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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Secretive operation nets dozens of Sinaloa cartel members

DEA, FBI, BP, ICE were all a part of this, "Operación Mexicana Diablo Exprés"...

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's cartel took another massive hit over the weekend after dozens of its members were arrested in a secretive cross-border operation, officials said. It's unclear, however, if Guzman's recent arrest had anything to do with the unusual operation by Mexican and American officials.

The highly secretive, daylong law enforcement operation around the Arizona border with Mexico resulted in the arrest of two dozen alleged high-level members of the Sinaloa, according to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman.


The sting known as Mexican Operation Diablo Express took place all of Friday as numerous law enforcement agencies converged on Lukeville, Arizona, which sits on the border with Mexico.


Homeland Security Investigations, a unit of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, helped Mexican authorities nab 24 alleged members of the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico's biggest drug-trafficking organizations, who were operating around Sonoyta, Mexico, and the U.S. border, spokeswoman Gillian M. Christensen said. The DEA, FBI, Customs and Border Protection and Arizona state and local agencies were on hand to assist.

"The targeted Sinaloa cell has been responsible for the importation of millions of pounds of illegal drugs, including marijuana, heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, into the United States from Mexico during its existence. The organization is also responsible for the smuggling of millions of dollars in U.S. currency, along with weapons, into Mexico," Christensen said in a statement.

The operation was conducted "with utmost secrecy" and took all day Friday as numerous law enforcement officers worked in both Lukeville and Sonoyta, bordering cities that are on the route to the Puerto Peñasco, the popular beach destination many Americans know as Rocky Point.


ICE helped Mexican federal police into the U.S. to keep them safe during the operation, Christensen said.

The sting also netted the seizure of several assault-type weapons and hundreds of pounds of drugs.

"ICE applauds the Government of Mexico for their bold action in taking down this criminal organization and for their continued pressure on the Sinaloa Cartel throughout Mexico," Christensen said.

The arrests are the latest blow to the Sinaloa Cartel after the arrest of drug lord Guzman on Jan. 8, six months after he tunneled out of a top-security Mexican prison for the second time.

The Mexican government says it is cooperating with an extradition request for Guzman from the U.S.

As they await the extradition proceedings, Mexican officials are taking no chances with his detention. Guzman is now being moved around the maximum-security Antiplano prison on a regular basis. According to El Universal, he was in seven different cells over the course of his first five nights back at Antiplano. They make the cell changes at random, meaning he can spend hours or a couple days in any given location.

The newspaper says prison staff have deployed sniffer dogs trained specifically to detect Guzman's distinct odor, installed hundreds of new cameras, and reinforced the concrete floors of at least some cells with steel.

The 24 people arrested on Friday have not been identified. They are in the custody of Mexican authorities, and the U.S. will seek extradition.
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CBS-News

96 comments:

  1. I love to see Chapo rot in hell, how does that feel snitch

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    1. 5:07 why didn't you ever go and yell your "opinion" somewhere in sinaloa? Badiraguato or la Tuna, would be a good start, by the police station or the municipal palace...

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    2. 8:38, what the hell would be the point of that? Yeah there going to go all that way just to talk some shit and irritate people. Open a book, your I.Q is showing

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    3. 8:38 PM
      Im going to go do it right now,ill tell you what happened,its only a 500 miles away you complete bellend.Imagine if we didnt write or voice opinions.This has got to be the fuckin stupidest comment on here.What a nobhead,go yell at your opinions at your TV,dont bore us with your shit.
      Did Chapo snitch his gente out,someone did,was ot you 8.38?Nah your on chaps ballsdeep arent you compa,admit it querido,you is lifted?
      Can we voice opinions

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    4. The funny thing is everyone in Sinaloa don't like chapo

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    5. 8:39
      Why would 5:07 express themselves anywhere else but here. Did you even think about it before writing your comment. .

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    6. 11:08am
      LOL you called him a bellend!!!

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    7. 5:07 they will send you bus fare to go and yell it wherever you want in sinaloa, pero te hace cuz cuz, I ain't saying you can not voice opinion, but when it comes to snitching i'm all for it 1000%

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  2. Chapo why did you want to make a movie? you had your freedom and blew it for a female that turned you in hmmmmm now you know how everyone you snitched on feel, karma karma

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    1. He should've just stayed more low-key like Mayo & Chapo Isidro & maybe he wouldn't have been captured three times in a row already

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    2. Kate got him good and 5 million richer

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    3. heh heh she got him real good there, Hank!

