The Rameriz Cartel

This is a summary of the Ramirez Cartel and notes to Simon from John Nichols. John is the assistant to Marty Cipriano who is head of all DEA operations in Florida. Marty is also Simons best friend and boss. This summary should shed some light on the Ramirez cartel. This summary will appear in Book 4 "Storm Tides".

Simon, here is as much detailed information that John Nichols could find on the Ramirez cartel. This is every file ever written by all federal law enforcement agencies condensed into one large file. John worked long and hard on this file and there are some surprises and new information on the Ramirez cartel. I will be flying in on Saturday from D.C. and Daniel Steel will probably fly in Sunday. Be prepared for what’s coming and hold your temper and your tongue my friend. M.

I looked at the M at the end of the note. That had become Marty’s new signature trademark. Every email I received from him now was signed that way. My friend and boss referenced my temper. It had to mean two things. The first was the Director of Operations was definitely coming for a talk and that I would be going back into Colombia to finish the job. It was highly irregular for someone of Director Steel’s position to make a personal visit to a field agent like myself. This meeting was supposed to be all about going back to Colombian and getting Morales. Was there more to Director Steel coming than I thought. Was I being a worry wart?

“Simon, here is the complete file our boss Marty asked me to generate for you and I have included side notes throughout it. We can talk if you have any questions when you have finish ready this. It’s a little but it will give you a good insight as to who the Ramirez family and the cartel are. Also included is a second disk with pictures from a photographer by the name of Judd Martian. The name should be familiar to you.” J.Nichols

Carlos Fernandez Ramirez heads up the largest illegal drug trafficking cartel in the world to date. His hands reach into every aspect of the illegal drug business, from growing and processing to distribution. He began his rise from anonymity to one of international notoriety in the time frame of five years. Starting in the mid eighties and his power has grown with each passing year, causing alarm among the top leaders in the world. Since his subsequent rise to the number one position of supreme drug kingpin, sales have escalated to 400 billion dollars globally, with the U.S. being their largest customer. The amount of money spent by Americans is between 50 and 60 billion dollars annually for illegal drugs. He was once quoted as saying, ‘As long as the Americans wanted to stuff the white powder up there noises he, Carlos Ramirez would be glad to supply the drugs and become a rich man in the process.’

The family of Carlos Ramirez, which makes up the hierarchy of the cartel starts with his sister Doroto and one daughter whose name, is Consuelo. There is no information on Ramirez wife or where she came from or is presently. It is strongly suspected that she is dead. One closely guarded source says Ramirez was married at a very young age due to getting the girl pregnant. It was later confirmed in an interview he did several years ago, but Carlos never said if she was still alive or what age he was when he married the girl. It wouldn’t be surprising if he had the whole family was killed, including his wife.

The birth of his daughter is also a mystery and where she went to school as a child and then later to college. She gives the appearance of being highly educated and as ruthless as her father is. It is assumed she went under an assumed name to college and quite possible in the U.S. So far no investigation by federal authorities at many of our prominent law schools have turned up anything thing positive. It is a very tight knit group of people and that is apparently the way Carlos Ramirez wants his empire run. The family members are the only ones trusted within the cartel, along with his son in law Domingo Torres Chavez. Doroto and Domingo have two sons, Antonio and Thomas.

“Simon, as a side note to this summary of the Ramirez cartel, that you already know about because of the attacks on your family for the last year. Solid information came out of the Chavez side of the cartel by a reliable informer working for the Chavez family, and it has to do with what took place in Georgia more than a year ago and your involvement. Doroto not only wants you dead but your entire family. Domingo has given his word to her that this will happen for the death of their oldest son Antonio. They know the entire story of what took place in Rome, thanks to Mary Lunsford and possibly others within the agency that you personally killed their oldest son and other details about what happen at Raul Garcia’s house. I am doing my best to trace down whom the other leaks came from within our own agency .Additional information coming out of Mexico is that Antonio was the pride and joy of Carlos himself and he also has sworn a personal vengeance against you and your family. Again I know you have a very good idea of this, but wanted to give it to you as fact now.” J.Nichols

It is a known fact that Ramirez continually moves throughout Mexico and stays one-step ahead of authorities who aren’t in his pocket and are willing to help American drug enforcement agents try and arrest him and bring him back to the U.S. for prosecution.

Just as Pablo Escobar was safe for years in Colombia, because of the government being either afraid of him or on his payroll, Escobar biggest fear, or frailty was that he was afraid of being extricated to the U.S. for prosecution. Ramirez is afraid of the same thing happening to him. There would be no one in his pocket who could help him in the United States.

His primary home is located off the west coast of Mexico in the state of Sinoloa, among a small chain of islands near the coastal town of Costa Azul, which he has turned into a fortress. He is also able to get to one of three of his own personal airports located throughout Mexico quickly if he feels he is being watched by law enforcement officials or to move around Mexico without being seen, which he prefers. The man does an exceptional job of doing this because he is seldom seen. In fact he is only seen by others in public when he wants it that way.

His brother in law Domingo Chavez has two airports himself located in Juarez and Matamoras, so between them they have five airports with lots of fast aircraft at their disposal. Analysts in the agency believe he likes west coast of Mexico due to his possibly being raised in the area as child and the fact there are so many escape routes for him to choose from at a moments notice. He can escape by boat, aircraft or train. As mentioned early in this summary, there is no proof that he came from this region. We continually come up empty with any kind of paper trail on the man.

Several fast speedboats are docked at his personal marina at the island and a seaplane is pointed in the direction of open water for a quick take off. It should also be pointed out that he has enough antennas sticking up from on top of what can only be called palace that he knows what is flying around him at alls times. And his communications are as good as any military. Our electronic listening aircraft that we used to track down Pablo Escobar and others in the eighties have been of little use against Ramirez. We haven’t been able to pick up his phone conversations; he is using encrypted equipment we think or he stays off the phone and lets others talk for him. Carlos and his family are absolutely the toughest and smartest group of criminals the U.S has come up against in its war against illegal drugs.

