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Friday, June 3, 2016

Culiacán Police Chief is Given a Send Off Reserved for Narcos

Lucio R for Borderland Beat -contributed by Siskiyoukid and BB archives

At the funeral a corrido was played dedicated to Pedro Avilés, the notorious pioneer of drug trafficking in the golden triangle, called "The End of Clave 7",

On Saturday, May 21, Culiacán security director Héctor Raúl Benítez Verdugo was gunned down at a home, near where he lives in the neighborhood of Lomas del Bulevar, in Sinaloa's capital city.

Benítez Verdugo was killed, while sitting in  white Toyota Camry in front of the parking area of  a home on Lago de Texcoco street in the Lomas de Bulevar neighborhood. Police recovered 18 shell casings from an AK-47 or "cuerno de chivo" rifle.

It has been reported that a person with Benítez Verdugo was wounded,  he has been identified as a cousin of the security director. At the scene of the crime, the deputy attorney general for the state, Martín Robles Armenta, confirmed the identity of the deceased, and said that Benítez Verdugo had just arrived at the home when he was attacked by armed men.  

Last Tuesday, the 17th of May, Benítez Verdugo had been relieved of his duties as security director for the city of of Culiacán, as part of a restructuring of the city's security strategy. This came following attacks which resulted in the deaths of two transit police and a municipal police officer, in separate incidents at the beginning of the month.

Yesterday, on Monday at 3:00 PM, a funeral mass was held for Benítez Verdugo at St. Jude's cathedral, a half a block from where he was killed, in the Lomas de Bulevar neighborhood. The ceremony was heavily guarded by state and municipal security forces.

Not one public official was present at the funeral mass.

At the end of the ceremony, a band outside the cathedral began to play a corrido dedicated to Pedro Avilés, the notorious pioneer of drug trafficking in the golden triangle, called "The End of Clave 7", which memorializes the death of the famous narco at the hands of special police unit called Clave 7.  Pedro Avilés was the father-in-law of the recently deceased police chief.

Three days earlier, which was five days after the security director's dismissal, a group of heavily armed men arrived at the home of some politically connected relatives, including his mother-in-law, and they killed the chief. 


Who was Pedro Avilés?

Pedro Avilés Pérez aka "El León de la Sierra", (the lion of the Sierra),   was a doctor in Sinaloa, who in the 60’s  became the first generation of major Mexican drug traffickers of marijuana.  Originally, from the state of Durango,  he was  a pilot who pioneered the use of aircraft to smuggle drugs into the United States. 

On September 15, 1978, Aviles was killed by federal agents on the road to Tepuche, in the city of Culiacan.  He was intercepted and disarmed by the feds, who  then killed him.

According to authorities, the leader position of Pedro Aviles was given to Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, currently imprisoned, who emerged as the boss of bosses. the chief of the then so called  "Federation". The second generation of narcos included; Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Héctor Luis Palma Salazar, Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia, Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, Rafael Caro Quintero, Manuel Salcido Uzeta, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo and Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno.

Fonseca was the treasurer of the Aviles organization. Rafael Caro Quintero was the lieutenant for Aviles Chihuahua. The corruption of state officials was first promoted by capo Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, known as “El Padrino” (The Godfather).  Félix Gallardo spent time in Sinaloa working as state police, Sinaloa and acted as guard of Leopoldo Sanchez Celis, governor of Sinaloa.

Pedro Avilés Pérez, marked the beginning of powerful capos in Mexico, who trafficked drugs on a large scale. He was the uncle of the current leader of the Sinaloa cartel Joaquin Guzman Loera alias  “El Chapo ".

The 2001 film" La Clave 7 "( Key/Code 7) " is the story of the efforts of the Navy of Mexico to stop Pedro Avilés Pérez.

49 comments:

  1. Excellente, Lucio..........gracias

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    1. More like the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) wanted the organization, moved to guadalajara to become CARTEL DE GUADALAJARA and be closer to the chilango puppetmasters that finally put all the whole gang in prison, Carlos Slim Helu controlled his DFS and polesia judiciales with lebanese miguel Nazar hard and brother Julian Slim Helu, 'his harbanitos'have always controlled airports, prisons, bank robberies, stolen cars, drug trafficking, money laundering, politicians, banks in mexico, the US and Canada and lebanon and other volunteers...
      After they also killed Pablo Acosta, rafael aguilar guajardo a DFS agent was the boss of juarez cartel then amado carrillo fuentes another DFS charola owner..
      --see "el comandante olvidado" by Héctor de Maule en NEXOS.

