Police officers on Camargo matanza, habrían recibido training in EEUU

View of a vehicle with calcareous bodies salvaged by the Fiscalía General de Justicia de Tamaulipas, in the municipality of Camargo (Mexico).  EFE / STR
View of a vehicle with calcareous bodies salvaged by the Fiscalía General de Justicia de Tamaulipas, in the municipality of Camargo (Mexico). EFE / STR

Policy elements that integrate the Tamaulipas Special Operations Group (GOPES) y cuyos some of its integrated residents are involved in the 19-person strike in the Camargo municipality, which took place in the United States.

Agreed with an investigation carried out by Insight crime, the adiestramiento ocurrió aún despue de que functioniios del gobierno estadounidense, membros de la sociedad civil de México y algunos politicosos sénalaron a esa fuerza politikaca de cometer violaciones de derechos humane.

On the 22nd of January, the authorities of Tamaulipas discovered 19 bodies, bullets and calculators, unrecognizable in a pickup truck parked in the municipality of Camargo, near the front with Texas. At the moment it has been confirmed the identities of 16 of the victims by means of DNA analysis: 14 of those Guatemalan migrant migrants who have moved to the United States, the others during the year of Mexican nationality.

On February 8, the Fiscal General of Tamaulipas assured that has sufficient evidence against 12 GOPES agents to lure them to the juicer.

We will prosecute 12 police officers responsible for the calculus in Tamaulipas (Photo: Fiscalía General de Justicia de Sonora)
We will prosecute 12 police officers responsible for the calculus in Tamaulipas (Photo: Fiscalía General de Justicia de Sonora)

The GOPES Unified Formation is based on the scrutiny of human rights abuses, weeks before the migration of migrants. On January 6, a group of at least 25 families in Ciudad Mier accused various agents of this special group of having “attacked, robbed and intimidated” in their community. También fueron señalados de la presunta disaparición y tortura de hasta quuat persona.

A group of agency of GOPES recibieron adiestramiento de autoridades estadounidenses en 2020, as revealed by the group’s commander, Félix Arturo Rodríguez Rodríguez, who was quoted in several informative media. Although it is not clear how the stadium organism trained the training, the GOPES agents have a history of training with the stadium authorities.

Agreed with the media, this unit is restructured as part of the Center for Analysis, Information and Studies of Tamaulipas (CAIET) as its agents result in forced disappearances and extrajudicial executions in 2019, and it will take place in for presumed abuses.

To that end, CAIET agents will participate in tactical training alongside local Texas in 2019.

Three of the 12 agents arrested in connection with the murdered murderer received another training in basic skills and as first-line supervisors of the Estadounidense Office of International Narcotics and Security Asuntos (International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Department), .

Aseguró que training for these three licensed agents in 2016 and 2017, before being assigned to CAIET or GOPES. According to the same function, the training is performed in conformity with the Ley Leahy, promoted by the Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy, of Vermont, the same as the training of the training of agents or extraterrestrial countries if there is evidence that this is necessary humanos.

The connection with Texas

The Governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca (Photo: Twitter / VÍA fgcabezadevaca)
The Governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca (Photo: Twitter / VÍA fgcabezadevaca)

The CAIET group was renovated in 2012, when it was created by the Governor of Tamaulipas. In January 2017, three months after the release of the Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca to the governor of the state, the mandate of this police force to be converted into a specially verified force and endowed with gruesome weapons of war to combat criminal groups.

The unit runs directly to Cabeza de Vaca, about which charges are being filed with drug trafficking groups, like the Gulf Cartel, and has an open investigation into the dangers of money laundering.

In its position of vacancy, Cabeza de Vaca will focus on enhancing cooperation between Mexico and the United States on frontier security issues. As part of its second balance of governance, presented in September 2018, Cabeza de Vaca will show that between August 2017 and July 2018, a total of new Tamaulipas state police agents will receive technical capacity together with various state agents from Texas and members of various federal organisms, such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Protection of Adults and Frontiers (Customs and Border Protection, CBP), among others.

