WHY I WARN PEOPLE TO STAY OUT OF MEXICO

Aside from getting caught up in the Mexican cartel wars, Americans are tantalizing targets for kidnappers who don’t hesitate to murder their victims

Whenever someone tells me they are thinking about visiting Mexico, I tell them to forget it and find some Caribbean island beach resort instead. And as one commentator to this report said: Don't go to Mexico. If your work requires it, find another job.

BROWNSVILLE RESIDENTS KIDNAPPED IN MEXICO, ONE KILLED AFTER BEATING
by Elizabeth Espinosa

KGBT 4
September 25, 2014

A Brownsville resident is dead after a group of armed men kidnapped him, along with another victim in Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas.

Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said Eric Candanosa and Carlos Vela Moreno were driving aling a highway in Tamaulipas transporting vehicles Wednesday evening.

Moreno said that the vehicles they were driving overheated, forcing them to stop.

At this time, a group of six or seven armed men in two vehicles approached the pair and kidnapped both the Brownsville residents.

The group of armed men took them to an isolated wooded area, where they began to beat the men with 2x4s.

According to the Cameron County Sheriff’s Department, one of the armed men said, “This is the guy,” referring to 38-year-old Candanosa.

Moreno said the group began to beat Candanosa.

Officials said the pair was then taken to a hospital in Progreso after the beating.

Since both men are United States citizens a Mexican ambulance rushed the men to the Los Indios Bridge to meet with paramedics from the U.S.

The Cameron County Sheriff’s Office was called to the bridge around 8:30 p.m. in reference to the assault.

Sheriff Lucio told Action 4 News that Candanosa was dead by the time he arrived at the bridge.

Authorities said they are not sure if the Brownsville residents were transporting anything else at the time of the incident.

Moreno told the sheriff’s department that he isn’t sure why the group of armed men kidnapped them.

An autopsy, ordered by Justice of the Peace Eloy Cano in Harlingen, will be performed Thursday to find out more on Candanosa’s death.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 1995, Judge Camo issued an arrest warrant for disorderly conduct against shock jock Howard Stern. It seems as though Howard, who has been a judge on America’s Got Talent since 2012, pissed off the Harlingen judge for mocking fans of the slain Tejano singer Selena. According to Time (April 12, 1995):

Soon after Selena was gunned down in Corpus Christi last month, Stern played her music to the sound of gunfire and said: "Alvin and the Chipmunks have more soul . . . Spanish people have the worst taste in music. They have no depth."

Disorderly conduct for dissing Spanish people over the air? It looks as though they make up the law in Harlingen as they go along.