August 25, 2021 • 14 mins
Transportista escapes from the kidnapping of a violent kingpin. He stays away from clandestine activities for a while, until the change of government in Mexico forces him to accept a dangerous job offer.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Fernando Blanko says that he was abducted, violently, mistreated, and
extorted by a powerful and aggressive drug trafficker. He asked
THETIVA not to name, I'll call him Steve. Blank Yo
says that the various conflicts had to do with other
people skimming off of Steve's money through the purchasing and
(00:22):
reselling of airplanes and then blaming blank you. Steve then
had blank Yo picked up, taken to a fine stake
lunch and then delivered to a federal police commander's apartment
for torture. She started complaining and abusing me in a
way I don't give him, want to scribe man and
(00:44):
that kind of things. They tie me up. He then
proceeded to force blank You to transfer funds, sell and
sign over his planes and do whatever he could to
come up with the money. Steve claimed as rightfully his
some of my belongings obviously for a fraction of value,
a total abuse. Even so, like I tell you to
(01:07):
mount on eleven days and then I escape, and his
first recorded interviews with the TV Blinkio used what seemed
to be a euphemism for extreme violence to describe how
he escaped. Later in the second round of recording interviews,
he didn't want to talk about it. I can't tell
you exactly how since I only have access to the
(01:29):
transcripts and audiophiles Blinko's interviews, I have no way of
knowing that he's lying and if so, about what did
blink Will kill someone to escape his kidnapping or did
he insinuate that he killed someone to conceal something else.
I don't know, but this is the only moment in
his story when he hints at being involved directly and
the kinds of violence his industry is known for. However
(01:53):
he did it. Blinko says that he escaped and went
on the run a lip for BA and again where
kept safe. I'm protected back home, stripped of his planes
and a number of assets. Then he'll pooled his resources
and got back to work, pay by another plane a Seneca,
and get back to work to supporting lobster have alone
(02:15):
and passengers throughout the island of the peninsula. To be
that island. He says that he meant to step out
of the illicit shipping business, relax in the bus celine,
my son of school, my wife content, But every time
blank Hell says that he intended to step away from
(02:36):
the business, he only ended up getting in deeper. The
United States government has a proven track record of supporting
democratically elected governments involved in drug trafficking while those governments
are in power and actually trafficking drugs. Once they're out
of power and no longer trafficking drugs, and once their
(02:58):
reputations become the focus of unbridled social loathing, then the
US likes to come in and say, these were very
corrupt governments, they traffic drugs. While examples are plentiful, the
relatively recent case of Nardo Garcia a Luna truly shines.
Garcia Luna served as the Secretary of Public Security during
(03:19):
the two thousand and six two thousand twelve administration of
Philippe Calderon. As such, it was one of the top
generals in the administration's self proclaimed and overwhelmingly horrendous war
on drug traffickers. During his full uninterrupted tenure. Both the
Bush and Obama administration's praised Garcia Luna and the cult
(03:39):
their own administration. They also backed that praise up with
over a billion dollars in military and espionage equipment and
training as part of the Marita initiative. Garcia Luna was
the public face of Mexico's brave commitment to fight the
US led war on drugs, until, of course, the US
federal agents arrest him in Dallas in two thousand nineteen
(04:02):
on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes, although
the idea of bribes is misleading for what Garcia Luna
and those like him really did was charged millions of
dollars for using his office to guide and protect the
drugs shipments and personnel of the pay ease and to
kill or arrest and seize the drug shipments of their competitors,
(04:25):
the payees. In this case, we're Bling Hill's friends in Sinaloa.
My name, sister Bone is John Gibbler, and this in
a sense is Transportista. Episode seven, The Deal. Blink Hill
(04:49):
says that he was living quietly by the sea when
Almyo Sambala's people found him in Baja California and asked
for a favor, a phrase Blink Joe uses instead of
gave an order. Thus he started using his contacts and
logistical talents to purchase more planes and move more cocaine.
