Narcovideo

The "narcovideo" is a DVD that was released on December 1, 2005 by the Dallas Morning News that depicts an interview of four kidnapped members of "Los Zetas", a Mexican paramilitary group dedicated to drug-trafficking, by a rival organization.

In the video, apparently filmed in May 2005, the members of "Los Zetas" accuse José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos the head of the Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada en Delincuencia Organizada (SIEDO, "Sub-Attorney of Specialized Investigations on Organized Crime") of ordering the assassination of Alejandro Domínguez, leader of the Cámara Nacional de Comercio (Canaco, "National Chamber of Commerce") in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas on June 8 of the same year, hours after being commissioned as chief of police of the city.

The four people in the video are Fernando Cruz Martínez, Sergio Alberto Ramón Escamilla, José Antonio Ramírez Pacheco y Juan Miguel Vizcarra Cruz. This last is gunned down at the end of the video by a member of the rival organization without showing his face.

On December 9, Américo Incalcaterra, the representative of the office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations during a visit to Mexico asked the Procuraduría General de la República to investigate the authenticity of the video and the claims involved in it.

Days later, Norma Elizabeth Olguín Servín identified the house where the video was filmed as a property in Acapulco. She showed the SUV where she, her daughter and Juan Manuel Vizcarra had been intercepted by 12 men dressed in uniforms of the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI, "Federal Agency of Investigation"). They were taken to the house where Vizcarra was hit with a pipe on the stomach and she could hear men screaming on the second floor. She was released days later and warned not to go to the police.

External links

* "InSpanish|url=www.todito.com/paginas/noticias/182720.html|name=Exige ONU esclarecer narcovideo" ("UN demands to clarify narcovideo"), article on todito.com
* "InSpanish|url=www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/133248.html|name=Identifican casa donde filmaron narcovideo" ("The house were the narcovideo was filmed was identified"), article on "El Universal"