On Monday May 24, 1993, Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo was gunned down in a shootout at the Guadalajara International Airport.
They delivered 14 shots scant half meter away when he tried to get off his car. In his driver, they put 10 shots on the other side of the car.
After 23 years, there is still no convicted for that murder, and the masterminds remain committed do not give to know what really happened, the investigation remains open and records are subject to the PGR.
It is desirable that, if extradited, Joaquin Guzman Loera can tell what happened, because in Mexico was threatened with death and then favored by his silence.
Initially, the then Attorney General Jorge Carpizo McGregor reported that the cardinal died in the midst of a "crossfire". The declaration collapsed with the same speed as was said, because the forensic report and the ballistics tests showed that the prelate 's car received 57 shots at close range, and all directly with his two crewmen.
Cornered by the evidence, the PGR had to change version. The cause of the murder, said in 1995, was a "confusion" because the Arellano Felix mistook his car with El Chapo Guzman, who would be killed.
But this view was even more difficult to sustain than the first, since none of the gunmen of the Arellano said in their statements to know that El Chapo had a Grand white Marquis and which was the cardinal, besides those gunmen were never in the scene, and the band was already addressing the Arellano flight 110 to Tijuana at the time who killed the cardinal.
Seeing that the second thesis is not held, the PGR took a new hypothesis: that was not a confusion of car, but "person". Neither the Attorney General nor the state attorney general of Jalisco stopped to think it was impossible for professional gunmen trained not to fail in their purpose, they have confused a tall, heavy man, over sixty years old, dressed in his black suit and a large cross around his chest, as Cardinal Posadas, with another thin man, young and small in stature, which was El Chapo Guzman.
After the ridiculousness of this third thesis, the PGR had to leave with a fourth version in 1999, postulating the hypothesis of "circumstantial murder , " which is nothing more than a variant of the second.
But here a legal problem arose because the statements of the two main witnesses are contradictory. Alvaro Osorio, alias El Nahual, says he went to the airport to find El Chapo and kill him while Edgar Mariscal, The Black, said they would provide protection to the Arellano Felix in Tijuana departure.
In fact, it seems that there was no confrontation between criminal gangs, but the group of Arellano and El Chapo were cited for their protectors from the government to a third group could kill freely Cardinal and to then divert research away. Those who called for the two bands: Rodolfo Leon Aragon and Enrique Harari Garduno, of the Federal Preventive Police.
The manager divert the investigation: Jorge Carpizo McGregor. Mobile: retrieve documents that Cardinal deliver the nuncio Girolamo Prigione, which evidenced the complicity between drug cartels and prominent government politicians. This information appears in the book "The Lords of Narco , " the book "extradited" the book "The Jackals" the book "Sangre de Mayo", written based on the records, and research process in which the bishop of Nezahualcoyotl, José María Hernández González, confirmed that Posadas Ocampo was invited to a meal in Los Pinos 10 days before the murder where very sensitive issues and Cardinal Posadas and President Salinas had a strong confrontation were treated.
They speak murderers
Both Marco Enrique Torres García, as Alberto Bayardo Robles, operators homicide gunmen, declare that the cause of the murder was a woman handed the Posadas cardinal documents that revealed the relationship of the Salinas family and prominent politicians with drug cartels information also committed to governors, prosecutors and public officials beneficiaries of drug trafficking (investigation was opened in the line of Cecilia Occelli and two wives of El Chapo). Operating the murder would have been ordered and led by General Jorge Carrillo Olea, then director of counternarcotics.
Commander Jose Manuel Zamudio, police Federal Highway, casual murder witness said in his statement that after peppered the cardinal, one of the attackers opened the trunk of the Grand Marquis, pulled a yellow envelope squeezed under the arm and then he ran.
According to these sources, the reasons for the murder may have originated in an angry claim Posadas, then vice president of the Mexican Episcopal Conference, the Mexican president, because his brother Raul was involved in drug trafficking. In the food were present, among others, Manuel Camacho Solis, the PRI candidate, Luis Donaldo Colosio (who was a friend of Posadas and took him there in his own car, as well as the head of the Office of the President, Jose Cordova Montoya . the record states that after lunch with the president, to pass the Cardinal Posadas to the office of Cordova Montoya, that he offered money in exchange for surrender documents and, finally, seeing that the cardinal denied, insulted and physically assaulted cardinal, pushed him out of his office.
