East of Tijuana, within the designated Otay Industrial Zone.
The barbecue team sent by Nan Yi to protect Han Zhenhe suddenly felt as if they were facing a great enemy. After sending Han Zhenhe into the car, they loaded their rifles, hid behind the cars, and stared vigilantly at the two pickup trucks coming towards them.
Sniper Sheep observed the approaching pickup trucks through the scope of the M25 sniper rifle (Super Match M1A), "130 meters, I can definitely take down the first one."
Captain Hannibal saw the PKMB machine gun on the pickup truck through the telescope and frowned, "Stay alert, the safety of the VIP is the priority."
“Copy.”
"Roger."
As the barbecue team watched, two pickup trucks stopped 50 meters away. A man got out of the first truck, adjusted the Mexican straw hat on his head with his hand, and walked straight towards them.
The man walked to a position 5 meters away from the car and stopped, shouting to Hannibal and the others, "Come out and talk to someone."
"I'll go out and continue to be on guard."
Hannibal said, placing his assault rifle on the roof of the car and walking from behind the car to face the man.
The man took off his hat and said, "My name is Aztec. We in the Tijuana group don't like you being here. We'll give you one day to leave Tijuana."
After saying this, Aztec put his hat back on his head and turned to walk towards the pickup truck.
…
An hour later, Han Zhenhe and his party returned to the seaside apartment. Han Zhenhe and Hannibal came to Nan Yi's room, and Hannibal reported everything to Nan Yi.
After listening to the report, Nan Yi turned on his computer and pulled up a photo that looked slightly similar to Che Guevara. "Is it him?"
"right."
"Enedina's men, no wonder they used the tactic of first treating with courtesy and then using force."
While Arctic Fox was collecting information for the DEA, he also kept copies for himself. There was information about the Tijuana Cartel on Nan Yi's computer.
The reason why drug trafficking gangs like the Tijuana Cartel are not called gangs or factions is because their operating model is no different from that of a business, except that the products they sell are more special.
The relationship between the heads of the group is that of large and small shareholders, rather than a clear distinction between superiors and subordinates like in a triad. Although the Tijuana Group was established by the Arellano Felix brothers, strictly speaking, the Tijuana Group does not belong to the Arellano Felix family, and its growth process is also a process of continuously absorbing shareholders.
The Arellano Felix family consists of seven brothers and four sisters. The two who founded the Tijuana Group were Benjamin Arellano Felix and Ramon Arellano Felix. Later, the two absorbed their sister Enedina. The three of them formed the core of the Tijuana Group and are also the three largest shareholders of the group.
The former boss of the Tijuana Cartel who had previously occupied Tijuana was "Galardo", whose full name was "Galardo Arellano Felix". According to domestic sayings, Gallardo was the cousin of several brothers and sisters of the Arellano Felix family within the fifth degree of mourning.
It has been mentioned before that the Tijuana Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel split from the Guadalajara Cartel, and the leader of this group is called "Felix". Coincidentally, it is another Felix, and another relative within the fifth degree of mourning, but this one is more distantly related. In the great-grandfather's generation, he and the other two "Felix" were brothers.
Let's take a look at the relationship between the three parties - Felix is ​​the major shareholder of the Guadalajara Group; Gallardo is a minority shareholder, and his previous power played the role of the Tijuana Group; the Arellano Felix brothers were only minor players during the Guadalajara Group era.
After the Guadalajara Cartel split, Felix and Gallardo went to jail, and the Arellano Felix brothers took the opportunity to replace Gallardo and established the Tijuana Cartel. The "Gallardo nephews" killed by Guzman actually had nothing to do with the Arellano Felix family.
However, the ambush against Guzman at the Mexicali airport yesterday was linked to the Tijuana cartel, which was also involved.
Benjamin is the one who shows up the most in the Tijuana Cartel. He is the one who does all the things on the stage. Ramon is in charge of planting and is usually busy in the plantation. As for Enedina, who is very low-key, if you are not familiar with the Tijuana Cartel, it is impossible to know what her relationship is with the Tijuana Cartel.
Enedina went to college and studied accounting. On the surface, she worked in a formal accounting firm opened by the Arellano Felix family. Secretly, she was responsible for the Tijuana Cartel's money laundering and border drug transportation, that is, importing drugs into the United States.
Previously, her work focused on money laundering. The Tijuana Cartel did not transport much drugs through its own channels. Most of the drugs were handed over to Sandra Avila Beltran for transportation.
If we divide it precisely by individuals, there are three people in Mexico who have the ability to transport large quantities of drugs to the United States - Guzman, Sandra, and Enedina. The first two are shareholders of the Sinaloa Cartel.
