[narconews] Conroy: Four Years Investigating the “House of Death”
 
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:57:09 -0500 (CDT)



April 16, 2008
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Dear Colleague,

This week marks four years since Bill Conroy has been investigating
and reporting on the massive cover-up in the "House of Death Case." In
Juarez, Mexico multiple murders were committed by an informant run by
the US Attorney's office. More than 70 investigative reports later,
Conroy publishes a comprehensive account of where the story stands today:

"To receive an invitation to the House of Death is not a hard thing.
You just have to make a mistake, to break one of the rules of the
narco-trafficking business. In one case, a mother and her
five-year-old daughter were murdered because the mother asked the
wrong narco-trafficker for some extra money after her husband was
arrested while smuggling drugs across the border. That
narco-trafficker, in turn, was murdered because his impetuous actions
angered his boss. In another case, two men reported to the Mexican
federal police (the AFI) that they had found a warehouse with a large
stash of drugs. The federal police, in turn, told the narco-trafficker
who owned the drugs that the two men had ratted on him. The men were
subsequently brought to the House of Death, beaten with a hammer and a
pistol (because a gunshot would make too much noise) and finally
stomped to death by the assassins (local Mexican cops) employed by the
narco-trafficker.

"Between August 2003 and mid-January 2004 up to a dozen people were
tortured and slain at the House of Death in Juarez by Mexican state
police who were on Santillan's payroll  the very same police who are
supposed to arrest narco-traffickers. But these cops don't use their
police vehicles to fight crime; rather, their squad cars are put to
use hauling loads of dope and dead bodies for Santillan and his
employer, the VCF.

"To date, despite all the facts now publicly known about the House of
Death, the Mexican government has not made an official statement on
ICE's role in the murders  nor has it called for an investigation by
U.S. authorities."

Read the entirety of the special "House of Death" report online at
Narco News:

http://www.narconews.com

>From somewhere in a country called Amirica,

David B. Briones
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