The Dialogue Between ‘El Mayo’ Zambada And Arturo Beltrán Leyva After The Capture Of ‘El Mochomo’.

Mica for cartelinsider.com

Vicente Zambada Niebla, better known as ‘El Vicentillo’, in the book ‘The Traitor’ by Anabel Hernández, spoke about the conversation that ‘El Mayo’ had with Arturo Beltrán Leyva, after he was upset with ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán for the arrest of his brother Alfredo, ‘El Mochomo’, whom he had treated like a son.

‘The Lord of the Hat’ thought to act as a mediator between the differences of ‘The Bearded One’ and Guzmán Loera, who did not want to start a war with his cousin, but he claimed to have been betrayed, so he did not intend to forgive them.

‘El Vicentillo’ stated that Alfredo Beltrán Leyva was not arrested because they didn’t want to, as he always walked around normally on the street and did not take precautions, which is why there was no need to expose him to authorities.

“My father told ‘Chapo’ to let him speak with Arturo, to see if he could stop all of that, that another war was not good, and ‘El Chapo’ said he didn’t want that, but that was what they were planning because Arturo was mentally unstable, and they had put in his head that my father and ‘El Chapo’ had handed over his brother Alfredo Beltrán. My father’s response was that Arturo was mistaken, ‘how could he think that’, that they didn’t catch Alfredo because they didn’t want to, he was always on the streets and everywhere, they didn’t need to set him up. My father said he was going to talk to Arturo, to see if he could put an end to that war,” reads Anabel Hernández’s book, ‘The Traitor’.

Although there were times when he agreed with Ismael Mario, there were other moments when he said he would seek revenge and soon end the lives of his former partners, Zambada Niebla assured that his behavior was due to the fact that he was almost always under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

My dad talked to Arturo and asked how it was possible that, being cousin of ‘El Chapo’ and lifelong friend, they had fallen out. He asked what was going on and Arturo told him that it was because they, ‘El Chapo’ and my father, had been involved in the arrest of his brother, but it wasn’t against him, it was against ‘El Chapo’. ‘El Chapo’ had done that in exchange for the release of his son Iván Guzmán Salazar, who was detained. My dad told him to stop spreading rumors, that it was all a lie, but Arturo was into drugs and didn’t think clearly. Later, he would talk to my dad and say that everything was okay and that he didn’t know how things with Alfredo had gone down. He would say that it had been from another source and everything was fine. But a few days later, he would be high and drunk and say the complete opposite, threatening to kill them or something like that. This is reported in Anabel Hernandez’s book.

It should be mentioned that while ‘El Mochomo’ was being arrested, Iván Archivaldo, son of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, was released after spending more than three years in prison.

That was one of the reasons why he thought his cousin would have turned in his younger brother, who was four years older than ‘Vicentillo’.

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