Masacre En El Rio Tula

1985 · action · crime · Ismael Rodriguez Jr

Sorry for the poor quality THIS FILM IS LOOSELY BASED ON A REAL LIFE EVENT! Plot: Corrupt police agent Pancho catches two colombian traffickers and uses them to widen his network of crime and vice. IMPORTANT BACKGROUND NOTE: On January 14 , 1982 the bodies of 13 men were found on the borders of a drainage canal in the Tula River . The bodies showed signs of extreme torture and mutilation , some of them with their heads still conserved in plastic bags . Some were decapitated , others slashed with machetes , most with a shot to the head . The facts of what was to be known as the " Tula River massacre " were denounced by J . Gonzales Gonzales , who accused his boss , Arturo Durazo Moreno , the then Mexico City police chief , of being the intellectual author of the ghastly crime . Moreno was the chief of police in Mexico City during the administration of his friend , President José López Portillo . The dead , apparently all Colombians , formed a band of criminals that was exploited by Moreno , who hid them in jail and released them to rob banks repeatedly . It was said that Durazo decided to keep the loot , and do away with the Colombians and their Mexican taxi driver who also disappeared , last seen in June 1981 by his mother . It was said that the group were held in secret jails and the La Castaneda psychiatric hospital , tortured and murdered , then dumped into the sewer in Mexico City . Their decomposed remains were later fished out of the Tula river by a Red Cross diving team . Arturo Durazo was considered one of the most incompetent, corrupt chief of police at the time.