Authorities determined that the man received $ 600 a week for his work.
Santiago Meza López “El Pozolero” was dedicated to the masonry that lived in Tijuana, border with the United States.
To the police the man seemed peaceful however his nickname identified him as in his most brutal actions, the authorities determined that Meza was engaged in dissolving the bodies of the enemies of the Arellano Féliz Cartel in drums filled with caustic soda.
The man received $ 600 a week for his work.
In Mexico, the pozole is a local dish highly appreciated in the national culture, which is prepared with corn, chili and pork. Just like Meza, he had a peculiar recipe.
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Authorities discovered that the man half filled a tub with a capacity of 200 liters, then two bags of caustic soda and at the end butchered body pieces.
Then I would boil the mixture on the fire for eight hours so that they would disintegrate almost completely. What little was not burned, such as teeth, nails, and pieces of bone, he took to a vacant lot where he burned them with gasoline and then buried them, Infobae said.
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In his statements it is stated that for nine years he dissolved more than 300 bodies. Some estimates indicate that there were 650, mainly on the orders of Teodoro García Simental, “El Teo”, who first worked for the Arellano Félix Cartel and later separated.
“I prefer my work to you starving,” the man told his family, according to his wife Irma in an interview with the magazine Proceso.
The remains dissolved by “El Pozolero” They were found in different graves in Mexico.
In 2011, more than 14 thousand body remains were found in land such as La Gallera in different graves. Seven years later, 7,000 undissolved human fragments were found on the same land.
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Tijuana is an attractive city for the operation of criminal groups and migrant smugglers. Only a sentry box through which 300 vehicles cross an hour separates it from the United States.
In said terrain they remain photos of hundreds of disappeared, on the floor or pasted by parents on semi-constructed walls by those who in the past dissolved the bodies of those who may have been their children, Infobae reported.
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