Pelosi is a ghastly creature. She and her ilk – Feinstein, Boxer, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom – have effectively destroyed California and they did it on purpose. They strive to import as many illegal migrants as possible; they've created and fostered the homelessness and let it fester. California is now a socialist disaster and the further destruction of the economy is just what they've wanted. PATRICIA McCARTHY
Report: Famed Fugitive Sinaloa Cartel Commander Executed in Home State
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A top-ranking Sinaloa Cartel operator is believed to have been executed in his home state. Just days ago, he went on the run after being granted supervised release by U.S. prosecutors.
While Mexican authorities have largely remained tight-lipped on the case, Rodrigo “El Chino Antrax” Arechiga Gamboa is believed to be one of three bodies found inside a luxury SUV on Saturday morning in Sinaloa. The other two victims have been identified as Arechiga’s sister Jimena and her partner Juan, Mexico’s Rio Doce reported.
Last week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego revealed that Arechiga Gamboa fled from supervised release when they requested a warrant for his arrest. The drug lord was last seen at his home on May 6. The cartel commander was set to serve five years of supervised release as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors following a 2015 guilty plea to multiple drug-trafficking charges, Breitbart Texas reported at the time. Federal authorities had arrested Arechiga Gamboa in Amsterdam in 2013.
After fleeing from U.S. authorities, Arechiga Gamboa returned to Sinaloa, where he had been staying in a territory he once controlled as part of his job as one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s top enforcers. According to Rio Doce, Arechiga was staying at a home in the Guadalupe Victoria neighborhood in Culiacan’s eastern side when a group of gunmen arrived. After a fierce shootout they kidnapped him, his sister, and brother in law, only to kill them and leave the bodies inside an SUV registered to Arechiga’s sister. The gunmen left the bodies on the outskirts of town.
Culiacan is the same city where in October, Mexican authorities arrested and released Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman Lopez, one of the sons of imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera. The highly-publicized release came after the Sinaloa Cartel descended on Culiacan and threatened Mexico’s government with extreme violence, Breitbart Texas reported at the time. That move led to widespread criticism of Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
In late March, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Mexico, Lopez Obrador traveled to Sinaloa where he briefly met with Guzman Loera’s mother. The videotaped meeting also earned widespread criticism for the president who has claimed in the past that the war on drugs is over.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Tony Aranda from Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project contributed to this report
Sinaloa Cartel
is the greatest criminal drug threat to the U.S. and 'maintains the most
expansive footprint' in the country despite its leader El Chapo being locked up
for life
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7953365/DEA-says-Sinaloa-Cartel-greatest-criminal-drug-threat-U-S-El-Chapo-jail.html
Sinaloa Cartel
is the greatest criminal drug threat to the U.S. and 'maintains the most
expansive footprint' in the country despite its leader El Chapo being locked up
for life
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7953365/DEA-says-Sinaloa-Cartel-greatest-criminal-drug-threat-U-S-El-Chapo-jail.html
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The DEA says the Sinaloa Cartel poses a major threat to the United
States
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A new report states that the cartel maintains the most expansive
footprint in the U.S. despite Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán being jailed for life
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The DEA's
2019 National Drug Threat Assessment report places the cartel as the top
criminal organization responsible for smuggling fentanyl into the U.S.
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El Chapo was sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in July 2019 and
also was ordered to pay the U.S. government $12.9 billion
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The organization is now led by his three sons, Ovidio Guzmán López,
Iván Archivaldo Guzmán and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán, all wanted by the U.S.
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The group is also led by Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada-Garcia, who
helped El Chapo create the group in 1988
Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel is the greatest criminal
threat to the United States despite its notorious leader Joaquín 'El
Chapo' Guzmán
serving a life sentence behind bars, according to a new report.
The Drug Enforcement Agency on Thursday
released its 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment report and found that
the criminal syndicate, founded in 1988, 'maintains the most expansive
footprint in the United States'.
The study found that El Chapo's old cartel is
among the Mexican groups that pose 'the greatest criminal drug threat to the
United States' and that there are no other organizations in the distance that
are 'positioned to challenge them'.
'The Sinaloa Cartel maintains the most
expansive footprint in the United States,' the report stated. 'While the
Jalisco New Generation Cartel [Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación or CJNG] has
become the second-most dominant domestic presence over the past few years.'
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Known as one of the oldest trafficking organization in Mexico, the Sinaloa Cartel has still has the 'most expansive international footprint' compared to its rivals back home.
The illegal sale of drugs in the U.S.
generates tens of billions of dollars and the Sinaloa Cartel rakes at least $11
billion a year through its shipments of fentanyl, cocaine, marijuana, heroin
and methamphetamine across the borders in California, Arizona, New Mexico,
and West Texas before the drugs are diverted to its distribution centers
in Phoenix, Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta, and Chicago.
