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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

"El Mayo's" Move to New York Federal Court is to Avoid Murder Charges of US Citizens

 "Socalj" for Borderland Beat


The agreed transfer of Ismael Zambada García, "El Mayo," from Texas to a federal court in New York is part of a strategy by the defense to avoid the drug lord being tried on murder charges in the 2012 Texas, even though it would mean he faces charges of fentanyl trafficking, said sources familiar with the case.

Both are federal cases but the New York indictment does not have charges related to any murders.

"There are charges that he will avoid in New York and that he would have to answer to in the court of the Southern District of Texas, such as the charge of homicide, which could well be worth the death penalty and would make the trial against him more difficult, and that is why the defense preferred to negotiate with the prosecution," said a person close to Zambada García's family, who asked not to be identified.


Even though New York may be “easier,” the reality is that Zambada García faces 17 charges related to trafficking in cocaine, methamphetamines, fentanyl, heroin, marijuana, conspiracy, criminal association, threats, money laundering, possession of weapons for exclusive use, and international distribution of more than 5 thousand kilos of cocaine.

The file mentions members of the organization, such as Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa, who testified against Joaquín Guzmán Loera during the so-called “Trial of the Century,” and who would be called again.

"There is information showing that Zambada García, along with others, sent, between January 2004 and December 2008, almost 3 thousand kilos of cocaine to the United States, and he did this with the Cifuentes Villa organization," the document reads.

The file also identifies another drug trafficker with whom Mayo would have also done business, a capo identified as Luis Agustín Caicedo Velandia "Don Lucho" from whom Zambada García would have bought more than 100 tons of cocaine between 2003 and 2010, until Don Lucho was arrested and Mayo would make negotiations with other Colombian cartels.

Texas Indictment Homicide Charges

The 2012 indictment in Western District of Texas was against Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia on murder and conspiracy charges connected with drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime. The indictment also charged 22 other people who prosecutors allege are connected with the cartel.


It is two particular acts of violence noted in the Texas indictment that could result in a death penalty sentence should he go to trial and be found guilty; both ordered by lieutenant Jose "El Jaguar" Antonio Torres Marrufo, who was arrested in Mexico in 2011.

 
The 2010 kidnapping and killings of an American citizen and two members of his family during a wedding ceremony in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, because of the belief of ties with rival Juarez La Linea cartel.

The target was the family of the groom Rafael Morales Valencia, all residents of La Mesa, New Mexico. The three were kidnapped at the El Señor de la Misericordia church in Juarez, and another fatally shot at the wedding. Police found the bodies of the groom, his brother and his uncle three days after the wedding in the bed of a pickup truck.

"Based on the false belief that the victims were part of La Linea and that Guadalupe Morales-Arreola worked for the person responsible for his father's death, Irvin Enriquez solicited the assistance of Jose Antonio Torres-Marrufo and his purported team of assassins to exact revenge," stated a news release by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Enriquez was sentenced in El Paso to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to kill in a foreign country.


The indictment also describes the 2009 kidnapping, killing and mutilation of a Texas resident “to answer for the loss of a 670-pound load of marijuana seized by the Border Patrol,” prosecutors said.

Investigators found the Texas resident’s body in Ciudad Juarez, according to the indictment. 30-year-old Sergio Saucedo, who was taken at gunpoint from his home in Texas, in front of the view of a school bus full of children and brought to Marrufo in Mexico.

“He had been beaten and strangled and his hands had been severed above the wrists and placed on his chest, to serve as a warning to those who might attempt to steal from the cartel,” the indictment says.

Two men, Rafael Vega and Cesar Obregon Reyes, were convicted in Saucedo's murder and sentenced to life in prison in federal court. Both have maintained their innocence. A third man, Omar Obregon Ortiz, pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy charges and sentenced to 100 months in prison.


According to the indictment, Torres Marrufo oversaw enforcement activities for the Sinaloa cartel since late 2007 or early 2008, but by the fall of 2008, cartel leaders expanded his role to include overseeing all drug-trafficking activities in the region around Juárez.

He also directed members of the cartel's Gente Nueva organization, which officials in Mexico say he helped found, and the Artistas Asesinos gang, also known as Los Doble As/AAs and Los Mexicles a rival of the Barrio Azteca prison gang founded in El Paso, Texas.


He was extradited to the US in 2019. The following year, it was rumored that "El Jaguar" had cut a plea deal with US authorities in Texas. But in early 2022, he and several others were convicted and he was sentenced to 40 years in prison also for the killing of US Consulate employees in Juarez, Mexico, where Marrufo was a gunman alongside several Barrio Azetca members.



Alleged Los Aztecas Threats

According to author Anabel Hernandez, Mayo decided to transfer to New York due to prison death threats from the Barrio Azteca prison based gang.


