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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Throwback Series: The Founding Members of Los Metros Faction of the Gulf Cartel

"Morogris" for Borderland Beat
Graphics by "HEARST"

Los Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel (Cártel del Golfo, or CDG) started from a group of local and state policemen based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, in the late 1990s.

Los Metros are one of the main factions of the now-splintered Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in northeastern Mexico. They have long dominated the Reynosa border area, but few sources and information exist covering its early years and founding members.

In this report, Borderland Beat will cover the early history of Los Metros, which dates back to the late 1990s when Osiel Cárdenas Guillen was head of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.


The first inner circle of Los Metros was reportedly formed by members of the Tamaulipas State Police and the Matamoros Municipal Police force circa 1996. This was around the time that Osiel Cardenas Guillen had moved back to Matamoros after working as a police officer in Miguel Alemán.

When Osiel Cárdenas worked in Miguel Aleman, he oversaw drug seizures and ran a profitable drug ring with the help of corrupt fellow officers. Local drug baron Gilberto Garcia Mena (AKA El June and/or El Yune) heard of Osiel's activities, and approached him for a meeting; they got along well, and became trusted business partners.

Mug shot of Gilberto García Mena following his 2001 arrest

El June also had close ties with other police officers and military members stationed there, and hired them to discreetly protect his drug trafficking operations in and around Miguel Alemán. After Osiel resigned from the police and returned to Matamoros in 1996, he replicated the model and formed a ring of policemen to support his criminal activities. Los Metros were born.



Origin of the Name

Although the present-day Metros are primarily based in Reynosa, it was formed in Matamoros. It is widely regarded that they named the group Los Metros after Matamoros, with "Metro" being the radio signal code to refer to the city. In other words, Los Metros (The Metros) was a code name for Los de Matamoros (Those from Matamoros).

Other factions of the Gulf Cartel followed similar naming conventions; in Tampico there was a cell known as Los Tangos. In Nuevo Laredo there was a group named Lobos, and in Reynosa there was Los Rojos.

"In the beginning, that's how you knew where they were from, Metros were from Matamoros, Rojos were from Reynosa, Lobos were from Laredo and so forth," a Tamaulipas state official said. "As things changed, the names stayed but they were all over the place."

Many of the original Metros were born or grew up in ejidos in the border area colloquially known as La Frontera Chica (also known as La Ribereña), which includes the Tamaulipas municipalities of Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Aleman, Camargo and Diaz Ordaz. 

Our source confirmed to Borderland Beat that the first person to coin the term "Metro" was a police officer from Camargo known as "El Gordo" Montelongo.

Los Metros's name may have derived from the official "Policía Metropolitana" (Metropolitan Police) of La Frontera Chica that some of the original Metros members may have worked in. They were hired to work for the Gulf Cartel sometime when Osiel Cardenas was in Miguel Aleman, before they relocated to Matamoros in 1996.



First picture released publicly online of Lorenzo Cuellar Botello

El Metro 1  Lorenzo Cuéllar Botello

There are two individuals who were part of the Gulf Cartel in the late 1990s that were known by their code names Metro 1. Their names were Lorenzo Cuellar Botello and Rogelio Garcia Garcia.

Cuellar Botello was born on 1961/62 and was a member of the Santa Catarina Municipal Police force in Nuevo León. The earliest newspaper records found by Borderland Beat mentioning Lorenzo Cuellar Botello were from 1993 when he was serving as the police chief of Santa Catarina. This municipality is part of the Monterrey metropolitan area.

In addition to working for the police, Cuellar Botello was a member of Los Pedraza, a criminal dynasty and drug group that operated in Santa Catarina. The group was formed in the 1950s and was absorbed by the Gulf Cartel in the early 2000s under Osiel Cardenas. It was dismantled in September 2007, when Cuellar Botello and other clan members were arrested following an anti-drug sting.

In 2011, Cuellar Botello and fifteen other members of Los Pedraza were sentenced to 22 years in prison for drug dealing, illegal possession of firearms, and organized crime involvement. 




Rogelio Garcia Garcia was also known as El Roger

El Metro 1 – Rogelio García García

Rogelio García García was the other Metro 1 of the Gulf Cartel and an early associate of Osiel Cardenas. Little is known of him and few online sources cover his doings, but Garcia was an important member in Osiel Cardenas's ascension and consolidation in Matamoros after he returned from Miguel Alemán.

