History and fall of Beltran Leyva

When you put together all the information sheets available, the irrationality of criminal violence that shook Mexico acquires logic.

That logic has a name: Arturo Beltran Leyva, this is his story, the war began on a Monday. On January 21, 2008. A board of Hummer vehicles, and heavy fuerteartillería, more than 300 elements of the Airmobile Special Forces Group of the Mexican army, GAFE, were positioned around a residence in the colony Bureaucrats.

Culiacan. According to the Ministry of Defense, an anonymous caller had indicated that the smaller of the Beltran brothers Alfredo, alias El Mochomo, expected at that address a shipment of money destined to resolve outstanding commitments with their Colombian partners.

According to the statement of a drug trafficker known as El 19 which he joined the witness protection program under the "Jennifer" (PGR / SIEDO / UEIDCS / 0241/2008) key - the army had obtained the location of El Mochomo through a soldier who managed to infiltrate his inner circle, and was known as El Chamaco. "El Chamaco GAFE managed to call to report the location and low security conditions , " said "Jennifer".

The military had to postpone the operation for 10 hours because they detected some men on the roof of the house. Near dawn, the gate opened. It came a BMW white van with four men aboard. Elite soldiers blocked their way. The crew surrendered without a single shot. Inside the house was $ 900,000 11 fine watches, an AK-47 and eight short arms. A corrido reported the next day: "The Mochomo was the henchman / that the cartel needed / but on January 21 , his career cut him."

The news of the arrest of Alfredo Beltran Leyva, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, led by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman and Ismael El Mayo Zambada, was presented as the most important coup carried out so far by the government in the war against narco that FelipeCalderón had decreed. The Attorney General of the Republic, and specifically in the General Office of Special Investigations on Organized Crime, SIEDO, caused an earthquake. The cell led by Hector Alfredo and Arturo Beltran Leyva brothers had violated the tallest structures of the institution, through monthly payments of between 150 and 450 thousand dollars, as then showed the so - called Operation Cleaning: officials higher level SIEDO carried out arrests, raids and leaks, on behalf of the cartel.

That day several public servants were walking nervous. They had received reports that the Mochomo would be arrested, but "OFDI could do nothing to avoid it ". Operators expected the call to Arturo Beltran accounts.

They were called the same day. One of the top lieutenants of the group, Sergio Villarreal, El Grande, met with the director of Intelligence SIEDO, Fernando Rivera, as well as commanders Milton Cilia and Roberto Garcia. According to the statement that Rivera surrendered shortly after as a protected witness under "Moses" the key, the Great told them that Arturo Beltran Leyva was pissed off: "I wanted to know who was going to kill. All received money from him and no one told him of the arrest of his brother. "

Officials explained that he had not worked that case, "it was a matter of GAFE, the high command of the Department of Defense." The Great demanded the list of soldiers who had taken part in the operation, as well as the "original reporting" of detention. Rivera director promised to get them . Not only that , according to the statement of "Jennifer" before two in the afternoon had given the military reports, the name of the infiltrator who had provided information to GAFES, full copies of the statements Mocha had given before the SIEDO ... and a sketch that marked the exact site where the capo was being held.

Rivera reported that "from 11 pm onwards and would not special army forces be present, and that would be only 11 officers guarding the building of the Federal Investigation Agency, AFI". He told El Grande "With the delivery of one million pesos for AFIS and three million would be handed to Fernando Rivera and his people, he would be achieved neutralize the set of guard and allow an armored van broke the fence access to the SIEDO ".

The Great -relata preliminary investigation SIEDO / UET / 6668/2008, estimated about 150 people gather for the assault. However, when weighing the risks, he decided to cancel. Alfredo Beltran Leyva was detained in the prison in Puente Grande.

The capture Mochomo caused a split in the Sinaloa cartel. There is a version that El Chapo negotiated capture under Beltran, in exchange for the release of his son, Archibaldo Guzman, alias El Chapito, who was detained in the prison of Altiplano since 2005: only three months after the The drop Mochomo, El Chapito was released.

Another version says that Arturo Beltran met with El Chapo Guzman and El Mayo Zambada asking them to help him rescue his brother. Cartel bosses asked him time, but at a second meeting he explained that "no conditions" to effect the rescue. The Mochomo should be "sacrificed".

It is believed that the drug blood alliances are indestructible. The Mochomo was married to a cousin of El Chapo. Arturo Beltran, however, left that meeting with the idea that the alliance was broken. From now on he would collect death by death, detention detention. El Chapo and Mayo knew. They wanted to get ahead.

In late April 2008, the same month that The Chapito was released, there was a shootout in the colony Guadalupe, Culiacan. A house, which was allegedly one of the sons of Arturo Beltran was attacked by elements of the Federal Police, supported by local police. They killed five bodyguards and two ministerial agents. Arturo Beltran accused the federal armed debrazo serve the interests of El Chapo and ordered his people kill cops where found. He put narcomantas in which one could read: "Policemen, soldiers, that they be clear, the Mochomo continues to weigh. Atte. Arturo Beltran Leyva ". And also: "Tin soldiers, federal straw, here is Arturo Beltran territory".

One day after the shooting in the Guadalupe colony, four officers of the Federal Preventive Police, PFP, were shot dead when patrolling the center of Culiacan. In Imala, two municipal policemen were executed. Throughout the city attacks on local police they were verified. 800 PFP agents concentrated in the Plaza de Sinaloa.

Thus ended April, the month when the demons were released and started the confrontation over 2008 left the company a balance of 156 thousand executions.

infiltration

On May 7, 2008 a catch of the Federal Police was installed at kilometer 95 of the Autopista del Sol The PFP had just received information filtered by the Mayo Zambada. A convoy he was traveling Arturo Beltran cross at any time that place. Responsible for coordinating the capture was the regional director of the PFP, Edgar Eusebio Millán. The data provided by the Zambada was good: Five suspicious vehicles left the Hotel Motel Rosales, where Arturo Beltran had just had a meeting. The agents marked them high. The members of the convoy fired back . He began a chase that ended in Xoxocotla, with several mangled cars, catching nine dead gunmen and two federal agents. The truck he was traveling Arturo Beltran managed to evade the siege, one of his bodyguards hit a patrol to make way for his boss.

