New York.-the Colombian drug trafficker Juan Carlos Ramírez Abadía, alias “Chupeta”, the U.S. Government witness in the trial to Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, detailed links between the Sinaloa cartel, led by the Mexican kingpin, and the Norte del Valle, d which he was part.
The “El Chapo” Guzman. Photo: AFP on the second day of his testimony, Ramirez, nicknamed “the man of a thousand faces”, also told how he met the Mexican drug trafficker in 1990, when it began to sell cocaine for the speed with which the Chapo transported the drug from Mexico to United States S.Ramirez, extradited in 2008 to the United States from Brazil and is pending to learn his sentence, explained that before see the Sinaola cartel leader, already was with other members of this organization, including the Arellano brothers Félix and Ismael “the “Mayo” zambada and his brother Jesus “the King” Zambada, who already testified in this trial. In his testimony, he told how, after having problems for shipment of cocaine “of quality”, he proposed to the Chapo in 1993 a route change across the Pacific on shrimp boats.” I told them that I had so much confidence in this method that you would send 10,000 kilos (in the first shipment), that it would come out of Buenaventura, in Valle del Cauca (Colombia) “said.” Asked by the Prosecutor’s Office, said that the members of the cartel told him they would bring the load to the Mexican State of Guerrero because there the Chapo allegedly had contacts with the police, before transporting it to Sinaloa (North) and from there to the border States Unidos.segun the witness, Guzmán increased its percentage of profit of 40 to 45 per cent claiming the so-called payment of bribes to Guillermo González Calderoni, who then was in charge of the office in Guadalajara of the directorate general of security of the Attorney General’s office.
Tweets of Eduardo Balarezo, one of the lawyers of Joaquin Guzman ‘ #ElChapo’ generates tension with prosecutors leading the trial.
Balarezo said that the Prosecutor’s Office should better use the resources of the Government of the United States rather than be presenting “frivolous motions”. pic.twitter.com/1AbYRj7AYA— José Luis Arévalo News (@JLANoticias) December 1, 2018 the enormous of the Chapo, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, said during the process to Calderoni as the recipient of the alleged payments to allow them the traffic drug. Alias “Chupeta” assured that the Chapo said that “it would have to make arrangements with the Navy, which would increase costs”, an increase which then not worried the Colombian drug trafficker because “they put the price his work”, although as a “businessman” he confesses that it attempted to negotiate downward. Ramirez said that in one night, he came to send 12 to 14 aircraft to Mexico and that between 1990 and 1993 sent cocaine “many” aircraft since Colombia.conto that one of its boats was sunk because of a captain who drove under the influence of cocaine and “I saw ghosts and that the coast guard chased him.” After opting for the use of boats in 1993 and until 1998, the Norte del Valle cartel sent more than 20 vessels with a cargo of about 10,000 kilograms of cocaine each, depending on your version. From 1998, the Sinaloa cartel has reached an agreement with Ramirez of creating a society to 50 percent for the drug trade, and between 2002 and 2005 were using speedboats and submarines built in Colombia, as well as small planes and fishing boats.
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