Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, Popeye, considers the drug trafficker Leyner Valencia Espinosa, Piranha, a Colombian-Mexican by the close links between criminal organizations that built in Mexico and Colombia.
In his book Surviving Pablo Escobar, which will begin circulating this week in Mexico, Popeye maintains that the Piranha was a key informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to give the whereabouts of Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, who died in a clash with marines in Cuernavaca.
According to Popeye, former head of assassins of the late drug lord Pablo Escobar, Valencia Espinosa was "the man of the DEA" in the operation that ended with the low bonnet and three of his bodyguards on 16 December 2009.
"It helped a lot with valuable and detailed information he had about the mafioso, tastes, lotions, women, family, friends, enemies. Everything was minutely detailed by him to the DEA and Mexican authorities informed until the man was discharged , "said Velasquez in" Piranha: colombo-Mexican drug trafficker. "
Popeye met Piranha in the high security prison Cómbita (170 kilometers northeast of Bogota), which came in 2006 awaiting extradition to the United States. Along with his brothers Dairo and Victor, the drug dealer had worked many years for Beltran Leyva, who supplied cocaine from the Colombian port of Buenaventura, on the Pacific.
According to Popeye, after being captured by Colombian police, Valencia Espinosa "was ratting to the DEA Arturo Beltran Leiva (sic) and alias Conejo". The latter name is Harold Mauricio Poveda Ortega, who also sent the Mexican drug trafficker and whose capture occurred in Colombia in November 2010.
Arturo Beltran Leyva led, with his brothers Carlos, Alfredo and Hector, the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel, and disjointed, which had its main area of influence in west-central Mexico region. Before they had belonged to the Sinaloa Cartel, which were split off to form their own organization.
Piranha was extradited to the United States in October 2007 and, according Popeye immediately began collaborating with the authorities of that country, especially with the DEA, to fight the Beltran Leyva, who had been a close collaborator.
The former chief of hitmen Escobar argues in his book that Valencia Espinosa "today continues to work and is a key part of the struggle of Americans against the powerful Mexican cartels."
He notes that although the drug dealer contacted the DEA in prison Cómbita promising to help the release of three Americans kidnapped by the FARC at that time, that agency "was more interested in all the information Piranha supplied them Arturo Beltran Leiva (sic), Rabbit and corrupt cops in Mexico worked together them for entering large amounts of cocaine from Colombia ".
Popeye tells Process that his former teammate in prison in Cómbita "is so treacherous, that gave the DEA to their own brothers (Dairo and Victor) because they spent money and just to get a reduction of penalty in the United States."
He argues that the drug dealer achieved its goal and is now a free man living in the United States as a protected witness.
" It's still a DEA informant against anyone Valley and North Valley (Colombian regions with high drug activity) arrives to US custody because everyone knows. Also he is known drug trafficker in Mexico much, because he worked there, and the DEA is working on that. Delata Mexican capos and middle managers who work with them , "he says.
According to Popeye, the DEA "in Colombia collects a lot of information from the Mexican narco, because Colombians are having more and more contact with them, are those who sell them drugs."
He says that "the DEA knows, for example, that although killed (Arturo) Beltran Leyva, will be a second and a third will take place and that drug traffickers as Piranha know them , and they need when they go to court in the United States testify against them. "
A Popeye would like to go to Mexico to present his book, but can not leave the country because he is on probation. Wait, however, via teleconferencing.
In the late eighties, when he was head of Escobar 's hit men, Popeye traveled five times to Mexico as an emissary of the head of the Medellin drug cartel to close deals with Mexican drug lords.
"I know Tijuana, Amado Carrillo Fuentes met (the late Lord of Heaven, head of the Juarez Cartel), but he finished robbing us 12 tons of cocaine and that society is over , " he says.
Would not it be dangerous for you to return to Mexico, when you can?
-Do not. Some people have suggested I go to Mexico and they will provide security to one. Moreover, the risk is always permanent, here and México.fuente appro
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