May Zambada, however, had considered that possibility. The data leaked to the PFP indicated households in the state of Morelos where Beltran Leyva could take refuge. The operations inspector Edgar Enrique Bayardo, the official who had received the filtration - and operated as contact El Mayo inside the PFP-, contacted the drug czar of the corporation, Gerardo Garay, and said , "We located several homes here in Morelos. We are focused and ready to go. "

The drug czar stopped him: "Stop everything. Return immediately to Mexico City. "

Five months earlier, through an alleged wiretapping, the director of Combat Organized Crime of the PFP, Roberto Velasco, Beltran was located in a mansion Frost Street, in the Pedregal de San Angel.

Velasco told the drug czar: "People are placed at strategic points." He called green light to launch the arrest.

But Garay refused to give the order: "Hold on . Let's wait for us later on . "

According to the ministerial declaration of a protected witness, the agent of the Drug Enforcement Division, Fidel Hernandez (PGR / SIEDO / UEIDCS / 359/2008), directed by Garay were criticized by his subordinate: "But boss, I have evidence that Arturo Beltran is here. "

Garay, however, insisted: "Dismantle the service."

Edgar Millan, the man who had given chase to Arturo Beltran on the way to Xoxocotla, was executed hours after the chase, when he came home from his parents in a building located in Street Camelia, in the Guerrero colony. Although only a handful of people had access to their itineraries, a leak emerged from the ranks of the PFP, through the agent Jose Antonio Montes Garfias, put in the hands of Beltran location of the site that the police chief was to address. The order was swift: Millán should be eliminated.

Montes Garfias The agent opened the locker officer and stole the keys to the house where he lived parents. He gave a duplicate -as well as 40 thousand pesos and 75 grams of cocaine to a low - riding gunman, Alejandro Ramirez Baez, who joined a commando made ​​up of five people. Millan hitmen waited in the garage of the building. They had turned off the lights. When the police chief through the gate, they got 11 shots. (The hitman Ramirez Baez was submitted by Millan's bodyguards. Thus the weft threads are untied.)

A week earlier, Roberto Velasco, the man who held the siege of Frost Street, was killed in a street of the Irrigation colony. The real revenge of Arturo Beltran arrived, however, 24 hours after the shooting in Xoxocotla. It happened on the other side of the country, on May 8, 2008, the night that five trucks surrounded Edgar Guzman, another son of El Chapo, in the parking lot of City Club, a shopping center in Culiacan, Sinaloa.

In implementing 500 shots they were fired and a grenade launcher was actuated. The blasts shattered walls, windows and vehicles. In addition to the son of El Chapo, a nephew were killed drug lord, Caesar Loera, as well as the son of a washer of money to the DEA had christened Empress.

Culiacan psychosis unleashed. Local media did not dare to break the news. Only they did two days later, attributing the information to newspapers and news agencies in Mexico City. The blood of the son of El Chapo was still wet on the floor, he writes a witness, when he ran the version that the head of the Sinaloa cartel had sworn to wipe off the face of the earth to the Beltran: Cell who ran it was not going to be stone unturned.

In less than a month, however, El Chapo absorbed two new hits. Leaks of intelligence services Beltran led to the arrest of one of his cousins, Alfonso Gutiérrez, after a bloody shootout in a colony of Culiacan, and a nephew, Jesse Martinez, near a subdivision of that city.

The murder of the son of El Chapo was part of the same attack that killed the police chiefs and Velasco Millan.

Millan, the commander gunned down in his parents ' house, he had been the "brain" of the Secretary of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna, in antinarco operations. His death caused a change in the command structure of the PFP. Genaro Garcia Luna put in place, with the position of Commissioner, an old friend and companion Cisen, with whom he had closely worked its way through the AFI: Gerardo Garay, the drug czar who twice had frozen operating Beltran Leyva capture.

Garay lasted only a few months on the job. On October 15, 2008, a new filtration group El Mayo, placed in the hands of his touch, the inspector Edgar Enrique Bayardo, mobilized the Federal Police. In a luxurious residence of the Desierto de los Leones, which had a private zoo with panthers, Siberian tigers and lions, it was to be held one narcofiesta to Harold Mauricio Poveda would attend, the main Colombian partner of Arturo Beltran.

In the statement he gave up when it was discovered that El Mayo Zambada was paid up to $ 500,000 per detainee enemy, the inspector told Bayardo how was carried out the operation. The commissioner Garay let out Harold Poveda, but stopped the rest of the guests. Then 30 prostitutes lined up against the wall, selected four, turn on the boiler ordered jacuzzi, asked cocaine for girls, invited one of his subordinates to "take a bath" and closed the door of the room.

"Now the party started!" He said.

Before we dive into it, the commissioner made ​​his agents obtain the homes of those arrested were Colombians and to mix them in search of money. Mauricio Fino drug trafficker, The Seagull, offered to give $ 500,000, he said, he had kept in his apartment. Bayardo was asked to go to collect the money. He returned to the house with fajillas stuffed in two bags that were stamped figure of Winnie the Pooh.

According to the PGR / SIEDO / 359/2008 statement, when Garay left the jacuzzi, he unveiled and alcoholic breath, heard barking a bull dog that estimated the agents, "also worth a shitload of money." The PFP official asked: "Pónganmelo to go".

There are no data on how Arturo Beltran Leyva recorded the blow from El Mayo to their Colombian partners. But five days after narcofiesta in the chess game that leaks from both sides they unleashed an anonymous call came to the PGR. "At home located on the street Wilfredo Massieu number 430, Colonia Lindavista, there are several armed people and drug traffickers. They are people of El Mayo Zambada and if they can stop go ". At one o'clock the evening of October 20, the SIEDO surrounded the house and found that inside the younger brother of El Mayo, Jesus Zambada King, and son, Jesus Zambada Reyes were armed.

