Witness tells how El Chapo became rich, with four jets and his own zoo – La República EC

A US government witness in the drug trafficking trial against Joaquín "el Chapo", Guzmán recounted the standard of living of his former boss, who, along with the "cocaine boom" in the 1990s, l? had led to having four streams and houses on every beach in Mexico, ranches in every state and your own zoo.

Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez, aka "El Gordo" or "El Tololoche", testified today for the second day, in the New York court, in which he explained that his boss at the time had offered him a clock Rólex with diamonds and that he had paid her a million dollars salary.

In a month, he added, he ordered him to buy more than 50 cars, Buick, Thunderbird and Cougar, to give to his workers, who could choose the model.

He badured, to questions of the prosecution who tries to prove with his testimony that the Chapo he was the head of poster of Sinaloa, that in the 90's the company's drug traffic was "very good" and that Guzmán Loera He benefited from the "coca boom" and he used some of the money to pay bribes to keep his business.

He also stated that his boss at the time was receiving one or two trucks a month from the United States with proceeds from the sale of the drug, and that he had then sent his jets back to collect that money in Tijuana, who had been taken to Mexico City and deposed in Mexico City. bank accounts, after bribing employees, which he has invested a part in the property.

He also badured that in one of his ranches in Guadalajara, with swimming pool and tennis court, there was a zoo with tigers, lions, panthers and deer, as well as a train for cross it, as well as a yacht, "El Chapito", on its Cancun property and "4 or 5 women".

The former director of his company and his contacts with the Colombian cartels (Cali, Medellín and Nortes del Valle) who sold him coca began to work for the Chapo in 1987, when it was still not there poster of Sinaloabut the Federation of Posters, which directed Juan Esparragoza, "the Blue", the "boss of all", as he said then Guzmán Loera

In one of his anecdotes, he related that he and Guzmán Loera They went to visit the Blue Prison in 1987 in Mexico City to seek leave for revenge against the Arriano Felix brothers' cartel in Tijuana because they had killed two of their friends.

He badured that bribes were paid to the prison staff, which allowed them to arrive at night and see him in his cell, where "there was everything they wanted to take away" such as whiskey, beer and cognac, a group playing, a choice of quail, lobster and drugs, as well as guards who clean, cook and protect Esparragoza.

The Blue allowed them to retaliate, thus starting the war against the Tijuana cartel, in which Guzman invests "a lot of money" in the purchase of weapons.

He badured that Guzmán Loera He had constant bodyguards armed with AK-47, AR-15, M-16 rifles, grenades and tear gas.

Martinezwho worked for the Chapo between 1986 and 1998, he also pointed out the incident at the Guadalajara International Airport, where Cardinal Juan Jesús Posada Ocampo was murdered, to which Arellano Felix would have confused Guzmán Loera

Guzmán Loera, sentenced to eleven charges in perpetuity drug traffic the principal to maintain a criminal enterprise continues and who has not lost the details of the testimony of his interrogation, managed to escape by the straps where the suitcases are delivered to the pbadengers, with one of his bodyguards.

The next day, he said, his leader informed him that he would leave Mexico because "the pressure was too high" and that his photos were constantly being broadcast on television.

Guzmán He went to Guatemala where he was arrested in 1991 and his houses, warehouses and more than 3,000 kilograms of coca were delivered by Martinez to his brother Arturo, who continued to operate the poster.

During the first part of the interrogation, Martinez, a protected prosecution witness whose face can not be drawn as part of the extreme security measures in this case, explained how his compadre had started sending drugs to the United States. using a tunnel, double-bottomed vehicles and even jalapeño cans with cocaine.

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