He and his brothers began their careers as provincial drug dealers, but shot and bullied their way to seize control of drug-smuggling along a western swath of the United States-Mexico border. Judging from U.S. court files, Ramons Rat Pack also knew he was not the most predictable party guest. They have new cars and they invite the girls to a disco and meet their cousins. And consider the saga of Lina Literas, one of Angelicas best friends, a beautiful young woman whose fathers chain of border import stores supplied much of the crystal that graces the tables of Tijuanas elite. Mr. Hodoyan soon became devoted to his jailer. 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. Not Alfredo-tall, good-looking, bilingual, U.S.-born; a graduate of the prestigious St. Augustine Academy in San Diego. Emilio Valdez Mainero and Alfredo Hodoyan were linked to the Arellano Felix drug organization, which controls the lucrative drug corridor from Baja California into the United States. The Hodoyans hoped to raise their children with the best of the American and Mexican cultures. Her new boyfriend was a very polite young man, and very much in love with Ruth, says Montano. She would have kept seeing him. Lina disappeared during the 2000 Thanksgiving weekend and turned up dead. 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. The information he had given to redeem himself had probably just gone to benefit another cartel. Like he was going to scare us, or [was] joking around. Mexican Tale: Drugs, Crime, Torture and the U.S. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/18/world/mexican-tale-drugs-crime-torture-and-the-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm, Leaked Images of Gulf Cartel's Rules of Conduct for Hitmen, Sinaloa Cartel Uses Drones With Explosives As It Fights For Territory In Jalisco, Hitmen of Gulf Cartel's Primito Caught Red-Handed Kidnapping in Daz Ordaz, Tamps, 8.5 Tons of Liquid Methamphetamine Hidden in Tequila Bottles Seized from Manzanillo Port, Cartel Arellano Flix Member "El Dani" Killed. After that, his brother Alfredo was arrested on gun charges. Her body turned up four days later with the corpse of her married boyfriend. In the bare room, the agent introduced himself to Mr. Hodoyan, blindfolded and cuffed to a bed. Alex Hodoyan is a typical teenager living in Tijuana. ''No! American diplomats in Guadalajara made what they later described as routine phone calls to local police stations and jails to see if he was there. He told them that he had been tortured, but said he could not discuss the details. But in those days, explains one self-described narcojunior who is now a protected witness, the guys with the nicest cars and girls were the drug dealers. 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. He began to make mental plans to take Mr. Hodoyan to the United States as a witness in gun-running cases. ''I'll never forget what he said,'' recalled his wife, Bertha Hodoyan. '' Their statements are contained in confidential court records. Although reluctant to act at first, Alex eventually takes on larger missions for the Tijuana Cartel. Authorities on both sides of the border believe the organization was responsible for shipping billions of dollars of cocaine into the United States over the last decade. Chapter 3: A city of contrasts comes into focus After Mr. Hodoyan was released, he said the soldiers had tortured and threatened to kill him. After his family reported him missing to United States officials, a law enforcement agent assigned to the American Embassy interviewed him at a unused barracks, where he was blindfolded and handcuffed to a steel bed. And the parents of these rebels without a cause found themselves the subject of unwelcome scrutiny. Posts may contain strong violent material, discretion is advised. Mr. Hamilton refused to identify the consul involved in the case. The Ibarra Murders History keeps repeating itself, Jaime Literas says. Soldiers tortured him with cigarette lighters and electric shocks to the eyelids, according to an account he later gave his family. Foto: Especial. 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. Some of these descriptions have to had been written into that "traffic" movie. Alex Hodoyan | Narcos Wiki | Fandom Ramon roared through the streets on a motorcycle, wearing splashy Versace shirts, black leather pants and an easy smile. You have to prove your loyalty. Why? And General Gutierrez Rebollo was leaning heavily on Mr. Hodoyan to talk by offering to place him in a Government witness program where his past criminal record would be erased. But the chain of dark destinies did not end there. Then he came on as the consummate good cop, pretending to scold his subordinates for treating the prisoner harshly and ordering them to loosen his manacles and upgrade his food. Alex Hodoyan (died 1997) was the younger brother of narcojunior Alfredo Hodoyan. I went Hey whats going on. Hes like, Im just sitting here. But I could see him with the tripod pointing with his scope. According to the officers, the windowless bunker where Mr. Hodoyan was shackled hand and foot to a bed was General Gutierrez Rebollo's private interrogation center, where illegally detained suspects were questioned for days and weeks. 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. Alex Hodoyan panicked, afraid that General Gutierrez Rebollo would retaliate if he denounced him. They laugh after a murder, and go off and have a lobster dinner.''. El Lobo permanece en libertad y se especula que regres a vivir a San Diego, California. 