Zambada King immediately understood that was a dead end. "I'm going to raffle off , " he said. His gunmen opened fire on the agents. As the bullets erupted, King scored insistently to Unefón of contact, the inspector Bayardo. He wanted "his godson , " as he said, to send him reinforcements. "We're grabbing chingadazos" he said.

"I, godfather, I will, " replied the inspector. But it did not reach. Or that home, or anywhere. The phone number to which the King had scored and then gave statements that Jesus Zambada Reyes, ended the career of Bayardo. The inspector was arrested five days later and hosted the program of protected witnesses. His statements involved in the sale of protection to drug trafficking to the main controls of the Ministry of Public Security and the Secretary Garcia Luna close circle. Among other officials fell Commissioner Gerardo Garay, the head of Special Operations, Francisco Navarro, and the director of Tactical Analysis, Jorge Cruz.

As had happened with the SIEDO, were drug traffickers who leaked reports and tidied catches. Were drug traffickers who had full control within the PFP.

The Garay commissioner was accused of serving two masters: the cartel Beltran and the group of El Mayo Zambada. A judge ruled formal arrest in October 2008.

Before he was killed a year later in a Starbucks in Mexico City, the inspector Bayardo revealed the basis of the agreement: receiving leaks, practice wiretaps, allowing operators cartels interrogate captured enemies and then submit arrests "as achievements of the PFP."

the megacártel

In 1997, the former driver of General Jose Gutierrez Rebollo, Juan Galvan Lara, first mentioned in a dossier to the Beltran Leyva brothers (PGR / UEDO / 226/97). They were from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, and were part "of the 11 people" who worked closely with The Lord of Heaven, Amado Carrillo. According to the driver, controlled Plaza Mazatlan. Ever, the Lord of Heaven had bothered with them because they were entering drug without their consent: "Son chingaderas ... you go to work when I order".

On the death of Amado Carrillo, a report by the DEA he said the Juarez cartel had rearranged around Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, The Viceroy, Ismael Zambada Garcia, El Mayo, Juan Jose Esparragosa Moreno, El Azul, and Marcos Arturo Beltran Leyva , El Barbas.

Arturo Beltran was a distant cousin of El Chapo, as the key protected witness "July". It was Beltran who introduced his relative in the cocaine business. In 1993, when El Chapo was held in Almoloya, and later sent to Puente Grande, the Beltran were in charge of its structure. He sent money to the prison so he could spend seclusion with luxury - food, mariachis, prostitutes and supported financially costly preparations for his escape.

After the flight of Puente Grande, in 2001, El Chapo organized a drug summit in Cuernavaca. They attended by some 25 heads. El Chapo had the best contacts. Relationships that assured him not to be disturbed. Before the 25 leaders charted the future unite Ismael El Mayo Zambada, Ignacio Coronel, Juan Jose Esparragosa Moreno, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes and Arturo Beltran Leyva in a federation that controlled the squares in the country, he snatched Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas to the Gulf Cartel and hit the Arellano Felix brothers, their historic enemies, to deprive them of Tijuana. (A version indicates that the Chapo was himself who leaked the information that allowed the capture of Benjamin Arellano Felix.)

In front of the war that the Federation would unleash in Nuevo Leon was Arturo Beltran Leyva. During the time he remained in prison El Chapo, the Beltran had managed to form one of the strongest cells of the cartel. Not only they knew thoroughly the group operation "had been his heart."

Although the witness ever "July" Arturo Beltran regarded as a flamboyant man, El Barbas had kept a low profile. It is missing time to leave the folios name of the files and install itself on the front pages of newspapers.

The bishop Arturo Beltran in the battle for Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas was a Texan gunman who had steeled in the Neolonesa border: Edgar Valdez Villarreal, La Barbie, one of the worst murderers in recent history of organized crime.

Beltran and Barbie put together a group of assassins known as The Pelones and sent them to contest the square. It was clear it was going to be a bloodbath. The safety circle Gulf leader, Osiel Cardenas Guillen, was formed by former military elite army deserters and others. The violent Zetas.

To make way for the incursion of Los Pelones, Beltran and Barbie recruited prominent ministerial police and agents in the state. A commissioner of the PFP, José Luis Figueroa, revealed that both drug traffickers had offered the Command Center director AFI, Domingo Gonzalez Diaz, four million dollars. The deal: capture Osiel Cardenas Guillen and change the commander of the AFI by a person they would point to him. A junior Gonzalez Diaz, Francisco Garza Palacios, received one million dollars in exchange for providing official protection group activities.

El Chapo operators were also associated with businessman Jaime Valdez, a former police agent, who was hired as a recruiter. (The relationship with Valdez ended badly: Arturo Beltran accused him of stealing 450 kilos of coca and ordered his execution. Valdez was ambushed received 10 shots from AK-47 Although he managed to save life, he became a paraplegic..)

At the same time, he began fighting in the streets. Shootings, torture, kidnappings, disappearances, checked daily in the state.

In 2003 the battle for the runner Gulf took a new turn. Osiel Cardenas was arrested by the army in a spectacular operation. It seemed to capture strengthen the members of the Federation and the trafficking of drugs remain in the hands of a single group. But it was not: after the fall of Osiel, Los Zetas became independent, and a group of hitmen less prepared, and more violent, took the reins of the Gulf Cartel.

In August of that year the Sinaloa side faced rivals in one of the central streets of Nuevo Laredo. The confrontation lasted more than an hour. In place more than 700 caps is percutieron. 200 municipal police officers were suspended and taken to research. The first sinaloense advanced had failed.

A few months later, the Federation was broken off. Bonnets that were involved felt that Vicente Carrillo, The Viceroy, head of the Juarez cartel, contributed little to the group and instead demanded a lot. The straw that broke the camel 's back was a dispute over the rights of flat Rodolfo Carrillo, El Niño de Oro, younger brother of The Viceroy personally he executed two operators who had moved El Chapo drug without their consent.

