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Detained, the head Sicario for Sinaloa Cartel

Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Proceso article

[ Subject Matter: Felipe Quintero Saavedra "El Iraki"
Recommendation: Some prior knowledge of the Sinaloa Cartel would be useful]

Felipe Quintero Saavedra, "El Iraki", was detained by elements during operation Parral Seguro in Chihuahua; he is related to more than high impact assassinations.

Reporter: Juan Jose Garcia Amaro

Elements of Operation Parral Seguro detained the head Sicario of the Sinaloa Cartel that operates in the South of Chihuahua State, he is linked with at least 20 executions of high impact in various towns of the State.

During his declarations, Felipe Quintero Saavedra, alias "El Iraki", 20 years of age, according to his criminal history he was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, where he formed part of "la clica los plebes", informed the Attorney General of the State.

He is considered at the head Sicario for the Sinaloa Cartel, the Attorney Generals office said this subject is one on the priority objectives for capture of the Chihuahua Government, he has been known for 2 years to be running cells of Sicarios in this region.




In the operation, "El Iraki" was detained with an arsenal of weapons which, until this moment, with 20 executions of high impact in the Towns of Parral, Jimenez, Allende, Santa Barbara, San Fransico del Oro, and its outskirts.

The FGE said the capture was carried out during an impressive display of the mixed forces of Operation Parral Seguro, which included forces from the three levels of Government.

" It is known, that in the last two years Quintero Saavedra, has been in charge of criminal cells pertinent to the Sinaloa Cartel in killing and distribution of drugs".

At the time of his detention, forces confiscated 4 AK47 assault rifles, a 9mm pistol, a Nissan Sedan, a motorcycle, 4 black tactical vests, two bullet proof jackets, a plastic bag with marijuana inside and some packages of the same drug.

A spokesman for the FGE, Arturo Sandoval Figon, informed that the alleged Sicario was detained this Friday at 19:35 hours in a safe house located in Calle Escuadro no.3 de Parral, Chihuahua, the weapons were recovered from the same location.

Before the arrest, the subject was seen getting into the Nissan Sedan, he noticed the Police and jumped onto the motorcycle and sped off at high speed, in the chase the Agents pursuing the subject, could see a pistol shoved into the waistband of his trousers, as they chased him through various streets of the city.

The motorcyclist arrived at Calle Escudero where he entered the house marked no.3, and started to shoot at the Agents that had chased him, at this point the Agents repelled the aggression with fire arms.

The safe house of El Iraki had different routes of escape to the adjacent Calles like, Simon Bolivar, where he tried to avoid justice, but finally was detained in the tactical operation.

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Original article in Spanish at Milenio

5 Blog Writing Mistakes You ALWAYS Want To Avoid

Writing doesn’t come naturally to everyone, and it’s easy to make blunders. Spell check doesn’t get everything, so it’s better to learn what not to do and make a habit of not doing it. Here are some things you definitely want to steer clear of when writing blog posts!

1. Using Bad Grammar

There is such a thing as the “Grammar Police” and they’re out there. The Internet is a harsh mistress and it’s users are often unforgiving of grammar mistakes. If you use “your” where you should be using “you’re” or “their” instead of “there,” you can bet someone is going to call you out on it in the comments.

In fact, the Grammar Police are so obsessed with pointing out bad grammar that they will completely forget what you wrote about in your blog post, or miss the point entirely, just to point out the fact that you used the wrong word, didn’t make a word possessive when you should have, etc. And the Grammar Police are everywhere – they’re your typical Internet users.

For whatever reason, people find it easier (and apparently more fun) to call out bloggers, Facebookers, YouTubers and anyone else on a grammar mistake than it is to call someone out about a mistake to their face. And so they do.

Avoid this by never, ever using bad grammar. Ever.

