Pedro Fidel Mendoza Vergara was a resident of San Antonio del Mar, he lived with his family in a home in the subdivision that he bought in the name of a company of which he was the owner, according to his statements and paperwork, which he submitted in the complaints he filed. , in the years 2016 and 2022, against the then representatives of the Neighborhood Committee, Guillermo Anaya and María de los Ángeles Domínguez. Today, he is dead.
Mendoza accused those accused of attempting to dispossess him and other residents, mainly American citizens, “he made live broadcasts of some of these attempted dispossessions, and they threatened him,” they reported. This confrontation led to attacks, attempted kidnappings and mutual accusations, until on June 22, 2024, Fidel was found dead and tortured.
ZETA He contacted a secretary in the Neighborhood Committee, who assured that Anaya and Domínguez had no longer coordinated the organization for more than four years, and that they could not be located that way. Anaya was also sought in his business, Mi Casa Supper Club, in San Antonio del Mar – November 6th. A message was left explaining that he was wanted for an interview regarding 13 complaints of dispossession that were filed against him, including that of Fidel Mendoza. The restaurant was called on November 6 and 7, with no response.
THE COMPLAINTS
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“The civil association in San Antonio Del Mar owns 40 houses. They are looking for investors to remodel them, sell them and hire the prosecutor’s mafia to protect them. This civil association is directed by Guillermo Anaya, the owner of the restaurant. My house“claimed an affected person.
“No one can force you to belong to an association, but they do it and whoever does not accept has consequences: trying to get rid of the renters,” they complained.
“In recent years, they have tried to take the houses from people who according to them are not the owners and resell them, they send them people and tell them that they have three days to vacate and they scare them (…), they arrive at dawn to take people out and put stamps, they also removed a girl who had not arranged her father’s inheritance trust,” the interviewees said.
Pedro Fidel Mendoza Vergara was a resident of San Antonio del Mar
In the case of Fidel Mendoza, “the house was property of his company, but the former administrator appeared as the owner and he never changed the property to his name,” a discussion that had been going on for several years.
ZETA He consulted if there are complaints against the San Antonio association in the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), locating 14 open files, but the accusation is not against the organization, but against Guillermo Anaya (He is presumed innocent until his responsibility is declared by the judicial authority. Art.13, CNPP), all related to remains in San Antonio del Mar:
1) 0204-2016-04134, occupying someone else’s property.
2) 0204-2016-14061, falsehood before authorities.
3) 0204-2021-55114, occupy someone else’s property.
4) 0204-2021-33762, occupy someone else’s property.
5) 0204-2021-10788, occupy someone else’s property.
6) 0204-2022-51816, falsehood before authorities.
7) 0204-2023-06739, occupying someone else’s property.
8) 0204-2023-24213, making use of someone else’s real estate.
9) 0204-2023-49002, make use of someone else’s property
10) 0204-2024-37867, make use of property rights that do not belong to you.
11) 0204-2024-38914, occupying someone else’s property.
And the three presented by Fidel Vergara and/or Pedro Fidel Mendoza Vergara:
12) 0204-2016-14061, falsehood before the authorities.
13) 0204-2022-51816, falsehood before the authorities.
He accused the association of lying, of referring another owner to take away his property and the folder:
14) 0204-2021-10788, for dispossession.
In the information provided there is no number of how many real estate properties are affected in these files, but there are three files from 2016, three from 2021, two from 2022, three from 2023 and two from 2024. Whether they are five years or less, absolutely all of them continue “in integration.”
Pedro Fidel Mendoza Vergara will no longer have justice and, if the authority does not intervene, in the short term neither will his family, because they were threatened – as reported – and were forced to leave their home.
ATTACKS AND SIGNALINGS
In addition to transmitting some of the actions that seemed illegal to him – such as the association building an office in the park – and accusing alleged looting, Mendoza Vergara organized his society to hold meetings with residents and advise them to also report. Those close to him claim that he received threats and was defamed.
“When he reported it, some neighborhood councilors said that he was a drug trafficker, that he moved drugs in the jet ski in the area, but this illegal activity persists after the man was murdered,” they say.
“They also accused his wife of smuggling migrants, and after they kidnapped and took her husband’s life, they threatened her and she had to leave for her safety,” they added.
ZETA He consulted the state prosecutor’s office (FGE) and the General Prosecutor’s Office (FGR), obtaining in response that no investigation file was found against the Mendozas, or with those accusations.
According to the complaints presented to the FGE, in February of this year Fidel was in the middle of attacks on two occasions, in front of witnesses, within the subdivision near his home. The first time they approached the family, asking about a certain Pablo and “if the dog bites.” They shot two neighbors, one of them, of American origin, was wounded, and Fidel was unharmed; In the second case, they arrived at the house of a neighbor who was a friend of the Mendozas, asking for “Pedro, the mechanic.” Fidel was in the house, but fled towards the road in search of a National Guard patrol, from whom he asked for help.
Both times, a subject based in Ensenada, named Diego Martín Lázaro García (He is presumed innocent until his responsibility is declared by the judicial authority. Art.13, CNPP), was armed and led the group.
In that second armed approach, Diego Martín was detained by the National Guard along with Arturo N and Pablo N, but they were released by a preventive judge even though Lázaro had a prison record.
KIDNAPPING AND HOMICIDE
According to the statements contained in the case files, the attacks escalated on Friday, June 21, when Fidel and his wife – accompanied by a third party whose destination is not detailed – were leaving the San Antonio de Mar subdivision and were intercepted by a group of five armed men in a van, they again recognized Diego Martín Lázaro García.
The attackers took Fidel out of the car and beat him; when he tried to flee, they shot and wounded him. In a matter of seconds they put him in the truck, took the woman out, took her cell phone and also took the family car, so it took her several minutes to get a phone to call for help.
The call to the emergency room was made by his daughter-in-law and she reported an armed kidnapping. In response to the complaint, “an old man of about 70 years old arrived,” and they claim that they did not want to help them.
“Weeks ago, Fidel broke a pen at the entrance because they wouldn’t let us enter, and in less than 20 minutes seven patrols surrounded his house,” they recalled.
After taking the victim, the family reported and asked for help to locate him, but they did not hear anything until three days later. Fidel’s tortured corpse was located at six in the morning on Sunday, June 23, 2024, under the Punta Bandera bridge, wrapped in a colorful blanket, among the garbage.
As it was not far from his home, investigators presume that the place where his life was taken is in the same area, but they have not located it.
Diego Martín, the alleged perpetrator, was arrested on June 25 in Ensenada for committing another crime, car theft, and placed in preventive detention. Just the first week of November, when they searched for him again in the system, they found him in prison, and the FGE requested and obtained another arrest warrant, which it has not yet executed. The elements at its disposal are not enough to prosecute him for homicide, So they accused him of Fidel’s kidnapping with three aggravating circumstances:
– That during their captivity some injury is caused to the victim.
– That acts of torture have been carried out against the victim.
– That during or after his captivity, the victim dies due to any alteration in his health that is a consequence of the deprivation of liberty.
Regarding the motive, complaints of dispossession are one of the lines of investigation.
On the afternoon of Thursday the 7th, via telephone, Guillermo Anaya’s employees reported that he was on vacation, that the data requested by this Weekly was in the possession of his lawyer and they would respond on November 14.
