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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Interview with a Tepito Drug Vendor

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Translation of video narrative below video
Witness speaking:
You can find drugs, weapons, whatever you want
Interviewer:
About a lot of drugs accumulated, you are speaking about….?
Witness:
I haven’t seen that much drug altogether, that is what I mean
Interviewer:
How much are we talking about, warehouse or (inaudible)?
Witness:
As I said before, selling drugs is not much science; just that you need to take care of yourself and that is it. I don’t think that there are little groups, this is organized crime.
Reporter:
He is Edgar, since the age of four  he has been in the core of Tepito. This is his testimony:
Edgar (witness):
I got in out of curiosity at the beginning and I went with the purpose of getting things; hanging  out and time went by until I started working.

Interviewer:
What streets did you get to of the Tepito neighborhood?

Well the most known is Tenochtitlan. Everybody works on it (drugs) on that street. The hours of selling are, well some stores open very early and are open until 6 or 7 and others are open day and night, nonstop.
Narrator:
He is one of the teenagers that with radio in hand, surveillance one of the many selling points that are located in the neighborhoods of Tepito. While gaining trust of his superiors, he obtained the right of becoming part of the young army that offer drugs in that neighborhood.
Edgar:
There are 18 in the business, (inaudible) 18 that are on the scales, others that are delivering and others that are running errands. As I was telling you, it is just a business; you can even do of the narcotic sales like a franchise like McDonalds.
Well, it’s because the entire city, everybody sells it, I mean it is globalized, it is just not on the hood (Tepito); it is the whole DF
How much for a pill?
We have them 110 or 80 pesos.
Which drug is the most sold or which one do you sell the most?
The wheel
Which one is the wheel?
The tachas (MDMA aka Ecstasy-a stimulant/hallucinogen)
In one week, I invest 500 pesos and gain about 1,500 pesos, sometimes 1,000 and gained 1,800 pesos. I bought of ½ or ¼.
Narrator
Tepito is the biggest drug supplier of the DF (Federal District/Mexico City). Wholesalers that sell the merchandise in other points of the capital come here.
We are walking through the street Libertad. This is just one of the main points of whole sale and retail of drugs that exist in the colonia of Tepito.
On the streets that guide us to the entrance, you can see halcones (hawks) that watch the area, ready to inform about any unusual movement..
Between the stands, the young guards between 15 and 25 years of age, observe and are capable of distinguishing by just analyzing the dress code, the way of speaking, look or walk.
They can also distinguish if the person is a resident of the colony or is just passing by in search of any kind of merchandise. The competition is very high, says the distributors and more when you are working in a spot where several sellers are adjacent to each other, as it is on the streets of Tenochtitlan, Jesus Carranza or Libertad. Here everything is fair.
Edgar:
Large amounts of money are handled here either biweekly or weekly.
It’s like I told you, this is global, there are points everywhere.
Narrator:
Here, you don’t need to have a contact that gives protection to be able to buy more than 1 kilogram of drugs, you just need to have enough financial resources to pay the distributors.
Edgar:
The police are corrupt. Everybody gives money to the police the police are just making more violence. Like everything else, you buy time from the police; all the criminal organizations say: I will give you this much and you will give me 10 minutes
Narrator:
And it’s why despite the police operations, Tepito continues to be the grand warehouse that supply drugs to  DF.

37 comments:

  1. Puro Beltrane-Zetaz, Viva Comandante 200 y 202

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    1. There not even together. Obviously your not a frequent on bb.

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  2. lol @ 4:40 pm in a few years Viva comandante 18,792 y 19,056 lmfao
    good story though

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  3. Damn that's cheap for extasy wish I could make that trip
    Vegas Guys

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  4. ALA VERGA TU Y TU BOLA DE MUGROSOz PUTO!!! ARRIBA DURANGO PURA GENTE NUEVA!!!

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  5. What is the street price in the states? How about Vegas? I thought the Tepito price was high but I have no real frame of reference.

    You would not want to take a trip to Tepito for your drugs. Unless you had a friend that was a local. Dangerous, and a very closed society.

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    1. $5.00 as low as 2 or 3 $ in bulk

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    2. Street price is between $11-15 and in night clubs $15-$25

      The price that someone quoted $5 that's if your gettn direct from a source

      Yeah I figured it would be a dangerous trip so I def wld not go due to that unless like you said only if I knew someone local

      Vegas Guys

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  6. Viva arturo beltran putos!!!

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  7. Street price here in Texas is about $20 to $30 in Texas. But with tha right connect you can get 500 for $350 real fuckin quick. Puro TS putos.