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    4. Trying to tell HIS side of the story, that is all, el chapo himself may not know why.
      --epn herself is sick and tired, can't understand why a pretty boy, licenciado, narco-politician, murderer of some of the biggest like el barbas, with so many in prison, and Lord in it over the elite zetas and atracomulco, with televisa novelas and movies...he epn is not popular like el chapo, or Dr Mireles, both of whom have no publicity or propaganda accounts in the billions of pesos or millions of dollars from the public trough for BS like "saving mexico"...
      --what is wrong with you people? Maybe gorgoglio will make you understand? Now that priests can vote again and be citizens?

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  3. Sinaloa is just gona get crazier, free land up for grabs

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    1. BLO will take back sinaloa

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    2. El2000 was arrest today. BLO is done.

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    3. BLO HAS BEEN IN THE BAG WORKING FOR THE ATRACOMULCAS SINCE THEY FUCKED AMADO CARRILLO FUENTES...
      It was all set up for them to just up and keep working, full of televisa actresses and lilos and connections to colombia, Venezuela, argentina, nicaragua, cuba...everywhere, until epn decided game was up and to take over...

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    4. Y el chaito isidro/h2/Trini's..??
      Atte: el wiggles
      Blo has nayarit on lock.
      Certain plazas in northern Siinaloa and now .....Sonora is up ??

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    5. El 10,14 Tortillero, el L,el Cadette el Lemo mas los H's son un chingo Los Beltranes.

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    6. El tortillero ya ase tiempo q se lo echaron

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    7. Porque le pusieron de apodo El Tortillero?

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  4. Looks like Sinaloa cartel don't exist

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    1. What about mayo or El lic or the Guzman fam or the leija fam or the esparagoza fam or........

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    2. 5:14 it once looked like Jesus himself did not exist, and his very own disciples denied knowing Him, as He told them, three times before the chicken sung...
      --the only trouble now will be for apache sheriff arpaio to reconstruct his connections, and even harder to keep them well aligned and well oiled and silent about the connect...The CIA in Arizona know nothing about anything, of course...not about drugs fast and furious, wide receiver, el chapo, drugs, nada.

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  5. There's not gona be anymore cartels by the end of the year, epn is shutting them down good job

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    1. Lol that's like someone saying there's not going to be anymore mass shootings in the US by the end of the year! It's impossible because the cartels are already too powerful enough to be taken down, even if all the capos are locked up or dead because there's always going to be someone to replace them

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    2. As long as drugs are making money there will be cartels.

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    3. 5:20 epn is shutting down nothing, he is just taking over drug trafficking, just like in colombia, kick pablo escobar out, and the replacements have been the owners of drug trafficking and the presidential politicians, no matter what anybody says, corruption just got worse after escobar was gone, same thing in mexico...

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    4. those so called mass shootings are nothing but stage events crisis actors, all to take your guns to start one worl order.

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    5. Just like 'Tio' said; nothing will change when you lock up the 'Capo's' The business will just go one. The problem when you lock certain Capo's down, you will have the chance of becoming the business more violent. It's like groups like the Sinaloa Cartel who are withholding smaller, more violent groups from using alot of violence. Because they are kind of blocked and affraid for groups like Sinaloa cartel. So in some crazy kind of way, we know that 85-90% of the drugs used in USA is coming from Sinaloa cartel. If the Sinaloa cartel would not exist anymore, this percentage would be taken by a large number of smaller groups; it would be more chaotic, more violence and a lot of hyena's who would be happy to take even only 1% of this amount. So in my opinion it is better the way it is right now. I also don't like violence, but it's better when there is one big group(Sinaloa cartel), whom everyone is kind of scared of.

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    6. These mass shootings are examples of the effects of propaganda and scare tactics on those that "think" that guns is the solution to everything that traumatizes their feeble minds...
      --by those that hope to sell them guns for their money, but not protection, and who sell their weapons to the decent and to the criminals alike, to the militarized "police" and to drug traffickers, with no ID required, and who have bought senators, congressmen and even presidents of the US to pass no liability legislation in favour of the weapons merchants...
      --on occasion a gun toting criminal will be prosecuted, even killed while resisting arrest, except when he/she is one of the high and mighty...or gets others to do his/her dirty deeds, like private military contractors, some former US military like col. James Steele. Ret. Who did not make "general" due to his dark past as an assassin in vietnam and CentralAmerica...helped by the American Death Squads he dedicates his life to create...

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  6. Off topic but they captured El 2000 today in Guasave, he was one of the leaders of the BLO.

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  7. So let me get this straight, chapo snitched

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  8. That movie sicario, some how got them formulating a plan.

