"Char" for Borderland Beat
By: Ángel Hernández
It is not known if he was arrested or if he voluntarily turned himself in to avoid a head-on battle with one of the world's most powerful cartels.
Elpidio Mojarro Ramirez is a name that members of the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG) will never forget. A sworn enemy of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, El Pilo, as Mojarro Ramirez was known, had disappeared from the Mexican criminal landscape until he reappeared in a US court to testify against one of the criminal organization's financial operators: Gerardo Gonzalez Valencia.
Along with Oscar Nava Valencia, El Lobo, a former leader of the Milenio Cartel, and Jose Maria Guizar Valencia, a former Zetas operator, El Pilo helped US prosecutors request that Gerardo Gonzalez Valencia remain in prison until he dies. And he could also be part of the package of witnesses and evidence that US authorities have against all members of the CJNG, including the organization's famed leader, El Mencho.
El Pilo came close to heading the criminal organization that succeeded the Milenio Cartel after the death of Ignacio Nacho Coronel, which split the organization into two factions: Los Torcidos, led by Erick Valencia Salazar, which eventually became the CJNG, and La Resistencia, with Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez, El Molca, at the head. There are no photographs or records of El Pilo's criminal operations, other than an arrest in the United States for cocaine trafficking, for which he served a sentence, and the stories that other drug traffickers have told about him.
After El Molca's arrest in September 2012, El Pilo was left in charge of La Resistencia. States such as Jalisco, Colima and Nayarit had already become a war zone as a result of the fighting between the two factions. Los Torcidos, backed by the Sinaloa Cartel, and La Resistencia with the support of Los Zetas and La Familia Michoacana.
According to El Pilo, Lalo or Flaco, as Gerardo Gonzalez was known, in addition to running a "well-financed and extensive cocaine distribution operation responsible for transporting tons of cocaine from South America to Central America and Mexico for importation into the United States and Europe" along with his brothers Abigael and Jose Gonzalez Valencia, he led a bloody battle against rival cartels, primarily Los Zetas.
"Although Abigael and Jose held leadership positions as well, Mojarro Ramirez explained that the brothers of the defendant (Gerardo) repeatedly asked for the defendant's permission or approval before making decisions related to their cocaine trafficking operation."
He further confirmed that Gerardo was behind the murder of Antonio Guízar Valencia in connection with the theft of a cocaine shipment belonging to Los Cuinis. To this end, Gerardo coordinated with Óscar Nava Valencia, El Lobo, so that on January 22, 2005, a group of hitmen would travel to Antonio Guízar's ranch in Ostuacán, Chiapas, and execute him along with six other people.
Elpidio Mojarro, who was then an accountant for the Milenio Cartel, was in charge of getting the money to pay the hitmen. According to Mojarro Ramirez, Lalo also ordered the murder of his brother-in-law, Domingo Mendoza Sandoval, a collaborator of Los Cuinis who received the cocaine that was sent to Europe.
El Pilo said that Mendoza Sandoval himself asked him for help, as Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes himself tried to assassinate him on one of his ranches, but he hid and his brother and three of his workers were killed. Eventually, Domingo Mendoza was found and executed.
Elpidio Mojarro is in the United States, but it is not known in what capacity, other than as a cooperating witness. It is not known if he was arrested or if he turned himself in voluntarily to avoid a head-on battle with one of the most powerful cartels in the world.
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great article so much good information.
ReplyDeleteI am almost certain that El Pilo turned himself to the US authorities we never got word of him being captured in Mexico. Having both El Lobo Valencia and El Pilo cooperating is very bad news for CJNG and Mencho.
Mencho worked for El Lobo Valencia.
Do they really have an impact? Its a long Time ago. And you need more than a guy talking, can they prove what he is talking? Of course they will bring some details or background info to the past but for the future…
DeleteChar, great post. Pilo was a high level trafficker even before Mencho, as he managed a route for Mayo in (at latest) the early 2000s and had connections in Colombia at that time. However, I have always wondered what happened to Rene “Fuski/M1” Tapia Silva, the supposed true leader of La Resistencia. He was named as above Pilo in the LR hierarchy in a 2009 CJNG manta in Guadalajara.
DeleteAlso Molca wasn’t the leader of La Resistencia. When Paparrin was arrested in Uruapan he told law enforcement that Fuski and Pilo had the top spots, then it was him and Molca below them.
DeleteLa Resistencia members gave the best interviews 😂
DeleteWhat happen to Puski?
Delete@9.15. Molca was, at least to begin with, leader of Resistencia, fighting on behalf of El Pilo, his boss. The same way 85 was organising the fight for Mencho. It was Pilo or Mencho, and their men were fighting for the routes and protection.
DeleteI don't think it will mean much to CJNG if he is co-operating. Things have changed so much. If Mencho is caught he is doomed anyway. It's been over a decade since he and Lobo and Mencho and Erik Valencia were co-ordinating shipments, and they are long gone. The murders though, direct testimony about that, sounds like what this is about- snippets leaked to Milenio. Good post Char
DeleteSomeone that used to be a close person to el mencho and now cooperating with the U.S Gov is probably the worst enemy you could ask for. Someone that knows all your moves , hideouts , contacts ect…. Mencho and all the high ranking jalisco members are not going to sleep good for a while.