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  8. Ecstasy pilla run for about 20 dollars here in Southern ca

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    1. Damn nigga in northern Cali we get them for five bucks or even three popin skittles like what!!!!!!!!!!!!✌✌✌✌

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    2. Homeboys getting ripped you can get 5 for 20 in San Fernando valley la county he is way off

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    3. Damn really that is a real good price I don't fuck with it much anymore cause the price to high and not goin to pay $1000 for 100 or more now if the price was better then it would be gtg then
      Vegas Guys

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  9. $10 is street price for pill of molly in NYC. So same pretty much same price. But kids from suburbs pay $20 for pill.

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  10. Here in washington its 10 for ok shit 20 for rwal good pills... Oh n fuk gente nueva. More like gente pendeja. Look what those pendejas did in chiwees for n at the end thay didnt get it n there boss chapa guzman abondoned them

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  11. 80 pesos isn't thaaat cheap. In LA its about the same. I guess depends on who you know.

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  12. In new York its 20 in A club or random. If you get 100 its 10 each, and 1000 pk anywhere from 5 to 8 each.. but ecstasy is not as popular as it was 10 years ago.

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  13. Ya in tex. If u bie in mass its perty fanm cheap. Mission n mac town prices a guy.comented is perty acurate

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  14. no matter where you are the price is dictated by the supply, a lot of the mdma precursors are gotten in the south american rain forrest but a lot of the manufacturing of it is in belgum and holland and other places throughout europe so im sure depending, price varies wildly. ever seen the movie layer cake?

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    1. Canada supplies the usa with a lot of beans. Here n tampa, florida I can get triple stacks for 10$ to 15$ a peice.

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  15. attn chivis
    Brazilian referee butchered by fans after killing player
    July 5th, 2013
    Octavio da Silva Catanhede Jordan was killed by a violent mob last week (Photo: FOXSports.com).

    An amateur soccer match turned barbaric, leading to the deaths of a match referee and player in northeastern Brazil.

    The Public Safety Department of the state of Maranhao said in a statement that it started when referee Otavio da Silva expelled player Josenir Abreu from a game last weekend. The two got into a fist fight, then Silva took out a knife and stabbed Abreu, who died on his way to the hospital.

    After witnessing the attack, fans invaded the field to attack the referee, who was stoned to death and quartered. Local news media are also reporting that the spectators decapitated Silva and stuck his head on a stake in the middle of the field.

    In an official statement, Valter Costa, police chief of Santa Ines in Maranhão, confirmed the ongoing investigation and assured the public that suspects were being questioned.

    “Reports of witnesses have indicated some people that were in place at the time of the fact. We will identify and hold accountable all those involved. A crime will never justify another. Actions like this do not collaborate with the legality of a state law.”

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  16. X is 10€ in Europe, 20€ is expencive.

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  17. layer cake was a good movie that old white man didint play at the end of the day we win you loose

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  18. 20 bucks a pill in stinky ass northern colorado, its hard to get aroused on exstacy when the whole town smells like cow shit, most people do booga suga or bud it helps mask the smell. G Town Fo Life!

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  19. LAYER CAKE IS A KOO MOVIE MY FRIEND

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  20. @1:04AM

    I saw that in the news a couple of days ago. Parts of Brazil are real hell, more so that Mx.

    I did not post the story about the referee being slaughtered because it has no link, to the Mexican drug war. But I received several messages about the story.

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    1. For a while I was viewing a blog about everyday tragedies caught on video and it seems to me the that the way to settle a fight in Brazil is with a machete. Mexican and Brazilian cultures share a lot of similarities, one of them being endemic plague of violence and high poverty rates. The police of Brazil or some of the most brutal the world over. That might have something to do with the legacy of Portuguese colonial rule.

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  21. Ecstasy is a shit drug, I cant believe people still use that garbage. It was fun the first two times at a rave in the mid 90s. There are much better drugs now on the market lol.

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  22. Puro CDG y a pa vergq los Z y BLO pinches mugrosos ay venemoa por ti Z40

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    1. Compa Si los del CDG son peores que los Z.. pero sela Dan de buena gente..

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  23. Puro Juaritos aki acemos correr a la gente del enano monta perros...

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  24. There sure is a lot of drug users on BB.

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  25. £4 Sterling for a decent Harry Hill (pill) in England, E-Z

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  26. $20 to $50 in Australia, maybe more for high quality. Cheap when you consider that cocaine is $300 a gram, with typically no discount for multiples.

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  27. Por que los pochos ,chicanos, tejanos alli en houston ,lo que se quieran llamar por que tanta fascinacion con la cultura afroamericana?por que hablan y se visten como ellos ?

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