"Morogris" for Borderland Beat (formerly "MX")
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| Gilberto García Mena ('El June') was one of the top leaders of the Gulf Cartel from the 1970s to 2001. He was based out of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas. El June is the uncle of Nuevo Leon governor candidate Samuel Garcia Sepulveda. |
Adrián de la Garza Santos, candidate for Governor of Nuevo Leon, attacked his political opponent of Movimiento Ciudadano Party, Samuel García Sepúlveda, by releasing a rare video showing him at a party with several old school Gulf Cartel figures, including former drug kingpin Gilberto García Mena, alias 'El June'.
The video was recorded in 1996 during the fifteen birthday party of El June's son Gilberto Garcia Hinojosa. Samuel Garcia was 10 years old when the video was filmed. His father, Samuel Orlando García Mascorro, is one of El June's cousins and suspected of being a cartel financial operator.
Adrián de la Garza called Samuel García a "liar" because he claimed that his relationship with El June was distant and virtually non-existent.
"Samuel García does know his uncle Gilberto García Mena, alias 'El June', leader of the Gulf Cartel, who is his father's first cousin and not a distant relative as he has claimed," de la Garza said in a conference.
De la Garza also announced that as a result of this information, he will file a complaint to Mexico's Attorney General's Office (FGR) so that they can investigate Samual Garcia's campaign. He claims that Samuel Garcia had expenses in excess of MXN$7.6 million, which he believes may be funded by the Gulf Cartel.
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| Nuevo Leon governor candidate Samuel Garcia (left); Gilberto Garcia Mena, alias El June (right) |
Background from Borderland Beat
Gilberto Garcia Mena ('El June') was one of the top leaders of the Gulf Cartel from the 1970s up until his arrest in 2001. He began his criminal career as a small-time marijuana smuggler in his teens, and later joined the Gulf Cartel under kingpin Juan García Abrego. El June was arrested by U.S. authorities in Texas while possessing marijuana in 1984, but was released without a conviction.
He returned to Mexico, and established a center of operations in Nuevo León. El June was arrested on drug-trafficking charges in 1989, but authorities were again unable to convict him. Released in 1990, he rejoined the Gulf Cartel.
Throughout his criminal career, El June cultivated a social image of a feared kingpin and a benefactor. He donated money to his community, and corrupt officials in the local police and the military facilitated his drug operations.
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| Samuel Garcia and his family are seen posing with Hector Beltran Leyva, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Beltrán Leyva Organization (BLO). A source consulted by Borderland Beat confirmed that the Beltran Leyva were close to El June's associate Edelio Lopez Falcon ('El Yeyo'). |
El June consolidated his criminal empire by building a profitable marijuana-trafficking business with his brother and nephews (his criminal faction was known as Los Aerolitos), and successfully defended his turf from rival criminal groups.
He befriended Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, who became the undisputed Gulf Cartel kingpin, during the late 1990s. El June had disagreements with other Tamaulipas-based traffickers, however, who eventually plotted his downfall.
A source consulted by Borderland Beat for this report confirmed that the video that was released today was filmed in Las Bugambilias, a ranch owned by late Gulf Cartel smuggler Edelio López Falcón ('El Yeyo'). El Yeyo was killed in 2003.
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| Edelio Lopez Falcon, alias El Yeyo, former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel in Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas. This picture was gifted to Borderland Beat by one of El Yeyo's relatives. His Wikipedia page was also created by Borderland Beat in February 2019 and includes over 110 sources. |
Several Gulf Cartel and political figures attended this ranch when El Yeyo was alive, including El June, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, Zetas founder Zeferino Peña Cuellar ('Don Zefe'), and former Miguel Alemán mayor Raúl Rodríguez Barrera ('El Chupon').
Both El June and Don Zefe relied on corrupt Mexican military officials to run drug trafficking activities in Tamaulipas. In 1997, they had early Zetas members Arturo Guzman Decena ('Z-1') and Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano ('Z-3') as bodyguards when these two were stationed near Miguel Aleman municipality.
This group of military members would later become the foundation for the creation of Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel's former paramilitary group.
