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Who owns "The Beast" ? This is BIG.
Transporte MX ^ | 7/23/2014 | NA

Posted on 07/31/2014 7:07:06 AM PDT by mgist

¿ Quiénes son los dueños de la “bestia” ? 23 julio, 2014 en Ferroviario, Pasajeros, Últimas noticias Deja un comentario

Grandes compañías de Estados Unidos, magnates mexicanos, congresistas y ex funcionarios de Washington, tienen intereses en las empresas que operan los ferrocarriles de carga mexicanos conocidos genéricamente como La Bestia, según archivos públicos consultados por Univisión.

Las dos grandes empresas que manejan el servicio en México niegan que sus trenes sean parte de La Bestia, o consideran que las denuncias de lo que ocurre a bordo de sus vagones es un asunto por el que debe responder el gobierno.

Pero testigos y expertos sostienen que empleados de estas operadoras son parte de la cadena de abusos de los que son víctimas los indocumentados y que la responsabilidad debe ser compartida. Uno de los indocumentados explicó a Univisión que en su travesía en La Bestia, “los mismos trabajadores del tren querían dinero. Que si no les dábamos dinero nos podían bajar”. Otro compañero asegura que entregaron lo único que tenían, cinco pesos mexicanos. “¿Medio dólar más o menos?”, preguntó el reportero;”ni medio dólar, cuarto de dólar”, contestó el migrante.

Los indocumentados utilizan principalmente los ferrocarriles de Kansas City Southern y de Ferromex a partir del centro de México, en una ruta imprevista que comienza al sur en trenes de una empresa más modesta, la Compañía de Ferrocarriles Chiapas Mayab. Kansas City Southern

La Kansas City Southern México (KCSM) es la subsidiaria de Kansas City Southern (KCS), una empresa privada que cotiza en el mercado bursátil de Nasdaq, en Estados Unidos, y opera ferrovías del centro y sur de este país, así como a lo largo del Canal de Panamá con trenes de pasajeros y carga que unen los dos océanos. En México cubre rutas entre el norte y el centro del país, y toca los puertos de Lázaro Cárdenas, Tampico y Veracruz. Según documentos de Nasdaq, el mayor accionista de la empresa ferrocarrilera es T. Rowe Price Associates, un gigantesco fondo de inversión con intereses en Bank of America y General Electric.

Entre los miembros de la junta directiva de Kansas City Southern, con base en Kansas City, Missouri, se encuentran el ex secretario de Transporte de Estados Unidos Rodney E. Slater y el ex embajador de Estados Unidos en México, Antonio Garza.

Slater, quien ocupó el cargo federal durante el gobierno de Bill Clinton, entre 1997 y 2001, es socio de la firma de cabildeo Patton Boggs LLP en Washington.

Garza fue embajador en México de 2002 a 2009. Es hijo de inmigrantes mexicanos, estuvo casado con la heredera del imperio cervecero Corona, y hoy es parte de White & Case, una de las firmas de abogados más grandes de Estados Unidos, con oficinas en México. Según documentos revisados por Univisión, los estatutos corporativos de KCS obligan a los miembros de la junta directiva de la compañía a tener acciones por no ser empleados de la empresa.

De acuerdo con la organización Maplight, en el último registro de la compañía, que data del 2012, aparecen como accionistas minoritarios de KCS el congresista demócrata Jack Reed y el republicano Kenny Marchant, quien se ha opuesto al paquete de emergencia presentado por el presidente Obama al congreso para los niños no acompañados. Univisión Investiga consultó con la subsidiaria de la empresa en México qué tipo de medidas ha tomado la empresa con sus empleados en relación con las denuncias de abusos con los inmigrantes. Doniele Carlson, portavoz de la firma, respondió que KCSM tiene problemas “mínimos” con los inmigrantes en sus trenes.

“Tenemos una seguridad bien entrenada y coordinada que ha prevenido exitosamente esta clase de cosas”, explicó Carlson. “KCSM no ha tenido que lidiar con temas de mala conducta de empleados como otros ferrocarriles mexicanos,” agregó.

Sin embargo, en marzo de este año el gobernador del estado de Veracruz, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, presentó una denuncia ante la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR) contra las empresas Kansas City Southern de México y Ferrosur, por su “presunta responsabilidad por acción u omisión en ilícitos y violaciones a los derechos humanos contra migrantes”, según un comunicado oficial de la gobernación.

