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Friday, October 22, 2021

El Paso, Texas: 2010 Juárez Wedding Kidnapping Almost Did Not End In Blood

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat  

View of El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico on August 15, 2019. 

For a brief moment, a kidnapping at a 2010 Juárez wedding had the chance not to end in blood, according to a former sicario for the Sinaloa cartel.

The former assassin told a jury on Monday that a hit ordered by the top Sinaloa cartel leaders in Juárez during the late 2000s was almost halted because of a family connection. The sicario and his squad had kidnapped three men from a wedding in Central Juárez.

His wife’s family had a connection with the men who had been kidnapped. And he asked Antonio Marrufo, who was at the helm of the cartel in Juárez at the time, and he said they could let them go.

But the sicario told jurors that he had contacted the squad he worked with too late. Their captives had already been taken to a safe house, beaten, and killed.

The testimony was part of the ongoing trial of reputed cartel members Arturo Shows Urquidi and Mario Alberto Iglesias Villegas in U.S. federal court in El Paso. The two are accused of being involved in the Sinaloa cartels operations in Juárez in connection to murders, kidnappings, and drug trafficking.

The trials are part of a large indictment by a federal grand jury that included Sinaloa cartel leaders Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and Ismael “Mayo” Zambada Garcia. On April 24, 2012, the leaders and 22 other members of the cartel were charged with criminal activities ranging from trafficking drugs to conspiracy to kill in a foreign country.

The man who took the stand said he’d been involved in criminal activity since the late 1990s. He’d been a police officer and then began working for the Sinaloa cartel in the mid-2000s.

Using his training as a policeman, he and a few others would coordinate over radio, using coded language to communicate with each other. The former sicario said he worked in a hit squad for the Sinaloa cartel and would often see Iglesias, also known as “El Dos,” or “El 2.”

He said the day of the kidnapping at El Señor de la Misericordia Catholic church in Juárez, or the Lord of Mercy Catholic Church, Iglesias had fallen behind because the squad later found out he was in a car accident. But he was still in communication with the squad, which matched earlier testimony of the day.

The sicario who took the stand Monday said he became emotional during the kidnapping because he saw the groom’s mother cry out not to hurt his son. She ran outside calling for the hit squad not to take her son, he said.

And, she tried getting the attention of a federal police vehicle passing by. She was unsuccessful in getting the police stop, he added.

“It reminded me of my mother,” he said

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21 comments:


  1. Well, there it is for every bright bulb that thinks they know Spanish so well.


    “El Señor de la Misericordia Catholic church in Juárez, or the Lord of Mercy Catholic Church”


    Señor means Lord you fucking idiots!

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    1. People that want to argue the finer points of Spanish with the author don't deserve Borderland Beat. Thank you for all of your reporting that shows us the dark reality of cartel violence that the mainstream media ignores.

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    2. What about the abbreviated form, example when calling old ladies, disculpe seño...

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    3. Mr. Churches these guys are drug lords. That's why I say lord in their translations. And to say El Señor in Spanish just holds too much weight. They know why they refer to them as such. They're actually being venerated in song and film as if their deities. @2:08 yes liquor. We've all got our vices.

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  2. Soon the Cjng scarios will be caught and sent to USA, to face prison time, a few of Menchos relatives are in prison already.

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  3. Lmao seas mamom Sol. Señor Martinez is translated as Sir/ Mister Martinez not Lord Martinez. If you look up the translation to the word lord the word señor is also there you just choose to put lord..

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    1. It's fine either way it works fine.

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    2. If you think they’re calling themselves mister then you’ve got a lot to learn there bud. Their power and money has gone to their heads. Enough so that they start to think of themselves as actual gods. Just the fact they’re being venerated after their deaths should tell you something on this matter.

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    3. Venerated by those in their respected criminal organization maybe..I’m sure they are hated by just as many if not more than those that respect them. When your boys snitch on you, is that really respect in the end ?

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  4. Why do people have to post negative comments to the authors of articles? RUDE, RUDE, RUDE!

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    1. Because SOSA and El Benny have nothing else better to do, if only they had job, would they then quack less BS.

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    2. Lol Sosa and Benny are big Quackers!

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    3. Señor Sol has his followers and his haters...

      I'd drink a nice cold Sol cerveza with Señor Sol

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    4. Ricky how do you know he likes beer, Perhaps he like liquor. Maybe just smoke a joint in the morning.

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  5. What a saga in violence and bloodshed. I remember that years vividly. The El Paso Times, of which I am not a subscriber has great coverage of this case.

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    1. Yes sir. I remember going to Juarez in 2009 on some immigration stuff and seeing the boinas rojas from the Mex military also arriving at the airport, they were the top dogs back than before the Marinos came into circuit. Shit was wiled back then in Juaritos 15-20 people getting whacked everyday.

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    2. I don't think any mexican city in any timeline during the Mexican drug war has reached the level of violence juarez had during 2008-2012. Also the violence in Chihuahua City was crazy in those times also in delicias camrgo jimenez parral and some parts of la sierra but juarez took mainly all the media coverage

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    3. Its always been calm around Delicias still is just a bunch of Gn jackers around bt who know segun la Linea came in from Meoqui and Jimenez

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    4. A narco family controls Camargo for the Salguieros/gn300 but recently they been separating themselves from gente nueva like gente nueva tigre flipped on ncdj. They go by "Los Ramoncillos" and they started clicking up with linias from jimenez. Segun los ramoncillos are also behind the recent shootout in Guadalupe Y Calvo. I think el rojo that was killed in valle de zaragoza is evidence of this

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