Everything could have under before Saturday September 11, 2004. But El Chapo was unwilling to forgive. He asked his partners head of The Golden Boy.

That Saturday 11 September Rodolfo Carrillo and his wife, Giovanna Quevedo, arrived at 16:00 to 1:00 Cinépolis Culiacan. They were escorted by the commander of the Ministerial Police, Pedro Perez Lopez, who had survived two attacks Arellano Felix. When the function ended, the couple left the parking lot. The Golden Boy would address his car when a command is rafagueó on several fronts. Police recovered 500 cartridges floor. Major Perez Lopez repulsed the attack. He was wounded, but managed to radio for help. Within minutes, elements of all corporations around the parking lot and threw themselves in pursuit of the gunmen. The shots rang out in the streets. Five gunmen were killed.

The Federation shattered: October 6 of that year came the reply message Vicente Carrillo. Miguel Angel Beltran Lugo, El Ceja Guera, notorious Sinaloa cartel member, was shot to death in the prison of Almoloya. Two months later, a younger brother of El Chapo Guzman Arturo El Pollo, was executed in the area of call centers the same criminal. Weapons that took the lives of both drug traffickers had escaped all controls.

The Three Caballeros

In early 2005 , a sonorense reporter, Alfredo Jiménez Mota, revealed in the newspaper El Imparcial operations of a drug gang known as Los Tres Caballeros: Arturo, Alfredo and Hector Beltran. According to research, controlled drug trafficking in Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa, and were linked through cronyism and other family ties, with the most powerful band of Sonora, who commanded Raúl Enríquez Parra, The Nine. The operating arm of The Three Caballeros was composed of two criminal groups, The Güeros and numbers. Drug traffickers had inherited the structure of an old master of the region, Hector Palma Salazar El Guero. His presence in the state dated 1998. They had an runways (one of which was called "Fumigation Guzman") and a fleet of aircraft with overflying the entity between 12 midnight and four in the morning. They are receiving institutional support "of the three levels of government."

The reporter Jiménez Mota information came from a classified by the Interior Ministry document that was entitled: "The Three Caballeros. Drug Trafficking ". The document stated that the Beltran visited separate entity, were staying in properties on behalf of third parties and were protected during their movement by a former commander of the municipal police Cajeme, Carlos Sanchez, who belonged "to the first circle of CEO of the state Judicial Police, Roberto Tapia Chan ".

Beltran shipments were escorted by judicial patrols along gaps and earthworks. On several occasions they had managed to flee aboard their aircraft, operating mounted by the army.

Jiménez Mota disappeared in April 2005, shortly after publishing his report. She had just told a friend who was to meet with one of his sources, "which had felt very nervous." His body was never found. His superiors knew he prepared a series of works involving people close to Governor Eduardo Bours in selling protection to Beltran.

A reporter's disappearance was followed by the death of drug trafficker Raul Enriquez Parra, The Nine. He was found on a farm, wrapped in a blanket. His executioners had tortured him wildly. Then they threw his body from a plane. According to the statement of Municipal Police Lt. Jesús Francisco Ayala, deaths and reporter were connected drug dealer.

El Imparcial journalist said Lt. expected a telephone recording that placed Ricardo Bours, former mayor of Cajeme and brother of the governor of the state, as institutional contact Beltran Leyva in Sonora. The official said the state prosecutor Abel Murrieta, the head of the State Police, Roberto Tapia Chan, director Navojoa police, Luis Gastelum, as masterminded the kidnapping. The boost would have been done by orders of the latter. A group of municipal police stopped the reporter and gave Numbers (the group of Raul Enriquez Parra). According to the witness, the recording Jiménez Mota was waiting contained a conversation between the head of the State Police and the drug dealer Raúl Enríquez Parra, in which the brother of the governor was mentioned as protector of the mafias operating in the state.

Jesus Francisco Ayala had been for two years, driver Luis Gastelum. He had witnessed meetings between his boss and The Nine, in which the death of several characters was determined. One day felt knew too much. Gastelum not that was soon to go for it. "I had witnessed many meetings where orders were given to remove people , " he told the reporter Ricardo Ravelo. He decided to join the program protected witnesses.

Governor Eduardo Bours called fraudulent version pointing to his brother. "It is not possible to be given importance and are indicated guilty , " he said.

When Joaquin Lopez Doriga announced the testimony of two kidnapped women who had heard a telephone conversation between his kidnappers and the police chief, Roberto Tapia Chan, all hell broke loose. Successive federal raids ranches and houses in which, in addition to weapons, cars and jewelry, lions and tigers were seized. One version says that Raul Enriquez Parra was accused by the Beltran to "warm up " the square and ordered his execution.

In formal terms, the great debut of Los Tres Caballeros in the press occurred a month after the murder of reporter of El Imparcial. Jiménez Mota had fallen short. In addition to extending its tentacles in Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa, the Beltran brothers dominated 11 states of the Republic. The start of the Fox administration had meant its golden age. They were operating in Guerrero, Morelos, Chiapas, Queretaro, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Quintana Roo, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Mexico State and the Federal District. His power even played "house number one of Mexico" had managed to extend its power to Los Pinos, through a dark character who coordinated the presidential tours: Nahum Acosta Lugo.

Contact Los Pinos

In February 2005 the DEA reported a telephone conversation between Nahum Acosta and Arturo Beltran Leyva. Acosta, a character middling in the Sonoran PAN, had served as a delegate of the National Migration Institute and had been involved in a corruption scandal as a result of which the US government withdrew the visa. In 2001, however, the PAN Manuel Espino recommended it as area director in coordinating presidential tours. When the DEA placed in the hands of Mexican authorities a telephone recording in which Nahum alternated with Arturo Beltran credits, Attorney Rafael Macedo de la Concha opened an investigation that was soon leaked to the press.

