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Thursday, May 25, 2023

Former Mara Member Reveals How The Sinaloa Cartel Trained Him To Take On Los Zetas

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

A former member of the "Mara Salvatrucha" told Univision how he and at least 24 other gang members were trained by the Sinaloa Cartel to fight Los Zetas; a former member of the U.S. Navy trained them.

Video translation is as follows:

Azucena Uresti: A former member of the gang known as the Mara Salvatrucha told Univision how he and at least 24 other gang members were trained by the Sinaloa Cartel to fight Los Zetas. In his words, they were out of control in 2016. It was allegedly a former member of the US Navy who trained them.

Pedro: El Chapo sent a communiqué to the Mara in Los Angeles that he needed, you could say, support so that we could confront the Zetas cartel because they were already out of control.

Female Reporter: A member of the Mara Salvatrucha gang in California told the Univision news network how the Sinaloa Cartel recruited and trained gang members to defend their territory and their drug shipments in that country.

Pedro: The communiqué that arrived in Los Angeles, I was present in that, in that, in that purge that was done with Los Zetas and yes, I had to come to Mexico.

Female Reporter: The letter was sent in 2016 shortly after the second capture of El Chapo. That's when 25 Mareros enlisted and were taken to a military training camp in Sinaloa where they were trained by a former member of the U.S. Navy.

Pedro: They teach you the use of weapons, self-defense, hand to hand combat, the person who trains us is a U.S. Marine. You’re given two weeks of training…before they send you to war.

Female Reporter: Pedro spent several years in prison because he was caught receiving a drug shipment in Northern California. And he says his criminal ties began because a family member worked for the Sinaloa Cartel.

Pedro: They give you everything you need, right? From tactical boots, to M-16 rifles, vests, which is practically the U.S. Army stuff.

Female Reporter: Once they learned everything they needed, they were sent to northwest Mexico.

Pedro: I was in Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Piedras Negras, and Coahuila. Personally, I was carrying a Glock 40 and practically like a military man, all camouflaged.

Female Reporter: The relationship that La Mara has with the Sinaloa Cartel dates back to the 1990s when it joined the prison gang the Mafia Mexican or La Eme in California and added the number 13 to its acronym.

Pedro: We are what you could call the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel in Los Angeles.

Female Reporter: However, there is no exclusive contract with any criminal group.

Pedro: You could say that you’re under contract for so long. But once that contract runs out you just stop working there.

Female Reporter: And it is through these alliances that the Mara Salvatrucha has managed to take control of some of the territories through which the freight train known as La Bestia passes. Where they extort, rob, and even kidnap immigrants seeking to reach the United States.


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53 comments:

  1. People with tattoos all over don’t even look hardcore scary tough just plain stupid and ugly asf, clowns!

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    1. I know it means nothing until it means something, I’m talking fools age 35+

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    2. Dude you must never be around these guys. Im from El Monte, California and when i head to LA I frequently run into maras and theyre scary mfkrs trust me. Their eyes are totally evil and they look at you with pure hate like theyre willing to eat you alive. They dont give a F about anything. Total sociopaths.

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    3. 1013 😂 😆

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    4. @10:42 un claro ejemplo son los futbolistas ⚽ a quien quieren engañar.

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  2. Cartel de Sinaloa DID NOT learn their lesson with Z’ts. They should’ve prepared in case another cartel surged and turned into a super mega cartel. The story repeated itself and now you have CJNG outnumbering & outgunning them

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    1. CJNG does not outnumber CDS. CDS is still the biggest cartel in Mexico, but CJNG is a close second.

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    2. 11:15 if you do a little research you will find out CJNG has precense in about 8-10 more states than CDS, and if you do that little math you will find out CJNG is bigger than CDS, it doesnt take a genious to figure it out son

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    3. 12:28 but but but

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    4. 1:05 👍 negative chief

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    5. @12.28 And it doesn't take a genius to see that whatever graph you saw online is meaningless unless it tells you how many politicians, police, judges and army it has in its pocket, let alone the amount of men on the ground. Did the graph show that? Having 10 dollars in 25 bank accounts doesn't make me richer than a man with millions in a few.

