The Colombian drug gang that betrays "El Chapo" Guzmán

With a drug family Serving the major Colombian cartels, Alex Cifuentes Villa did not bother to enter the trade. He did it at the age of 10 years old. And he was consolidated when he became "right hand and left hand"From Joaquín & El Chapo & Guzmán, with whom he shared until his residence in Sinaloa, no one imagined that he would end up being one of the witnesses of the lawsuit against the Mexican capo in New York, and that's where Cifuentes revealed how bloodthirsty he was, his family, in which they even tried to kill themselves.

Hildebrando Alexander Cifuentes Villa grew up in Medellín, cradle of cocaine in Colombia in the 80s and 90s. Learning the craft of his mother, his father and his brothers, he started in drug trafficking at the age of 10 years, packing smuggling items and cocaine sold by his family. At the age of 15, he was trafficked. His family was linked to all the main cartels in the country: Medellín, Cali and Norte del Valle.

His brother Francisco was a pilot and principal partner of Pablo Escobar in the Medellin cartel. For their part, two other brothers, Fernando and Jorge Milton, first worked for the cartel of Cali, then for the cartel of Norte del Valle. In fact, the leader of the latter, Wilber Varela, aka "Soap", entrusted Fernando with the badbadination of his partner Efraín Hernández, aka "Don Efra", and then killed him to clear evidence.

Meanwhile, Francisco formed alliances with the Castaño brothers, founders of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). He was murdered in 2007 by paramilitary Diego Fernando Murillo, aka "Don Berna", head of one of the AUC blocks divergences in the drug sector. Others, Jorge Milton, Dolly and Lucia Inés, linked the cartel of Sinaloa, Mexico, under the command of "Chapo" Guzmán.

The family then created an emporium of companies, through leaders, to wash the money from the Mexican cartel. Álex met Joaquín when he negotiated a cargo of five tons of cocaine They would be transported on a tuna boat in 2002. The friendship has been woven over the years. In 2007, I visited him regularly on farms hidden in the mountains of Sinaloa, the center of Mexican operations.

Soon, the villa Álex Cifuentes began trafficking cocaine "Chapo" from Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and Panama, as well as heroin and methamphetamine in New York. In addition, helped him to install the encrypted communication system contacting him with Colombian engineer Cristian Rodríguez – who also testified at the trial – and even served as an interpreter at meetings with foreigners. He even asked the Mexican police to allow the smuggling of Argentina.

Cifuentes himself has been described as "the right hand and the left hand" of "El Chapo" Guzmán. In addition to buying, transporting and distributing drugs in the United States, he bought weapons and property in Central American countries for the cartel. Alex became his personal badistant. That's why he lived with him in the mountains of the Golden Triangle, a region of northern Mexico made up of the states of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa, the center of operations.

Everything ended in November 2013, when Villa Álex Cifuentes was arrested on a farm in Culiacán, Mexico and deported to Colombia at the request of the government of former President Juan Manuel Santos, who extradited him to the United States, where he was accused of having sent several drug shipments between 2008 and 2014. Although he initially refused to cooperate in the trial of "Chapo", his brother Jorge Milton convinced him to do so to reduce his grief.

"He told me (Jorge Milton) that he had to, along with the Americans, confess to me how to confess with God, because he was deciding to go to court, he would the first to sit down and testify against me, "said Alex at the trial. It was like that He told all the details of the intimate life and affairs of his friend and partner Guzmán., meetings with his wife and his lovers, the way he drugged and raped minors.

At that time, his brothers were already behind bars. Dolly was arrested in 2011 in Envigado and extradited the following year to the United States. She was released in 2015. Jorge Milton was captured in Venezuela in November 2012 and also ended in North America in 2013. And Lucia Inés was arrested in March 2014 together with her son Jaime Roll.

The Creepy Villa Cifuentes Clan

US media reported that the first time Alex Cifuentes Villa arrived at the Brooklyn Federal Court Tribunal, he greeted with a smile the "Chapo" sitting on the bench where he was sentenced to prison at life for having trafficked more than 155 tons of cocaine in the United States in 25 years. He made the greeting with the same familiarity. The Colombian drug trafficker has always referred to the Mexican with respect, according to the newspapers, as "Mr. Guzmán".

During the four days of the deposition, lawyer Jeffrey Lichtman, the defender of "Chapo", tried to question the information of Alex wanting to awaken the doubt of the jury on his honesty, to dysfunctional family Cifuentes Villa, able to do anything to gain benefits. Then, the darkest secrets of the clan of Colombian drug traffickers were revealed.

In 2008, Álex he paid over a thousand dollars his nephew Jaime Roll, son of his sister Lucia Inés, so thatwill be Juan Zapata, aka 'Juan Bonito', husband of a niecebecause they believed that he had stolen money. The & # 39; Chapo & # 39; put $ 50,000 for this execution. But then he also decided to kill Jaime because he had stolen cocaine and He tried to kidnap his grandmother, Cifuentes' mother. However, none of the two killings were consumed, he said.

Then he also tried to hire members of the Hells Angels (American biker club) so that murdered his secretary and best friend Andrea Fernández Vélez, in Canada. She met him through the intermediary of a Colombian actress and she became so confident that she offered him an apartment in Cancun. And soon, he also started working for the & # 39; Chapo & # 39 ;.

Fernandez had a modeling agency in Mexico City by which he hired ladies from a Mexican military company paid for by the "Chapo" and for himself. In addition, she was in charge of her wardrobe, it was she who selected the outfits, watches and all the personal accessories of "Chapo". Lichtman even talked about $ 500 worth of leaves. She even met, as a spokesperson, members of the former FARC guerrillas and corrupt Colombian military.

Jorge Milton, the brother of Álex, also testified against the "Chapo". In his statements, he stated that the FARC were the suppliers of the Sinaloa cartel, import drugs from Putumayo, a border department they had total control. That was the only way to get cocaine, and he did so despite the fact that he hated the group of insurgents because he had tried it there years of killing his mother and abducting his father. In fact, he funded the AUC counter-fighters.

With Andrea, what has finally happened, Cifuentes added to Lichtman's information, is that the "Chapo" has charged him with offering $ 10 million to an unidentified Mexican general to stop him. persecute, but he did not accept. And the Mexican capo, furious, decided that he was going to kill her and entrusted the task to Alex. "She betrayed my boss," she said, justifying herself at the trial.