“He was threatened with death by Los Aztecas in retaliation for the bloody war that took place for the control of Ciudad Juárez. The old drug trafficker understood that his life was really in danger.”

The communicator assured that even the US Department of Justice was notified about the risks that 'El Mayo' Zambada runs if he stays in Texas.

“The prosecution states: As the leader and founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, to which many members remain loyal and many rivals remain motivated to commit acts of retaliatory violence, the defendant’s incarceration and transfer pose extraordinary security concerns, including risks to the defendant himself and risks to the personnel who incarcerate and transfer him,” it revealed.

So far, the US government has kept the date of his transfer confidential, so it is unknown whether he is still in Texas or has already been placed under guard in a New York prison.

There is still no exact federal BOP record of "Mayo" under the name Ismael Zambada Garcia (the exactly spelling of his name on the 2012 arrest warrant and indictment) or similar format spelling.

Source Riodoce, Borderland Beat, Infobae, CNN, Borderland Beat

101 comments:

  1. Por culpa del Tío Mayo se está destruyendo Cln…. De ser aliados y compadres entre Chapo y Mayo por años a declararse la guerra de muerte entre sus hijos. Ni pedo , la envidia y el ego le llego a la cabeza a los junior's.

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    1. Big Nuts Big Brain TrutherSeptember 12, 2024 at 2:38 AM

      Flashing sign that Mayo is negotiating a plea deal. At mayo's age a death penalty case is meaningless, however, if his indictment is in New York where there is no murder charge for an american citizen a sweet-heart deal will have significantly less criticism! There a lot of nervous politicos in Mexico on a Mayo sweet-heart deal.

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    2. Es negocio y orgullo guey.
      Un jefe chingon no puede ir a la carcel por una traicion sin que haiga represalias.
      EL MF tiene que mantener el respeto de su gente y si se siente que los mismos Chapitos se lo negaron no ay otra cosa que hacer que atacar. Son capazes de entregarlo a este tambien en su cabesa de MF.
      Nada que ver con quien se queda con mas pastel.
      Los Chapitos tambien tenian que entregar a el MZ para negociar algo con el gobierno Mexicano.
      No todo es pinche amor y paz en el negocio de las drogas solo porke los jefes de la mafia tienen dinero.
      Es el uno o el otro.

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  2. That Juarez war was wild .. Marrufo had death squads under his command they had all those underground bunkers he had stuffed with high grade weapons all over Ciudad Juarez .. the torture houses . BB has a lot of archived Juarez war stuff

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    1. I think that war was the worst mexico has witnessed in its narco drug war history

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    2. Agree also the Z and CDG was a shit show back in 2010

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    3. en haciendas universidad hay como 4 casas de seguridad que tienen bunkers que no salieron a la luz, solo una donde le sacaron armas.

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    4. The worst I witnessed is not using Periods.

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    5. The worst I witnessed was capitalizing the word period for no particular reason.

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    6. Connor,can you blow it out your ass?
      Just wondering about yo piles chief?
      And dont forget your period rag ?

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    7. 11:22 thats pretty weird buddy, dont tell me! Let me guess, you are a Gilbertona

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    8. 4:44 PM
      What are you his piles doctor or his arse bandit?

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    9. 'you are a Gilbertona' No imma a sailor why ?

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    10. It was wild was it? I responded again and and again to your bullshit, looks like I have to use a moniker to get posted. You are full of shit. Chief.

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  3. Are there people in US custody saying mayo ordered these specific murders?

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    1. Big Nuts Big Brain TrutherSeptember 12, 2024 at 2:53 AM

      El Mayo always lived in fear the devil would one day come calling for their faustian-deal-debt! beware if you think you can cheat the devil of his due! Chapo found out!

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    2. They'll say anything for favor of release

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    3. The devil has come to collect and he's really girthy down there.

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  4. Mis contacts reportan que en todo sinaloa se cancelaron todas las fiestas del dia del grito.. se rumora que este fin de semana se va a poner sangriento y belikon alv u ya tengo mi popcorn ready foos .... SICARIO 006 IS KING!!!!

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    1. Mucha gente de Culiacan tiene la costumbre de irse a Las Vegas para celebrar el grito.

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    2. 1042am Simon Aya voy andar yo con mi barbie en la pelea del Canelo

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    3. 10:42 yo diria que un chingo de gente de culiacan tienen la costumbre de chivatear

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    4. 11:34 ahi te veo Connor, voy a traer una camisa que diga RIP Gilbertoba, so me ves saludame y te disparo uba cheve

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  5. If I'm not mistaken didn't they just kill 010 mayo close operator in Juarez not too long ago

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    1. 010 is salguiero people and they on chapos side

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    2. si amanecio muerto junto con cajas de drogas en la entrada de chihuahua o juarez, no recuerdo bien.

