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Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout
    #13440919 - 11/05/10 09:08 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout
November 5, 2010 - indiepropub.com

Antonio “Tony Tormenta” Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen was killed today. The drug leader is one of two leaders in the Gulf cartel. He is said to have begun his career in the late 1980s and responsible for multi-ton shipments of marijuana and cocaine into the United States. He was one of eleven “Most Wanted” fugitives by the DEA and had a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.

This morning, near Brownsville, Texas, in the city of Matamoros in Mexico, a shootout began. The gunfire caused three bridges between the two cities to be closed down.

Fire exchange is reported to have involved the Gulf Cartel, the Zetas and Mexican federal police and military. The gunfire was reported in a number of incidents beginning early this morning.

By noon, 30 people had been killed. After that, an additional 17 people had been killed. Besides the drug lord, Tony Tormenta, a reporter was also killed in the gunfire.

Carlos Alberto Guajardo, 37, worked for the newspaper El Expreso, was shot by soldiers that were chasing the drug traffickers. Guarjardo was covering a string of shootouts in the area.

Sources report today was his day off, but was called in to “gather information about an ongoing shootout”. Guajardo is said to have been a “lifetime crime reporter”. Without confirmation, sources state he was killed by “Mexican military when he got too close to the shootout”.

Tony Tormenta’s Gulf Cartel will most likely now be led by his partner, Jorge “El Coss” Eduardo Costilla Sanchez. Jorge and Tony recently made news when a billboard in Brownsville was put up with both their pictures and a $5 million reward for each of them.

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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: veggie]
    #13441136 - 11/05/10 09:59 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

As the Drug Lord will not be replaced by a hungry up-and-coming wolf, we can all rest easy that the violence in Mexico is over.

*pops champagne*


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #13441846 - 11/06/10 01:14 AM (13 years, 4 months ago)

such a dull life

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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: Konyap]
    #13442102 - 11/06/10 03:10 AM (13 years, 4 months ago)

I wonder if Tony could start all over again, in a different life, if he would have decided to work with children instead


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: ManianFH]
    #13442310 - 11/06/10 06:41 AM (13 years, 4 months ago)

That dude got shot... heh.. and then he died


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: Toe_Jam]
    #13443350 - 11/06/10 12:41 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

My guess is they executed him so it wouldn't be front page that they shot the reporter :facepalm:


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: anarchOi]
    #13443549 - 11/06/10 01:43 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

how much cash you think this dude had, as soon as i made a million i would get out of the game and dissapear deep down mexico or somthing


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: auronlives69]
    #13443666 - 11/06/10 02:13 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

"a million" ain't shit.  At least not here in the U.S.

Living with a million dollars in Mexico would be absolutely fucking fantastic though.  You could easily eat well in Mexico with like $200 a month (I mean eat WELL).

Utilities and rent are also really cheap, I mean depending on location, but pretty much any comparable location in the U.S. will cost a shitton more.

Mexico is not a very friendly place to be a person with money though atm.  Regular U.S. folk get kidnapped all the time, people whose families barely have a few hundred thousand dollars, let alone a million or millions.


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: auronlives69]
    #13443676 - 11/06/10 02:17 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_mexico_drugs_cardenas;_ylt=Ar8barh.JjH.JzbelPYBdE.s0NUE

Mexico kills top drug lord at U.S. border

By Robin Emmott Robin Emmott – Sat Nov 6, 12:50 am ET
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican marines killed drug baron Ezequiel "Tony Tormenta" Cardenas in a ferocious gunfight at the U.S. border on Friday, a fleeting victory for President Felipe Calderon that is unlikely to quell raging violence.

Around 150 marines backed by helicopters and soldiers fought running battles with members of the powerful Gulf cartel for hours in Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, terrifying residents and briefly shutting border bridges.

Dodging grenades and coming under heavy fire from gunmen hidden in houses and shooting from trucks, the marines moved in on Cardenas, one of Mexico's most-wanted traffickers, and killed him on Friday afternoon, the navy said.

