Who is the “godmother”: the lawyer friend of “Chapo” who ran her own cartel and paid a high price with the death of her two children

Luz Irene Fajardo Campos has many pseudonyms. La Jenca, a name he put on the few kilos of cocaine he smuggled into the United States. But the most famous of all is the one he won with a 22-year prison sentence for leading an international drug trafficking ring. Godmother.

La Madrina and / or La Doña, as the bosses are called in Mexico, ran their own cartel. Along with his children, according to US government records, he supplied coca to Colombia and imported precursor chemicals to Mexico, then sold them to the United States.

His story has hardly flourished in the media, but the American authorities assure that he is the incarnation of a criminal who brought thousands of kilos of poison in the North American country.

But these are not the only deaths that cross the life of this woman. In 2017, after his arrest at Bogotá International Airport, Colombia, his two sons were murdered in Hermosillo, Sonora (northeastern Mexico). The men with the surname Avilés Fajardo, were brought up, dismembered and cremated inside a vehicle, according to media reports. Vice News.

His lawyer assures that it was a warning from the world where he was born and raised, that of the drug trafficker. They didn’t want me to collaborate with the American authorities. The signal worked, Fajardo pleaded not guilty and was tried.

Vice News documented in a recent article that the parents and siblings of the Godmother they continue to live in Sinaloa (Mexico).

Luz Irene Fajardo Campos He was born in Cosalá, a town located in the mountainous region of Sinaloa. She trained as a lawyer, but quickly built herself up like a narca. According to the charge against her, the woman had ties to Colombia, Panama and Ecuador.

For years she was persecuted by the authorities more than for her power, for her knowledge of Mexico’s most powerful organization: the Sinaloa Cartel.

Last week, Luz Irene Fajardo Campos was sentenced to 22 years in prison for her activities in the international drug trade, allied to the Sinaloa Cartel and with his friend, Joaquín el “Chapo” Guzmán Loera.

This woman was prosecuted for a week in December 2019. The charges against her are of conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, and to manufacture and / or distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine in Mexico, Colombia, Honduras and other Central American countries, knowingly and with the intention that these substances be illegally imported into the United States.

“Luz Irene Fajardo Campos and his organization imported large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine into the United States, bribed foreign law enforcement officers along the way then they distributed these drugs in our communities, ”said Deputy Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice.

The Godmother He communicated with his cartel partners via text messages sent via a Blackberry phone and there are messages which are in the possession of the DEA and which date from April 2013 to September 2015.

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