Una serie de reportajes preparados por el corresponsal de Univisión Pedro Ultreras sobre el drama de los indocumentados en La Bestia, muestra que el problema en los trenes de KCSM no es insignificante. “Me tocó ver personalmente a grupos pequeños de cinco, diez, cuatro o hasta veinte migrantes centroamericanos en el norte de México en los trenes de carga de la compañía Kansas Southern”, explicó Ultreras. Según el reportero, los migrantes usan los trenes de KCSM en las rutas hacia San Luis Potosí y Saltillo Coahuila, y de ahí hasta Piedras Negras o Monterrey.

El sacerdote Alejandro Solalinde, director del albergue Hermanos del Camino de Ixtepec, es quizás la persona que más conoce las penurias de los migrantes. Durante años ha dado refugio a cientos de ellos que van camino hacia Estados Unidos en el lomo de La Bestia. “Es un hecho que los maquinistas han estado vinculados con actos delictivos contra la población migrante”, señaló Solalinde. “Ellos han hecho parte de secuestros y de todo eso. Pero la responsabilidad no es sólo de ellos, ellos forman parte de una mafia donde están los carteles, operarios, funcionarios públicos y hasta corporaciones policiacas’.

Ferromex y Ferrosur Los trenes del consorcio Ferrocarriles Mexicanos (Ferromex) surcan también el mapa del país, llevando en sus más de 14,000 vagones automóviles, productos agrícolas y frecuentemente migrantes. En 2011 Infraestructura y Transportes Mexico (ITM), la empresa que controla Ferromex, adquirió a Ferrosur S.A. de C.V.

En el consorcio participan capitales del empresario Germán Larrea, el presidente de Grupo México, conocido como El Rey del Cobre por ser el dueño de la tercera empresa productora de este metal en el mundo. Carlos Slim, a través del grupo financiero Inbursa, también tiene influencia en Ferromex.

Un portavoz de Ferromex consultado sobre la posición de la empresa ante la crisis de los migrantes y las quejas de los abusos de algunos de sus empleados, respondió: “Todos estos temas son de competencia del Instituto Nacional de Migración que es el encargado de la política migratoria del país. La compañía no tiene opinión al respecto”. Varios expertos consultados por Univisión coinciden que la responsabilidad es compartida. “Yo creo que estas compañías y sus dueños, que en algunos casos multibillionarios como Carlos Slim, tienen una responsabilidad para que los operarios de los trenes y sus acompañantes no sean parte de la mafia que pone en riesgo a eso migrantes”, afirma la periodista Sonia Nazario, quien ha escrito extensamente sobre el tema y recibió un premio Pulitzer por “La Travesía de Enrique”, que relata la historia de un niño hondureño sobre el lomo de La Bestia.

Uno de los tramos más febriles de La Bestia está al sur de México. Su manejo fue adjudicado a la empresa Ferrocarriles de Chiapas Mayab. La compañía no ha empezado a operar el tren, según le dijo a Univisión un vocero de la misma.

La estructura de la propiedad de esta empresa es tema de un litigio en una corte federal de Miami. Dos socias del gerente general y accionista de la empresa Pedro Topete Vargas lo demandaron alegando que utilizó un crédito obtenido por ellas para comprar la concesión del tren sin su autorización. La empresa de ingeniería ICA también fue demandada. Los demandados alegan que la querella está basada en hechos falsos.

Ninguna de las partes respondió llamadas y correos electrónicos de Univisión Investiga. Fuente ©Univision.com


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; childillegals; deathtrain; illegalsinvasion; immigration; thebeast; trainofdeath
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To: FourtySeven

The United States of Bannanas.

It’s unreal how far we’ve slidden.

That’s what happens when you let monkeys run the plantation...: )


21 posted on 07/31/2014 7:29:41 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: NorthMountain

Exactly, I think it is important to add that the corporations running these trains are well aware of the mafia style shakedowns, rape, and murders at the hands of the train operators.

They are being sued. Most Latin Americans know the route from Central America is for drug trafficking purposes.

Remember that the US illicit drug market is probably over $150 BILLION USD by now, if not more.

2010 it was reported to be at least 109 BILLION US $
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-10/more-pot-less-cocaine-sizing-up-americas-illicit-drug-market

That was before all the heroin getting in.


22 posted on 07/31/2014 7:29:42 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: FourtySeven
"It's unreal how far we've slidden."

Mind your grammar....it should be "It's unreal how far we've slud."

Leni

23 posted on 07/31/2014 7:30:28 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Combined US Senate & House has completely lost its voice, its compass, its patriotism & its soul!)
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To: mgist

We all know that Mexico has tougher southern border security than the US, so it begs the question ‘is Mexico escorting the Central & South American aliens to the US border instead of deporting them?’.


24 posted on 07/31/2014 7:31:36 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Paine in the Neck
"Tort lawyers, get busy. There’s some seriously DEEP pockets there."

