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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

“El Paisa”, the unknown leader of the Sinaloa cartel that disputes the command of the organization

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat TY BB Follower from Infobae and Reforma

 The images of Germán Magaña Steps have not been made public (Photo: Special)

In an article postedyesterday regarding the U.S. targeting Sinaloa Cartel, it names two persons; Germán Magaña Pasos "El Paisa", Sergio Garduño "El Coma", both are referenced in this article.

During the trial of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera in the United States, one of his defenders' strategies was to point out in the Court that his client was only an “employee” of the Sinaloa cartel, that the real ringleader was Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.

Since the last arrest of “El Chapo” in 2014, there are different theories about who occupies the main positions of Sinaloa, after a war between the fraction of Mayo Zambada and the children of Guzmán Loera against that of the Dámaso group López Núñez “El Licenciado”, who is currently imprisoned in the US.

A name that has since gone unnoticed is that of Germán Magaña Pasos "El Paisa", a boss who is responsible for shipping tons of cocaine to the United States. His job is to assemble groups of armed men and reorganize the organization's cells in Mexico.

“Based on information from the United States, Magaña is undoubtedly an important figure in the organization, but other leaders such as Ismael Zambada García aka 'El Mayo', are still active and probably continue to direct many operations of the cartel, ”says an analysis about Magaña by the Insight Crime organization, specializing in security issues.

"Magaña's preference for managing operations behind the scenes can be a strategy to divert attention from Mexican authorities,” warns the analysis published in 2014.

Magaña remains until now a practically unknown character, of which there is no record of photos and the information about his operations is very little.

Reports of a US Court sent to Mexican authorities in 2009 indicate that it was Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada who gave him the task of assuming most of his operations in the north of the country.

The newspaper Reforma announced that Mexican justice received a request for extradition from the United States, but Magaña is not yet on the list of the most wanted drug traffickers in Mexico.

Documents from the Federal Court of the Western District of Texas indicate that infiltrated elements of the drug agency ( DEA) reported that this man sent trucks with at least 3 tons of cocaine to Ciudad Juarez.

Magaña, who speaks German,  does not deal directly with border traffickers, but does so through its emissaries, such as Sergio Garduño "El Coma", who commanded since 2007 two squadrons of gunmen fighting against the Juarez Cartel, according to reports. The powerful capo dealt directly with Ismael Zambada García in drug trafficking, money laundering and arms trafficking activities on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel, according to Manuel Fierro, former partner of “El Chapo” and today a DEA collaborator.

According to the record of the Federal Court of the Western District of Texas, in El Paso, the two gangs of gunmen serving Magaña in Ciudad Juarez were led by Rodrigo Fierro and Arturo Lozano. The second was charged with fighting the Barrio Azteca gang, the armed arm of the Juarez Cartel, but his work was full of mistakes, so he was pushed aside.

The DEA agent Juan Briano gave the Texan court a photograph of Magaña Pasos, which until now has not been disclosed by the United States or Mexico, but at that time the fight against his group began, because in April 2012 the court ordered the capture of more than 20 suspected members of the Sinaloa Cartel, including “El Paisa”, also identified with the false name of Germán Olivares. [Note: [I located the photo supposedly given by a DEA agent to the court, but I recognized it as being former Jefe de Plaza Reynosa, “Comandante Panochitas” of CDG, I could find no images of Paisa]

Fierro was arrested in October 2008 in Texas, after working for 11 years as a police officer in Ciudad Juarez and serving Magaña.


Additional information from Reforma

“El Paisa”

“Magaña Pasos worked directly with Ismael Zambada García in drug trafficking, money laundering and arms trafficking activities on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel,” said Jesús Manuel Fierro Méndez, former police officer, accomplice of the Sinaloa Cartel and today a DEA collaborator.

According to the criminal file EP-12-CR-849-FM, of the Federal Court of the Western District of Texas, in El Paso, the two legions of hitmen at the service of Magaña Pasos in Ciudad Juárez were commanded by Jesús Rodrigo Fierro Ramírez and Arturo Lozano Méndez.

The latter's group, a former Municipal Police agent, was entrusted with the task of "sweeping" the Barrio Azteca gang, executors of the Juarez Cartel, but apparently their work did not do satisfactorily and resulted in another his subordinates convinced Magaña Steps of his incompetence.

“In early 2008, in the midst of the increasing violence in Ciudad Juárez between the Sinaloa and Juárez Cartel, Magaña Pasos withdrew the organization of Garduño Escobedo from Ciudad Juárez, before this David Sánchez Hernández met with Magaña Pasos and spoke badly the way Garduño Escobedo handled the fight for power against the Juarez Cartel, ”he adds.

"I think this conversation between David Sánchez Hernández and Magaña Pasos contributed to the transfer of Garduño Escobedo's organization to different places in Mexico, since David Sánchez Hernández went to Mexico City," said Fierro Méndez in the United States.

Magaña Pasos had the authority to change all of his commands in Chihuahua and to close the streets of Juarez so that his cargoes with drugs would pass under police surveillance. That says Fierro Méndez, who was an agent until he was arrested.

Coma

Garduño, who was known as "Coma," short for "Comandante," was a station commander for the Chihuahua state police, the indictment states.

The indictment states that Garduño allegedly supervised cartel security operations and Juárez warehouses storing thousands of pounds of cocaine destined for the United States,

"Prior to the cartel war, Garduño paid the tax on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel granting them permission from the Juárez Cartel to move drugs through the Juárez plaza," the document states.

The indictment mentioned that Garduño's cocaine packages used the logo of Memin Pinguin, a Mexican comic book character of a black boy that has been criticized as being a racial stereotype.

