donde tiempo después se retiro.
Acompañados del director de seguridad pública, Luis Javier Noh Canché y el director de transito municipal, José Encarnación Domínguez Mukul, el edil Flota Castillo recibió al general Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo en su sorpresiva visita a esta localidad que obedece al interés del funcionario por apoyar a los municipios en el combate de la inseguridad.
El presidente municipal en declaraciones posteriores agradeció la visita y dijo que “aunque en Morelos no existe muchos problemas de inseguridad como en otros municipios no somos ajenos al tema de la seguridad, con esta visita estamos convencidos que trabajaremos de manera coordinada para proteger a la población”, comentó.
En este sentido manifestó que la seguridad es una de las principales prioridades: vivimos en un municipio muy tranquilo y con mucha paz y queremos que siga permaneciendo el orden, los problemas con la seguridad son menores y vamos a coordinar
esfuerzos con la dirección general de seguridad pública del estado que atinadamente encabeza el general Carlos Bibiano Villa Castillo.
Cabe mencionar que el general Villa Castillo ha visitado con anterioridad los otros municipios del estado con la misma finalidad, entablar relaciones con los presidentes municipales y sumar esfuerzos para brindarle a la población quintanarroense un estado mas seguro.
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