The world court unanimously voted in 2002 to apprehend and prosecute Carlos Ramirez and his brother-in-law Domingo Torres Chavez. But so far that hasn’t happened due to Mexico’s lack of support. Hundreds of millions of dollars is spread around throughout the government and that helps prop up the economy of Mexico, which is in a continual decline. Ramirez is suspected of owning more than three dozen banks throughout Mexico and other Central and South American countries. This helps him keep on friendly terms with governments of other countries. Getting a loan was an easy thing as long as you repaid Ramirez when he asked for it. Not repaying the loan was a death sentence.

His organization is the most violent of all drug cartels since their beginning in the late seventies. It easier for politicians in Mexico to turn a blind eye to Ramirez and his family and the benefits of doing just that is lots of money and their lives and most importantly the lives of their families. When he does decide to have someone killed he does he privately away from the public eye. He prefers never to kill out in the open. This is actually a pretty smart way of sending a message to those in the government or rivals drug dealers that want do as he asks. You simply disappear.

“Simon, Analyst think the man may have safe houses in other countries, so if he is ever chased out of Mexico he will have a safe place to run his operations from and be protected from extradition. Heads of many of our law enforcement agencies think the reason for banks in other countries besides lauding money is to provide bribe money so he can have a safe place to run to. Lots of money is moved around through Central and South American countries. That much we have been able to track. Also little condemnation is ever brought upon him by countries that border México and further south. And we have no extradition treaties with several of these countries as well. We are negotiating with theses countries and have held up allowing American companies to build factories until they sign such extradition treaties. A nice little provision in the NAFTA treaties allows the Attorney General to hold up companies from building while we negotiate.” J.Nichols

Another important side note is most of the people in the cities were he lives are extremely loyal to him. Carlos has built clinics, libraries, soccer fields and churches for the people, something the government hasn’t done. A very smart move on his part and is similar to what Pablo Escobar did in Medellin, Colombia, but on a bigger scale. He also avoids violence in these particular areas so the people stay loyal to him, which is what Escobar didn’t do and was his downfall. You can’t build a clinic for the people and then turn around and kill a hundred of them with a bomb, which Pablo would do repeatedly, when he wasn’t trying to kill federal authorities who were trying to tract him down. Ramirez has learned quickly from the older cartels leaders and has improved on their ideas to help protect himself from our agencies and most of the Mexican government. It has definitely worked for him since he has been the number one drug kingpin for the last 15 years.

His life before the age of twenty-five and his subsequent rise to drug kingpin status were vague for many years. It’s as if it came out of nowhere, according to one State Police official in Mexico working with the DEA secretly. The man only told us this after securing written assures that his name would never be used. The man was terrified of being found out about by his superiors. He told our agent questioning him that many of the good policemen had quit and most of what was running the State Police now were loyal to General Guillermo Perez, which meant they protected the drug business of Ramirez.

He had no apparent run in with the law before his rise to power in the illegal drug business. Very little is known about the man except for an interview he gave several years ago. The information on Ramirez and his childhood that federal agencies have at this time is because of the article about him in one of the monthly news magazines. The agency has learned more about him in recent months thanks to his daughter Consuelo live style and from help that came to us in the form of a photographer who will be mentioned later in this summary and a housekeeper from the Chavez family that was an unexpected bonus.

Carlos Ramirez was very boastful about his rise to power in illegal narcotics with a writer and actually tried to seduce her on more than one occasion during the two days she interviewed him. As the writer would comment afterwards in her notes, the man was full of himself and didn’t know what ‘no’ meant. The writer wouldn’t go into detail as to why she was willing to turn over her full set of notes to the DEA and the agent who received them didn’t press her about her decision. At this point in time we were glad to get any pertinent information on the man and his organization.

The agent in charge did mention to his immediate supervisor about seeing bruises around her neck and throat area. He also told his supervisor who was a female to look at the last several pages of the writers notes and she could deduce for herself why the writer came forward. It was the agent’s opinion was she was sexually assaulted by Carlos. Something else that came out of the reporters notes were detailed description of Carlos house on his private island and the grounds surrounding it. Those notes will be included with disk two, along with satellite photos of his home.

“Simon, Marty instructed me to make sure you got the complete set of notes on Ramirez island house, and all other pertinent information regarding the layout. He was very insistent about doing so.” J.Nichols

Carlos Ramirez talked about the fact he was the only son out of five siblings and the oldest. His father was a farmer on the outskirts of the town called Culiacan in the state of Sinaloa on the pacific coast side of Mexico. When the Mexican government signed the NAFTA treaty with the United States and Canada, it ruined small farmers like Ramirez’s father. His says his father had no choice but to take up growing marijuana and poppy plants in order to make a living for his family. Carlos was apparently in charge of protecting the crops and getting them sold to the people running the smaller micro cartels in Mexico at that time.

Federal agencies believe that it’s during the period while Ramirez was selling his fathers crops to the leaders of the micro cartels and becoming friendly with many of them, that he came up with his plan to take over all drug production and distribution in Mexico. He would leave Colombia for later after he had Mexico under his control and it didn’t take long for that to happen.

The young Ramirez continually asked questions of his predecessors about what was the best way’s to smuggle large quantities of illegal drugs across the border into the Untied States and who had to be bribed or killed both in Mexico and in the U.S. to succeed. He kept a diary as to what he thought would be the best way to achieve his goals. Names of people he thought he could bribe or enlist in working with him and a long list of people who would have to be killed. At one point in the interview he mentions that his diary was more than a thousand pages. From the interview analysts were able to deduce that Ramirez started helping his father at the age of eighteen and it only took him seven years to learn the right and wrong ways to run this type of illegal business. For a man with very little formal education, he shows a large amount of common sense for business. Once his decision was made to take over, he did so swiftly and without much opposition. It was easier to join the Ramirez cartel, than fight him.

With Ramirez giving the appearance of achieving overnight success in reforming and taking over the illegal drug trade, Carlos Ramirez turned numerous Mexican micro cartels and the two most notorious drug cartels residing in Colombia into one big organization, which he oversees with a ruthless iron fist. It is a known fact that he has killed or bribed anyone who has gotten in his way, during his quick rise to the top. He never asks twice it is said of him. If you wouldn’t take the money or do Carlos a favor, then you would die in a most painful way. There is no accurate documentation on the amount of people Carlos Ramirez has killed personally or had killed by his highly trained group of mercenary’s or brother in law Domingo Chavez. Again, as mentioned previously in this summary he kills quietly.

