Dinner at La Leche | Chapter 5 Freedom
Mica for Borderlandbeat.com
Chapter 1 Marriott Vallarta
Chapter 2 Disco
Chapter 3 Guest List
Chapter 4 Kidnapping
I hope you have enjoyed this little project on The Chapitos Kidnapping. The project aimed to research, provide a detailed analysis of the kidnapping and better understand what transpired.
Dinner at La Leche
The kidnapping of Los Chapitos
in Puerto Vallarta
Ignacio Cadena Beraud, the owner of La Leche, said that the kidnapping was "Very violent but very clean. There was not even a 'little bullet' nor a 'threat' to anyone."
After the high-profile kidnapping, a lot of false reporting was released. BorderlandBeat, along with every major media news outlet, got something wrong.
Part of the research consisted of reading BorderlandBeat posts on the event and comments from 2016.
The post from BorderlandBeat that contain false information and its source links are wrong as the media outlet has removed the story. The accurate BorderlandBeat posts have source links that still work.
El Alfredillo
First, the government confirmed that the only son of Chapo Guzmán, Jesus Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, was kidnapped with five other men.Then the lawyer for the family of El Chapo Guzmán, Pablo Badillo, said that it was very likely that the eldest son of the capo had been kidnapped and that he was contacted by the Guzmán family around 1:00 pm ET on Monday and told that "the possibility that Iván Archivaldo had been kidnapped is very high." The family confirmed that he could not contact Iván Archivaldo, who was traveling in Puerto Vallarta.
El Chapito
My research shows that El Mencho kidnapped the Guzmán brothers to resolve a stalemate between the two cartels over contested drug trafficking routes to the United States, using them as bargaining chips. Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana regions were among the disputed territories between the cartels.
The attendees arrived with heavily armed escorts, who secured the perimeter of the meeting location. This gathering aimed to discuss the kidnapping of El Chapo's sons, Ivan and Jesus Guzmán, by the rival Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and to consider possible retaliation strategies, including the potential for an all-out war against CJNG.
Negotiations between El Mayo and Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, the leader of CJNG, are said to have taken place but reached a deadlock when El Mencho refused to release El Chapo's sons.
El Mencho's son, El Menchito, was kidnapped by Sinaloa Cartel operatives while in prison as a countermeasure to secure the release of El Chapo's sons.
To prevent a war between Mexico's two largest drug-trafficking cartels, the Federal Government and fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero are believed to have intervened, ultimately leading to the release of Ivan and Jesus Guzmán.
On Tuesday, the negotiations to release the kidnapped would begin. The lives of Los Menores would be negotiated with the supreme leader of the CJNG, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho.
The kidnappers got rid of the phones of their victims at the restaurant parking lot. On Wednesday, someone with access to these phones from the government leaked this famous photo of Kate and Jesus.
This led El Mayo Zambada, alongside El Chapo (from prison), reportedly convene a high-level meeting with the cartel's top members at a ranch in Sinaloa.
The attendees arrived with heavily armed escorts, who secured the perimeter of the meeting location. This gathering aimed to discuss the kidnapping of El Chapo's sons, Ivan and Jesus Guzmán, by the rival Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and to consider possible retaliation strategies, including the potential for an all-out war against CJNG.
Negotiations between El Mayo and Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, the leader of CJNG, are said to have taken place but reached a deadlock when El Mencho refused to release El Chapo's sons.
El Mencho's son, El Menchito, was kidnapped by Sinaloa Cartel operatives while in prison as a countermeasure to secure the release of El Chapo's sons.
To prevent a war between Mexico's two largest drug-trafficking cartels, the Federal Government and fugitive drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero are believed to have intervened, ultimately leading to the release of Ivan and Jesus Guzmán.
Released on Wednesday
Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar
Juan Daniel Tapia Calva
Released on Friday
Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar
Josiah Nahuali Rabago Borbolla
Victor Galvan Urena
Jose Manuel Diaz Burgos
This concludes The Dinner at La Leche series. It's been a lot of fun, and now I get to take some time and be a reader while I search for my next project.
As always, thanks for reading!
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