Evidence that can send life to prison in "Chapo" Guzmán – 27/01/2019

For nearly three months, a New York jury heard 54 people testify against Mexican capo "Chapo" Guzmán. He also heard his voice in phone conversations with partners and lovers, and read text messages and letters from him that incriminate him.

The trial, which is in its final phase, offered a fascinating journey in one of the largest and most violent drug cartels, a drama with an impressive cast: its real protagonists, the majority imprisoned in the United States.

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Below, a summary of the most damaging evidence Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán, 61, former head of the Sinaloa cartel, Charged with more than 155 tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana in the United States for a quarter of a century. According to ex-narcos, everything is under the watchful eye of the Mexican police, military and top officials, including the presidents.

If the "Chapo" is found guilty, he will probably spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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Thanks to the collaboration of the young Colombian Christian Rodríguez, head of the communication of "Chapo", the US government intercepted up to 200 capo conversations with corrupt partners, badbadins and Mexican officials. The jury could for example hear the "Chapo" negotiate in 2010 with a member of the Colombian guerilla FARC sending six tons of cocaine from Ecuador to Mexico.

With the help of Rodriguez, the government intercepted encrypted SMS between "Chapo" and his relatives, sent by Blackberries through which the capo spied on his partners and the women. The jury read several, including one in which discusses with his lover and partner "La Fiera" the creation of two companies in Germany and Ecuador to export drugs "Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States", as well as the purchase of 700 kg of cocaine in Belize from a purity of 95-97%.

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Pedro Flores, a Chicago smuggler, said he and his twin brother, Margarito received 38 tons of cocaine from "Chapo" and Mayo Zambada from 2005 to 2008, which sold in the US for $ 800 million, as well as 200 kg of heroin for about 10 million.

After starting to cooperate with the government, they secretly recorded dozens of conversations with the "Chapo", including one of 2008 in which Pedro negotiates with the capo the price of 20 kilos of heroin.

The accountant "Chapo" and Sinaloa cartel manager in Mexico City, Jesus "Rey" Zambada, brother of cartel leader Sinaloa, Ismael "Mayo" Zambada, explained to the jury how "Chapo" bought Colombian cocaine at $ 3,000 a kilo and sold it in New York at $ 35,000. "100%" of the drug (between 80 and 100 tons a year) was sent to the United States, he said.

The former pilot and former director of "Chapo" Miguel Angel "Gordo" Martinez said that the boss was receiving "almost every month" up to three aircraft filled with money from drug sales in the United States, each representing up to $ 10 million.

He also explained how "Chapo" was badociated with Colombians to finance shipments of up to 14 tonnes of cocaine per tuna and merchant ship who were in international waters with mexican boats. He said that between 1990 and 1993, they had imported between 25 and 30 tons of cocaine a year.

One of the largest Colombian suppliers of cocaine from the "Chapo", Juan Carlos "Chupeta" Ramírez, former leader of the cartel of Norte del Valle, told how with the help of "Chapo" could export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the United States from 1989 to 2007.

The "Chupeta" said that during her first appointment, she had agreed to send to Sinaloa five of his planes with about 4,000 kg. To move the drug from Mexico to the United States, the "Chapo" loaded the "Chupeta" in cocaine, remaining at 40%.

After the arrest of the "Chupeta", the "Chapo" continued to work with the Colombian Cifuentes cartel. They started with 400 kg cocaine robberies, but ended up with larger shipboard shipments, from Ecuador to Sinaloa, through the Pacific, led by the FARC, told the jury the former cartel leader, Jorge Cifuentes.

A former "Chapo" hitman, Isaías Valdez Ríos, aka "Memin", said that he himself saw "Chapo" torturing and executing three rival drug traffickers. One of them was buried alive after the "Chapo" shot him, two others that he ground with sticks before executing them and throwing them into a fire. joy.

Although the "Chapo" is not charged with murder, This macabre testimony (the most graphic of all the lawsuit) can seal your luck.

Several witnesses also stated that They saw Chapo order kidnappings and killings of rivals and police officers who did not corrupt. They said that the "Chapo" He was constantly protected by a hundred armed men carrying pistols, AK47, AR15 and M16 rifles, bazookas, grenades and rocket launchers.

AFP Agency.