The Incendiary Letter From 'Mayo' Zambada

 ”Char” for Borderland Beat 

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A statement by Ismael Zambada Garcia would demolish the official version that Hector Melesio Cuen Ojeda died after being shot at the gas station in the community of La Presita, on the night of July 25. In a letter released yesterday, Saturday, by his lawyer Frank Perez, Mayo assures that the ex-rector of the UAS was killed “at the same time and in the same place” where he was kidnapped, that is to say in Huertos del Pedregal, an area of country estates, located in the town of Bellavista.

In this place, located northwest of the city of Culiacan, according to the two-page missive, written on a computer and in English, El Mayo assures that he was summoned by Joaquin Guzman Lopez to a meeting with Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and Cuen Ojeda, as well as Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar. The objective was to “resolve” a dispute that exists between the two politicians “over who should lead” the UAS. The conflict had been going on for two years.

The meeting was to take place at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 25, but Zambada Garcia says he arrived earlier, without specifying a time. There he saw the founder of the Sinaloa Party, who was “an old friend,” accompanied by one of his aides, whom he greeted briefly. He also observed a large number of armed men in green military uniforms who he assumed “were gunmen of Joaquín Guzmán and his brothers”.

The drug lord said he arrived guarded by four of his security agents, one of whom was the commander of the “Judicial Police of the State of Sinaloa,” Jose Rosario Heras Lopez, who is a state investigative police officer.

After greeting Cuen and accompanied by the policeman and Rodolfo Chaidez, a member of his security team, El Mayo said he followed Joaquín Guzmán López, whom he has known “since he was a child,” to a room in Huertos del Pedregal, which had a table with fruit. Once inside, Chapo Guzman’s son gestured for him to follow him to another darkened room, where he was “ambushed.

“A group of men assaulted me, threw me to the floor and put a dark-colored hood over my head. They tired me out, handcuffed me and then forced me into the bed of a pickup truck. Throughout this ordeal, I was subjected to physical abuse, resulting in significant injuries to my back, knees and wrists. I was then taken to an airstrip about 20 to 25 minutes away, where I was forced to board a private plane. Joaquin removed my hood and strapped me into the seat. There was no one else on board the plane except Joaquin, the pilot and me,” he said.

Source: https://www.borderlandbeat.com/2024/08/the-incendiary-letter-from-mayo-zambada.html