According to Mexican federal investigation files titled 1694/MPFEADS/99 and 1420/MPFEADS/2000, Garcia was named as the "second-in-command" of the Gulf Cartel and the "closest associate" of Osiel Cardenas in 1999 and 2000. This was above Gulf Cartel figures Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez (AKA El Coss), Juan Carlos González Sánchez (AKA La Torta), and José Manuel García Rendón (AKA La Brocha).

Investigators say that Garcia was one of the men responsible for kidnapping a half brother of Tampico-based trafficker Hugo Baldomero Medina Garza (AKA El Señor de Los Trailers) in 1997 and of participating in the murder of Matamoros gang member Salvador Gómez Herrera (AKA El Chava) in 1999. El Chava's death consolidated Osiel Cardenas as the top leader of the Gulf Cartel.

In November 1999, Osiel Cardenas, Garcia, and several other ex-police officers and cartel gunmen threatened two U.S. agents at gunpoint in Matamoros after the agents traveled there with an informant to gather intelligence on the cartel's operations. The agents and informant returned to the U.S. unharmed, but the incident triggered a massive manhunt and investigation against Garcia and those involved.

Garcia was also involved in the cartel's international drug operations. The federal report previously cited stated that he once met with Colombian drug suppliers at the Holiday Inn Plaza Sol Hotel in Guadalajara, Jalisco, to negotiate a major drug deal for the Gulf Cartel. Other cartel members involved were El Coss, Sergio Garza Garza (AKA El Pollo), and Francisco Alberto Vazquez Guzman (AKA El Paco, Paquito, and/or Rufino). 

One of the suppliers, Ruben Dario Nieto Benjumea (AKA El Guiri), told Mexican agents after his arrest that Garcia had died in a car accident in July 2000. However, investigators doubted this confession because Garcia had at least seven identities that he used to go undetected. It is likely that his most cited name "Rogelio Garcia Garcia" is also an alias, investigators said.

There is another confession from Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna (AKA Tango 36) that Garcia and his brother, nicknamed Titino, were killed on Osiel Cardenas's orders circa 2000. The location given was in Punta Milpa, a former cartel camp in Matamoros.

A source outside of law enforcement but with direct knowledge of old Gulf Cartel also told Borderland Beat that Garcia was retired and living in the Houston, Texas, area. The conflicting reports suggest that Garcia's current whereabouts or status may never be known. 

Former Gulf Cartel boss Mario Cárdenas Guillén was known as "M1" but that did not stand for "Metro 1". The "M" was a reference to a short-lived group known as Los Marinos, which was based in Matamoros.





El Metro 2 – Gregorio Saucedo Gamboa

Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa, also known as El Caramuela, Don Goyo, and/or El Goyo, was the founding Metro 2. Born on 11 May 1965, Sauceda Gamboa was member of the Tamaulipas State Police and started his career in Miguel Aleman as a police defective.

In 1996, he resigned from the police force and joined Osiel Cardenas in Matamoros. Sauceda Gamboa was assigned to protect Osiel Cardenas by Tamaulipas State Police chief Arturo Pedroza Aguirre. He was responsible for hiring several policemen to work in the cartel.

Sauceda Gamboa, along with brothers Adan (AKA El Fonfas), Karim (AKA Tango 64), Tomás (AKA Tango 80), and Hector Manuel (AKA El Karis), had strong influence in Matamoros, Reynosa, and Tampico.

But Osiel Cardenas grew wary of the Sauceda Gamboa brothers, and especially with Gregorio, after he believed they were a threat to him and the cartel's operations. Federal investigators say that Gregorio was seen as a weak link due to the fact that he had cancer and cocaine and alcohol addiction. 

Gregorio was arrested in April 2009 in Matamoros.




El Metro 3  Samuel Flores Borrego

Samuel Flores Borrego is the original Metro 3, and likely the most recognizable of the founding Metro members. He was born in 6 August 1972 and was a Tamaulipas State Police officer.

The earliest newspaper records consulted by Borderland Beat that mentions Flores Borrego date back to 2001. The newspaper says that he was responsible for supervising all security measures in the properties owned or visited by Osiel Cardenas.

