Who Are The Police Commanders Accused Of Ties With The Sinaloa Cartel In A Narcomanta?

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In less than a week, different security officials from Chiapas were accused of their alleged ties with the Sinaloa Cartel through Jesús Esteban Machado Meza, also known as ‘El Güero Pulseras’, a representative of Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada in the state.

Through a narcomanta and a video starring at least twenty heavily armed men, the highest command of the local police received threats from a group calling themselves the Cartel of Chiapas.

One of the public officials mentioned in these messages was Francisco Javier Orantes Abadía, also known as ‘Panchito’, commissioner who serves as undersecretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection (SSyPC).

According to the records of the corporation, Orantes Abadía joined in 1999 and held the position of area inspector before being promoted to his current position.

The name of this police commander had already been mentioned in June 2023, when 16 administrative workers of the SSPyC were kidnapped on the Ocozocoautla-Tuxtla Gutiérrez highway. Through a video, the victims demanded that Orantes Abadía and two other officials resign so that their captors would release them.

“As long as you continue to protect ‘Güero Pulseras’ from the Sinaloa Cartel and send your police to collect fees from migrants, we will continue to attack police bases. The attack on the Malpaso Police was the first warning,” expressed one of the presumed hitmen in the recently released video.

Another official mentioned in the message from the self-proclaimed Chiapas Cartel was Roberto Jair Hernández Terán, also known as ‘El Hércules’, the commissioner in charge of leading the State Border Police since June 2016.

“Keep on messing with us, supporting the ‘Güero Pulseras’, and the next target we’ll blow up will be a State Border Police base,” warned the man in the video.

The name of Hernandez Teran had also been included in the list of officials whose resignation was demanded in exchange for releasing the group of workers in June 2023. In addition to this, news reports detail that this police officer was arrested in December 2004 at the Bajio International Airport in Guanajuato, as he was the officer on duty when the Federal Investigations Agency (AFI) found over one ton of marijuana in a plane at the terminal.

The threats also reached Gabriela Zepeda Soto, head of the Chiapas State Public Security and Civil Protection Secretariat (SSyPC), who was accused by the Chiapas Cartel of selling audio and video cameras from the C5 to ‘Güero Pulseras’ in order to “kidnap and move around with total impunity.”

Zepeda Soto entered the security facilities in 2007, the year in which she began her work as a personal secretary at the SSyPC. In her career, she also formed part of the Municipal Public Security Secretariats of Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Comitán, as well as the state General Prosecutor’s Office (PGJ).

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