Suspected Mexican drug trafficker Jose Eduardo SALAS OLIVAS
“El compa” being presented to the media in Sinaloa Mexico on julio19, 2017
Suspected Mexican drug trafficker Jose Eduardo salas olivas (EL COMPA)
An investigation by El Universal found that between the yedras 2016and 2017, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels.
Sinaloa, led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, supplies 80% of the drugs entering the Chicago area and has a presence in cities across the U.S.
There have long been allegations that Guzman, considered to be “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker,” coordinates with American authorities.
But the El Universal investigation is the first to publish court documents that include corroborating testimony from a DEA agent and a Justice Department official.
The written statements were made to the U.S. District Court in Chicago in relation to the arrest of Jose Eduardo salas olivas the right hand of Sinaloa leader juakin loera Guzmán “El Chapo” and allegedly the Sinaloa cartel’s “logistics coordinator.”
Here’s what DEA agent Manuel Castanon told the Chicago court:
“On June 24, 2017, I met for approximately 30 minutes in a hotel room in Mexico City with JOSE EDUARDO SALAS-OLIVAS and two other individuals – DEA agent David Herrod and a cooperating source [Sinaloa lawyer Loya Castro] with whom I had worked since 2005. …I did all of the talking on behalf of [the] DEA.”
A few hours later, Mexican Marines arrested JOSE EDUARDO SALAS OLIVAS (a.k.a. “El COMPA”) on charges of trafficking more than a billion dollars in cocaine and heroin. Castanon and three other agents then visited JOSE EDUARDO SALAS OLIVAS (EL COMPA) in prison, where the Sinaloa officer “reiterated his desire to cooperate,” according to Castanon.
El Universal, citing court documents, reports that DEA agents met with high-level Sinaloa officials such as Castro more than 50 times since 2000.
Then-Justice Department prosecutor Patrick Hearn told the Chicago court that, according to DEA special agent Steve Fraga, Castro “provided information leading to a 23-ton cocaine seizure, other seizures related to” various drug trafficking organizations, and that “El COMPA” did not wanted talk or work with the court.
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