Over the years, Flores Borrego became more involved in drug trafficking operation and rose through the cartel ranks. In 2009, he was indicted by the US government for intending to smuggle 5 kg (11 lb) or more of cocaine and 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) or more of marijuana from Mexico, Colombia, and Central America to the US.

In September 2011, Mexican authorities discovered the bullet-ridden corpse of Flores Borrego inside a Ford Lobo truck on a highway that connects Reynosa. His body was found along with the corpse of a policeman named Eloy Lerma García from Gustavo Díaz Ordaz. Before being executed, the two men were stripped to their underwear, severely beaten, tortured and then shot dead execution-style.

Investigators said that he was killed by the Gulf Cartel, presumably on orders from leaders Juan Mejía González (AKA El R-1, R1) and Rafael Cárdenas Vela (AKA El Junior, El 9000). In retrospect, his death marked a turning point in the history of the Gulf Cartel since it is widely seen as the spark that ignited the infighting and eventual balkanization of the cartel.

As mentioned earlier, Flores Borrego is arguably the most recognizable Metros figurehead to date. Years after his death, some Metros members who were part of the cartel when Flores Borrego was around were often referred to those from "The School of El Metro 3" (Spanish: La Escuela de El Metro 3). 




Rare picture of Hector David Delgado Santiago, AKA Metro 4, M-4, and/or M4. Most of the online pictures of this figure display him with a covered face. 

El Metro 4  Héctor David Delgado Santiago

Hector David Delgado Santiago is the original Metro 4. He was born on 23 December 1975 in Matamoros in a middle-class family involved in customs brokerage. 

Unlike other of his fellow Metros, like Metro 2 (Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa) and Metro 3 (Samuel Flores-Borrego), Delgado Santiago operated a lower profile and remained under law enforcement's radar for many years.

Delgado Santiago started his career in the Tamaulipas State Police and rose through the ranks of the Gulf Cartel in Reynosa under former plaza boss Mario Ramirez Treviño (AKA El Pelon and/or X-20).

He was known by authorities on both sides of the border as a coldblooded and ruthless cartel boss.

In 2011, a private memo from Texas Department of Public Safety was leaked and showed that Delgado Santiago given orders to his henchmen to fire at U.S. agents if they interfered with drug shipments of the cartel.

There were also several attacks carried out in the South Texas that were attributed to him. A US law enforcement official familiar with his case but said Delgado Santiago had a disregard for "borders when scores needed to be settled."

On early hours of the morning on 15 January 2013, Delgado Santiago was found dead in Reynosa. There are conflicting reports on what happened, but sources outside of law enforcement said that he was kidnapped days prior and found dead by Mexican authorities.

The perpetrators are not officially known. One probable culprit are Los Zetas, who were rivals to the Gulf Cartel faction in Reynosa. But other sources suggest he may have been killed by members of his own cartel,  sharing the same fate as his associate Metro 3.





El Metro 5  Ediel López Falcón

Ediel Lopez Falcon, also known as La Muela, is the original Metro 5. He was born in 1973/1974 in Tamaulipas.

No sources were found confirming his involvement in law enforcement, but it is probable that he was a member of a municipal or state police force in Tamaulipas like the other Metro founding members.

Lopez Falcon was the regional boss of Miguel Alemán and helped coordinate international drug trafficking shipments from South and Central America to Mexico and the U.S. His roles in the cartel were also to coordinate oil theft operations.

In 2012, he was indicted by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for drug trafficking activities.

After Metro 3's (Samuel Flores Borrego) death in 2011, violence intensified across Tamaulipas, starting a series of internal battles within the cartel. Several cartel bosses were arrested and/or killed, but others like Lopez Falcon fled to the US to avoid imminent danger.

In 2013, Lopez Falcon was arrested while heading to a bank in Pharr, Texas. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2015 for conspiracy to smuggle cocaine and marijuana to the US. He is currently imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix in New Jersey. His expected release date is in 2029.




El Metro 6  Juan Carrillo Reséndiz

Juan Carrillo Resendiz is the original Metro 6. Very few details are known of this individual, and his status as an original member of Los Metros was confirmed by sources that were shared in the old Borderland Beat forum.

According to confessions made by Zetas founder Alejandro Lucio Morales Betancourt (AKA Zeta 2, Z-2) as a protected witness, Carrillo Resendiz started in the Gulf Cartel under Metro 2 (Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa).

