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UPDATED! Monday May 29
Saturday afternoon 2PM, May 20, 2023, Saint Death Visited the SCORE International Baja 500
AFTER THE RACE ENDS...
ULTRA INSIDER, IN-DEPTH REPORTING
NEW!
Mexico Starts SynDrugs Destruction Operations
The Secretary of the Navy carried out this past Saturday, May 27, an air and ground deployment.
In the mountains in the indigenous area of Mochicahui located in the municipality of El Fuerte in the northern part of the state of Sinaloa. According to local media, the deployment was carried out in response to reports of armed people wearing tactical vests moving in vehicles with logos identifying a group calling itself FECH.
Synthetic drug manufacturing operations were reportedly "interrupted".
The groups initials correspond to the Special Forces of La Chapiza, the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel of the Los Chapitos faction, sons of El Chapo Guzmán. The images of the Navy helicopter gunship flying over the Mochicahui area became viral on social networks. In the videos, an armored helicopter can be seen flying over the area.
The US State Department is making the message clear to the obrador criminals. In response, the Mexican Navy has now begun moving on obvious targets, known to the US DEA, and US Military.
The site of the operations, El Fuerte, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, is the largest clandestine laboratories in the republic. It should be noted that this operation was carried out from May 18 to today, May 29 in the Altata bay, Isla San Ignacio, Isla Macapule, Isla Salía a, Isla Altamura, Isla Lucenilla, among others.
Recently captured precursor chemical operators
Chinese precursor chemicals, required for the manufacture of 'Fentanyl', are known to be 'delivered from China', to ports in the Sinaloan state.
Government sources say the Chinese deliver the chemicals to the Mexicans, "free of charge", with the purpose of killing as many Americans as possible.
Reports from US. agency representatives indicate the Untied States is no longer willing to allow the Mexican organized crime operations to operate freely in Mexico.
Quoted this Memorial Day weekend,
"time is up, either they get'em, or we get'em (the cartel Mexicans)".
Baja Racing News EXCLUSIVE
By: Jose Salas II, Publisher
Baja racing and the business of the Mexican cartels are now woven together, permanently.
Back, just before the turn of the century in 1999, 'bullet-proof pre-runners' were in public discussion.
Now, in June, 2023, Baja racing and the business of the Mexican cartels are now woven together, permanently, forever in the history of Baja Norte.
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Tijuana mayor receiving threats from cartel; Mexico president promises protection
Ricardo Carpio Sánchez, Baja California’s State Attorney General has been directly blamed for the “lack of security in the state of Baja Norte”.
SAN DIEGO — During his daily morning news conference, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador vowed to protect Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero from cartel violence.
Her bodyguard was the target of an assassination attempt last week as he sat in a car prior to a scheduled inspection of a beauty salon where Caballero had an appointment.
“Montserrat is not alone, she has all our backing”, said AMLO.
The president mentioned threats aimed at the mayor and reiterated, she won’t “be left alone”.
“This woman who has been getting threats lately, who runs that border city, is a migrant from Oaxaca. She’s an extraordinary woman, humble, hardworking, honest”.
The same cannot be said about AMLO.
AMLO is known by the American DEA as the "the most corrupt Mexican President in the history of the DEA".
Told to Baja Racing News by federal agents along the US-Mex border.
Last week, after the incident with her bodyguard, Caballero wasted no time in blaming Ricardo Carpio Sánchez, Baja California’s State Attorney General for the “lack of security in the city”.
She also said on social media she would hold him personally responsible should anything happen to her, her family or members of her team.
Carpio Sánchez responded by saying it wasn’t his job to “protect against what could happen” and said the “city administration is responsible for security in the streets not his office”.
Both sides met Wednesday afternoon to iron out their differences.
Caballero and Carpio Sánchez were joined by Tijuana Chief of Police Fernando Sánchez González to discuss threats made against the mayor and the chief of police.
The meeting was described as casual and no more than 20 minutes long.
“It was more convenient for me to visit her”, said Carpio Sánchez.
He admitted the attempt on Caballero’s bodyguard’s life was discussed along with other issues related to the incident.
“There are no motives to suspect this aggression was meant for the mayor, we have no way of knowing what these individuals were up, said Carpio Sánchez”.
According to his office, the agent who was shot at was substituting for a vacationing member of Caballero’s security detail.
He said three people have been arrested in connection with the shooting, but a motive has yet to be determined.
During the meeting, Carpio Sánchez said attention to public safety was reinforced along with crime prevention coordination efforts between state and federal agencies.
Baja Racing News will report on the Ensenada municipality, after the Baja 500. We don't want to spoil the party, before it even begins!
Although, maybe the party has already been spoiled by the massacre shooting of May 20?
Update: May 1, 2023
‘El Chapo’ sons charged with smuggling cheap fentanyl to US
AP Report By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN and MARK STEVENSON, Mexico City
[Photo shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez being detained in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, Oct. 17, 2019]
Ovidio's brothers, Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, are the lead defendants among 23 associates charged with running a criminal enterprise, fentanyl trafficking, among other things, in a New York indictment unsealed April 14, 2023 in Manhattan, while Ovidio, alias “the Mouse,” is facing similar charges in another indictment in the same district. Another brother, Joaquín Guzmán López, is charged in the Northern District of Illinois.
With Sinaloa cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán serving a life sentence, his sons steered the family business into fentanyl, establishing a network of labs churning out massive quantities of the cheap, deadly drug that they smuggled into the U.S., prosecutors revealed in a recent indictment. Although Guzmán’s trial revolved around cocaine shipments, the case against his sons exposes the inner workings of a cartel undergoing a generational shift as it worked “to manufacture the most potent fentanyl and to sell it in the United States at the lowest price,” according to the indictment unsealed April 14 in Manhattan.