But the person he coordinated with, he says, was sloppy
(05:11):
and greedy, lost two major shipments as well as both planes,
and was killed. This man's murder appears and blank. He
was telling only in the passive voice. Through another series
of ups and downs, Linkio got divorced and met a
second wife, a British woman at Deity Orcan. After suffering
a miscarriage, they decided to move to England. Blenkio says
(05:34):
that he was tired and wanted once again to get
out of the business. He got to work in England
and Switzerland. Soon. It was the year two thousand and
Mexico was on the cusp of major political change. Former
Coca Cola executive and rancher if He sent their folks
from the right wing National Action Party broke seventy one
years of single party rule in Mexico with his election
(05:56):
in two thousands. Upon I was in England when listen
to one. I was happy, honestly, but I was relaxed there,
(06:20):
though I keep in touch with my friend Arturo. He
asked for a favor related, well, you know, to the plains.
Here he's referring to the violent drug trafficker who would
be murdered by Mexican marines. Years later, called Blanko. He says,
with some unexpected news, and since his friend is getting
out of jail, he's getting out. I tell him, how
(06:44):
come is God yous left our short friend? No, not
yours come back? He told me, So you can lend
us the ideas. I did it, simpl not if he
call a lot since her walking smiled Uta alias Smil
the short friend was, of course Joaquin Iltaposeman, and getting
(07:07):
out meant escaping from the Pointe Grande and maximum security prison.
I flew to planes to clear account for them for
the matters they were attending to so to say we're
gonna keep it at that. I left a couple of
(07:30):
small planes there and I really did flay back to England,
back to my quiet life in back in England. Think
you've got some bad news. Steve, the former business partner
who kidnapped, torture and extorted him for two plus months,
had been arrested. Steve, of course, I knew a lot
of things about Blank's businesses, big getting news immediately, and
(07:52):
I naturally get worried, you know, because our relationship was
so close and it wasn't in vain because he read
it on me and not only on me, he read
it on pretty much everyone. Thus, with his true identity
in Mexico blown, blank You, had even more reason to
stay put in Europe. So there I am living the
(08:14):
good life in Europe, so to say, one day find
me in England. Again. It was El Mayo whom he
calls El Sor asking for a favor. Another recommendation from
Elsenor again, so I can't do them the favor of
for locating a couple of new submarine bussels submarines that
(08:35):
were located in the Sabet Union. Blank You says that
he traveled all over the place putting together contacts necessary
to purchase and move the submarines. He then went to
give his report to El Mayo. I arrived Mexico to
announce the successful operation, so to say, And they tell
me I have some but nels for things, because we
(09:00):
don't need the submarines anymore. All the routes are clear,
both air and land. All the routes are clear. Meant
that a successful business deal had been broken with the
new federal administration and the submarines would prove to be unnecessary.
So well, we need our planes. Your planes, you're two
(09:21):
small planes. We're going to need him, so he says,
he tried to decline the offer. You can't imagine if
you didn't do it because you want to, you'll do
it because you have to. Blank. You always back in business.
They offered me to live for Venezuela. There were good
(09:45):
relations there, there were people there, so they needed my
helping hand again. So I did. I went to Venezuela,
and indeed the connections went to the high Is labels
there in Venezuela, the mystery begins. Blinkyo, speaking from a
(10:09):
federal prison in North Carolina through an illegal cell phone
with reporters in Mexico, makes some very serious claims in
this part of the story, and while it is impossible
to discern precisely what is true and what is false
only from his testimony, it is clear by virtue of
who he is and where he is that there must
be a significant degree of truth to his overall story.
(10:31):
Blinkio claims that the Fox administration in Mexico and the
Java's administration in Venezuela made deals with the businessmen commonly
referred to as the Sinaloa Cartel to move mass amounts
of South American cocaine from Venezuela into and through Mexico.