Thats what I'm talking about. Time to lift the lid off of our Narco State government and crony capitalists extolling the virtues of socialism.

25 posted on 07/31/2014 7:31:59 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: MinuteGal
"It's unreal how far we've slud."

So says Dizzy Dean.

26 posted on 07/31/2014 7:32:50 AM PDT by eddie willers
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To: TexasCajun

Of course they are. Mexico has the drug cartels rope around the nations neck, and is corrupt to the core. That will happen here if these crooks have their way.


27 posted on 07/31/2014 7:34:21 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: Uncle Chip

If one doesn’t SEE something, one doesn’t know what’s going on, so why should one even look? Truth is, they really don’t care. And when the “kids” make it to the US, they don’t care, either, because they will put them in middle and lower-class areas, not where “they” live. I would enjoy seeing those kids in Georgetown and Cleveland Park, DC, and sent to Sidwell Friends.


28 posted on 07/31/2014 7:36:39 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: mgist

Not to forget that today’s Mexican “government” is the direct descendant of a violent, corrupt, atheist, extremely oppressive communist regime installed by revolution ending in the 1920s. It’s not just the drug cartels ruining the country; the official government is not much (if any) better.


29 posted on 07/31/2014 7:39:12 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: mgist
Remember that the US illicit drug market is probably over $150 BILLION USD by now, if not more.

And our government is up to it's neck it in. The war on drugs is a joke and a scam and NO ONE with any authority is interested in securing the border.

30 posted on 07/31/2014 7:39:38 AM PDT by Envisioning (It's the Jihad, stupid......)
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To: EDINVA

They know exactly what is going on. They participated in it.


Our government is treasonous and the criminal underworld is in charge .

They know very well a central american nation such as Honduras, where these “minors” are coming from have the highest murder per capita rates in the world. They are a narco nation, with known Islamic Radical terrorists and Mexican cartel ties. Obama has repeatedly placed our nation at risk of terrorists he enables.

Not only does the Administration know this, they helped create the Honduran Narco Nation.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2009
George Soros and the Illegal Drug Trade Behind Obama’s Honduras Policy?
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/10/george-soros-and-illegal-drug-trade.html

The administration blatantly used the denial of visas to preasure the return of the narco president Zelaya.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjAWCVUKbY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WAw9UE0rfSE

US stops issuing visas in Honduras
Move puts pressure on interim leaders to accept reinstatement of ousted president. Aug 2009
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2009/08/200982601353122962.html

2010 WikiLeaks, Obama supported a Narco Candidate
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703395204576023843828913256?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052748703395204576023843828913256.html&fpid=2,7,121,122,201,401,641,1009

White Elite Foreigners supporting narco leaders in Honduras.
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/so_am_nationalism/news.php?q=1249747027

2011 Al-Qaeda reported in Honduras
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2145/al-qaeda-honduras

State Department Reports Hezbollah Increasing Drug and Terrorism in South America 2013
http://interamericansecuritywatch.com/exporting-terror-in-americas-backyard/

US. Warns Honduras of Al-Qaeda Infiltration
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/us.-government-warns-honduras-of-possible-al-qaeda-infiltration/7906/

Obama shut down the NDIC in 2012, the intelligence agency dedicated to tracking terrorism funded by drug trafficking.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/tag/national-drug-intelligence-center/
The last report from had alarming warnings about the border, “tantamount to living in a war zone”.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/14/doj-shuts-down-national-drug-intelligence-center-no-2012-reports-released-video/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

2014: Honduras a Narco Nation
http://www.elheraldo.hn/pais/715861-214/honduras-ha-sido-invadido-por-el-narcotráfico

The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl

2014: Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle drugs
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/

Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html

Photos Show Drugs Pouring Over Southern Arizona Border
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/07/08/exclusive-photos-show-drugs-pouring-over-southern-arizona-border-n1859982

The Obama Administration’s Human Trafficking
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-obama-administrations-human-trafficking/

Texas Border Patrol agent told TheBlaze there is “no doubt” that among the hordes of Central Americans are also crossers from Pakistan and Afghanistan, raising significant national security concerns.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/14/urdu-dictionary-found-on-texas-ranch-near-border-we-just-dont-know-whos-here-already/

Wall Street Banks are illegally Laundering Drug Money with Impunity.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/money-laundering-and-the-drug-trade-the-role-of-the-banks/5334205

House Votes to Allow Marijuana Related Banking 7/16/2014
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/house-supports-easier-marijuana-related-banking-24588337

Wall Street has given more to Obama’s Political Campaign than Any Other Politician in History.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&=&v=zt3vwWfP-EA


31 posted on 07/31/2014 7:42:30 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: garyb

Send this to Rush, Levin, Hannity, O’Reilly, Megyn, etc.


