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In the last ten days, the streets of the Northern industrial city Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, have been paralyzed seven times by groups of young men and women carrying baseball bats, molotov cocktails, sticks, bricks, and CHILDREN peacefully protesting the continued presence of the Mexican military deployed to the region to combat the influence of cartels.
Mexican newspapers are reporting several hundred protesters carried signs in the streets of Mexico. In Monterrey, in front of the town hall, protesters signs read in Spanish "Army Get Out! In a growing challenge to the military across Mexico, groups of taxi drivers, shop keepers and Mothers also blocked bridges that connect the border cities of Juarez, Tijuana and Reynosa with U.S. Cities, stopping vehicles and foot passengers.
The protesters are demanding the army leave in another challenge for the Mexican government as it struggles to quell escalating drug violence since the Calderon administration.
Who are these people? Do they look like concerned citizens in fear of their lives, terrified of the Mexian Army? What do they want? Good questions. In Monterrey, the protestors are being bussed in from low income, gang populated colonies and being paid with backpacks with school supplies, small grocery items and $200 pesos or $15.00 U.S. dollars by the regions drug traffickers, the Zetas.
Soldiers, after recieving an anonymous tip, intercepted a white GMC Acadia, the driver, Juan Antonio Beltrán Cruz, 20, confessed to being part of a five man sub-cell led by the Zetas. Beltran Cruz confessed to being one of the leading figures in the protests.
In Beltran Cruz's truck, soldiers recuperated 9 shirts, 3 pairs of pants, and 12 hats with the Mexican Drug Agency logo A.F.I, 71 blue, pink, and black packpacks filled with basic school supplies, 3 AR-15 assault rifles, 5 bullet proof vest, 1000 plus rounds of live ammunition, one 9mm submachine gun with 37 live magazines, and one .30 semi-automatic carbine rifle.
Juan Antonio Beltran Cruz was recently charged with possession of weapons of exclusive military use, live military exclusive ammunition, and exclusive government agency logo materials and was transfered under a multi-vehicled state, federal and military security convoy to the Nuevo Leon state prison, Topo Chico, where he will await sentencing.
