Extradited Cartel Boss had Quite a few Contracts with Mexican Border State Governor

A just lately extradited cartel boss from Mexico, who’s going through quite a few federal drug trafficking costs in Virginia, was a well-liked authorities contractor within the Mexican border state of Tamaulipas. The state is managed by the controversial governor from the MORENA social gathering, Americo Villarreal.

This week, as Breitbart Texas reported, Mexico’s federal authorities extradited 26 top-level cartel bosses to america as a method to appease the Trump administration. The U.S. authorities has been accusing Mexico of not doing sufficient to struggle drug cartels. The 26 extradicted cartel bosses included key figures throughout the Sinaloa Cartel, Cartel Jalisco New Era, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas, and others.

A kind of cartel bosses is Jose Francisco “El Yiyo” Mendoza Gomez, who is needed out of the jap district of Virginia on numerous drug costs. In keeping with the felony indictment, Mendoza Gomez labored with Marcela “La Dama de Hierro” Florez Torruco in transferring large-scale portions of cocaine from Colombia and Panama into Virginia. That smuggling group had sturdy ties with the Sinaloa Cartel.

New data, first uncovered by Mexican journalist Shalma Castillo, revealed that Mendoza Gomez acquired a number of large-scale authorities contracts from Tamaulipas Governor Americo Villarreal. In keeping with the report, Mendoza Gomez ran two corporations referred to as JF Konstruyendo and Megamax. Via these two corporations, Mendoza Gomez secured roughly $4 million in contracts from the Tamaulipas authorities for development and different providers offered.

As Breitbart Texas reported, Villarreal is similar politician who had members of the Gulf Cartel help his marketing campaign and even maintain political rallies for him. The governor can be linked to cartel-connected gas theft magnates who pumped thousands and thousands into his political campaigns.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Information Basis. He co-founded Breitbart Information Basis’s Cartel Chronicles mission with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart administration. You’ll be able to comply with him on Twitter and on Fb. He may be contacted at [email protected].