Synthetic opioids — mostly fentanyl — now kill more Americans every year than died in the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined, feeding an argument among some politicians that the cartels should be branded terrorist organizations and prompting once-unthinkable calls for U.S. military intervention across the border. “The problem with fentanyl, as some people at the State Department told me, has to be repositioned. It’s not a drug problem; it’s a poisoning problem,” said Alejandro Hope, a security analyst in Mexico, who died Friday. “Very few people go out deliberately looking for fentanyl.”
Hope predicted fentanyl would probably become an issue in next year’s U.S. elections, but he opposed any threat of U.S. intervention, saying “I don’t think that would be a very good way of addressing a public health issue.” The groundwork for the U.S. fentanyl epidemic was laid more than 20 years ago, with aggressive over-prescribing of the synthetic opioid oxycodone. As U.S. authorities clamped down on its prescription, users moved to heroin, which the Sinaloa cartel happily supplied. But making its own fentanyl — far more potent and versatile than heroin — in small, easily concealed labs was a game changer. The cartel went from its first makeshift fentanyl lab to a network of labs concentrated in the northern state of Sinaloa in less than a decade. “These are not super labs, because they give people the illusion that they’re like pharmaceutical labs, you know, very sophisticated,” said Mike Vigil, former head of international operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. “These are nothing more than metal tubs and they use wooden paddles — even shovels — to mix the chemicals.” A single cartel “cook” can press fentanyl into 100,000 counterfeit pills every day to fool Americans into thinking they’re taking Xanax, Percocet or oxycodone. The pills are smuggled over the border to supply what son Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar said are “streets of junkies,” the indictment said. Fentanyl is so cheap to make that the cartel reaps massive profits even wholesaling the drug at 50 cents per pill, prosecutors said. The drug’s potency makes it particularly dangerous. The narcotic dose of fentanyl is so close to the lethal dose that a pill meant to ensure a high for a habituated user can easily kill a less experienced person taking something they didn’t know was fentanyl. Between August 2021 and August of last year, more than 107,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, most from synthetic opioids. Last year, the DEA seized more than 57 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit prescription pills, according to the New York indictment. To protect and expand that business, the “Chapitos,” as the sons are known, have turned to grotesque violence, prosecutors said. Enforcers Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar are the lead defendants among 23 associates charged in the New York indictment. Ovidio Guzmán López, alias “the Mouse,” who allegedly pushed the cartel into fentanyl, is charged in another indictment in the same district. Mexico arrested him in January and the U.S. government has requested extradition. Joaquín Guzmán López is charged in the Northern District of Illinois According to the Guzmán Salazar indictment, the cartel does some lab testing on its product but conducts more grisly human testing on kidnapped rivals or addicts who are injected until they overdose. The purity of the cartel’s fentanyl “varies greatly depending on the method and skill of the particular manufacturer,” prosecutors noted. After a user overdosed on one batch, it was still shipped to the U.S. When the elder Guzmán and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada led the Sinaloa cartel, it operated with a certain degree of restraint. But with Guzmán serving a life sentence and Zambada believed to be suffering from health issues, the Chapitos moved aggressively to avoid a power vacuum that could fragment the cartel. “What was really a unique advantage of the Sinaloa cartel and El Chapo was the ability to calibrate violence,” said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow in the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology at the Brookings Institute. The wide-ranging New York indictment against the Guzmán Salazar brothers details their penchant for feeding enemies to their pet tigers and describes how they tortured two Mexican federal agents, ripping through one’s muscles with a corkscrew then stuffing the holes with chile peppers before shooting him. The indictment also provides context to some recent violence in Mexico. In August 2022, gunmen shot up Ciudad Juarez across from El Paso, Texas. Two prison inmates and nine civilians in the city were killed. U.S. prosecutors say the Chapitos’ security arm ordered their local gang associates to commit the violence, targeting a rival cartel’s businesses. “This is not their father’s Sinaloa cartel,” Felbab-Brown said. “These guys just operate in very different mindsets than their father.” The Guzmán Salazar indictment makes an initial attempt at disrupting the cartel’s supply chain, naming four people tied to a China-based chemical company and a broker in Guatemala who allegedly helped the cartel get the chemicals and even instructed them on the best recipes for fentanyl. “When they talk about labs and you’re trying to focus in on labs, that’s not going to have an impact unless you get the finished product or the precursor chemicals,” Vigil said. Mexico’s government has stumbled through the mixed messaging of its security forces playing up their decommissioning of labs even while President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has asserted that fentanyl is not being produced in Mexico. In congressional testimony Thursday, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram was pressed about whether Mexico and China are doing enough to cooperate with U.S. “We want the Mexicans to work with us and we want them to do more,” Milgram said, adding that the DEA wouldn’t hesitate to go after public officials in Mexico or elsewhere should it find evidence of ties to the cartels. Experts say López Obrador is one obstacle to slowing the cartels’ fentanyl production. After U.S. prosecutors announced the concerted effort against the Sinaloa cartel, López Obrador reacted angrily. The president accused the U.S. government of “spying” and “interference,” suggesting that the case had been built on information gathered by U.S. agents in Mexico. The president had already severely reduced Mexico’s cooperation with the DEA, experts said. Hope, the security analyst, said a fundamental problem is that López Obrador doesn’t appear to understand fentanyl’s threat. The president rails against a deterioration of family values in the United States and paints addiction as a moral failing. “He’s trapped in a moral universe from 50 years ago,” Hope said.
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