New Identity

there in Venezuela. Fernando blank Hills s s says that his longtime employers in Sinaloa, the executives of a massive multinational corporation, the contracts with thousands of people from all walks of life, including both elected and appointed, the government officials and states across the globe, brought him out of his semi retirement in England and sent him to Venezuela

to oversee airshipping logistics for their company. Blank Hill says that his friends in Sinaloa successfully negotiated a lucrative business partnership with the Fox administration of Mexico and the javism and Station Minezuela to move industrial quantities of cocaine and other illicit commodities in Venezuela to Mexico. But before he could make his move, however, he'd need a new identity.

Fernando Blankio Sisna had been compromised after the arrest and collaboration of his former business partner and kidnapper Steve so Blankio decided to make a trip to Vinda, Can and purchase a new identity. I had to plan that gives me peace of mind. In this case, I had to meet Can. I have good friends there Chavinda. I use it as a place of birth, and I produce a birth certificate. Well I asked for it, but an authentic one, a legally valid document. So I have a mnis Alfaro

born in Charinda. Blankio refers to Tavinda as a tiny little town where the civil registry has not yet been digitized, and thus a place where he can oversee that his new birth certificate is properly deposited in the original files. I think he used the story of rural undocumented migrants dying tragically in the US to explain rules, lack of living relatives and his parents lack of documentation. I also gather an old register to vote and obtain his boting license,

which is used as an official idea in Mexico. What's the story, Well, the story is that he's the son of undocommented immigrants who die on the side of the border. He becomes an orphan. The little learns, He learns to fly, he learns English, he learns everything there is to know

about aviation. Thank you. Also purchased Roles pilot's license, his duly registered bank accounts, and set up his airplane business, first thing Lada and later in the coastal resort town of Watulco raoul Hi Minnsalfaro then began to make his first business trips. Setting up by business, I began to take my first trips to Venezuela to build relationships with the individuals could being recommended to me. They make my ablutions, study the area, the possibilities, and begin my first job.

He says that he went to meet his Colombian suppliers and his Venezuelan business partners, whom he described as the national Guard, politicians, et cetera. His job was, he said, to check things out, organized and set everything up and get to work coordinating two weekly drug flights from mike Ata International Airport in Caracas to Toluca International Airport in Mexico.

The first and you did a new plane. We am a link to c which is a plane that has the self sufficiency to make the Venezuela Mexico root without layovers. A Turbo brown and then they got to work. During his interviews with Fernando blank and Sisena, reporter Manuelarius asked him point blank, do you consider yourself a pilot or a drug trafficker? Blank You responded Plotoolo alas Alasia mentally transport vista belopo blansport Vista, which loosely translated me, I'm

a professional pilot. I leave drug trafficking to the government fallacies. I am a cargo shipper, That's what I am. A cargo pilot. Man. You took Blankio's adam and self identification here as a transportista or cargo pilot as the title of the podcast that he and that the Diva produced, and there really is no doubt that Fernando blank Insig is in fact a transportista, a professional cargo pilot with decades of experience lying both lissit and illicit cargo. That said,

Blankio wasn't just a pilot. During the next part of his story, In fact, blenk You himself supplies the testimony to his participation in what we might call his side hustles. My name somehow is still John Gibbler in this in a sense is Transportista episode eight Traffic. Once he was set up with a new plane, blank you, acting as Raoul, him and Selfaro started dabbling in both drug trafficking and

human smuggling in Venezuela to Mexico. With that plane, I start to get a little mischievous, so to say the sparking Chinese people. I would get paid twelve thousand dollars per handing, and I would pay, if my memory serves me, well, four thousand per heading with everything fixed on the Mexican airport.