Sources: Milenio; Noticias en la Mira; MTY Telediario; El Norte; El Universal; Blog del Regio; Borderland Beat archives
Note: This article includes excerpts from the Wikipedia page of Gilberto Garcia Mena, which was created by Borderland Beat reporter "MX" in January 2019. It includes over 165 sources.
They was real bosses about the business
ReplyDeleteShout out to frontera chixa y Roma tX
The info is like porn to BB readers.
DeleteThat video tho. Damn. What a hidden gem. Samuel lied this whole time saying El June was a distant relative. But now we know where all his money comes from.
ReplyDeleteIs june dead? I have uncle's and first cousins I haven't seen in over 20years.since my fam left baltimore.dont talk to em they don't talk to me.its always possible they aren't close
Delete@9:13 - Recent sources say he is still imprisoned at Altiplano. But I have some links from 2014 or so that say he was released. But he's alive, that's for sure.
DeleteSigue preso.
DeleteEso te lo puedo asegurar.
MX, there was another important subject by the name of Mario Salinas i think he was also gulf cartel of back in the late 80s ,90s..he escaped from San Antonio TX prison. Did he ever get caught or killed?
Delete1:05 carlos azcarraga arrested for trafficking heroin in tejas, escaped at gun point, in the 70s, his daddy was the owner of televisa and founder of XEW, BUT the azcarragas are texans.
DeleteHe's never been found, i think tejas LAW ENFORCEMENT has an arrangement with mighty people of means, they also silenced Lee Harvey Oswald to prevent him from talking about JFK's murder, some tejas rangers do not know where their horses' front end is.
Dirty move, he was just a kid it’s not like he had a choice, he grew up in that life style this isn’t somebody that joined the cartel
ReplyDeletethe point is he lied about his relationship with el June, MULTIPLE times. look him up on youtube... stupid move from him if you ask me. he should have accepted it before and then this wouldn't be news.
Deletethe guy has been spending massively on the campaign. makes you wonder where the $$$ comes from.
3:27 carlos salinas de gortari and his brother raul shot dead their family maid when they were about 6 or 7 years old,
DeleteLa Samuelita does not have a right to lie as an adult, and specially not as a Movimiento Ciudadano candidate aiming for a presidential future,
We have seen MC jaliska governor enrique alfaro, no good...
3:42 100% Facts
DeleteSamuel is a frequent customer at sonora grill prime in San pedro mty nl. You gotta have $ to be in there
ReplyDeleteLet me guess. El cuate Mtz was there too? Jajaja I remember reading your comments. It’s not that expensive. It’s like any good restaurant in a big city in Mexico. If you are from the US it’s just like any US restaurant.
DeleteI second that
DeleteIt’s very expensive
I'm a teacher and even I can afford to eat there.
Deleteits not that expensive. dishes are in the 20 to 40 scale. if you eat there every week than yeah. but this is a high-end steak restaurant. you'll probably spend more anywhere else in the US that is considered "high-end".
Deleteexpensive? try Pujol in Mexico City. ranked among the best restaurants in Mexico and the world. I think I spent like 150 USD there per person. But its AMAZING.
Those places are just to show off you eat better at a food truck
Delete@12:15 Not always tbh.
DeleteTheir steaks is fire !
Delete11:47 in Mexico they charge you 150 peisos for a taco dinner per person, styrofoam plate and plastic cuttlery extra, in peisos, and you paid in dollars because you misundastuud the bill, LIKE A US PENDEJO!
DeleteShow the Pujols bill and prove me wrong
12:53 - i don't have the bill anymore but here's a magazine that talks about the price. 128 USD if converted with no drinks
Deletehttps://www.forbes.com.mx/forbes-life/cuanto-cuesta-comer-en-pujol-el-mejor-restaurante-de-mexico/#:~:text=Este%20men%C3%BA%20degustaci%C3%B3n%20tiene%20un%20costo%20de%202%2C554%20pesos%20con,3%20mil%20332%20pesos%20mexicanos.
8:18 what do they serve there pure virgin japanese Wagyu Steaks?
