"Socalj" for Borderland Beat
From an Excelsior Opinion Column by Jorge Fernández Menéndez
They are not included in the count of missing persons that the federal government poorly keeps, but it was one of the most extensive and unpunished criminal operations that we have known. At the end of last March, more than one hundred people, entire families, women, the elderly and children were kidnapped in one night in Culiacán. For Governor Rubén Rocha, these are things that happen. Days later he assured that all of the kidnapped people, 66 he said there were, had appeared alive.
In reality, there were more than a hundred, and nothing has been heard from many of them. Of course, there are no open files in the state prosecutor's office regarding the case. Nobody filed a complaint.
The story is more complex. In March of this year, in Culiacán, in a house that was being remodeled and owned by Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, $20 million dollars in cash that belonged to the leader of the Chapitos “disappeared.” Iván Archivaldo attributed the robbery to the workers and elements of the state ministerial police who were at the scene and ordered the kidnapping of all those involved and their families to try to recover the money.
They say that it was Governor Rocha himself who contacted Iván Archivaldo to return the women and children as soon as possible because the issue had become a national scandal.
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Enrique Díaz Vega, Sinaloa's State Treasurer. |
Sinaloa Governor Meets Los Chapitos
The person who organized the meeting, all according to Sinaloan sources, was the State Treasurer, Enrique Díaz Vega, who according to this version is the one who maintains direct contact between the state government and Chapo's children. Díaz is also very close to the federal undersecretary of expenditures, Juan Pablo de Botton.
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Sinaloa's Governor Rocha. |
The meeting between the governor and the Chapitos took place at Díaz's house, in the Alamos subdivision, property of the Coppel family. At the meeting it was decided to release the family members and liquidate those directly involved in the theft of Iván Archivaldo's money. Those are the missing people who did not return.
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The 4 men Ivan called out, including two law enforcement/military agents, have not been located dead or alive. |
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Water Rights Handed Over
As part of the agreement for the release of the kidnapped people, control of the drinking water boards (a very powerful instrument in the state) was given to the Chapitos, particularly those of Mazatlán, Culiacán, Salvador Alvarado and the irrigation modules of the center and the north of the state.
The Chapitos themselves were the ones who made the appointments that were confirmed by the state government. On the other hand, as had already happened in 2021, the criminal organization promised to become fully involved in the June 2, 2024 election.
This whole story is related to another. Since the murder of Sergio Carmona, in November 2021, a network of secret accounts for money laundering in different tax havens began to be revealed with million-dollar amounts that were supposed to support electoral processes and political projects of Morena candidates. One of those campaigns was that of Sinaloa.
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Morena's delegate in Sinaloa for the elections in which Rocha was elected, was the now governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villareal. In Sinaloa, there was not only highly suspicious and illegal financing, part of which circulated through the accounts of the son of the now Tamaulipas governor, but also an entire operation, already disclosed in detail, by the Sinaloa cartel against the PRI-PAN alliance.
PRD, which kidnapped the electoral operators of the opposition alliance, including the PRI's organizational secretary, throughout the electoral weekend, to paralyze the entire organization, including many key polling station representatives.
Carmona's participation in that plot was reported before his murder, but after his execution and when days later his brother Julio Carmona surrendered to US justice and took advantage of the protected witness system, many details were revealed. Since then, the secret accounts of his brother Sergio de Jesús and many other operations and complicities began to be disclosed.
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Because with the information provided by Julio Carmona, the United States Department of the Treasury organized an international investigation that ended up discovering a wide network of bank accounts with more than $60 million dollars. The fortune of the Carmona brothers, a product of huachicol, according to US media citing sources from the American Union, would exceed $2 billion dollars.
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Sergio Carmona had several accounts in the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands and the Bermuda Islands. The same investigation discovered operations with one of Américo Villarreal's sons, Humberto Francisco Villareal Santiago, with a transfer of more than $20 million dollars in mid-2021, before the elections that year in Sinaloa, where his father, Américo, was a Morena delegate. That money, American investigators assume, was used in the Sinaloa elections.
One thing is certain: the influence of the Sinaloa cartel and particularly the Chapitos in the state reaches notable levels with direct intervention in government issues and positions. There had always been penetration of criminal groups into social and political life, but never at this level and with this dimension.
And with such a specific commitment to participate in the elections both in Sinaloa and in the entire area of influence of this criminal organization in different states of the country. We'll see what course next Sunday's elections take.
Sources Excelsior, Borderland Beat, Borderland Beat, Saga
Lordy hallelujah…. Narrative as grotesque as the videos showing dismembered bodies.
ReplyDeleteIvan is powerful
ReplyDeleteWith regards to you and yes but it looks like his power if in decline nobody would attempt to steal 20 million if he was that powerful.
DeleteHe could've easily have bought himself a security system for less than hundred bucks.
DeleteI would say the opposite is true. If “random” people doing such things, wanna know what his people do, or his friends.
Delete642 and add to the evidence? No mames.
DeleteLeaving $20 million lying around to be stolen by construction workers doesn't show a lot of brains on Ivan's part.
