This Is How ‘The Federation’ Would Have Been Formed In A House Belonging To ‘El Vicentillo’ In Durango.

Mica for cartelinsider.com

Vicente Zambada Niebla, better known as ‘El Vicentillo’, through his diary written in a Chicago prison and delivered to journalist Anabel Hernández, remembered those meetings held at his home in Gómez Palacio, Durango, where the most important bosses of different criminal groups would gather.

Zambada Niebla remembers that his father asked him to pick up his partner Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán in a helicopter, who was hiding in the mountains, from where he was taken to the Durango region.

“One day my father called me and told me, ‘if it was possible to go pick up my friend ‘Chapo’ by helicopter from the mountains, and take him to a meeting in Gómez Palacio, Durango.’ He picked up my friend in a helicopter owned by my dad and we flew to the city of Gómez Palacio. We arrived in Gómez Palacio, Durango, my friend ‘Chapo’ and I, and went to my house, which was my property.” This is written in Anabel Hernández’s book, ‘The Traitor’.

At the event, Arturo Beltrán Leyva and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes were present, and for the first time, they met with Joaquín Archivaldo, even offering to help him due to his financial crisis after escaping from prison where he had been for more than 8 years.

In Vicentillo’s house, the group known as ‘La Federación’ was being formed, which would only last three years, as it began to disintegrate in 2004 after the separation of the Carrillo Fuentes, resulting from the assassination of ‘El Niño de Oro’.

“My father arrived at my house, my father and my ‘Chapo’ compadre greeted each other and found out that Arturo Beltrán Leyva was going to arrive in Gómez Palacio that evening or the next day, and my father told my compadre ‘Chapo’ that my namesake Vicente Carrillo Fuentes was already in Gómez Palacio. My house was frequently used as a meeting point for them. They talked about their businesses, their partnership between my father, my compadre ‘Chapo’, Arturo and Vicente at that time, and from what I understood, that was the first time my compadre ‘Chapo’ greeted my namesake Vicente since he had escaped from prison. They went to meet my namesake Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, but I was not present at that meeting, so it was my father, my compadre ‘Chapo’ and Arturo Beltrán Leyva who met with my namesake Vicente. After the meeting, they returned to my house.” This is written in the book ‘El Traidor’ by Anabel Hernández.

At the end of the meeting, everyone went to look for a house to take refuge in because they were not supposed to sleep together in the same home. Only Arturo Beltrán Leyva, decided to stay with the son of ‘El Mayo’ Zambada.

“They sat around the table to eat, talking about how the meeting with Vicente Carrillo, my godfather ‘Chapo’ had been happy to have greeted him after so many years, and my father, Arturo and ‘Chapo’ were talking about business, drug trafficking and the future. My godfather ‘Chapo’ said that Vicente had also offered to help him with anything he needed. When night came, my father went to a place where no one knew where he was, and my father found another place where ‘Chapo’ could stay that night. The only one who stayed in my house was Arturo, he said he didn’t need another house and would stay with me,” ‘El Vicentillo’ reported in his diary.

In addition, the constant visits to the home of ‘El Mayo’ Zambada’s favorite son, the leaders of different criminal organizations had other meetings for the distribution of territories, in cities such as Cuernavaca and the former Federal District.

Héctor Beltrán Leyva, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, Juan José Esparragoza Moreno and Ignacio Coronel Villarreal were some of the personalities who were meeting in different cities around the country.

“At that meeting in Gomez Palacio, the creation of the so-called Federation was being solidified. Afterwards, meetings were held in Mexico City and Cuernavaca to combine individual efforts for the collection, transport, and trafficking of drugs. Gaxiola stated that the distribution of territories took place in Cuernavaca, with ‘El Mayo’ representing Sinaloa. Also present were Hector Beltran Leyva, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno, and Ignacio Coronel Villareal,” stated Anabel Hernandez in her book.

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