2. Never Using Spell Check

In addition to Grammar Police, there are also Spelling Police. Often, an Internet user will be a member of both factions, and will be equally as excited to call you out on a spelling mistake as a grammar blunder. Fortunately, since you can simply edit a blog post and remove the error, it’s not set in stone for the generations that come after us to point out as well.

But you really want to avoid having a run in with the Spelling Police to begin with, so make sure you use spell check each and every time you blog. In fact, use it twice. Run it through an external spell check. Print your blog post out and read through it, looking for spelling and grammar errors. Have someone else read it. Getting called out on a stupid spelling mistake is frustrating – especially if your blog post was really killer.

“You had a spelling mistake on line 4, paragraph 6, but your blog post was so thought provoking I didn’t care,” said no one ever.

Internet users will forget that you’ve published the cure for cancer or the answer to the existence of all life on earth and will instead point out that you misspelled “existance.”

Save yourself the headache and rid your blog posts of any and all spelling errors before they go live.

3. Putting Punctuation Outside Of Quotations

There are rules about where punctuation goes and whether it goes inside or outside quotations for certain sentences, but unless you’re studying the Little Brown Handbook, you’re never going to remember. Play it safe and put all your punctuation inside your quotations.

“The dog played in the yard”! looks stupid. It just does. Instead, write “The dog played in the yard!” There, much better.

It’s doubtful that if you use punctuation outside of quotations that anyone will notice, because many people do it wrong anyways. Rise above the rest, and put your punctuation inside your quotations. It’s the right way.

4. Mixed Capitals In Titles

There is also some dissension about mixed capitals in titles. Technically, there are certain words in titles that don’t have to be capitalized, like “the,” “to,” “in,” etc. But in a blogging platform, mixed capitals in titles can be really confusing and make your site look broken or mismatched. Check it out:

“5 Writing Mistakes You Always Want to Avoid”

Is “to” supposed to be capitalized? Technically it doesn’t need to be, but it’s the only word in the sentence that isn’t capitalized. So did the writer just forget to capitalize that one word? Was it done on purpose?

“5 Writing Mistakes You Always Want To Avoid”

There. Looks way more professional, and it looks much better in a post listing when all the titles have all words capitalized.

Another thing to keep in mind is that it’s nearly impossible for normal folks to get the “which words should be capitalized in a title and which ones shouldn’t” correct. Most of the time, they’ll leave proper words un-capitalized because they think they should. This is bad and again, makes the site look broken – especially in a blog post listing.

Play it safe and keep your blog looking professional by capitalizing all the words in your titles.

5. Huge Paragraphs & Run On Sentences

Internet users skim. It’s a fact of life. No matter how in depth and amazing your writing is, Internet users are going to skip around and read what stands out to them and glance over the rest. Very few people are going to read your blog posts in depth.

Huge paragraphs and run on sentences don’t work well for skimmers – they can’t pick anything important out of a big block of text so what do they do? They skip it. Then the rest of the article doesn’t make sense because they’ve missed an important point, but they don’t know that. So they click off and go look for something else.

Cater to the skimmers by avoiding writing in large paragraphs. Keep it to 3-4 lines maximum, and of course, steer clear of run on sentences. You can also increase the reading experience for skimmers by including lots of subheadings and breaking up your text into clear, concise points. That way, someone who reads only the subheadings can still glean the gist of the article.

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Violence Continues In Michoacán; Reign of Impunity Extends

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

Michoacán is one of the states with the most violence in the country due to the dispute between drug cartels in the Tierra Caliente region, which covers 17 municipalities in the state along with nine in Guerrero and five in the State of Mexico.

Municipalities include:

Michoacán: San Lucas, Tuzantla, Susupuato de Guerrero, Nocupetaro, Caracuaro, Tiquicheo, Huetamo de Nuñez.

Guerrero: Arcelia, San Miguel Totolapan, Ajuchitlán del Progreso, Tlapehuala, Coyuca de Catalán, Zirándaro, Cutzamala del Pinzón, Pungarabato, Tlalchapa.