The media said that various agents from the CAIET unit recently trained with Texas agents in the Starr county. In January 2019, Starr Víctor Canales Jr. fiscal del condado. invited CAIET to participate in an exchange of ideas, tactics and information “without precedent” in the city of Río Grande, Texas.

“It’s the first time that we have an adversity claim as it is between the Governor of the State of Tamaulipas and the District Taxation of the Starr County,” Canales Jr. said. The director of CAIET Félix Arturo Rodríguez Rodríguez added that they have one objective goal: “combat crime and impede extending”.

These state-level holdings are subject to the same scrutiny as the federal, supported by the federal law, according to Adam Isacson, Director of Supervision and Defense Topics in the Washington Officer for Latin American Acts (WOLA), in conversation with InSight crime.

The Ley Leahy solely regulates the assistance, endowment or assistance provided by other brigades to the Defense Departments or the State for Foreign Security Forces, including security assistance programs that are used by the Leyectac mediators.

Remains of one of the vehicles where 19 people were killed while traveling in a city of Camargo in the northern city of Tamaulipas (Mexico).  (Photo: EFE / STR)
Remains of one of the vehicles where 19 people were killed while traveling in a city of Camargo in the northern city of Tamaulipas (Mexico). (Photo: EFE / STR)

In the year 2019, some people have been deprived of access training in Texas, vigilance videos and tomatoes with mobile phone captains and various CAIET agents during a sequel of hasta siete integrants of a family in Díaz Ordaz, al on the front Estados Unidos-México in Tamaulipas. In the videos, which were broadcast on social media, the family of their house was killed by the fire and came to live in a vehicle that was parked.

The same thing, the DEA office in Phoenix, Arizona, issued a circular about the CAIET In that sense, it is possible that the group was operating “operatively” in the individual detainees’ cases, which in the Mayor’s Cases were found to be separate, including those involved in organized crime groups.

At the beginning of September 2019, various members of the CAIET team were accused of searching and golfering even people in New Laredo, who were obliged to dress like sicarius and executors. and pusieron armas in the manus to simulate the scene of a tiroteo, segun relations of testigos recogidos by the Committee of Human Rights of New Laredo.

Días después, the Gobernador Cabeza de Vaca viajo to Washington, DC to reunite with John Cornyn, senator estadounidense por the state of Texas with someone who spoke about common interests, such as frontier security and cooperation between the Texas and Tamaulipas authorities.

In October 2019, CBP launched an initiative originally proposed in 2016 with the number “Se Busca”, which is currently being considered. The program consists of “divulgation, to both sides of the front, a list of 10 priority objectives”, among others. It also includes a line of information open to the public, and the intelligence of the CBP compares with the security officials of Tamaulipas.

A CBP spokesman commented in the midst of an e-mail that the organization has “carried out various training sessions with the Tamaulipas State Police to increase cooperation and improve front-line security”.

Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca (Photo: Cuartoscuro)
Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca (Photo: Cuartoscuro)

In August 2020, amid the controversy surrounding the CAIET in Tamaulipas, the Governor Cabeza de Vaca announced the formation of a special operations group, the GOPES. It is, however, integrated by the members of CAIET, including its director, Felix Arturo Rodríguez Rodríguez.

The local diary El Mañana informed that after having received training under the supervision of the Marina Secretariat, the GOPES was “trained by experts in the security of the United States Government in a course of two months”.

Hasta el momento, ni el Fiscal del condado Starr Canales Jr. by the Tamaulipas Public Security Secretary responds to the solicitation of comments by InSight crime.

For its part, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is contesting a mailing message that has no information to give. The Starr County Commissioner did not respond to multiple requests for a statement.

In this way, the deputy Henry Cuéllar, who represents the Electoral District 28 of Texas, which covers the Starr district and the city of Río Grande, will carry out the CAIET training in 2019, say in the medium that “no training is required [del GOPES]… What was realized in the Starr movement ”this past year.

In die octubre van 2020, the deputy Cuéllar, together with the civil service officials of the CBP, the Authority for Adults and Immigration (ICE), the Department of National Security (DHS) and the Department of State, assisted in the inauguration Reynosa. The GOPES has an allied and other base of operations in Ciudad Victoria.

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