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It was a quiet afternoon.

Not much was happening.

Nothing was happening.

ADMINISTRATION

I was here looking out the window

and a customs vehicle approached.

And then another, another and another.

Vehicles of all kinds appeared.

It caught my attention.

So I went out to talk to one of the customs agents who were there.

He said someone important was coming. A VIP, that's what he said.

The pilot warned by radio approaching from the south.

and your intention was to land on runway 10

and enter right base, turn right for the final stretch.

Copied.

And when it was reported,

we check the license plate number and we don't find it in the Virtower,

the program we have on the computer,

so we were curious, It caught our attention.

It arrived and landed.

I left and walked to the door.

There were people in suits, well dressed.

From the FBI, the DEA, Customs and Border Patrol.

I saw a person get off the plane.

He shook my hand and entered.

Then another came down, He waved to the people in suits,

They took his arms back... and they handcuffed him.

Yes, he approached, he shook their hands and then he turned like this.

And then they entered the Customs building.

That was it.

This looks taken out from an episode of Breaking Bad.

It is a great victory for the United States and his war against the drug cartels.

How did they do it?

I was in Hope, New Mexico, a hidden place,

when I received an alert on the phone. It said: "Ismael el Mayo Zambada trapped."

Once we arrive,

I was surprised that the plane was, literally, there for everyone to see.

The national and international press.

But that was nothing more, just the plane. There was nothing else.

Mayo had been there for decades hiding in the mountains of Sinaloa.

We never imagined that one day he would land his plane in Doña Ana.

I don't know, it wasn't possible.

Ismael "el Mayo" Zambada getting off the plane is...

I don't even know how to say it. Would you have imagined it?

For me, clearly, it was: "Yes, here is the plane.

But what's inside?"

we were watching what we believed, or was alleged,

that had been the last moments of freedom of May.

What we saw was extraordinary.

The oxygen mask.

In another sector,

there was a bag with Mexican sweets and trinkets.

One of the items that simply blew my mind

It was a bag of Oxxo.

It had some seals inside. They stood out, you could see them.

There I thought, "Well, this is interesting.

"Why would they want seals?"

You stay with the idea of what things are props.

What is real and what is not.

In many ways, that cover I made It ended up being ironic,

because in the interview what Julio Scherer did in 2010...

He says that in that interview He said those hills protected him,

his land, the country where he comes from.

In a moment, He says he didn't trust heaven.

In that interview, when he asked about the possibility of being detained,

He answers: "Until today, "A traitor has not appeared there."

Meet Sierra and Luna.

When they got home,

my daughters asked me: "What are they going to be called?"

And I said: "Chapo and Mayo."

And they answered me: "Oh, no dad, how horrible. What a shame."

They were unanimously revoked.

In 2011, the HSI office in Nogales he received information

about a guy crossing through the Nogales border post

and declared an incredible amount of money.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time.

There is nothing illegal about that.

But is it suspicious? Definitely.

They began to watch him.

And they saw that these people, In Mexico, I wanted to buy airplanes.

They wanted to buy planes in the USA. and enter them legally into Mexico.

They were in a Cessna 210, which costs between $200,000 and $300,000.

They were fascinated by the King Air.

The King Air were worth between $400,000 and up to almost $700,000.

They also liked CitationJets.

They cost like a million dollars.

So at the beginning of the case,

we bought the planes they wanted

with a covert account.

We installed them GPS trackers and transponders

so I could see where they were going.

It was crystal clear.

They took off to the south of Mexico and they landed on some clandestine runway.

Eight or ten hours later, you saw them again in the air.

In other words, they were carrying cocaine.

Once they arrived north of Guatemala or south of Mexico,

They burned them right there.

They only used it once.

Fuck it!

It was a fortune what they spent on those planes.

I remember asking the case agent: "It is an incredible logistical operation.

How do they coordinate it?"

And the agent tells me: "Yes, they talk... BlackBerry messages are sent."

And I stayed...

We have to think of a way to intercept your communications.

The DEA lent us, I think about five computers

that we put in a little room that we used of listening room in Nogales.

And there we began to intercept the first BlackBerrys.

We had a bellyful.

They didn't even speak in code.

I couldn't believe that, really, These messages were sent.

They usually speak in code, They are more verbose.

They felt so comfortable with BlackBerry Messenger

who operated and spoke as if nothing had happened.

They weren't just conversations.

We also intercept photos

of tremendous amounts of packages of cocaine.

photos of landing strips, poppy plantations

weapons, wads of cash and all kinds of things.

I remember thinking: "Who the hell do we have here?"

When we start to work with the government

They said they needed evidence.

of the bosses doing business in the United States.

They told us that these tests

would make a difference in the case

and they would help us.