El Chapo was sentenced to life in prison plus
30 years in July 2019 and also ordered to pay the U.S. government $12.9
billion.
With El Chapo no longer at the top of the
command chain, the Sinaloa Cartel is now spearheaded by his sons, Ovidio
Guzmán López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán, who
are known as 'Los Chapitos'.
They are all wanted by U.S. authorities,
along with Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada-Garcia, who helped the jailed drug lord
establish the organization and is on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
[FBI] most wanted list.
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The Sinaloa Cartel's strength was evident in
October when the Mexican government stopped short of processing an extradition
request for Guzmán López after the group launched a war-like attack against
security forces outside his home and the surrounding streets in Culiacán.
Video footage of operation showed Guzmán López
surrounded by soldiers with one telling him to call his brother, Iván
Archivaldo, to demand the group to call off the assault.
'Tell them to stop everything,' a soldier
says as the sound of high-powered artillery rattles away in the background.
'Stop this, stop this. I already turned
myself in,' Guzmán López can be heard telling his brother on the
phone.
Iván Archivaldo responded 'no' and shouted
threats against the soldiers and their families. The attacks continued and
eight minutes later the first wounded soldiers were reported. Later that
afternoon, police withdrew from the residence having released Guzmán López
in exchange for a ceasefire.
Thirteen people were killed in the
bloodshed.
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On Wednesday, the cartel's chief financial
officer, Victor Manuel 'El Vic' Félix Beltrán, and fellow Sinaloa Cartel
members Luis Fernando Meza and Yael Osuna escaped from a Mexico City jail on a
prison van.
The DEA's report shows that no other illicit
drug has produced more overdose deaths than fentanyl, and the Sinaloa Cartel
has been largely responsible for it by remaining at the top of the opiate
business.
Produced in secret laboratories in Mexico as
well as China, it has become the leading drug in the opioid crisis in the U.S,
causing widespread deaths.
According to the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), there was a 47 per cent increase in synthetic
opioid-related deaths from 19,413 deaths in 2016 to 28,466 deaths in 2017.
In trafficking fentanyl, the cartel borrowed
a page from its competition by using fentanyl powders and pill press machines
to create pills that resemble oxycodone and hydrocodone, the two most
popular prescription opioids.
Mexican security forces dismantled a Sinaloa
Cartel lab in September 2018 where they confiscated 20,000
counterfeit carfentanil pills and a pill press machine.
A Bulgarian biochemist and a Mexican national
were arrested in the operation and accused of conspiring to distribute the
pills in the the U.S.
NARCOMEX: MEX
PRESIDENT SUCKS OFF BRIBES FROM DRUG CARTELS
Last year, AMLO (
MEX PRESIDENT) was harshly criticized for ordering the release of El Chapo’s son Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman
Lopez shortly after his military and police forces captured him in Culiacan
Sinaloa
GRAPHIC: Gulf Cartel Gunmen Burn Rivals
Alive in Mexico near Texas Border
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Mexico
Will Reject U.S. Designations of Cartels as Terrorists, Says AMLO
Mexico’s president announced Monday that he will reject any
designation of cartels as terrorist organizations by the U.S. government.
During his morning press conference, Mexican President Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said he would not accept the U.S.’s potential
designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations–which could enable
direct actions in Mexico.
“We will never accept that, we are not ‘vendepatrias’ (nation
sellers),” Lopez Obrador said.
The president’s statements come
after the relatives of nine U.S. women and children who died in a cartel ambush in
Sonora revealed they would be meeting with President Donald Trump. The family
is expected to ask for some cartels to be labeled as terrorist organizations.
Last week, Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Cabeza de Vaca used the
term “narco-terrorism” to refer to the brazen attacks on citizens of Nuevo
Laredo by a faction of Los Zetas Cartel called Cartel Del Noreste. Cabeza de
Vaca publicly called out Mexico City for past inaction in confronting Los Zetas.
Earlier this year, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) filed legislation for the most violent
cartels in Mexico to be labeled as a foreign terrorist organizations, a move that would limit cartel members’ abilities to travel
and provide tools to better clamp down on financial transactions, Breitbart
Texas reported.
On Monday morning, Lopez Obrador’s foreign relations minister Marcelo
Ebrard called designations unnecessary and inconvenient, adding that the U.S.
and Mexico have a healthy working relationship in fighting cartels. According
to Ebrard, terrorist designations would give the U.S. the legal avenue to take
direct action on cartels on Mexican soil.
Ildefonso
Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded
Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior
Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted
at Iortiz@breitbart.com.
Brandon
Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He
co-founded Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and
senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.
Enough Is Enough’: Josh Hawley Calls for Sanctions on Mexican
Cartels
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday that
“enough is enough” and called on the U.S. government to sanction Mexican
officials and cartel members complicit in trafficking meth and killing
Americans.
