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Merida - Cuban Mafia’s Headquarters?

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

This Jean-Guy Allard report in Granma includes the following: “Bello Melchor Rodríguez y Carrillo, federal prosecutor in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo [Cancun’s state, for those who don’t know] revealed a few weeks ago that the city of Merida, Yucatan, is the Cuban mafia’s center of financial operations.

“Cuban-Americans killed in recent weeks include Manuel “El Mani” Duarte Díaz, Luis Lázaro Lara Morejón, his friend María Elena Carrillo Sáenz, Jesús Aguilar Aguilar, Edwin Park Gómez and Maximiliano Rey Mota.

“Lara Morejón was the liaison who received funds from the United States for trafficking carried out by Duarte Díaz, who was murdered in the Yucatan capital near the offices of the National Migration Institute. He later ensured payment for the polleros (smugglers) who bring Cubans to Quintana Roo’s coasts.

“According to several sources, one of the gangs involved hired the thugs of Los Zetas, the armed wing of the Gulf Cartel, to execute its rivals.

“The lime-covered, handcuffed bodies of Aguilar, Park and Carrillo Sáenz were found in a ditch near the Cancun-Merida highway, a site known as the ‘Los Zetas cemetery.’”

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