We had to invent our way to give them that information.

Yes, well.

The twins They cooperated, and the clock began to tick.

We knew we had only a few weeks.

to gather all the evidence

against the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel.

It was a resounding success.

They recorded Chapo organizing a heroin deal in Chicago,

in which we could record two price negotiations with Chapo.

They tried to do the same with Mayo,

but they did not succeed to talk to them on the phone.

Mayo was disciplined. He never spoke on the phone.

I had someone who made the calls for him.

I saw him use the phone once.

And when it was over, he himself grabbed a hammer

and tore it to shreds right there.

Then he picked up all the pieces and he put them in his pocket.

They summoned Margarito to a meeting in the mountains, in Sinaloa,

with Chapo, Mayo and his son Vicente.

At the meeting, Vicente tells Margarito:

"We need to bring Mexico American military weapons.

But we needed to have it recorded

to be able to use it as evidence in court.

What they did was very dangerous.

That was a call with Vicente Zambada,

the son of Mayo.

When we cut, My brother and I became sensitive.

because we knew what we were doing.

And we felt like we were betraying to everyone.

Then one day

a high ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel

He called me and threatened me.

He asked me, "Are you cooperating?

Are you cooperating? Are you giving us away?"

The next day, The prosecutor called us and told us:

"It's over. We're going to get them out of this."

At that moment, Were you aware of that meeting or...?

No no.

At least, not that I remember.

And I think it's something I would remember.

The first thing I remember is finding out...

They arrested him at dawn,

so i found out of his arrest that same day.

After Vicente was arrested,

received what I can only describe like terrible legal advice.

His defense was to claim

that the United States government had granted him immunity.

And not only that,

but they had also given him immunity to the entire Sinaloa cartel,

in that famous frustrated meeting.

By that time, we moved very quickly

and we get a formal accusation against Vicente

that would allow him to be extradited to Chicago.

all thanks to the cooperation of the twins.

We begin to intercept communications

in which they made reference to "the Old Man".

Whoever was in charge The messages showed respect.

And we thought: "It has to be someone extremely important."

And then we intercept to El Chapo's children.

They talked about "Mouse", which is Ovid,

or "Güero", which is Joaquín.

In the fall of 2013,

an agent named Jack came

and he tells me: "We have them."

He brought me the transcript of a conversation between a woman and a man.

The woman was ranting, from top to bottom.

Like: "You left me, that's why you're alone,

That's why you're not doing well in life.

Only God knows what will become of you. "You owe me money."

For anyone who got divorced,

It was clear that it was an ex-wife. ranting against his ex.

Jack said, "It's Griselda."

Chapo Guzmán Griselda had three children.

Ovid, Joaquín and Edgar.

Before he died, Edgar had a daughter.

Her name was Frida, F-R-I-D-A.

"Hey, give Fridita a kiss for me.

Tell her she's the spoiled one."

It's Chapo Guzmán talking to Griselda about her granddaughter.

And he is asking Mouse let him go look for her.

I couldn't believe it. "You're right, it's him."

El Chapo Guzmán It was on the other side of the device.

The most incredible thing about all this: at that very moment,

Serafin Zambada appears at the Nogales port of entry.

Appeared in the port with your real name and ID.

I thought: "Is it a coincidence?

"What the hell is all this?"

I went down to the port, and there was Seraphim.

I was wearing a t-shirt with the flag of the United States.

I remember I told him:

"Hey, what's up? Where's your dad?"

He made me a little smile, and I thought, "That makes sense."

So we arrested him.

I told the boys:

"Look, the word is going to start spreading about this arrest."

And yes, it didn't take more than half a day.

Rumors began to reach us: "Hey, they arrested Sera."

"We don't know what happened. Did anyone talk to the Old Man?"

And that's when we fell.

"The Old Man is May, that's him."

"Now let's move on to mode...

manhunt."

FROM: ERIC S BALLIET

By the end of 2013,

we had intercepted to Chapo's entire internal network.

We had a constant flow of information

about where each of these guys was at all times.

EX-WIFE GRISELDA

SON OVIDIO GUZMÁN

But Zambada...

That guy was a ghost.

MAY CONTINUES ACTIVE

Mayo was much more careful.

We never managed to intercept a conversation with Mayo.

I'm still not 100% sure. of how he communicated.

I BELIEVE THAT OUR INTELLIGENCE IT WILL NEVER BE THIS GOOD.

But the data we had

was that Mayo used to frequent

some ranches on the outskirts of Culiacán,

but they didn't know exactly when he went or how long he stayed.

"But we're going to take the risk.

If it is there, a half-court goal."

So while we were thinking how we were going to carry out the operation,

we asked the DEA Who would they recommend?