Under Metro 2, Carrillo Resendez was responsible for organizing law enforcement protection for the Gulf Cartel and collecting fees from drug dealers in Reynosa.





El Metro 7  Alfonso Flores Salinas

Alfonso Flores Salinas is the original Metro 7 and cousin of Metro 3 (Samuel Flores Borrego). He is also known as "Poncho", a common nickname for Alfonsos in Mexico.

Very few details are known of this individual, and Borderland Beat was not able to confirm if he was part of any law enforcement agency in Mexico at some point.

His name was first mentioned in a banner that was reposted by "Itzli" from Borderland Beat in 2014. In the banner, it was alleged that he reported to his cousin. 

In 2015, his picture was leaked to the media after being vetted by U.S. and Tamaulipas law enforcement officials.





El Metro 8 – Sergio Martínez Velasco

Sergio Martinez Velasco is the most probable candidate for being the original Metro 8. Very few details are known of this individual, and his status as an original member of Los Metros was confirmed by sources that were shared in the old Borderland Beat forum.

Citizen journalists in Tamaulipas say that Martinez Velasco was a member of the old Tamaulipas State Police unit that Metro 2 (Gregorio Sauceda Gamboa) and others were part of.

He reportedly supported the Gulf Cartel for many years and worked under Mario Armando Ramirez Treviño (AKA El Pelon, X-20) and Juan Manuel Loiza Salinas (AKA El Toro). However, it is alleged that Martinez Velasco has retired from day-to-day operations.

Based out of Reynosa, citizen journalists say he is a successful businessman and owner of a recreation center. His businesses are reportedly serving as a money laundering front for cartel bosses and corrupt members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) based in Reynosa. 

Sources say that he is the uncle of Petronilo Moreno Flores (AKA El Panilo, M-100, Metro 100), a former cartel boss in Reynosa. 





Image credit: "HEARST" from Borderland Beat created the images. 

Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Itzli, Bjeff, ToonWorld, Ivan, Browntown, El Plata, and countless others. Their information and analysis provided over the last decade was compiled to create this report. 

Contact me: Reach out to me at anonymous.mxonline@protonmail.com if you have any private inquiries or comments. 

79 comments:

  1. Lets go all the way way back to Juan Nepomuceno Guerra and Juan Garcia Abrego. Nepo started all the way back during prohibition era possibly sending tequila/mezcal to Al Capone. And his Nephew Abrego was a major player as well.

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    1. Good suggestion. I can work on something for Juan N. Guerra. Anything in specific you'd like for me to look into?

      The Al Capone connection, I'm not sure. Haven't found a mention of it but people do talk about it. But Guerra grew his empire through contraband he smuggled into Mexico starting the WWII and well into the 70s.

      I was fortunate enough to visit his restaurant Piedras Negras Bar & Restaurant when I was younger, but I don't remember much. The restaurant was pretty quiet in the late 1990s, few visited out of fear. But he was generally there on weekdays.

      In its early days the restaurant was the equivalent of the Ravenite or Wimpy Boys, to name other familiar "social club" hangouts from the Italian mob in the US. A block from the Presidencia Municipal, in the heart of downtown Matamoros, across the street from the Teatro Reforma in Matamoros. Famous artists from all over Mexico visited and dined there, as shown in old newspapers. Today, it is an abandoned two-story building. But one can still take a peak through the windows...

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    2. Guerra killed one of Pancho Villa's sons.

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    3. 4:56 - That would be a good story to post here. In fact, it wasn't him (at least not officially). His bodyguard "La Máquina" took the blame and was charged with the killing. I have some old newspapers from back then. Juan N. Guerra fled Matamoros for several months after the incident.

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  2. Good shit. Forum style.
    Is or was M7 also known as Comandante Salinas? The father not the son.

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    1. De los que hablas son Metro 32

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    2. Thank you, 5:14. Hope to write throwbacks from we did in the forum every now and then. Suggestions on what topics to cover are welcomed!

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    3. M32's dad was Rafael Salinas and was known as "El Rafa". He was killed around the time M32 was killed if I remember correctly.

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    4. Good article MX! We need more like this.

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    5. Man I miss the forum. i remember some users from Mexico would give such great information that would contribute to lots of articles.