DeleteI wonder what house it was
ReplyDelete20 million is a lot of money. At least he didn’t kill those guys families. As far as I can tell only 4 didn’t make it back. And they were basically the guys that came up with the brilliant idea to steal from the guy that has in hands in everything in Sinaloa. Play stupid games and you win stupid prizes. I imagine the only reason everyone that got grabbed didn’t disappear is because the US is too hot on his trail. Otherwise I’m sure it would’ve been alot more than 4 dissappear.
ReplyDeleteJose Angel Canovio El Guerito o El 90 adviser of Ivan Archivaldo that is the only thing missing on the article but great read!
ReplyDeleteThat’s my first cousin he helps out the Pueblo we are from so much he might be a bad guy but his heart is gold
DeleteI saw a video on tik tok showing workers pulling out money from a house saying it’s chapós wonder if it’s the same Money
ReplyDeleteEmail us the link! borderlandbeat@gmail.com
DeleteI saw that on Reddit, thought it was bullshit but now maybe?
DeleteIt’s on YouTube also. Search for workers find chapos money
DeleteSent
DeleteAll those pus-ies in the government let el chapos pus-y ass kids control em ... Pathetic ... But that because the government is part of it
ReplyDeleteNo. Think about it, if Chapo's son can have more than 100 people kidnapped in one night what do you think they'll do to a single politician who doesn't go along with the flow.
DeleteBro, if there are no complaints open how can this journalist say for sure that they’re still more than 30 people missing since he claims that the number of people kidnapped was more than 66 and over 100. Aren’t complaints filed by civilians? So, these 30 people missing have no relatives to file a complaint or to protest the governments inaction to find their relatives. This mass kidnapping got mass national attention when it happened, I’m sure protesting would at least bring more attention to the supposed disappearance of these 30 people. But I guess their relatives are just choosing to remain quiet instead.
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DeleteSince we speaking on Chapitos.
ReplyDeleteIn Caborca Sonora."Cholo Adan" alleged plaza leader of Deltas killed
https://youtu.be/M4Z23Iir24s?si=DCAZd7_oSXLuI1Fb.
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Wild that ivan is that powerful good for him
ReplyDeletePitin es going after Ivan
ReplyDeleteThat's what I would do.
ReplyDeleteStash $20 million away in Dubai.
Then give myself up.
Snitch on all and their mothers.
Do 7 years instead of life.
Come out winning living the rest of my life comfortably in wealth somewhere in europe .
Snitch on all and their mothers😭😭😭
DeleteIf your cellmate takes you to be his lawfully wedded wife, grin 'n bear it, go with the flow, and keep reminding yourself that there's a $20 million pot 'o gold at the end of the rainbow.. 😅
DeleteIf there was any doubt of the power of Ivan Guzman and his group this article if even partly true shows he is in charge. I mean to kidnap 100 people, and we aren’t talking some poor Central Americans traveling through Mexico, these were Mexican citizens. The operation was conducted and nothing fucking happened. Yeah they sent soldiers but they didn’t do shit. I’m sure the whole op was for show. Ivan is doin whatever in the fuck he wants and nobody will stop him. This article has me convinced, in my opinion, that he will never be brought to justice. He is too powerful and I’m assuming it reaches to the the highest levels of Mexico. I’m sure he has many top Mexican gov brass families located and if there is ever an attempt to get him they will be snatched as collateral. Mayo may be the shit and untouchable, but Ivan is too it looks like.
ReplyDeleteYea I have to agree tbh also there was other article saying how he goes to a bar in Mexico City as well as that he likes to get some fruit drink by a church. I guess he is a better operator than his dad
DeleteYou watch too many movies
DeleteBeware of the toes you step on today because they may belong to the foot that's stuck up your a$$ tomorrow. Pablo Escobar looked unstoppable too but you can always get too big for your britches.
Delete@1054
DeleteAgua de Jamaica?
Yeah, I think I saw that fool! 🧋
Get some balls mi hijo. Giving up before the party even started.
Delete10:20 I would agrue the opposite if he was so powerful then nobody would try him and they did.
DeleteHe didn't kidnap 100 immigrants he kidnapped 100 family members. Stop drinking cartel kool-aid chief.
DeleteThat's the best way. Everyone wins. All people live, on both sides. The American way didn't work. Quit letting America control Mexico. American's are spoiled people. I love America. American's are spoiled
ReplyDeleteWtf
DeleteConfirmado. El levantamiento se inició por qué ese equipo se quisieron fuga con un billete del muchacho mayor. Mataron a su maestro para hacer se ricos en un 2x3 pero se equivocaron. Dios los bendiga.
ReplyDeleteEl Patron Ivan ..el Jefe de Jefes
ReplyDeleteImagine finding $20 million CASH, in Culiacán of all places, and not thinking that you are basically DEAD if you are to take that………dumb asses fkd around and found out.
ReplyDeleteIf they were smart they would’ve came wit ski masks and left Sinaloa
DeleteCarmonas widow is as powerful as any drug trafficker may ne even more so. And she is richer than most cartel bosses. She is the queen of huachicol.
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