And they told us: "SEMAR, the Mexican navy."

They are the least corrupt unit in Mexico.

And they have a reputation for being ruthless.

So I said, “Fantastic. "We will do it with them."

THE BIRD WILL TAKE OFF IN APPROX...

It was decided that, first, we would go to the ranches of Mayo

and then we would execute Chapo's side in Culiacán.

SEMAR raided a ranch.

There were three of the main men of May security.

Basically, they said, “Yeah, sometimes it comes.

But we haven't seen him for a few days.

We don't know when he will return.

They simply give us the order and we set up security."

And that was it.

The very nothing.

I was: "The fucking mother."

After a while, on the same ranch,

They found those, huh, 200 liter blue barrels

buried all over the ranch.

And inside the barrels, an incredible amount of weapons.

Each one wrapped in plastic film.

For me, It was like his treasure for war.

When things got ugly

and they had to take out heavy artillery and ammunition,

that was his collection from "Ipm, it's time to fight."

You could say which was an important find.

I mean, it was the closest that someone was about to catch him.

I don't have much in common with Vicente.

Except I love airplanes.

And he had nine Cessna 209s.

I was in Phase 1 Witness Protection,

or WITSEC Phase 1 of the Bureau of Prisons.

He was VZ,

that later I found out it was Vicente Zambada.

I met him at the same time as Sammy.

Sammy the Bull.

But I don't remember Vicente When exactly did I meet him?

but it was probably playing soccer because we played together all the time.

He was very intelligent.

I don't...

The truth is, for several months I didn't know anything about him.

But one day it opened

and started showing me photos of your lifestyle.

It was the photos most ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life.

He showed me photos of his shoes

and he was like, "See these? They cost $10,000."

I remember him like that, as a happy guy.

But I can also imagine it, I don't know, crying tormented at night.

He had his own demons.

Federal authorities transferred

to an alleged Mexican drug trafficker from Chicago to a federal prison near Detroit.

The boss of the Sinaloa cartel He is not happy with the facilities.

METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER

During the two years in the Chicago Correctional Facility,

Zambada Niebla was not allowed go up to the terrace to exercise.

The authorities said they were at risk of being killed by a sniper

or that he planned an escape by helicopter.

So your lawyer he claims that he lives totally isolated.

He says that even the haircut Your client's service was three weeks late.

Everything as punishment due to Zambada Niebla's complaints

of the conditions from the Chicago Correctional Center.

In 2010,

the interview they did with him came out al Mayo Zambada in Process.

I think it was a message for Vicente.

I was telling Vicente

I was thinking about him and that he wanted me to have a photo of him.

I'm going to skip the details,

but we installed a system with a designated phone,

to let us know when May felt comfortable and safe

how to take those calls.

The first was at dawn.

How surreal to hear his voice.

Here we are, on the banks of the Rio Grande.

It was very clear that it was good for them to hear their voices.

And then, Vicente went on to do what we asked him to do.

The main objective It was that he was sincere, from son to father:

"Dad, I'm not okay.

I'm in a cell in a United States prison.

Dad, could you help me if you do the right thing, if you give yourself."

It was just, “Dad, help me.

Help me with this problem."

Yes, I'm still there.

He gave everything.

In other words, he tried to appeal to that idea of "You already had your moment, it's over."

He told me that he had been talking to his dad.

When he came back from having the call, He seemed excited.

And he also told me, from what I understood,

that existed some type of arrangement or agreement

which involved his father's health,

which was not very good.

Like they were going to release him

when his dad turned himself in.

Change! His father imprisoned, and he, free in Mexico.

That...

was what he explained to me.

We were able to organize

a couple of direct communications

so that Vicente can convince Mayo.

From what we could deduce, during the second call

I was on a plane

surrounding a cell phone antenna.

I knew that we or that the Mexicans we could geolocate it.

And when the call ended, He threw the phone out the window and...

Mayo said he was going to think about it.

Eh, but I think we collided with the limit of love for his children.

After the Mayo ranch,

they started talking about it in the news.

The only thing that really worried me

It was that, like these guys They were so intertwined for so long,

If there was an operation against Mayo,

What effect could that have? in Chapo's faction?

We were all in Tucson,

surrounded by monitors, with nerves on edge.

We only had one chance.

We received live listening.

ERIC BALLIET: SKIPPY, HOW DO YOU SEE EVERYTHING?

We also received alerts to a group chat.

JAKE: RESTED AND READY!

Chapo had a courier who made all his orders.

His alias was "Nose."

The boys on site They thought they had it in sight.

JAKE: HE'S ALONE.

I remember they wrote: "We see Nose."

ERIC BALLIET: THAT'S IT, GIRLS

So they caught Nose.