From an outsider's perspective, the boss of the Reclamation Group is Ge Cuizhu, few people know about the hidden shareholder Nan, and Shennong Nanliang has its own large business in the agricultural field.
The analysis of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Colonization Cartel is very similar. Outsiders regard Guzman as the boss of Sinaloa and a big drug lord, but few people know about the hidden shareholder Sandra.
Sandra calls herself the Queen of the Pacific, and people in the industry call her the Money Laundering Queen. Born into a family of drug traffickers, her family hoped that she would not be involved with drugs. Her original personal ideal was to be a journalist, so during college, she studied journalism and media communication at the University of Guadalajara.
But during the three years of studying at university, Sandra not only learned the laws of information dissemination, but also learned the operation of modern logistics systems.
During her junior year, she used her family connections to visit many prominent figures in Latin America as a trainee reporter, including several well-known drug lords.
After graduating from university, Sandra, whose knowledge and ambition far exceeded those of her peers, used her knowledge of the operation of modern logistics systems to start planning for her family's drug smuggling business, with considerable success.
On the other hand, she used her beauty to attract men and pave the way for her future career.
Sandra clearly wanted to be a journalist, but she ended up going back to her family's old ways, which was related to her lifestyle in Little Sheep.
Sandra was spoiled since childhood and was extravagant with money. When she attended high-society parties in Mexico in her teens, she often carried a suitcase filled with hundred-dollar bills, and sometimes even millions of dollars.
Sandra had two husbands and many lovers, but none of them ended well, most of them were assassinated. Her first husband was Jose, the commander of the judicial police in Sinaloa, Mexico, who doted on her and liked to call her "my queen".
Sinaloa is one of the most rampant drug smuggling areas in Mexico. Most of the government officials, big and small, here are in collusion with drug traffickers. The same is true for Sandra's first husband, Jose, who often helps local drug cartels in drug smuggling trade and makes huge wealth from it.
The first marriage ended with the death of Jose in an attack. Sandra was sad for a while, but soon she got a second husband, Rodolfo, the director of the Mexican federal government's drug enforcement agency. Although he was engaged in drug enforcement work, he was also involved in the drug business. He was later shot dead in a hotel by drug dealers due to uneven distribution of the spoils.
The reason why the two executive husbands colluded with drug dealers was certainly because they could not resist the temptation of money, but Sandra was also involved.
After marriage, Sandra often traveled to the United States and European cities such as Paris, buying a large number of expensive clothes, jewelry and other luxury goods. If they relied solely on salary income, it would be difficult for both husbands to satisfy their wives' demands for a luxurious life.
Although her husband's death was a tragedy, Sandra gained considerable wealth through her two marriages.
More importantly, under the protection of her two husbands who were high-ranking government officials, Sandra's status in the underground drug world in Mexico rose sharply. She established a very efficient drug logistics system and a maritime drug transport fleet of her own, with as many as 12 ships.
In the late 1980s, Sandra's family was plotted against by competitors and almost all of them died. However, Sandra, who was relatively independent and secretive, was not in trouble. After avenging her family, she focused her energy on expanding her drug empire.
In 1990, Sandra hooked up with Juan, the second-in-command of the Norte de Chile drug cartel in Colombia, nicknamed "Jaguar". With the help of this lover, her drug smuggling trade reached a new level.
Through her lover Juan, Sandra met Diego Montoya, the leader of the Norte de Sevilla drug cartel, and reached a cooperative relationship.
Since then, Sandra has gradually become the link between the Norte de Sinaloa Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel in Colombia. Most of the drugs, money, logistical support and other materials traveling between the two countries pass through her hands.
Not long after, Sandra opened up a large-scale drug trafficking channel from the Pacific coast of Mexico to the US border, which also meant that she had mastered the waterway for Colombian drug lords to transport drugs between Mexico and the United States. Drugs from South America were continuously smuggled into the United States through her drug transport fleet.
Relying on low-key underground operations and an efficient logistics system, Sandra expanded her drug empire to the Pacific Rim. In addition to drug smuggling, Sandra and her lover Juan also built the largest underground money laundering network in Mexico, helping many bigwigs in South America solve the problem of unknown wealth and launder the black money they earned through drug trafficking, corruption and bribery.
Because of this, she was given the title of "Money Laundering Queen" in the industry.
To put it in a more positive way, Sandra was engaged in finance, intermediary and logistics and transportation businesses, and when Guzman was still a henchman, he was also engaged in logistics and transportation businesses. The former was the chairman of the board, and the latter was a professional manager.
