“They are totally useless and corrupt,” Joel Hernandez said in Spanish. Not tasked with any public safety role, but merely acting as traffic enforcers, the transit police in Reynosa and Matamoros - better known as transitos - are notoriously corrupt, working as lookouts for the Gulf Cartel, a source outside law enforcement with direct knowledge of criminal activity said. Many citizens of Reynosa have grown tired of drug dealers and their regular shootouts with authorities, but for a brief time in September and October 2012 they were thankful to Delgado for his role in keeping the famously corrupt Reynosa transit police at bay. While gunmen and traffickers with the Sinaloa Cartel continue to work in Tamaulipas, they have lost trust in their Tamaulipas counterparts and have been more and more reluctant to help them, the law enforcement official said.
The struggle between the two factions has upset the Gulf Cartel’s allies in Sinaloa, who have been helping them since 2010 to fight the Zetas - once working as the Gulf Cartel’s elite ex-paramilitary enforcers.
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prison, while Costilla awaits trial in a Mexico. Cardenas is serving a 25-year sentence in a U.S.
On one side, the forces loyal to the family of legendary kingpin Osiel Cardenas Guillen continue to face off against the men who had been loyal to Jorge Eduardo “El Coss” Costilla. “As things changed, the names stayed but they were all over the place.”ĭelgado was born and raised in Matamoros and as time went by his position in the organization grew.īut unlike some of his fellow Metros, like Metro-2 (Gregorio Sauceda) or Metro -3 (Samuel Flores Borrego), who became famous plaza bosses,ĭelgado always remained in the shadows working the enforcement side while staying below the radar of authorities.ĭelgado had been the plaza boss of Reynosa and one of the closest allies of de-facto Gulf Cartel boss Mario ”Pelon or X-20” Ramirez, who has been trying to exert control of the organization which has been involved in an internal struggle since 2011, the Tamaulipas official said. “In the beginning, that’s how you knew where they were from, Metros were from Matamoros, Rojos were from Reynosa, Lobos were from Laredo and so forth,” the official said. The nickname for Delgado stemmed from his origins in the Gulf Cartel, where at the beginning he was part of the Matamoros enforcement wing known as the Metros - a radio signal which was assigned based on the city they worked in, the Tamaulipas official said. Mexican authorities have not released any information relating to the death of Delgado. intelligence official unauthorized to speak to the media confirmed the death of Delgado, adding that he has since been buried beside his brother in Matamoros. “There was some confusion because on that day there had been a firefight and another member of rank in that criminal organization was wounded and died at the hospital,” the official said in Spanish.Ī U.S. He was believed to have reached his late 30s upon his death.
15, just days after he had disappeared, said a Tamaulipas law enforcement official who asked not to be identified, citing security concerns. side were well aware of the man’s reputation and his disregard for borders when scores needed to be settled. The name Hector Delgado sounds unremarkable, the nickname Metro-4 or M4 inspired fear on both sides of the border.ĭescribed as tall, slim, dark and coldblooded, Delgado was known in Mexico as a ruthless enforcer, while law enforcement officials in the U.S. In a world of betrayals and violence, where the fall of a kingpin is typically lauded by Mexican media, the death of a feared drug lord flew under the radar much like his legendary operations. Interesante.įew details known about quiet fall of feared Gulf Cartel kingpin Situación que MUY pocas veces ha sido ventilado a la luz pública. Se le adjudica al M4 varios ataques a agentes en el suelo americano.
Lo que se me hace muy interesante sobre este artículo es el tema de cómo las agencias americanas estaban muy conscientes de quién era el M4 y las ordenes que había dado a su gente para disparar contra agentes de la patrulla que intentaran detener cargamentos, el gobierno americano les ordenó caución a los agentes americanos.
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