Mexico City, Los Arellano Felix brothers clenched jaws and reconvened to discuss the issue with Ismael El Mayo Zambada.
Perhaps the most important partner who had Joaquin Guzman Loera and that after the capture of Chapo May became the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The following is sworn word of Everardo Paez Martinez, lieutenant of the Arellano, eyewitness of the facts and contributor to the FBI:
"The leaders of the Arellano Felix Organization of Zambada and planned a second meeting with Guzman's residence Zambada in Culiacan. The purpose of this meeting was that killed Ramon Arellano Felix Guzman Loera ".
"I know this plot, because I participated in talks with Benjamin and Ramon Eduardo about the plan to assassinate Guzman. In addition, Ramon told me personally that he would kill Guzman Culiacan. And I took him by car to the airport the day we flew from Tijuana, Culiacan course, to carry out the mission. "
At the airport of Tijuana or "51" as key referred to that place, Ramon Arellano Felix met his brothers Benjamin and Eduardo Arellano Felix in a parked outside the airport terminal truck.
The capos allowed the presence of its director, Everardo Paez.
-Make Sure that everything goes well -pidió Benjamin to Ramon. It will be very difficult for us if you attack Guzman and not kill him.
Eduardo stressed the same idea.
Apparently, Ramon listened quietly councils of both.
Everything is ready for the attack concluded Benjamin. The murder happen inside the home of Mayo.
Ramon boarded the plane. He came down and took way to kill the man who would become the most powerful of its kind in the world.
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The killing of Armando Lopez, a compadre of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman Loera, made in 1989 by Ramon Arellano Felix, was the starting point in the tension between the Arellano Felix Organization and the Organization of Guzman Loera.
Both were direct beneficiaries come after the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena at the hands of Rafael Caro Quintero and Ernesto Fonseca, perpetrated in 1985 in Guadalajara disaster. The US government launched like a raging dog and his Mexican counterpart claimed the arrest of the culprits. This happened, in addition to the capture of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
Recent versions suggest that the murder of Kiki Camarena was orchestrated by the CIA. If true the fact draws attention than ever any drug trafficker arrested then use that information in his defense. Neither he did any of several officials of the Federal Security Directorate involved with narco.
The truth is that lieutenants falleciente Guadalajara Cartel had their chance to ascend , and as they did, the war became death. The clearest factions at that time were directed by Amado Carrillo Juarez, of Joaquin Guzman and Hector El Guero Palma in Sinaloa, the Arellano Felix in Tijuana and toward the east, in the Gulf of Mexico, Juan Garcia Abrego.
During the summer of 1991, when the bodies became routine matter in Culiacan and Tijuana, Ismael El Mayo Zambada Garcia, then aligned with the Arellano Felix, he arranged a meeting between himself, Benjamin Arellano and Joaquin Guzman.
The purpose of the meeting was to initiate a dialogue between the two groups and try to solve their problems. A Benjamin Arellano Felix had no more choice but to sit down and negotiate and work things out with Guzman.
At that time, El Chapo had a close relationship with the head of the Federal Judicial Police, Guillermo Gonzalez Calderoni, a man marked by Miguel Angel Felix of orchestrating the distribution of seats.
Gonzalez Calderoni enjoyed another fame: he was in the highest esteem the US government.
Benjamin Arellano understood that Guzman links with Gonzalez Calderoni and other politicians and police officers represented a dangerous situation for their organization and accepted the reconciliation of Mayo Zambada.
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Everardo Paez, a lieutenant of the Arellano since the mid-eighties, traveled to Culiacan with Benjamin and Ramon Arellano Felix Eduardo; Ismael and Gilberto Higuera Guerrero, and several other members of Tijuana.
The meeting took place at the home of Zambada in Culiacan, but the only ones who participated in the meeting itself was Benjamin Arellano, Ismael Zambada and Joaquin Guzman. Each cartel kept guard around the residence, as stated in the documents of the PGR itself that was accessed.
"We open communication and the problems were under control , " said Benjamin theirs. " I do not want anyone to do anything that would create misunderstanding or mistrust , " ordered in general. " We do not chase anyone Guzman people , " he asked his brother Ramon.
Although it was assumed that things had been resolved at the meeting in the summer of 1991, shortly after the 30 leaders of the Tijuana Cartel fell into account that Guzman Loera managed to implement a commander loyal Judicial Police to him in the city of Arellano Felix.
Guzman was said to have operated in collusion with a former head of the Border Police and Judicial Manager Mexican Anti Narcotics Agency, Gonzalez Calderoni.
