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For the United States Drug Administration (DEA, for its acronym in English) No doubt what is the poster of drug trafficking strongest in Mexico nor who is he Leader of that criminal organization: that of Sinaloa and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
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In an interview with Jesús Esquivel, correspondent for Process in United States, Polo Ruiz, special agent in charge (SAC) of the DEA for the district of Arizona explains: “The biggest threat, the number one threat is the Sinaloa cartel; the number Two is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), with its leader (Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes) ‘El Mencho ’; but (this organization) is a great threat why is growing”
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Considered one of the agents with more experience and knowledge about Mexican drug trafficking, Ruiz speaks on reconfiguration of the cartels after the judgment to Joaquin “El Chapo”Guzman in the United States.
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As SAC, Polo Ruiz you have under your responsibility much of the southern border of his country: Arizona, New Mexico and a part of California. The border area between Arizona and Sonora it’s a region natural for him drug transfer from Mexico, which has been for years low the control of the Sinaloa cartel and, specifically by the fraction that controlledto “El Chapo”And now their children dominate.
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It is not the first time that officials and agents from the DEA say to Process what, I weighed to control and ambition of power from “El Mencho”, The CJNG nor has managed to overcome operational power to Sinaloa cartel.
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“He has always been the boss“From the Sinaloa cartel, Ruiz insists, referring to”May” Zambada during the interview with Process.
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In July 2019 and after a long trial in the Federal Court of the Eastern District of Brooklyn, New York, the judge Brian Cogan sentenced to Guzmán Loera to life imprisonment plus 30 years in jail for trafficking tons of cocaine to the United States.
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With this sentence to the leader of one of the fractions that make up the Sinaloa cartel not only was removed to the hood of the power dome, but a reset was generated in the criminal organization and a dispute with the CJNG that tries to seize the squares that “El Chapo” controlled. To the rearrangement inside the Sinaloa cartel and the transfer of drugs in Mexico due to the fall of Guzmán Loera, Polo Ruiz describes it in this way:
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According to this DEA chief, children from “El Chapo”Guzman: Jesus Alfredo, Iván Archivaldo and Ovid I know confronted with who was his father’s right hand, Dámaso López Núñez, “Graduate“And his son, Dámaso López Serrano, “Mini Lic”
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The DEA agent notes that “Graduate” and his son thought that with the elimination of Joaquín Guzmán Loera they they could rise in command and nor took into account the preponderance of “May”Zambada and his relationship with his compadre’s children.
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“There were always conversations between the children of El Chapo. It has always been this way: the agreements. May it is More calm, Calmer; wants business, does not want to heat the square, has never been violent”, Emphasizes the DEA agent.
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As part of the explanation, Polo Ruiz recalls that in 2016 the children from “El Chapo“They had several violent clashes with his opponents, who wished to seize control of the fraction of the cartel that was left headless.
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