His actual rise to power began after major political attention was brought upon the Colombian drug cartels by the United States in the eighties. The gloves came off and a bloody war was wage for many years until finally in the early nineties Pablo Escobar was killed by a snipers bullet on a roof top in Medellin. All that was left was for both our countries to focus on the Cali cartel. With their members either killed or in prison, their illegal drug business ended up in the hands of the leftist guerrilla group FRAC.

Neither the DEA or FBI had a idea how quickly the Cali-Medellin cartels would be replaced as the number one drug kingpins, nor the strength and power the Morales-Guzman families would wield in Colombia in such a short period of time. Terrible and bloody acts of violence began as different families tried to fill the void of the Cali and Medellin cartels, but none could outsmart or kill the way Morales-Guzman were willing to do to achieve the status of supreme drug kingpins. The sad part is that many Colombian citizens died in a short period of time, as two families eventually became the dominate powers in the country, literally splitting the country in half.

Carlos Ramirez met with the heads of the Colombian cartels before the end of his first year of consolidating his power and struck a deal that would make him head of all distribution for drugs coming out of Colombia. At the same time in his own country, he achieved consummate power and authority as head of all growing, production, and distribution in Mexico, turning the Ramirez cartel into a business that equals any major corporation in the world today.

For all intent and purposes the Morales-Guzman cartel appears to be content in letting Ramirez be the front man and take most of the pressure off of their shoulders for being drug kingpins. They do have a different philosophy about violence and the public which is the exact opposite of Carlos Ramirez. They use the paramilitary groups to do a lot of their dirty work for them.

Many analysts wonder why they choose to do this since they are so well protected by the majority of the guerrilla organizations and key people inside the government of Colombia. It’s rare that people like this are willing to take a back seat to anyone and one scenario being considered at the highest levels in the intelligence community is the Morales- Guzman family wants to take a major role in the political side of things in Colombia. Rumors are running rampant that the elections coming up in Colombia could possible be affected in a similar way as to what happened in Spain with the bombings. Our State Department is worried about the rumors being factual, because we do get oil from Colombia and with the trouble we are already having with Venezuela, officials are afraid of both countries joining forces, and putting the squeeze on the oil supply if we didn’t leave the drug cartels alone. This kind of blackmail by both countries could drive the cost of gas for American consumers up to four or five dollars a gallon.

The CIA is looking into these rumors and trying to decide if they warrant more attention and possibly warn the present heads of the Colombian government to be mindful of the situation. There are many people within our own government who feel that Colombia could become another Vietnam and one that is a lot closer to our border, and could eventually spill over into neighboring South American countries.

“Simon from this point forward I will go over the rest of Carlos family and what we know about them or surmise. These people have done an exceptional job of keeping there past and present lives out of the news. The more we try and investigate the cartel the less we turn up in the way of information. My own opinion about the man is that he has destroyed all legal documents pertaining to him and his family. Marty had a agent from California go into Carlos Ramirez hometown and try and find his and his families birth certificate and any other information about their lives and its all gone. So either he wasn’t born in Culiacan or he made sure to dispose of his birth certificate and his family’s. It could be that Ramirez is not his real name after all.” J. Nichols

The Chavez’s reside most of the year outside of Juarez, Mexico. During the summer months he spends most of his time in the coastal town of Matamoros. Whether he is in Juarez or Matamoros, he is surrounded by officers of the Mexican State Police, who are on his payroll and also a group of ex American military personal. Domingo and his family are well protected from not only our federal agencies, but also the Mexican government as well. Both he and Carlos spend millions for this kind of protection each year.

It’s important to understand how impenetrable Ramirez and Chavez have become with the help of ex military personal from our own country. They not only oversee all protection for the Ramirez cartel but train others in their organization as well. A rough guess is the Ramirez cartel has one thousand highly trained people in their employment. Satellite photos indicate the cartel has two training facilities with the larger of the two located close to the southeast border of Mexico and Guatemala along the Usumacinta River. The second and smaller of the two camps is located along the extreme southwestern border of Mexico and Guatemala at the base of the Cuchumatanes mountain range. Both locations allow for quick escapes from Mexican law enforcement when they do try and raid the camps. The DEA has asked on more than one occasion to take part in the raids and have been denied access repeatedly by the Mexican government. Government officials use the excuse of acting indignant and saying that they can handle their own internal affairs. There is one main guerrilla organization in Guatemala sympathetic and on the payroll of Ramirez, who help his people evade authorities on the few occasions raids have taken place. They disappear into the mountains like ghosts and cannot be tracked by Mexican law enforcement or our satellites.

“Simon, I want go into detail about the guerilla group in Guatemala because it doesn’t have a lot to do with this summary of the Ramirez cartel but since it is mention I will only say this. They are known as the Guatemalan Revolutionary Army or GRA. They are a leftist leaning group with ties to Cuba. They are financed solely by Ramirez. The exact amount of money given to the guerrillas is suspected to be in the millions of dollars, not pesos. They are instrumental in getting the drugs across Guatemala and into Mexico. The pipeline of help can be linked from one guerrilla group to another starting in Colombia and working its way north through Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua Honduras, Guatemala and eventually into Mexico. The routes vary and planes and boast are used as well to move the drugs northward. With all the money being distributed throughout these counties, it allows for political instability by these guerrilla groups. So as you can see Ramirez power reaches across all of South and Central America”. J. Nichols

It is believed by those in the DEA and FBI that Chavez lives close to the border so he can personally oversee the shipping of the narcotics and move across the border as needed to keep the flow of narcotics moving smoothly. He is wanted by both the DEA and the FBI for brutal killings in Brownsville and Zapata. There have been other killings along the border that can’t be directly linked to Domingo but all the men have the same tattoos on there backs as the ones in Brownsville and Zapata. Domingo seems to be a little bolder about his killings. The tattoo linking all the dead men is an Italicized R on the right shoulder blade. One of the men found alive in Zapata said it was the mark of Ramirez, his personal brand for all his people. Authorities along both sides of the border have also said many men and women have been found brutally killed who don’t have the tattoo and are thought to be from independent smuggling groups who want to cut Ramirez out. There are fewer and fewer of these independent types of people due to word getting around about what happens to you if you are caught by Ramirez people selling or smuggling drugs without there blessing and share of the profits.