The Arellano clenched jaws and sat down again to discuss the matter with El Mayo.
Everardo Paez talk in the days of his confinement and pact with US agencies bent on extinguishing the Tijuana Cartel.
"The Arellano Felix and Zambada planned a second meeting with Guzman's residence Zambada in Culiacan. The purpose of this meeting was that killed Ramon Arellano Felix Guzman ".
But the murder was foiled and Ramon returned to Tijuana with clean hands.
"I was ready to kill, but Kiki Fernández -a Arellano Felix associate at the time - he got paranoid and physically stopped me , " he told his brothers.
Benjamin was furious.
'Why did not you kill Kikí? He Questioned Benjamin.
Do not worry ... I'll kill Guzman in Guadalajara He justified Ramon.
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In June 1992, Benjamin and Ismael Higuera Guerrero were ready to travel to Mexico City.
The Arellano kept a painful streak of seizures of cocaine and marijuana shipments in the United States. They saw as their city became a hostile place, a place that began to be treated as foreign to them, the owners of the border.
Benjamin traveled to Mexico City with the intention to speak a second time with Guzman and Zambada and again address the differences. However, before they left the meeting, Ramon Guzman learned that Benjamin was plotting the murder of Ismael Higuera Guerrero and during transport.
The trip was canceled.
The Arellano confronted Zambada and others who they believed knew about the planned attack, including another major drug dealer by the name of Rafael Aguilar Guajardo, former commander of the Federal Security Directorate and co - founder of the Juarez Cartel.
Zambada and Aguilar Guajardo denied knowledge or involvement in the plot.
After this incident, the leaders of the OAF maintained cordial communications with Zambada and Aguilar Guajardo. However, they perceived as enemies.
Shortly after that, the organizations found themselves at war. The alliance of the Arellano Manuel Aguirre Galindo with Jesus Labra Aviles and strengthened.
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That same year, in August 1992, Ramon and a gunman traveled to Guadalajara to get a second chance to run Guzman. Ramon felt safe after getting the precise location of Guzman in the capital of Jalisco.
I do not want things empeoren- Benjamin spoke, visibly worried.
If other major traffickers who are giving us problems are that Guzman is dead, they stop atacarnos- Ramon replied, according to the reconstruction made by Everardo.
Ramon and a contingent of performers left in the private plane of Benjamin. The day after the departure of Ramon, his brothers Benjamin and Eduardo and other heads of Tijuana locked themselves in a ranch called "Las Bardas" waiting for news of the attack.
Two or three hours later, Ramon phoned.
We tried to shoot and kill him, but he escaped.
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In autumn 1992, Fulvio Jimenez Turegano commanded the Federal Police in Tijuana. The Arellano Felix had indeed that man Jimenez, police descendant of Arturo Durazo Black, worked in accordance with Guzman Loera.
The pressure did not stop and confiscations not stop.
The Arellano thought about taking a break and decided to give and take the whole head of the criminal organization a vacation in Puerto Vallarta.
Drug traffickers chose to pause and wait for the border to cool. Benjamin, Ramon and Javier Arellano Felix; Ismael and Gilberto Higuera Guerrero; Efrain Perez and David Barron Corona Popeye, chief of bodyguards, and others prepared to leave the city and take a long vacation in Puerto Vallarla.
"Until the dust settles , " they said and flew in early November 1992.
But nothing flatlined. The gunmen Chapo and his partner Hector El Guero Palma ambushed Ramon and Francisco Javier in the nightclub Christine Vallarta.
Version into the Tijuana Cartel was that a group of people entered the club, went to the bathroom and shouted "Police!". At the site were Ramon, Javier and Ismael and Gilberto Higuera. One of the companions of the capos replied with the same warning: "Police!". He was killed immediately.
When the shooting began, at least a dozen men burst into the room and opened fire. Barron returned fire. He killed one of the attackers and took the rifle AK-47. Then he helped the capos to leave the place clambering up the skylight and the roof of the place where they escaped.
The holidays were canceled and Eduardo Arellano Felix and Paez Martinez, who had delayed his departure, flew to Guadalajara where they met with Benjamin and others. They resolved an immediate counterattack. Gilberto Higuera lead a team of assassins to Culiacan to locate and attack members of groups Guzman and Guero Palma. Secondly, it was decided that Ramon Arellano Felix would work with an individual nicknamed La Rana and called Humberto Banuelos Rodriguez, a former commander of the Judicial Police of Sinaloa, to identify members of the Guzman family and their homes in the Guadalajara area.