In those days the PGR attended an anonymous report indicating that Cerrada de la Loma 17, fractionation La Herradura, State of Mexico, had detected a movement of armed people, and the presence of Arturo and Hector Beltran brothers.

OFDI files revealed that this address was crimped with the arrest of a drug dealer whose agenda had appeared the phone number 52 94 41 11. That number had been assigned to the house located at Cerrada de la Loma 17. The contract it was in the name of Clara Laborín, wife of Hector Beltran Leyva.

The authorities requested a warrant and searched the home. Beltran had vanished. But police found two million in jewelry and several BMW vans, among other armored vehicles. He also found a business card in the name of Nahum Acosta, a phone book in which this officer appeared under the caption "Presidency" and five audio cassettes in which Hector Beltran had recorded several conversations with his lieutenants. In one of the tapes, Beltran asked to deliver a certain operator Nahum five thousand dollars. In other recordings, Nahum Acosta showed chatty and spoke with Beltran of its activities, presidential tours, the places he had visited and diseases of their children. One day he said he had helicopter fly over his house; another urged him to finish as soon as possible "business Acapulco".

The security guard who looked after the division reported that the inhabitants of the house seemed very rich, who had continually inputs and outputs of armed men, and who had recently been visiting "one of the presidency of the Republic, surnamed Nahum" , who had introduced himself as "the Presidential".

Nahum Acosta was accused of leaking government information first-level organized crime. According to the Attorney Macedo de la Concha, the evidence against him were "serious and convincing". He had proven received five thousand dollars sent by the capo. As if missing more, the number of registered Beltran appeared in his cell.

Acosta defended himself by saying he did not know the criminal activities of Hector Beltran, and had only visited this house with intent to rent it. The deputy attorney general, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, said, "I believe that none of the public servants we are currently desempe could have financial capacity to rent one of these houses, with six levels and this wealth." Nahum's salary was 79,000 pesos.

The scandal Beltran placed in a visibility range who had never had. Paradoxically, according Santiago Vasconcelos, he served to boycott the investigation. Despite the "serious and convincing" evidence of the Attorney Macedo, a judge freed 60 days later Acosta "for lack of evidence to prosecute." Later, the PRD would launch him as a candidate for mayor of Agua Prieta. According to the president of that party, Jesus Ortega, Nahum Acosta was innocent. "That's the legal truth," he said.

the narco

In 2005 the operating arm of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Beltran Leyva brothers, had open battle fronts throughout the country. He lunged in the corridor of the Gulf Tony Tormenta, brother of Osiel Cardenas Guillen. She faced in Tijuana Arellano Felix. Chihuahua upcoming every centimeter of territory to the cartel led by Vicente Carrillo and Nacho Coronel. He had absolute control of Sinaloa, Sonora, Coahuila and Durango. His association with the family had opened, from Michoacan, the Pacific route.

In the folds of the state of Guerrero, Beltran had fincado one of its main operating centers. In exchange for a million dollars bought favors operating deputy director of the Ministerial Police, Julio Lopez Soto.

"They worked without problems," said the driver of the police chief. As demonstrated later, also they controlled the main controls of the AFI highlights in the area. Its enforcement wing, Los Pelones, consisting of 350 gunmen, many of them recruited from the Mara Salvatrucha, moved freely by the state, showing heavy weapons.

One morning, the assistant principal who bought the Beltran was raised by Los Zetas. Tony Tormenta had sent 120 of them to contest the square, with a message of his lieutenant, Gregorio Saucedo, El Caramuela: "That was going to slit the mother to all pelones and all those who took part in the distribution of million dollars that gave Julio, assistant principal, and receive a greeting from Mr. Goyo Sauceda. "

Arturo Beltran's deputy, Edgar Valdez Villarreal, The Barbie, took note of the message and decided to return the greeting. He did the prime time execution of one of Los Zetas who came advanced to the territory.

In May 2005, three former soldiers from Nuevo Laredo were located in Zihuatanejo for Barbie. A command of men dressed in black, whose uniforms appeared acronyms AFI, he rose. It did not take long to confess that belonged to the Gulf cartel. They also confessed that in the bay of Acapulco was waiting for one of his accomplices.

The Zeta who was waiting in Acapulco would be the star of a narco that shook the country. His name was Juan Miguel Vizcarra and had reached the bay simulating spend in the company of his girlfriend, a holiday. Vizcarra had confessed to his partner his true intentions: "What I do is take people, and we are here in Acapulco looking for people on the other cartel; we are looking for some guys who entered our territory and killed members of the Zeta family. My mission is to take those responsible ".

He added: "We are at the mouth of the wolf, because if we catch the police, they will not take us to the authorities, but with the heads of the organization."

On May 15, the Zeta received two calls. When hanging the first time, he said: "They caught those idiots in Zihuatanejo". When hanging the second: "We're screwed, and caught two of my detachment ... you catch one catch them all."

That's how it went. Vizcarra and his girlfriend tried to leave the hotel to return to their state. At the door several men were waiting acronym AFI.

That morning the weekly Process- -relata the Gulf Cartel tried to contact the attorney general's office of the Republic. There was no success. They left a message: "The commanders of the places of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo, yesterday, arrested five Zetas, which were given to people of Arturo Beltran ... if they are not made available within a period of 48 hours untie a war against these two places, no matter whether old or new agents will even get up to the national press the holder of the AFI ".

But the Zetas were not made available: they were handed over to La Barbie. A bride Vizcarra they let her go.

That same day the members of the detachment were videotaped, his face disfigured punches while meekly responded to questions thrown by an unseen interlocutor. Towards the end of the recording, the caller, La Barbie, Vizcarra approached with a gun in his hand and unleashed a shot to the temple: "What about you, dude?".

