Chivis Martinez for Borderland Beat
Mexico has extradited to the United States Jesus Zambada Garcia alias
"King", a partner of Joaquin Guzman Loera "El Chapo" and one
of the leading sources of cocaine and methamphetamine from South America.
Federal authorities reported that the alleged drug dealer was taken from the
airport of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, sent to New York,
where he will face charges for conspiracy and other crimes.
Jesus Zambada was
arrested on October 20, 2008 and is considered one of the four leaders of the
Pacific Cartel. Zambada Garcia is the brother of Ismael Zambada alias "Mayo",
which in turn is a member of Guzman Loera and so was the late Ignacio
"Nacho" Coronel. With the capture of Jesus the authorities claimed that a substantial part of
the Pacific Cartel was compromised, saying he was instrumental in the
operation of the criminal organization.
Chapo and Mayo wiretaps reveal plans to blow up US buildings:
In wiretaps, a conversation "Chapo" and "El Mayo" discuss the recent (at
that time) arrest of “El Rey” (the king) and the possible extradition of
Rey
Further discussing plans to blow up
US buildings to “send gringos a message”…
Text of the wiretap:
A short while
later, Flores participated in a meeting that also included Guzman-Loera, Ismael
Zambada-Garcia, Zambada-Niebla, and others.
During that
meeting, Guzman-Loera and Ismael Zambada-Garcia discussed the recent arrest
of Zambada-Garcia’s brother, Jesus Zambada-Garcia, a/k/a “Rey
Zambada,” by Mexican authorities.
According to
Margarito Flores, Ismael Zambada-Garcia stated, in words or in substance,
“This government is letting the gringos [American law enforcement]do whatever
they want. All we need is for them to try and extradite him.
Guzman-Loera
responded, with words to the effect of “it’s too early for that, it’s going to take
a long time. They are (expletive) us everywhere. What are we going to do?”
Ismael Zambada-Garcia
responded, “It will be good to send the gringos a message.
Whatever we do, we have to do it in someone else’s territory, in the smoke [Mexico
City, which at the time was primarily under the control of the Beltran-Leyva
Organization].”
Guzman-Loerado it in the
smoke. At least we’ll get something good out of it and Arturo [Beltra-Leyva] will
get the heat,
Let it be a
government building, it doesn’t matter whose. An embassy or a consulate, a
media outlet or television station [attack a Mexican or U.S. government or
media building in Mexico City].”At that point
in the conversation, Zambada-Niebla turned to Flores and said words to the
effect of, “[Buddy], you know guys coming back from the war. Find somebody who
can give you big powerful weapons, American. We don’t want
Middle Eastern or Asian guns, we want big U.S. guns, or RPGs [rocket
propelled grenades].
”Zambada-Niebla
made mention of a particular model of weapon, to which Flores responded
that he did not think the weapon named was American. Zambada-Niebla
responded in words or in substance, “You know what I’m talking about. We
don’t need one, we need a lot of them, 20, 30, a lot of them.” Flores
responded, “I’ll see what I can do.” Guzman-Loera
then said to Flores, “Make it your job;” and Zambada-Garcia said, “See what you
can do.”As Flores was
preparing to leave the mountaintop compound, Zambada-Garcia said in words
or substance, “Make sure everything we talked about gets done,the rockets,
Felipe, and stop sending those bills to Olivares* [stop sending small bills as
payment to Zambada-Garcia’s lieutenant German Olivares].”
Flores then
had another conversation with Zambada-Niebla while waiting on an airstrip to
depart. Zambada-Niebla
stated, “We don’t need that small shit, I want to blow up some
buildings. We got a lot of grenades, we got a lot of .50 calibers, we’re tired of AK’s.” Zambada-Niebla
continued, “ You want to be really good with me, get
me my fucking guns, fucking money, fucking drugs. I want
to fucking blow things up. I want some bazookas , some grenade launchers.”
After this
mountaintop meeting, Flores called a DEA agent and informed him of this plot to
obtain military-grade weapons. Flores asked the agent to provide Flores with
black market prices for rocket and grenade launchers so that Flores could appear
knowledgeable about the topic if asked again by Guzman-Loera, Zambada-Garcia,
Zambada-Niebla, or others. Flores had
such a conversation during the same November 29, 2008, recorded phone
conversation with Zambada-Niebla described above. After
discussing the 13-kilogram heroin transaction, Flores and Zambada-Garcia discussed
Zambada-Niebla’s request for weapons from American soldiers returning
home from war.
During the
recorded conversation, Zambada-Niebla spoke on behalf of his father, Zambada-Garcia,
and told Flores that the Sinaloa Cartel would agree to purchase 20
to 30 weapons from a U.S. soldier who was leaving the service. The conversation
was as follows: MF (Margarito
Flores): Hey, do you remember what we talked about? About those toys
[rocket/grenade launchers]. VZN (Vicente
Zambada Niebla): Yes.
Taken From Borderland Beat
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