During the following weeks, La Rana located and kidnapped one of the brothers de Guzman. The day they kidnapped the brother of Guzman, Paez Martinez and Barron Corona Ramón Arellano accompanied Popeye and The Frog to where held him captive. He was beaten and tortured until the man provided information related to the identity and location of other family members Guzman.
Then he was executed.
Meanwhile, Gilberto Higuera remained in Culiacan with a team. However, while performing search were found: he was kidnapped by near Guzman. Immediately after receiving the information about the boost, Ramon Arellano Felix and Barron Corona was one of the residences of the family of Guzman Guzman's brother had beatified and took several people hostage.
Ramon Arellano spoke with El Chapo.
I'll kill your family unless you release Gilberto.
Each respective capo freed hostages and bowed to concentrate forces.
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Shortly after the return of the Arellano to Tijuana, Benjamin Arellano radioed Paez Martinez.
I want a meeting with Barrón Corona- ordered.
Paez Martinez located at Popeye and Scotus for him to meet Benjamin.
-¿Tienes Rough men available to provide us protection me and my brothers - investigated the drug dealer.
I know several boys Logan Heights area of San Diego, but none of them very well - known Tijuana replied the murderer.
That will not be problem. I want to start with at least 10 men.
Benjamin founded a body of full - time sicarios, performing an evolutionary leap in the history of Mexican to recruit people from outside the organization by its mere ability to exercise violence criminal enterprises. The mobster ordered the Popeye get houses, cars, weapons and whatever was necessary to organize a group. He filled his hands with $ 200,000 and above airline placed a radio.
You're CH- Benjamin, with pleased tone, he gave key to his chief of murderers. CH was an abbreviation for Charles, as he liked to call the drug dealer Popeye referring to Charles Bronson or, more precisely, the rough characters the actor played.
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Charles or Popeye immediately began recruiting gang members in Logan Heights for bodyguards and members of the teams of assassins. It established three large houses, called "offices" in Tijuana as safe houses.
The office key 73 had the primary responsibility for the safety of Ramon Arellano; a more focused monitoring of Benjamin Arellano, and the other, called LH perhaps alluding to Logan Heights- concentrated a team of overall implementation and reinforcement.
These were some of the gang members recruited: Alberto Bayardo Robles Gori, Alfredo Araujo also nicknamed Popeye, Adelaido Peña Huerta Lalo, Marcos Quinones El Pato, Enrique Vascones El Puma, El Tarzan, Jimmy, Night Owl, Gizmo, El Gordo, Cougar, Spanky and El Paisa from both the band Logan Heights as Posoles or Del Sol, the three upwardly in the Mexican Mafia, one of the most powerful prison gangs in the United States.
In late 1992 and early 1993, the team of hitmen Arellano Felix was focused on training and waiting for an opportunity to assassinate Guzman Loera.
The weekly salary of each gunman was $ 500 bonuses for participating in special "missions", ie repression works consisting of assaults, kidnappings and assassinations. Formal training consisted of the management and use of assault rifles AK-47, .38 Super guns, gun charge of the Mexican police and UZI submachine guns.
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How was the process of recruiting hitmen body Arellano Felix? How to chose a man whose main ambition in life was to be take the life of Chapo Guzman?
Night Owl was a member of the Posole gang, the same to which belonged released The Bat. Between 1978 and 1981, Night Owl was convicted seven times for different charges purged as minor. In 1987 he was passing through San Quentin Prison, where he met Albert Esqueda The Bat.
In the early 1990s, US authorities already knew exactly the mix of Night Owl: was prosecuted for possession of methamphetamines and explosives. His stays in penitentiaries were relevant enough to join some influence on the board of the Mexican Mafia.
Between April 1992 and March 1, 1993, the gang member in prison coincided with another called Jose Ayala and known as Bugsy, in turn close friend of David Barron Corona Popeye to cliques, Charles for Arellano Felix. The friendship between Night Owl and Bugsy narrowed to the time when the last enrolled the first group of Popeye by correspondence.
In March 1993, Night Owl left the state prison. Outside the prison was waiting for a woman, the sister of Barron Corona and took him to a house which they referred to as an office in Logan Heights area of San Diego. There he met Barron Corona and other members of the gang: Zig Zag, Tarzan, Puma, Roach, Big Smokey, Smokey Little, Happy ... All murderers base salary of lords Tijuana where almost immediately was taken Night Owl.
He was to welcome the delivery of their weapons, which should not come off on. Barron Corona instructed two most senior members of the team teach Night Owl how to use them, take them apart, cleaned, re assemble and preserve them . It was clear familiarity with the use of arms.