For those of US who have already come to the
conclusion that the only way for the global illegal drug
(10:53):
industry to function on the scale that it actually does
is through the systematic participation of the very state agency
tasked with policing that industry, blink Keell's revelations will not
come as a surprise for those who still believe that
governments banned certain drugs because they are concerned about public health,
they might be a bit harder to swallow. The US
(11:15):
government long accused UGL Chavis of not taking the war
on drugs seriously and supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia,
the FARC, whom the US claims financed its operations with
cocaine sales. At the same time, during the early two thousands,
the US government praised Vicenti folks in the Mexican government
for carrying out a successful democratic transition and fighting the
(11:38):
war on drugs. According to Blinkoll, both of those governments
directly supported and profited from industrial scale international drug trafficking,
and while he doesn't claim to be among the top
executives who brokered these deals, the story he tells the
story of a mid level manager who still has to
visit the warehouse, so to speak, presents a few interesting
(12:00):
says and how the industry operates before blank you as
you get started in Venezuela, However, you'd need a new
identity in the first place, I seek at the ideal
place of birth. In this case, I head to meet
can Javinda. I have good friends there. I use it
(12:23):
as a place of birth and I produce a birth
and certificate. Well I asked for it, but an authentic one,
but legally palid document. So I have a groul Himenez
Alfaro born in Charinda. Next Time Transportista is a detective
(12:58):
at production with Exile Content Studio in partnership with I
Heart Radio's Michael Tura podcast Network. Directed and narrated by
John Gibler, Transportisa's voice by jaquin Cosio, Editing and sound
design by Ferrando la Rossa and Pedro Garcia. Reporting by
John Gibbler and Manuelarios, produced by Juli Gonzalez, Voice recording
(13:21):
by Ugo Merino and Rene Garcia. Transports interviews translated by
Carla ries Arguis. Production supervision by Nando Vila and Alberos
Espies Associate producers Alonso Aguilar and Alejandro Duran Diego and
Driquez Orro Is the creator and executive producer, along with
Danielle Eilenberg and Eacle. Executive producers for I Heeart Media
(13:44):
are conal Burne and just Sell Bunces. For more podcasts
from My Heart, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows m HM
Fernando Blanko says that he was abducted, violently, mistreated, and
extorted by a powerful and aggressive drug trafficker. He asked
THETIVA not to name, I'll call him Steve. Blank Yo
says that the various conflicts had to do with other
people skimming off of Steve's money through the purchasing and
(00:22):
reselling of airplanes and then blaming blank you. Steve then
had blank Yo picked up, taken to a fine stake
lunch and then delivered to a federal police commander's apartment
for torture. She started complaining and abusing me in a
way I don't give him, want to scribe man and
(00:44):
that kind of things. They tie me up. He then
proceeded to force blank You to transfer funds, sell and
sign over his planes and do whatever he could to
come up with the money. Steve claimed as rightfully his
some of my belongings obviously for a fraction of value,
a total abuse. Even so, like I tell you to
(01:07):
mount on eleven days and then I escape, and his
first recorded interviews with the TV Blinkio used what seemed
to be a euphemism for extreme violence to describe how
he escaped. Later in the second round of recording interviews,
he didn't want to talk about it. I can't tell
you exactly how since I only have access to the
(01:29):
transcripts and audiophiles Blinko's interviews, I have no way of
knowing that he's lying and if so, about what did
blink Will kill someone to escape his kidnapping or did
he insinuate that he killed someone to conceal something else.
I don't know, but this is the only moment in
his story when he hints at being involved directly and
the kinds of violence his industry is known for. However
(01:53):
he did it. Blinko says that he escaped and went
on the run a lip for BA and again where
kept safe. I'm protected back home, stripped of his planes
and a number of assets. Then he'll pooled his resources
and got back to work, pay by another plane a Seneca,
and get back to work to supporting lobster have alone
(02:15):
and passengers throughout the island of the peninsula. To be
that island. He says that he meant to step out
of the illicit shipping business, relax in the bus celine,
my son of school, my wife content, But every time
blank Hell says that he intended to step away from
(02:36):
the business, he only ended up getting in deeper. The
United States government has a proven track record of supporting
democratically elected governments involved in drug trafficking while those governments
are in power and actually trafficking drugs. Once they're out
of power and no longer trafficking drugs, and once their
(02:58):
reputations become the focus of unbridled social loathing, then the
US likes to come in and say, these were very
corrupt governments, they traffic drugs. While examples are plentiful, the
relatively recent case of Nardo Garcia a Luna truly shines.