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. Alfredo was openhearted, generous- wasnt he always issuing invitations to play basketball at the Hodoyans hoop? The young man had just run off for three weeks with Ramons sister. ''The amazing thing is, the guy just doesn't shut up,'' said a United States official who questioned the A.T.F. According to American officials, the consul general, Thomas L. Randall, told the A.T.F. Emilio ended up in a U.S prison, convicted of drug trafficking in 1998. THERE ARE STILL SOCIETY KIDS WHO brag that they know two of the younger Arellanos, Eduardo and Javier, who, some DEA officials believe, are living under armed guard in Tijuana, trying to stave off competitors and paying $1 million a week to police. ?no I think it was the protected witness,don't remember his name,real name is Miguel Nunez. He was recruited by Arturo "El Kitty" Pez to smuggle drugs across the border, but was caught by the DEA on his first run. Ramon was shot to death by Mexican police in February. By law, the Mexican armed forces can hold criminal suspects for no more than 48 hours before turning them over to the civilian authorities. Narcos Mexico' Season 3 Episode I remember him perfectly, Hodoyans mother, Cristina Hodoyan de Palacios, referring to Weber Rodriguez, told authorities on Tuesday during a hearing at the prison. Ruth Serrano Corona was with her husband Benjamin when Mexican soldiers burst into their bedroom in March. The nuncio blessed Ramon, and they left. Youre young. He bolted from San Diego and appeared, wild-eyed and disheveled, at his parents' home in Tijuana. Mexico City sent authorities to ransack the Hodoyans house, and houses belonging to Emilio, Kitty, Benjamin and Ramon were seized. Her family says she has since remarried, but the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that she showed up with the children at Kittys sentencing hearing in January as he choked back tears and apologized to society in general for everything I did. His freewheeling life was reduced to clinical legal descriptions of meetings where Ramon plotted violent acts by narcojuniors. Cristinas older son, Agustin Hodoyan, would wave when Ramon drove by in a red sports car, rock-and-roll booming from his stereo. ''It was just a usual-suspects thing,'' a United States official in Guadalajara said, just another of the 71 cases the consulate handled in 1996 of Americans who went missing in that region. Hodoyan Palacios form parte de los Narcojuniors, un grupo de sicarios del Crtel de Tijuana que era comandado por Everardo El Kitty Paz. He was walking straight into a military trap. Upper-class circles are as newly minted as the modern Tijuana Country Club, built in 1948 on the grounds of the old casino, a remnant of the time that the city was a Prohibition getaway for Hollywood movie stars. ''I'm sure I would have done whatever needed to be done,'' he said, calling it ''convenient'' that embassy officials had heaped all of the blame on the one person involved who was no longer in government service. The account of Mr. Hodoyan's experiences was pieced together from interviews with his family, American officials in Mexico, and Mexican justice officials who knew him as an informant. WebView the profiles of people named Alfredo Hodoyan. Alfredo Hodoyan, 25, the rakish and strong-willed brother who is Alex's youngest sibling, took on a more violent role in the gang, according to his brother and Hodoyn del Crtel ``Yes, thats him! Delicate swallowtail butterflies rest on china daisies. Alfredo Hodoyan, 25, the rakish and strong-willed brother who is Alex's youngest sibling, took on a more violent role in the gang, according to his brother and agent that the general had changed his mind and was not ready to release Mr. Hodoyan. A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? ''I don't want them using me,'' he said, cursing the Arrelanos. ''I don't want trouble. WebAdam Geghami Khudoyan (Russian: , February 21, 1921, Yerevan, Armenia - 2000, Yerevan) was an Armenian composer, awarded by the Renowned Activist of the After two hours, the official said, the agent believed that he ''had a live one.'' They were graduates of the finest private schools, at home on both sides of the border, the children of families that knew or were related to some of the most powerful people in Baja California. It was unclear when he was arrested. That was when Mr. Hodoyan, who had spoken throughout the interview in Spanish, announced that he would not need a visa. The devalued Mexican peso was relegating some upper class Tijuana families to the middle class. But James J. McGivney, the agency's spokesman, said Mr. Hodoyan had given no indication he had ever been mistreated. Some American officials involved in the case now acknowledge that they were too willing to turn a blind eye to the methods used by the Mexican military to secure Mr. Hodoyan's cooperation. Male ''In Tijuana the Arellanos bought their way into the cream of society,'' said a Mexican antidrug prosecutor who asked not to be identified. En un reportaje publicado en 1996 de la periodista de Los Angeles Times, Marie-Anne Connor, Cristina Palacios de Hodoyan aseguraba que su hijo no era un matn; no obstante, Alfredo Hodoyan fue arrestado adems por delitos contra la salud, por ser sealado de participar en un cudruple homicidio. 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 Nicholas Goldberg: Is God on the side of blasphemy laws? 'You know what?' His testimony, which produced eight hours of videotape and more than 200 pages of transcripts, is viewed on both sides of the border as a law enforcement triumph, a breakthrough in Mexico's flagging fight against drug traffickers. Mr. Hodoyan volunteered nothing about mistreatment by the soldiers, American officials said, and the statement he later gave his family suggests a reason. The D.E.A. The government put him up at a hotel, where he talked with federal agents and prosecutors. If Father Montano was in denial, he wasnt alone. In 1980, Francisco Arellano Felix, owner of a Mazatlan disco, failed to appear in a San Diego court to answer charges of selling half a kilo of cocaine. General Gutierrez Rebollo's officers, he said, warned him before the interview that if he told the A.T.F. Then, several officials said, Mr. Randall did nothing further about Mr. Hodoyan. Ryan Truex is congratulated by big brother, NASCAR Series Cup driver Martin Truex Jr., in victory lane after winning Saturday's NASCAR Xfinity Series A-GAME 200 at Dover International Speedway. 