CDS: Internal War Continues; Los Chapitos vs Los Damasos and Company

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from Debate

Damaso Lopez Serrano, aka "El Mini Lic"

July, 2017

Last week Dámaso López Núñez Serrano, better known as "El Mini Lic" was handed over to US authorities, and yesterday ; Nahúm Sicarios alias, "El Quinceañero", was captured, the financial operator of the first, these facts indicate a marked  blow to organized crime, but José Reveles, an expert on issues of organized crime and drug trafficking and author of several books on the subject, says in an interview given to the Broken Chair, said that the violence will not end .

The expert said that the captures of the main leaderships of drug cartels in Mexico such as Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Dámaso López "El Licenciado" will have little impact on the decrease in violence and insecurity. "Authorities believe that the capturing weakens criminal groups, but this is not true, the logic indicates that if they do not take away economic resources, goods and weapons, they will continue to hire all the killers who will work for them. " Jose Reveles explained.

"Los Chapitos "

Jose Reveles says that "success is relative, in the delivery or agreement of ''El Mini Lic'' and in the capture of ''Quinceañero'' does not appear any money anywhere, no goods appear, and therefore these people remain strong "The successors, the compadres, the friends, are still present, is the system by which the criminal groups are prolonged in time, they are either compact or dividing as in the case of the Sinaloa Cartel."

THE FIGHT FOR POWER

"El Mini Lic" and his group of assassins held a bloody fight with the sons of his godfather Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera, in order to seize the part of the Sinaloa Cartel that was left without leader by the capture and Extradition to the United States of "El Chapo". Reveles said that members of the cells known as "The Anthrax", "The Montana" and "The Special Forces of Damasos", will be the ones who will fight for control of the groups and will seek an alliance with a strong cartel to face "Los Chapitos ", (Iván, Alfredo and Ovidio Guzmán, sons of the capo Joaquin"El Chapo"Guzmán), and that could be with the New Generation Jalisco Cartel.

"Los Chimales" and "Los Ninis" are the assassins of "Los Chapitos" who face the armed groups of Dámaso López Núñez "El Mini Lic". The expert agrees that the kidnapping of "Los Chapitos" at the "La Leche" restaurant in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, will prevent anyone taking the leadership of the "Mini Lic" cells to make an alliance with the "El Chapo's" sons and the Sinaloa Cartel.

"That paints a panorama of complication, that will not stop, names will appear that we do not know, those who are further down, that in the organization, ie, names we ​​have yet to hear," he explained. In social networks, "The Mini Lic" exhibited money, luxury cars and eccentricities, which will be cherished by the assassins who escorted him and try to seize the empty throne.

The day the  authorities  knocked on the door.  Dámaso López Nunez's wife asked who they were. They identified themselves, they said they were bringing a search warrant. She opened it  and then let them into carry out the search.

The day they arrived to capture him in the luxurious apartment in the area of ​​Polanco district of Mexico City where he was living with his wife, "El Licenciado" went into the bathroom and threw his two cell phones into the toilet.

The elite elements of the Army and the Criminal Investigation Agency of the PGR asked for the phones and passwords to access the information contained in them. "El Licenciado", former compadre of "El Chapo" Guzman, is one of the men who fought to stay in control of the Sinaloa Cartel after "El Chapo" was extradited to the US, refused to do so, and asked for a few minutes to say goodbye to his wife and then cried. 

According to witnesses of these events, it was not the last time they saw "El Licenciado" in tears. From the apartment of Polanco he was transferred to the facilities of the Office of Specialized Investigation of Organized Delinquency (Seido), and there he cried again.

He was emotionally depressed, but also very clear of what strategy to follow. It seemed - I was told by witnesses that he said: " I knew I was going to fall one day and thought carefully what to do and what to say".

He talked of "El Chapo", his compadre, with whose sons, known as "Los Chapitos" or "Los Menores", held a bloody dispute over the domination of the cartel. He was sure that Joaquín Guzmán Loera had not spoken ill of him. "The scolding is with their children," he told them.  Indeed, "El Chapo" never spoke ill of Dámaso López Núñez.

"El Mini Lic"

The authorities, they assured me, did not accept. They told him that it was convenient for him to tell them where his son was, because if not, the sons  of "El Chapo" would find him and kill him.

There was no deal. "El Licenciado" warned them that he would save the information to reach an agreement with the United States government, certain that he would be extradited.


Then came the key part of their conversation. Dámaso López Núñez offered to the authorities to "give up" the children of "El Chapo" Guzman in exchange for not touching his own son, "The Mini Lic".

After a brief stay in Mexicali, Dámaso López Serrano, "The Mini Lic,"surrendered to US authorities at the US Border Facilities at Calexico, Ca, where DEA agents quietly whisked him away surrendered to US authorities.

You can easily figure out what follows. The strategy had been outlined by the father.