Allende, Coahuila
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Allende is a city in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The city serves as the administrative center for the surrounding municipality of Allende.
History
The name "Allende" is in honor of Ignacio Allende, a hero of Mexico's War of Independence. The town's folk hero is Arnulfo González who was gunned down in the mid-1920s, and has a "corrido" sung by artists such as Vicente Fernández and many others. Prior to 1832 the settlement was known as San Juan de Mata.
Los Zetas Massacre
In February, 2014, members of the Army, Navy, State, and Federal Police forces began searching for the remains of at least 300 residents of the region, who had been murdered in 2011 and buried in a series of clandestine graves in local ranches. In the Dallas suburbs, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) had launched Operation Too Legit to Quit after some surprising busts. In one, police had found $802,000, vacuum-packed and hidden in the gas tank of a pickup. The driver said he worked for a guy he knew only as “El Diablo,” the Devil.
After more arrests, DEA Agent Richard Martinez and Assistant U.S. Attorney Ernest Gonzalez determined that El Diablo was 30-year-old Jose Vasquez, Jr., a Dallas native who’d started selling drugs in high school and was now the leading Zetas cocaine distributor in east Texas, moving truckloads of drugs, guns and money each month. As they prepared to arrest him, Vasquez slipped across the border to Allende, where he sought protection from members of the cartel’s inner circle. But Martinez and Gonzalez saw an opportunity in his escape. If they could persuade Vasquez to cooperate, it would give them rare access to the senior ranks of the notoriously impenetrable cartel and a chance to capture its leaders, particularly the Treviño brothers, who had killed their way onto the list of the DEA’s top targets. Miguel Ángel Treviño was known as Z-40, Omar as Z-42.
What Martinez wanted were the trackable PINs, or personal identification numbers, of the Treviños’ BlackBerry phones. Vasquez had left the agent plenty of leverage. His wife and mother were still living in Texas. The DEA threatened to imprison Vasquez’s mother and wife if he did not get the trackable PINs for the Treviños. Under pressure to get the phones’ PINs, Vasquez turned to Héctor Moreno, a Zeta lieutenant, using a little leverage of his own. It was Moreno’s brother, Gilberto, who had been caught driving the truck with $802,000 in the gas tank. Facing 20 years in prison, Gilberto had confessed that he was working for the Zetas and that the cash belonged to the Treviño brothers. Vasquez arranged for his lawyer in Dallas to represent Gilberto and promised not to let anyone else in the cartel know about Gilberto’s incriminating statements. Moreno repaid the favor by agreeing to get Vasquez the numbers.
The Treviños found out; in response, members of the Zetas seized the towns of Allende and Nava, destroyed 80 houses with heavy machinery, and kidnapped approximately 80 families. These people were not seen again, until the operation began uncovering some of their bodies, many of which allegedly had been dissolved with a mixture of diesel fuel and caustic soda in large barrels of improvised "kitchens", in 2014.[1][2][3][4]
Geography
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Allende municipality covers a total surface area of Script error: No such module "convert". and, in 2000, reported a total population of 20,153. The town's annual festival (fiesta patronal) takes place on 29 August. In addition to the municipal seat, the only other two settlements of any size in the municipality are Río Bravo and Chamucero.
Government
Municipal presidents
| Municipal president | Term | Political party |
|---|---|---|
| Canuto Muñoz Mares[5] | 1939 - 1940 | PRM File:Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg |
| Alfonso García | 1941 - 1941 | PRM File:Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg |
| Juan de los Santos | 1942 - 1942 | PRM File:Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg |
| Enrique A. Díaz | 1943 - 1945 | PRM File:Logo Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana.svg |
| Juan José Cantú | 1946 - 1948 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Salvador F. Ibarra | 1949 - 1951 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Isidoro Flores Ramírez | 1952 - 1954 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Pedro A. Valdés | 1955 - 1955 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Felipe de Alba | 1956 - 1957 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Enrique A. Díaz | 1958 - 1960 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Evaristo A. Cadena U. | 1961 - 1963 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Guter Lara Castro | 1964 - 1966 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Humberto Cantú Villarreal | 1967 - 1969 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Isaías Ortiz Rubio | 1970 - 1972 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Mario J. Lozano G. | 1973 - 1975 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Jesús Perales | 1976 - 1978 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| José Luis Zertuche | 1979 - 1981 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Enrique Navarro Montemayor | 1982 - 1984 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Héctor Rocha Contreras | 1985 - 1987 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Esteban Barrón Zulaica | 1988 - 1990 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Mario Salazar Garza | 1991 - 1993 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Tomás G. Navarro Valdés | 1994 - 1996 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Esteban Barrón Zulaica | 1997 - 1999 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Humberto Leonel Moreno V. | 2000 - 2002 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Esteban Barrón Zulaica | 2003 - 2005 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Ricardo Alfonso Treviño Guevara | 2006 - 2009 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Sergio Alonso Lozano Rodríguez | 2010 - 2013 | PAN File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg |
| Luis Reynaldo Tapia Valadez | 2014 - 2017 | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
| Antero Alberto Alvarado Saldívar | 2018 - 2021 | UDC File:UDC logo (Mexico).svg-PAN File:PAN Party (Mexico).svg |
| José de Jesús Díaz Gutiérrez[6] | 2022 - | PRI File:PRI Party (Mexico).svg |
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