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. His mission, he later said, was to find a new ''safe house,'' a local base for the group's operations. If he got drunk or started using, you didnt even want to be around him, the protected witness says. I can't say anything about that until I finish what I am doing here.''. She had volunteered at the church since she was 16, reading Scripture at services and carrying the wine, chalice and water. The crime and violence, the impurities, the prostitution, the prisons etc.Solution:L E G A L I Z E & P R E V E N T !! ~ Emilio was convicted of orchestrating drug shipments from behind bars in San Diego in 1998. But Tijuanas upstart investigative newsweekly, Zeta, identified Benjamin and Ramon Arellano in 1985 as the mysterious men behind a marijuana warehouse guarded by municipal police. General Gutierrez Rebollo played his prisoner with a maestro's touch, according to the officers who testified in the trials against him. 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. After 28 days on the job, Ibarra was shot to death Sept. 14, 1996, outside the Mexico City airport. 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. Alex Hodoyan on 'Narcos: Mexico': His Character and Emilio Valdez Mainero was a boyhood buddy Mr. Hodoyan chose years later to be the godfather at his first daughter's baptism. They seemed small-time. I dont think he was involved in killing people, he said. 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. All the ladies my age, we all say thats the worst cancer to ever hit Tijuana. That cancer was the cartel. 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. Hector hEochagin shares devastating news of American officials said the Mexican armed forces had provided an airplane to fly the A.T.F. His brother Alfredo and his friend Mr. Valdez remain in prison in San Diego fighting extradition to Mexico. Kids admired his long hair, his rococo Chinese dragon bedside lamps, and the respect and fear he inspired. Hodoyan Palacios form parte de los And Tijuana discos are still prowled by charming strangers who seem far too eager to buy drinks for the whole table. No! After the first contact, Mr. Hoyodan was allowed to call his parents regularly, and as he talked in guarded language, they realized that he was informing on the Arellano gang and was under pressure to turn on his own brother. Police told the family that he appeared to have been tortured in front of her. Alex's own brother Alfredo assists him in joining the gang, which does not end well for Alex. I don't want them to kill me. Fue exonerado del cudruple homicidio de agentes federales y un taxista en la Ciudad de Mxico en 1996. The agent remained uneasy about what he had seen. It would have been fine with me if they hadnt gotten married at all. But Kitty, with his jeans, T-shirts and irresistable grin, was considered the coolest guy in his Instituto clique. Ramon and Benjamin retreated to gated beach houses south of Rosarito, according to the protected witness, where Ramons appetite for cocaine and his huge steriod rages made him increasingly unpredictable. He says her stepfather owned an elegant Tijuana restaurant and her grandfather had been head of immigration and a political party chief. I don't think one single drug trafficker took to the "business"on their own,the next suspect,their enemiesnooo,then who could have dragged them to the life?? At first, no one on either side of the border took much notice when some of the brothers drifted into Tijuana in the early 1980s. As the man in the videotape begins to spill the inner secrets of Mexico's most violent drug gang, he appears nervous, chewing off pieces of his left thumbnail and gulping water. Benjamins personal assistant turned out to be Manuelito Martinez, Fabians brother. Despite 20 years of war: DRUGS ARE FREELY available and cheaper and stronger than ever.A L L the negative side effects are caused by the illegality of drugs. Alex rejected the idea with a fervor that suggested he knew it could be true. I dont think theyll fool them again, Tijuana Country Club president Dario Garin said. Officially, the Arellano Felixes were on the lam. As I settled deeper into the city, I Cristina Palacios de Hodoyan said her son Alfredo, a graduate of St. Augustine Catholic school in San Diego, is the manager of family rental properties, not a gunman. Its the same now: You go to a party, you meet these guys and you dont even know their names, just pseudonyms. Narcos Mexico' Season 3 Episode Speaking to the police video camera in measured words and abundant detail, he accused his brother Alfredo of taking part in not one but several killings. One night, Ramon invited Emilio out to romance some beautiful women, and Lina snapped: Shut up Ramon. Emilio worried about it, a relative says. A city of contrasts comes into focus - The San Diego The scar, he said, was where skin peeled away when his duct tape blindfolds were changed. nothing out on the street).Prevention by programs directed at children and teens to understand drugs and addiction.Of course there will always be persons who choose to make use of legaly available drugs and will be fucked by the drugs (albeit clean drugs are much less harmless than dirty drugs), but those persons alone (and their immediate family as also now is the case) will bear the burden of their abuse and not society as a whole.