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    6. Gracias Toon_World y Itzli por aclararme el dato.
      🍺

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    7. Itzli,Morogris are the old forum posts accessible or cached or anything? A lot of decent work in those pages?Great repository to look back on?Just wondering could we access them?

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    8. Itzli,Morogris thanks for the work you put in here by the way,everyone else as well of course,all appreciated

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    9. 4:23 - Buggs told me a while back that he had the whole forum archived. Not sure how he would be able to share it b/c I'm sure it's a lot of data. I'll ask Buggs and get back to you. Feel free to reach out to me via email (provided above).

      4:24 - Thank you!

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  3. Y tambien k no se les olvilden el "METRO" k me cuelga... PENDEJOS! Y QUE Chingen asu Madre todos los CARTELS!

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  4. Excellent report thanks for putting together. That Metro 1 figure Rogelio Garcia I had read about before in the old forum but didn’t remember and there wasn’t much of him. I also think he was the true Metro 1. If you think about it, he had a very generic name like Jorge Lopez Perez, El Chuta. I think these guys operated under fake names and were smart enough to go into hiding once things got worse for them.

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  5. Why did R1 kill Metro 3?

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    1. @4:45 no it wasn’t for Reynosa . El m3 brother was arrested and was said to be snitching and telling the government where some important cdg leaders were hiding. This plus some other issues metros were having with Matamoros made m3 brother switch and join the Matamoros faction.

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    2. Lot of theory's and people dont believe R1 did kill him,but you hear many different scenarios,i even read something saying it was Mario Pelon X20 ? Had to be Los Rojos

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    3. Why did it have to be los rojos??? What makes you say that. From my understanding, what I've heard is that it was two certain metros that were behind M3's death. They wanted to be the ones to be in chatge of Reynosa and though they would be next in line if M3 was eliminated. And with everything that was going on they thought it was a perfect time to do it with out casting suspicion on themselves. They were passed up and kept on sowing their cowardly treachery. Pelochas was one of those cowards if I remember correctly.

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  6. Tengo entendido que Metro 6 ya esta finado.
    Don Sheko la mueve desde hace mucho tanto que movio jale de Amado y el Azul Esparragoza

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    1. Que quieres decir con que Metro 6 está finado? Metro 6 es Carrillo Resendez no Reséndiz

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    2. Asi es, juan carrillo ya no esta y checo tampoco

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    3. Tristemente ya no están y de Juan Carrillo no tienen foto? Oh más que contar sobre el?

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  7. Amazing work by Morogris. Like others have said, this reminds me of one of those forum posts that I would save back and constantly go back and reference.

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    1. I bet you still have your "notes" huh lol.

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  8. Rogelio Garcia aka el Roger was involved together with Arturo Guzman Decena Z-1 and other Original Zetas to liberate el Meme Loco while he was inside police car and they were heading to city court from prison

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    1. Hi Izzl. Thank you for sharing.

      I only got the names of those involved in El Roly's murder attempt. But who were the original Zetas involved in Meme Loco's release besides Metro 1 and Z-1?

      I got the name of the police officer who was driving: Porfirio Ledezma.

      Thanks in advance!

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    2. Edit: I meant original Zetas and/or original Metros involved other than those you listed. Thanks again.

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    3. According to the testimony of Z-2 BETANCOURT it were Z-1, Rogelio Garcia, el Fox, aswell as Ernesto Zatarin Beliz aka el Traca Z-11 back when they drove cloned PGR vehicles and were dressed as PGR agents

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  9. What happened to el Commandante Diablo? Dude waa hunting Zetas like flies.

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    1. What kind of weirdo hunts flies? Asking for a friend.

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    2. Diablo was from Tamaulipas but worked directly for chapo and "Rey de reyes" was meant to stir confusion (it was not a reference to R1).

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    3. Who is rey de reyes ? He saved el Azul from shoot out in Tamaulipas.

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    4. 1225
      Cold lmao'asking for a friend'

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    5. "Rey de reyes" was meant to stir confusion (it was not a reference to R1)"
      Looks that way bro,but people still convinced its(Juan Reyes Mejía-González R1) him,there IS a picture of R1 older with baldy head(wasnt there a manta or something where Z40 called him baldy as well?As with a lot of this,there is no definitive proof either way?

