He consulted with the No. Alejandro Hodoyan Antes, un ''Look, Papa, everything they promised me they have done,'' Alex Hodoyan said of the military. agent as an ''unusual but not inappropriate'' place for the meeting. Still, the drug enforcement agents eagerly accepted the offer as a rare chance to cooperate with the Mexican military and improve their relations with the general. After returning to Mexico, he went to meet his brother at a safehouse used by the Tijuana Cartel. They seemed small-time. Kids admired his long hair, his rococo Chinese dragon bedside lamps, and the respect and fear he inspired. I never saw anything strange about them in the religious meetings, the priest says. Mr. Curiel acknowledged recently at a court hearing in San Diego that the allegations of torture were plausible and serious, but said they should be investigated by the Mexican authorities. He named Emilio on national television. She called, Montano says, and begged the priest to deliver a letter to the pope explaining the Arellano Felixes innocence. Father, Im asking this of you because I trust you, Ruth implored, and, according to the priest, I didnt even think about the fact that she was the wife of a fugitive., Ramon met the priest at a busy Mexico City cafe in December 1993 and they drove to the papal nunciate for Ramons three-hour private audience with the nuncio. agents flew Mr. Hodoyan to the United States. I don't want that.''. As I settled deeper into the city, I The troops had no arrest warrant and filed no report to the police. You have women all over the place. Abductions since last night have been reported in San Fernando, Reynosa "Sol Prendido" for Borderland A man identified as Guillermo Daniel Mndez Madrigal, 25, who allegedly belonged to a cell of the A Blog dedicated to reporting on Mexican drug cartels. Webbrother and fled back to Tijuana. Emilio told her family he wont rest until he finds out what happened, a relative says. A Mexican drug prosecutor who saw the two men together toward the end of Mr. Hodoyan's captivity said they were ''like father and son.''. The embassy official assigned to follow up on the agent's report of a captive American citizen took no action. His brother Alfredo and his friend Mr. Valdez remain in prison in San Diego fighting extradition to Mexico. Alfredo Hodoyan Alfredo (played by Ivn Aragn) was working as a drug runner for the Tijuana cartel, transporting cocaine across the border into the US without In the bare room, the agent introduced himself to Mr. Hodoyan, blindfolded and cuffed to a bed. Deceased Like more than a few well-connected Tijuanans, Ruth was born in San Diego County. Benjamin, the priest adds, said he was a contractor. I am an honest, decent family woman who has spent my life completely dedicated to my husband and children. Cristina Palacios de Hodoyan alguna vez declar que si Alfredo necesitaba un carro, ella se lo compraba y paga su gasolina, y si estuviera en quiebra, ella misma tambin le pagara la cuenta de su tarjeta de crdito, segn informacin de El Universal. ''I was born in San Diego,'' he said. The Arellano Felix brothers might be the life of the disco scene, but some established families did not care to be this intimately associated with them. ''I don't want them using me,'' he said, cursing the Arrelanos. 'I'd rather have them kill me.' It would have been fine with me if they hadnt gotten married at all. ITS UNCLEAR WHETHER ANGELICA BUSTAMANTE AND LINA LITERAS KNEW exactly what they were getting into when they started going to the kind of parties where the bad-boy charms of Emilio Valdez Mainero and Kitty Paez were drawing sultry glances from teenage girls. Ramon was shot to death by Mexican police in February. Angelica belonged to a sheltered, well-chaperoned world of weddings and baptisms. WebAlfredo Hodoyan was extradited to Mexico and is now awaiting trial in Almaloya, Mexico's high security prison outside of Mexico City. No! They saw them involved in an illicit business, yet roaming around free, getting all the French champagne and good-looking girls, and they said, Hey, why cant I be part of this elite? , I knew [Alfredo] was with them, Alejandro said. HECTOR hEochagin has shared the devastating news of the "sudden passing" of his brother Freddie. He was fun.. They keep meeting these people, in a party, at a disco, they buy bottles of champagne, and they become the new members of the narco-society. WebAlex Hodoyan (died 1997) was the younger brother of narcojunior Alfredo Hodoyan. ''They told me I had arrived in hell,'' he said in a statement he dictated to his parents months later. He was Ramon Arellano Felix, the blue-jeaned kid brother of a big family new to Tijuana. A few months after his sons arrest in 1996, Alejandro Hodoyan pointed out that Alfredo wasnt the only one in Tijuana rubbing shoulders with the Arellano Felixes. Mr. Hodoyan, an American citizen who was born in San Diego and lived most of his life just across the border in Tijuana, was abducted and detained illegally for 80 days by Mexican military officers. Trending pages Benjamn Arellano Flix Ramn Arellano Flix Alex Hodoyan Enedina Arellano Flix David Barron Corona Alfredo Hodoyan Arturo Pez Alicia Maria Arellano Flix All items (15) # A B C D E F G Emilio got 30 years. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. On Feb. 10, D.E.A. In May 2001, Arturo Kitty Paez, 34, became the first accused lieutenant of the Tijuana drug cartel to be extradited to the United States for cocaine trafficking. the fat crazy looking guy in military or police outfit in the middle? Lina returned to Tijuana the next day and disappeared. Weber Rodriguezs arrest was the latest twist in the story of Mexicos former drug czar, Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, charged in February with being on the payroll of the late drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes. ''Prior to the murder the witness's brother arrived at the hotel,'' the record of Mr. Hodoyan's testimony reads, referring to the April 1996 killing of a Mexican boxer said to have encroached on the Arellanos' turf. Mermaids hold out conch shells with tiny freshwater pearls. They were elated but deeply worried. Their lawyers have asserted that the statements of Alex Hodoyan and other witnesses provided by Mexico were obtained through torture and are thus invalid. The officers were trying to pit Alex against their youngest son, who was in jail in San Diego fighting extradition to Mexico on a murder charge that could put him in prison for decades. The american agent that interviewed him -just left an american citizen 2 b tortured?? Their lives changed drastically when their oldest son Alex Hodoyan disappeared in the mid-1990's. I think 90% of the kids who went to discos knew them by sight, Alejandro said. Alejandro Hodoyan vanished a second _ and apparently last _ time on March 5 when two men with automatic rifles jumped out of a van in a Tijuana parking lot, tossed him inside, and screeched away. WebAlfredo Hodoyan played by Ivn Aragn (season 3), Alexs older brother and a member of the Narcojuniors. And Tijuana discos are still prowled by charming strangers who seem far too eager to buy drinks for the whole table. Not Alfredo-tall, good-looking, bilingual, U.S.-born; a graduate of the prestigious St. Augustine Academy in San Diego. Actor Lorenzo Ferro also appears in El Angel, Perfidious, and El Marginal. General Gutierrez Rebollo played his prisoner with a maestro's touch, according to the officers who testified in the trials against him. As his legal woes deepened, Emilio complained to a relative that his wife Lina was receiving not a cent from Ramon Arellano. His parents hoped that if Alex was freed, he would testify in the effort to block Alfredo's extradition in San Diego. Cristina, 62, rolls her eyes dismissively at any suggestion that Alfredo was the killer, the Wolf described by prosecutors. In the ensuing police raid, Kitty was killed and Francisco Rafael Arellano Flix was arrested. Hodoyan was kidnapped a second time, in Tijuana last March, and remains missing. Mr. Curiel declined to be interviewed, noting that he is barred from discussing pending cases. You have no rules. Court documents say Ramon was named godfather of their son, Emilio Alfredo, in 1991, though relatives say he didnt show up for the baptism. The agent remained uneasy about what he had seen. Is General Gutierrez Rebollo. Some of these descriptions have to had been written into that "traffic" movie. A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? For half an hour, the agent described the American imprisoned in Guadalajara. U.S. officials say the cartel executed him. Tho "Sol Prendido for Borderland Beat The war begins in Tamaulipas. Police told the family that he appeared to have been tortured in front of her. The 36-year-old Mr. Hodoyan hasn't been seen since and is presumed dead. ''He was wearing a big thick chain with a big gold cross encrusted with emeralds,'' said a Hodoyan relative, who asked not to be identified. Los Narcojuniors era un grupo de jvenes sicarios adinerados, algunos de ellos consumidores de drogas y otros varios no, que el mismo Ramn Arellano encarg formar a El Kitty; sin embargo, el grupo intent hacerse de la plaza en Tijuana para el trfico de drogas ilcitas; hecho que Ramn respondi a su osada. On Sept. 10, 1996, the Arellano gang sent Alex Hodayan to Guadalajara, the central Mexican city that has emerged as a battleground for competing drug gangs. Alex Hodoyan panicked, afraid that General Gutierrez Rebollo would retaliate if he denounced him. Alex I understand, but it stretches things. It's a shame they choose that life style. MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Mexicos former head of anti-drug intelligence