Hawley called for harsh
retribution against the Mexican cartels complicit in ambushing and murdering
nine American women and children near the New Mexico border.
In the wake of the attack on
Americans, as well as the Mexican cartels’ complicity in Missouri’s meth
crisis, the Missouri conservative called for the U.S. government to sanction
the cartel members who are “openly slaughtering American citizens.”
“With Mexico, enough is enough. US
government should impose sanctions on Mexican officials, including freezing
assets, who won’t confront cartels,” Hawley tweeted Wednesday. “Cartels are
flooding MO [Missouri] w/ meth, trafficking children, & openly slaughtering
American citizens. And Mexico looks the other way.”
Hawley said that just over the last
14 days, there had been over 40 drug overdoses coming from drugs across
America’s southern border.
Hawley continued, “In SW Mo last two
weeks alone, over 40 drug overdoses & multiple deaths from drugs coming
across [the] southern border. Story is the same all over the state. Cartels
increasingly call the shots in Mexico, and for our own security, we cannot
allow this to continue.”
With Mexico, enough is enough. US
government should impose sanctions on Mexican officials, including freezing
assets, who won’t confront cartels. Cartels are flooding MO w/ meth, trafficking
children, & openly slaughtering American citizens. And Mexico looks the
other way
In SW Mo last two weeks alone, over 40 drug
overdoses & multiple deaths from drugs coming across southern border. Story
is the same all over the state. Cartels increasingly call the shots in Mexico,
and for our own security, we cannot allow this to continue
Hawley spent much of his August
recess traveling across rural Missouri, learning what matters to the average
Missourian.
This AM I had the great privilege of
meeting Brittany Tune, a nurse, a mother of two, a follower of God, and a
remarkable woman. Born & raised in rural Shannon Co., she has raised two
kids on her own while putting herself through nursing school & dedicating
her life to others
Brittany says meth is hammering this
community. She has many friends & family members who have been touched by
this epidemic. She worries about what it means for her own kids, ages 15 &
10. It’s much worse now than when she was growing up, she says
In an interview with Breitbart News
in September, Hawley said that meth coming from
Mexico is destroying local Missouri communities.
“Come with me to any town, any town
in the state of Missouri of any size, and I will show you communities that are
drowning in meth, drowning in it. It is literally killing people; it is
destroying families it is destroying schools and whole communities,” he said.
“Missouri is a border state,” Hawley
said, adding that “we have to got to secure the border to stop the meth” and
“stop the flow of illegal immigration.”
Hawley’s remarks about the Mexican
cartel attack on Americans mirrors that of President Donald Trump, who said Tuesday that the
United States was ready for war against the drug cartels.
“This is the time for Mexico, with the
help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off
the face of the earth,” the president tweeted.
Trump has campaigned on cracking
down on violence on the southern border as well as handling the drug cartels.
During an exclusive interview with
Breitbart News, Trump said he is “very seriously” thinking of designating the
drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs).
“It’s psychological, but it’s also
economic,” Trump told Breitbart News in March. “As terrorists — as terrorist
organizations, the answer is yes. They are.”
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) told Breitbart News in May
that he would back Trump’s potential designation of the Mexican cartels as FTOs
and that seizing cartel leader El Chapo’s assets would build the wall and make
the cartels pay for it. In a similar manner to Missouri, Daines told Breitbart
News about how Montana has been ravaged by meth from Mexican cartels.
Daines said that by seizing
“billions” of El Chapo’s assets, it “would absolutely fulfill President Trump’s
promise to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it. In this case, it would be
a Mexican cartel paying for it would be an excellent idea.”
The architect of Mexico's war on cartels was just arrested in
Texas and accused of drug trafficking and taking bribes
LUIS ACOSTA/AFP via Getty Images
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Genaro
Garcia Luna, who was Mexico's public-security secretary between 2006 and 2012,
was arrested in Texas on Monday.
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Garcia
Luna, the architect of Mexico's campaign against organized crime in the late
2000s, is the latest Mexican official accused of corruption and involvement in
drug trafficking.
A former high-ranking Mexican security official who led the
country's crackdown on organized crime in the mid-2000s was arrested in the US
and been charged with drug-trafficking conspiracy and making false statements.
Genaro Garcia Luna, 51, was arrested in Dallas by US federal
agents, according to the US district attorney for the Eastern District of New
York, which said it plans to seek his removal to face charges in New York.
"Garcia Luna stands accused of taking millions of dollars
in bribes from 'El Chapo' Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel while he controlled Mexico's
Federal Police Force and was responsible for ensuring public safety in Mexico,"
US Attorney Richard P. Donoghue said in the release.
Garcia Luna faces three counts of conspiracy to import and
distribute cocaine and a fourth count of making false statements with regard to
an immigration naturalization application.