Domingo’s younger years and how he came to marry into the Ramirez family is not important and very little is known about that part of his life anyway as mentioned earlier in the summary. What’s important to know about the man, is that once he married Doroto, his rise in power came very quickly. Domingo Chavez’s reputation of being a violent individual to those who go against the family and the cartel is as bad as Carlos own reputation. And their reputations have paved the way for nearly all independent smugglers ceasing to exist in Mexico. It’s healthier to work for Ramirez and Chavez.

“Simon it wasn’t until you went to Rome and busted up the Raul Garcia operation that we were able to see how big of an American distribution network the Ramirez cartel actually has. With the Munoz family now linked to the cartel for certain, several high ranking administrators within the DEA and other federal agencies are now certain without any doubt, that the Ramirez cartel actually controls all narcotics distribution into the U.S. One other interesting fact from what information I have available is the similarities in the late Juan Carlos Munoz and Carlos Ramirez. Its about there wives. It appears that both men have killed their spouses and I cannot find the link between the Munoz family and Ramirez. Nothing can be found as to how and when they joined forces in the drug smuggling business. One other piece of information coming from sources in Miami and Mexico is the fact that Mary Lunsford has been a lover to both Munoz’ and Ramirez. The lady keeps popping up with major drug kingpins. It is confirmed that she is now sleeping with Jorge Munoz. I plan on looking more into who Mary Lunsford is. Something isn’t right about her, regardless of her being a mole for the drug cartel and there appears to be a total hands-off approach in the DEA which I don’t understand”. J.Nichols

Domingo has a minor role in the growing and a major role in distribution of all illegal drugs coming through Mexico. It wasn’t known until recently we came to understand how important he is to the cartel. We were able to catch a man and woman coming across the border illegally and they were carrying ten pounds of pure heroin.

At first they were scared that the agents were part of the Ramirez cartel and were going to kill them. By the time the couple realized the agents weren’t part of the cartel and sent to kill them, they became very talkative about Domingo Chavez and his brutality. They backed up everything law the DEA and FBI already new or surmised about the man. The couple apparently worked for one of the lieutenants in the organization and decided to steal enough drugs to start a new life in the U.S. They said a big warehouse was just across the border and there boss was in charge of unloading and then reloading as the drugs were broken down into smaller shipments into the U.S.

The man spoke repeatedly of how brutal Chavez was and that he was in charge of all distribution and that no one smuggled drugs without his permission. Their boss spoke of Chavez as if he were a God. The couple was interviewed for several days before being put into the federal witness protection program. What came out of it was that all federal agencies feel Domingo Chavez is definitely in charge of all distribution from the Mexican-Texas border and now have solid evidence to prove it.

“Simon, upon further digging, I found out that a large group of agents went across the border and destroyed nearly 100 tons of cocaine and heroin located in the warehouse. I am surprised this raid didn’t make the newspapers, but it’s probably because we didn’t ask for permission from Mexican officials and the Mexican government would look bad for allowing this warehouse to be located so close to our border and them saying nothing about it. A friend in the FBI said they were concerned that it could have held explosives for future terrorist acts against the U.S. and that was the reason they gave Mexico How could they argue with that reasoning and not look like they were supporting world terrorism.” J. Nichols

Doroto Ramirez Chavez is probably the first female to ever be apart of a male dominated culture and illegal drug business in the eighties as her brother took over and created the Ramirez cartel. We believe she was actually the first female to be accepted in the business although she has repeatedly said she hasn’t any dealing’s with her brothers business, which is hollow sounding considering he has come out and said he was the number one drug kingpin. Her reply most of the time is people are jealous of her brothers business savvy and achievement. She usually spouts the communist mantra coming out of the entire region by the guerrilla organizations that plague Central and South America about how they are discriminated against and oppressed.

Her age is hard to pin point since there are no records but she looks to be in her mid to late thirties. Although no records of her education can be found, opinions formed by agency psychologists from watching interviews she has given after several court cases where she has represented her brother in absentee or a member of the cartel, say she is very well spoken and the appearance of a good finishing school education. Doroto also still has the looks of a model and her beauty appears to be natural and not from a plastic surgeon.

As with most all information dealing with legal documents concerning there lives, there is no information on when Domingo and Doroto married or had their two sons. Again, it is suspected that she married quite young, possible right after high school which would be sometime in the late seventies and then eventually had the two boys in the first five years of being married while she went to college.

She handles all legal issues pertaining to defending the cartel. She also handles the money side of the cartel and all its investments. She works out of Mexico City at a bank owned by the cartel but cannot be proved at this time. The name of the bank is Banco Financiero de Capital. There are more than two hundred people who work at the twenty-story building with the extremely darkened windows. It’s quite a site to see in the finical district of Mexico City. Many floors are block from the general public and guards are everywhere. They have a strong presence throughout the building.

Agents of both countries have tried to infiltrate and have either been severely beaten or disappeared while trying to investigate the bank. There is no evidence linking her to distribution other than being married to Domingo and that has only been proved recently. It is also apparent from the accounting investigative side of the DEA and FBI that all of their money trails appear to be legitimate. Both agencies have spent years looking at their finical statements when possible, due to Mexico’s stance on turning over information about the bank.

Doroto flies to and from Mexico City aboard her private jet, usually leaving the Chavez private landing strip in Juarez Monday morning and coming back in on Thursday evening. She and Domingo are never apart on the weekend. We are unsure as to what Domingo does while she is in Mexico City, we don’t think he has a mistress and has never been seen with another woman. It is suspected by authorities that during the time Doroto is working at the bank, is when he slips around checking processing sites and warehouses. The agency is not able to keep track of him because of the protection the man has and his fleet of aircraft. He will be in a car one minute and in one of his many corporate jets or helicopters the next. Every time a law enforcement agency informant is put in place it takes only a matter of months before he or she goes missing. The man makes any escape artist throughout history look like an amateur.

