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Sunday, April 9, 2023

Sinaloa Cartel Exports Its Fentanyl 'Factories' To Colombia

 "Ivan" for Borderland Beat 



On Thursday, the 16th, a dozen Colombian National Police agents approached two Mexicans at Bogota's El Dorado International Airport; they discreetly surrounded them, asked them to identify themselves, and told them they were under arrest.


According to Proceso, both had arrest warrants for extradition to the United States and, according to the Colombian police, are members of the Sinaloa Cartel and "trusted men" of Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, who was captured on January 5 in the town of Jesús María, municipality of Culiacán.


The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has identified him as a large-scale producer of fentanyl and, together with his half-brothers Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo, he heads the Los Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.


The two Mexicans arrested in Bogota were surprised. They had arrived in the Colombian capital on a flight from Mexico City and passed through immigration control without any problem, where they said they had come for tourism. However, when they crossed the international arrivals gate at El Dorado, they were stopped by the police.


The most striking thing about these captures, which were reported by the police in a very terse manner to the press six days later, is that the two Mexicans were captured on charges of trafficking fentanyl, the synthetic opiate that is causing a health catastrophe in the United States. Last year alone, overdoses with this drug caused the death of at least 70,000 Americans, one every eight minutes on average.


This is the first time that arrests related to fentanyl trafficking have been made in Colombia, although, according to the indictment of the federal court of the Southern District of New York against the two Mexicans, the crime was not committed in Colombian territory, but derives from a shipment of 400 grams of this drug that was produced in Mexico and illegally introduced into the United States.


The detainees were identified as Carlos Félix Gutiérrez and Silvano Francisco Mariano.


Proceso learned that both have their residence in Culiacán, Sinaloa, although they are originally from other states. According to Colombian police sources, they are specialists in processing fentanyl and "know the logistics" of this illegal business very well.


According to the Director of Criminal Investigation and Interpol (Dijin) of the police, General Olga Patricia Salazar, the Mexicans arrived in Colombia with the purpose of coordinating actions with local drug traffickers "to make inroads in the production, sale and export of fentanyl".


Two police agents familiar with the investigation told this weekly that an "inter-agency team" involving the DEA and the FBI and operating in Colombia received the alert from Mexico of the arrival of the two envoys of Los Chapitos.

"They had already arranged meetings in Bogota and Medellin with Colombian contacts to develop the fentanyl production plan," said one of the agents. In those cities they were looking to set up laboratories to process the synthetic opioid, "cut" it with different mixtures, press it into pills and traffic it to the United States along the cocaine routes through which the drug has flowed for decades.


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30 comments:

  1. Someone told me that this is happening in places like El Salvador and Equador as well…

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    1. For sure, my bet is the bearded commierat in El Salvador has turned the entire country into a massive in-transit storage facility for the big cartels. The MS13 gang leaders, all in hiding, gave him the perfect excuse to implement a permanent state of exception and threw the cats away for his concentration camp facility. All prearranged, of course. The bastard had been in talks with the gangs since at least 2015.

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    2. I agree with you wholeheartedly….

      He “shaped up” the country, so they can “ship out”

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    3. 4:03 sure bud

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    4. 4:03 Idk what to even say to that

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  2. I dont think anyone is dumb enough to get into to the fentanyl trade at this point

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    1. They've been saying that about every drug for decades now but the business thrives.

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    2. Why wouldn’t they? All the heat is on Mexico and China right now right?

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    3. Canada technically experienced the first epidemic (from Chinese groups) during the early to mid 2010s…

      Pretty sure people were saying the same thing back then as well…

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    4. There is a lot of money to make, lifespans are not very high, so lets make fast money and get rich before being killed or imprisoned. You have no clue mi hijo.

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    5. 3:35 not cocaine… Clearly the best one to get involved in and been that way for years.

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    6. Pretty much some people here are clueless can't you see what fentanyl is doing to you favorite cartel? CDS they are being dismantled because they play with Fent. there's no future in Fent only idiots from Culiacan believe there's a future in Fent

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    7. 9:11 But the corridos say they are brave super heroes.

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    8. 9:11 And in Sonora and Baja, let’s be honest. Also Mariana van Zeller interviewed some dipshit chemist in Mazatlan so it’s not just the capital.

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  3. I wonder if there hiring. 🫠

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    1. Yes but you won't live past 40.

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    2. Stop. These kinds of comments aren’t cute in the context of fent of all things.

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  4. Now that i think on it, maybe the mexs are doing us Americans a favor by getting rid of hard drug users & their conglomerate of sundry associated crimes.

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    1. no, that's idiotic. it creates more addicts than it kills

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    2. 5:00 the addicts are already in the USA, dont blame other people for your addction

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    3. Gringos have to change their way of living to stop it but hey we are talking about health care, gun control and other things…all of them are labeled as communist and with the democrats bussy with their woke bullshit, nothing will change. We will see more than 70-100k ODs.
      But its still below the death toll mexico pays-i give a fck about it.
      La Rana

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    4. What part of it being laced into other unrelated shit do you not understand

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  5. Mr Ivan happy holidays. Thank you for another great article. Hope you and your loved ones stay safe.

    God bless.

    Rubio NYC

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  6. Prices about to start going up.

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    1. Junkies getting high in phoenix and NM for a $1 a pill, but 2 years ago it was $10

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    2. Even if the prices double junkies still getting loaded for under $5 smh…

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    3. That’s not how that works. They can’t raise the price for it at this point

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  7. I see a conspiracy to get everyone I'm fent now.
    It's allowed by the government and we should all be aware about that by now

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    1. Well it’s not gonna work because people don’t want that shit and it’s bad business to have fentanyl in your shit these days if you’re selling more sought after drugs to normal casual users who want nothing to do with it. Less people are even willingly trying “opioids” these days for the first time because they’re all gone except for shitty fent. Drug cartels finally did what the US government couldn’t, reduce demand/participation in the opioid market. Now the fentanyl traffickers and dealers are mainly just focused on addicts.

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