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    6. 3:39 cuando uno es aferrado, ni viendo los pelos de la burra en la mano va a creer que la burra es parda, en pocas palabras lo que tu digas compa, si nomas para que sepas solamente la ciudad de Guadalajara tiene lo doble de gente que todo Sinaloa, asi que ahi tu has tus cuentas bebe de luz

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    7. Estas muy equivocado amigo. La ciudad Guadalajara no tiene doble de gente que todo Sinaloa. El estado Sinaloa tiene doble de gente que la ciudad Guadalajara.

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    8. Ya que andan presumiendo. Explicanse culitos.

      https://www.telesurtv.net/news/aprueban-sinaloa-legalizar-matrimonio-igualitario-20210616-0004.html

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    9. 6:26 tienes razon Sinaloa tiene un poco mas del doble de gente que guadalajara, quise desir Guadalajara y sus alrededores tiene el doble de genete que sinaloa pero tambien es una exageracion, Sinaloa tiene mas o menos 3.027 millones de personas y guadalajara y sus alrededores (tlaquepaque, Zapopan, tonala, Zapotlanejo, ixtlahuacan del rio) tiene mas o menos 5.300, (mas o menos) para que no te esponges mi chavo y eso que falta todos los demas municipios de jalisco 😉

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  3. Well was he trained by ex navy or ex marine ? Glock 40 ? I seriously doubt it . "and practically like a military man, all camouflaged" WTF ? Go to war where ? In your pick up riding around like a dumass attacking, kidnapping, torturing killing women and children ? Come on Sol. Female reporter ?

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    1. In Mx the "marines" are "naval infantry corps" and they are part of the NAVY. In the US, the marines are under the...NAVY. He said he went to war in TAMPS and I can tell you, there was a war going on at that time and you can still see guys running around in trucks and suv's with camo and heavy weapons. Many parts of TAMPS was a literal war zone when the CDG was fighting Zetas.

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    2. You could leave this site along with the rest of the whiners and our numbers would still be astronomical without you clowns. Así que no estés chingando wey. 😄

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    3. Interesting to know that the unwanted criticism continues.
      Don’t feed into these arguments Sol.

      Best of wishes
      E42

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    4. 12:24 Are you trying to say Sol made up the article? Are you trying to say no such thing as a Glock 40?
      You definitely a Rookie in here, you got a lot to learn, or are you the type, that acts like a know it all. Give me a break.

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    5. I don't know what you are on about. The dude may be exaggerating in this interview, possibly, but Navy and Marines is a pretty much interchangeable term, and everything else he said sounds completely plausible for that war and that time.

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    6. Sol you sound like a Gringo from Puerrto Rico

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    7. @3:44

      What you got against Boricuas fool

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    8. 4:13 ese sol, te encanta patearles el hormiguero a los lamehuecos de el CDS verda? 🤣🤣🤣

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    9. And you sound like an idiot that can’t spell. Do your thing SOL!

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    10. You can tell who's been here since 2010and who's new lmao big difference

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  4. No wonder Sinaloa couldn't take out the Zetas. A US Navy guy trained them.
    The government had to take out Lazcano and Zeta 40 in order for these guys to fragment.

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  5. LOL @ the armed wing in L.A. Uh, there isn't open armed conflict in LA like in MX. You're a street gang that gets contracted to do violence when violence needs doung. "Armed wing" lolololol

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    1. There’s still armed conflict/skirmishes. There’s still warfare between gangs. You think all of those shootouts get reported. There’s things the news does report on but not everything gets put out there.

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    2. 2:24 It's way calmer in L.A. then it was in the 90's. You don't hear gunshots like before. They aint no armed wing. Aint nothing like that going on out here. Never has, atleast cartel related. There's cartel operatives here and there pero nothing of that violence.