DeleteI refuse to pay more than 40 dollars for a steak, on the US, regiomontanos are famous for their tight fisted ways and beans and cents counting, they may have been corrupted after carlos salinas, marcial maciel and kombo kolombia made their bines there.
Bb has it right. La ultima letra was formed in Miguel Aleman/frontera chica. their presence in Nvo Laredo and Matamoros came much later. I have family in Rio Grande City close to Miguel aleman and Camargo. These capos were heavy hitters deep in the game but not widely known because Juan Abrego and Oziel got most of the attention
ReplyDeleteThe El June-Don Zefe-Yeyo-Hector Beltran link really explains the whole Zetas-BLO alliance during the early 2010s. I think most of us at the time just assumed it was an alliance born out of the fact that CDS and CDG had teamed up to take out the Zetas. But really, the high-ranking original Zetas likely had been business associates with the Beltran Leyvas a decade before the war started in 2010.
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DeleteThe article does not state Zetas were formed in that location.
5:29 Im sure they were doing business way before the year 2000, its a small world in the drug trafficking business the top guys probably all knew each other
Delete2:52 - it does say z1 and z3 were based in miguel Aleman, tamps, which laid the foundation for what came next. the zetas were not formed overnight so that's the misconception. the earliest trace of them working with Cdg was in miguel Aleman.
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DeleteYes, it says that but it doesn't follow from that they were created their nor does the article state that as the comment @3:29 says. The person misread it.
Veracruz Favorite son Miguel Aleman Valdez whose daddy committed suicide before being captured by his enemies was a murdering senator who killed competing candidates for governor, army captain fernando gutierrez barrios went to be among the Original DFS agents, along with veracruz/lebanese miguel nazar haro, compadre of Commander Julian Slim Helu, all of them torturing murdering criminals who became dealers of drugs and stolen car traffickers, handling communists, league 23 of september and sinaloa cartel along with contra training camps in veracruz before the zeta members were born...
DeleteMiguel Aleman also developed Acapulco as the Cancún of the Pacific, but he wanted to be perceived as an honest man for history purposes, they were all CIA assets and Litempos.
How the fuck did they find these videos?
ReplyDeleteReaching out to family or friends of Samuel Garcia who do not agree with him politically.
Delete@4:07 - I was told that Adrian de la Garza got them through his contacts in the government. El June's videos were in the possession of the Attorney General's Office since 2001. I read about them in El Norte's print archives, but had never seen the videos before. Keep in mind De la Garza was Attorney General in Nuevo Leon and held roles in counter-surveillance and intelligence under this department.
Delete11:33 Joaquin Hernandez Galicia had saved the newspaper with pictures of Carlos and Raul salinas de gortari, 5, 6 or 7 years old who had shot the house maid dead, be wise and save everything, though it may cost you your ass, la quina had to do many years in prison for not bending over for salinas and his Neo-Liberal Oligarchic Narco Satrapy and BS and the mexicans got carlos romero deschamps up the ass lubricated with PEMEX OILS and Huachicol.
DeleteBeltran Leyva too? If this guy wins the election it will show you how fucked up democracy is in Mexico. Blatantly electing politicos who have ties the cartels. If Mexicans can’t help themselves, no one can.
ReplyDeleteMajority of politicians are crooked regardless of country.
DeleteOne of the oldest democracies bro,huge corruption England Liverpool council selling million millions of pounds of land to the Chinese i was reading,the fuckin mayor no less so corrupt motherfuckers everywhere,not on the scale of Mexico obviously but.Politicians should be drowned at birth man,worst kind of venal hypocrites
Delete5:02 foreign interests elect a lot of mexican politicians, just like Citizens United, russian financed NRA and TEA Party operators, also foreign money laundered through international gambling and secret partnerships like that of Sheldon Addelman, hiding where RICO ACT does not apply...
DeleteWow this fukin great!
ReplyDeleteA lot of Mexican politicians had genuine connections with traffickers back in the day and were willing to be around them, to some degree. That changed when Mexico became a bloodbath, the federal government mobilized the military upon its citizens, and cartel extortion became the norm. Now it completely behind closed door. It’s a known secret but the burden of proof still exist.
