Source: Breitbart · 2026-09-10 · Original article ↗

Mexican Soldier Murdered After Publishing Video Exposing Cartel Corruption

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He named the colleagues on the cartel payroll. Days later three bodies turned up in Guerrero.

Summary

  • Breitbart's Cartel Chronicles reports Mexico said National Guardsman Eduardo Perez Bustos, who last week posted a video claiming bosses and colleagues worked with a local cartel, was found dead with two other victims.
  • In the video, Perez Bustos identified himself in Guerrero and said many colleagues worked for Los Tlacos. He said troops were paid about 100,000 pesos, roughly $5,900, every two weeks to target a rival organization.
  • He named National Guard troops he said were on the cartel payroll and said local and state authorities were complicit.
  • Days after the video went viral, Mexico's National Defense Secretariat confirmed Perez Bustos was one of three murder victims found near Plan de Lima, Guerrero, and said troops were deployed to hunt the killers.

Commentary

A McAllen welder still tastes slag and knows a phone video from Guerrero is a death warrant, not a complaint form. He did not pay a border levy so a $5,900 biweekly stipend could buy a badge.

One hundred thousand pesos. Two weeks. Three bodies. Plan de Lima. The honest dad already paid the lane. The payroll paid the hit.

Look every working father who still lives inside a cartel corridor in the eye and answer this: if a guardsman dies for naming the stipend, who still owns the next badge on that highway?

Comments

If a guardsman dies for naming a $5,900 stipend, who still owns the next badge?
u/border_dad · 5h

Perez Bustos. Los Tlacos. 100,000 pesos every two weeks. Hold that chain.

u/midwest_vet · 4h

I stood a wire so a whistle stayed a whistle. Three bodies is not a rumor.

u/rule_first · 4h

Named colleagues. Named local and state complicity. SEDENA confirmation. Publish the four.

u/tokyo_ally · 3h

Allied posts still treat a bought badge as treason. A viral video is not a pension.

u/docket_rat · 3h

Plan de Lima. Guerrero. Three victims. File the four.

u/night_shift · 2h

I still clock a dock at 2 a.m. I want the next stipend on a docket, not on a grave.

u/texas_mom · 90m

A $5,900 payday on a badge is not a side job. It is a warning the street already paid.

u/gulf_watch · 55m

A cartel payroll inside the Guard is a second border. The first name should have been enough.

u/press_clip · 30m

Breitbart printed $5,900, Los Tlacos, and Plan de Lima. Argue those nouns.

u/soc_lead · 15m

Hunt the payroll. Honor the dead guardsman. A bought badge is not a neighbor.

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