ReplyDeleteEl Mencho’s 2023 might turn out to be like Pablo‘s 1993. After all, summer is when it all started to really go downhill for him.
DeleteMencho ain’t gonna get arrested! He’s going balls out,no?? U see him use a rocket launcher to destroy a helicopter! That’s nothing!
DeleteLas 4 letras has been knowing these guys flipped for a good while know. Their info os old.
ReplyDeleteThe info is moreso used to prove guilt in court, which obviously leads to a longer sentence. The info isn't just used to give locations of 10 year old safehouses
DeleteHe pleads guilty, hands over some millions is doing 10 years. Is this justice or just show of force?
DeleteI told you all Cartels snitch
ReplyDeleteBut wait a minute. Didn’t a few commentators say Michoacános don’t snitch…this must be fake news 😜. They are all scum
ReplyDeleteMore than 50% of all high ranking cartel members cooperate with Uncle Sam. Most don't testify, but most do provide at least some information and then ask for a downward departure at sentencing. This might be whats happening with Sillas-Rocha.
ReplyDeleteI have a sense that Sillas-Rocha provided some information and that he will be requesting a downward departure in an in camera or closed door hearing prior to his sentencing next year. We have to wait until he's sentenced to see if he receives a downward departure.
At best, one in four street gang members cooperate with law enforcement. You have a better chance that a high ranking member will cooperate than a fifteen year old female in a street gang. At the end of the day a teenage girl has more huevos than any of these high level traffickers.
@Detroit. How do you always manage to get things so backwards? The young ones don't have more courage, it's that they have nothing that can be used as leverage, and the authorities can't use them because the young ones are never who their bosses are. You think teenage girls have information useful to ''Uncle Sam'', and it's because of their huge balls that they don't reveal those details? Once the bosses are extradited (Uncle Sam, you say) , then by definition there is evidence that will force them to co-operate. You make my head hurt worse than my bust leg.
Delete@ Amendment to above comment at Detroit, from dude with the bust leg and the headache. It was meant to read ''the young ones never KNOW who their bosses are''. Most of them don't even know whose side they are on, just like most sicarios.
DeleteWell those high level traffickers have a little more brains than the street level soldiers.
ReplyDeleteIt's all mathematics.
Don't talk and be guaranteed to receive a life sentence .
Or talk, do a little time and come out to spend the rest of your life in a safe environment. Far away from from your enemies in the US with the millions of dollars that you have undoubtedly stashed away for a rainy day
Snitchoacanos that how they are know in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteNegative Ghost Rider
DeletePretty sure CJNG knows who he is and wil go after his family. It’s the nature of the cartel brutal game. If I were one of family member, run away to the US side, and hide.
ReplyDeleteIf he has any left in Mexico
DeleteWonderful,lets go to the gringo side who we hate an always cry about
DeleteIsnt the U.S. lucky to live side by side with mexico ?
DeleteDude has no family left he’s like 70 plus years old. His old man was tortured by cdg when he flipped zeta around 2012 2013
Deleteall the shit talking cjng groupies do on here on cds being snitches but fail to see that their heroes do the same thing. Michoacanos are heavy hitters without a doubt they have alot of money down there but damn do they really back stab each other, they kill so many of their own to be on top, plus their state is never at peace.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Sinaloa
Delete8:14 not as much back stabbing all the unknown michocano big dealers and crooks have been doing for a long time now, sinaloa has had its snitches & back stabbers, violence in the past and is more known because of their corridos propaganda but they have evolved to be more peaceful now in their state unlike Michoacan that the violence has gotten worse there and just as much or more back stabbing & ratting. Just an observation
DeleteSinaloa is peaceful
Delete1:23 🤣🤣🤣 yea sinaloa is really peacefull😂😂😂 no mames
DeleteWhen cjng start snitching on Each other like cds is when they will go to sh!t
DeleteThey already snitch on each other like that
DeleteHe’s not from Michoacán he’s from Jalisco, real close to Zacatecas
Delete5:16 as I understand it, he was friendly and from the general area of Mario González Sr and would have aligned himself with them and still be under CDS.
Delete🤣🤣🤣 Wow the hole CDSnitchomos fan club came out to play, why didnt you guys commented on the post where the CDS were kidnapping and forcefully making guys work for free?
ReplyDeleteO cjng fan boy mad. Lol you know mencho started as chapos bitch right. Mencho did not even create cnjg. Lol
Delete10:50 you do know chapo was everybody bitch in CDGuadalajara right? 🤣 every one was somebodys bitch in their beginings, by the way Mencho was Lobos bitch not Chapos
Delete1119 you do know Guadalajara was just a name given by the government to describe the organization. The members were still from Sinaloa.
Delete2:27 Javier Barba too?
Delete2:27 Yes i know perfectly who made the Guadalajara cartel, still chapo was their biach, that was the hole point beibi
DeleteYou do know that the members from the Guadalajara cartel weren't all from sinaloa right???
