“Enojon” and “Char” For Borderland Beat
A video circulated on December 9th, of an alleged phone call between Major Portillo and José Alberto García Vilano ‘La Kena’ or ‘Kena 19,’ leader of the Grupo Escorpion cell, where they discuss an incursion into Mexico City with the hope of lifting pressure from the criminal organization and the situation in the conflict. Although, while the second individual in the call is attributed to Vilano no confirmation can be made, with local reports denying Vilano of being in the call or claiming it to be the voice of Ricardo Zuñiga Lopez or Sergio Guevara Vázquez ‘El Ciego’.
Vilano: Yes imagine so there would be, there would be
Portillo: That’s right
Vilano: …If you want to run the operation let the [State] Guard leave us alone…so when we enter with our operation the [State] Guard will leave us alone and they will stay in their facility, in the end the [State] Guard is the [State] Guard.
Portillo: yes…the other thing, I imagine you’ll place the administrator
Vilano: yes, yes it’ll be one of the administrators
Portillo: To be on the same page
Vilano: That’s true, on that subject we’re the same and I’ll talk to the friend El 25 who will manage it, he’s very intelligent..so in one way or another he can think about it and we can make movements to [Mexico City] so they’ll leave us [alone], note that they and the administrator don’t [slow down], they don’t notice anything but it’s not up to us rather its up to [Mexico City].
Portillo: Yes..that’s right, yes i’ll apply pressure there as well as it’s something that comes from the higher ups and i don’t..well if you want to unintelligible
Vilano: Yes
Portillo: I was thinking the same thing, I was saying it wasn’t convenient because fuel theft, well basically isn’t defendable.
Vilano: Yes, no no that..
Portillo: It’s not defendable or is it?
Vilano: Unintelligible
Portillo: Whatever operation that enters south to north, north to south, or towards the central [region] the people will have to be moved. No… only [gas theft] effectively no.
Vilano: Yes it doesn’t make sense, that we can leave as an option if they notice that it doesn’t…
Portilo: If they didn’t want the bridge
Vilano: Yes if they didn’t want the bridge
Portilo: If not to…
Portilo: If not for having the bridge in between
Vilano: Yes, of course
Portilo: What I wanted to have clear is how everything will be done for me to tell this person, yesterday I was told by…
Vilano: Straight to the point
Portillo: Yes directly, because he’d tell me no there’s further interests and i’d ask what interests? [And he would say] no well, you know that the bridges and the… [and i’d say] oh yea I understand
Vilano: laughing
Portillo: No it’s that…
Vilano: It’s that we…is that, the truth is..i’m going to tell you something friend we were really susceptible to, they know…they practically leaned us to that, they leaned us to that because we were defenseless.
Vilano: We couldn’t fight the Navy and they gave us an ugly dance and you know that you supported us, the Navy had us real susceptible and I had to defend myself in one way or another and it wasn’t with bullets…
Vilano: Give us a hand and go over to [Mexico City] and go with the friend we have over there a partner, without being aggressive give them a shout out.
Portillo: Aha
Vilano: And the friend started moving over there, same with El 25 and they came to me with the news that they wouldn’t let them borrow this, we accomplished this, and i said soon we’ll go soon we’ll go and fight them there.
Vilano: We’ll fight this so no more resources will enter…and we won that there and they loosened up a bit but they remained there, but [fighting] is not the same there as [fighting] on the bridges it’s a resource they were destined to the war.
Portillo: That’s right
Vilano: But…
Portilo: Being there already I believe the convenient people are [already there] to prevent or even cut one of the routes to prevent surprises while being over there
Portillo: Because, yesterday I noticed that they are bringing people from Sinaloa. It’s what I was telling the friend from the valley…
Vilano: Unintelligible
Portillo: They’re saying this and this guy we stopped is saying this, that they’re people from Sinaloa…
Vilano: Unintelligible
Portillo: That the operators of Jalisco have already pulled back, supposedly over [fuel theft], that they were going to come over the [fuel theft] and that it’s all that’s left…
Vilano: Wait a bit they’re giving me news that…look friend is there any way you can launch an operation right now to give us a hand there by…
Portillo: Unintelligible
Vilano: Where they’re putting the Infantry…there’s an element a monstruo [makeshift armored vehicle] they shut down, and another guy left me running saying they don’t want the monstruo captured
Luis Gabriel Lopez Saldaña ‘Scorpion 25’ or ‘Bravo 5’
