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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:35:11 -0500
From: irlandesa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Police Tied to Arms Trafficking in Chiapas
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Originally published in the Reforma newspaper, Mexico
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Translated by irlandesa
Reforma
Sunday, January 17, 1999.
POLICE COMPLICITY REVEALED IN ARMS TRAFFICKING IN CHIAPAS
Daniel Pensamiento, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas.
Public Security patrols acted to introduce shipments of
high-caliber weapons into communities affiliated with the PRI, and to
transport sacks of coffee which officials had stolen from pro-zapatista
communities, with the knowledge of the high command of police bodies in the
municipality of Chenalho in this state.
Former members of the chiapaneco Public Security police, sentenced to three
years and nine months in prison for the carrying of arms for the exclusive
use of the Army, admitted that they used official vehicles for tranporting
arms shipments from Chenalho to Pantelho. Their statements are contained
in Document A. P. No. 017/11/98 of the Federal Public Ministry - a copy of
which the Reforma has at its disposal.
In the document, the former members of Public Security agreed that
high-ranking officials were aware that the trucks and patrols were being
used for the transporting of weapons and sacks of coffee which had been
stolen by official party sympathizers between May and December of 1997.
"On one occasion, in the Chimix neighborhood, approximately nine men left
with four sacks, which could be seen to be high-powered weapons of varying
calibers; we took the sacks up into the command-type truck, and we
transported them to the municipality of Pantelho," revealed Filemon Morales
Escalante, one of the seven former Public Security police officers
imprisoned in the Cerro Hueco Jail, Chiapas.
"The Commander (NCO), Felipe Vazquez Espinosa, gave us orders to not bother
them, because they were PRI activists, and because the high command knew
about it. He (Vazquez Espinosa) was in touch with a person called "El
Chino," he explained.
He recalled that that would have been one of the several shipments of
AK-47's, Uzis, 7.63's., 9 mm. pistols and shotguns that were transported in
patrols and command-type trucks to the communities of Los Chorros and
Chimix, where a group was operating with the authorization of the Public
Security chiefs prior to the Actreal massacre.
"We dropped the persons with the arms shipment off in the community of Los
Chorros. We also supported them in the stealing of coffee in several
communities, and, under higher orders, we mounted several operations to
look out for them while they were cutting the coffee," he recalled.
Morales Escalante is the former Public Security member who took photographs
of armed civilians and police officers who were together in the communities
of Chimix, Los Chorros and Puebla, in the municipality of Chenalho, prior
to the massacre of 45 tzotziles in the community of Acteal in December of
1997.
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