When Guzman and others set up the Sinaloa Cartel, he was suffering from a lack of business channels and happened to meet Sandra, who needed to introduce Colombia's transportation business. The two parties hit it off and the business deal was successfully concluded.
In return, Sandra became a shareholder of Sinaloa and was able to share in the group's profits.
The Sinaloa Cartel is like a courier company. Its main business is to deliver customers' packages to designated locations. In the beginning, it charged a fixed courier fee. After becoming familiar with the business, it added a "cash on delivery" service to collect payment for customers. What it collects is black money, and what it gives out is also black money.
By the time Sandra's underground money laundering network was formed, Sinaloa's services began to upgrade and money could be turned from black to white.
At this point, Guzman was a little panicked. "Damn it, it seems that Sinaloa has nothing to do with him. It's all Sandra who's running the business. No, I need to expand the business and consolidate my position as the major shareholder."
While Guzman contacted Mexico's drug planting forces and brought them to the Sinaloa Cartel to become the cartel's "production factories", he also actively contacted major distributors in the United States and lobbied them to sign an exclusive strategic cooperation agreement with Sinaloa.
The two parties are back-to-back, and have transformed from simple buyers and sellers into partners. Sinaloa is responsible for stable supply, and is also obligated to crack down on other "express delivery companies" and assist large distributors in forming a monopoly in the United States. The two parties share the final profits.
After taking control of the terminal market, Guzman's position became stable. Whether it was production, transportation or money laundering, they were all closely related to the final sales. If the products could not be sold, the other links would have no food to eat.
Having secured his position as the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, Guzman, in line with the principle of not putting all his eggs in one basket and the idea of ​​weakening Sandra's influence, began to expand his own transportation channels, namely the tunnels on the border.
Sandra saw all of Guzman's actions but looked down on them. She never thought of replacing Guzman. She just wanted to make money in a low-key manner and then spend it happily. Although she was a shareholder of the Sinaloa Cartel, she also had cooperation with the Tijuana Cartel.
Sandra has the ability to transport and launder money, and Enedina also has the ability to transport and launder money. Sandra will undertake the transportation business of the Tijuana Group, but when the transportation business is booming or the channel is blocked, she will subcontract part of the transportation business to the Tijuana Group. At the same time, Sandra and Enedina also cooperate in the money laundering business.
Each side has its own way, one has its own way of cats and the other has its own way of rats. The relationship between supply and demand is constantly changing, and they are constantly borrowing paths from each other.
It sounds mysterious, but it is actually easy to understand. After all, it is an illegal business, and both the Customs and the Narcotics Enforcement Administration will definitely make some gains from time to time. For Sandra and Enedina, there are always a few unhappy things a year, and it is unlikely that such unpleasant things will happen to both of them at the same time, so the two sides have a basis for mutual cooperation.
Sandra's channels were not smooth, so she transferred some of her business to Enedina, and vice versa. Because of this relationship between the two parties, when the Tijuana Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel passed the knife to each other, Sandra would not be affected, and Enedina also remained relatively independent in the struggle between the two parties.
It has to be said that the struggles between Mexican drug dealers are relatively mild nowadays. When they can be negotiated, they will usually be resolved through negotiation. If they fail to reach an agreement and have to engage in a violent fight, the struggle will not be expanded. Most of the people who die are the lower-level minions. When the real top leaders fail, only their "innocent" children will be implicated, and the brothers and sisters who are not involved in the game will generally be safe.
Of course, if you have the desire for revenge and take action, that is another matter.
Sandra and Enedina are the moderates among the Mexican drug lords, and can be said to be the brain-eating faction. They are not good at fighting and killing, nor do they bother to do so. If we ignore the fact that drug trafficking and money laundering are illegal activities, they are actually businessmen, and their way of doing things is almost the same as running a business.
For Nan Yi, the moderates are easier to deal with, and he can sit down and have a good talk with them.
"Zhen He, go to Mexicali and keep an eye on the business there first. Put aside the land acquisition in the Otay Industrial Zone for now. Let's wait and see how hard the Mexican government cracks down on Guzman before considering what to do next."
Although he said he was waiting and watching, Nan Yi actually knew very well that the Mexican government's crackdown on Guzman would not be too strong. Guzman would definitely be arrested, and if he was not arrested, he would not be able to explain to all parties.
But the Sinaloa Cartel will never fall because of this. There are many shareholders holding hidden shares behind it, including congressmen, mayors, police, etc. They will not sit idly by and watch the Sinaloa Cartel fall. They will involuntarily protect Guzman, either actively or passively. Guzman can still give remote commands in prison, just like Pablo back then.
