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Monday, April 24, 2023

CJNG is New Key Cocaine Source for Italian 'Ndrangheta

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

'Ndrangheta clan leaders.

Italian Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (DIA) confirmed in its latest report that the 'Ndrangheta, the dangerous Calabrian mafia organization that controls wholesale cocaine trafficking in Europe, has a "consolidated" relationship with the Mexican Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG).

This link is used for cocaine trafficking "that travels in containers," explained the DIA. The context is that of a cartel that "would be concentrating a large part of its drug trafficking activities in Asia, Africa, and Europe," the agency added.

Although the connected groups have changed in Mexico, this has not broken the link with the country. There is a "strong interest" for the Italian mafias in "Colombia and Mexico", affirms the DIA in its most recent report. The main mafias in Italy in addition to the 'Ndrangheta, are the Camorra of Naples and the Cosa Nostra of Sicily.


The 'Ndrangheta, for example, “uses the Calabrian port of Gioia Tauro as a strategic hub for traffic in Europe”, adds the institution.

According to the DIA investigators, the Calabrian criminal organization has a "front page role" in the drug trafficking sector also "thanks to its alliances with the Mexican drug traffickers", which allow it to manage "both the main links intercontinental between America and Europe”, as well as “the sale in Europe”, continues the anti-mafia agency in another report, in which it also warns about the danger posed by the infiltration of the three Italian mafias in Latin American societies.

These networks make use of the also consolidated relations between the Calabrian criminal group and Balkan organized crime. "The main shipments depart from the Pacific ports and pass through the Strait of Panama before reaching the countries of northern Europe, the Mediterranean, and the coasts of West Africa", they have concluded, considering the CJNG one of those networks "most aggressive" in Mexico.

Neither Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel, nor the Sinaloa Cartel appears in the latest DIA analyses. This is the first news that they are no longer designated as partners of the 'Ndrangheta, but that this position is now occupied by the CJNG. This is a significant change as those Mexican cartel groups were in business with the Italian mafias, some sources speak of relationships that began in the 1980s.

Previous Connections

The first time that the link between the Gulf Cartel and the 'Ndrangheta (among them, the Schirripa Clan) was uncovered was in 2008. It happened with the transnational operation Operación Solare (or Project Reckoning), carried out between Mexico, the United States, Guatemala, and Italy, which led to the arrest of some 200 people.

Later, in 2011, Operation Solare 2 (also known as Crimine 3), also coordinated by Italy, revealed how the then-rising Los Zetas had begun to operate with the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta (particularly with the Jerino, Aquino, Bruzzese, Siderno, and Fish Clans). 

A 2019 Italian law enforcement investigation Operation Halcon, uncovered efforts by the Sinaloa Cartel to set up operations in the Sicilian city of Catania.

José Angel “El Flaco” Rivera Zazueta.

Catania was chosen as a test run for other potential cocaine flights from Latin America, which would refuel in West Africa, such as in Cape Verde. Two Sinaloa operatives were dispatched to Italy to liaise with local 'Ndrangheta contacts and supervise local arrangements weeks in advance. The Sinaloa figure, José Angel “El Flaco” Rivera Zazueta, a top lieutenant of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, would come to Italy only for the final stages. Based in Asia and living in places such as Taiwan, “El Flaco” had principally focused on managing the Sinaloa Cartel’s synthetic drug trafficking in Asia. Flaco was recently sanctioned by the US for his involvement in fentanyl trafficking.

Sources Proceso, Brookings Journal, Borderland Beat

58 comments:

  1. Damm las 4 letras son los buenos

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  2. "Era adicto a la adrenalina
    Era lo que lo activaba
    Y sacaba el jale en caliente
    En el convoy, puro' suicida'
    Listos pa' tirar vergazos
    No la pensaban dos veces"

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    1. Gringo here,
      Does vergazos translate to dick slaps/slapping?

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    2. No. It doesn't mean that. That line refers to people being ready for an armed confrontation. Wherever it is that you got dick slapping from is outright wrong lol. Save your gay comments for another blog.

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    3. seemed like a legitimate question, it certainly ain't in the Spanish/English dictionary..
      I dunno where the gay part comes into the picture..
      🦎

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    4. 6:55 vergasos = chingasos

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    5. Doesn’t verga mean dick? It’s sounds really gay. How does that even translate even as a Mexican Spanish speaker?

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    6. 10:48 Verga does mean dick. But it's also slang for other things.

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    7. Verga means penis, etymologically it refers to to a stick like object and the mast of a Spanish ship. It originally comes from Spain: when a sailor was being punished they would send them to climb the mast; hence, "vete a la varga", go to the mast. In Mexico it later became what it is now.

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    8. Just like “cazzo” means dick in Italian but used for “fuck” as well

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  3. Do a story about the lamb in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🐑

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    1. Do a story about the 👻 ghost in Ireland.

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    2. Do a story on El Seńor Lucky Charms from Ireland

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    3. Do a story on sicario 006 from mayo guzman special forces

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    4. Do a Story on our famous Sol, that parachuted into enemy terrority in Nicaragua, and took down a few Gorilla warriors.

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    5. 5:29 no, not that one. Lol. We don't get too many static line jumpers here.