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    2. Lucio ora si te la jalaste compa

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    3. Bueno si tanto alaban a este ojete vamos a canonizarlo al guey o sea ya va a ser San Pedrito :)

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    4. 9:46 No, tampoco güey, pero pues canonization a miguel angel felix gallardo, el "DFS" agente que mato a Don Pedro Avilés para quedarse con su "negocito" que le ha hecho billones de dolares a los satrapas del gobierno mexicano, a la CIA, y a los dueños norte americanos de las drogas y los Bancos y los dineros que lavan...
      --Pedro "el naco" Avilés nunca fué nada...

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  2. Why was not 1 public official there?It was a funeral.North of the border a cop is killed they come from all over the country.In Mexico I guess not.No 1 could afford to go to funerals every day of the week all year long.But a Chief of Police?Even though he was fired some city officials should have shown up at least for respect or was he that bad of an apple?I guess people don't have near the same respect for a cop in Mexico because of their licence to steal.I guess you reap what you sow in life!

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    1. Or you show up to the funeral to pay respects and assassins decide to open fire. Too much to risk by showing up.

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    2. I think you better go back and read the story, tis was not a good guy.

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    3. Nobody wants to die over a friendship with a dead man, if the chief got fired, and then murdered, you read the writing on the wall...
      In mexico the most corrupt are murdering or disappearing at least, the soft asses, "police chief" MUST BE READY TO KILL, KIDNAP, MURDER, TORTURE, DISAPPEAR, BY HIS OWN ACCORD, ANYBODY SUSPECTED OF BEING A NARCO CARTEL MEMBER, that is anybody that has 100.00 pesos in his pocket.
      Pura linia dura, (only hard liners) to be in good standing with peña nieto, extreme right tactics, since chile and argentina juntas, to colombia, to mexico, all well tested tactics, by the book...

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    4. @ 4:37 AM: For some people, reading, writing and thinking are skills they do not possess.

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    5. 11:21 hey! I can read and think and write, I will do one thing or the other or the other and any other, but not at the same time, I have only one crain, I mean brain...I can not speak at the same time because I am practicing to loud read what I am writing at the same time.

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  3. Pedro was from badiraguato

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    1. O that's where Chapo's from.Is Sandra Aviles Beltran related to this guy or related to the Leyva Beltrans or not at all?

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    2. Were ever he was from Puro triangulo de oro

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    3. Pedro was born in Durango and relocated to Badiraguato, just like many of the first and second generation narcos.

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  4. So many things wrong with this article, Pedrito was not a doctor, some called him Dr becuase he did "operations" and Clave 7 -code 7- was not a group, it meant to kill someone, so when they said clave 7 they meant to kill pedro. Pedro was not the chief father in law either, he was his godfather, and lastly he was not related to chapulin either. sidenote prdro was the one who smuggled the dope from the french connection.

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    1. and so many things wrong with your rant. As many articles say he was a doctor that do not. Your are incorrect about the code as well. and your pathetic use of "Pedrito", as if

      Great job Lucio and BB.

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    2. @AnonymousJune 3, 2016 at 10:46 PM
      I thought the French Connection route was Turkey, France/Italy, New York not Mexico so raises the question how can he be involved?

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    3. @AnonymousJune 3, 2016 at 10:46 PM
      Thanks for the corrections. Can you back them up too? Cause "@AnonymousJune 4, 2016 at 4:35 AM" is doubting your claims.

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    4. jesus, you people are missing the important parts of the post, who gives a fuck where he was born ? it is what he did when alive that is important to the story.

      moderators don't post petty stuff no wonder reporters quit.

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    5. Aristotle Onassis was moving "Turkish tobaccos" all over the world, had plenty of ships to move them, to and from Argentina, his country, made himself a billionaire shipping magnate playboy, what are the chances that he was not what he seemed to be?
      --now it is argentinian carlos Ahumada Kurtz
      --and carlos slim helu has always had his little hands in mexican cigarettes and "glue" way before he was a "telecommunications magnatee" and a billionaire businessman of "WORLD RENOUN" WITH EXCELLENT CREDENTIALS...
      no matter what some people say about the kidnapping for ransom and extorsion and murders of his "associate" genaro garcia luna or bis drug trafficking involvement...

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  5. El gato de San Ignacio killed last Friday what's the news on that

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    1. Operations in San Ignacio reported all week long alguna gente dise q se tumbaron al gato en un enfrentamiento

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    2. Puro pedo era otro gato:)

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    3. Pos de noche todos los Gatos se parecen, y las gatas, de dia también, asi que cambienle de apodos o bajenle de güebos.