Garcia Luna served as the Secretary of Public Security during
(03:19):
the two thousand and six two thousand twelve administration of
Philippe Calderon. As such, it was one of the top
generals in the administration's self proclaimed and overwhelmingly horrendous war
on drug traffickers. During his full uninterrupted tenure. Both the
Bush and Obama administration's praised Garcia Luna and the cult
(03:39):
their own administration. They also backed that praise up with
over a billion dollars in military and espionage equipment and
training as part of the Marita initiative. Garcia Luna was
the public face of Mexico's brave commitment to fight the
US led war on drugs, until, of course, the US
federal agents arrest him in Dallas in two thousand nineteen
(04:02):
on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes, although
the idea of bribes is misleading for what Garcia Luna
and those like him really did was charged millions of
dollars for using his office to guide and protect the
drugs shipments and personnel of the pay ease and to
kill or arrest and seize the drug shipments of their competitors,
(04:25):
the payees. In this case, we're Bling Hill's friends in Sinaloa.
My name, sister Bone is John Gibbler, and this in
a sense is Transportista. Episode seven, The Deal. Blink Hill
(04:49):
says that he was living quietly by the sea when
Almyo Sambala's people found him in Baja California and asked
for a favor, a phrase Blink Joe uses instead of
gave an order. Thus he started using his contacts and
logistical talents to purchase more planes and move more cocaine.
But the person he coordinated with, he says, was sloppy
(05:11):
and greedy, lost two major shipments as well as both planes,
and was killed. This man's murder appears and blank. He
was telling only in the passive voice. Through another series
of ups and downs, Linkio got divorced and met a
second wife, a British woman at Deity Orcan. After suffering
a miscarriage, they decided to move to England. Blenkio says
(05:34):
that he was tired and wanted once again to get
out of the business. He got to work in England
and Switzerland. Soon. It was the year two thousand and
Mexico was on the cusp of major political change. Former
Coca Cola executive and rancher if He sent their folks
from the right wing National Action Party broke seventy one
years of single party rule in Mexico with his election
(05:56):
in two thousands. Upon I was in England when listen
to one. I was happy, honestly, but I was relaxed there,
(06:20):
though I keep in touch with my friend Arturo. He
asked for a favor related, well, you know, to the plains.
Here he's referring to the violent drug trafficker who would
be murdered by Mexican marines. Years later, called Blanko. He says,
with some unexpected news, and since his friend is getting
out of jail, he's getting out. I tell him, how
(06:44):
come is God yous left our short friend? No, not
yours come back? He told me, So you can lend
us the ideas. I did it, simpl not if he
call a lot since her walking smiled Uta alias Smil
the short friend was, of course Joaquin Iltaposeman, and getting
(07:07):
out meant escaping from the Pointe Grande and maximum security prison.
