The Guatemalan Cristhian Estuardo Vaides Fion He was captured in Antioquia, Colombia, on April 4, for allegedly having trafficked drugs to the United States between 2018 and 2020. According to the Guatecompras portal, during the last 13 years Vaids Fion received 80 contracts by the State for an amount of Q217 million.
The director of the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Interpol of the Colombian Police, Hebert Noé Mejía Castro, indicated that during an operation Vaides Fion was captured, aka El Tuerto, indicated to send large cargoes of cocaine from the jungles of Colombia to Guatemala and other countries of Central America, with the aim of introducing it later in the United States.
But the possible drug transfer was not his only business. The Guatecompras portal details that, through the construction company HV, based in the 2nd Avenue, Zone 2 of San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz, received 80 contracts from December 20, 2012 to February 1, 2025.
From 2012 to 2014, the mayor of Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Leonel Arturo Chacón Barrios, of the Guatemalan Republican Front Party (FRG), awarded six contracts, for which he received Q250 thousand 310, for the purchase of construction materials and the lease of machinery.
Between 2015 and 2016 he received no contract, and it was on December 22, 2017 when he began working with the Municipality of Tactic, Alta Verapaz, led by Edin Guerrero, elected by the Renewed Democratic Freedom Party (leader).
From 2017 to 2019, the commune favored with three contracts to the Vaides Fion company, paying Q42 thousand 775 for work carried out following a landslide and for the lease of an excavator.
Contracts with the government of Alejandro Giammattei
Vaides Fion, aka El Tuerto, had contracts with institutions of the government of Alejandro Giammattei, from September 2020 to June 2022.
That year eight contracts were awarded for Q3.79 million to the Vaides Fion company by the Ministry of Social Development (MIDES), directed by Raúl Romero.
Four of the awards in charge of Mides were recorded on September 1, 2020, for the renovation of four health centers in Camotán, Chiquimula.
From October 28 to November 10, the portfolio hired the Vaides Fion company for the construction of the drinking water system in Concepción Tutuapa, San Marcos; the improvement of a street in Panajachel, Sololá; the cobblestone of a street in Pujujil, Sololá; and the construction of a vehicular bridge in Santa Catalina la Ink, Alta Verapaz.
In 2021, he received 34 contracts for Q79.26 million. The most large were four: two of the Ministry of Communications (CIV) and two of Mides.
For the improvement of the San Rafael Las Flores road to San Antonio Las Flores, Chinautla, the CIV paid Q28.37 million, and others Q5.33 million for the improvement of the Lanquín Health Center, Alta Verapaz.
Mides awarded two contracts for Q24 million for the extension and improvement of roads in Tucurú and Chahal, in that same department.
In 2021, the company increased its operations and began working with the municipalities of Jutiapa and Villa Nueva.
The following year he obtained awards with the communes of Cahabón and San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz, for Q4.9 million, and with the Ministry of Culture for Q25.7 million.
The portfolio, directed by Felipe Aguilar, granted the project for the construction of the sports facilities of the Bicentennial Park of Cobán, Alta Verapaz, to the Vaides Fion company.
The most profitable year
In 2023, it was the year in which more money would receive the construction company HV: Q93.77 million for 12 contracts awarded by the municipalities of Cobán, San Pedro Carchá and Cahabón, in Alta Verapaz, and San Pablo Jocopilas, Suchitepéquez.
In 2024, Vaides Fion received three contracts for Q9.65 million, by the communes of Chisec and San Juan Chamelco, Alta Verapaz.
This year, the Municipality of Cahabón, Alta Verapaz, has awarded three contracts for Q268 thousand 900; The last one was on February 17.
Capture of Cristhian Estuardo Vaides Fion in Colombia
The Criminal Investigation Directorate (Dijín) of the National Police of Colombia and the Interpol said that Vaides Fion is required by the USA., A country that indicates it to traffic more than five tons of cocaine per month towards its territory.
The official report details that the Teres coordinated the transport of large cocaine shells, which were packaged in Colombian jungles by clandestine laboratories, and then being introduced in Panama.
He adds that, from Panama, the drug was transferred to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico, until reaching the United States. Confirmed El Tuerto had active a red alert from Interpol.
He indicated that the capture was possible thanks to the joint work of the Attorney General’s Office and the United States Anti -Drug Agency, since it was one of the most sought after by that country, where it is required by the Court of the Eastern District of Texas for drug trafficking charges.
Vaides are indicated as an illegal association for the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, and of manufacturing and distribution of this drug with the purpose of introducing it in the US.
The authorities reported that the one -eyed man sent drugs by means of fast boats, submersibles, fishing boats and freighters.
Likewise, it coordinated the sale of cocaine to other drug traffickers, at an estimated price of US $ 14 thousand per kilo, and it is believed that it is part of a drug trafficking structure since 2025.
The Chief of the Police of Colombia reported that the Guatemalan was made available to the Attorney General’s Office, and is waiting for his extradition to the United States.
I was on vacation
The official reports point out that Cristhian Estuardo Void Fion was arrested at the airport when he tried to board a flight to Panama. It was established that the one -eyed man had arrived on vacation and that he had spent time with family and friends.
@Dijinpolicia in coordination with @Fiscaliacol and international cooperation of @Deahq managed to retain by red notification of @Interpol_HQ a Guatemalan citizen known as “El Tuerto” required by the east court of #USA for the crime of drug trafficking. pic.twitter.com/fg8xjyo4yp
– Criminal Investigation Directorate and Interpol (@dijinpolicia) April 4, 2025