"Periodically members who were hired assassins were receiving formal training and firearms training with these weapons consisted of shooting practice and time. After conducting drills, Barron Corona and our firearms instructor, a man from the Middle East, gave us his assessment and critical of our performance , "explains Night Owl.
In addition to the .38 revolver and an AK-47 rifle, the recruit received a uniform police officer style: a black one - piece suit with letters PJF (Federal Judicial Police) printed on the back and a cap with the same acronym. There was also a dressing room with the initials of the Attorney General of the Republic. Gang members used uniforms when performing certain activities of security for the Arellano or sometimes they functioned as hitmen.
He also indicated the basic rules of group of murderers: it was prohibited drug and alcohol abuse , restricting leave imposed unless specifically existed permission to do so and were required to ready and uniformed at any time to do a job.
The Popeye commanded a group of gang members understood from the hierarchical structure belonging to a click with a keen sense of loyalty to that military - style controls, such as encuartela ment, uniform and continuous availability were added.
Night Owl was temporarily expelled for drug use. I returned to San Diego and, almost simultaneously, returned to prison, where he was reunited with old Bugsy, who joined once again to another gang hitmen in Tijuana. There he was reunited with another old acquaintance of penitentiaries, The Bat.
In January 2001, Night Owl was arrested for the third time in violation of his probation. Perhaps due to fatigue or the gradual desgate Tijuana Cartel, he sought to federal officials in California and informed them of his desire to cooperate in the investigation conducted by his former bosses.
And he gave the watchword of the recruitment process gunmen body Arellano Felix.
Of these additions hiring Joseph Albert Esqueda The Bat, a man who sought to convince members of gangs in the southern United States, associated under the government of the Mexican Mafia or EME, to assassinate Guzman Loera emerged.
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The attack on the nightclub Christine lit all alarms. One evening in late December 1992 or early January 1993, Ismael Higuera Guerrero Ramon Arellano Felix informed of the existence of a spy Guzman Loera.
He said the name of Juvenal Gomez Buenrostro, an occasional supplier of marijuana to the cartel without greater importance in the plot, but in this context, the Tijuana Cartel understood it as a subject that could represent the disappearance of the entire organization.
He and his father are also informants for the government of the United States stoked paranoia Ismael Higuera Ramon. -Juvenal Gomez lives in San Diego, but has a gym here in Tijuana.
As the preferred Arellano murder in the United States, they decided the execution of Juvenal Gomez in California without further ado that the previous conversation.
A couple of days later, Ramon and Benjamin Arellano Felix exchanged information on Juvenal Gomez with other members of his staff regarding suspicion of collaboration with law enforcement agencies.
It's an enemy to whom he must kill - reiterated Benjamin as if behind the face of any man to be the face of Chapo. Which go in reference to Charles ordered David Barron Corona, his chief bodyguard whom he compared with Charles Bronson or, more correctly, with the characters he played that actor.
In those days, Ramon rented a house in Del Mar, California. There quoted Everardo Paez cartel lieutenant. Ramon also seemed especially concerned with the location and execution of Gomez. The issue became a priority and the Popeye was urged to solve the murder and chose two of his gunmen: Alfredo Araujo and Night Owl, who would use the weapons commonly used hitmen Tijuana, pistols .38 Super and AK-47s . Martinez himself joined the search for Gomez, who finally killed integrated in a second team of Popeye hitman.
'I shot a cellular business in Chula Vista. I left the car there and then threw away the weapons- assumed the bully identified as Adelaido Lalo Peña, who won a bag of $ 50,000 for the murder.
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During the second week of May 1993, Ramon Arellano found out that his enemy was in Guadalajara. He informed his brothers Benjamin, Eduardo and Javier and all agreed the attack.
The next day, Ramon and a group of gunmen departed from Tijuana to Guadalajara to locate and kill Guzman. Six or seven days later, on May 23, 1993, La Rana informed that his people participated in a shootout at the airport in the capital of Jalisco. The bully was dead Guzman Loera, but who actually died was Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo.
Upon returning to Tijuana from Guadalajara, the gunmen involved in the attack were ordered to flee to the United States. The war was a bad deal for everyone. The death of a prince of the Church in the midst of a crossfire was too. They had just spent eight years after the murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in. Someone had to pay.
To their bosses, Barron apologized for the failed attempt to assassinate Chapo Guzman.
No worry- said Benjamin. Now you need is to face the situation as best as possible. I'm trying to fix the problem. I have to deliver to the PGR two people to relieve pressure on us. They will testify that El Chapo was involved in the shooting. I will bring you out of jail in a year or two and give each $ 300,000 and whatever for their families.