ReplyDeleteMy family is related to El Yeyo and others are related to el Yune. They worked together...and just because we’re related doesn’t mean we hung out. I have brothers I don’t talk to...
ReplyDelete6:03 - I’m from Chihuahua but my wife is from Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas. She is related to the family of El Chupon. We don’t talk to some of them that were involved with Zefe and June. Many of these narco families are all over now. Monterrey, Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, Austin. Loaded with money.
Delete- El Choclo
@6:32 true. A lot of these old school big timers are out of the game or dead. We hardly saw them other than at a big family event because they were always on the road. El Yeyo was a music promoter. I’m surprise BB hasn’t mentioned this. At Las Bugambilias is were he held concerts and horse races. My cousin named his ranch “el zarape” after Yeyo gave or sold it to him
DeleteThat would be fine in this case, but the campaign spending is a big red flag. There are obviously still financial connections. When he gets into power who do you think is going to start asking for favors?
Delete@7:03 - BB has mentioned El Yeyo before and said he was a promoter of shows and a music enthusiast.
Deletehttp://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/09/edelio-lopez-falcon-el-yeyo-background.html
I also wrote his Wikipedia page and went into more detail on this, but my hands were tied since there were not enough third-party sources that talk about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelio_L%C3%B3pez_Falc%C3%B3n
He financed the music group Duelo, right?
@ MX
DeleteSomeone told me
El yeyo might be the godfather of the head vocalist of Duelo
Also @MX If you look up...
Deletehttps://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2014/06/19/16-charged-alleged-large-scale-marijuana-trafficking-organization
I have family involved in this case but I don’t frequent with them..
I just don’t believe people should be held accountable for being related to someone that chose a different life style. Just look up who “Whitey Bulger” brother is.
It’s a political game to ruin someone’s reputation. I’m not taking sides, it’s just not fair play. But hell if del la Garza wants to sign his own death certificate, more power to him. “El que nada debe, nada Teme”
12:28 - Is that the El June in question? I read about it but since the last names are switched up I wasn’t sure. If he’s out of prison you would think he’s laying low since he has a lot of money and the rules have changed.
DeleteDe la Garza is not completely clean. He was linked to that Zetas guy based in Europe. Check this out:
https://elpais.com/internacional/2016/10/25/mexico/1477346499_211107.html
12:31 - Thanks for the info!
DeleteMX...last I knew he was still locked up but as you read your n the link. His son is running things and he’s keeping a low profile as every one in this business should. The one that broke open this investigation was a tractor trailer driver...
Delete@12:31 the accordion player to duelo is El Yeyo’s nephew...also one of the members of Intocables might be related too. In our family we refer to them as “los musicos” because he has several nephews in the music business.
Delete1:46 Los Temerarios and los Rehenes de fresnillo like geupo Bronco, don Pedorro Rivera, lupillo and jenny all are associated to NL musical promotors, herencia de aguililla, bandas, grupos all over, all the way to colombian musical garbage have had narc ok spinsors, but none became federal senatore like la Samuelita...
DeleteYeyo is the uncle of the accordion player of duelo they are a big family he is also the uncle of a lawyer in rio grande city falcon law office yeyo was cousin to el rolis also from Miguel alemán el sefe was a wild guy met this guy a few tomes yune had a brother el pitufo he was crazy also los rios were his nephews aka los aireolitos its was a good time back then it all went to shit with los Z im from rio grande it was good time back then when u could work and work well
Delete@3:56 - Zefe is alive and we have some idea on his location abroad based on some ground sources. Cannot release it but please email us and we can connect. What other stories you have about him? Thanks!
DeleteMi tío es albañil y yo soy mecánico y tengo un primo que es halcón y de vez en cuando le gusta asaltar .
DeleteExcellent report BB.
ReplyDeleteMX, i Can tell you’re passionate about researching and informing us about the Mexican cartel wars. I see it in your keen eye for sources and detail. May your interests & skills take you places and I hope to read you now and in the years to come.
