The return of the “Mochomito” to Culiacán: ready to fight the empire of Beltrán Leyva

Five years after his capture in Zapopan, Jalisco, Jesús Alfredo Beltrán Guzmán, pseudonyms the Mochomito —Need of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman hi from Alfredo Beltran Leyva– has regained his freedom.

29-year-old drug dealer accused of kidnapping his cousins Ivan Archivaldo and Alfredo guzman, son of the founder of Sinaloa Cartel, in August 2016, would have left the Jalisco Metropolitan Prison, in the early morning of Thursday, September 2, just hours after the investigations by the Human Rights Commission of the State of Jalisco (CEDHJ) on the transfer of women from the prison for women to “live together” in men’s prisons have been made public.

This is how the weekly Zeta Tijuana, which recalls that judicial sources warned that the reports of the ECHR would only be a smokescreen to mask the departure of the narco junior.

The Mochomito I was one of the leaders who exercised the call self-government in the prison complex.

Beltrán Guzmán was arrested in December 2016 with four other people, in Zapopan. He was charged with federal crimes, for which he received a 10-year sentence, of which he served only five. is son of Patricia Guzman Nunez, niece of Chapo Guzman and of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, the Mochomo, principal leader of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, enemies of the Sinaloa criminal organization.

Her father was detained in Culiacán, Sinaloa, in 2008 by elite elements of the Mexican army. Six years later, he was extradited to the United States, where he faces charges in District of Columbia court for importing tons of cocaine and methamphetamine into the United States since the early 1990s.

The Beltrán Leyva organization, made up of brothers Arturo, Alfredo, Héctor and Carlos – arrested or killed – hails from the state of Sinaloa, in the north of the country and began its criminal career alongside Joaquín Guzmán Loera. At first they were the armed wing of the Sinaloa cartel and only had criminal cells in Sonora and Guerrero, but later they spread to other parts of the country, consolidating a strong domain.

In 2008, when Mexican authorities arrested the Mochomo, his brothers accused the Chapo Guzmán of betrayal and began a never-ending battle. The last of the brothers to be arrested was Héctor Beltrán Leyva, alias elH and / oel Elegant, October 10, 2014 at a restaurant in San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato.

The capture and defeat of its main leaders caused a rearrangement in the organization. Then the Mexican authorities assured that Alfredo’s eldest son, the Mochomito, was the leader of the cartel and the cause of the violence in the so-called Golden Triangle – Which includes the entities of Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua.

He was also named as the person responsible for the attack on the The La Tuna community, in the Badiraguato municipality, the country of El Chapo. According to local media, in June 2016, a commando group of more than 50 men attacked the house of Maria Consuelo Loera Perez, mother of Capo de Sinalo. But it was not the only attack; other communities were also affected, prompting dozens of residents, including Consuelo Loera, to flee the mountainous area.

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