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    3. If I'm remembering right 010 was an interesting one. He was taken from a racecourse, found dead a few months later but had only been dead a few days, so what was he getting up to in the intervening period?

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    4. Connor you're buddy Mr. T. Sucked at the debate.

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    5. Was no Debate, bait & berate, prosecution by Prosecutor Harris

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  6. Vieron el video donde unos sicarios tenian la imagen de la Gilbertona en el retrovizor como si fuera un santo? 🤣 pense que era puro pedo, pero se estan encomendando a la Gilbertona 😭

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    1. I think you've watched la Gilbertona more than any Sinaloca. You're obsessed with that joto.

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  7. REWIND TIME: 15 YEARS BACK, CHAPO AND MAYO NEVER FATHOM THE THOUGHT OF AN ALL OUT WAR BETWEEN THEIR ORGANIZATIONS.
    LIFE.....

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    1. Actually its been revealed that Chapo blamed MZ for the death of his son. Chapos and Mayos had bad blood for a long time

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    2. Me no read comments with all capitals.

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  8. Very good article, Very informative!

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  9. Supposedly they killed El Panu... thats a big fish in Culiacan when it came to having soldiers

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  10. Pura gente del sombrero

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  11. Pura gente del sombrero

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  12. Reports of el panu being killed and one of the rugrats gente de MF in the shootouts in Quila

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  13. Mayo being transferred cause he feared for his life lololol pinche biejillo

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  14. I remember jaguar/marrufo dude was a serial killer

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  15. HAHHAHAHA chapiza f*cked this old geezer so hard. I know hes in his cell angry and scared todo cagado wishing for revenge. "Me la vas a pagar ivan" lmao!

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  16. El panu got killed last night

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  17. Mayo is going to get shocked how cold is New York. He will never see his wife/daughters again they are also on the indictment

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    1. 6:43 no period, New York is not cold yet, not winter yet.

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    2. Yes, winter too cold, summer too hot and sticky, but New York weather is GLORIOUS in Autumn. 🌞

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  18. Please vote in your upcoming elections for Sicario 006 as the village idiot in your local government. This message is approved by SIC 006. Thank you.

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  19. Puros raritos en Sinaloa qué esperas 😂

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    1. Ya todos sabemos que te gusta la verga de mayate y el Fentanilo..

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    2. tanto coraje que le tienes a los sinaloenses. Uno le metio la riata a tu vieja o que sol ?

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    3. Sol welcome back to the hacienda!
      War has started, may the best cartel win.

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    4. Welcome Sol!!! we are witnessing the decline of the snitch cartel

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    5. Hey Sol, que tan cierto es ese estudio que hicieron a 10,000 Sinaloas y que lea sacaron sangre y al ver la sangre en un microscopio en el 99% de las prubas las celulas se estaban poniendo el dedo (traicionando), es cierto?

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    6. mames sol eres del sur y le quieres tirar a los chinolas ten tantita madre jaja

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    7. Lets do an arse canal on Sol

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    8. 9:12 🤣 esque sol save que a los de Sinaloa les dicen Gilbertonas por algo, y es porque les encanta la de hacen niños, sol solo esta aprovechando las fundas Sinaloences

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    9. Return of the chucklehead.

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  20. Cifunetes will make sure Mayo rots in prison for what they did to his Compadre Roba chivas

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    1. Cifuentes the Colombian cocaine trafficker who testified against Chapo.

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  21. Animo Sicarios !
    Los Patrones have made it clear that all Special Forces Tier 1 Operators that received an autographed picture of El Mayo Zambada , are to destroy it.
    If the picture has El General JGL along with El MZ ,El Azul and Nacho Coronel then you can use a number 9 tactical marker to hide his image.
    Los Patrones have ordered to delete all corridos about MZ and his people.
    Any Operator caught listening to MZ corridos will receive 99 tablazos !
    The tactical Chancla now has spikes to increase the punishment.



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    1. Sicario 006 has autographed pictures of brilliant commanders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on his trailer wall.

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    2. I just threw away my cha 🍕 hat

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  22. Siguen diciendo que murió el panu

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  23. Pues no que muy bravo.

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    1. Esto quiere decir que pinche Mayo no muere en cualquier tierra como los valientes de adeberas.

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  24. Panu updates ? We need more coverage

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  25. Watch someone kill el mayo in prison either in order to silence him or to gain some kinda notoriety........🦉

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    1. theyre not gonna have him in general population.. probably some max security chapo shit

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    2. smurf says sharkies on the hunt for some scary business or whatnot, you know hayrides for the summer. guanajuato says maybe he’ll put one in for a game of darts innabit but jackalope season will be in full force by then.

