In these days the progress of the trial against kartellsjefen Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in Manhattan, New York city, and the audience gets an increasingly darker insight into the criminal empire of the 61-year-old ruled for a number of years.
One of them as witnesses against Guzman is the 41-year-old Edgar Galvan, and on Monday he told about one of “El Chapos” henchmen. Specifically, he was able to narrate about how Antonio “Jaguar” Marrufo had a drapsrom in grensebyen Juarez, where he took the life of kartellets enemies.
once he took me to a house where the floor was covered by white tiles. It was there that he killed people, he said, according to the New York Post, and added that there was also a drain in the floor of the soundproofed the house so that Marrufo will be able to easily clean up after the executions.
– The ones that come in there, don’t come out again, ” said Galvan.
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Galvan told that he accidentally tumbled into the narkotikahandelens the world after his skillsmisse in 2007, and that he shortly afterwards became acquainted with Marrufo in the mexican grensebyens nightlife.
From there it went kind of blow for the american, and according to his testimony, he lived a short time afterwards in El Paso, Texas where he assisted Marrufo to smuggle weapons across the border. These weapons would be used to eliminate El Chapos competition in Juarez.
He admitted also that he twice procured a weapon Marrufo was going to use to kill a rival, but denies that he himself was on the drapshandlingen.
He saved also often large quantities of weapons for the cartel, and on one occasion kept he a big-game sniper rifle, he also posed with (see the picture at the top of the article).
Galvan was arrested in 2011, and said the guilty in possession of weapons and drugs. He has also served eight years of a sentence of 24 years.
Marrufo was arrested in 2012 and is currently imprisoned in Mexico.
the Trial against Guzman continues in Manhattan. He claims his innocence, according to the indictment on gun possession and drapsplaner, as well as the import and sale of cocaine.
BUSTED: Antonio Marrufo after the arrest in 2012. Photo: REUTERS / Edgard Garrido / NTB Scanpix Show more – Worse before it gets better
31 174 killed made sure to make the 2017 to the bloodiest year in Mexico since man began to lead drapsstatistikk in the country 21 years ago.
In 2016, there was an increase of 22 per cent in drug-related homicides from the year before. 2017 topped the bloody statistics by a good margin, and unfortunately, there is little to suggest that 2018 has been slightly better. Only in may of last year were, on average, killed one person in the country every 15. minute – and now it means everything on that 2018 has set a new grisly record.
In september, the daily newspaper Dagbladet about how likhusene in Guadalajara simply not manage to take away all of the dead bodies that are a product of narkokrigen, and in the summer, it became known that 175 politicians had been killed in connection with the election.
the Result of the election was that the 65-year-old Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took over the levers in the voldsherjede the country. He went to the election on the fight against poverty, corruption and crime, but the former FBI agent Arturo Fontes said to Dagbladet in December that he has a hard time to see that it shall happen some immediate improvement.
The new government has placed the delegates in the various states that takes a lot of power from the local governors. They lose in a great degree selvstyret, and must ally themselves with the cartels to get funds, ” he says.
– It is demoralising to look at. One can see the corruption on all levels without any clear strategy. I think it gets worse before it gets better.
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