I'll take care that one or two ofrezcan- offered Popeye.
Among the ten past nine p.m., Barrón Benjamin warned they were ready the sacrificial murderers: Spooky or Puma and Spanky. Delivery would make Jesus Labra to a commander who had bought earlier.
A couple of days later, drug traffickers saw on the news the story of the murder of the cardinal. They saw the faces of his enemies and his own. They heard that the Federal Judicial Police had managed to capture two participants in the shooting confirming the cartel war.
El Chapo was at the center of the scene. Shortly after he was arrested and although no Arellano, at least in the immediate future , Guzman Loera strengthened from the federal prison in which he was imprisoned.
He maintained the unconditional support of their cousins, the Beltran Leyva who years later would betray and El Mayo Zambada, who conspired to kill him years ago.
At the same time, the Arellano fought in another war front against Amado Carrillo Fuentes The Lord of Heaven. The documents detail such as the murder of a woman named Maria Olivas in Imperial Beach, California, for the simple fact that they considered associated, so only indirectly, with the capo de Juárez.
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Gradually, the business capacity of the Arellano was reduced and some of the spaces were filled by his henchmen, avenidos in cargo operators.
By 1996, Popeye was not a single gunman. Moving shipments of cocaine from Ensenada, Baja California, San Diego, California, who then personally chartered or guarded to New York.
At that time, cocaine was imported to the United States in shipments of 50 kilos and was transported from California to New York in shipments of 100 to 200 kilos. Even then, actually before the Arellano Felix met certain tariff function: charged the right of way of illegal drugs from Colombia or Mexico with step Tijuana and Mexicali.
At present, the involvement of the powerful Tijuana Cartel before this customs operation and less presence in the market with its own merchandise is reduced. In the glory years, their own employees could conduct business on their own for up to two tons of marijuana per shipment.
Popeye, Charles Bronson or CH died on 27 November 1997. It was hit by the shrapnel from a bullet that pierced the van of the weekly Zeta in Tijuana, he hits a guardrail horseshoe and penetrated through the eye of the bully. Right there, in attack, brandishing the weapon, he died Barron Corona, the hit man Barrio Logan, while trying to kill Jesus Blancornelas.
This death reshaped the bodies of cartel thugs. Jose Albert Marquez The Bat, lover daggers and verduguillos man, was under the immediate orders of Rivera Martinez.
So with the CH key, it is as regards the weekly Zeta in Tijuana to hitman who led one of the attacks against the journalist Jesus Blancornelas, a man who decided to murder for publishing the relationship between the cartel war and the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo.
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The map of 2014 prepared by the US government on the areas of influence of the cartels in Mexico is a sign of the rise of empires: the advance of Los Zetas is observed to have under its control as many states as above Sinaloa Cartel, which maintains hegemony as drug company.
The decline of the Knights Templar of Michoacan and Jalisco emersion Cartel New Generation is observed.
The contraction of the Gulf Cartel is also suggested, because this map does not count only the foundation and the zenith of empires, but also its decadence and its ruins: Colored just over the cities to give them name the hegemonic before cartels Juarez indicated and Tijuana.
There was a time, not too distant, because the empires of the cartels are perishable products with short shelf life when the Arellano Felix could kill the drug would be the most powerful in the world until his capture, Joaquin Guzman Loera, whom Tijuana hated until consumed.
All brothers who built his cartel are in jail or dead.
Many of their fearsome assassins too, including Jose Albert Esqueda, the man who in one of his several daggers had recorded the legend "when you see me LAUGH WELL PREPARED TO DIE".
The investigation into The Bat was carried out by Denaire L. Rigney, FBI special agent with experience since 1974 and occupied Arellano Felix since 1995 with a team comprised of members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Internal Revenue service and the FBI.
On November 24, 2003,
He was found at his home in Tijuana, where marijuana was packing. They found their tens of firearms, short and long. But what caught the attention of the police was the extensive collection of verduguillos, razors, knives.
One of his daggers had written on the sheet, as if it were a representation of the Bat himself: "LAUGH WHEN YOU SEE ME WELL GET READY TO DIE".
The US government asked the Mexican government's provisional detention for extradition international Jose Alberto Marquez Esqueda of. The Bat was delivered, like almost everything you ask Washington to Mexico.
The Bat spend the rest of his life in prison, where the Mexican Mafia controls much of the drug supply in the United States.
Things in life, things of death: EME, true nation knife smiling man, is one of the main distributors of the people of Chapo Guzman now direct their children Chapo and Mayo Zambada.
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