One of the most controversial testimony is that of Catherine Rivadeneira Urdis. It should be noted that she has not volunteered to testify, but was raised and taken to Mexico City to make a statement on 21 September 1998. She refers to the day before the murder of the cardinal was invited by a friend, Edith Ramirez , maid of the house where the murder was planned. In his testimony concerns that the group was divided, as some wanted to simply retrieve CHAPO 7documentos who had given him Posadas but without killing it , and others, opponents of the Church, wanted the occasion will be used to also kill the cardinal. He heard the order to kill came from Mexico City. Edith not only told him that Catherine, but taught a video of the meeting that had been recorded secretly without the knowledge of the audience. This is a video in VHS format in which Catalina perfectly recognized the place and the subjects who participated in that meeting on Sunday , May 23, 1993. Catherine was raped and threatened with death if the appearance of the video.
General Jorge Carrillo Olea, indicated in the case files Posadas as the most likely organizer of the operation to assassinate the Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, was the author of the capture of El Chapo Guzman on June 9 of that year and instruct the General Guillermo Alvarez Nahara, head of the Military Judicial Police to interrogate Guzman Loera during flight and find out how much he knew of the murder. A El Chapo had delivered on the border with Guatemala, and transferred him to Tuxtla, where they did board a Boeing 727 bound for Toluca, to submit to Almoloya.
What happened on May 24 at the Guadalajara airport ?, asked Nahara to El Chapo. Without further ado, Guzman Loera said that day was on vacation trip to Puerto Vallarta, who was not armed like any of his men, for luggage with the weapons had already been documented, and that going entering through the front door he heard bursts of gunfire, so chest began to land and was dragging and then could run into the interior of the airport runways.
With this statement, El Chapo knocked down version Jorge Carpizo and Carrillo Olea had been led to believe public opinion, in the sense that the cardinal died in the middle of a crossfire between men of the Arellano and Guzman Loera.
Upon entering Almoloya, El Chapo received the threat: everything he had said during the flight had not been a ministerial declaration, barely going to make his first official statement and if he repeated things as he had narrated during the flight, he would be killed inside the prison. In his first "valid" statement, Guzman said he knew nothing.
From that day, began the silence by Guzman protected the federal and military government, which continued to work in the drug trade from within the prison, until the day when I had to draw from Puente Grande, not having won Francisco Labastida's presidential election. According to the ministerial declaration of the commander Antonio Aguilar Garzón (16/2001-III), El Chapo Guzmán escaped in a laundry cart, but took him out the front door, being complicit in that operating the undersecretary of Public Security, Jorge Tello Peon; the general director of Prevention and Social Rehabilitation, Miguel Angel Yunes, Deputy Director of the same office, Enrique Perez Rodriguez and the director of the prison in Puente Grande, Leonardo Beltran Santana.
In early March 2012, Benjamin Arellano, a prisoner in Almoloya de Juarez, called his lawyer and said he was willing to declare all he knew (and know) about the murder of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo. Being already present prosecutors, lawyers and witnesses, he appeared to pull back and said he had repented, you better not going to declare anything. One of these convinced him: "Look what they did to your brother Ramon, maybe this is your last chance to say what you know". Benjamin finally agreed on one condition: "I will tell who was responsible for the murder of Cardinal to a first level, and if I see that the government actually does something with my statement, then I will reveal who they were at the top level." Arellano Felix spoke openly about the involvement of Rodolfo Leon Aragon, hoping that, if apprehended, then betray the direct involvement of Jorge Carpizo and others.
Nothing happened with Leon Aragon, March 30 , died Jorge Carpizo very strangely in the South Medical Hospital, while preparing for surgery, and 29 April extradited Benajamín Arellano to the United States (violating the Extradition Treaty, Mexico because his trial had not concluded).
With the recapture of El Chapo Guzman, you can open a new chapter in this case so intricate, if there is political will or if the government of the United States takes it and want to know how it operated drug trafficking during the Salinas administration .
To say the truth and demand the government clarify the case, Cardinal Juan Sandoval have slandered and tried to kill, poisoning twice ...
Cardinal Juan Sandoval: it was a state crime,
He was ejectutado by Rodolfo Leon Aragon under orders of Jorge Carpizo
to retrieve documents that revealed the narcosalinismo
and as revenge for the reestablishment of church-state relationship
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