Next and probably the most important person to Carlos Ramirez and the cartel is Consuelo his only daughter. Once again, he has gone outside the norm in the Hispanic and Latin world and that is having a woman involved with a business predominately run by violent and ruthless men at that and she is worst than any of them. Perhaps that’s how she has achieved her fathers blessing in running such a large part of the cartel for him, is by being worse than the men. Her age is somewhere in the mid to late twenties and her college degree was in business although she doesn’t use it. She has commented that her real education is working with her father and understanding the illegal drug business. Recently she told reporters when asked at a film festival about her father and her involvement in his business as to why she was a part of it, she said it was like a game of cat and mouse and she got off on it.

Consuelo is not married or serous about any man in particular. Her love as she has commented on one occasion to reporters is her passion for her fathers business. She has been very blunt and in your face about what her father Carlos does for a living, which is the exact opposite of Doroto and her continual deniability of the illegal drug business. On one rare occasion in public at a restaurant the two got in a heated argument over the business and keeping a low profile. Carlos sat and watched non-committal as the two nearly scared each other eyes out.

She has been the easiest to get information on out of all the cartel family members due to her jet setter type of life style. There have been several American actors and musicians involved with her and twice mysterious drug overdoses for two of her musicians lovers. Her reply to reports after both deaths was very cold and to the point that the men should of enjoyed her as their drug of choice and not heroin. Consuelo also didn’t deny knowing about there drug habits, when asked if she knew about there drug habits.

One nationally known paparazzi reporter tried to trick her into saying something revealing about one of the young actors she had been seen with several times recently. She replied coldly that it was none of his business and that that her actor friend didn’t use drugs of any kind. She was his drug of choice, smiling seductively at the reporters. Consuelo had the looks to beat out any model and on most occasions she won over paparazzi, but they didn’t work for on this day, according to our agent watching. He tried several more times to get her to say some derogatory about the actor. Each time her anger became more and more apparent. She finally cursed at him and turned and walked back into the cinema.

It’s important to include in this summary and particularly about Consuelo that the reporter was found dead a few days later in Mexico City from a heroin overdose. Autopsy reports say he wasn’t a user and the amount of heroin injected into him would have killed several heavy addicts, the heroin tested at 90 percent pure. The man also looked to of been beaten severely before he was injected with the drug. His wrist showed bruising from being bound and the beaten came from what was probably an aluminum baseball bat. The reporter was beaten first and then injected with heroin according to the pathologist who performed the autopsy on the man. Our agent in charge was able to bribe the pathologist for the report on his cause of death.

When asked about the reporters death, Consuelo smiled and said he must have asked the wrong questions to someone else and they must of took offense. The lady said she was in Matamoros with her Aunt Doroto at the time. A convenient alibi but not necessarily the truth, our man in Mexico City said she was in town at the time of the reporters death.

The impression she gave at the time, was one of a cold and heartless individual. From that point on she hasn’t been seen with any American actors or musicians. It looks as if they all realized it was like sleeping with a black widow spider and keep their distance from her. She is now currently seen with several well-known Latin movie stars and musicians.

Consuelo stays at her father’s private island off the coast of Costa Azul most of the time. She prefers the pacific coast and its blue waters to the greener waters of the gulf coast side of Mexico. It should also be noted that she is never without guards, at least six men most of the time riding in an armored SUV behind her car which is a jet-black German sedan. Her main bodyguard is female and rides with her even when she has a date. Little is known about her or where she came from. Her nationality is also unknown, but suspected to be American or European due to skin and hair color.

When not at the island or Mexico City, Consuelo is seen most everywhere with her father, when he does make a rare appearance out in public. Carlos usually stays always from large crowds in public and prefers to move around without being seen. He only goes to restaurants with private eating rooms and only eats on the first floor. It appears as if he is scared to be trapped on a floor not close to the ground floor, which allows for a quick escape. Generally if you see one of them, the other is never far away in public.

Her closest confidant appears to be her fathers close friend General Emilio Delgado Perez, who is head of the Federal Police. The few times she is not with her father, Consuelo will then be seen with the General. It would be stretch to say that they could be lovers, but there is no hard data to prove it one way or the other. It’s when they are seen in public; the two individuals give the appearance of being a couple.

Recently, she was photographed dressed in military fatigues, practicing at both training camps previously mentioned in this summary, looking very comfortable in her surroundings. The time frame from one camp to the other was only a few weeks. It is apparent that she trains frequently according to the photographer who gave us the pictures. He wrote in his notes to us, that’s she frequents the camps bimonthly, for two week stays. And never the same camp twice in a row.

We started getting information from this photographer several months ago through our agent in Mexico City and his information dates back nearly two years. The man has been tracking the Ramirez cartel without their or our people knowing about it until he decided to come forward with pictures and notes voluntarily a few months ago. He said the violence and brutality of the Ramirez cartel had to be stopped.

The agent who took the pictures and information from him said the man gave the outward appearance of being deeply tormented by what he was witnessing as he took the pictures and once the agent looked at the packet later in the day, he added a side note before sending the packet to Washington D.C, that he would never have believed humans could actual be that brutal towards one another. The photographer said the pictures would speak for themselves as he turned and left the agent standing there with the packet and the agent in Mexico would have to agree with him.

“Another note of interest that is tragic Simon, and hurts our keeping up to date on Ramirez is the photographer who took pictures of Consuelo at the camp was killed two weeks later by Ramirez people when he was caught taking pictures of a brutal killing by Domingo’s himself at one of the processing sites along the northern border of Chihuahua. The photographer tried to get closer to the processing site than he should have and actually take pictures of Domingo killing the couple and was caught and executed immediately by Chavez’s guards. His assistant was far enough away to escape. With this news we also realized he had cameras and other devices monitoring the processing site.

The assistant turned over the pictures and hundreds of pages of notes about what he had been witnessing over the last several years to our agent in Mexico City. It was the wish of the man upon his death to have all information he had gathered about the Ramirez cartel turned over to us. The startling thing from all of this besides the loss of the man was that he specially mentions you personally Simon. He was an embedded reporter during both Gulf Wars and knew you from the first war. Apparently you saved his life during an attack somewhere in Kuwait by some of Saddam Hussein’s people.