He paid another one thousand five per person two authorities at the Venezuelan airport and thus, but not exactly precise math, he said, if I handless to get out, so at six thousand dollars of net profit were left for me, You've toast me six thousand and I kept six thousand. So it was a providable business. Right If link you paid twelve tho dollars per migrant, justify them from Venezuela to Mexico. Imagine what each person would have had to

pay for their entire trip. This is, of course, assuming that these were in fact undocumented migrants and not victims of human trafficking, but that wasn't all that link you took on those flights, and the police knows. I would staff two hundred killos of drugs, which I discretely loaded, so to say, and when I arrived said to him Coom,

I would end my international flight plan. They were happy with the undercommented immigrant business, and I would embark on a domestic flight from Cancuntaha to my hangers and calmly unload my two hundred kills which was extremely providable. Thank You says here that the two kilos were his. They, along with the human smuggling activities, were side hustles, it seems, and thus, in addition to being a transportista, it seems

he was also a bit of a traffic county. According to his own telling, he was able to keep this up and profit handsomely for some three years, from two thousand three to two thousand six. Thank You described this time wistfully. By that time in Venezuela, I had control, so to say, with successfully completed severnal will do as in the lead. Yet I have both three of them at the time, even a Leerd threty six, the most

capable one, which I used as a personal plane. I would come down with our own money stuffed up to ten million dollars in a secret compartment. The National Guard was our personal guard. We had all the comforts and conveniences we had the world other feet. We were working more than ever with unexpected conveniences in every sense of the world, both in Mexico and in Venezuela. We had projects in Nicaragua, business in Panama, our company in El Salvador,

we were expanding. Those were at the best moments in their transport. For what he means, because he was the businessman, is final the throes of such fond nostalgia. Here, once again he refers to his relationships with women as if they were just one more luxury commodity available to him through his money and power. He says that after living in England with his wife, when he returned to his drug trafficking activities in Minezuela, inherent to them, he said,

quote are the ladies in the quote. He then proceeds to brag about how literally quote barbarous end quote it was to be quote in the thick of so many Venezuelan and so many Colombian women in the quote. Here's what he said. Ms. Raina that is a graphico was in the area bush the Columbiana I will seeks see,

visited the Manawa. I include this year because I think it is essential to notice how a lifelong mid level male participant in the business described so proudly systematic exploitation of women as an inherent feature of the global drug trafficking and drug war industries. Blinkio describes his happy memories of driving around Caracas in a luxury BMW with the Venezuela National Guard as his personal security detail, sporting collector's edition jeweled watches, and he says quote being with so

many women. In the quote, he brags about being with Miss Venezuela and Miss Germany, all his wife and child wait for him in England. Miss Germany in fact plays a part and how he tells the story of the infamous Cocaine one I King of the World and a huge sucker. Fun was in the process of buying a Falcon fifty to flight didically to Germany and enjoy the

World Cup with my friends. A Falcon fifty capable of crossing the Atlantic on direct flights was then valued at around fifteen million dollars blank, he says with business booming and feeling himself to be king of the world. Blink, you wanted to take a vacation, having a German girlfriend and miss Germany and the World Cup just around the corner. I decided to see his operagons starting February two thousand and six so that nothing could get in the way

of my World Cup dream. So, in his own telling, blink he was getting everything ready to go on vacation in Germany for the two thousand six World Couple. Then one of his Colombian business partners, he says, started pasting him to make one more little trip for closing a show. One of the partners, Frank Negro col call me Chuki

or insisted on doing abuilta. We have merchandise lying around ready, little Chuki U Luise Franco Candello, and Blaki refers to as El Negro Francs, a Colombian drive trafficker with whom Blas he says he worked during his self described golden years in Venezuela, that he was now in prison in the United States. Blinkio says that that you kept after him, so he keeps his assisting on talks me into it, and I decided to send that plane to go on

with high tons. That plane, of course, is the DC nine busted and Campechy the worst mistake in my life not being faithful to my plans to the first choice, that was not doing anything until after the World Cup, and that's how we all ended up in the worst catastrophe in the history of my arial operations Next Time. Transportista is a detective at production with Exile Content Studio

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