Yeah, another update. The whole thing took a while to conceive, due to the fact I've been busy with a lot of crap I have to deal with, final semester of my college career and stuff and some rather intense stuff that happens right now with my life.
(which includes balancing graduation duties, school forcing community service upon me, trying to learn how to play the bass, job hunting, and possibly getting a girlfriend )
Anyway, enjoy it while it lasts:
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April-May 1989
“El Padrino” operated under the wing of the Mexican intelligence agencies and the rampant corruption of the late 1970 and early 1980’s decade. This fact was backed up by the many dossiers in power of the National Intelligence Agency that showed every moved that this man did, yet they did nothing to apprehend him over these years. However, with the fallout between the PRI-backed Mexican Government and the many organizations under the command of this illustrious character, the only question was “When will they capture him?”
A plan had been established since last year by De La Madrid, however, it would be Cárdenas the one who would reap the benefits of the scheme. In April 8, 1989, the notorious master of the Guadalajara Cartel was detained. However, the pieces were already set in such a way that his capture had no relevance at all for the drug business in Mexico.
Drug Wars in Mexico, part 2. (July 2002) Colegio de la Frontera Norte.[1]
Six policemen were murdered in Culiacán, Sinaloa, in an alleged act of reprisal over the capture of El Padrino.
Note on El Debate; Culiacán, Sinaloa. (April 12, 1989)
The problem with Telmex was, that as a government company, most transactions needed approval by the Hacienda secretariat. And due to this, most problems were assigned to bureaucrats who didn’t know who to send the constant influx of problems that afflicted the company.
A plan was pitched forward by Hacienda to divide the company into several parts, which would be sold independently. To ensure equal pricing and prevent irregularities, the Comisión Federal de Telecomunicaciones was created to address any and all kinds of complaints in regards of telephone services. All of these phone companies that were created in place of TELMEX were to comply with the laws established by the COFETEL to ensure equal prices and making sure the same standards are used all over the country.
“History of Telecomunications in Mexico”. Extracted from COFETEL’s website, September 3, 2008
Suddenly, I remember watching those guys running towards some other guy in the street. They tackled him, and started to beat the shit out of him with the pistol handles, until he ended up as a bloody pulp. Then, they opened fire against him. He received six shots in the chest. They were claiming that that’s what happens when you don’t pay your “taxes”. I highly doubt that poor guy even knew about what the heck came onto him, as he was crying for help, and was telling them that he knew ni madres about what the fuck they were talking about. Fuck them, I’m out of here. I can’t do business with those pendejos running around with their guns, scaring my clients.
A. Sánchez, store owner in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, describing an execution. He left the country a few days after the incident. [2]
“The first electoral race began in Baja California, with only two strong candidates: Ernesto Ruffo Appel for PAN, and Margarita Ortega Villa for PRI as the two strongest candidates.”
Ernesto Ruffo Appel began his campaign in Ensenada, his home city, in which, in front of a large crowd, he addressed them on bringing jobs to Baja California, and improving the basic services of the population. Margarita Ortega pledges to increase jobs and improve the state’s road infrastructure.
From semanario Zeta, April 14 to 20. [3]
Con Acciones como estas, ¡el gobierno invierte en tu future!
With Actions like these, The government Invests in your Future!
Ads running on Imevisión Canal 7, talking about the benefits of free education and
With Telmex being sold, the government was in a strange conundrum regarding the handling of the state’s television company. On one hand, selling it would bring more funding onto the government, but without it, it would lack any kind of leverage it would have against Televisa group or MVS, the two private television networks in Mexico. The solution came by when trying to figure out the models used by the BBC in the United Kingdom and KPBS in the United States. These networks were seen as a standard to strive for in regards of content for all ages.
At the end of the day the “rescuers” of the state network were CONACYT, SITATYR as a whole, and finally IMER [4], who was willing to give up some of its infrastructure and experience onto upgrading the network’s capabilities. All of this, with the President apparently giving them a carte blanche to do the acquisition. This came at a cost, since the latter had to shelve its shortwave radio broadcast service.
GARZA GARZA, C. “Imevisión: A Mexican BBC?” Article submitted at ITESM Monterrey Campus newspaper on October 1990.
“Grupo Cablevisión requests a piece of Telmex”
“Proposal blocked by Hacienda as it lacked the required assets to acquire Mexico’s central node and put it back on operation.”
Headline from Reforma’s economy section. May 15, 1989.
“More buyers attracted to the acquisition of parts of Telmex”
“Proposals by Carlos Slim Helú[5] and Joaquín Vargas Gómez[6] are being reviewed, while Emilio Azcárraga and Alejandro Burillo’s proposal [7] aims for a second round at trying to acquire the Central Mexico telephonic zone.”
Note on Reforma's economy section, May 30, 1989
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Footnotes:
[1] “Part 2” refers to the fact there was a previous “Drug War” during the 1960’s, though that was of a lower intensity, and was focused mostly on Sinaloa and Durango.
[2] Well, considering most of the drug trafficking groups were more unified back in 1990, we’re in for something rather violent on the following years.
[3] Not related at all with the notorious drug cartel. It's a
weekly newspaper released in my home town.
[4] CONACYT (Comisión Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología / National Science and Technology Foundation); SITATYR (Sindicato de Trabajadores y Actores de Televisión y Radio / TV and Radio Actors And Workers Guild); IMER (Instituto Mexicano de la Radio / Mexican Radio Institute). On the Shortwave, IMER had a station called Radio México Internacional (callsign: XERMX-OC), but by then most of its equipment was broken due to governmental negligence, so keeping it was a waste of resources that could be used for something else.
[5] You already know him.
[6] Founder of MVS Comunicaciones, one of Mexico’s first national radio broadcasters.
[7] Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and Alejandro Burillo founded Cablevisión. They are aiming to establish an early double-play monopoly here.