"He died in a shootout with us," a navy spokesman said.

Three marines and four gunmen were killed, the navy said. A reporter was killed after being caught in crossfire, local media reported.

Cardenas, 48, was the brother of former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas, who was extradited to Texas in 2007. He had a $5 million bounty on his head in the United States and ran the powerful gang with his partner, Jorge Eduardo Costilla, known as El Coss, who is still at large.

Praised in drug ballads, Cardenas won his nickname of "Tony Tormenta" (Tony Storm) for beheading and torturing rivals.

RISK OF MORE VIOLENCE

The Gulf cartel, which dominates trafficking from northeastern Mexico into Central America and has cells across the United States, is pitted against its former armed wing, the Zetas, in an unrelenting turf war.

That violence has spread into Mexico's richest city of Monterrey near the Texas border, in a escalation of the drug war that worries foreign investors with factories in the area.

More than 31,000 people have been killed across Mexico since December 2006, when Calderon took office and launched his army-led crackdown. The government is under increasing pressure to contain the burgeoning death toll across the country.

Drug gangs blocked roads and set fire to gas stations in the colonial city of Morelia in western Mexico on Friday evening after soldiers captured a local drug gang leader, state news agency Notimex said.

Calderon's national security chief Alejandro Poire lauded Cardenas' killing as a major success in weakening the cartels that generate up to $40 billion a year in narcotics sales in the United States.

"Today, we are taking a significant step in dismantling the criminal gangs that do so much damage to our country's population," Poire told reporters.

But drug trade specialists warned the violence will continue as long as Mexico fails to reform the corrupt judicial, police and prison services that help feed the cycle of killings.

"This is unfortunately going to fuel the spiraling violence because rivals will try to take advantage of the Gulf cartel's weakened state," said Pedro de la Cruz, a security analyst at Mexico's National Autonomous University.

Calderon has pledged reform but has failed to get initiatives through a divided Congress, focusing mainly on army-led operations that have led to the capture or killing of several top drug lords since late last year.

But the Zetas, blamed for some of the worst atrocities in the drug war including the murders of 72 migrants in August, appear to be relatively unscathed by the crackdown and their top operators are still at large.

(Additional reporting by Armando Tovar in Mexico City; Editing by Eric Walsh and John O'Callaghan)


------This expanded version of the above article Veggie posted above claims the cartels generate approximately $40 billion in narcotics sale.

Does anyone have a link to up-to-the-date information on where these numbers come from?
Is the only source the U.S. Departen of Juistos?


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: Humility]
    #13443683 - 11/06/10 02:18 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

Good ridance. Weed is fine, shrooms are fine, the rest kills people. He got what he deserved.

If the cops visits his house and finds a huge bundle or cash, It's mine...I dropped it on the street....


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: Patlal]
    #13443691 - 11/06/10 02:21 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

Acid kills people?  What about the 2c compounds?  MDMA kills people?

You speak ignorantly.  If you only support "your" substances, you're as bad as the prohibitionists that drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes but shout "Say no to drugs"


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: Patlal]
    #13443722 - 11/06/10 02:31 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

Patlal said:
Good ridance. Weed is fine, shrooms are fine, the rest kills people. He got what he deserved.



So it's okay for people to get tortured, murdered and beheaded in order for you to get your weed, but thats a no-no if it's coke.
Your logic escapes me.

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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: veggie]
    #13444073 - 11/06/10 03:50 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

But..his drugs are better than your drugs! :rolleyes:


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Re: Gulf Cartel Leader, Tony Tormenta and 45 More Dead in Shootout [Re: auronlives69]
    #13444571 - 11/06/10 05:28 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

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auronlives69 said:
how much cash you think this dude had, as soon as i made a million i would get out of the game and dissapear deep down mexico or somthing




Once your that far in the drug game the only way out is to be carried out by six people


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