Thread by @ElParece

[Thread] This is Gildo Garza, a journalist from Tamaulipas with a long and complicated history. He's currently in a dispute over the position of General Program Director for Aggrieved Journalists at the @CNDH.

According to Gildo, he has been a journalist in Tamaulipas for many of the most violent years in the state between 2006 and 2013. He's seen many friends and colleagues killed and personally has suffered at the hands of criminals and officials.
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All of this is almost certainly true. Tamaulipas has for years been one of the most dangerous states for journalists in MX, who are frequently targeted by criminals and state officials for their coverage.
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Gildo began working at a publication called La Voz de Tamaulipas. In 2013
he founded another publication called Cambio Press. According to him, he brought critical coverage denouncing corruption through this periodical.
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On 6 June 2017, two Facebook pages, "Periodistas Corruptos de Tamaulipas" and "Denisse Lady Penal", appeared which denounced Gildo allegedly for corruption, extorting political rivals with negative coverage and threatening the life of activist Denisse de León.

On 8 June 2017, Cambio Press published a piece stating that they would hold the Director of Social Communications for GobTam, Francisco García Juárez, responsible for anything that happened to Gildo as a result of the online attacks.
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[CW] Denisse de León was a transgender activist who worked with the families of prisoners in Victoria. On 10 June 2017, she was executed in her home along with her mother and brother by several gunmen.
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After the murders, Gildo allegedly began receiving death threats and orders to leave Tamaulipas. Gildo then fled with his family to CDMX with his family, invoking a federal protection mechanism for journalists facing persecution.
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Although Gildo attributed the alleged threats to state officials, the exact nature of his relationship with the state government under Cabeza de Vaca is not entirely clear.

Less than a month before the incident, Gildo and Cambio Press were publishing what essentially might be considered public relations on behalf of the governor.

In January 2018, the independent journalist Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez is stabbed to death by unknown assailants in Nuevo Laredo. Here is a short thread about that case:

https://twitter.com/ElParece/status/1217117908016320513

The assassination of Carlos Dominguez Rodriguez is a *key* event in this whole story. In an interview several days after the journalist was murdered, Gildo immediately begins the work of crafting the state's narrative of the killing.
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Briefly, the murder of the 77 year-old journalist was eventually determined to be a plot by state officials to smear a political rival of the governor when a former police officer gave and later recanted false testimony after a corrupt prosecutor broke his end of the bargain.

The two journalists who survived the ordeal, @Jesuszuniga21 and @valtierrahdz, were exonerated and the corrupt prosecutor submitted a letter of resignation in disgrace. To save face by refusing to admit wrongdoing, his resignation was not accepted.

Despite the revelation of the conspiracy by officials to smear a political rival and the innocent journalists caught up in the plot, some family members of Carlos Dominguez continue to insist that the state's discredited version of events are true.

If you follow the news in Tamaulipas closely enough, you begin noticing some of the same taking points coming up again and again: @CantuRosasC, @RaymundoRamosNL /CDN, @SanjuanaNotimex /@notimex, @RosarioPiedraIb /@CNDH, @lopezobrador_ /@PartidoMorenaMx

If these sound familiar, it's probably because you've seen them before discussed almost on a daily basis at times by some of the most influential accounts on Twitter covering organized crime in Mexico, like @lpueblo2.

Note that @lpueblo2 frequently tags nationally acclaimed journalists in order to enlist their assistance with mainstream distribution of their messaging. This is a skilled professional communicator.

La Voz del Pueblo appeared seemingly out of the blue
(or perhaps the blue and white), in September 2018 and quickly became one of the most influential accounts covering the drug war in MX. Innumerable blog posts and news stories orignate from the content he shares.

A few months earlier in the summer of 2018, shortly before @lpueblo2 first appears, is when at least 28 forced disappearances and 9 extrajudicial executions are attributed to SEMAR who are ultimately recalled from the state.
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In about a year and a half, @LPueblo2 has accumulated around 32,000 followers. One of the reasons for his popularity has been that he often receives exclusive pictures and videos directly from Fuerza Tamaulipas. He frequently posts original content not found anywhere else online.

[CW] For instance, hours after CAIET kidnapped, beat and executed 7 people on 5 September 2019, @lpueblo2 was the first to share the pictures of the victims posed to appear as if they had died in a gunfight which could only have come from the police

In the aftermath of the extrajudicial executions on 5 September 2019 and the disappearances attributed to SEMAR in 2018, the CNDH got involved through their local official in Nuevo Laredo, Raymundo Ramos.

Ramos and the CNDH have been one of the most stubborn obstacles impeding the state government's security strategy in Nuevo Laredo, the most important city in Tamaulipas currently controlled by CDN. For a detailed discussion of this subject, please see this thread:

https://twitter.com/ElParece/status/1176938423954870273

Through the NGO Mexican Association for Displaced Journalists, Guildo has done what could almost be considered a hostile takeover of the Gen. Program Directorship for Aggrieved Journalists at the CNDH, and used his position to attack the President of the @CNDH @RosarioPiedraIb

Guildo has been accused of using this organization—which should not be confused with the NGO @PDesplazadosMX, which has denounced Gildo—to enrich himself and attack political adversaries of the PAN and @gobtam while neglecting the people they were supposed to protect

Within the last 24 hours, it has been revealed that the Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN) enlists the professional services of a network of social media accounts to attack political rivals. One of the people on that list is Gildo Garza.
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Gildo, who got his start at La Voz de Tamaulipas, who is on the payroll of the PAN and who posts content with messages identical to much of the messaging that @LPueblo2 posts, has been rumored to be responsible for managing the account La Voz del Pueblo.

Within the last 3 days, @lpueblo2 has denounced governor Francisco Cabeza de Vaca as well as Gildo Garza. But it should be pointed out that Gildo also denounced the state government of Cabeza de Vaca before fleeing to CDMX and working for the PAN.

Justice is often frustratingly slow, but the truth always comes out eventually. [/Thread]