SHORTY GUZMAN DEAD?
Mar 26th, 2008 | By Michel Marizco | Category: General News, Organized Crime, Politics
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THE BORDER REPORT
That’s what people are saying anyway. Killed yesterday in a gunfight in Guatemala with local narcos that left 11 dead. Lots of heavy machine guns, rocket launchers and Gulf Cartel hitmen, the country’s drug czar says.
So far, it doesn’t look like the Americans are convinced.
“The only ones who think Chapo was killed in Guatemala are the Guatemalans,” one federal source tells me.
Now, Shorty, Latin America’s most wanted drug baron, has visited Guatemala before; in fact, it’s where he was arrested back in 1993, the incarceration that ended in a public humiliation for Pres. Vicente Fox when he escaped the maximum security prison in Guadalajara.
So it’s not entirely far-fetched to assume he’s returned on some business negotiation or other and got in a scrap with the locals. Unlikely, but not impossible.
What interests me far more is Guatemala stepping into the Latin America narco-turf wars.
Yesterday, the country’s daily, Prensa Libre, ran a large story above the fold about four helicopters the U.S. has given to the country’s federal law enforcement agency; part of a $20 million security package made available this year.
That’s a pittance when compared to the $1.4 billion security aid package the U.S. is drafting for Mexico. But if suddenly the Gulf Cartel and Shorty Guzmán are battling it out in Guatemala – which the state’s drug czar insinuated today – Guatemala could start seeing some serious money pouring in to control the fight. They just have to build a convincing enough case. Like hinting that Shorty died in their country, for example.
– Michel Marizco
so chapo guzman not chapo bours was taken out in chapin land wow what a story…
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So will you update us when the DNA comes in and let us know who it is?
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With the way things are going, I don’t think Senor Guzman would make that mistake and put himself in that position. Besides, he’s been out of trouble as far as anyone can tell since his “release”. Right now, no one has things organized-otherwise there wouldn’t be so much drama down south and we’d be seeing a lot more “quality exporting” from down yonder!
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it’s official, the president of guatemala, alvaro colom discartedd the death of joaquin guzman loera, aka “EL TIO” ;~)
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Thanks ilegal, for finding that story. Maybe I’ll start giving away prizes to readers who find scoops first. What do you guys think?
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El Chapo will say” That is too Amado Carrillo for me”
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I think he maybe living in Comfort, Texas and has gotten into moving illegals as well as drugs. Just a good hunch as to where he really is, in fact I think he is in the landscape business and lives.
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“El Chapo” ain’t dead, far from it. He cut a deal with the Federal Government to eradicate his competition and centralize drug traffic in his own cartel. He has official protection from the federal mexican government, he gets escorted into airports and through the USA border by both AFI agents and american immigration agents. The mexican army works in his behalf, combating only gangs who work against him, but not his own. And all of this is being done by pressure from the CIA and the DEA, who want mexican drug trafficking not to stop (god forbid) but to be more manageable.
Sounds far fetched? Watch “American Drug War: the last white hope” to find out how the CIA has in the past been involved in drug smuggling inside the USA for control of the masses, and how it has also armed and funded both sides of the “war on drugs” in other countries.
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