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  6. ....me llamo pedro aviles no se les vaya olvidar....kick ass corrido

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  7. There's no doubt in my mind that the biggest drug smuggling organization is the Mexican government!
    Mn

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    1. 4:36 modesty appart, it pays to be so close to the devil hisself, mexican narcos have it easy moving los patrones' shit, --we only wish we could make some more money, every year we get told "los americanos nos bajaron la carga, no hay dinero..."
      y ya nos chingamos otra vez...

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    2. Not only that 4:36 but if a person appears to bigger or has the opportunity to be bigger than the government he is slain. There are examples throughout narco history but not just in Mexico. The envy of another man is one of the biggest character flaws of the human being.

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    3. Ask pablo escobar, how come his good buddy alvaro uribe velez ends up owning everything escobar worked for?

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    4. 10:49-You may have a point there.The bigger you get the more demanding to the government and then....down you go.They still get their money because a vacuum is always filled but don't get too big for for britches that's all.

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    5. 10:14-That's just an excuse to pay you less.You are the 'patsy'[a tool].Addicts who even have a $800 a week habit will find a way through robbery or prostitution.Maybe the powers that be are demanding more and more of 'your hard earned money'.Do you really believe what the boss tells you?Even if business is down well like any other business you hire less people but your paycheque shouldn't go down.Besides Mexico now has a market so business is booming.It's the boss that wants your cut.Get a real job.

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    6. 11:02 minimum wage in mexico, about 60 pesos a day, equals 3.00 US dollars, very few people earn much more than that, booming mariquitas and businesses or not, that is 15 dollars a week, often 12 hours a day with US prices...
      The trade deals and treaties never fail short of keeping the third world partner in the fifth class position of slave labor, now of course a good thorough educaishun is demanded, noiberal bullshit ideologies of u ionism, educaishun, health care, retirement...scratch that, you have the automatic right to invest your salary and other earnings in company stock whether you are full time or most possibly an hourly temp...

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  8. Lucio what about Adrian Gomez Gonzalez he was in the Federation, are you going to do an article on him too.

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    1. --Nuevo Laredo tam. Police Chief Alejandro Dominguez Coelho was murdered after 7 hours on the job...
      --his replacement Omar Pimento took over 1 month later, survived more that two dozen attacks of assassins trying to collect $50 000.00 bounty on his head, resigned 8 months later, then disappeared without a trace...like many of his predecessors and successors, the file has been closed, it is not known if he defected to the criminals or was murdered...
      --From Ideas & Discoveries

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    2. 4:59 Adrian Gomez Gonzalez was in the federation, like thousands of other guys, and many of them are not there anymore...nothing special about them...
      So, why is this Adrian so special?
      @4:59 Make your report, you have 6 lines, add a book, if the mods like it may make it and be top story for a month here.

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  9. hey I read it was Durango. but what does it matter? silly argument because it is not a point that is consequential

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  10. Is this the Aviles that is related to Chapo and Barney thereby making them both distant relatives?

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  11. jaja que puro triangulo que pura de esta y de esa .... puro veneno para mexico . y que viva la ignorancia

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  12. Dejen libre al Chapo hijos del cocho

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  13. Estado de Sinaloa tines hombres de valor que trabajan en la mafia...Trafican polvo maldito y tambien la yerba buena....Free Chapo...

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  14. This guy was a relative of pedro aviles thats why the corrido

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  15. ... Francisco Javier Mendoza Uriarte was just caught in TJ ... To the CDS haters,Don't worry because there many others roaming around the area and he has been replaced ...

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  16. Sounds to me someone big in the organization that he protected wanted to kill him from way before.But wasn't green lighted because he was important piece of the game. Once he lost his job, he was worthless and greenlighted.

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    1. You are right,then he is useless but knows too much.

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  17. @AnonymousJune 4, 2016 at 10:29 PM
    Being unemployed in Mexico is dangerous.

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    1. 8:36 working as a police officer in any capacity in mexico is worse than being employed, the big wigs are just setting up your ass for the fall, police officers should kill all their mandos ASAP, soldiers should do the same thing, and split their commanders paychecks...and make friends with the persecuted by public enemies posing as "law enforcement"

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  18. They call it triangulo Dorado but 99% of it is in Chihuahua land. I thought Durango was a big part of the triangulo but not. So it's all Chihuahua, interesting...

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