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    3. El buho 🦉 in da house!

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    4. 1158 el mayo definitely going to make some Mexican dude his wife 🤣

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    5. @1120 — that is NOT the real Buho aka Bujo… YO SOY EL BUJO!! And I do not use that many periods god dammit!

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  26. They had kill houses with custom designed drains for the blood. That's the Juarez war in a sentence.

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    1. Señor- Frozen investments and canceled factories are hurting a major Mexican industrial hub on the U.S. border as nervous business leaders watch a slew of police and troops do battle with brutal drug gangs. For more ideas on how the ATF can help, visit their website at:

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      Following is a timeline of the key events in Mexico's war on drugs in Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas.

      1993 - Drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as "The Lord of the Skies" for flying airliners full of Colombian cocaine into Mexico, takes control of the Juarez cartel in the city, smuggling tonnes of narcotics over the border deep into the United States.

      1994 - Mexico joins the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Canada, and opens hundreds of factories in Ciudad Juarez as exports boom. The city's population jumps as workers from across Mexico seek jobs, but many new arrivals are unable to find work and are sucked into the drug trade.

      1997 - Vicente Carrillo Fuentes takes over leadership of the Juarez cartel after his brother Amado dies during a plastic surgery operation in Mexico City.

      1998 - Police officers from the Ciudad Juarez force and the surrounding state of Chihuahua move into small-time drug dealing in the border city, forming "La Linea" (The Line). They later become enforcers for the Juarez cartel.

      2001 - Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman escapes from a Mexican prison in a laundry van. Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, he heads a coalition of drug gangs from Sinaloa state and vows after his escape to take control of Mexico's drug trade.

      2006 - Members of a street gang known as "Barrio Azteca" in the United States and "Los Aztecas" (The Aztecs) in Mexico, made up of Mexicans deported to Ciudad Juarez from the United States, align themselves with La Linea. Several other street gangs spring up and move into drug smuggling.

      2007 - Vicente Carrillo Fuentes tries to bring order to drug smuggling in the Ciudad Juarez area and gives gangs an ultimatum of six months to come under the umbrella of the Juarez cartel. Some gang members disobey and ally with Guzman, who sends his henchmen to battle the Juarez cartel.

      2008 - Drug killings explode in Ciudad Juarez as Sinaloan hitmen fight the Juarez cartel. President Felipe Calderon sends hundreds of soldiers to the city to try to stem Guzman's the violence, part of the government's nationwide anti-drug crackdown.

      2009 - Drug war violence escalates and cartel kidnappings and extortions soar in Ciudad Juarez. Calderon increases his military deployment to 7,000 troops and 3,000 federal police. But the city becomes one of the world's most violent places, with some 2,750 drug killings during the year.

      2010 - Hitmen kill 3 people linked to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez in March, provoking "outrage" from President Barack Obama. Under pressure from accusations of rights abuses by the army, Calderon in April switches control of anti-drug operations to the federal police. In June, police say they are finally seeing success in cutting violence, but business leaders and residents say the shift in strategy has yet to show results. (Reporting by Robin Emmott and Julian Cardona in Ciudad Juarez; Editing by Kieran Murray)

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    2. @10.26. I was about to type "looks like someone's been reading Julian Cardona or Armando Rodriguez", but you sourced it lol. One turning point: The day Flaco Salgueros men declared war on the state police apparatus, all La Linea, that enforced for Juarez: a list of 4 dead police under the headline "Para Los Que NO Creyeron" and a kill list of 17 more under "Para Los Que Siguen Sin Creer". For Those Who Don't Believe, and For Those Who Continue Not Believing. The weeks after that were chaos, because even though everybody knew what was happening in a general sense a public confirmation like that is always a bomb.

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  27. Gabito is the one who was supposedly killed un Quilá.

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    1. Negativo la unica baja fue comandante coco y no creas que era muy chingonaso 😭 los mayos muy apenas pueden con los chapos el unico que a brincado por la flaca es comanche

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  28. Are you going to post the court Docs on Cheyo's death ordered by el Mayo?

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  29. Juarez was Chapos war, Chapos people and his doing. The U.S. is just trying to pin him with that but everyone knows Mayo has always had a good relationship with the Carrilo's and allegedly MF does know also.

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    1. Word is Mayo was second in command of Juarez cartel behind Aamado Carillo before his so called passing.

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  30. Puro sinaloca buro bongo imma blingo cartel cocko sucko looso

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  31. Bongo blingo papusa chingo

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  32. Chinga tu madre humpo yo mamo malabra wongo woola balloola

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    1. 12:19 hey si mamas pues muy tus gustos 👍

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