“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
Video translation is as follows:
The chief of the Gulf Cartel and founding father of Los Zetas Osiel Cardenas Guillen can have served 20 years in jail in the USA tomorrow. He’s additionally nicknamed El Loco, El Patron, and El Mata Amigos. The latter nickname he acquired after murdering Salvador Gómez Herrera in 1998, a pal of his after which head of the Gulf Cartel as a way to achieve management of that legal group. He was sentenced to 25 years in jail and never life imprisonment after a plea discount with the U.S. authorities.
And he was speculated to be launched in 2028. Nevertheless, based on sources consulted by the Reforma newspaper in Texas, the capo might be launched from jail subsequent August, 5 years earlier than his sentence is because of expire. Cardenas Guillen was arrested on March 14, 2003 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas and extradited to the USA in 2007. It was in 2010 behind closed doorways that he signed an settlement with the USA that was categorized as confidential for all times, based on a report within the newspaper El Common.
The settlement, revealed El Common primarily based on a declassified transcript, established that of the 12 fees towards him, solely 5 had been introduced towards him. He additionally handed over $50 million {dollars}, the proceeds of his earnings as a drug trafficker. He additionally offered details about the construction and operations of the Gulf Cartel, based on El Common. He’s at present being held in a jail in the USA and his location will stay secret based on the pact he signed with the USA.
His household fared no higher. Considered one of his brothers, Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, aka Tony Tormenta, who was head of the Matamoros plaza, was killed by the Navy in 2010. Two years later one other of his brothers Mario Cardenas Guillen aka Don Mario or El Gordo was arrested by the Navy in Altamira and extradited on Could 17, 2022 to the USA. Homero Cardenas Guillen aka El Majadero his older brother died in Monterrey after present process beauty surgical procedure.
His nephew Rafael Cardenas Vela aka El Junior was arrested in Texas in 2011. In 2014 he was sentenced to twenty years in jail for drug trafficking. One other of his nephews Enrique Homero Cardenas Salinas was executed in 2014 in Matamoros allegedly by order of his first nephew Jose Alfredo Cardenas Martinez aka El Contador. He’s at present imprisoned in a most safety jail for kidnapping and drug trafficking.
At the moment, the legal group he led is fragmented into a number of legal cells that search management of the Gulf Cartel. These are Los Ciclones, Los Metros, Las Panteras, and Los Rojos. All from the Gulf Cartel. The identical occurred with the armed wing that based Los Zetas. After the autumn of their group, this legal group fashioned by ex-military males determined to separate from the Gulf Cartel and turn into a cartel.
Following the arrest and imprisonment of their leaders Heriberto Lazcano aka El Lazca and Miguel Angel Treviño Morles aka El Z40, Los Zetas fragmented into two teams referred to as Zetas Vieja Escuela and Cartel del Noreste. Since then, they’ve been preventing for management of northeastern Mexico. Significantly states similar to Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon.