Delete@3.18. I think he was talking about the leaders, who almost to a man were Sinaloan. They moved to Guadalajara because they had to, and set up their business there.
DeleteBunch of cjng rats, man cjng is becoming cds lol the 4 letter rats. Figures mencho did work under chapo, def makes sense his cartel would be rats to.
ReplyDeleteMilenio members like pilo, lobo Valencia are Sinaloa's at heart no suprise they would become witnesses. When we see actual CJNG members cooperating then the gig is up. In the end we all know many will snitch. Feds handing out 25 plus years is no joke.
ReplyDeletePilo was Lobo or his brother Tigre lieutenant, the Nava Valencias wanted him to take over Milenio so they could still control them from prison. No surprise Pilo turned himself in to the USA, surely Lobo or Tigre lobbied the government to get him a deal and cooperate against their strongest enemy.
DeleteIt seems odd that Pilo would testify that Lobo helped in the killing of Toño Guízar Valencia(TGV) in Chiapas.
Very likely TGV was Z43 brother who not too long ago pleaded guilty and received a 480 month sentence. Another individual who maybe related to them is Mauricio Guízar Cárdenas El Amarillo/Z200 who got 20 years in Altiplano.
Think about it. How do two or three individuals from Michoacán climb so high within Los Zetas? Were these individuals already working with Tisico when he allied himself with Osiel/CDG to fight Valencias/Milenio?
Ones things certain. El pilo was not trying to end up like el cholo. Smart move on his behalf, fighting CJNG is an uphill battle.
ReplyDelete@1.59 CJNG didn't exist when Pilo was fighting the people who became CJNG. He probably bounced Cholo on his knee. This is a completely different generation being talked about.
DeleteMexican Navy still encabronado about Mencho's boys shooting down that helicopter a few years back.
ReplyDeleteMake it 3 helicopter shot down, 2 confirmed but only 1 officially talked about
Delete3:14 exactly 💯
DeleteEveryone on here sound like a bunch of wet tampons arguing over cartels taht don't give a shit bout yall ahahha
ReplyDeleteNegative chief.
DeleteOh here comes the know it all good person, who gives a shit you got YouTubers from America talking about cartels now. Why does it bother you if some dummies on here give their input. People like you are just as annoying if not more. Yea the fans that root are a problem but its best to avoid those
DeleteLol I'm getting attacked because I triggered some feelings hahaha
DeleteNo, Connor you're being talked back to in the same tone as your own comment... Regardless of that, do you want people to not talk and discuss opinions about cartels on a BLOG about drug cartels?
Delete3:36 Well Connor Mcgregor the way you comment is oviously a little to aggresive for the CDSnitchomos pom pom crew, so theres 2 things you can do, 1 lower the aggresivness of your comments (cause CDS are known as the Neimars in the narco world, people who know about soccer will get it) or 2 enjoy how you trigger them 🤣 i honestly would choose #2, at least you make a little bit of sence unlike guys like 006 who oviously make shit up to the max and still gets props for his nonesence
DeleteYou stay cheerleading for cartels though
Delete@9.19. Don't encourage him, or anybody who was 5 years old when Alfredo got nabbed.
DeletePinche mafiositos culos todos son la misma mierda
ReplyDeleteI wish we had more info on the Valencia’s thank you for this article
ReplyDeletePart of the reason there is comparatively little info about the Valencias is because at first they were very discreet and were very astute at getting protection from local authorities- they were known as respectable businessmen and they worked under the radar for years- and partly because when Los Zetas came to take their territory local media were afraid of reporting on the takeover in too much detail. It's why so much rumour persists.
DeleteMencho is in El Paso with Lencho chilling with triple b
ReplyDeleteMencho is in USA, really. safest.
DeleteCjNG DoEsNT sNiTcH ThO 🫠
ReplyDelete6:34 he never was CJNG, he was LR
Delete6:34 People used to wRiTe like that in the internet in 2005, it's 2023 now.
Delete@6.43. El Pilo wasn't CJNG. Ever.
DeleteAll these greedy clowns have no word or honor they all turn on each other like street punks went from rags to riches and back will spend the rest of their lives in misery in the witness protection program.no Buchanas.no.more party's.puro.macdonalds.
ReplyDeleteThe reason most folks bash Sinaloas for snitching is because in their fake corridos they represented themselves as men of honor and valient. The truth is all this music was fake and the truth came out theyre just as big of cowards as everyone else facing life!!! All cartels snitch and give up their wholesalers customers and people on both sides of the border. The real term for all cartels should be narcoratas!!
ReplyDeleteAll that Pilo is saying is hear say,they have to prove it! U can’t be found guilt on a snitch especially from him!
ReplyDeleteYou can though, as long as you have a handful, like the Garcia Luna trial (a fucked up case with no real evidence but some poetic justice in the end). They will probably wheel out Sergio Barragan (El Grande) if it ever comes to trial, who suddenly remembers lots of stuff he never mentioned before, like he always seems to when a new case comes to trial.
DeleteEl animal from La aguaje or La ruana was from CDS did he snitch ?
ReplyDelete