The notes and pictures have allowed us to make quite a leap in understanding the scope of the Ramirez cartel iron fisted grip on Mexico. The disk marked number two will have photos of what the man witnessed over a two year period and the most recent pictures to date of the Ramirez family and there friends, if you care to call them that. There is a picture of you and him poising together from the Gulf War also, that is rather interesting.” J.Nichols

Again our one and only source close to the Ramirez family says Consuelo is proficient with both pistol and rifle and that includes both American and Russian made weapons. One other significant detail about her is she has been trained in the art of knife fighting and martial arts. There is no information though on whether she has a black belt of any kind. We are also not sure whom it is that taught the hand-to-hand combat or martial arts to her. That seems to be a closely guarded secret as well. At the present time, the only have satellite photos we have; along with the ones the photographer took show the man who was training Consuelo with various weapons at the shooting range but all hand-to-hand training was done inside a building. The man was definitely Latin and was wearing the same military fatigues as Consuelo so that tells us very little. The photographer was more interested in the atrocities against the people than the cartels people who were actually committing the crimes and they usually had their faces covered like the guerrilla groups in Colombia.

Analysts think the reason for her intensive training and the fact that she is with her father at all times when he is in public, is to act as a bodyguard for him. No one would suspect such a beautiful woman to be as deadly as any man, especially in a male dominated society like Mexico or South America. What better person to have guard you than your own daughter and a female that others wouldn’t think could cut your heart out or shoot you down in cold without blinking. The lady should never been underestimated if she becomes an adversary.

This summary now gets to General Emilio Delgado Perez and newly promoted General Guillermo Ruiz Perez. If the Ramirez family gives you the jitters, then these two men will give you the absolute shakes. Emilio is the head of the Mexican Federal Police and everyone in Mexico knows it all the way to the top. The Federal Police are more like the CIA and the State Police are closer to our FBI.

Guillermo is now the head of the State Police, after the untimely death of his boss. Ramirez has achieved something never before done when it comes to having the top two law enforcement positions in his pocket. The Colombian cartels of old could never have achieved this and Pablo Escobar was gunned down in order to prevent this from happening in Colombia.

At the same time as Carlos made his move to take over all drug distribution, General Perez did like wise with becoming the head of the Federal Police. He was part of the head of the agency staff in the Federal Police when both the number one and two men were killed in a car bombing out side of Guadalajara. The two men were taking part in a major marijuana raid out side of the city when the bombing occurred. Our one source inside the agency said Perez wasn’t even on the list to be the head of the federal police and it was a complete shock when he was picked.

The DEA would eventually learn that the President at that time was in trouble for taking money from many of the micro cartels that made of Mexico’s illegal drug trade before Ramirez consolidating them into one big cartel and that he had appointed Perez to the top spot. There is no proof of Carlos Ramirez having anything to do with his appointment. But the agency hasn’t ruled out that he did have and hand in his appointment.

Both men emphatically deny any association with Ramirez even though Emilio has been caught on film with him numerous times and Guillermo to this day can actually say he hasn’t been seen with Carlos, because there is nothing to link him with Carlos Ramirez at this time. But he has been seen in Matamoros with the Chavez family. He seems to be rather friendly with Doroto Chavez, which should be a dangerous situation for any man. Domingo is known for his insane jealousy when it comes to his wife.

The two men have also denied on many occasions when asked about Carlos Ramirez by reporters in Mexico about his being a drug king pin, that Ramirez is a businessman and say there is no proof to back accusations against the man of having anything to do with illegal drugs. When one reporter asked about the recent magazine article Carlos was interviewed by and his admitting to being the head of the Ramirez cartel, Emilio Perez said the article was an outright lie and the reporter was trying to make their country appear to be a safe heaven for drug smugglers and if the truth was known, the reporter was probably a racist.

The two men are cousins on there fathers side, hence the last name being the same and they are two of a kind when it comes to their violent nature and lust for women. Neither man is presently married or ever has been. Rumors abound that both men will ride through the small towns of Mexico and pick out the most beautiful women and have then sent to their homes. The young girls are never heard from again. The families never complain, because it would be pointless, since the two men are in charge of all the police in Mexico. There is also strong possibility of death for the rest of the girl’s family, if complaints arise.

Money is given to the families and that is documented by agents interviewing clergyman in several of the town’s smaller and poorer churches. Since the clergymen have no families to worry about, we find that some are willing to talk. Several nice churches have been built in town’s closet to where the Ramirez families have homes and those particular clergymen would say nothing and that is understandable. The family’s of the girls wouldn’t say anything and went as far as to say they had no daughters. The fear on their faces was evident to our agents trying to interview them. So our best guess is both men pay for the family’s silence. It’s a whole lot easier to take the money.

General Emilio Perez spends most of his time in and around Mexico City. He has a mansion like home 30 miles outside the southern end of the city located in Chalco at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range, but only spends weekend their. It is well guarded by what appears to be the Mexican military instead of his on Federal Police force. The guards could be part of Ramirez organization and not the actual military of Mexico. So far we haven’t been able to find out which is the case.

Considering what a man in his position income is and after having our own IRS do the math, it looks like the man has an income in the millions versus the hundred thousand a year he makes as head of the Federal Police. Further research turns up the man has numerous bank accounts in the Bahamas. He has repeatedly denied having the bank accounts and suggests they have him mixed up with someone else. When questioned about his house in Chalco he says he inherited money and invested wisely. No such documentation can be found to uphold his comment. The General and most of the members of the cartel are very good at denying any involvement with drug smuggling.

The General also has a very nice apartment in the city, which he stays at during the week unless business or pleasure takes him away from his penthouse apartment. The penthouse is located Avenue Chapultepec near the very exclusive Lomas De Chapultepec neighborhood in the Federal District and only a block from where Doroto lives during the week. It is also within a short distance of the Benito Juarez International Airport. Where he has a private jet parked in hanger waiting to fly out at moments notice. There are armed guards at the hanger 24 hours a day.

Emilio and Doroto have been seen dining together on several occasions but getting the information from staff personal at the restaurant’s is of course hard to get from them and unreliable at times. Because most of the restaurants visited have private dining areas, it’s hard for agents to witness the two being together. Again we find it amazing that the Emilio would take the chance in dining with Doroto unless allowed by Domingo. It may also be that the General and his cousin Guillermo make a formidable pair and would be tough to take on with the resources that both men have at their disposal. It can also be noted that the Ramirez cartel may have made their first mistake in putting two such men in place that are related and appear to be very close.