I flew to planes to clear account for them for
the matters they were attending to so to say we're
gonna keep it at that. I left a couple of
(07:30):
small planes there and I really did flay back to England,
back to my quiet life in back in England. Think
you've got some bad news. Steve, the former business partner
who kidnapped, torture and extorted him for two plus months,
had been arrested. Steve, of course, I knew a lot
of things about Blank's businesses, big getting news immediately, and
(07:52):
I naturally get worried, you know, because our relationship was
so close and it wasn't in vain because he read
it on me and not only on me, he read
it on pretty much everyone. Thus, with his true identity
in Mexico blown, blank You, had even more reason to
stay put in Europe. So there I am living the
(08:14):
good life in Europe, so to say, one day find
me in England. Again. It was El Mayo whom he
calls El Sor asking for a favor. Another recommendation from
Elsenor again, so I can't do them the favor of
for locating a couple of new submarine bussels submarines that
(08:35):
were located in the Sabet Union. Blank You says that
he traveled all over the place putting together contacts necessary
to purchase and move the submarines. He then went to
give his report to El Mayo. I arrived Mexico to
announce the successful operation, so to say, And they tell
me I have some but nels for things, because we
(09:00):
don't need the submarines anymore. All the routes are clear,
both air and land. All the routes are clear. Meant
that a successful business deal had been broken with the
new federal administration and the submarines would prove to be unnecessary.
So well, we need our planes. Your planes, you're two
(09:21):
small planes. We're going to need him, so he says,
he tried to decline the offer. You can't imagine if
you didn't do it because you want to, you'll do
it because you have to. Blank. You always back in business.
They offered me to live for Venezuela. There were good
(09:45):
relations there, there were people there, so they needed my
helping hand again. So I did. I went to Venezuela,
and indeed the connections went to the high Is labels
there in Venezuela, the mystery begins. Blinkyo, speaking from a
(10:09):
federal prison in North Carolina through an illegal cell phone
with reporters in Mexico, makes some very serious claims in
this part of the story, and while it is impossible
to discern precisely what is true and what is false
only from his testimony, it is clear by virtue of
who he is and where he is that there must
be a significant degree of truth to his overall story.
(10:31):
Blinkio claims that the Fox administration in Mexico and the
Java's administration in Venezuela made deals with the businessmen commonly
referred to as the Sinaloa Cartel to move mass amounts
of South American cocaine from Venezuela into and through Mexico.
For those of US who have already come to the
conclusion that the only way for the global illegal drug
(10:53):
industry to function on the scale that it actually does
is through the systematic participation of the very state agency
tasked with policing that industry, blink Keell's revelations will not
come as a surprise for those who still believe that
governments banned certain drugs because they are concerned about public health,
they might be a bit harder to swallow. The US
(11:15):
government long accused UGL Chavis of not taking the war
on drugs seriously and supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia,
the FARC, whom the US claims financed its operations with
cocaine sales. At the same time, during the early two thousands,
the US government praised Vicenti folks in the Mexican government
for carrying out a successful democratic transition and fighting the
(11:38):
war on drugs. According to Blinkoll, both of those governments
directly supported and profited from industrial scale international drug trafficking,
and while he doesn't claim to be among the top
executives who brokered these deals, the story he tells the
story of a mid level manager who still has to
visit the warehouse, so to speak, presents a few interesting
(12:00):
says and how the industry operates before blank you as
you get started in Venezuela, However, you'd need a new
identity in the first place, I seek at the ideal
place of birth. In this case, I head to meet
can Javinda. I have good friends there. I use it
(12:23):
as a place of birth and I produce a birth
and certificate. Well I asked for it, but an authentic one,
but legally palid document. So I have a groul Himenez
Alfaro born in Charinda. Next Time Transportista is a detective
(12:58):
at production with Exile Content Studio in partnership with I
Heart Radio's Michael Tura podcast Network. Directed and narrated by
John Gibler, Transportisa's voice by jaquin Cosio, Editing and sound
design by Ferrando la Rossa and Pedro Garcia. Reporting by
John Gibbler and Manuelarios, produced by Juli Gonzalez, Voice recording
(13:21):
by Ugo Merino and Rene Garcia. Transports interviews translated by
Carla ries Arguis. Production supervision by Nando Vila and Alberos
Espies Associate producers Alonso Aguilar and Alejandro Duran Diego and
Driquez Orro Is the creator and executive producer, along with
Danielle Eilenberg and Eacle. Executive producers for I Heeart Media
(13:44):
are conal Burne and just Sell Bunces. For more podcasts
from My Heart, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows m HM
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