GOPES: The History of the Special Unity of the Tamaulipas Police Involved in the Migrant Massacre

When state agents in northern Mexico presumably assess 19 people — including at least 14 Guatemalan migrants — in final years, there is a tragedy that, according to the critics, Authorities have the site advertised to be successful.

In 2019, tax authorities accuse the police corporation of the state of Tamaulipas, which has ten other names, of having blamed for the fire on people in their homes in the front line of New Laredo, forced to wear military uniforms, sub-military uniforms vehicles for unidentified persons and shooters.

The detention of a dozen agents of the Special Operations Group (GOPES) —of 150 elements — has been ordered for the homicides of at least 14 migrants and Mexicans trapped in a rural truck in the Camargo area, close to the front with Texas. The corpses were killed and killed while calculating the identification of the other three victims.

Authorities have received numerous advertisements about problems with this police unit, created this year with remnants of a group of special forces accused of the 2019 massacre and other atrocities. Inklusief ‘n wetgewende federale impulsó en ener une resolution un vinculante en el Congreso de México para protest par las golpizas y robos perpetrados por esa corporation.

In November, a Tamaulipas business association accused the GOPES agents of break into the case of one of his members and robbery money effectively, electrodomestics and other relevant. The group said that the victim included two photographs taken by the security cameras of his house in which he had uniformed agents with arms on the sling.

Ignorance is ignored and no one is allowed to take control of the corporation.

Si en ese momento lo hubieran hecho, “Si hubieran volteado a ver, a lo mejor no estaríamos lamentando la muerte de 19 personas”, dijo Marco Antonio Mariño, Vice-President of the Security of the Federation of Commercial Cameras in Tamaulipas.

Since the beginning of a decade, narcotics rivals have been well equipped to liberate war from the most prolonged and restricted territorial control in the history of Mexico. Bands of men armed with numbers like “La Tropa del infierno” circulate with regularity in artisanal blinds vans.

The cooptaron cards are aunts and uncles of the Municipal Police in Tamaulipas that the state decision will dissolve into all and confide more in state police agents, who are better represented. When the federal governor retreats to the children of Marina, who solemnly proports large part of the support with high arms to the police forces in the state, alentó al gobierno statatal a crear unidades de elite como el GOPES.

The reputation of the GOPES is so great that the governor of the United States, who adheres to some of his elements, has sought to distance himself from this corporation, and to refer as much to the initials of CAIET (Center for Analysis, Intelligence and Studies of Tamaulipas), as per its actual number, GOPES.

The United States Embassy in Mexico City states that three of the 12 agents charged with the migrant massacre “Receive basic training and / or first line supervisor training” mediating a program of the Department of State before those assigned to the special corporation.

“The training of these individuals will take place in 2016 and 2017 and will be supplemented entirely by the Leahy verification (of antecedents in respect of human rights)”, concluded the diplomatic seat.

The CAIET was an exceptionally academic number for which in essence constituted a police force type SWAT of rapid reaction. As the GOPES, with frequency the elements used masked and blinded vehicles.

In 2019, the cadavers of the victims of their homes in New Laredo were found to have been exposed to bales in the cabbage, dressed in camouflage uniforms in the style of the drug traffickers and bald men who carried the initials of the Court of the North, arms together with them. The tax authorities finally conclude that the CAIET agents are assembling the arms and demos of the team and their former executors.

Raymundo Ramos, a human rights activist who investigated and explained the New Laredo mattress, said he was under the influence of his followers, only two of the 40 members of the CAIET involved in the homicides are in custody cargos. Other agents will testify to the fact that they are designing the charges, and the other elements are being tested.

The authorities do not dissolve at CAIET, solo le cambiaron el nombre a GOPES.

“It is not uncommon for governors (states) to change cambian numbers to undermine the image of their policies,” Ramos said.

The tax authorities did not mention what the GOPES agents were presuntamente decidieron assesinar a los migrantes, and you have heard the hearings of the case in which he was open to the public.

The migrants iban accompanied by mexican varios who to appear operaban as “Protection” armed for the “sending” of migrants transferred to the frontier with the United States. The Gulf Card obtains a large part of its aggregates covering the migration of migrants to cross its territory. También obtiene diner sequuestrande a migrants que viajan solos, torturándolos hasta revelan elephono des sus parientes en Estados Unidos y retiniéndolos para demanding de pag de un rescate.

One of the theories is that agents of the GOPES screened fleet against armed commuters who were with the migrants aboard the vehicle, because they found three shotguns in the fire truck. The murmurs escorts the disparos, and lies the care agents to the migrants to conceal their error.

State taxpayers say that the hicho of which is not found cascades in the massacre place means that the police will seek to cover pistols that the delataran.

Ramos señaló que eso val saam met las tactics de la unidad. “Normally, they have no testimonies, are part of their training,” he said.

In the 2019 massacre in Nuevo Laredo, the police corporation has two testimonies in the cases of firefighting victims in the victims, to appear only because four eran women adolescents or mothers with nines.

The problem is not limited to the assessors, said Oscar Hernández, anthropologist at the Collegio de la Frontera Norte.

“It is not necessary for any corporate corporations to stand up for this type of practice, only violence, which is most visible, as well as contusion and corruption,” Hernandez said.

Mariño, of the business organization, underlined that some corporations of the state policy han logrado que otra vez sea posible transitar sur seguridas par las carreteras en Tamaulipas, in that drivers and passengers of solanus buses are sequestered as they want to know about them.

The GOPES does not constitute the first problem of abuse by police forces in Tamaulipas.

In 2014, the “Grupo Hércules” of the state police, operates as a paramilitary school of the alcalde of the Matamoros frontier, and Mexican Marina infants sequestrates and assigns to four people, among them three German states.

Erica, Alex and Jose Angel Alvarado Rivera, of Progreso, Texas, appeared in October 2014 when visiting their father in Control, a small town in Mexico near Matamoros, bordering Brownsville, Texas. A friend of theirs, the Mexican José Guadalupe Castañeda Benítez, also had a sequel. The carcasses of all fueron were found with ball impacts in the cave more than two weeks later.

Other facets of the mascara of this year will be revealed. For example, Ramos says that some of the agents detained in the case han dicho que ellos mataron a los migrants, pero no quemaron los cadáveres.

An informational document from the United States Anti-Drugs Agency (DEA for its Sails in English) must understand that the Card of the North establishes assets in the zone until the end of January, with the intention of assigning a prominent figure of the Golf Card, when topped with migrants. Some people believe that Sicarios del Carte del Noreste may have taken part in the massacre, or at least burned the van and carcasses posteriorly to pervert the activities of Carte del Golfo.

There is a point in which all are in agreement: The cadavers are so calcined that in the normal course of the previous investigations have not been identified only and have been seized and evicted as possible participants of a more serious affair between cartels.

Without embargo, the GOPES does not know that the van was part of a caravan of vehicles transporting migrants, including a guatemalt traffic of migrants who drove all the victims. He sees the notice of the massacre to his families in his lands of origin, and the parishes publicly publish the notice.

“If it’s not done by this man, it’s probably the haberdasher as one of the most suspicious,” said Ramos.

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