EXCLUSIVE — Terrorist Who
Targeted Americans Takes Over Mexican Cartel on Texas Border, by Brandon Darby
and Ildefonso Ortiz, 1/28/19, Breitbart.
A verified and convicted terrorist
who attacked a U.S. Consulate with a grenade and automatic rifle fire has taken
over the ruthless Los Zetas cartel, a group headquartered at the Texas border
in the Nuevo Laredo-Laredo metropolitan border area.
Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, sits
immediately across the border from Laredo, Texas, and is the only urban
location along the entire U.S.-Mexico Border that does not have any fencing or
constructed security barrier of any kind.
The convicted terrorist, Hector
Raul Luna Luna, is known as “El Tory” and was convicted in the 2008 terror
attack on the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico. He was released from prison
due to bribes paid by Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and has now taken
over the dominant faction of Los Zetas, Cartel Del Noreste (CDN), to open up
the lucrative and unsecured border corridor into Texas.
Under El Tory’s new reign, Los Zetas is linked to a level of
brutality that had not been seen in prior years. Gruesome executions,
dismemberments, targeted attacks on police and military officials, and the
general use of intimidation have become commonplace in parts of northern Mexico
as El Tory and Los Zetas try to expand their operations.
In late 2018, Nuevo Leon Governor Jaime Rodriguez
Calderon publicly singled-out El Tory as one of the men behind the escalation
of violence in his state. According to the governor, El Tory and his criminal
organization were linked to the large majority of the violent deaths in the
state.
Most recently, Breitbart News reported exclusively on a series of
threats made by El Tory, who claimed he would blow up the headquarters of a state
police agency in Nuevo Leon. The threats were made through
several narco-banners that Los Zetas hung throughout the industrial city of
Monterrey. The threats are considered credible by law enforcement in Mexico,
since El Tory has a history of targeting police and has used grenades in the
past.
El Tory was released from a Mexican federal prison in mid
2017 with the help of his close friend and
ally Eleazar “El Chelelo” Medina Rojas and his new ties with CJNG, so the two
could help establish a Los Zetas-CJNG corridor from Monterrey to Nuevo Laredo
and into Texas. Their release came at the hands of a federal judge and a “control”
judge who ruled in each of the two cases to release the two cartel bosses. El
Tory was serving a sentence of more than 20 years for the charges of crimes
against public health (drug trafficking), engaging in organized criminal
activities, and unlawful possession of restricted military weapons. Both El
Tory and Chelelo have extensive criminal histories and are wanted by U.S.
authorities.
Soon after their
release, the two cartel bosses began to leave a trail of bodies behind them as
they tried to solidify their positions within the CDN faction of Los Zetas and
against the other cartels. Breitbart News reported on the arrest of El Chelelo
in the southern state of Yucatan in December 2018. Soon after his arrest, a local state judge
tried to release El Chelelo but
federal authorities were able to re-arrest him for extradition purposes. Even
without El Chelelo, El Tory continued to wage a fierce war against a rival
faction of Los Zetas called “Old School Z” and has killed hundreds of their
members in the border states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
Mexican law enforcement
sources revealed to Breitbart News that El Tory is the mastermind behind the
gruesome murder of the leader of the Old School Z faction Luis “El Rex or Z12”
Reyes Enriquez. El Rex died inside a state prison in Nuevo
Laredo after being shanked numerous times by CDN inmates. El Tory’s men then stole El Rex’s body
from a funeral home and placed his severed head in one ice chest while the rest
of the body was divided into three other containers. Los Zetas then placed one
ice chest outside a state prison in Tamaulipas and the three others near
prisons around Monterrey.
El Tory’s men have also
been singled out as the ones who left severed body parts outside a newspaper
office in Tamaulipas with a series of threats against local outlets.
In 2008, the man known
as El Tory led and participated in a grenade attack against the U.S.
Consulate General in Monterrey. El Tory and his men fired several weapons at
the U.S. building and threw an explosive device. While the grenade did not
explode, the gunfire broke several windows and caused other damage to the
building. No injuries were reported. In 2008, Los Zetas were one of the most
dominant cartels in all of Mexico and managed to make a name for themselves as
one of the most brutal and sadistic organizations.
The Mexican military caught up with El Tory in 2010, however,
Los Zetas responded by setting up blockades and threatened local police into
staying out of the way while they tried to unsuccessfully prevent the capture
of their leader. The troops arrested El Tory and some of his top men who
carried machine guns, a 50-caliber rifle, and grenades. The arrest led to the
sentence of more than 20 years–only to be cut short by a Mexican federal judge
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