Guerreros Unidos

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Guerreros Unidos ( German  "United Warriors" ) is a criminal organization that is primarily active in the drug trade. It is based in the north of the Mexican state of Guerrero , but also operates in the neighboring states of Morelos and México .

She gained international fame through the testimony of two gang members that the 43 students who disappeared on September 26, 2014 were handed over to the criminal organization by a local police unit. Those arrested confessed to murdering 17 of the missing students themselves and burying them in a mass grave. The order to murder the students had come from the gang boss "El Chuky". According to one source, the murder was allegedly based on confusion. According to this, the bandits of the "Guerreros Unidos" thought the students were members of the warring gang Los Rojos .

history

The "Guerreros Unidos" may have emerged as a by-product of the former criminal organization La Familia Michoacana , because the name of the new association appeared, as far as understandable, for the first time in December 2011 on a banner with the inscription "Guerrero Unidos brazo armado de La FM" (Guerrero Unidos, the armed arm of La FM, the abbreviation for “La Familia Michoacana”).

But this connection, if it actually existed, was apparently short-lived, because the group either wanted to become independent or had been infiltrated by another gang, as the first nationally sensational and disgusting act of the "Guerreros Unidos" revealed ; Because on March 18, 2012, at the entrance to the municipality of Teloloapan, the severed heads of seven men and three women were found with a clear message: “That will be the fate of all those who support La FM. Sincerely, Guerreros Unidos ”.

In contrast to the source cited above, the "Guerreros Unidos" are usually described as a product of the former Beltrán-Leyva cartel or one of its splinter groups. After their long-time gang boss and namesake Marcos Arturo Beltrán-Leyva was killed in an exchange of fire with the Mexican army in December 2009 , the cartel he had built split into several rival units. The "Guerreros Unidos" are said to have originated from one of these groups.

As it turned out in the meantime, the "Guerreros Unidos" actually ruled over the city of Iguala . The mayor's wife, María de los Ángeles Pineda Villa, comes from a family of drug traffickers (two of her brothers were shot in an internal power struggle in the Beltrán Leyva cartel in 2009) and, according to investigators, was the local head of the “Guerreros Unidos”. After the students disappeared, mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez, his wife and the local security chief went into hiding. According to a statement by the arrested gang leader Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, the "Guerreros Unidos" infiltrated the authorities in Iguala and decided, so to speak, about the allocation of posts to the local police. On November 4, 2014, the mayor couple, who were on the run, were tracked down and arrested in an empty house in Mexico City .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Guerreros Unidos" admits massacre . In: taz , October 6, 2014
  2. ↑ We shot those still alive , HAZ, November 8, 2014
  3. ↑ a b What is Guerreros Unidos? Borderland Beat, October 16, 2014 (English)
  4. ↑ a b c The spark has jumped over . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , November 16, 2014
  5. ↑ Missing students in Mexico: Investigators are looking for mayor . Spiegel Online , October 23, 2014