Estado de México: Tlataya, Amatepec, San Simón de Guerrero, Tejupilco, Palmar Chico, Sultepec, Zacualpan.

The autodefensas

The fight from organized crime for the control of the plazas and the inability of the state government to maintain a state of peace caused the armed uprising of hundreds of civilians from the communities of La Ruana and Tepalcatepec to make up groups called autodefensas in February 2013.

The civil uprising, consisting mainly of merchants, farmers and ranchers immediately won the sympathy of michoacanos and a year later, more than 30 towns of 20 municipalities had their own autodefensas.

Shootouts, deaths, extortions, kidnappings, rapes, and the presence of the Caballeros Templarios and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels, products from local governments without any control, and the then PRI governor Fausto Vallejo Figueroa, put the entire country on alert and Michoacán became the first challenge of the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto.

Alfredo Castillo and his path through Michoacán

On January 15 2014, the federal government appointed Alfredo Castillo Cervantes as the Commissioner for Security and the Integral Development of Michoacán. His objective was to restore public confidence in the institutions of law enforcement, in addition to legalizing and integrating the groups of autodefensas that emerged in the state into the Fuerza Rural.

Despite Peña Nieto’s attempts to maintain order in Michoacán, violence and terror didn’t leave the state and the figure of the commissioner failed. On January 22 of this year, Enrique Peña Nieto ordered the departure of Castillo and instead appointed General Felipe Gurrola Ramírez in his place.

Fausto Vallejo’s resignation

The situation of anarchy that the state of Michoacán lived through and the scandals that stemmed from a series of videos where the son of the former governor of Michoacán, Rodrigo Vallejo Mora, appeared in alongside members of organized crime such as Servando Gómez Martínez, “La Tuta”, led to Fausto Vallejo’s resignation as the Governor of Michoacán.

El Gerber and the videos

Rodrigo Vallejo, known as “El Gerber”, is another case that remains pending in Michoacán. Rodrigo Vallejo has appeared in several videos and photographs with members of organized crime. From these incidents, he was held in Santiaguito prison located in the State of Mexico in August 2014; however, eight months later, he was released on bail after paying seven thousand pesos ($449 USD).

And violence continues in the state, now ruled by the academic Salvador Jara Guerrero.

The Murder of Enrique Hernández Salcedo

On May 14, Enrique Hernández Salcedo, candidate for the mayor of Yurécuaro, through the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (MORENA) (National Regeneration Movement), was fired upon during a political rally and minutes later, died.

Shootouts in Tanhuato

In another act of violence, on May 22 a shootout between federal forces and alleged members of organized crime occurred in Tanhuato, which left at least 43 dead, of which 11 showed signs of torture, according to family members of the victims to the US newspaper The Washington Times.

Shootouts in Tumbiscatío

A month later, on June 23, social network users reported another alleged shootout in Tumbiscatío, which left 12 dead; however, state authorities reported no conflict in the area.

Michoacán, amongst the states with the most cases of manslaughter

The violent events that have occurred in Michoacán in recent months have been recorded in statistics of various organizations such as México ¿Cómo Vamos? and the Observatorio Nacional Ciudadano (ONC) (National Citizen Observatory), which the latter presented a report this month about Incidences of High Impact Crimes in Mexico during 2014.

The document revealed that the State of Mexico, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Chiapas and Oaxaca surpassed one thousand investigations for manslaughter.

Cartel Land

But the escalation of violence in Michoacán crossed the borders and is now the subject of a documentary that tells the story of two figures: the leader of the autodefensas in Michoacán, José Manuel Mireles, and the leader of the Arizona Border Recon (AZBR) in the United States, Tim Foley.

“Cartel Land” is the name of this controversial film that hits theaters in Mexico on July 2. The director, Matthew Heinerman, expressed through images of severed heads, hanging corpses from bridges, cries of torture that go through the walls of houses that have been turned into makeshift prisons, the reality that currently exists in Michoacán.

Source: Sin Embargo

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