The narco sparked a federal investigation, launched by the attorney José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, in which they were involved one deputy commander of the AFI, a regional leader and a dozen agents. Suspects were part of the circle of the then director of the AFI, Genaro Garcia Luna. He also unleashed a series of mass executions. Soon they were killed a security chief of the City Council and a lieutenant commander who had infiltrated the Pelones. In July 2005, the former attorney general, Jose Robles Catalan, was shot while having breakfast in the La Perla restaurant. In the three months following the disappearance of 27 tamaulipecos it was recorded. Four of them were buried alive. Shootouts and chases became commonplace on the streets of the port: in January 2006, and Pelones Zetas engaged in a skirmish that lasted 30 minutes. One evening appeared a dismembered man. Its members were divided into five plastic bags. Beside him, a card: "There's your people, but you protect Affirmation, soldiers and other corporations follow you Edgar Valdez Villarrreal (barbie), Arturo Beltran Leyva, and you, Lupillo, still laughing you'll find. Sincerely, La Sombra ".

The assault

The investigation opened by Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, following the spread of narco Acapulco, prompting operators Arturo Beltran move their pieces within the OFDI "to calm things down." But Vasconcelos remained a stone in the shoe of Beltran. It was he, indeed, who had led the investigation that revealed his ties to Los Pinos. It was he who had handled the case of reporter Jiménez Mota, untying the operation of flames covering the state of Sonora.

With the change of administration Santiago Vasconcelos had left the Deputy Attorney General, to proceed to the legal area and international affairs at the PGR. The man who after 14 years in fighting drugs known as one the bowels of drug trafficking in Mexico was under the protection of a handful of bodyguards. Arturo Beltran decided it was time to settle accounts.

On 17 December 2007 several luxury SUVs, one with US plates were installed on a street south of the city. Managers of a hamburger business described the individuals who manned as "men with facha bodyguard". Several bikes with antennas and communication equipment approached them. Suddenly, the group moved to Fuentes del Pedregal. His mission was to reconnoiter the route Santiago Vasconcelos covered daily to get home. The plan was foiled by chance. That morning, alerted by the suspected presence of vans, 15 patrols City police cordoned off the area. Five subjects were arrested.

, However, he did not stop the operation. Army deserters had developed the plan and recommended the necessary weapons to penetrate the high armor that was gifted the car of former deputy attorney general. Beltran knew that Santiago Vasconcelos arrived home at 12 pm. To prevent it from happening before, a new command addressed three old pickups, one model 1971. The plan was to shut off the official convoy, consisting of four cars, and drive a grenade at his vehicle. The rest of the group then would come down from the trucks, spewing fire.

José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos was not detected by the gunmen. He had decided to take, from that day, a holiday. The nervousness of one of the assassins struck a patrol, who came to check the vehicle. Inside were three men with guns and vests with the initials FEDA (Special Forces Arturo).

Vasconcelos was aware of the plans of the Beltran that night. Responsible for communicating the arrest of the killers was his successor in office, Noe Ramirez Mandujano, a year later formally remain in prison on charges of bribery and organized crime, accused of receiving payments of $ 450,000 in exchange for putting the SIEDO under the orders of the Beltran.

The connection Morelos

22 October 2008. At the gates of the Attorney General of the state of Morelos, three vehicles await the departure of the deputy attorney general, Andrew Dimitriades Juárez. The order is executed. Within the units there are 12 men, each with a long gun. The group leader is an agent of the Metropolitan Police called Esteban Royaceli. They tell The Royal. One participant in the execution-an agent nicknamed El Negro recounted later: "From the Attorney we were going to warn when she left the attorney Dimitriades, and at about 10 pm we were warned that came out in a white car, two escorts. the persecution was initiated by the Zapata Avenue. "

Dimitriades warned that they would follow. With the throttle, he took the Mexico-Cuernavaca highway, towards Acapulco. They started shooting from Megane. Black said: "He was shot the driver and crashed into a fence and that's when everyone started shooting Dimitriades".

The previous month had been killed the police chief of Jiutepec, Jorge Alberto Vargas, and his driver. The command led by Esteban Royaceli gave them the "Cerrón" when they left the house official. They went both to a van and taken to a safe house.

"He was claimed that if there were settlement, why had not respected," said The Black.

The police chief had just Dimitriades make available a group of gunmen Beltran, who was arrested in possession of several firearms. The fact miss the "fix" earned him being tortured for two hours before Royaceli was decided to assassinate him. His driver was hanged with a rope. The Royal cut the index finger of his right hand, and thrust it into his mouth, rolled into a $ 20 bill. The two bodies were abandoned on the road to Temixco.

According to the PGR / SIEDO / UEIDCS / 166/2009 research, executions had been ordered by Alberto Pineda Villa, The Clearing, one of the main operators of Arturo Beltran Leyva in the state. The investigation revealed that deletion and his brother, Mario Pineda Villa, MP, had created an army of gunmen composed of murderers recruited from the streets and co-opted in the local police.

But that was not known until later, when Royaceli and The Black were arrested in the State of Mexico at a time when driving a cargo of weapons.

So far, implementation of Dimitriades created a climate of hysteria in the state. Secretary of Public Security of Morelos, Luis Angel Cabeza de Vaca, was criticized for not acting to stop the murderers: in 066 had received more than eight calls reporting the shooting. When the press asked whether there were data on the presence of the Beltran brothers in the area, Cabeza de Vaca said, "If there is the presence of drug trafficking in the state, the PGR itself carry out the necessary investigations."

Cabeza de Vaca ignored the recent assassination of chief operating officer of the Ministerial Police, Victor Enrique Payan. They had found in the trunk of your car, with grace shot, bruises on his neck and a message that read: "This will happen to all who walk with Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, Ismael El Mayo Zambada and Ignacio Nacho Coronel ".

On the night of May 5, 2009 there was no doubt in any case, the penetration of drug trafficking in the state. A Federal Police investigation culminated in a residence located less than 100 meters from the house of government of the state president, Marco Antonio Adame. In that house a party is checked. Someone had brought a pig. The guests were carnitas. Elements of the Indian group were ordered to enter. Two helicopters illuminated the facade. Two armored assault trucks stopped in front of the gate. The feds did not find the man they sought, Alberto Pineda Villa, Erase, but stopped his uncles, and parents of this. They were 73 and 59 years respectively. They were also six long arms and short-seven.