This is the first reason. Secondly, Nan Yi also knows that the terminal sales price of drugs in several states in the United States has recently increased. The reason for the price increase is insufficient supply, which is not good news for Washington.
Looking at Mexican drug dealers from the perspective of the United States, the feelings are complicated. There are more than 20 million drug addicts (of various drugs) in the United States, including at least several million heavy drug addicts. Once the supply of drugs is completely cut off, it will cause very serious consequences.
When drug addicts are addicted, they will do anything to get drugs. If millions of gunpowder barrels and more than 10 million straw stacks explode, it will be fun, but the national strength will definitely be damaged and the country’s destruction is not impossible.
The U.S. political system, the racial composition of Americans, and their freedom-seeking personality traits have all determined that Washington can only deal with the drug problem in a slow and steady manner, step by step, rather than taking a drastic approach by locking everyone up and forcing them to quit drugs.
Therefore, when it comes to cracking down on Mexican drug dealers, the United States has always been hesitant. It has to fight to prevent the drug dealers from becoming too powerful and importing too many drugs into the United States, thereby controlling the number of drug users; it also has to control the intensity and not wipe out all the drug dealers. Without a continuous influx of drugs, the powder keg will explode.
"Yes, I will leave early tomorrow morning." Han Zhenhe said.
Nan Yi waved his hand, "No, come with me in an hour. I also need to leave here temporarily and go pack my things."
"clear."
As soon as Han Zhenhe left, Nan Yi asked the school beauty to call back Sayuri Hagiwara, and he called Edith Gonzalez and told her to go directly to San Diego after finishing her work and not to return to the seaside apartment.
The United States is cautious about dealing with Mexican drug dealers, which means Nan Yi cannot deal with the Tijuana Cartel with impunity. He will try his best to acquire the land in the Otay Industrial Zone in a peaceful way, even if it means giving Enedina a considerable amount of clean money.
Non-peaceful means are too complicated to operate. The Tijuana Cartel has a foothold in Tijuana, which is only one step away from San Diego. If the DEA was determined to wipe it out, the Tijuana Cartel would not have survived until now.
What the DEA wants to destroy are the drug trafficking gangs that don't know how to restrain themselves and keep expanding, such as the Medellin Gang before. They have such a big momentum and scale, and Pablo still wants to stand up and run for the presidency of Colombia without knowing the consequences. This is simply a slap in the face of Washington. If they don't deal with him, who else can they deal with?
Another example is the current Sinaloa Cartel. Guzman has made too much noise, and the cartel is showing signs of being out of control. It needs to be dealt with when necessary.
The Tijuana Cartel is different. Its size is within a controllable range and its actions are relatively mild. For the DEA, allowing a familiar cartel to continue to occupy Tijuana is much more comfortable than getting to know an unknown new opponent again.
If Nan Yi wants to deal with the Tijuana Cartel in a non-peaceful way, it must first communicate with the US Drug Enforcement Administration and the two sides must reach a tacit understanding before it can take action. This "tacit understanding" cannot be obtained with just words. Even if you don't have to pay real money, you still have to pay "face".
Face is given to each other. If someone gives you face today, you must also give it when someone asks you for face tomorrow. Who knows in what field or territory this face will fall, and whether it will make Nan Yi very embarrassed.
Moreover, this matter may not be able to be resolved at the DEA level. It may need to be communicated with higher levels, and then everything will become more complicated, and the cost will be greater.
Therefore, Nan Yi loves peace.
…
When Nan Yi packed his things, Sayuri Hagiwara, wearing a swimsuit, came back to the room from downstairs.
Sayuri Hagiwara walked up to Nan Yi and asked, "Nagao-kun, are we leaving?"
"Yes, we encountered an emergency. It's not safe for us to stay here any longer." Nan Yi patted Sayuri Hagiwara's soft hands. "Go take a shower. We'll leave for San Diego in a while."
"OK."
Sayuri Hagiwara nodded obediently without asking what the emergency was.
In fact, it is unlikely that Nan Yi and his group will encounter danger if they continue to stay in the seaside apartment. After all, there have been very rigorous arrangements before. However, once gunshots are heard and the other party leaves a few lives, there will be the problem of aftermath, which requires manpower and material resources. Instead of staying here, it is better to leave temporarily.
Two hours later, Nan Yi and his party checked into the Coronado Hotel in San Diego.
As soon as the luggage was put away and the computer was turned on, Nan Yi called Beefburger to him and said, "Beefburger, study Enedina's information, then visit her on my behalf and buy her small farm for $10 million."
"What if the other party doesn't agree?" asked Beef Burger.
"Come back first. It's your first time here and you need to be polite." Nan Yi stood up and gave his seat to Beef Burger.