CAMARGO, Mexico - The ranch near this border community is isolated and dark of arroyos - an ideal location, say the experts, training assassin drug cartel.
The drug cartels have a Mexican-style military training in camps at least six sites, as in northern Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas US, a few few kilometres from the border in Texas, the United States and Mexican authorities of the paper version and the testimony of five witnesses were protected training in the camps.
The camps near the border of Texas and other sites in Mexico, to train recruits agreement - the Mexican army deserters American teenagers - the murders and then do other tasks of ‘understanding on both sides of the border, authorities say.
“Traffickers of human beings are very long, the battle,” said a senior American anti-drug officials, talking about the condition of anonymity. “Part of this preparation and the fight against Schießbahnen live of training. … And this is not something we have seen before. ”
Most temporary camps which, for a while, then abandoned or intermittent. Others are hidden on private land behind doors, and have more of a permanent facility, officials said.
The country is very rarely in the names of members of the cartel known, but it is typically acquired by someone facing a cartel, authorities said. Sometimes called “mobile” training camps, private space, without the consent of the owner.
The camps are places in the interior of Mexico, the United States, but police officers said they were very concerned about along the 1000-mile-long Texas and Mexico - another example of the escalating War enmity between the drug cartels.
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In Texas, Webb County Sheriff Rick Flores, he said, and other law enforcement agencies “whatever we can do to secure our borders with limited resources.”
“We know that drugs intelligence sources terrorism traffickers to invest money in Mexican nationals in the United States and people in training camps to be undertaken in the dark, the killing of art and the terror, “he said. “It is even more shocking to hear that the same mobile training, because they are the responsibility of the money in place.”
The Federal State Tamaulipas, for example, the Zetas - paramilitary implementation of the agreement golf - Train with other mercenaries, including the Kaibiles from Guatemala, said the official.
The testimony of five witnesses protection in the documents of the Public Prosecutor of the Confederation Mexico General’s Office obtained by The Dallas Morning News. “Fernando Castillo, a spokesman for the attorney general office, confirmed the authenticity of the documents and said , the report of six sites training camps in two neighboring states of Texas was “rightly”.
“We are not talking about style or marine al-Qaida training camp,” said Dr. Castillo Friday. “It is more informal destinations shooting and exercise.”
According to the testimony of printing, the training took place in locations south-west of Matamoros, beyond the borders of Brownsville, near the town of Abasolo, between Ciudad Victoria and Matamoros, Nuevo Laredo, north of the airport and a place called “Rancho Las Amarillas” Near a rural commune, China, which is located near the Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas border.
Two other farms as training camps, both located on the east side of Matamoros, clandestine landing strips for cocaine shipments from Colombia and the United States about the Texas, whereby officials and testimony.
Mr. Castillo described Rancho Las Amarillas operating more demanding than others and said Mexican authorities seized the ranch in 2002. The ranch manager, Salvador Eduardo López, was sentenced Feb. 23 to 20 years in prison for drug offences.
Mr. Castillo, added: “If we know there is a training camp, we have seized and she delivered. But because it mobilizes often temporary, and often, we can not much about it. ”
Two Mexican soldiers stationed in Reynosa, spoke about the status of anonymity, said that stocks are sometimes very attached.
“In some cases, it is clear that they are better placed than us,” said one soldier, members of the cartel. “You can use a plane.”
A former senior official of the Mexican intelligence said that the use of training camps become a common practice for the agreements. “Yes, there are training camps, where hitmen on both sides of the border, the train with weapons from the United States,” he says, talking about the condition of anonymity.