Raquenel Villanueva attorney was hired to defend them (would be massacred in Nuevo Leon on August 9, 2009). In the days that followed, 10 narcomantas appeared aimed at Felipe Calderon, with threats to Genaro Garcia Luna. One of them said: "Felipe Calderon are aware of our actions, but in total disagreement involving parents, siblings and other relatives; is a global rule that has existed at all times (the family is respected) ".

The statements gave The Black and The Royal after his arrest in the State of Mexico led to the capture of the commander of the Ministerial Police, Salvador Pintado, with 11 grams of cocaine and over weaponry reserved for military use. He had been identified as responsible for negotiating with the government of Adame a set of key positions for Beltran organization.

The arrest of parents Erase, capturing Pintado and the statements of the murderers of attorney Dimitriades, they formed a highly explosive cocktail. The first to suffer the effects was the Secretary of Public Security of the state, Luis Angel Cabeza de Vaca (the same who doubted the existence of drug trafficking in Morelos). The Black and The Royal identified him as protector of the Beltran cartel. When he was arrested by the army, his wife published an ad in which he stated that the official "only received orders" Governor Adame. A judge ruled the formal imprisonment for the crime of collaboration in organized crime.

The second fall was the Secretary of Public Security of Cuernavaca, Francisco Sanchez Gonzalez. The third, the state attorney general, Francisco Coronado. The shock wave ran irrepressible. On May 10, soldiers arrested in Yautepec 34 municipal police, as well as the local Public Security Secretary.

Within the structure of the Beltran Erase he had the task of receiving information leaked by OFDI. An agent of the AFI, Francisco Javier Jimenez, Pinocchio, was the contact that connected him with the technical coordinator of that corporation, Colorado Miguel Gonzalez (another of officials detained during Operation Clean). According to the investigation 0241/2008, the deletion was also responsible for "hook" to Noe Ramirez Mandujano deputy, now subject to prosecution in Nayarit. The level of the Clearing in the cartel was like Sergio Villarreal, El Grande. The arrest of his parents put him beside himself.

Information handled by Process notes that in October 2008 the Secretary of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna, was intercepted on the road to Tepoztlan for an undetermined number of gunmen traveling in armored vehicles. According to the weekly, Garcia Luna would have received the following message: "This is the first and last warning to you to know that we can reach you if you do not comply with the agreement."

DEA version that circulated Erase, desperate parents prison, asked Arturo Beltran Leyva execution Secretary Garcia Luna. No report Beltran's answer, but indications that started his own "cleaning operation" within the cartel, in order to pacify the state. On September 12, 2009 the body of Mario Pineda Villa, the MP, brother of the Erased, was found in the Autopista del Sol, at the height of Huitzilac, with a banner saying: "So the traitors and the kidnappers end. Here is the MP ". It was signed: "The Boss of Bosses".

Days later, the body itself appeared Delete calcined in a car in Jantetelco. In just over a month 25 executions. All accompanied with blankets, cardboard, messages: "This happens to the kidnappers, I ask all citizens not get me wrong, it is for the good of all, carefully El Jefe de Jefes".

With two tortured bodies found in Moyotepec this narcomensaje: "Command: Rafael Deita Lopez (aka tears) armed robbery, Maximino Lopez for burglary and theft of copper light and strength and Telmex, you know that this square it has always been mine we were wrong to put a couple of traitors and cowards like mp and deletion of which you learned the tricks, do not be a coward ... my people and I are ready to fight anyone, I do not care who you support chapo, magician, nacho Colonel, wolf valence and Michoacan, we will not allow kidnappings and extortions stop threatening families. Atte. Boss of Bosses".

That was the month when Hector The Black Saldana and three companions were found in a van in Miguel Hidalgo, west of Mexico City, with a message signed by El Jefe de Jefes "By kidnappers. Job 38:15 ". (Job 38:15. "Then the light was removed to the wicked") That was the month in which the mayor of San Pedro Garza, Nuevo Leon, half a year ago had been recorded when he said he had come to an agreement with the Beltran Leyva to stop the kidnappings in the city, announced the death of the Black Saldana I -¡cuatro hours before the police found out!

Saldana was a drug trafficker linked to the Beltran. Following the arrest of an operator of these, he managed to seize the St. Peter's Square and began kidnapping of family members of the business elite of Monterrey. He demanded ransoms of up to five million pesos and even made up to three kidnappings a week. The mayor of San Pedro, Mauricio Fernandez, was recorded at a meeting of entrepreneurs to those who confessed were Beltran, not the police, who had prevented San Pedro Garza deteriorated: their families lived there, before trafficking drug safety are interested in them.

"In other words, or assemble all this security apparatus that they are not against because it is for their own families too ... I do not know how to tell you, that is what I will try to do, so now I'm realizing which it is not as complicated as I imagined, because Beltran Leyva own agree ... it is more arranged than you can imagine, if we go fast. "

The new strategy of Arturo Beltran, was to pacify the territories where it operated in exchange for the authorities stop traffic? Some analysts believed warn that El Barbas ran all kinds of winks to the federal government.

Since his break with El Chapo had returned to ally with Vicente Carrillo, he made a pact with Heriberto Lazcano, established relations with the successors of the Arellano Felix. Not only it controlled the northern border, but also the Pacific corridor. According to Jorge Fernández Menéndez, while El Chapo had the best contacts and operating capacity to bring drugs into Mexico, Beltran took the border and much of the coast.

The confrontation between the two capos explained violence in the country had lived submerged. It was not a fight, says Fernandez Menendez for control of the territory but for the survival of their cartels.

