He son of Mayo Zambada, El Grande and other notorious drug traffickers that witnessed in the trials of the New York prosecutor's office against Chapo Guzman and Genaro García Luna are on freedomwith reduced sentencesand despite having open processes in Mexico, They have stayed in the United States with protected identities.
Now we find out that the former prosecutor of Nayarit, Edgar Veytiawhich was one of the most corrupt prosecutors of the last decades in Mexicothat worked with drug traffickers, usurped property, robbed and killedand that was sentenced to 20 years in prison in USAgot a ten year reduction to his sentence and I could be released in 2027.
Veytia obtained such a substantial reduction of his sentence because the same prosecutor's office requested it for his “substantial collaboration” in the investigation against Garcia Luna and in the case against General Salvador Cienfuegos. It is the same saying that she was trapped by the complaints of political manipulation in both cases: in that of Garcia Luna with a request from the defense to annul the trial already held and awaiting sentencing, and in the case of General Cienfuegos acquitted of baseless accusations. But the New York prosecutor's office and the anti-drug agency continue to play politics and seek a maxi-trial against Mexico, which if Trump (it was in his administration where this strategy was devised) returns to power, it can be reissued starting next January and with new authorities in the American Union and in Mexico.
The Devil Veytia was a terrible character who worked openly with organized crime groups and put the Nayarit prosecutor's office at your service and that of criminal groups. When we investigated the crimes committed by Veytia in Nayarit she threatened us and had Bibiana Belsasso and this author, as well as our reporters, threatened as criminals. We were investigating, among others, the dispossession that the businessman Eduardo Valencia had suffered in Nuevo Vallarta, in a case that cost that businessman 50 months in prison, two attempted murders, the theft of his assets and that now 11 years later, He has finally been able to win after the intervention of federal justice and international organizations such as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
They say that Veytia was not arrested but turned himself in in San Diego when he was about to finish his term in the prosecutor's office. It may be, the truth is that in 2016 he quickly began working with the DEA and the US attorney's office, to try to reduce his sentences. And as time went by, as that agency and the prosecutor's office had new cases, they adapted the testimonies of the former Nayarit prosecutor to them.
It had all started in 2015. A few hours before Donald Trump assumed the presidency of the United States, the Peña Nieto government gave the new president a very special gift: he was extradited to the American Union, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán.
The El Chapo extradition It opened the opportunity to carry out what the anti-drug officials of the American Union had always had as their objective: a maxi-trial against Mexico, its rulers, military and officials. The idea was that Chapo's trial would open, as had happened in the past with those of the big mafia bosses, a cascade of investigations, arrests, denunciations, which would expose and put in the dock, in that maxi process, all alleged responsible for drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States. The strategy was stated very clearly: it would be like those of the mafia in New York, there would be a court that would be in charge of all the cases, a prosecutor, Richard Donahue, would be in charge of carrying out the processes and the DEA would be the one that would handle the cases. would eliminate with protected witnesses. There were Mexicans, Colombians, former enemies and old allies of Chapo. The most important, the brother and son of Mayo Zambada. But when at trial, Chapo's defense wanted to involve witnesses who were part of American drug trafficking, neither Judge Brian Cogan nor prosecutor Donaghe allowed it, arguing that it was not the objective of the process. The same thing happened years later in the García Luna trial.
The Chapo trial served to activate what the maxi-process wanted to be. With the testimonies of the protected witnesses who accused Chapo, García Luna was arrested in Texas in December 2019. We now know, from an investigation by Raymundo Riva Palacio, that this arrest had the prior approval of the López Obrador government. The case of García Luna, in relation to drug trafficking, was derived from the statements of a brother of Mayo Zambada and Barbie, the two drug traffickers arrested years ago by García Luna and extradited to the United States, testimonies that they had already given in the Chapo trial.
Unproven testimonies of drug traffickers, recordings of criminals, suspicions, but not a single hard fact, nothing that did not arise from statements by criminal figures who sought to have their sentences reduced in the case of García Luna, an incredible call thread intercepted between fourth-rate drug traffickers in the case of the General. Now we know that part of that common thread, says the New York prosecutor's office, was former prosecutor Veytia.
The collapse of the Cienfuegos case, hand in hand with the defeat of Trump and his justice apparatus, was also the collapse of the maxi process, which will now want to be reissued if Trump reaches the White House. With one difference: López Obrador's will no longer be the acting government, it will be the past. And the Devil Veytia will be part of that political process.
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