Garcia Luna began his career with Mexico's Center for National
Security and Investigation in the late 1980s before moving to the federal
police in the late 1990s. He was then head of Mexico's federal investigation
agency, AFI, between 2001 and 2005 and secretary of public security, then a
cabinet-level position in control of the federal police, between 2006 and 2012.
Genaro Garcia Luna Felipe Calderon Mexico
ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/GettyImages
He was 38 when appointed to the latter position by
then-President Felipe Calderon but already had nearly 20 years of experience in
Mexico's security services, much of it spent tracking organized crime and drug
trafficking.
"By his late 20s, he was considered something of a
wunderkind," according to a 2008 New York Times
profile.
"He really was the architect of Calderon's war on
drugs," said Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the
US Drug Enforcement Administration, who worked with Garcia Luna in Mexico in
the 1990s.
That war comprised major military deployments inside the country
and the kingpin strategy, which entailed targeting high-level cartel figures in
an effort to weaken the cartels. This approach has been criticized for
fostering more violence, both by state
forces and fragmented cartels.
According to the release, Garcia Luna received millions of
dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel. In return, the release states, the
cartel received safe passage for drug shipments, sensitive law-enforcement
information about investigations targeting it, and information about rival
cartels — all of which allowed it to move multiton quantities of drugs into the
US.
Financial records obtained by the US government showed that by
the time Garcia Luna relocated to the US in 2012, he had a personal fortune
worth millions of dollars, according to the release, which said he is also
accused of lying about those alleged criminal acts on an application for
naturalization submitted in 2018.
'Another black eye for Mexico'
El Chapo Joaquin Guzman
Reuters
One detail in the release mirrors allegations made
during the trial of
Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who was convicted on
drug trafficking and other charges in the Eastern District of New York in
February.
"On two occasions, the cartel personally delivered bribe
payments to Garcia Luna in briefcases containing between three and five million
dollars," the release states.
During testimony in November 2018, Jesus "El Rey"
Zambada — the youngest brother of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who is
considered Guzman's peer at the top of the Sinaloa cartel and now its de facto
leader — said the cartel twice made multimillion-dollar payments to Garcia
Luna.
A $3 million payment, which "El Rey" said was to
Garcia Luna at a restaurant in Mexico City between 2005 and 2006, was to ensure
he would pick a specific official as police chief in Culiacan, the capital of
Sinaloa state and the cartel's home turf.
"El Rey" said the other payment, between $3 million
and $5 million, was in 2007 and was to make sure "he didn't interfere in
the drug business" and that "El Mayo" was not arrested. Zambada
also said that the Sinaloa cartel and its partners also pooled $50 million in
protection money for Garcia Luna.
A press officer for the Eastern District of New York did not
immediately respond when asked by email whether the charges unsealed Tuesday
against Garcia Luna stemmed from allegations made during Guzman's trial.
At the time, Garcia Luna denied Zambada's claims, calling them a
"lie, defamation
and perjury."
On Tuesday, Calderon said he had heard of Garcia Luna's arrest but was awaiting
confirmation and further details, tweeting that his "position
will always be in favor of justice and the law."
El Chapo Guzman home town
REUTERS/Roberto Armenta
Vigil, who was the DEA assistant country attache to Mexico
during the 1990s, was skeptical of the allegations made during the Guzman trial
and said he was "surprised" by the arrest on Tuesday.
"I worked with Genaro Garcia Luna," Vigil said.
"We, DEA, had a very good working relationship with Genaro. At that time
there were no allegations of corruption. There we coordinated investigations
with them, and we never saw any evidence of compromise."
The allegations made during that trial seemed "less than
credible," Vigil said, in large part because Guzman was arrested twice
during the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, who followed
Calderon into office in 2012.
But it was possible that a high-ranking Mexican official could
obscure activities in one area from their work with the US in another area.
"In terms of what the US sees, [it's] very different than
what occurs within the Mexican government, but through time if he were taking
bribes, obviously some of those investigations, you would've known if they had
been compromised," Vigil said. "But there's some areas that could be
compartmentalized in terms of efforts by the Mexican government."
If convicted on the drug-conspiracy charge, Garcia Luna faces a
mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum of life in jail.
"Today's arrest demonstrates our resolve to bring to
justice those who help cartels inflict devastating harm on the United States
and Mexico, regardless of the positions they held while committing their
crimes." Donoghue, the US attorney, said in the release, thanking the DEA,
the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, as well as police in New
York City and New York state.
Regardless of the outcome of the case, it tarnishes a bilateral
relationship in which cooperation against organized crime and drug trafficking
has been a major component.
"I don't know what the evidence is against Genaro Garcia
Luna," Vigil said Tuesday, "but it certainly is another black eye for
Mexico."
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