Mica for BorderlandBeat
According to a review of documents classified by The Washington Post and communications intercepted by the agencies, the criminal organization prepared for reprisals by Mexican security forces and its lawyers urged the members of the cartel to remove all information about Americans from their phones.
The files are part of the military documents that were leaked by Discord, a chat service, and by which the Department of Justice announced the arrest of Jack Douglas Teixeira, a member of the National Air Guard in Massachusetts, for “alleged unauthorized extraction, retention and transmission of classified information.”
In The Washington Post’s information review, they found that members of the Gulf Cartel were preparing to defend themselves, in addition to predicting violence from escalating in Matamoros.
“According to the leaked files, the intercepted communications between the members of the Gulf Cartel indicated that the group had handed over the four Americans, two of whom were dead, to the Mexican authorities. The deceased, Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown, were captured alive on March 3 when armed men of the cartel opened fire on their vehicle, but died later from the injuries.”
The information obtained indicates that the Americans were attacked in retaliation for an alleged incident of abuse and flight, although this does not agree with what was revealed by Latavia “Tay” McGee and Eric James Williams, the two survivors, who told CNN that the armed men began to honking their horn and threaten with weapons shortly after crossing into Mexico.
They even mentioned that one of their kidnappers acknowledged that the cartel’s attack on the group had been a mistake. The Americans traveled to Mexico for a medical procedure.
Leak reveals alleged rivalry between Marina and Sedena
Another document related to Mexico evaluated the implications of the Mexican army assuming the supervision and control of civil aviation.
The report predicts that the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is likely to assign more responsibilities and oversight roles to the country’s armed forces, especially the Mexican army, but “without proportional increases in resources.”
It also reveals the possibility of tensions between the armed forces, due to the fact that the Secretary of the Navy allegedly instructed his officers not to collaborate with the Sedena, in the face of the control of Mexican airspace.