Powerful Drug Trafficker among 4 People Killed in Western Mexico

MORELIA, Mexico – Carlos Rosales Mendoza, who founded the Familia Michoacana drug cartel and was a close associate of former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was killed in western Mexico, officials said.

Rosales Mendoza’s body was found on Monday and he appears to have been tortured, prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan said.

The powerful drug trafficker’s body was discovered along with those of three other men, the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office said.

Mexican officials considered Rosales Mendoza a dangerous drug trafficker who had the ability to organize drug gangs and enjoyed the Gulf cartel’s support.

The bodies of Rosales Mendoza and the other three men were found on the Siglo XXI highway, which links Morelia, the capital of Michoacan, and the Pacific coast.

The bodies, which had gunshot wounds and showed signs of torture, were dumped in the parking lot of the toll plaza in Santa Casilda, a town outside the city of Gabriel Zamora.

Rosales Mendoza was arrested in October 2004 at his residence south of Morelia after the government said he organized an attack by more than 40 gunmen on Jan. 5 of that year on the prison in the city of Apatzingan, where 25 inmates, including five extremely dangerous hitmen, escaped.

The drug trafficker left prison in May 2014 and was arrested on gun charges in August, but he managed to post bail.

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China Confirms Expulsion of French Reporter for Terrorism Article

 

BEIJING – The Chinese government confirmed on Saturday that it will not renew the press credentials of French journalist Ursula Gauthier of L’Obs magazine because of an article she wrote about terrorism and Beijing’s response to the jihadist attacks in Paris, which consequently obliges the reporter to leave the country before Dec. 31.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang accused Gauthier in a statement of “defending terrorist acts” and of provoking “rage” among the Chinese people with an article published by the French magazine last Nov. 18.

In that story, the correspondent addressed the situation in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, the scene of frequent strife between the ethnic Han Chinese majority and the Muslim Uighur minority, after China declared itself a victim of terrorism following the Paris attacks.

The article sparked a strong rejection by the Chinese government, which summoned the journalist to the Foreign Ministry and canceled the renewal of her press credentials in hopes that she would retract what she reported.

“Since she never seriously apologized to the Chinese people for her erroneous reporting about terrorist acts, it is not right that she should remain in China,” Lu said with reference to Gauthier.

Gauthier’s article talked about the Xinjiang region, which has suffered several attacks in recent years that Chinese authorities associate with jihadist groups, though Uighur groups in exile consider them a reaction to the repression their community has suffered at the hands of the Communist regime.

In the week after the Paris attacks last Nov. 13, the Chinese government asked the international community to consider it another terrorist victim because of the Uighurs, and reported how they attacked a mine in Xinjiang two months earlier on Sept. 18 that had been kept secret until then.

The French correspondent had already been criticized several weeks ago in defamatory articles that appeared in official Chinese dailies and was also targeted with threats in the online editions of those publications.