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  9. You might find some Americans and Canadians in that bunch that got arrested. Associates. Partners. Maybe not. This stuff is international. Any arrested on usa side of the border?

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  10. Rumors are that they captured el memo. Seems like they are cleaning the house for the Salazar family.

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    1. Your comment is interesting. I am curious to said rumors because I was under the presumption that both Los Memos and Salazar family work for Chapo. Im wondering if members from both factions may have been arrested in this operation? Maybe you can also clarify the following: During Chapo's second capture and imprisonment, wasn't there a huge struggle for Sonoyta between Los Memos and Salazar family?

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    2. That's a lie CHAPO fixed beefs between them when he was out songs is back to business why do you think they got so many those are people from both memos and salazars all gente nueva

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    3. Yes both of them are from the Sinaloa cartel however this is Sonora. The majority of the state is run mostly by local families which are aligned or associated with the Sinaloa cartel, parts of Sonora are run by Beltranes. Salazares and memos had an agreement up until last year, massive killings started when apparently Adelmo Nieblas betrayed the Salazares so after a couple of months they negotiated a truce. Basically this is two families going at it which is very common in Sonora. They can be from the same cartel but still if there is different families involved there will be some fighting.

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    4. el memo supposedly jumped ship to blo

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    5. Anyone with ties to sonoyta know what top leaders or operatives were captured in this raid? What's the demeanor of the town after this raid? Any ideas of who may be next in line to keep the business going for either Memos or Salazars?

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    6. They caught a bunch of mulas

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    7. They got Memo. Salazar already started to fight for the plaza. The day after they got him, the shootouts started. Nomas torearon alas pinches avispas.

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    8. So Memo was recaptured in the operation. Just doesn't make any sense the level of arrogance Memo would have to return to Sonoyta after escaping and being free. The arrangements Chapo had already made with both factions should have been enough for Memo to live out the few years he has left. What a shame. I feel for the population who are going to endure the harassment of the police and narcos. I just can't get over how Mexico allowed U.S Law Enforcement to step foot on Mexican soil in a enforcement capacity. I just wonder what the real story behind this operation was. Is the U.S. after something more than a bunch of pack packers? Who in that group is a cooperating witness the U.S. needed to save? Just seemed like overkill to me. There has to be more to this story. I call bullshit!

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  11. Two were killed in the raid, according to reports.

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  12. Awesome. Keep up the good work. Let the cartels mentally deteriorate in prison.

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  13. Good riddance, too bad they weren't killed

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  14. Unless there was a secretive meeting going on between the top capos of the Sinaloa cartel there and most (if not all), where present, this police raid will only disrupt the CDS operations in the state of Sonora and maybe to some extent its operations along parts of northwest Chihuahua and eastern baja Cal and maybe northern Sinaloa! Lets wait and see or hear more info before calling this cartel hurt, injured or just plain gone.
    I, am still glad that finally pressure is being put against the CDS after all the shit it did in ciudad Juarez though!

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    1. "The shit in Cd Juareeez was done by state "authorities" headed by "governor" Cesar "EL CAPULINA" Duarte, since before he was "selected by dedazo" he had been making meritzzz and money to demonstrate his political abilities, now el capulina IS a million dollar banker, gone from "Casas de Citas" full of forced labour kidnapped minors, to Casas de Cambio turned "BANORTE" with money laundering branches all over the US...open for any size money transfers...miraculosly...

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  15. That's alot of people caught for 1 day.. I figured maybe Chapo doing some talking, then I read that post of that BLO boss guy getting caught.. maybe Mexico & the U.S are just working together more efficiently?

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    1. The Michael Corleone school of history teaching sezzz, keep all your ducks aligned, and do it before the movie ends...
      --This operation is gangster ordered and coordinated from way up there, drug trafficking has new owners in mexico and the US and that is all...poor white apache sheriff arpaio too many lice in the rug, for supporting the donal', andele güey...

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  16. It's official, the USA and Mexico are one.

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  17. Any idiots here thinks that the current government of Mexico is bringing down the cartels or doing something to please the US are wrong. As Mexico, the US government is in the business of drug dealing and that will never stop. The deck of cards are being shuffled and a new group will dominate. I really can't stand any law enforcement that thinks they are making any difference. This shall continue as usual.

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    1. Maybe the Mexican government is tired of the Cartel's having too much power and are taking it for themselves only.Not much $ to skim anymore with oil down economy in shambles,time to take over an existing business.

