“I wanted an agreement with all the cartels”: the letter from “La Barbie” in which she pointed out Calderón and García Luna

It was reported that Édgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “La Barbie” is no longer in custody (SSP)

On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, two years after his arrest, Édgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “La Barbie”, sent a letter to the press in which he pointed out to former president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, from Acción Nacional (PAN), for alleged ties to drug trafficking.

The frustrated wedding of “La Barbie” that caused laughter in the trial against Genaro García Luna

According to “El Grande”, García Luna and Cárdenas Palomino notified Édgar Valdez Villarreal about an operation that would take place in the city of Acapulco, where their wedding would take place.

“I categorically deny the accusations and statements made by the arresting elements regarding the manner in which my arrest was; and that the truth of the facts is the following: my arrest was the result of a political persecution by C. Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, who instituted harassment against me,” the capo wrote in the letter.

The reason for said harassment by Felipe Calderón, according to Valdez Villarreal, was because he had refused to be part of the agreement that the former president “wanted to have with all organized crime groups, for which he personally held several meetings to have talks with organized crime groups.”

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In 2007, the Undersecretary of National Defense alerted Felipe Calderón that the Secretary of Public Security was related to organized crime.

Subsequently, “La Barbie” pointed out, various meetings were held through General Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, who met on the orders of Calderón and Juan Camilo Mouriño, with two of the heads of the “Familia Michoacana” cartel.

Genaro García Luna would have been one of the main officials behind the start of the war against drug trafficking by Felipe Calderón (Cuartoscuro)

Later, the general met in Matamoros with Heriberto Lazcano and Miguel Ángel Treviño the Z-40. Some time later, Acosta Chaparro and Mouriño, according to the testimony of the capo, met with Arturo Beltrán Leyva, alias “El Barbas”, and also with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

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Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and “El Barbas” entrusted the lieutenant of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel with the difficult task of corrupting the presidential power, a point that no other criminal organization had reached before.

The intention of Calderón, the architect of the controversial “War against Narcotics”, was to reach a kind of agreement with all the cartels: Zetas, Golfo, Juárez, Sinaloa, for which reason, Valdez pointed out, “since there was no response from my part and not wanting to have ties with any of the criminal organizations, an acute persecution was instituted against me, to the point of having searched several homes without a legal warrant for it and from which they stole money, jewelry, cars, as well as various belongings”.

Regarding the former Secretary of Federal Public Security, Genaro García Luna, whose trial in the United States will begin on January 17, the drug trafficker born in Laredo, Texas, said that he was aware that “he has received money from me, from drug trafficking and crime organized, as well as a select group made up of Armando Espinosa de Benito, who worked with the DEA and gave me information.”

Édgar Valdez Villarreal, alias “La Barbie” was extradited to the United States on September 30, 2015 (Cuartoscuro)

He even listed the names of those who participated in the corrupt apparatus in favor of the drug trafficker: Luis Cárdenas Palomino, Edgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, Francisco Javier Garza Palacios (PF Colombia), Igor Labastida Calderón, Facundo Rosas Rosas, Ramón Eduardo Pequeño García and Gerardo Garay. String.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday that the US Embassy confirmed to him that Édgar Valdez “La Barbie”, one of the most bloodthirsty drug lords in Mexico, is still in their custody, after press reports about his possible arrest. on freedom.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), for his part, said this Wednesday, November 30 from the National Palace that the US government had to clarify the situation of the capo, who recently ceased to be in the custody of the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons. (BOP, in English).

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