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Leyzaola resigns after three months in new position
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02...
The Associated Press
February 18, 2011
TIJUANA, Mexico -- A retired Mexican army officer who led an overhaul of the notoriously corrupt police force of the border city of Tijuana has quit
as a state law enforcement official after only three months on the job.
The Baja California Public Safety secretary's office says Julian Leyzaola resigned Friday as deputy secretary.
The 50-year-old official says he has to focus on an urgent matter unrelated to his work. He did not elaborate in his resignation letter.
Leyzaola was Tijuana's top cop until November and worked closely with the Mexican army to arrest drug traffickers. He lost that job when the city's
new mayor, Carlos Bustamante, replaced him with his top deputy, Gustavo Huerta.
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LaloinBaja
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Cartel Threats????You think?????
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| Quote: | Originally posted by LaloinBaja
Cartel Threats????You think????? |
Probably not. Those were a a constant part of his job.
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This came from Fulano's site:
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Julián Leyzaola Pérez, the former chief of police of Tijuana, who moved up to be the Deputy Secretary for the state of Baja California last December,
has resigned his position to take the new position of Chief of Police of Ciudad Juarez. Ciudad Juarez is the deadliest city on the planet, with more
than 3,100 murders last year. Going with Leyzaola to Ciudad Juarez is Jorge Eduardo Montero Álvarez, the former chief of police of Playas de Rosarito.
Montero was currently the director of the Baja California State Institute of Public Security.
http://www.el-mexicano.com.mx/informacion/noticias/1/3/estat...
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[Edited on 2-19-2011 by DENNIS]
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If he can do something, anything, in Juarez, he will be the next Emperor of Mexico.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
If he can do something, anything, in Juarez, he will be the next Emperor of Mexico. |
for sure. If anything can be done to save Juarez, he and Montero can do it. Just hope this isn't two more good men wasted.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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Dennis: I saw that this morning but after reading both Bowden books, I assumed Fulano just made a mistake. I hope Leyzaola collected his annual
salary upfront.....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
Dennis: I saw that this morning but after reading both Bowden books, I assumed Fulano just made a mistake. I hope Leyzaola collected his annual
salary upfront..... |
Yeah....for sure. It won't be just another tour of duty, but if he fails, where do we run to?
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Good riddance to Leyzaola the publicity hound of Tijuana until he was dumped by the incoming new mayor because Leyzaola like to torture Tijuana police
by applying electric charges to their private parts until they were ready to sign false confessions. Leyzaola was all about torture and abuse of
Mexican's basic human rights set forth in the Mexican Constitution.
Some might say, " but the end justifies the means." Ok lets get out the yardstick. Did the drug related killings go down under Leyzaola's rein of
terror? Did Leyzaola's polices stop or even slow the flow of drugs into the USA?
I think the answer is no to both questions. The amount of drug related deaths continued to go up and the drug flow to the USA was never higher. I
wouldn't be surprised to learn that Leyzaola was really on the drug cartels payroll the way the drugs continued to flow into the US while Leyzaola was
talking tough and calling Mexican drug cartels kingpins c-ckroaches scum, and dirty fat pigs!
Pretty brave of Leyzaola to talk tough with all those bullet proof armored cars, dozens body guards, and his sleeping quarters the Military base where
he couldn't be touched. Of course all that tough talk upset the drug cartels and the cartels took out their aggression on Tijuana cops that didn't
have all the protection that Leyzaola had.
I do give Leyzaola credit for slowing the shakedowns of Americans in Tijuana. The police were on pretty good behavior, and were a little scared of
Leyzaola but really scared of the drug cartels, and didn't waste that much time shaking down Americans that's pretty easy to do.
But basically Leyzaola is a cartoon character and he and the media created that image of Leyzaola. I was reading some media articles from Mexico city
and they were laughing at Leyzaola, and his so-called "super hero" status that he created for himself.
I'm sorry not everybody loved Leyzaola, and if you read the comment sections in articles about Leyzaola in places like the "AFN" the comments were
mixed at best, and I'd say they were also very negative towards him. If you talk to Mexicans they also have mixed views of this "super hero."
For Americans I guess if you supported Bush's "waterboarding" polices. You probably would support Leyzaola's torture techniques and abuse of human
rights in Mexico. ( however we do find hypocrites like Maggie, from Maggie Madness. She speaks out against Bush and water-boarding but turns a blind
eye when it's done in Mexico.)
I'm also glad to see General Alfonso Duarte Múgica disappear from the Baja area. I couldn't stand that guys big mouth and his "c-ckroach" theory how
he had the Mexicans drug cartels on the run, and the violence you are seeing is like when you turn on the lights and see c-ckroaches scattering
around, but the military has it under control. Right General.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JoeJustJoe
Good riddance to Leyzaola the publicity hound of Tijuana until he was dumped by the incoming new mayor because Leyzaola like to torture Tijuana police
by applying electric charges to their private parts until they were ready to sign false confessions. Leyzaola was all about torture and abuse of
Mexican's basic human rights set forth in the Mexican Constitution.
Some might say, " but the end justifies the means." Ok lets get out the yardstick. Did the drug related killings go down under Leyzaola's rein of
terror? Did Leyzaola's polices stop or even slow the flow of drugs into the USA?
I think the answer is no to both questions. The amount of drug related deaths continued to go up and the drug flow to the USA was never higher. I
wouldn't be surprised to learn that Leyzaola was really on the drug cartels payroll the way the drugs continued to flow into the US while Leyzaola was
talking tough and calling Mexican drug cartels kingpins c-ckroaches scum, and dirty fat pigs!
Pretty brave of Leyzaola to talk tough with all those bullet proof armored cars, dozens body guards, and his sleeping quarters the Military base where
he couldn't be touched. Of course all that tough talk upset the drug cartels and the cartels took out their aggression on Tijuana cops that didn't
have all the protection that Leyzaola had.
I do give Leyzaola credit for slowing the shakedowns of Americans in Tijuana. The police were on pretty good behavior, and were a little scared of
Leyzaola but really scared of the drug cartels, and didn't waste that much time shaking down Americans that's pretty easy to do.
But basically Leyzaola is a cartoon character and he and the media created that image of Leyzaola. I was reading some media articles from Mexico city
and they were laughing at Leyzaola, and his so-called "super hero" status that he created for himself.
I'm sorry not everybody loved Leyzaola, and if you read the comment sections in articles about Leyzaola in places like the "AFN" the comments were
mixed at best, and I'd say they were also very negative towards him. If you talk to Mexicans they also have mixed views of this "super hero."
For Americans I guess if you supported Bush's "waterboarding" polices. You probably would support Leyzaola's torture techniques and abuse of human
rights in Mexico. ( however we do find hypocrites like Maggie, from Maggie Madness. She speaks out against Bush and water-boarding but turns a blind
eye when it's done in Mexico.)
I'm also glad to see General Alfonso Duarte Múgica disappear from the Baja area. I couldn't stand that guys big mouth and his "c-ckroach" theory how
he had the Mexicans drug cartels on the run, and the violence you are seeing is like when you turn on the lights and see c-ckroaches scattering
around, but the military has it under control. Right General. |
Couldn't disagree with you more. If Mexico had 100 Leyzaolas, we wouldnt be having the problems we have.
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