Who is the legendary Cuban narco linked to Irma Serrano

On July 2, 1975, what could be considered the first drug “lord” to achieve fame in Mexico fell in Mexico City.

The arrest took place in a house located at 180 Nieve Street, in the exclusive neighborhood of Jardines del Pedregal, south of the capital.

The narco in question was “bedridden, with a broken hand and next to a gunat the time of his arrest.

It was about Alberto Sicilia Falcon, Cuban born April 30, 1945, pioneer in the large-scale trafficking of marijuana and cocaine from Latin America to the United States.

The capture of Sicily, which by then had already risen to the top of the socialite socialite Mexican at the time, discovered a series of complicities with Mexican politicians and show business personalities.

One of them was the actress Irma Serranodied on March 1 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, and who at the time was said to have had a connection with Sicilia Falcón.

Journalistic versions of the time indicate that “La Tigresa” served as a guarantee for Sicilia Falcón to rent the house where the drug trafficker lived in Pedregaland whose owner was a person named Dolores Olmedo.

An anecdote that illustrates the possible sentimental link of “La Tigresa” with Sicilia Falcón are the alleged threats she made against the political class to, on the one hand, avoid being investigated, and to somewhere else, do everything possible to help your “friend” and your “boyfriend”according to the version of the historian Froylan Enciso in his book “Our history of narcotics”.

“La Tigresa”, who was also a lover of the former president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, said she could say a lot about “the real drug lords”. However, he announced that he would not say anything without “the authorization of President Echeverría”.

“President Echeverria?asked the reporters. “Very curious», the lawyer at the time, Pedro Ojeda Paullada, limited himself to answering.

Irma Serrano has died aged 89. Although the news was confirmed on the morning of Wednesday March 1, unofficial sources assured that he would have died around 1 a.m. in a hospital in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, where he is already veiled and that later this will be done. .a tribute to Mexico City, being the famous Teatro Mrs Mrs the area considered.

On April 30, 1976, the press announced that it had been taken over. Falcon Alberto Siciliawho had escaped four days before the dreaded prison of lecumberri in the Mexico City.

The Cuban escaped through a tunnel 80 centimeters wide and 40 meters long which connected cell number 30 of the Bay L with a house in San Antonio Tomatlán street, in the current town hall of Venustiano Carranza.

Sicilia Falcón was linked from an early age to the Central Intelligence Agency the United States (CIA) and the relationships he made there allowed him to become a young 23-year-old precursor large-scale cocaine trafficking Colombia until Miami.

Presumably, his million dollar business in Mexico may have run it with another agency that aspired to be another North American CIA, the controversial Federal Directorate of Security (DFS). This is how he operated from the border town of Tijuanain Baja California.

Juan Ramon Matta Ballesteros, he Negroa former Honduran drug trafficker sentenced to 12 life sentences in the United States, introduced Sicilia Falcón to Santiago Ocampo Zuluaga del Cali Cartel. But Central America would also serve as a link between the cartels of the South American country and Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, who rose in the Mexican Mafia after going through the Sinaloa Judicial Police and would found the old Guadalajara Cartel.