has been accused of kidnapping and torturing a member of the Tijuana drug cartel to extract information for a rival gang, news reports said Wednesday. Ramon walked out of the crowded party and shot and killed his sisters boyfriend and two friends parked outside. "HEARST" and "Redlogarythm" for Borderland Beat This week, a pamphlet showing the rules of conduct given to hitmen in "Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat The United Nations warns in a new report that insecurity in the capital has reached levels com "Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat Video translation is as follows: Five days after the shootout in Teocaltiche, Jalisco, images w "HEARST" and " Redlogarythm" f or Borderland Beat Hitmen who work for Cartel del Golfo boss "El Primito" were "Socalj" for Borderland Beat A K9 sniffer dog alerted inspectors to a load of over 11,500 bottles of tequila bound for export. But behind the image on the videotape is a tale of a middle-class family torn apart, with brother turned against brother in a violent drug culture. U.S. prosecutors say he worked for the notorious Arellano Felix brothers: Benjamin, described by law enforcement authorities as the cartels chief executive, and American officials said the Mexican armed forces had provided an airplane to fly the A.T.F. WHATEVER RELATIONSHIP THE ARELLANO FELIXES HAD WITH TIJUANA SOCIety was irreparably damaged on May 24, 1993, when Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo, the archbishop of Guadalajara, was shot to death at the Guadalajara airport-a killing that shocked the deeply Catholic nation. TIJUANA IS THE MEXICAN CITY OF REINVENTION. Fictional? The Mexicans said Alfredo was hiding out near San Diego with Emilio Valdez, the godfather of Alex Hodoyan's daughter, who was wanted in Mexico on another murder charge. He said they had burned the soles of his feet with lighters and had applied electric shocks to his eyelids and toes. It is also based on confidential Mexican court documents as well as tape recordings, obtained by The New York Times, of telephone calls he made to his family in Tijuana last year when he was a military prisoner. His mission, he later said, was to find a new ''safe house,'' a local base for the group's operations. Alfredo Hodoyan era apodado como El Lobo tuvo una estrecha relacin con los hermanos Arellano Flix en Tijuana. WebAdam Geghami Khudoyan (Russian: , February 21, 1921, Yerevan, Armenia - 2000, Yerevan) was an Armenian composer, awarded by the Renowned Activist of the He was a killer idiot., By the time Ramon joined the list of FBIs Most Wanted in 1997, Ruth was in San Diego, immersed in a life of intense suburban normalcy-except for the DEA crew trailing her family. He and Angelica had been divorced for a year, her family says. DOVER, Delaware Of all the places for Ryan Truex to absolutely turn in a career day, the 31-year-old led a dominating 124 of the 200 laps at his hometown Dover (Del.) Mexican military officials announced the arrest of General Gutierrez Rebollo. I still pay for his gas. After a childhood of ballet lessons and society weddings, Lina married the baby-faced son of a courtly Tijuana colonel who had been a presidential guardsman. Mr. Valdez became a top operative in the organization, arranging drug shipments and assassinations, the Mexican and American police have charged in court. After 10 days in San Diego, he suffered what family members described as a psychological breakdown. Emilio Valdez Mainero was a boyhood buddy Mr. Hodoyan chose years later to be the godfather at his first daughter's baptism. Mr. Hamilton refused to identify the consul involved in the case. Its the same now: You go to a party, you meet these guys and you dont even know their names, just pseudonyms. But how had a penniless 19-year-old come up with the money for a liquor license? He was kidnapped while driving with his mother in Tijuana several days later and has never been seen since. ''He spared my life and I want to keep my word to him, too,'' he said later in the conversation. He was fighting Mexicos attempt to extradite him for the murder By February, Mr. Hodoyan had completed his transformation from hostage to informant. But it wouldnt have mattered. I just want to say; I always read the article first then comment. She has always had many admirers. Authorities said terrible things about other neighborhood boys, too. Hodoyans old bosses _ the Arellano Felix brothers _ are believed to control almost all drug trafficking along the California-Mexico border, transporting tons of cocaine and marijuana into the United States. ?no I think it was the protected witness,don't remember his name,real name is Miguel Nunez. an indictment of everyone the whole system. (These people have last-minute commitments and problems, one relative says. I for one, do feel sorry for the parents. Linas father passed away four months later. He felt very brave strutting around with them. Hodoyan Palacios form parte de los ''He didn't tell anybody above, below or alongside,'' a diplomat said later, calling Mr. Randall's performance ''a clear case of nonfeasance.''