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    2. Yes, I too remain unimpressed with this (or any other anti-cartel operations reported in the news). People are always waiting under the wings of the "upper class" in a drug cartel, take one out, another one fills his role within minutes.

      Total waste of tax payer's money, this drug war. Governments on both sides of the border are lying hypocrites. They say they want to put a stop to it. But really they are all on the take from the cartel's profits.

      And really, what kind of idiots actually believe that they want it to end? All those corrupt cops would no longer have a job. Unless . . . like at the end of alcohol prohibition they make something else illegal . . . Gee, what could that be?

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  18. Here's a video of Mexican helicopter flying from Lukeville, AZ-http://www.kvoa.com/story/31091114/n4t-investigators-cross-border-operation

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    1. Cool, is nice to see cooperation between the two countries.

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    2. --The "cooperation" between the two 'cuntries' that killed don Pablo Acosta in Ojinaga, unleashed el señor de los cielos, then the AFOS, THE GOLFAS AND THE CDS and the zetas, then the BLO and GU...
      --guillermo gonzalez calderoni the mexican commander of that operation also got murdered in texas after carlos salinas de gortari persecuted his ass all over mexico for "talking" about "his business", he had been the childhood friend of juan garcia abrego, first BIG Boss of the CDG, a coincidence?
      Salinas de gortari was all over the cdg, monterrey, coahuila, tamaulipas, and the hank rohns with the afos...
      --never mind the US rogue agentzz all over the place
      --and thanks for the "bi-national" cooperation...

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  19. Maybe these mafiosos will think twice about wanting their biographies and lives told on the movie screen. By the way stay off social media while you are at it. It doesn't take Uncle Sam long to track you down when post all your shit on the Internet. CDS's vanity will be their complete undoing.

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    1. alcapone did the same exposing hes partys in newspapers

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    2. All Al ever did was sell used furniture and go to base ball games, the US had to kidnap torture and murder to discover nothing but trumped up charges to put Al in the joint, for 8 years, or so... same way they did against el Güero Palma and Juan Garcia Abrego nothing to prosecute, bring mochomo!!!

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  20. Great news. Now its time for some states to do some more legalization.

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  21. Sounds like there is a snitch in the organization. Id be very wary of meeting in lowland areas. Some comments say the Feds are putting out the cartel. Its more like they've extinguished a couple of camp fires but the forest is still burning. Too bad but Narco culture is ingrained in Mexican culture for EPN to eliminate it. Its more like PR stunts hes doing to improve his popularity ratings. Good luck with trying to fool the constituents.

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  22. the mayor of sonoyta is upset they didn't inform him or his corrupt cops lol. hes mad they didn't tell him so he could've told the cartel

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    1. Of course they didn't tell him.It's an international bust not for corrupt municipals.US has their number.Question is,is that Mayor going to live?You want to run and play with the pitbulls well pitbulls can turn on you!

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    2. surprise MuthaF*kas...no need to tell the mayor if he's apart of the corruption! that's what needs to happen from now on...

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  23. Mayo Caro are cleaning house of Chapos people mencho will be the armed wing for them since he has the muscle

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  24. Yeah he turned himself in by having his men clash with the marinas, while he escaped through the sewer system.. moron

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  25. Puro pedo y puro tiatro, nuevos traficantes, and Arizona being put out of business for its CIA/REPUBLICAN TIES, and with sheriff "el apache" arpaio...nada va a cambiar...

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  26. What bullshit! Their replacements have already taken over and operations are continuing as if nothing ever happened. The drugs keep flowing and the bodies keep on piling up.

    Prohibition and this 'war on drugs' with its many hidden profiteers (i.e. the corrupt public officals on both sides of the border) are really disgusting.

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  27. El pri is getting back the territory that el pan took while in power...

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    1. The PRI/ Atlacomulco puppet cartel was the Arellano Felix. Ask Carlos Salinas and Zedillo how many stacks they received from Benjamim back in the 90s.

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  28. That's all it is a word on the street by somebody that don't know anything. Chapo is way more powerful than Mayo and Rafa. Rafael is out because of El Chapo. You better learn the real
    Story of El Chapo from the American side, they are the ones who want El Chapo DEAD and not arrested. They had an order 3 years ago to kill El Chapo with drones, not arrest but to Kill him. You want to know who was more powerful read the FLORES twins court testimony. They said El Chapo prices were CHEAPER than El Mayo and his work was always better. After one of those meetings, el mayo asked el chapo to keep the price a little higher and because they were compadres Chapo agreed. They were all bosses who share power, some stronger than the other in certain areas Chapo can't kill Mayo without the military double crossing El Chapo and neither can Mayo kill Chapo. No way some little as sicario can get that close. Read Craig Pettis court testimony who was personally liked by Don Arturo Beltran. Petites a BLACK dude used to tell us who the boss was, well the one who's last word was more influential. He said major decisions were always ended with these words "wat does shorty say".

