Colombian Alex Cifuentes, prosecution witness in the trial against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera in New York, has confirmed that his one-time boss ordered the murder of at least two people, although neither was actually killed. Cifuentes also explained how they set up routes to take drugs to Mexico from Venezuela, saying that El Chapo used a landing strip in the Dominican Republic as a brief stopover to Mexico from Venezuela. He said that the two contacts in the Dominican Republic were a man called Antonio and another identified as La Serie, who sold drugs for Chapo in New York. The men would discuss how much drugs they could sell a week and the price per kilo of heroin and cocaine.
Cifuentes explained that Guzmán Loera began to traffic heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine to Canada in 2008, but not fulltime, only every 8 or 15 days. That still allowed him to accumulate dozens of millions of dollars.
He went on to say that among those Chapo wanted to kill was his communications engineer, Christian Rodríguez, who he discovered was working for the United States government.
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16 January 2019