Emilio has at least four bodyguards with him at all times, even when he is at the Federal Police headquarters. He is a very cautious man. His staff is loyal and we lost one agent trying to turn one of them into an informer, late last year. The agent was found hacked to death in an alleyway outside the business district several weeks after disappearing one night. Since that operation went bad, the DEA is taking a hand’s off approach turning any of his people in charge of guarding him. Their loyalty is staunch and the head operations Daniel Steal put out in a interagency departmental memo stating not to try that type of operation again and to look for an alternative way with less risk to agents lives.

Agency lawyers trained in the field of tracking banking transactions are working the financial angle instead. When undeniable proof showing a link to the Perez’s money and the Ramirez cartel, the agency will try and turn the man by sending him a letter through our embassy in Mexico City. The letter will be sealed and no one will know what’s in the letter except, Daniel Steel and the Attorney General. If that doesn’t work Emilio Perez will extracted by a special ops team similar to the one used to hunt down Pablo Escobar and prosecuting him in the U.S.

Daniel Steel wants to use one of Ramirez own people against him, like General Emilio Perez. Mr. Steel doesn’t want to waste time or agents anymore trying to trap Carlos. He wants to get the man by using one of his very own people within the inner circle. By getting Emilio to talk, the DEA can hopefully trap Carlos by learning his transportation routes and secret modes of travel through Mexico.

Then and only then can Ramirez be apprehend and brought back secretly to the U.S. for prosecution, before Mexico or his family knows about it and can stop the DEA. It’s the only thing the drug kingpin is scared of happening to him. He knows he can’t bribe the judges in the U.S. or threaten them the way he does in Mexico.

General Guillermo Perez is a highly intelligent and skilled individual, with no ounce of mercy in him. He went to only the best private schools growing up in Mexico City. After graduating high school he became the exception by being allowed in the Colombian Military Cadet School. The rules for entrance into the academy were Colombian by birth. For reasons no one knows or can find out, Guillermo was admitted.

Upon graduating from the academy number one in his class, he was then offered a slot in the Superior War College after completing a two year assignment working with a special operations group that hunted down the leftist guerrillas that had been terrorizing the major cities of Colombia. He participated in large part of the action against leftist guerrillas trying to destabilize the Colombian government during the late seventies and on into the early eighties. It was the same for many of the Latin countries at the time and was largely sponsored by Fidel Castro and the Russians.

The strategy was to cause instability and unrest so the major practitioners of communism could get the poor and hungry to become believers in their doctrine. It was a lot easier to get the poor to believe in the teachings of communism than a person with a full stomach and a few dollars in his pocket. That doctrine had been working since the fifties when Castro first used it to take over Cuba.

All of this activity and political unrest took place during a period of tough economic times for Mexico, and other Latin American countries with the majority of there people being poor, and the United States was concerned. It would have been a large poke in the eye to the U.S to have a communist country on its southern border. By the time he completed his two years of being in the field and entered the advanced training, he held the rank of Major and was highly decorated.

From all the information that we could gather on the man, he spent most of his time in Colombia, instead of his own country. Once he completed advanced command training at the Superior War College, he did spend about two years on the southern border of Mexico fighting guerrillas coming across from Guatemala and made rank of Lieutenant Colonel at the end of that assignment.

Guillermo went back to Colombia a second time after finishing the assignment along the border. What is surprising is the fact that he was working with the paramilitary group called the AUC, fighting against the different leftist groups that plagued Colombia.. The exact amount of time is unclear because ether is no written orders for his being there. But we think that’s when he first met with Morales and Guzman or it may be that he actual was bolder in being seen with them. The cartels were getting tired of having family members kidnapped and hailed for ransom, so the drug kingpins fought back by creating their own paramilitary group. We were able to obtain two pictures of Guillermo talking with Morales and Guzman. He actually spent more time in Colombia than he did in Mexico.

“Simon, from every bit of information I can get my hands on about Guillermo , I cant figure out how he went to the schools he went as a child growing up, and then to be allowed into the Colombian Military academy which is unheard of for non citizens of Colombia, is definite proof that the man had a benefactor and a powerful one at that. The Superior War College is also a hard school to get into and is mainly for officers who are on a career path for general. It could be that he is really a Colombia citizen. If that’s the case then why have him in Mexico growing up an as kid unless it was to protect him. There is no information on his family and he has never mentioned them. My personal opinion Simon, about the man is that he is the most dangerous out the whole group. He is educated, ruthless and a warrior and most important someone is backing this guy, who is powerful or influential in there own rights.” J.Nichols

Sources in Colombia say the man was a great tactician and learned quickly how to set up ambushes. According to our source in the Colombian Army, Guillermo loved the American made Claymore mine and used it frequently in the majority of ambushes he staged. The officer who talked with our agent in Colombia said he relished in his work to the point that the officer thought the man was a absolute sadist. The Claymore did terrible things to the human body. The agent said the man he talked to actually turned pale as he talked of Guillermo.

The leftist groups had quite a large bounty on his head and for all their tough and boisterous talk about having his head, they usually left the areas very quickly for other mountainous regions when it became known Guillermo had arrived in their area of operation. He truly bask in the notoriety he was getting and continually interrogated captured leftist guerrillas about what the price on his head was, by the time he left Colombia the leftist had a half million dollars U.S. bounty on him.

Within a few months of his coming back from Colombia, he resigned his commission from the Army, which surprised his fellow officers considering how rapid he made it through the officer ranks. Guillermo held the rank of Colonel by the time he resigned and only had twelve years in the Army. That is no small feat in the Mexican Army, but the Colombian Army most likely the reason for his rank.

He was offered the position of second in command of the State Police upon his resigning from the Army. Again, it’s all circumstantial evidence as to whether there was any link to Ramirez or the Colombians, but many analyst are still scratching there heads as to how did a unknown military man all of a sudden end up in the number two spot in the State Police. Of course there were no loud complaints as to his being hired, which could be a very costly mistake for anyone who wanted to keep a job or their life. And then within one year and the accidental death of the man he would replace, he became the defacto head of the Sate Police.

