More evidence linking the Venezuelan regime with El Chapo Guzmn, drug cartels

[GatoGordo]

According to Colombian witness, 'Chapo' gave Peña Nieto $ 100 million
Alex Cifuentes, a former associate of the Mexican drug lord, now speaks against him in court in New York.
By: International Writing January 16, 2019, 05:12 a.m.



translated from Spanish

The Colombian Alex Cifuentes, witness of the Prosecutor's Office in the trial against Joaquín "El
Chapo" Guzmán Loera in New York explained how they sought alternate routes to take the drug to Mexico from Venezuela and stated that the drug dealer paid him a $100 million bribe to former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Alex Cifuentes, who has said that for years he was a close associate of Guzman, discussed the alleged bribe in the interrogation of one of Guzman's lawyers in federal court in Brooklyn. When asked if he had told the authorities in 2016 that Guzmán had arranged the bribe payment, he replied: "That's right."

Regarding his links with the Chavez regime, "Joaquín (the 'Chapo') needed a landing strip in the Dominican Republic to be able to act as a springboard to get to Mexico from Venezuela," he said, after which a conversation between Guzmán was heard Loera and Antonio, your contact in the Dominican Republic.

But this is not the first time that supposed links of the 'Chapo' Guzmán with other drug traffickers also met with Venezuelan high-level officials and people related to the state oil company PDVSA , as confirmed by the ex-Venezuelan Sunny Balza during an interview for the news channel NTN24 in August of 2017.

Balza said that the capo continually visited the Venezuelan tourist destination in the Caribbean Sea. He also said that a cousin of Diosdado Cabello, current president of the National Constituent Assembly of Venezuela, "shared" the tourist destination with Mexicans linked to the Guzmán Loera cartel.

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https://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/eeuu-y-canada/se-revelan-otros-vinculos-del-chapo-con-altos-mandos-en-venezuela-314834

[mr_lebowski]

1. That highlighted part is pretty damn weak I'm afraid afa evidence goes ...

The 'Venezuelan Tourist destination'? What, Dominican Republic? So because some Venezuelans go there on holiday, and El Chapo 'needed' (does that mean 'had'?) an airstrip somewhere in that ENTIRE COUNTRY ... this is a nefarious link between Venezuelan government and El Chapo?

And 'a cousin' of a VZ Congressman also went to Dominican Republic, apparently with Mexicans 'linked' to Chapo ... at some point, sometime ... this means the 'current Regime' is in bed with Chapo?