The just deceased editor of the Tijuana weekly paper Zeta, Jesús
Blancornelas, who was a close observer of the drug trafficking
groups and who actually survived being perforated by their lead
laden antipathy toward him (see above) said an Arellano Félix
sister, Enedina, has taken over the day-to-day administration
of The Cartel.
Not
everyone at Zeta survives such encounters. Hector Felix Miranda,
co-founder of the Zeta newspaper, was murdered by two Cartel gunmen.
But
there’s more.
Francisco
Ortiz Franco, another editor of Zeta, departed our world while
sitting in his car with his children (8, and 10) at his side when
eager two youths wearing masks put four bullets into his face.
While the children were “unharmed” they won’t
forget “dead daddy” for a long, long while. The murder
occurred on a busy Tijuana street and only a block from Baja California
State Police offices.
Speaking
about the violence and murder in Tijuana, Governor of Baja
California Eugenio Elorduy Walther said: “We consider this
a challenge to authority, but also a challenge to Baja California
society.”
Baja
California Assistant Attorney General Rogelio Delgado Neri downplayed
all such scurrilous comments as being “scurrilous comments.”
Sr. Delgado even put the total murder rate in Tijuana at “only”
261 a year.
But
Sr. Delgado was then, and almost immediately, blasted into the
land of immortality while sitting at a local popular Tijuana bar.
The many nearby Gringo-tourists must have loved those few minutes
of real life adventure.
Remember,
Tijuana is:“… a place for adventure! Tijuana today
can be one of the most exciting cities on earth if you know where
to look.” Yes, just follow the wafts of cordite smoke and
the slippery trails of blood.
ZETAS
is a real professional murder for hire outfit and has over a hundred
murders to its credit and scores of kidnappings.
The
local Tijuana editor "Dead Daddy" Francisco Ortiz must
have been one of ZETAS first local targets. The Arellano Felix's
Cartel gunmen usually just spray bullets everywhere -- even killing
their own men in the process. Ortiz was shot in the face four
times from close range and the gunmen purposely avoided killing
the children a few feet away.
