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Los MattaFundado por Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, encarcelado de cadena perpetua en los EEUU. Su hijo es Juan Ramón Matta Waldurraga "Matta Waldurraga is the son of Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros, who was one of Honduras’ most influential drug traffickers during the 1980s. Matta Ballesteros was even a US ally during the so-called Iran-Contra scandal, the illegal operation that took place under the administration of former US President Ronald Reagan that used money from arms sales to Iran to organize a guerrilla insurgency in Honduras against the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. In exchange for his collaboration, Matta Ballesteros secured alliances and pacts with the Honduran elites that made him the primary ally of the Medellín Cartel." -- Another Honduras Narco Negotiates Plea Deal With US 10/13/2017 Insight Crime Honduras Elites and Organized Crime: Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros 4/9/2016 Insight Crime: "In interviews for this report, current and former officials routinely referred to Matta Waldurraga as his father’s successor in the drug trade, as well as a person who manages government contracts and serves as a kind of informal bank for the underworld. But the recent seizures were not accompanied by a public order for his arrest, and Matta Waldurraga has never been charged with a crime in Honduras. In declarations to the press, Matta Waldurraga called the 2014 seizure operation a “payasada,” a joke, and said the property was inherited from his grandmother.103 The family also protested the government’s confiscation of its property, but there was little it could do. The properties, the Honduran government said, were purchased with illegal proceeds and were thus subject to confiscation under a new law the government had passed just two years earlier." One reason Matta Ballesteros is still in jail is because of his involvement in the torture and murder of DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena in 1985. Matta was put in place by Cuban CIA agent Felix Rodriguez in the 1980's.
Una razon por lo cual Matta Ballesteros esta todavia en
una carcel EEUU es por su participacion en la tortura y
el asesino del agente de la DEA Enrique "Kiki" Camarena en 1985. Matta
fue instalado en su posicion por el agente cubano de la CIA Felix
Rodriguez, en la ochenta. |
Honduras pedirá en extradición a Ramón Matta Waldurraga 12/31/2019 La
Prensa: "Después de dar cumplimiento a una orden de captura en el aeropuerto
internacional El Dorado, en Bogotá, autoridades de la Policía Nacional de
Colombia mantienen detenido a Ramón Matta Waldurraga, quien será pedido en
extradición por la justicia hondureña. Marlon Duarte, representante legal de
Matta en Honduras, expresó a LA PRENSA que en ningún momento su defendido ha
evadido la justicia hondureña, ya que él se presentó de forma voluntaria en 2017
a Nueva York procedente de Colombia, por lo cual después del proceso judicial
regresó a ese país."
Requieren en Colombia a Ramón Matta Waldurraga 12/30/2019 La
Prensa: "Después de recibir una condena de tiempo servido, cumpliendo 26 meses
de reclusión, Matta recobró su libertad en EUA el pasado mes de octubre. “Le han
dictado una sentencia de tiempo servido, es decir, Estados Unidos se siente
satisfecho por los años que pasó en este proceso Ramón Matta, por eso
prácticamente lo dejan libre”, dijo su abogado en Honduras, Marlon Duarte."
Dejan libre a Ramón Matta Waldurraga tras dos años detenido en EEUU 10/4/2019 La
Prensa: "Al momento de declararse culpable, Matta Waldurraga declaró ante el
juez: “Yo viví en colombia. Tengo doble nacionalidad con Honduras. Algunas
personas de Honduras se pusieron en contacto conmigo en 2005. Estas personas
recibirían drogas porque tenían la infraestructura para recibir botes de motor
rápido y avionetas, para que yo los pusiera en contacto con personas que tenían
drogas y para que tuvieran las infraestructuras para llevar las drogas de
Colombia a Honduras”. En su declaración, Matta Waldurraga agregó: “Y lo hice
varias veces, de hecho. Siempre fui el intermediario entre los dos puntos.
Participé en conversaciones para que la droga fuera de Colombia a Honduras y
finalmente, la gente hondureña continuaría la ruta de México a Estados Unidos”,
especificó el hondureño."
Ramón Matta Ballesteros habla desde una cárcel de EEUU tras 31 años cumpliendo
cadena perpetua por narcotráfico 12/11/2018 La Prensa: "Matta Ballesteros
es un excapo vinculado con el Cartel de Medellín por medio de Griselda Blanco y
Pablo Escobar y el Cartel de Guadalajara por medio de Miguel Ángel Felix
Gallardo. El 5 de abril de 1988, cuando finalizaba sus ejercicios matutinos, en
allanamiento a su propia casa en la ciudad de Tegucigalpa fue detenido por
Alguaciles de los Estados Unidos, y enviado a ese país para ser juzgado y
condenado por el secuestro y asesinato del agente de la DEA Enrique Camarena
Salazar, así como por otros cargos."
Another Honduras Narco Negotiates Plea Deal With US 10/13/2017 Insight
Crime: "After the operation, the police said that Matta Waldurraga had operated
a drug trafficking operation from the San Esteban estate in the department of
Olancho. Authorities allege this is where he received drugs from Colombian
suppliers that he then sent to the United States. According to El Heraldo, Matta
Waldurraga also had state contracts in the private security and hydroelectric
generation sectors." [Hence his links with people from Group Laeisz.]