The DEA and FBI are still looking into who actually recommend Guillermo for General. The promotion had to come from the Presidents cabinet and that tells us that Ramirez has someone in his pocket close to the top, if that is the person sponsoring Guillermo. We think that person could lead us to the General himself, if it is a cabinet member. Since the man stays close to Domingo Chavez we could actually get both of them at one time. It stands to reason that if we don’t get both then Guillermo could easily take over for Domingo Chavez and continue the distribution end of the business.

We now get to the last individual and family member in the Ramirez cartel and out of all of the members; we have on a small amount of information on the son of Domingo Chavez. His name is Thomas and he is the youngest and only son now, because of what happened in Rome and he has also sworn personal vengeance against you and your family Simon..

The young man is in his mid twenties and could be the worst of the bunch, due to his upbringing. He has only a private elementary and high school education, with no college education or military training. Unlike Carlos daughter or sister who has strong educational back grounds, he is more like his father and uncle. Thomas understands fully what it takes to head up this kind of illegal business and has the same ruthless cunning as the rest of his family to the point of possible being the worst of all of them.

Since the death of his brother Antonio, he now considers himself to be the next in line to take over for his father and although he spouts vengeance towards you Simon, our analyst’s think he is happy to have his older brother out of the way. Starting during his early teenage years, Thomas has either been at Domingo’s or General Guillermo Perez’s side. He has witnessed nearly every killing and punishment dealt out by his father since his teenage years. Psychologist think witnessing this kind of behavior from his father and close friend could turn an impressionable young boy into a homicidal monster.

Our agent in charge, down in the Juarez area convinced the main housekeeper to leave the Chavez’s employment and is now under protective custody in the U.S. along with her family, which was part of the deal she struck. The woman was well aware of what would happen to her family if she disappeared. According to the lady when you were hired by Doroto Chavez, it was told to the person being hired up front, that complete loyalty was expected and never discussing with anyone what went on at the Chavez home was the absolute rule. To do so could mean death for you or your family. When asked by our agent why she went to work for the Chavez family, the housekeeper answered, that she went to work for them because of the money the Chavez family paid her. It was four times what she could make anywhere else in Mexico. The price she paid for working for them was worth it, because her sons were able to go to the best schools and that was important if you wanted a good job in Mexico.

The woman during her debriefing, told the agents of what a monster Thomas has become. Many a young girl hired as housemaids was either assaulted or disappeared altogether during the time this housekeeper was employed. She said, she had been working at the Chavez house for five years. It became hard for the Chavez’s to get the locals to let their daughters go to work for them. From that point on no more local girls worked in the Chavez house. Only older women were hired, that would be of interest to Thomas.

One other critical piece of information the housekeeper told us about Thomas Chavez. Apparently, American female preferable blonde started showing up every couple of months, after the local girls stopped coming to the hacienda. As far as the housekeeper knew, Domingo Chavez didn’t see to care what his son was doing.

When ask about the females, the housekeeper said she thought they were American, because of the blonde hair and sunburn. Were they came from she did not know. They were locked in a room in the forbidden area below the main house. None of the help is allowed down there. You would disappear like one young boy did, who ventured down to the dungeon saying he wasn’t scared. She called the area the dungeon and crossed herself every time she talked of it. If you were a guest of the dungeon you were never seen or heard from again. She said she had only been down there once when Thomas had asked her to carry large plastic bags the size a human, down to a particular room. The place smelled of death she said.

We think the young woman may have actually been a part of a larger group of young American girls who are disappearing along the gulf coast of Mexico in record numbers lately. This would also include several of the Bahama Islands also. We showed her picture to the housekeeper but she didn’t recognize her except to say she looks like all the others. So there is pattern to the types of missing girls Thomas Chavez prefers or it could be his father or even both which is a sick thought.

The FBI is investigating that possibility with a high importance, since the daughter of a family went missing along the coast after visiting one of the local bars one night. This particular family has a lot of clout in the political arena and is raising all kinds of hell for the State Department and law enforcement to do something. You have probably seen her parents on television, their name is Moore. Their daughters name is Abigail or Abby as she is known by to her friends. This has been a problem for many years, but now that there might possible have a link between the Chavez family and missing American girls, the FBI decided to put a large effort into the investigation.

One last detail about Thomas that is very important and anyone who tries and arrest the young man, definitely needs to know about him, is that he has was trained by General Guillermo Perez personally. The house keeper confirmed this to be true and said he used actual people from poorer towns throughout Mexico to train with. They were brought in my truck and locked in a building away from the main house.

She described Thomas to us as being five and half feet tall and weighing at least one hundred and eighty pounds. He has scar down the left side of his right cheek about three inches long. He received it from one of his forced training partners. The housekeeper said he did terrible things to the man after receiving the cut. Thomas also has a tattoos own both arms. On his right arm is a cross with a snake wrapped around it. And on the left is a scorpion with its tail raised and ready to strike, in its right pincer is a human. They are both large tattoos and cover most of his upper arms. She also said he had one own his back but didn’t know what it was. It could be seen from the collar of his shirt.

If this young man takes over for his father someday, he will more than likely take illegal drug smuggling to a new level in violence. His father has turned his son into a bloodthirsty psychopath who thinks he is above the law and since his earliest days it looks to hold true.

“Simon, this is everything we have so far on the Ramirez cartel. The information and pictures given to us by Judd Martian was instrumental in showing the agency just how well his cartel is set up and run. I think the pictures speak volumes of how the cartel has become so powerful. Violence is first and foremost with Ramirez, but always away from the general population. I met with Judd Martian’s sister to pick up his information and she hopes we can do something about justice or revenge for her brother. She is the reporter in this summary who interviewed Carlos.

Marty wants me to remind you to destroy these disks when you are finished with them. If they fell into the wrong hands it quite possible that Judd Martians sister could be killed. No one except Marty, you and myself know about the pictures. Marty has the original sealed and in his safe. He hopes to use the pictures as evidence against the cartel if we can extradite them some day in the future. J.Nichols.

I hope this information above sheds a little light into my make believe drug cartel.