Are you still researching about the early Cartel del golfo era? I hope your book is going well.
Please do I feel like the gulf cartel before 2010 was a real cartel much more organized and powerful than most sinaloa sindicates (not all) but there’s not a lot of info on their capos besides the famous ones I feel they were more powerful than CAF Juárez Sinaloa and Michoacán but not blo would some of the readers share stories in tired of scum ass Cjng anda cds news
DeleteI agree with this person , thank you for your passion and detail . Id buy you a beer if i could !
Delete@6:26 and 9:18 - Thank you! I'm mostly interested in the Gulf Cartel, so when there's a story about this group I usually have way more background info than usual.
DeleteYes, I'm still working on the book. It will cover the early Gulf Cartel from the 1930s under Guerra all the way to the foundation of Los Zetas, at least for Part 1. It will include exclusive photos, interviews I've done, old newspapers only available in print, and more insight into this era. Some of my research has come to a stop because I'm unable to visit libraries in Tamaulipas or conduct in-person interviews due to the pandemic, but things will slowly start to pick-up again.
@bloodbath357 - I'll take you up on that!
@11:43 What do you know about Don Pepe.
Delete9:18 Sinaloa had Sonora and Arizona quietly all for themelves, but the main guy in charge was arizona's former DEA agent, SHERIFF "Apache" Arpaio and NOBODY MESSED WITH THEM FOR DECADES, remember they took it from Joe Bananas and shared for a little while with Sammy The Bull Grabanos for ratting on John Travolta, i mean Gotti...
DeleteNot for nothing arpaio got a presidential pardon and rudy giulianni is in the russian mixiote...THEY ARE ALL IN ON IT AND THEY KNOW IT.
MX I’m looking forward to this the fact that the gulf had direct ties to a very powerful president, was they 1st DTO to tell the Colombians they have to pay in product they had the best assassins I just feel like there are a lot of untold stories not made up corridos like now. But not a lot of info there’s a reason why the 37 most wanted list by calderon I think 20-25 of them were from la compañía
DeleteU:46 giniral felix galvan galvan had a lot of enemies in the melitary and genarco garcia luna had a lot of targets, and they were not going to leave the competitors alone, then EPN got elected and the elite members of society went at each other's behind with thirsty knives, their cartels furnish the dead rabble for cannon fooder.
Delete@9:18... I hate to burst your bubble golfo fan boy .. but Juarez in its hey-day has been everyone’s daddy ... no one has reached that level of power yet
DeleteI have lived through this situation a few times already. Despite that, I still like to rumba.
ReplyDeleteHello MX. I also thank you for your research and content. Have you considered occasionally posting installments from your book on BB? I understand all is in draft at this time, however I would enjoy reading and it may help generate buzz for the finished product. Not sure if you will publish under a pseudonym to maintain privacy or not so that may be a consideration as to whether or not you want to post excerpts here.
ReplyDeleteOnce the book is nearly finished, for sure! I will do posts in the form of series (Part I to III or something like that). The posts will include some of the exclusive pictures too.
DeleteBut if I release the info too early (before my book is close from being done), the info would get shared, recycled, and some of the pictures "stolen" by other sites. It has to be shared at the right time. I'm thinking I may include BB watermarks for pictures released here, and then keep the unedited pictures exclusively for the book, not sure yet.
As for my identity, I'm on the fence. It may be a lot easier to promote the book if I release my identity (similar to how Buggs did it to promote BB's book). But I live in Mexico so no idea what the best course of action is.
8:09 how old are you mamasita?
Delete8:25 MX is a man lol you sure like to call him Mamacita lol
Delete10:05 - Are you sure about that? lol
DeleteLol Samuel Garcia in the video looks a lot like Chapo..
ReplyDeleteWell, back then El Chapo and Arturo were very good friends, many Sinaloans have been studying in monterrey, marcial maciel's dirty ways were still a secret closely guarded by the catholic church, even his secret lover Martitha Sahagun had not sold her ass to fox but they were close, miniwoman martitha's uncle federal cuico francisco sahagun baca must have trained her well too.
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