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The Mexican government handed over Ramón Villarreal Hernández, “El Mon”, alleged operator of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, to the United States to be tried in Texas for the murder of Juan Jesús Guerrero Chapa, lawyer of the former leader of the Cartel del Gulf, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, “El Mata Amigos”.
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The alleged operator of the Beltrán Leyva, is required in the US for his probable participation in the crimes of interstate stalking and criminal association to commit a homicide and his delivery was made at the International Airport of Mexico City (AICM).
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Last February the Ninth Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters denied him an amparo to “El Mon”, and declared the grievances’ grievances unfounded, who claimed the agreement that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made with the US government, to be handed over to the US authorities.
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Jesús Guerrero Chapa was responsible for delivering 50 million dollars in cash and property to the US government, as part of an agreement in exchange for reducing the conviction of Osiel Cárdenas. The litigant was executed on May 22, 2013, in Southlake, Texas. The United States Embassy in Mexico promised that “El Mon” will not be subject to the death penalty in the event that the Federal Court of the Northern District of Texas finds him responsible for the crime.
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Ramón Villarreal Hernández, the “Mon” or “Gabino”, financial operator of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel, was arrested in May 2018 for extradition purposes to the United States.
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According to information provided by staff of the Federal Bureau of Investigations of the United States, (FBI), “El Mon” is considered the financial operator of the Beltran Leyva Cartel.
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In 2018, the then Attorney General’s Office, (PGR), informed through a statement that elements attached to the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), in Nuevo León, completed the arrest warrant, derived from cabinet and field investigations, it was learned that this person was in the city of Monterrey, where he was arrested by AIC personnel without the use of violence, affectation to third parties and with respect to their rights, said the PGR.
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Narco families: the love hate relationship between “El Chapo” and the Beltrán Leyva
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Known as one of the bloodiest narco rivalries, between the family of Joaquín Guzmán Loera and the Beltrán Leyva brothers there are old blood ties that prevail today.
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The two families they forged tradition in the world of narco. They were all distant cousins who were born in the Badiraguato area, in the mountains of Sinaloa. For years, the four brothers Beltrán Leyva: Arturo, Alfredo, Carlos and Héctor were partners of “El Chapo” Guzmán, even, the last one is indicated to have sponsored Joaquín Guzmán Loera in the world of cocaine trafficking.
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The history of the two clans includes friendship, betrayal, marriages and divorces. It is so far and so close that it remains today, since a hitman who currently pleaded guilty in the United States, named Jesús Beltrán León is brother-in-law of one of the children of “El Chapo”, although it is not known which.
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Through the marriage ties, the ties between “El Chapo” and the Beltrán Leyva became closer in the late 1990s. After the first capture of Guzmán Loera, in 1993, the brothers were in charge of receiving timely money to pay for their lifestyle inside the federal prison of Puente Grande, in Jalisco, until his escape, in 2001, in which his cousins would have also collaborated.
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The death of Beloved Carrillo Fuentes “The Lord of the Skies”, in 1997 he had made his way to the brothers who in 2002, together with Guzmán Loera and his partners (Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and José Esparragoza Moreno “El Azul”) formed what is known as The Federation or The Blood Alliance, since Alfredo Beltrán Leyva “El Mochomo” married a cousin of “El Chapo”, “Azul” did it with a sister-in-law of Guzmán Loera who in turn married nuptials with Emma Coronel, niece of another of her partners: Ignacio Coronel.
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The Sinaloa Cartel, of Guzmán Loera and his partners, and that of the Beltrán Leyva, of the brothers, were allies.
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The alliance remained until the beginning of 2008. On the breakup there are two versions: the first is that it was because people at the service of Ignacio Coronel left Arturo Beltrán Leyva “El Barbas” out of a drug business, who said it had been a betrayal.
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Then the brothers accused Guzmán Loera of having delivered “El Barbas”, who was shot down by federal forces on December 16, 2009. Thereafter the battle between the two organizations intensified.
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Over the years, the Beltrán Leyva wove alliances with other important Mexican criminal groups such as Los Zetas, the Juarez cartel, and the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) to make a common front against Sinaloa.
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The rivalry remains despite the fact that the four brothers were killed, arrested or died.
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