47 comments:

  1. If you just ship cocaine to Mexico and Europe could you still be punished in the USA asking for a friend.

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    1. My friend says yes, answering for a friend.

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    2. They would get involved as they run the drugs market

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    3. You failed to mention where you were shipping it from,that may make a difference

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    4. Lol. Don’t break bad. Asking on a f$&king blog about what the punishments for different smuggling routes are??? Minimum wage is better than plomo

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  2. "Magaña, who speaks Gernan"! What's "Gernan"???

    If its meant to say 'German' , then mainstream media will soon get the bloodhounds out to go after their favourites: nazis!

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    1. you mean I made a typo? Well cut my pay----and lets move on...

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  3. So he speaks German huh? Wtf

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    1. One doesn't want to consider the Germans as potential drug traffickers, they are known for their discipline, intelligence and brutality.

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    2. a german named german

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  4. El Chapo has always been the poster boy for the Sinaloa Cartel, it’s impossible for him to be the soul leader as the courts trying to make it seem like. El Mayo has always been lowkey about everything he does, you can tell he doesn’t want to attract attention to himself. I personally feel like el Mayo is the true leader of the organization and just gives power to certain individuals to throw the scent off of him. And so far he’s been doing a good job at doing that. Los chapitos are doing a good job at attracting attention to themselves considering what happened in Culiacán recently. If they have the feds after them that gives Mayo some breathing space - El Gordo

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    1. If you know about the game you know every capo big or small has a right hand man. Now either Chapo was Mayos right hand or vise versa. There are no more ways about it. This is the way the game in Mexico is.

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  5. Excelente otro para bite de USA.

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  6. So if you guys didn't know chaps kids have beef with mayo zambada chapos kids picked up guy named Russo from mayo and killed him so mayo had a meeting wit them and declared war with the chapitos

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    1. hahaha dont believe everything u read. everything is koo right here in culiacan. el ruso y el nini isieron las pases

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  7. So if you guys didn't know chaps kids have beef with mayo zambada chapos kids picked up guy named Russo from mayo and killed him so mayo had a meeting wit them and declared war with the chapitos

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    1. el nini levanto y mato unos pistoleros del ruso. el ruso y el nini en la junta no se arreglaron. asta donde se no se an declarado guerra.

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    2. Which one of rusos guys did they kill? Ruso moves a lot of dope and he has A LOT of sicarios on his payroll. He isn’t some nobody I think chapitos might have biten off more than they can chew with this one.

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    3. I don’t think they killed ruso bro they killed it if his guys

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    4. Fake news and rumors spread by jaliskas, the sinaloa cartel is stronger than it has ever been.

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    5. There’s a couple russos one originally worked for some other guy chapo killed and jumped on chapos team and since had been with them

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    6. Sicario 007... Clear this up bro

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    7. 8:40 Sinaloas are always in denial lol
      Just like when cjng was killing off the cds in Tijuana, it took cds groupies like a whole year for them to accept that fact..
      Cds stronger than EVER? That is too funny, you must be new to this blog

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    8. AnonymousDecember 10, 2019 at 8:07 AM
      te equivocas el nini trae mas gente que el ruso. pero el ruso esta mas adiestrado.

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    9. 120 mas vale un vato entrenado que 20 pendejos viciosos

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    10. Look at all this clowns peliando se como niñas 😂 bola pendejos no se vayan a quebrar una uña mejor pongan se a trabajar en ves de estar peliando about who has more people or whatever.smh

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    11. 11:18 menso and his tweaker cartel have been booted out of baja california altogether. What is this bs you say about cjng in tijuana cuz last we heard cjng is getting their asses handed to them in tijuana.

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    12. So the rumor that nini got killed when the ovidio incident is false?

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  8. I had a buddy that had bricks with a monkey stamp. He said his people were from Sinaloa but were in Monterrey. That was back early 2000’s

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    1. You watch too much super troopers

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    2. Stop posting this nonsense right meow 😹

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  9. The mex government runs the drug trade, not el mayo. Leave him alone!

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    1. The govt uses guys like Mayo as a pawn, so Mayo and the rest of them are still guilty.

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  10. Anyone know if Mayo is really at war with Chapitos?

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  11. BIG NEWS , DETIENEN A GENARO GARCIA LUNA !! EN TX. EL.UNIVESAL LO HISO PUBLICO , ATTE YO

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  12. Once the CIA knows what you look like its game over.

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  13. Good Read. El Fantasma and Los Austeros de Durango recently released a new corrdo "El Paisa". Could it be the same Paisa?

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  14. So does el Mayo control los AA or la Linea ?

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  15. I've lived in Germany, drive a German car and my little dog is German. Germany has the most innovative economy and scientific excellence. No surprise here that Germán Magaña Pasos "El Paisa" is stealth.

    Canadian girl


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  16. Mayo referenced the guy in the meeting in Mexico that one of the Flores twins was miked up for...Mayo tells Flores something about not sending small bills back South, that it was causing problems for Olivares...Chapo, Mayo, and Vicente were in the room and dude wore a wire...crazy. Vicente was asking for rocket launchers

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  17. Cds groupies are saying it's not true lol
    (WISHFUL THINKING) poor guys are always in denial, I remember when cjng started taking cds plazas and cds groupies SWORE UP AND DOWN it was fake news.. Pobrecitos...

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  18. "German Born" is from Reforma. I have no clue if true. from 2014 articles.

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  19. Hi Chivis!
    I’m glad you guys posted this article. This may be German, “Gui Gui” from the Vicentillo trial, as another poster pointed out. We know his name and picture were unknown, and that he was a higher up in Mayos organization. This would certainly match some of the details provided by the article. He’s a ghost in the eyes of the government.

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