In the worst days of the fray with his former ally, Beltran had put this narcomanta: "With all due respect to his inauguration President we ask you to open your eyes and realize the kind of people you have in the PFP us we know that you have no knowledge of the arrangements that have Genaro Garcia Luna from the six years of Fox with the Sinaloa Cartel that protects the Mayo Zambada, to Los Valencia, Nacho Coronel and Chapo Guzman ... we put people to combat the narco neutral way and do not tilt the balance to one side. "

I knew I was on the hunt that ended in the fractionation tower Elbus Altitude, on December 16, 2009.

The Battle of Cuernavaca

This is the legend that has been printed in newspapers, magazines and ministerial statements. Saturday December 5 Arturo Beltran Leyva was best man at a christening in Puebla. He remained in the state until Thursday 10, the day he decided to return to Morelos. His convoy was so spectacular that drew the attention of the Ministerial Police. He came the shooting. People walking along avenue Blacksmiths Boulevard Hidalgo and dropped to the floor. Two court were injured and a municipal died.

Beltran had outrun five of its gunmen and 11 vehicles. He fled by helicopter from the hotel Villa Florida. According to the operating director of the DEA, Anthony Placido, he was wounded. Admiral Jose Luis Vergara, a spokesman for the Navy said no: the next night reappeared at an inn in the division Lemon Tree, just outside Tepoztlan. Lieutenant Manuel Briones, former agent of the Metropolitan Police who joined the cartel as a successor to the Clearing, was responsible for their safety. Briones depended Falcons army in the state performing surveillance work: he was held responsible for the murder of 40 of the "uncomfortable" members of the criminal organization.

The assassins Beltran had left behind in Puebla were flown to SIEDO facilities for questioning. One version says that the Sinaloa capo had been detected by the DEA since he visited a plastic surgeon at Hospital Angeles Puebla. The crossing of data caused a security cabinet meeting was decided to deliver the information to Admiral Jose Luis Figueroa. Since the presidency ordered the operation run by the Navy.

Around two o'clock, when the music reached its greatest intensity, the operation began. The sailors stormed the fractionation. Neighbors reported that the shooting lasted two hours. Beltran returned to his henchmen leave behind. He fled in a Toyota vehicle, possibly in the company of Barbie. Briones, responsible for their safety, went down a ravine and hid in the underbrush for a whole day. City of Cuernavaca and SIEDO agents appeared in the division when the shooting was more dense, but withdrew without taking part in the operation. The Navy said 40 people, 11 of whom were gunmen. The rest, musicians and prostitutes. In the house they were found $ 280,000, 20 weapons, 700 thousand munitions. There were three dead (including a neighboring fractionation). The vehicle in which the capos had allegedly escaped was found in Cuernavaca. He had traces of blood on the handle of the left door and the front seat. One version says that Beltran was again detected by the DEA after receiving medical care in a hospital in the Morelos capital. He had left an address occupied by the department in the condo Altitude.

On December 16 members of the security cabinet were informed only 20 minutes in advance that the Navy would start operating in Cuernavaca capture Arturo Beltran Leyva. the head of the 24 Military Zone was asked, General Leopoldo Diaz, covering the perimeter.

According to documents consulted by Ricardo Ravelo reporter, a cook said Beltran Leyva was going to eat that day, precisely with General Leopoldo Diaz. He also stated that the capo was in the company of Barbie, but he disappeared before they started actions. Beltran had been told by your safety circle, Los Zafiros, about strange movements on the street. According to the spokesman of the Navy, I knew they were for him from one in the afternoon, four hours before the shooting initiated when a helicopter flew over the set Altitude: "He already knew. When he heard the noise of the helicopter he realized that, then he went to his place and prepared to face; he knew that sooner or later would come for him. "

At nine in the evening, six gunmen, Beltran began the defense. "He was involved in the shooting against us, I think that talk that I was not injured," said the spokesman.

According to the Navy, from noon until five in the afternoon, the members of the special forces evicted the inhabitants of the 12 towers that form the set Altitude. More than 100 troops were deployed at the site. the order to attack was given: from armored vehicles powered machine guns marine 7.62. Beltran and his men responded from the windows of apartment 201 with grenades and AK-47 bursts.

Two gunmen who were on the ground floor opened fire on members of the Navy. "They were killed immediately." Three others resisted the siege for four hours. A Marine was hit by a frag Granada in the emergency stairs. It was decided to stop the incursion until the park Beltran ran out. Meanwhile, they continued to attack armored vehicles. Two assassins Beltran died in the room. When he realized he was lost, a third, the son of a famous narco, El Chalo Araujo, jumped through the windows to commit suicide. During his fall, an expansive bullet burst his back.

The last meal of the Chief of Chiefs, the man who bought wills in exchange for millions of dollars and smuggled cargoes were measured in tons; man jewelry, exotic animals, ranches, palaces, planes, consisted of some eggs with ham given sips down a Coca-Cola plastic. He had sent two masseurs, one 18, another 44, with whom he spent his last hours.

According to the Navy, at nine p.m. Beltran opened the apartment door and confronted the troops with intentions to flee into the elevator. They shot less than three meters away. One of the bullets tore the shoulder rennet.

The first photos show him, not in the apartment door, but inside it with an energy drink by hands. According to the official version, the sailors found him with pants on his knees and raised his shirt to his chest. "I think he was wounded and maybe loosened her clothes, pulled him and was remaining in that position. And was well, "said José Luis Vergara Admiral.

A photo showing three masked civilians wearing red sweatshirts and latex gloves, pulling down his pants up past the knees, and placing the body on a white sheet. In a third photo, the same characters begin to unfold, macabre, jewelry and tickets bloodied on the body.

No official explanation of the vexation of the corpse offered. Neither the identity of the masked civilians.

The Admiral Vergara said the goal of the Navy was to capture the offender alive. "But he assumed an attitude of not getting caught." In a ministerial act that the authorities have not released, the two masseurs claimed that Arturo Beltran had surrendered, his last gesture was to surrender before bleeding to death in a luxury apartment.