by Lucio R. Borderland Beat
The Houston Chron is
reporting that Texan native, Edgar Valdez Villareal, aka “La Barbie”, will be
filing a “change of plea” in Atlanta U.S. District court.
The so-called “American
born narco” will plead guilty to charges stemming from a 2008 indictment. (see indictment
below)
The Laredo Texas born and
raised Valdez, gain notoriety not only for his rise within a cartel (BLO) and eventual
leadership of a cartel, but for his exceptional brutal executions.
In 2010 a Contralinea report
was released claiming Valdez had been a witness and collaborative for Mexican
authorities beginning in 2008. The
reports revealed that Valdez was informing the government of the movement of
his boss and close colleagues in the BLO and Sinaloa cartels. Read full article here
According to the
information made available by Contralinea ,the collaboration between the narco
trafficker and the authorities of the Secretary of National Defense occurred to
establish geography and locations of his bosses in the Beltran Leyva and
Sinaloa cartels. Supposedly under torture, Valdez Villarreal had given names
and methods of operations for protection rackets and hidden caches of weapons
and money. The data from these sessions were used by the government of the
Felipe Calderon to arrest and kill several high value targets.
This lends itself to
the theory that it was Valdez who betrayed his boss Arturo Beltran Leyva, by
giving information of his location that led to his death in December 2009 in a
shootout with the Mexican military. And
clears the mystery of exactly how Valdez was able to pull off the Houdini act
and survived unscathed not once but twice in military operations that month to
capture Beltran Leyva.