Fiscalía de Honduras tras la organización criminal de Matta Waldurraga 6/23/2017 El
Heraldo: "En fecha 31 de octubre de 2007, José Miguel Handal Larach vendió un
inmueble ubicado en Punta Gorda, Omoa, Cortés, a Joaquín Martínez Meza por la
cantidad de 50 mil lempiras. Posteriormente, Martínez Meza le donó la propiedad
a Raquel Tatiana Núñez Pagoaga, quien el 25 de abril de 2013 se lo vendió por la
cantidad de cuatro millones 150 mil 422 lempiras a Julia Esther Estrada Guzmán,
quien actuó como representante legal de la sociedad denominada Scarius Marine.
Este tipo de transacciones continuaron. Entre otros casos está que en octubre y
noviembre de 2007 Handal Larach, por 300 mil y 100 mil lempiras, también vendió
dos inmuebles a los señores Mario Enrique Zelaya Cabrera y Juan Carlos Escalón
Carbajal, quienes en el 2013 le donaron los terrenos a Raquel Tatiana Núñez
Pagoaga, quien el 25 abril de 2013 vendió tales inmueble a la sociedad Scarius
Marine."
ENEE le aprobó un contrato a empresa de Matta Waldurraga 6/18/2017 El
Heraldo: "El 31 de julio de 2013, la Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica
(ENEE) le otorgó un contrato de suministro de energía eléctrica con fuentes
renovables a la empresa Generadora de Energía Hidroeléctrica Las Piedras,
representada por Juan Ramón Matta Waldurraga. Mediante el decreto legislativo
336-2013 publicado el 16 de mayo de 2014 en La Gaceta número 33,428, se aprobó
el contrato de suministro de Energía Eléctrica con fuente renovables suscrito
por la ENEE el 31 de julio de 2013 con la Empresa Generadora de Energía
Hidroeléctrica Las Piedras."
Honduras Elites and Organized Crime: Juan Ramón Matta Ballesteros 4/9/2016 Insight
Crime: "In interviews for this report, current and former officials routinely
referred to Matta Waldurraga as his father’s successor in the drug trade, as
well as a person who manages government contracts and serves as a kind of
informal bank for the underworld. But the recent seizures were not accompanied
by a public order for his arrest, and Matta Waldurraga has never been charged
with a crime in Honduras. In declarations to the press, Matta Waldurraga called
the 2014 seizure operation a “payasada,” a joke, and said the property was
inherited from his grandmother.103 The family also protested the government’s
confiscation of its property, but there was little it could do. The properties,
the Honduran government said, were purchased with illegal proceeds and were thus
subject to confiscation under a new law the government had passed just two years
earlier.104"
An Arrest in Florida Could Mean Trouble in Honduras 8/4/2014 Insight
Crime: "There have been persistent rumors about the Matta Ballesteros family’s
continued involvement in drug trafficking, although this is the first known
action the Honduran government has taken against the family or its properties.
There are still no known charges against any member of any of these prominent
underworld families in Honduras. But given the recent actions against the Valle
family, there is every reason to believe members of the Matta Ballesteros and
the Rivera Maradiaga families could face indictments in the US very soon."
Property Seizures of CIA Linked Narco Latest Blow Against Honduras Impunity 8/4/2014 Insight
Crime: "Matta Ballesteros was Honduras’ first known major international drug
trafficker. He served as an intermediary between Colombia’s Medellin Cartel and
Mexico’s Guadalajara Cartel. According to La Tribuna, he amassed a fortune of
more than $2 billion and at one point offered to pay off Honduras’ external
debt. Matta Ballesteros allegedly had ties to high-level officials in Honduras
and it is rumored he even financed a military coup in 1978. He also had dealings
with the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which used his airline company to
transport weapons, food and other supplies to the Nicaraguan rebels known as the
Contras, who were fighting a proxywar against the Sandinista government."
Docs Reveal CIA-Guadalajara Link, Not Conspiracy 11/13/2013 Insight
Crime: "At first glance, they seemed like wild assertions: in October, the
Mexican magazine Proceso and Fox News, based on interviews with two former
agents and a former contractor, said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had
executed Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena in
1985, after Camarena discovered the agency’s plan to finance the CIA’s proxy
army in Central America, the Contras, using illicit drug funds. The details were
sketchy — reports of a CIA asset recording the torture session came via Mexican
informants, for instance — but the sources were strong. Ex-DEA agent Phil Jordan
once headed the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC); Hector Berrellez was a DEA
supervisor on the case; and Tosh Plumlee was a former CIA contract pilot who
worked with SETCO, a Honduran-based airline owned by Honduran drug trafficker
Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros."