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    6. You should do the Vicente Zambada dull jail 🪒 razor tantrum.

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  4. One of the main groups continues to be the Primeiro Comando da Capital, the largest Brazilian criminal faction and full of contacts with the Ndrangheta.

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    1. The one that was headed by Rocco Morabito? Yeah Ndrangheta has used their money and influence to establish themselves within the leadership hierarchy of various criminal organizations in the past decades. They have leadership in the Albanian mafias as well.

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    2. Unfortunately the Ndrangheta and the Albanians are very close

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    3. ndrangheta are basically funding the albanians with their money and logistics. the albanians are meant to take the fall.

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    4. You do know most Ndrangheta clans have Albanian background right?

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  5. CONSOLIDATED DOESNT MEAN KEY. The ndrangheta has bought cocaine straight from colombia for more then 20 years , they still get the majority from colombia . especially with the recent coke boom in europe. going to mexico just means addioional steps and money for them

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    1. I can see them buying fent off them or crystal to test the market

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    2. CJNG are in Colombia genius 🤦

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    3. 3:05 Europeans don’t want fent 😂

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    4. @3:16 it’s vice versa 😉

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    5. 5:40 how is it the other way around and why would Colombians waste their time in Mexico unless to merely oversee simple cocaine shipments into the U.S.? CJNG and CDS are definitely in Colombia and other South American countries to control the trade into Europe with the help of the Italians and Albanians.

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    6. @ 4:51 Neither did Americans until people started slowly adding it into the heroin supply and now the cartels make way more off of the fent than they ever could have hoped for off h

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    7. @02:22 so you have personal drug couriers that use Venezuela to smuggle to Europa instead of Puerto Beracruz ??

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    8. La Firma is Colombian, so he has some really good connects in Colombia, and been a high up CJNG well its ovious CJNG has a big precense in Colombia and doing bussiness with the Italians, its just that easy 😉

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    9. There has been past articles even on BB stating that Mexican DTO’s are funding their own operations in Colombia from the bottom up.

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    10. There is truth to this; they buy coke from everyone and everywhere

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    11. There actually is fent now in Italy; usually in the homeless encampments around cities like Rome and Naples…

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    12. Perhaps the Italians dont want to deal with the Albanians

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    13. 5:59 roberto pannunzi was the bridge of the colombian cartels and ‘ndrangheta. known as the pablo escobar of europe. he was cutting out all middle men and buying directly from the source. cheaper price and better quality then the mexican cartels. he operated out of venezuela.

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    14. 6:37 ndrangheta are italians with albanian background you dummy. albanians migrated to the costal towns of italy back in 15th and 16th century. lots of years have pass and the native italians don’t discriminate against them, they are simply known as italian today regardless of what happened hundreds of years ago.

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  6. 006 and cds cheerleaders are gonna sweat to this news

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  7. Sorry but Clan de Gulfo is supplying Ndrangheta sorry Mexican cartel fans

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    1. Sorry doesn’t cut it clan del golfo is that a new group I haven’t heard of explain if you can? If not I understand

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    2. And guess who helps finance the Gulf Clan…

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    3. 3:15 Well they’re the biggest coke traffickers in Colombia/the world right now but that’s beside the point because CJNG is working right alongside them. Nobody from these organizations is forcing the Mexican cartels to stay in Mexico.

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    4. You know who works with the Golfo in Colombia? Mira eso es los quattro lettres.

      They need to get the work to Europe..... What's the route that is used to ship 1,000 + kilos a time ??

      I just revealed this last week and errone said that CDS this and CDS that and the Sicilians and other people in the mob Italia said fuck it and left the kilos in the ocean instead of shipping them to Chicago.

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    5. 5:57 yep, CDS are making so much noise and graving so much attention that the Italian Mafia said, Fuck this snitches, we dont want to get ratted out! The Italian mafia likes to keep a low profile and working with the Snitchloas wont give you that anonymous profile you want to keep

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    6. 07:35 💯👌🏽

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    7. Man the Italians started snitching gtfo

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    8. 11:24 Sinaloas out did them for miles in the snitching game, you have to be blind not to see it

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    9. Snitches are snitches it doesn’t matter homie

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    10. 9:07 like everything there are levels to it, its not the same snitching on some one who stole an apple than snitching on your childhood friend for trafficking tons of drugs

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    11. Cartel de Golfo worked with the Ndrangheta back in the late 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Right after Toto Riina was put away and the Sicilian mafia drug network collapsed. The Ndrangheta took over the drug game by default. Ndrangheta was close to Riina, even hiding him while he was on the run.

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  8. The spotlight is getting hot

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  9. Proof positive the United States is going after Chapitos.

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  10. USA made it clear that they are going after CDS even if AMLO doesnt aprove

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    1. CDS is so fucked. Don’t know how they didn’t see this coming. CJNG had a horrible business model as well just a year or two ago but they’ve shaped up it seems.

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    2. So by full revenue. Who is pulling more? Sinaloa or CJNG? If only we could see. I think Sinaloa families are still deeply entrenched. Their resources extend far beyond even if they have conflict among themselves. A bigger question is. Could a mega cartel ever flourish again like it did under Felix Gallardo?

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