32 posted on 07/31/2014 7:42:41 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Envisioning

BINGO!


33 posted on 07/31/2014 7:44:07 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: mgist

Obama Is Filling DHS with Amnesty Revolutionaries Backed by Soros
December 6, 2013
http://www.independentsentinel.com/obama-is-filling-dhs-with-amnesty-revolutionaries-backed-by-soros/
DHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYvIiS9Mj_Q

CONFIRMED: The DEA Struck A Deal With SINALOA Mexico’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel (They claimed feds agreed they could traffic into Chicago) JAN. 13, 2014
more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-government-and-the-sinaloa-cartel-2014-1#ixzz30wXEcHSl

U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners
Written by Alex Newman Jan. 2014
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/item/17396-u-s-government-and-top-mexican-drug-cartel-exposed-as-partners

Carlos Slim, Mexican billionaire, NY Times owner, Univision US Latin Television owner, and Obama supporter “making millions from American government program that gives poor free cell phones”
By October 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215966/Mexican-billionaire-making-millions-American-government-program-gives-poor-free-cell-phones.html

Rumors of Slim and drugs are rampant in Mexico, few dare to say this.
http://www.madcowprod.com/02032009.html

“Slim and his family are the largest shareholders, after members of the company’s founding family, in what’s arguably the most influential news organization in the United States.” Slims reputation for corruption is also well known in Mexico, and even the US media wonders why Slim has never been questioned for his profits from government concession monopolies that hurt mostly the poor.
http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/03/12/for_155m_did_carlos_slim_buy_silence_from_the_times_100195.html

Every legitimate business in Mexico has been a victim of criminal extortion, many have been driven out of the country, and despite the fact the it is estimated that at least 45,000 Mexicans have died from the drug cartels, Carlos Slim, advocates “drug legalization”. Despite recessions Slim’s wealth increases. Neither major trafficking, or selective success, happens in Mexico without corruption.

Few media had the courage to question dubious alliances of US media purchased by questionable clients.
http://seattletimes.com/html/editorialsopinion/2008673366_editb27slim.html

2014 The NY Times officially endorses marijuana legalization
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html?_r=0

The link between drugs and crime, including violent crime, would be hard to overstate in Chicago. Eighty-six percent of adult males arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for drug use. Chicago, with a population of 2.7 million, had 506 murders in 2012, the highest per capita among the four most populous U.S. cities.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-17/heroin-pushed-on-chicago-by-cartel-fueling-gang-murders.html

The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates (cooking the books)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2014/Chicago-crime-rates/

Dirty doctors, Russian mafia fueling legal Rx drug and heroin abuse in N.J., investigation finds
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/07/nj_state_commission_of_investigation_prescription_drug_heroin_abuse.html

Wall Street Banks Laundering Drug Money with Impunity (good article)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico-drug-gangs

BORDER CRISIS: CONGRESSMAN SAYS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ‘CAUSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING’
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/05/Congressman-Illegls-Aliens-Rise-Obama-Advertises-If%20you-Come-You-Can-Stay

Cartels Exploit Immigration Crisis To Smuggle More Drugs Across Border
By Frank Diez July 03, 2014
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2014/07/03/cartels-exploit-immigration-crisis-to-smuggle-more-drugs-across-border/

Mexican Cartels are Behind Border Crisis -2014
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/23/how-mexico-s-cartels-are-behind-the-border-kid-crisis.html

Drug dealing, informant get border pass -2014
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/informant-gets-free-border-pass-675432


34 posted on 07/31/2014 7:52:12 AM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: mgist

If people are stupid enough to want to use heroin, let them. That way they’ll die off sooner and get out of our wallets.


35 posted on 07/31/2014 7:52:33 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

Welcome to America.


36 posted on 07/31/2014 7:55:26 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: mgist

Gonna have to get my underpaid, illegal immigrant cleaning lady (or her husband, our lawn guy) to translate this for me.

Or, maybe I’ll run down to the Home Depot parking/daylabor lot to snag a translator.


37 posted on 07/31/2014 7:59:34 AM PDT by moovova
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To: EDINVA

bflr


38 posted on 07/31/2014 7:59:39 AM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Envisioning; Liz

Remember that the US illicit drug market is probably over $150 BILLION USD by now, if not more.
***
And our government is up to it’s neck it in. The war on drugs is a joke and a scam and NO ONE with any authority is interested in securing the border.


They’ll NEVER fix the “problem”....because they ARE the problem!


39 posted on 07/31/2014 8:02:29 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: mgist; All

BUMP!


40 posted on 07/31/2014 8:07:36 AM PDT by PGalt
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