The day that Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán buried alive an enemy – 25/01/2019

C & # 39; the most horrible testimony who has been heard so far in the lawsuit against Mexican narco Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. And it's the first time that it's badociated with macabre details, tortures and executions committed by the capo himself against rival drug traffickers.

The old hit man Isaías Valdez Ríos, the last US government witness in the trial and ex-thug of the drug lord who described the facts.

These murders were committed by hand by the Sinaloa cartel leader and added to the other executions ordered by El Chapo, as told by various witnesses.

Although Guzmán is not tried for homicide, but for human trafficking more than 155 tons of drugs in the United States, the prosecution seeks to present it to the jury as a man violent and ruthless, able to do everything to protect your business.

Valdez Ríos, extradited to the United States in 2014 and since then, pending his conviction in a federal prison, he explained in detail how his former boss, Guzmán, still referred to as "lord", had tortured and badbadinated a member of the cartel Arellano Felix and two other rival group of Zetas.

He set fire to two, he buried another alive.

Valdez Rios told the New York Court that he had personally seen El Chapo kill the three men.

El Chapo receives a gift

"Memín", as they say to Valdez Ríos, said that being in Durango, between 2006 and 2007, El Chapo had told them that Dámaso López was "the licenciado", one of his principal lieutenants. I sent them "a gift": two members of the enemy cartel of the Zetas.

There were two men from Sinaloa who had joined the Cartel de los Zetas and who were therefore traitors.

"He ordered us to put them in a hut" and that they "warm up" by referring to "we started beating them to disclose information".

Once El Chapo has arrived, asked for a thick trunk and he began to torture them. "Memín", aged 39, was away from the place and on his return he found that they "had broken bones".

"They were like rag dolls: the bones completely broken. They could not move. And Joaquin continued to hit them with the chest and with his weapon too. "

The two men were driven to an area where they were waiting a giant bonfire.

There, El Chapo curses them before hitting them a shot in the head with the rifle.

"He put the rifle in his head, he shot at him and said: 'Fuck your mother!' He did the same thing with the other one." , did he declare.

Then he ordered that they be thrown into the fire. "There is not even bone," said El Chapo.

Buried alive

The third man killed by El Chapo was a member of the Arellano Felix clan.

These events also occurred around 2006 or 2007 in the city of Bastantita, in the Mexican state of Durango.

El Chapo ordered one of his secretaries to come and get a member of Arellano Felix that Ismael sent them on a plane "el Mayo" Zambada, another leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

"He came quite tortured", said the witness, to also remember that they had informed Guzmán that the subject had been "burned with an iron".

"He had burns on his back with an iron, his shirt was stuck to his skin, he had lighter burns all over his body, his feet were burned," said Valdez.

According to Valdez, who started working for the safety of El Chapo in 2004 after were a member of the special forces of the Mexican armyhis boss was upset by the conditions in which they had sent the subject.

"Why would they send us such a bastard, they would have killed him," Guzman said.

Valdez, who worked for the accused for ten years and was arrested in March 2014 at the Bogota airport in Colombia, said that three days had pbaded before his boss decided to Ask about the other members of the Arellano Felix cartel who would meet each other. in the zone.

That day, they changed sides by taking with them the guy they placed in a henhouse. "It lasted several days and we informed him (Guzmán) that it stank What it was rottenHe then ordered to take her to an elevated area and dig a grave.

Only then was the man taken to a cemetery. Blindfolded and hands and legs tied.

The subject had been placed near the pit and, even though it was not cold, he was shaking. El Chapo allegedly placed the pistol on his head, began to interrogate him and, while answering him, shot him and said he was buried.

The man was still breathing, but he was thrown into the pit and buried alive, said Valdez.

"I was always trying to breathe, but like that, we put it in the hole," he said.

Judge Brian Cogan, who was presiding over the case, told the jury on Thursday that next week could complete the presentation of the evidence presented by the Office of the Prosecutor, after which the defense witnesses would take the stand.

Source: EFE and AFP