By A Fontes on July 2015
Aired July 15, 2015 - 07:00 ET - CNN Transcript of New Day CAMEROTA: New surveillances video shows the moment that Joaquin El Chapo Guzman escaped from his jail cell. A notorious drug lord left his prison cell Saturday. As you can see there, just by sneaking out through a hole in the floor. And now, a desperate search is under way. We have a former FBI special agent with a 28-year career with the bureau working in organized crime, intelligence, violent crime and drug trafficking. Thank you so much for being on "New Day." We understand that you... ARTURO[...]
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July 14, 2015 - The Seattle Times By Azam Ahmed, The New York Times by DAMIEN CAVE Read original articl citing Arturo Fontes. MEXICO CITY — Hours after the world’s most infamous drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, escaped Mexico’s highest security prison over the weekend, the United States offered marshals, drones, even a special task force to help find and recapture him. But the Mexicans have kept the Americans at bay, according to Mexican and U.S. officials. They say the delay has confounded law-enforcement agencies on both sides of the border and undermined efforts to recapture Guzman, the billionaire head of[...]
Read MoreBy A Fontes on July 2015
July 14, 2015 - New York Times By AZAM AHMED and DAMIEN CAVE Read the original story. MEXICO CITY — Hours after the world’s most infamous drug lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, escaped Mexico’s highest security prison over the weekend, the United States offered everything it has — marshals, drones, even a special task force — to help recapture him. But the Mexicans have kept the Americans at bay, without giving an answer on the extra help, according to Mexican and American officials. They say the delay has confounded law enforcement agencies on both sides of the border and undermined efforts[...]
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July 13, 2015 - By Arturo Fontes in Time Magazine Original Article His escape could set Mexico's War on Drugs back 10 years I spent the majority of my 28-and-a-half years as an FBI agent working in drug trafficking and organized crime tracking Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and his network. The discovery of his escape from a high-security Mexican prison Saturday—his second such escape—is demoralizing for those of us in the U.S. and in Mexico who have worked so hard and risked our lives to bring him to justice. It threatens to unravel all the work that we’ve done. El[...]
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July 12, 2015 - The Dallas Morning News Excerpt. Click here to read the full article. “Chapo knows too much, has too much information that would embarrass the Mexican government in general and I suspect that’s one reason the Mexican government was reluctant to put him on a plane to face U.S. justice,” said Arturo Fontes, a former FBI agent and president of Fontes International Solutions consulting firm. He spent more than a decade tracking down the former leader of the powerful Sinaloa cartel. “His escape is a joke, travesty of justice and demoralizing. Mexico lost another 10 years when it[...]
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July 16, 2013 - The New York Times by Randal C. Archibold and Ginger Thompson Read the original article where Art Fontes is cited here. MEXICO CITY — Body parts strewn on highways, etched with the letter Z. Videotaped torture sessions uploaded onto YouTube. Victims placed in barrels and dissolved into a “stew” of violent death. Since the Zetas emerged less than a decade ago as the brutal new figures in the storied history of organized crime here, Mexico has experienced some of its most shocking episodes of violence, and the bloodshed has seeped into other countries throughout the region.[...]
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July 7, 2015 - Por Agencias AP, EFE y Télam Lea el artículo original. Peña Nieto atribuyó la detención de Treviño, alias "Z-40", a la coordinación y uso de inteligencia. La DEA celebró el arresto. México. La captura del máximo jefe del cartel de Los Zetas, Miguel Treviño, generó ayer una alerta en México ante un posible aumento de la violencia por disputas internas o de otras bandas, informó el gobierno, mientras la prensa y la agencia antidrogas estadounidense calificaron a la detención como un “gran éxito” del presidente Enrique Peña Nieto. “Estamos pendientes. El trabajo que hizo la marina, en[...]
Read MoreBy A Fontes on February 2009
Feb 25, 2009 - BorderReporter By Michel Marizco Read the original article citing Arturo Fontes here. You’ve all heard the news by now I’m sure, 750 members of the Sinaloa Federation taken down by the U.S. Feds. It’s been the talk of the border all day, but that’s not why you’re here, is it. Hell no. Let’s take a look at what the Feds are not saying. That is always so much more interesting. In brief, and I’m citing the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s statement here, “Operation Xcellerator has led to the arrest of 755 individuals and the seizure of approximately $59.1 million[...]
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May 8, 2005 - Chron.com by James Pinkerton and Ioan Grillo Read the original article where Arturo Fontes is cited here. The fight for Nuevo Laredo: At the border, rival cartels are staging a violent war for the control of a city — and for a key U.S. drug route NUEVO LAREDO, MEXICO - On a recent Saturday night, well-heeled patrons at a fashionable restaurant in this embattled border city shared part of an evening with one of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. Accompanied by a phalanx of heavily armed bodyguards, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, head of a cartel of traffickers[...]
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