Eduardo Valle
 Eduardo Valle    (politician) | |
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| Born | 10 March 1947 |
| Died | 3 May 2012 (Age 65) Matamoros, Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Alma mater | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
Miguel Eduardo Valle Espinoza (nicknamed El Búho - the Owl) was a Mexican journalist, writer, and politician. He was the first to publicize the existence of the Gulf Cartel and its operations in a dozen other Mexican states. In 1994 he named the political and economic state of Mexico as "narco-democracy" and in 2003 he referred to it as "narco-state".[1][2][3]
"The problem is that when you control the federal police, the local police, judges, journalists, bankers, banks, part of the military and so forth, you become a state within the state."[4]
He lived in exile in the United States for some years due to threats against his life. He later lived as a journalist in Matamoros until his last days.
Early Life
His mother, Celia Espinosa Díaz, was a primary school teacher and his father, Cosme Valle Miller, was a scholar of anthropology. The Owl, short in stature, large in build, with large glasses and always with a book under his arm, went to elementary school in the Balbuena neighborhood and upon graduation entered High School Two - National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Student activism
Along with his longtime friend, Joel Ortega Juárez, he joined the Communist Youth of Mexico.
He was one of the most prominent members of the student movement of 1968. After the Tlatelolco massacre, he was arrested by the army and held a political prisoner for more than two years. He was in prison until 1971 and then left the country for Peru and then arrived in Chile, along with several of his fellows.
He returned to Mexico in May 1971, when Luis Echeverría Álvarez was president. Valle once again confronted the political system on June 10, when the government once again massacred students in the event called El Halconazo. Economics Teacher at UNAM Eliezer Morales Aragón helped him to safety from a group of goons that came for him.
Parliament
In 1974 he joined the Mexican Workers Party (PMT). Valle was a federal deputy for this party from 1985 to 1988. Being an opposition deputy, consistent with his ideals, he was one of the most rebellious in the presidential speeches, in the speeches and debates with the PRI deputies and one of the most critical and active in the legislature, since he was part of the small opposition from the Mexican left.
He was secretary general of the Union of Democratic Journalists from 1989 to 1990.
At the beginning of 1993, he was an advisor to the Attorney General of the Republic, Jorge Carpizo.
El Búho Valle was the first to publicize the existence of the Gulf cartel, based in Tamaulipas and with an operational presence in a dozen other states, under the leadership of Juan García Abrego.
Thanks to the information collected by Valle, it was possible to dismantle the entire financial structure of Ábrego. García-Ábrego was subsequently arrested. He also carried out one of the first, most thorough, courageous, risky and dangerous investigations that have been carried out on a criminal structure in Mexico.
At the beginning of 1994, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari replaced him. and he left with enormous disappointment.
Miguel Eduardo Valle wrote several books, one of them is The Second Shot: The Mexican Narco-Democracy, in which he denounced that the political plans of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the death of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio and the narco-democracy, which are pieces of the same puzzle.[5]
For some years he lived in exile in the United States due to threats from the drug cartels against his life, for his work as an advisor to Attorney General Carpizo. He later lived in Matamoros until his last days as a journalist.
Miguel Eduardo Valle Espinosa died on May 3, 2012 from multi-organ septic shock after worsening pneumonia and liver cancer that he had suffered since 2007. His wife Rosa Maria Padilla passed away on October 14, 2016.
References
- ↑ http://archivo.eluniversal.com.mx/columnas/71561.html
- ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-01-mn-45025-story.html
- ↑ https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/politics/narcosys.html
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpXbaPidTgA
- ↑ See his book El segundo disparo: la narco democracia mexicana
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