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The secret meeting of Caro Quintero to seize power in the Sierra de Sinaloa

2022-10-04T10:44:19.837Z


The emails from the Army to which EL PAÍS has had access reveal the movements of the Narco de Narcos to shore up their criminal control five years before his arrest


Five years before being arrested by all the forces of the Mexican State at the request of the US justice system, Rafael Caro Quintero closed important agreements in the Sierra de Sinaloa to shore up his power.

An Army document, which appears among the millions of leaked emails from the Ministry of Defense to which EL PAÍS has had access, reveals that while the Narco de Narcos was on the run, the institution was aware of a key meeting where the capo “took over control” of a rival organization and became owner and lord of the coveted Sierra Norte.

The Army recorded this and other movements of the drug trafficker during the years prior to his capture, in July of this year.

In the file called

Meeting of Caro Quintero in Sinaloa de Leyva and Guasave

—two municipalities of Sinaloa— it is briefly mentioned how the one who was one of the founders of the Sinaloa group in the eighties and head of Joaquín

El Chapo

Guzmán, had returned to return to power after being released in 2013 by a scandalous judicial decision.

Despite doubts that the old narco had dodged the remaining 12 years of his sentence for the murder of an agent of the United States Drug Enforcement Agency to retire from the criminal business, the Army had solid evidence of how it was increasing dominance in her land.

In 2017, in a hotel in Bacurato, in the municipality of Sinaloa de Leyva, Caro Quintero "took control of the Beltrán Leyva organization," the document states.

The alliance of the drug trafficker with one of its historical rivals took place in a context of power struggles after the extradition of the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, El Chapo Guzmán, where his children and former collaborators disputed the control of the most powerful drug empire. from the country.

According to the report of the Secretary of Defense (Sedena), Caro Quintero established an alliance with Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, better known as

El Chapo

Isidro, the leader of the Beltrán Leyva and staunch enemy of those from Sinaloa.

The Narco de Narcos betrayed the agreements of the cartel that he and his partners founded in the 1980s in order to expand their domain in the mountainous area that adjoins the border state of Chihuahua, a strategic location for growing marijuana, poppy, installing fentanyl and methamphetamine narco-laboratories and transfer to the north.

The file shows an organizational chart of the two criminal groups.

As leaders of the Sinaloa cartel (or the Pacific, as it is officially mentioned) appears the Guzmán family —the son, Iván Archivaldo, and the brother of El Chapo, Aureliano, alias

El Guano—

and the historical leader of the group who never has been arrested, Ismael

El Mayo

Zambada.

In the middle, Caro Quintero, who was associated in that meeting with the heirs of the Beltrán Leyva, where they appear as leaders, in addition to El Chapo Isidro, Ávaro Guadalupe Carrillo Fuentes, alias

La Lapa;

Jesus Gonzalez Penuelas

aka

El Chuy Peñuelas;

Ignacio González Peñuelas and Mario Alberto Lugo Lara, alias

Mario El Calabazas.

In 2017, the latter controlled the mountain area of ​​Sinaloa de Leyva.

After the capture of Caro Quintero on July 15, it was learned that the historic capo never left his land and did not change his job.

His power increased while he was on the run, according to the Mexican Army, although he did not make it public and his name was not among the most wanted or powerful drug lords in the country.

Despite the silence surrounding his figure, in other Sedena documents it is recognized that the capo's appearance played a key role in the violence unleashed in those years in Sonora.

On the other hand, the US justice system continued to warn of the forceful capacity of the new Caborca ​​cartel that he led, and even so, it was the DEA's thirst for revenge for the murder of one of its agents, Kiki Camarena, that who persecuted him until he returned to prison.

The United States never forgave (or forgot) the crime and pressured the Mexican authorities to recapture it.

He launched the largest reward for a criminal in history, of 20 million dollars.

And these days he is waiting in a maximum security Mexican prison for the final decision on his possible extradition.


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Source: elparis

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