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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “way too racist,” and will apparently go hard against minorities if elected, representing a threat to migrants and other vulnerable ethnicities and groups, so the question is, “who wouldn't want to see him dead?” Julio “El Tio” Martinez told teleSUR Thursday.
Martinez, who didn’t want his real identity exposed, is the right hand man to Aquiles, a “security operative and a logistic specialist” for the world’s most notorious drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
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“Yes, we saw the story in various news outlets about the bounty that El Chapo supposedly put on Trump, and let me tell you that the whole thing has made us laugh, but it has been exaggerated,” Martinez said.
He explained that when Trump made racist comments demeaning Mexico and its people, El Chapo was still in jail. Trump first made his comments in mid-June and El Chapo escaped July 11 for the second time from a maximum security jail, through a one-mile tunnel.
“So yes, El Chapo told us they were very pissed off at Trump's comments and him and other inmates commented that he should be shot in the head for being such an asshole and so stupid, and of course, jokingly it was mentioned that they would pay millions to have him killed or even kidnapped to have a personal chat with him over his racist remarks,” Martinez said.
However, the source added that nobody would pay such a huge sum, US$100 million for such a “worthless person,” referring to Trump.
Martinez said El Chapo has the US$100 million and “much, much more. Just imagine the tunnels he has on the border into the United States with rail tracks and everything. Just imagine how many tons of drugs can be smuggle through these tunnels on a daily basis. I leave that to you to imagine. The profits are huge.”
When asked if the Sinaloa cartel was concerned with Trump arriving to power, Martinez said, “We really don't believe he'll win the elections, because we (Latinos) now have a strong voice in the United States and their vote counts, and we've commented here that we would like to see Bernie Sanders win.”
The cartel associate said that in general any person involved in drug trafficking, “if they are smart, and if they know what they are doing, they would not announce any killing nor commit such a grave crime that would only bring them many problems with the law.”
El Tio said there are agreements in place with the Mexican government, and even foreign officials, “who allow us to do our work within certain guidelines that I am not allowed to talk about.”
Regarding the massive manhunt, the Sinaloan Governor Mario Lopez announced Wednesday, Martinez said it's all a show and a way to justify the serious human rights abuses by the military being committed in the mountainous region of Durango, from where at least 260 people have been displaced in the last few days.
“They say they are looking for him (El Chapo) in Tamazula, and sure these are regions that are controlled by him and his family and associates, but he has actually not been there recently,” the drug cartel member said. “As I've told you before, El Chapo is well and safe here in Sinaloa.”
Martinez said El Chapo is “untouchable” in the northern state and enjoys particularly good protection in the mountainous region between Jesus Maria and Badiraguato, the area where he was born.
“As you've heard, the Mexican marines have raided various communities in Tamazula near Sinaloa shooting at homes and at people with no reason. But this is what they do, they are abusive and when they are caught committing atrocities, they fabricate stories. No reason for El Chapo to go anywhere else for now other than his home region,” El Tio said.
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When asked about the ties with President Enrique Peña Nieto, El Tio was slightly more cautious for some reason: “Now were touching issues that are very delicate, because we don't really want to destroy a good thing, and anyway, when things are so obvious, why even talk about them.”
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— Mark Potter (@MarkPotterNBC)
October 14, 2015
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