Statements From ‘El Vicentillo’ To The US May Have Cost ‘El Macho’ Prieto His Life.

Mica for cartelinsider.com

Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, better known as ‘El Macho Prieto’, was one of the most influential operators of the Sinaloa Cartel, who started out as a hitman and later became a manager of the organization in the state of Sonora, where he spent the last years of his life.

“El Macho Prieto,” who had been a loyal man to “El Mayo” Zambada for a long time, fell out of favor after he killed Paulo Osorio, a man who was very close to Manuel Torres Félix, “El Ondeado,” who was his boss’s father-in-law. This led to an immediate distancing between them.

Serafin Zambada, son of ‘El Señor del sombrero’ (The Man with the Hat), was married to Karime Ellameli Torres. That is why killing someone close to his family was what the dangerous former hitman of the Sinaloa Cartel couldn’t forgive.

According to ‘Rey’, ‘Macho Prieto’, born in Culiacan in 1971, became the manager of the Cartel in Sonora during the war against El Golfo and Los Zetas, and against Arturo Beltran Leyva. He was a loyal man to ‘El Mayo’ but they started to distance themselves in December of 2010 when Inzunza killed Paulo Osorio, a man very close to another drug trafficker named José Manuel Torres Félix, ‘El Ondeado’, who was a son-in-law of ‘El Mayo’. His daughter was married to Sarafin, the son that ‘El Mayo’ had with Lety. In 2012, when ‘Vicentillo’ revealed his name and password to the United States Government, he had already fallen out of favor with ‘El Mayo’. This is narrated by journalist Anabel Hernandez in her book ‘The Betrayer’.

Fernando Gaxiola, lawyer for ‘El Vicentillo,’ stated that thanks to his client’s statements to the authorities in the United States, the existence of Inzunza was brought to an end in 2013, after they conducted an operation that ended in a shootout.

“Gaxiola stated that thanks to the cooperation of ‘Vicentillo’, in 2013, US and Mexican authorities carried out an operation to capture him in Puerto Peñasco. The Americans crossed the border in a swift operation, ‘supposedly with the Mexican forces already coordinated, when a shootout started,’ explained Gaxiola. The journalist stated in her work that Inzunza died in the confrontation.”

On December 18, 2013, in the city of Puerto Peñasco, Sonora, in a confrontation, the death of ‘El Macho Prieto’ was reported, however, his body was never found. This led to theories that he might still be alive, but over 10 years after this event, nothing is known about his current activities.

Experts in the field claim that practices of stealing bodies are very common among criminal organizations, in order to avoid drawing attention and causing further conflicts with authorities.

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