3/26/2023 0 Comments Chapo struggle session![]() ![]() He negotiated cheaper deals with the dealers by promising to deliver the cocaine more quickly, gaining him the nickname El Rápido for his speed in funneling the cocaine through tunnels under the border. Guzmán reached out to cocaine suppliers in Colombia to receive cheap cocaine. Like any good business, the Sinaloa cartel globalized, stretching far beyond the Mexican-United States border to Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Belize, Honduras, Canada, Thailand and China.įrom early in his career, Mr. The worldwide reach of the Sinaloa cartel The government collected more than one million text messages between cartel members. Rodriguez’s system tap, prosecutors also used wiretaps collected by authorities in Colombia and the Dominican Republic, as well as one from Homeland Security Investigations. The prosecution’s case was built from four wiretap investigations. He turned over calls and text messages from the encrypted system. Rodriguez agreed to cooperate with American authorities after being approached by the F.B.I. It allowed him to place calls from a secure three-digit extension to other trusted parties anywhere in the world. Guzmán used BlackBerry phones as well as a filter system, which passed messages between third parties to protect the identity of the senders, his most comprehensive system was devised by Mr. The United States government used El Chapo’s intrepid spy systems against him. Guzmán received routine spy reports and also made a habit of calling back associates after a business transaction the second, invisible, call activated hidden microphones that enabled him to listen in without the person’s knowledge. Guzmán’s wife, mistresses and associates. expert from Colombia, developed a more high-tech spyware system for phones and computers belonging to Mr. Later, Christian Rodriguez, a 20-something I.T. Whoever - your friends, our enemies, your compadres.” ![]() One associate, Miguel Angel Martínez, recalled Chapo telling him, “The most important thing in that environment was to know what everyone was thinking about you. Around that time, he also began obsessively recording the calls of his wife, lovers, associates and enemies. In court, his reddened skin looked like melted wax pulled over his scalp.Īccording to witnesses, El Chapo heavily invested in wiretapping and spyware equipment over the decades, becoming obsessed with secure communications in the 1980s. Over the course of several operations, he structurally altered his jawbone, cheekbone, eyes, mouth, ears and nose.Ĭhupeta also tried to have his fingerprints removed, most likely causing a circulation problem he almost constantly used gloves on the stand. Most memorable were the comic-strip-like features of Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, known as Chupeta, who was El Chapo’s Colombian cocaine supplier. Tirso Martínez Sanchez, who helped run trains filled with drugs between Mexico and the United States for the cartel, said he had several facial-reconstructive operations to drastically alter his appearance, stopping only after he started bleeding out during his third operation. The drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as the Lord of the Skies, famously died under a surgeon’s knife, and several witnesses said they went through extensive operations. Getting too much plastic surgery appears to be an unwritten rule in narco textbooks. And the Mexican federal police, referred to by one witness as “our people,” were said to have protected El Chapo after his first escape from prison in 2001. ![]() Genaro García Luna, the former secretary of public security, was accused of accepting two suitcases stuffed with $3 million. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s top security official was said by one witness - and federal prosecutors - to have accepted a multimillion-dollar bribe from the Sinaloa cartel in 2005. One witness testified that El Chapo paid Enrique Peña Nieto, when he was president in 2012, $100 million in exchange for allowing the kingpin to come out of hiding. Corruption in Mexico is worse than you thinkĭuring the trial, nearly every level of Mexican government was implicated in bribes, including the presidency. Here are 11 of the most important takeaways, in no particular order. Guzmán’s Sinaloa cartel, providing unparalleled insight into international drug trafficking. The trial allowed prosecutors to extensively detail the inner workings of Mr. He now will likely spend the rest of his life in prison. Guzmán, 61, faced 10 charges, including leading a criminal enterprise and the importation and sales of large amounts of narcotics into the United States. After a lengthy 11-week trial, a jury on Tuesday convicted Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo. ![]()
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