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    6. Si R1 era Calvo M3 era Marrano y Coss Era joto que ya pedo le gustaba que le metieran el dedo

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  10. Awesome posts lately about the CDG hardly any good information on what's actually been going on over the years

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  11. Nepocena from narcos early days would be the greatest fill in from history not explained in detail out of fear from retaliation

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    1. The details are out there. Nothing new.

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    2. 5:00 - You'd be surprised how much of Juan N. Guerra's career is not available online...

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    3. And they named a street after him!

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    4. Morogis, interesting. It assume it had to do with his political connections.

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  12. Curious if you expand more on Los Pedraza, perhaps in another article? Good read. Thanks BB.

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    1. Sure - There wouldn't be much to cover but I can work on something short and sweet.

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  13. GREAT CONTENT, AS ALWAYS THANK YOU BORDERLAND FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING JOURNALISM.

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  14. If Cuellar Botello was born 77 and was police chief in 93, that would have made him a 16 year old police chief. That's preposterous, even for Mexican police.

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    1. Good point. I think it may be a typo from the original source. Maybe 1967? I double checked and it cites 1977 but I'm leaning towards a typo.

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    2. Follow-up: So I looked at a source from 2001 that mentions him and it gives his age as 39. So that would put him with a DOB of 1961/62. I think that's a safe bet and I'll go with that. Thanks for bringing it up.

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  15. Osiel send to kill Metro 1 "el Roger"..he disobey orders from osiel to not to mess around with some Osiel's associates de from Nuevo Laredo and he go and kidnapped these people I think they have an auto sales in Nuevo Laredo and that's was the reason why osiel kill Roger Metro 1 one more thing Roger Metro 1 have a car wash in matamoros that was where everything started it was their main office

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    1. What exactly was the incident in laredo? is that covered somewhere where we can read more? What's the name of the car wash in Matamoros?

      Heard El Roger was pretty aggressive too, real hot head. He pushed Osiel to order others to shoot the agents in Matamoros back in 99. But Osiel kept together.

      Tango-JC said that Roger was killed as the article said. others have said he's alive but retired. I don't think we'll ever really know since it likely wasn't even his real name.

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  16. Is metro 5 related to adelio lopez falcon el señor de Los caballos?

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    1. I don't know, but Falcón is not a common surname in the area. Someone told us in another post that the Gilberto Falcon Law Office in Rio Grande City is owned by one of Adelio's relatives. Wouldn't be surprised if they are related.

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  17. "Morogris" for Borderland Beat
    Well done man

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  18. El caramuela was never a threat to osiel. Osiel had a legion of men that were 100% loyal to him he was intouchable withing the cdg. Caramuela got in trouble cus he was a cokehead. The proof of this is el caris whom was el caramuelas brother was made head of the matamoros plaza at one point just like el metro 3. When the cdg was at the strongest. And being named plaza boss of matamoros was sort of an honor between cartel members.

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    1. Hello there. This is my understanding of the Caramuela/Osiel relationship at a very high level:

      Caramuela/Caramuela was very close to Osiel Cardenas at the beginning when they met via Arturo Pedroza Aguirre. He held various leadership roles but lost favor with Osiel after he became a coke head and apparently had cancer or something serious. In other words, Caramuela's perceived weak leadership was seen as a threat and risk to the plaza model Osiel had implemented in Tamaulipas.

      Apparently he stopped following orders and even authorities believed he was forming his own group against the interest of the major Gulf Cartel. "Se hablaba ya del cártel de El Goyo [Caramuela]", as this source says:

      https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2006/12/24/reynosa-narcogolpe-de-estado-1110.html

      I've thought about the fact that Osiel was also probably paranoid at the Sauceda clan because they had a good following and some in Matamoros were very loyal to them, especially with El Karis (which kind of reminds me of the loyalty that M3 once had, but at a smaller scale of course).

      Definitely an interesting piece of history to write something about. Please email me if interested and we can work on something together.

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    2. 9:07 wasn't El Karis plaza boss of Reynosa when he was killed there?

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    3. Goyo tuvo problemas con Coss, Tormenta y Lazcano por vicioso, era el brazo derecho de Osiel y el Kary era una verga para abrir plazas, al faltar Osiel tanto Coss como Tormenta se sintieron amenazados por Goyo (lider del Clan Sauceda), la caída de los Sauceda fue vital para lo que ahora se conoce como CDG, la muerte del Kary ordenada desde Matamoros fue el preludio de la guerra del Golfo vs Zetas.
      Tanto Coss, como Tormenta y M3 estuvieron de acuerdo en matar a Kary

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    4. 2:59 - Yes, his last position was in Reynosa, although by then El Hummer I believe was the plaza boss because the CDG/Zetas bosses didn't want El Karis or the Sauceda clan around anymore.