What Will Congress Do About New CIA-Drug Revelations? 6/19/2000 Independent: "Perhaps
the most egregious example is that of the Honduran trafficker Juan Ramon Matta
Ballesteros. Matta had been identified by the DEA in 1985 as the most important
member of a consortium moving a major share (perhaps a third, perhaps more than
half) of all the cocaine from Colombia to the United States. The DEA also knew
that Matta was behind the kidnapping of a DEA agent in Mexico, Enrique Camarena,
who was subsequently tortured and murdered. A public enemy? Yes. But Matta was
also an ally of the CIA. Matta’s airline, SETCO, was recorded in U.S. files as a
drug-smuggling airline. It was also the chief airline with which the CIA
contracted to fly supplies to the Contra camps in Honduras. When the local DEA
office began to move against Matta in 1983, it was shut down. Though Matta’s
whereabouts were well- known, the United States did not arrest and extradite him
until 1988, a few days after Congress ended support for the Contras."
WRITTEN STATEMENT OF CELERINO CASTILLO III, (D.E.A., RETIRED) FOR THE HOUSE
PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE 4/27/1998 Powderburns: From
Oliver North Diary, with Note by Cele Castillo - "May 14, 1986, I spoke to Jack
O'Conner DEA HQS Re: Matta-Ballesteros. (NOTE: Juan Ramon Matta-Ballesteros was
perhaps the single largest drug trafficker in the region. Operating from
Honduras he owned several companies which were openly sponsored and subsidized
by C.I.A.)"
Former Honduran president to be charged in U.S. extradition case 2/11/1997 AP: "The
federal prosecutors office said Tuesday it will file charges against a former
president for illegally helping U.S. agents capture a drug trafficker. Former
President Jose Azcona Hoyo and several top officials face charges in connection
with the 1988 seizure of Juan Ramon Matta Ballestero, prosecutors said in a
statement Tuesday. Azcona, however, is immune from prosecution because he
represents Honduras on a regional government body. Congress would have to lift
his immunity in order for charges to proceed. Matta, a high-level drug
trafficker, was wanted in connection with the 1985 kidnapping, torture and
murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officer Enrique Camarena in Mexico."
UNITED STATES v. MATTA BALLESTEROS 12/1/1995 FindLaw: "Appellant Juan Ramon
Matta-Ballesteros appeals his convictions following jury trial on the following
charges: ?(1) committing a crime of violence in aid of racketeering in violation
of 18 U.S.C. § 1959; ?(2) conspiring to kidnap a federal agent engaged in his
official duties in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201(c); ?and (3) kidnapping a
federal agent engaged in his official duties in violation of 18 U.S.C. §
1201(a)(5). Matta-Ballesteros contends that the district court lacked
jurisdiction over him and committed various reversible errors during his trial.
We reject his arguments and affirm his convictions."
Section of Pamphlet released as part of Nancy Spannaus' campaign for U. S. Senate, Virginia 8/1/1994 American Almanac: "The people Ollie North worked with in the Contra operation could make up an international police lineup of drug traffickers and terrorists. Here are some of his most notable associates: {{Juan Ramo@aan Matta Ballesteros:}} This Honduran cocaine kingpin was convicted in July 1990 of conspiracy to kidnap, torture, and murder DEA agent Enrique Camarena. {The Los Angeles Times} (July 7, 1990) said that Ballesteros ``is reputed to be one of the world's biggest drug kingpins.'' At the time of the Camarena affair, Matta Ballesteros was the owner of a Honduran charter airline, SETCO Air, that was paid over half-a-million dollars by the U.S. State Department to airlift ``humanitarian aid'' to the Contras in a program run by Ollie North from the White House. Other funds, drawn directly from secret North-Secord bank accounts in Switzerland, were also funneled into SETCO Air. The Kerry Report states: ``SETCO was the recipient in 1986 of $185,924, in State Department NHAO office funds for the transportation of humanitarian assistance to the FDN [Contras] based in Honduras. A 1983 U.S. Customs Service report stated that `SETCO aviation is a corporation formed by American businessmen who are dealing with Matta and are smuggling narcotics into the United States.' The Matta referred to in the report is Juan Matta Ballesteros, a major cocaine trafficker in the region, and wanted by U.S. law enforcement agencies for the brutal murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena in Mexico.'' An Aug. 9, 1985 entry by Oliver North into his notebook removes any shadow of a doubt that North was fully aware of the Contra-cocaine connection: ``Honduran DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into U.S.'' The Honduran plane referenced by North was owned by Matta Ballesteros."
onodo.org/visualizations/14704 visualization of the organization of drug trafficker Matta Waldurraga
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Matta-Ballesteros
From Oliver North Diaries with Note by Cele Castillo, DEA
"May 14, 1986, I spoke to Jack O'Conner DEA HQS Re:
Matta-Ballesteros. (NOTE: Juan Ramon
Matta-Ballesteros was perhaps the single largest drug trafficker in the region.
Operating from Honduras he
owned several companies which were openly sponsored and subsidized by C.I.A.)"
The CIA & Drugs - Narco-colonialism in the 20th Century
Interview with Berrellez, DEA lead on second Kiki investigation,
implicating CIA agent Felix Rodriguez and Matta in Kiki kidnapping. See La CIA, Camarena y Caro Quintero: La historia secreta, 2014 |
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