Huehuetenango is one of the departments that reports intense activity of drug trafficking groups. In the area operates the fleshyl ALER BALDOMERO SAMAYOA RECINOS, ALIAS “EL CHICHARRA”and Eugenio Darío Molina López, aka “The Boots”.
In that same department, other groups of groups with less armed force power and that transcend minor volumes of drugs by land, as was at the time Mauro López de León, aka Lupillo; Eduardo Villatoro Cano and Baldemar Calderón Carrillo, aka “Uncle Balde”, has been active for more than an active decade, according to the knowledge of the anti -narcotics authorities.
In the dynamics of illicit cocaine trade on the border, groups such as Calderón, allied with Mexican criminal organizations to deal with stronger groups, such as fleeing.
The fleeing would have begun to collect “a tax” to the “Uncle Balde” band for the passage of cargoes in certain areas of Huehuetenango and traffic drugs to Mexico, said a former narcotivity of the Public Ministry (MP).
In the search for support, the “Uncle Balde” group looked for support with Mexican groups and thus the Chiapas-Guatemala poster emerged, says an ex-prosecutor and Guatemalan authorities.
The ex -fiscal analyzes that Mexico has the most relevant role in the illegal drug trafficking business. The producers, in the south, depend on someone who bought their merchandise, and that is where Mexico enters, in the consolidation of cargoes and transfer to the north, he details.
“The organization of Calderón Carrillo decided to ally with the Mexicans to have that support, protection and more power,” he explained.
Wexos of weight
The criminal structure with which the local traffickers joined has links with the Jalisco Nueva Generación poster and their leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka “El Mencho”, to bring drugs to the United States, according to Mexican authorities.
Uncle Balde is linked to at least two illicit facts such as the massacre in Salcajá, Quetzaltenango, in 2013. According to anti -narcotics researchers, “Uncle Balde” had two arrest warrants for the crimes of illicit association and murder, in different events. In addition, American anti -narcotics agencies were looking for him for trafficked drug to that country.
“There were several operations to capture Calderón, but the population supported him and prevented the passage of the National Civil Police (PNC) and the MP on the only access route he took to his home,” he recalled.
The ex -Fiscal explained that, on one occasion, they were close, five minutes from stopping him in Huehuetenango, but managed to flee.
Where does the Chiapas-Guatemala poster operate?
The ex-fiscal commented that the Chiapas-Guatemala poster operates in democracy, Huehuetenango, and part of the mouth; While fleeing have control of the bedside table, Huehuetenango, and the transverse strip of the north.
Regarding the statements that Calderón is a financier of the Chiapas and Guatemala poster, the former prosecutor considers that “it was a leader with local power, but did not have control, operational capacity or the number of people who supported him, as the leaders of the fled’s poster.”
The investigations in follow -up to Calderón’s operations showed that it had the ability to traffic between 75 and 125 cocaine packages to Mexico, by land.
In follow -up to a case related to Guayo Cano, the authorities detected that the structure had bought 20 kilos of cocaine from a Zacapa structure.
However, an accusation that the United States presented in a court in the South District, on May 31, relates one of the children of “Uncle Balde”, Edgar Calderón-Calderón with the transfer of 550 kilos of cocaine to the United States, starting from the bedside table, in democracy, Huehuetenango.
The death of “Uncle Balde” and his son “The Lieutenant”
On Sunday, June 8, there was an armed confrontation between members of the immediate reaction force Pakal (Frip), Chiapas, Mexico, and alleged members of a criminal organization dedicated to drug trafficking. The incident began in Mexican territory, in Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, and ended in the village of the table, democracy, Huehuetenango.
The balance of the confrontation between Chiapas police officers and the alleged criminals were four dejected men; four trucks, three of them armored; three AK-47 rifles; an AR-15 rifle with launchers; two short weapons; 17 loaders and two ballistic vests.
According to Mexican media, among the deceased is Baldemar Calderón Carrillo, aka “Uncle Balde”.
The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas confirmed to the media of that country that Calderón Carrillo and his son, aka “El Lieja”, were killed in the confrontation.
The reports also point out that within the security circle of “Uncle Balde” there were at least 12 former members of the Kaibil Special Forces of Guatemala.
The former -Fiscal explained that drug traffickers recruit members of the Army and the PNC to protect their cargoes.
“They give them money, support them with spare parts for patrols, give them food and organize private parties. All this, for institutional abandonment towards their staff,” he explained.