The former mayor of Iguala, Joseph Louis Abarca Surprisingly, he was declared innocent of the disappearance of the young people from Ayotzinapa, although he will remain in jail because he has three other processes against him for organized crime, due to his relationship with the Guerreros Unidos cartel.
It is an incomprehensible judicial decision. There are all kinds of testimonies of the relationship between Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pinedawith United Warriors and of the participation of both in the kidnapping and disappearance of the young people. But it seems that we are facing a wave that forgets the real culprits, most of the assassins are already free, to look for political culprits.
Let’s do a little memory to understand this decision that has been maturing for years, because today it seemed that several of the main political actors have amnesia regarding what really happened in Iguala on September 26, 2014. The main protagonists of that tragedy were the then municipal president Jose Luis Abarca and his wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda; the Guerreros Unidos and Los Rojos criminal groups; the relations of these groups with the government of Angel Aguirre Rivero; the participation of PRD and Morena leaders in the region, and behind all of them the production of marijuana and opium gum in the area.
Let’s start with the Abarca husbands. 30 years ago Joseph Louis Abarca he traveled the country selling gold and silver earrings, necklaces and bracelets. Also sold hats that he brought with his grandfather Isidoro from Toluca to Iguala. But about 15 years ago Abarca and his family suddenly became millionaires. After selling hats and jewelry house to house for years, Abarca one day announced that he would invest 300 million pesos in the construction of a commercial plaza in Iguala, Plaza Tamarindos. It was 2008 and by that date he already had six commercial premises, which in 2015 had become 19 in Guerrero and another six in Morelos. He had become the largest gold merchant in Iguala.
Abarca met his future wife, María de los Angeles Pineda, in his grandfather’s store, where he also sold wedding dresses. María de los Angeles and her mother, Leonor, came to the store to sell dresses they made themselves. But in a few years, Maria de los Angeles also became a powerful and wealthy woman. And like José Luis, with political ambitions.
Both flirted at some time with the PRI but found shelter in the PRD. Abarca became a PRD candidate when he was not yet a member of that party and was imposed on other groups by an agreement in which Angel Aguirre’s then secretary of health participated, former senator Lázaro Mazón, who became the main operator of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Guerrero, and the leadership of the party then headed by Jesús Zambrano.
Lázaro Mazón, one day took an external applicant, Joseph Louis Abarca, before the PRD leadership, and threatened to leave the party if they did not accept his protégé as a candidate in Iguala. Mazón’s relationship with the Abarcas was old. When they were both young, Abarca’s aunt supplied Lázaro with gold pieces so that he could sell them and that was how Mazón was able to finance his medical career. The relationship with Aguirre was born in 2011, when the then candidate for the campaign in Iguala and Abarca asked the campaign coordinator, his compadre Mazón, to allow him to organize an event for him in the jewelry center. On January 9, 2011, Aguirre arrived. It was Abarca who led the event, and pledged his and other jewelers’ support for the candidate. From that day on, Abarca and María de los Angeles became fully involved in the campaign, not only with moral support but also contributing millions of pesos.
By that time, María de los Angeles was already one of the main leaders of the Guerreros Unidos criminal organization in Iguala, and during the following years she became the true boss of the cartel in the region, beyond her own husband. Her decisions passed over José Luis and everyone knew it. She was the one in control of the police and city hall employees. In Iguala, María de los Angeles Pineda was called the warrior…because of her harshness with the employees and because of her relationship with the cartel headed by her brothers.
La Guerrera, a few days before the Iguala tragedy, had practically reached its goal. On September 7, she had been appointed state councilor of the PRD, sheltered by the New Left, by Governor Aguirre, even by Mazón who was already in Morena and there was no doubt that she would be the candidate for mayor of Iguala to replace her husband.
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At the same time that the Abarcas and the Pinedas advanced in their political careers and joined the upper echelons of Guerrero politics, the Guerreros Unidos criminal group became the owner of Iguala, and from there they ended up controlling 14 municipalities in the north. of the state and Tierra Caliente, in addition to different regions of Morelos and the state of Mexico. But all this was part of a long family history that had been born years ago, when María de los Angeles, her brothers and her parents were part of the Beltrán Leyva cartel. Tomorrow we will tell you.
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