. History keeps repeating itself, Jaime Literas says. In December, after General Gutierrez Rebollo was promoted to head Mexico's antidrug agency, he offered agents from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration a chance to debrief his informant. He immediately implicated his brother and himself in a number of crimes. An even-tempered man with an amiable face, he started doing small favors for the Arellanos and eventually helped them import rifles and grenades to arm their hit squads. Officially, the Arellano Felixes were on the lam. Now hes trying to sell his story to Hollywood. Why? had been told of Mr. Hodoyan's military detention more than a month earlier by the A.T.F. And the parents of these rebels without a cause found themselves the subject of unwelcome scrutiny. Carrillo was considered Mexicos No. The priest says he repeated the rendezvous with Benjamin in January 1994. The echo-filled room and strangely empty military barracks struck the A.T.F. He is presumed dead. ''No! On the afternoon of Sept. 11, Alex Hodoyan went to an existing Arellano safe house in a working-class neighborhood. Alfredo was with the Arellanos and his gf was raped and killed first, then he. It's And they go around spreading it everywhere. Enedina Arellano Flix had David The elegant breakables in the tall glass cases seem too fragile for the tale that Gonzalez is telling. agent about his torture, ''he would be the last person I would ever cross a word with.''. Girls always want to be with the guy who has all the girls crazy.. A squad of General Gutierrez Rebollo's intelligence troops, wearing black uniforms, was watching the house and seized him. Gustavo Miranda Santacruz fue el siguiente en la lista al ser levantado y posteriormente baleado, suerte que no corri El Lobo. Alfredo Hodoyan era apodado como El Lobo tuvo una estrecha relacin con los hermanos Arellano Flix en Tijuana. The government put him up at a hotel, where he talked with federal agents and prosecutors. With the help of United States prosecutors in San Diego, the Mexican Attorney General marshaled a wealth of testimony by drug associates against Alfredo La facilidad con la que Alfredo Hodoyan cruzaba la frontera con Estados Unidos con total facilidad y sin levantar ninguna sospecha se deba a que contaba con la nacionalidad estadounidense ya que naci en un hospital en suelo de la nacin norteamericana. His mother says a federal police commander pulled Alex out of her car in 1997 and the family hasnt seen him since. Shortly before the generals arrest, American law officers allegedly approached Hodoyan. Two Mexican officers, in plain clothes, drove the agent to the base where Mr. Hodoyan was held and accompanied him into the meeting. he said. In three days of declarations, including the sections on videotape, Mr. Hodoyan once again told all he knew about the Arellanos -- this time for the legal record. And by the following year, Benjamin had enough notoriety in certain circles that he raised eyebrows when he and Ruth arrived at the Miss Mexico pageant in Tijuana and were shown to a VIP area usually reserved for business sponsors and their friends. He told them that he had been tortured, but said he could not discuss the details. He joined one of the cartel's hit squads and is wanted on murder charges in Mexico. Ruth gave birth to their first child-also named Ruth-in San Diego a year later, and Montano baptized her. On Oct. 7, when Alex Hodoyan had been missing for nearly a month, his sister called the consulate again. Episode count Alex replied: ''I am not sure if I can help Alfredo, but at least I am sure I will be free and clear for the rest of my life. General Gutierrez Rebollo set out to convince Alex Hodoyan to testify against his friend and his brother. De acuerdo con reportes de prensa, el fallo de los magistrados que fue por mayora y no por unanimidad, present que la responsabilidad del acusado en el mltiple homicidio no fue demostrada e incluso negaron el valor de la declaracin de El Kitty que involucraba a EL Lobo en los homicidios. Mr. Hoyodan's mother and father urged him to remain loyal to the family and his circle of childhood friends. Angelica wasnt the only well-to-do Tijuanan to bring a reputed trafficker into the family. Angelica moved to San Diego, too, but Kitty remained close to his family, and the couple vacationed together in Cancun with the families of other juniors and some Tijuana businessmen. Giants outfielder Joc Pederson and his brother, Champ, who has Down syndrome, were Her mother is raising her three grandchildren. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 66 ''He was showing results,'' the law enforcement official said. Life in Wartime He had been granted formal immunity from prosecution in Mexico in exchange for his testimony. Other officials confirmed that it was Mr. Randall, who was recalled from Mexico to Washington late last year and retired from the Foreign Service in January 1997. He would pay for a big baptism party., The Arellano Felixes and their entourage became the beautiful people, the 90210 of drug cartels, says Gonzalo Curiel, the assistant U.S. attorney assigned to the case. A United States magistrate concluded in his ruling that Alejandro Hodoyan had probably been killed last year by the Tijuana drug traffickers, who were Alfredo's associates. They were hastily married not long before the birth of their twins in 1988. The scar, he said, was where skin peeled away when his duct tape blindfolds were changed. did not allow its Mexico agents to comment about their role. ''In Tijuana the Arellanos bought their way into the cream of society,'' said a Mexican antidrug prosecutor who asked not to be identified. After the archbishops killing, Ramon and Benjamin were no longer enigmas but front-page headlines-Mexicos most wanted fugitives. Alex exploded, saying: ''I don't matter to them! A new, cash-rich generation of drug traffickers was jostling for control of Tijuana; they took advantage of police and government corruption, and of the citys strategic location at the doorstep of the worlds largest narcotics market. Alfredo Hodoyan, 25, and a childhood friend have been jailed in San Diego for a year on a Mexican warrant charging them with helping the Arellano Felix brothers kill the federal police commander of Baja California. MexicanAmerican ''I love my brother, Mama,'' Mr. Hodoyan told his mother at one point. Gonzalez shakes her head. WebView the profiles of people named Alfredo Hodoyan. Mexican Tale: Drugs, Crime, Torture and the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/18/world/mexican-tale-drugs-crime-torture-and-the-us.html. The Arellanos and the narcojuniors were celebrities.. Her new boyfriend was a very polite young man, and very much in love with Ruth, says Montano. But soon all the teenagers knew Benjamins kid brother, 12 years his junior. This is happening at an age where that stuff is very important to you.. If Father Montano was in denial, he wasnt alone. Alejandro Hodoyan, known to his family and friends as Alex, seemed an unlikely candidate for a career in crime. The devalued Mexican peso was relegating some upper class Tijuana families to the middle class. And it was anything but bland. Father Gerardo Montano says he was first introduced to Benjamin by Ruth Serrano Corona, a striking blond in her early 20s who was very devout and very proper, when he was parish priest at San Francisco Javier church. ''. They laugh after a murder, and go off and have a lobster dinner.''. He said, Dont talk to Ramon that way. Because Ramon did not forgive. Lina told her family: Im afraid of him. ''He was a very confident guy who projected the sense that 'we're the military -- we're going to get the job done.' It was unclear when he was arrested. When Gutierrez Rebollo became head of the countrys anti-drug effort on Dec. 6, Hodoyan agreed to work as his bodyguard in return for protection. Hence, let THE USER BEAR THE COST OF DRUG USE instead of socializing it like now.Trafficking and selling outside of the officially sanctioned channels will remain illegal and pursued BUT since legal drugs will be available cheaply there will be no reason for consumers to buy illegal drugs outside of the officially sanctioned channels.Sure: ensuring that society has access to cheap drugs under controlled circumstances is not for free, but it is going to be 1000 times cheaper than the current situation of paying for cops, lawyers, prisons, disease, violence and corruption caused by illegality. His manic charisma drew the admiration of kids such as Emilio Valdez Mainero, the kind of young men who are known in Mexico by a not entirely flattering term: juniors. Eventually Ramons friends would be tagged by the press as narcojuniors., People whispered about what Ramon and his brothers did. Under pressure to give evidence against his brother, he disappeared across the border to Mexico where he had numerous enemies, including the Arellano Felix gang, which, he was told, had put out a contract on his life. If Alfredo said, Mama, I need a car, I got him a car. Kitty Paez was arrested by U.S. request in downtown Tijuana in 1997. But Mr. Hodoyan was bitter that the Arellano gang had sent him into an ambush. On the tape, he sits center stage, recounting in a soft voice how his brother and a circle of their childhood friends joined a criminal enterprise that killed dozens of police commanders, prosecutors, drug rivals and innocent bystanders.
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