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  29. LOL @ super snitch. It seems BB commenters can't express enough on how snitchy El Chapo is.

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  30. El Chapo really isn't as bad a guy as they make him out to be. He's a great guy that cares for the prosperity of his family just like any family man would.

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    1. Prosperity built on a foundation of drug$,torn limbs and blood

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    2. Yeah so do bank robbers and thiefs. They are taking care of their families. We should let them out of jail. What a stupid comment!

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    3. you gotta do what you gotta do to survive @9:42. Your comment was stupider. If your family was put in a poverish state you tell me you would do what it took to survive. Thats what I thought!

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    4. I have lived in cd Juarez Mexico in a poor and humble home and yet I was never selling drugs or getting in trouble. I have also seen people scrimmage for food and scraps as well as aluminium among other items to recycle and "survive" in the cities basureros (landfills). I have so much respect for those people because they live a life without asking or receiving much. These people though poor are not out selling drugs and poisoning others or much less killing in order to survive. Fucken people like Chapo poison peoples minds by saying that the only way to survive is by killing and selling junk.

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    5. @7:14 well said!

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    6. Some people have dreams, you know. They want to live the dream. Okay, that doesn't mean that the dream should cost lifes etc. But the moment someone has chosen the walk this path to reach their dream, it's clear that it can't be done without violence. Maybe you don't even want to use violence, but most of the times you are forced to do so. I mean you have to defend yourself. The best defense is offence and that's how it goes...

      But the main idea is that some people have dreams and are born for another kind of life. They want more out of life and in Mexico there are two ways of reaching this: Becoming a narco or becoming a politician. Well if you haven't had any high level education, there will be left to become a narco. Real sad, but true!

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  31. Yeah chapo looked scared like a lil girl

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  32. no wonder, Chapo looked like broke F*ken Mexican when they caught his ass! LOL back to square one chapito...now in return he's snitching on everyone with bribery that he will get out sooner...but my bet is he gets killed in prison! Riches to Rags...

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  33. Mayo has a house full of rats abd caro is to old to even make it to the bathroom

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  34. 8:04 that's lame ur wrong

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  35. 8:04...everything u said is shit tha ive already read about dont belive every thing u read...another thing thats why chapo is locked up any mayo is free!!!

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  36. CHAPO was let free to clean his cartel the rats didn't align so now he is doing it with gov help form the inside!!!la mochila es del cholo

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  37. So it's a week later after Tha binational raid and why no news of El Memo was captured? Maybe he was one of the 2 who got killed .

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  38. The devil always choses to show you "who the 'devil' is", and there you go like rats following his design, pendejos babosos.

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  39. Qué tristeza ke ayan aprendido a puras personas que solo son lava carros mientras los verdadero delincuentes andan en el pueblo como si nada hubiera pasado, es triste vivir en este pueblo y vivir con miedo ke el señor Adelmo Nieblas Memo o el señor uno de los principales cruzadores del chapo durante años, ande como si nada pasara paseándose por los ranchos pegados en la Linia con Estados Unidos como el rancho las peñitas , el conejo o en el desierto de Sonora y ke pena que ayan asistido tantas corporaciones y este secreto a voses de dónde estaba localizado ni siquiera se acercaron!!! Y ya pasada la tempestad ellos siguen trabajando y cruzándole más droga ,al lado de sus verdaderos secretarios como el tirantes,don Marlboro , doña Olga la viuda , su esposa lisha o Elisa , el secre, y muchos más , cuantas personas más tienen le morir gente inocente para ke aprendan a estos verdaderos delincuentes ke eso si se pasean dentro de los Estados Unidos y pasan asta por la Linia como verdaderos ciudadanos americanos , cuantos años tienen le tener el control y manejar alos pobres indios nativos Tohono O'odham ,que no los dejan ni vivir en sus propias tierras dentro de los Estados Unidos asta estas personas aterrorisan alas personas fuera de México,Corporativos como la Dea ustedes cuantas veses no an ido a pararse en el rancho pegado en la reserva de managers a preguntar por Memo o don Rafa a la señora Olga Serventi en las peñitas ustedes saben ke el no sale de ahí cuanto más tiene ke pasar para ke aprendan a los verdaderos delincuentes ke durante años tienen atemorizada a toda la gente del pueblo!!!

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