      The Sauceda clan is originally from Matamoros and El Karis was a high-raking figure there before he moved to other plazas.

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    5. 8:47 está cabron con tanto ambicioso. Poco les duró el gusto a esos tres. También recuerdo cuando cayó El Licenciado Medrano y según ya que salió los mismos del CDG le dieron piso.
      Cambiando de tema, me podrás ayudar en identificar un corrido viejo de un conjunto norteño popular de aquellos tiempos que habla de la prisión de Santa Adelaida. Es de un narco viejo que por allá estuvo preso aunque lo que entiendo no era de esas tierras. Si es que te suene.
      🍺

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    6. Fijate que necesitaria un poquito mas de contexto o parte de la letra.
      Quiza hablas del corrido de Kelin o quiza de alguien mas.

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    7. A la Caramuela la deponen de su Jefatura de manera humillante matandole gente a diestra y siniestra en una junta, pero su círculo cercano no lo dejo solo y se amacizo con el en no dejar la Plaza, aunque de nada sirvio porqur Hummer ya era el Jefe le gustará a Goyo o no.
      Kary metio mano por su hermano y se le dio la atención, pero Puma Landín fue y se entrego al Gobierno Americano y bueno el año pasado murio en prisión, pero el hablo de todo el organigrama de aquel entonces.

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    8. 6:11 Dice "cárcel o prisión de Santa Adelaida" en sus letras, es un corrido viejo que si mal no recuerdo no dice para quien es porque el señor era perfil bajo. Tal vez mencioné Acaponeta para dar pista de quién se trata. Suena como de Los Cadetes, de ese estilo de tocar, pero de ellos no creo que sea por el nivel de popularidad que tenían Lupe y Homero. Estuvo preso con Malherbe pero no sé si esté haya estado preso ahí por su nivel. Tal vez fue en Almoloya. Aver si en algo te ayuda esto.
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    9. 12:18 - A Medrano/Licenciado sí lo quebraron. En el 2018 o por ahí lo secuestraron cuando iba rumbo a MTY con su familia. Lo bajaron de su carro y se lo llevaron enfrente de su familia (hijos, esposa). Jamás volvieron a verlo.

      Tenía rato que le estaban siguiendo el rastro y al parecer Medrano ya le había dicho a su familia que estaba preocupado. De lo que tengo en tendido ya solo estaba manejando las empresas que dejó. Pero además del restaurante (el que copié abajo) eran algunos bares nuevos. No salió en las noticias cuando lo levantaron pero lo confirmaron sus familiares por ahí...

      https://www.scribd.com/document/454041266/Adan-Javier-Medrano-Rodriguez-Natural-House

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    10. 1:21 si recuerdo que aquí tenían un artículo o comentarios que lo habían levantado.
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  19. Good work. Thank you, it's highly appreciated

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  20. Does anybody think Osiel will retake control? he’s getting out next year and I don’t wanna hear about him snitching cause literally every boss has told when they got caught.. it’s literally part of the cartel world at this point. But he was the one who started most of not all of these factions and he’ll be able to return to Mexico.. most of his family has retained some kind of control or power after his arrest which tells me there still some loyalty to the cardenas name.. just wondering if anybody thinks he’ll play a role in trying to unite the cartel.

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    1. 1:34 I don't think he will. If he's deported to México he might get arrested for any pending sentences he had when extradited or new criminal charges he can be accused of.
      Besides that CDG is an international mafia that ultimately seeks to export illegal narcotics to the USA and he's already been incarcerated for 20+ years, is he dumb enough to start once again and face another potential life sentence in USA?
      He must have 7-9 figures stashed to live out his life...

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  21. Yo soy hijo de Él Roger y si era ese su nombre real (Rogelio García García , y si lo mando asesinar Osiel junto a mi Tio titino en una casa enfrente de la sec. Técnica 4 en Matamoros

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  22. So los zetas didn't kill metro 3 after all

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  23. Anybody knows anything about Rafael betancourt Velez and what happened to him ?

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