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    3. In the 70s and 80s there was open warfare in LA.

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    4. Facepalm at 8:13 … not like here in MX. There’s never been a criminal gang in the US that rides around in convoys 30 deep with heavy weapons and the police look the other way. At the end of the day violence is violence but you can’t ignore the dynamics and how it happens here.

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  6. Armed wing is a bit much maybe if they were running around like Grupo elite

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  7. It's tight Americas finest still training the cartels....

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  8. https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/los-chapitos-el-chapos-sons-sinaloa-cartel/

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  9. Fictional tales!!

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    1. Totally… with the endless resources of men he could get in Sinaloa alone, we are to believe he sought after a couple dozen tecatos in LA? To battle against Zetas?? Lmao

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    2. Yea totally fictional, like the fact that chapitos deal fentanil 🤣🤣🤣

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    3. Why is it so fiction. Where else you gonna hire a bunch of crash dummies to go get slaughtered for you ? No Mexicans wanted to fight zetas at that time. It’s 100% logical and Ramon Arellano Felix did say thing except it was a different street gang in San Diego. It’s very smart to outsource your violence keeps you out the way and protected.

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    4. 4:14 actually this info is old, only newbees are the ones who didnt know this, cds hired a few caibiles and asked them to hire some maras and trained them to try and fight Z's cause most mexicans didnt wanted to fight Z's, and since CDS failed at it they changed their tactics and hired Garcia Luna and the federal government paying hundrends of millions of dollars that at the time z's couldnt pay, thats why the government was on CDS side, but now at days CJNG has the same if not more money power so thats why they are in more states than CDS are 😉

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    5. 8:07 There's a difference what happened with the Arellano's and what this clip is claiming. For one, Logan Heights/San Diego is right next door to Tijuana. Two, their big homie was out there in the thick of things already and he's the one that recruited them. 3, it was convenient for them to do their dirt and then disappear to the U.S. side of the boarder, but still were on standby being that they weren't that far away. Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila are all hours away from L.A. atleast 20 hours driving. Even more to Sinaloa. And how and why would Chapo reach out to them when he got locked up? I don't know, maybe there were exagerations and/or some details were left out or changed, but as it stands, those legs are wobbly. Especially the armed wing thing

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    6. “Most Mexican didn’t want to fight Zetas”

      Then the zetas went to MICHOACÁN y sazzz!!!!!

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  10. Thats why cds lost that war.

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    1. WHAT!!!!...You do know Zetas no longer exist right???

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    2. 11:43 thanks to the federal forces, but Z's beat the breacks off CDS, criminals against criminals, than the federal forces helped CDS and thats why the Z's are no longer, but CDS still couldnt and still cant get into those plazas, there you go

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    3. @5.41. ''Criminals against criminals?'' Los Zetas (and I don't mean the originals) were filled with ex soldiers, police, and they were just as good at corrupting officials. They went for the municipals and local politicians, so don't pretend they would have won if only CDS had played ''fair''. Los Zetas lost that war resoundingly, which is why they barely exist anymore.

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    4. 6:29 hello break my 🥝🥝's, did you take your meds today? Im surprised you are not bitching at the admis for some random petty thing 😂
      You said it your self and thats what made the difference "EX" Z's had EX police and EX soldiers in their ranks and CDS thought ok lets hired some EX caibiles and have them train Maras (cause maras had the fame of been blood thirsty) but they were not ready for the mind set and savagery Z's braught to the game and they lost the war one on one, Z's never sent the federal forces to fight cds like cds did, well it was garcia luna and we all know how that turned out

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  11. This seems fake

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  12. Their is no criminal organization in Califas that wields more power than 🖐🏿...cartels members are considered Paisas and have no real power other than being drug suppliers on streets...

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    1. So true they don't have the power the big homies run shit in socal not no ms or cartel

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  13. Puro el monte ca

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    1. 8:57
      Shut up fool you live in a house with like 24 or more people, while the owner paying ridiculous ass price for a house made in the 40’s 😂.

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