They sent a photo and it was...

I understood why they called him Nose. I had...

He had a little nose, didn't he?

ERIC BALLIET: HA HA HA!

They interrogated him and he handed over the house to them.

He said something like, "Chapo is there."

"Fuck it!"

The marines raided the house in Culiacán.

But they found each other with an armored door.

They were ready to destroy everything.

You could hear the commotion.

When they finally did it,

they stayed:

"This son of a bitch has a tunnel under a bathtub."

The SEMARs were furious.

They were willing to do shit everything.

"We will fall into every house that we know is associated with him.

THE TYPE AND "CONDOR" THEY ARE AT THE MIRAMAR HOTEL IN MZT.

CONFIRMED OPERATION FOR EARLY TOMORROW.

AT THE DOOR IN 30 MIN.

Who is below you?

Well, below me, The boys, there, who...

Yeah, that's clear. But who?

They have been Picudo,

Bravo...

This...

No, I don't think there are many people.

Who else?

Bear.

Who else?

A boy they call Cholo.

They took him down to the parking lot.

I still have the message.

"We got him, people! We got him."

I remember looking at the photos that were arriving

and I thought: "What fucking madness!"

The capture of the most wanted drug trafficker in the world,

and how US and Mexican authorities they finally caught him

after more than a decade of escapes and evasion.

I remember that message.

HE ESCAPED.

It said: "He escaped."

I thought, "Don't fuck with me!"

This time, his escape is like a movie.

He slipped through a gap in his cell

towards a complete tunnel, with ventilation, lights and a motorcycle on a rail,

which he apparently used to get out.

Up! Above! Above!

A Mexican officer told us

than Alfredo, who is believed to be part of the new leadership of the Sinaloa cartel,

reportedly he was not taking his role very seriously.

He also expressed that Alfredo "I used to party

and they caught him off guard, which allowed his kidnapping."

I was about to leave.

I was almost out the door,

and someone shouts to me from inside: "It's coming."

The first time we saw him,

I felt like I was surprised to be there.

Well, we all were.

I don't know, especially someone with so much history around.

We had the person that we had been investigating

for more than a decade.

I mean, it was... I will never forget that day.

When Vincent He entered the room and took the stand,

looked at Chapo and made a sign of respect.

He is testifying against him. He's your enemy, right?

Did you think I was doing you a favor?

There was a very crazy exchange in the testimony of Vicente,

in which he said that he had entrusted him El Chapo and his father

that, possibly, He wanted to withdraw from the cartel.

Basically, El Chapo and El Mayo recommended him

who could betray one of his enemies of rival cartels.

And so he could retire

and get a light sentence.

It wasn't something we knew until much later.

When Vicente came to that meeting in Mexico City,

El Chapo and Mayo They had authorized him to cooperate.

No matter how sophisticated they were El Chapo and El Mayo at that time,

I don't think that when they authorized it to go to Mexico City

to cooperate with the DEA,

really believed that that It was going to lead them to their own downfall.

The famous Mexican drug trafficker, Joaquín "el Chapo" Guzmán,

was found guilty of drug trafficking in a trial in New York.

Guzmán broke the silence.

He told the judge: "Justice was not done here. They denied me a fair trial."

But the judge, emphasizing in the terrible evil of Chapo,

he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

In addition, Guzmán will have to pay 12.6 billion in compensation.

The man who commanded to torture and kill his enemies

he blew his wife a kiss before leaving the court.

We knew that if we got Mayo and Chapo out of the equation,

It wasn't like the Sinaloa cartel It was going to dissolve just like that.

They have a succession plan

and the plan was that Chapo's children

rise and take their place.

The same with Mayo.

In 2014, we had, In my professional opinion,

a tremendous amount of evidence that involved Ivan,

Ovid and Joachim.

I think not to stop them in 2014,

with Monday's newspaper, It was a strategic mistake.

So...

That thorn stuck in me.

We are facing to the worst drug crisis in history.

The drug is fentanyl.

A synthetic pain reliever 100 times more powerful than morphine.

As a street drug, it is much more potent than even heroin in its greatest purity.

The illicit use of this synthetic opioid It is devastating the United States.

And the Mexican cartels are benefiting from the profits

and a market addicted to drugs.

El Chapo's children Ovid, Ivan and Alfred,

known as Los Chapitos,

They are the new leaders of the Sinaloa cartel.

They inherited an empire of global drug trafficking

and they made him more ruthless, more violent and more deadly.

And they used it to scatter a new poison: fentanyl.

As a direct result of your actions,

we have lost hundreds of thousands of lives of US citizens.

And so, the DEA proactively targeted to the Chapitos network.

- Raise your hands! - Salt.