Anabel Hernández

A groundbreaking insider's look at the world of Mexican drug cartels, told through the eyes of a former member and the star witness in the trial of El Chapo. The Sinaloa Cartel is widely believed to be the most powerful drug cartel in the world, led by the legendary Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and, until his arrest, Joaqu n "El Chapo" Guzm n. In 2009, El Mayo's son, Vicente Zambada Niebla, himself a high-ranking figure in the organization, was arrested and extradited to stand trial in the United States, where he would become a key witness in the case against El Chapo. The Traitor is Zambada's story, told in his own words, as recorded in his private journal and in the documents he drafted as part of his plea deal. Anabel Hern ndez, one of the most dedicated chroniclers of the Mexican drug trade, weaves together this firsthand testimony with her own shocking research to craft a stunning expos of life inside Mexico's drug cartels. She names names, introducing readers to the myriad figures who people this dangerous world. A dazzling feat of reportage, The Traitor is a deep dive into a multibillion-dollar criminal enterprise.

«Mi historia se entrelaza con la de una multitud de personajes bastante complejos y pertenecientes a todos los mbitos, cuento con mucha informaci n que le servir para completar sus investigaciones. Temo por mi vida. No s cu l sea mi destino, mi vida est en manos de Dios, pero debo descargar toda la informaci n que he acumulado antes de que algo me pase. - Celeste V. Tras publicar Emma y las otras se oras del narco y convocar a romper el pacto de impunidad dentro de los c rteles de la droga, Anabel Hern ndez recibi un inquietante mensaje. Mujeres y hombres respondieron al llamado, revelando los secretos del mundo en el que han vivido. Es as como Celeste, quien durante m s de una d cada fue pareja sentimental de Arturo Beltr n Leyva, se convierte en la gu a de un viaje por el infierno donde ella vivi y conoci a los jefes de la droga m s temidos de los ltimos tiempos. Por medio de un testimonio descarnado y sin censura, el lector sube a una monta a rusa y hace un recorrido por el inframundo del narcotr fico. En diversas partes del trayecto, junto con los jefes de la droga, aparecen funcionarios p blicos, empresarios y pol ticos en reuniones, llamadas telef nicas y grabaciones. En otros tramos, se ve caminar con tacones altos a decenas de mujeres cuya presencia motiva y perpet a la maquinaria criminal. Celeste no solo abunda en detalles sobre las famosas Ninel Conde y Galilea Montijo y su v nculo con Arturo Beltr n Leyva, sino que revela la interacci n de otras famosas como Mariana R os, Dorismar, Betty Monroe, Karla Luna, Karla Panini, Patricia Navidad o la socialit Violeta Vizcarra, una de las encargadas de enganchar a las famosas para llevarlas ante el l der de los Beltr n Leyva. En el ltimo tramo, la autora explora infiernos paralelos al de Celeste, incluyendo el propio. Asiste al juicio contra Genaro Garc a Luna en Nueva York, donde se encuentra con su esposa Linda Cristina Pereyra. Y, finalmente, se adentra en los n cleos familiares de los Chapitos, cuyo momento criminal est en auge. «El infierno en el que ellas "aman" es el mismo que nos consume como sociedad y naci n. Es a trav s de las se oras del narco y su interacci n con los jefes de la droga que puede derribarse la barrera y no solo conocer los perfiles criminales, sino la psique de quienes comandan. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "My story is entangled with that of a multitude of quite complex characters coming from all walks of life, I have a lot of information that will help you complete your investigations. I fear for my life. I don't know what my destiny holds, my life is in God's hands, but I must handover all the information I have accumulated before something happens to me." -CELESTE V. After publishing Emma and Other Narco Women and calling to break all impunity pacts within the drug cartels, Anabel Hern ndez received a disturbing message. Men and women responded to the call, revealing many secrets of the world in which they have lived. This is how Celeste, who was Arturo Beltr n Leyva's partner for over a decade, becomes the guide on a journey through the hell where she lived and where met the most feared drug lords of recent times. With her raw, candid, and uncensored testimony, the reader takes a roller coaster ride through the underground world of drug trafficking. In various parts of the journey, alongside the drug bosses, we see many public officials, businessmen, and politicians engaging either in meetings, phone calls, or recordings. In other sections, we see dozens of women in high heels whose presence motivates and perpetuates the criminal machinery. Celeste not only goes into details about celebrities like Ninel Conde and Galilea Montijo and their relationship with Arturo Beltr n Leyva, but also reveals interactions by other celebrities such as Mariana R os, Dorismar, Betty Monroe, Karla Luna, Karla Panini, Patricia Navidad and socialite Violeta Vizcarra, who was tasked with enticing the famous women to take them to the leader of the Beltr n Leyva group. In the last section, the author explores other infernos parallel to Celeste's, including her own. She attends the trial against Genaro Garc a Luna in New York, where she meets his wife, Linda Cristina Pereyra. And, lastly, she delves into the family nuclei of El Chapo Guzman's four sons, whose criminal dealings are on the rise. «The hell in which they live, and "love" is the same one that consumes us as a society and nation. It is through the women of Narcoland and their interaction with the drug bosses that we are able to break down those barriers and not only get to know the criminal profiles, but the psyche of those who oversee it all.

Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido period stico de Anabel Hern ndez dentro del complejo mundo del crimen organizado en M xico, as como de su incesante b squeda por entender los diversos componentes de los c rteles de la droga, los cuales tienen sumida a la naci n desde hace d cadas en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los d as son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del sexo femenino. Desde su bestseller Los se ores del narco (2010), este es quiz s el acercamiento m s ntimo a la c pula del narcotr fico, un detr s de c maras de lo que ocurre en el multimillonario negocio criminal. En Emma y las otras se oras del narco, la autora recorre el velo y muestra las pulsiones m s profundas que hacen a los narcos buscar poder y dinero a toda costa. La autora de El traidor (2019), multigalardonada y reconocida internacionalmente como experta en temas de narcotr fico, una vez m s gira la mesa del tablero y ofrece al lector un an lisis casi antropol gico de los capos de la droga y su entorno m s cercano desde una nueva ptica: el mundo de sus mujeres. En estas p ginas desfilan personajes como Emma Coronel y otras esposas de importantes narcotraficantes, una ex Miss Universo, y algunas de las actrices, cantantes y conductoras de televisi n m s reconocidas y aplaudidas en M xico, tanto del pasado como de la poca actual. Madres, esposas y amantes. Mujeres que se amoldan a las reglas machistas de sus amos y bailan ante ellos --en privado, fiestas u org as-- la danza de los siete velos, y lo hacen sobre los cad veres de los miles que han sido v ctimas de los mismos hombres a quienes deleitan con su c mplice presencia a cambio de dinero, joyas y propiedades. Con el rigor investigativo que la caracteriza, Anabel Hern ndez, a trav s de entrevistas realizadas a testigos de los hechos, lleva al lector a las reuniones familiares, fiestas y alcobas de diversos narcotraficantes donde ocurren las historias de amor, compra y venta de placer, incesto, ambici n, traici n y venganza. Un mundo hasta ahora desconocido. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION This book is part of Anabel Hern ndez's long journalistic journey within the complex world of organized crime in Mexico. It continues her relentless search to understand the drug cartels' various components which have plunged the country in a downward spiral of violence for decades, and one in which dozens of innocent people are exploited, disappeared, or killed every day, many of them female. Since publishing her bestseller Los se ores del narco/Narcoland, this is perhaps the most intimate contact to the leadership in drug trafficking, a behind-the-scenes look at what happens in the multimillion-dollar criminal business. In Emma and Other Narco Women, Hern ndez exposes what's behind the veil and reveals their drive to seek power and money at all costs. The multi-award-winning and internationally recognized expert on the drug trafficking world, turns the table once again and offers readers an almost anthropological analysis of drug lords and those closest to their inner circle from a new point of view: the women within that world. In these pages we see women such as Emma Coronel and other wives of important drug lords, a former Miss Universe, some of Mexico's most recognized and acclaimed actresses, singers, and television hosts from the past and from present time. Mothers, wives, and lovers. Women who conform to their masters' male chauvinistic rules and dance the dance of the seven veils for them -in private, at parties, or orgies-, and they do it on the conscience of thousands of victims of those same masters who they entertain in exchange for money, jewelry, and properties. Through interviews, witnesses to events, and the investigative meticulousness and that characterizes her, Anabel Hern ndez takes the reader to family gatherings, parties, and even inside the bedrooms of various drug bosses where we witness love stories, the sale of goods, the sale of sexual favors, incest, betrayals, and revenge. An, until now, secret world.

On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. On route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernández reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the "historic truth". As her research shows, state officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of "suspects" who then obliged with full "confessions" that matched the official lie. By following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision who is responsible for which component of this monumental crime.

El traidor es uno de los trabajos period sticos m s ambiciosos en la trayectoria de Anabel Hern ndez. Su historia se remonta a enero de 2011, cuando la contact uno de los abogados de Vicente Zambada Niebla, mejor conocido como Vicentillo, quien enfrentaba un juicio en una corte de Chicago. La intenci n era compartir con la periodista documentos y hechos que ampliaban y esclarec an varios de los episodios que acababa de dar a conocer en Los se ores del narco. Entre los documentos a los que tuvo acceso se encuentran el inquietante autorretrato como payaso que aparece en la portada y los diarios realizados por Vicentillo durante las negociaciones para colaborar con el gobierno norteamericano, los cuales hasta ahora eran secretos. En ellos el capo reconstruy su historia y la historia de una de las organizaciones de tr fico de estupefacientes m s grandes del planeta. A lo largo de estas p ginas, la autora se adentra en el C rtel de Sinaloa a trav s del relato de Vicentillo, quien exhibe de manera descarnada c mo funciona el sistema interno que da vida a la organizaci n criminal, la violencia, las mil formas de traficar droga y la complicidad entre pol ticos, empresarios y fuerzas del orden. Pero sobre todo devela el perfil de quien durante el ltimo medio siglo ha sido el rey del narcotr fico. Quien nunca ha pisado la c rcel y quien desde su trono ha visto caer a amigos, enemigos, socios, competidores, familiares, empleados del gobierno y hasta sus propios hijos, sin que eso haga mella en su poder, el padre de Vicentillo: Ismael el Mayo Zambada. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The Traitor is one of the most ambitious journalistic works of Anabel Hern ndez's career. Her story dates back to January of 2011, when she's contacted by one of Vicente Zambada Niebla's lawyers, better known as Vicentillo, who was facing charges in a court in Chicago. The intention was to share with the reporter documents and facts that would broaden and clear up various episodes that had just come to light in Los se ores del narco. Among the documents to which she had access is the disturbing self-portrait as a clown that appears on the cover and the diaries kept by Vicentillo during his negotiations to collaborate with the North American government, which until now were secret. In them, el capo reconstructed his story and the story of the one of the largest drug-trafficking organizations on the planet. In these pages, the author goes inside the Sinaloa Cartel through Vicentillo's account, who grimly exhibits the internal workings that give life to the criminal organization, the violence, the thousands of way to traffic drugs, and the complicity among politicians, businessmen, and security forces. But, above all, he unveils the profile of the person who, during the last half century, has been the king of drug trafficking. Someone who has never stepped inside a prison cell, who from his thrown has seen his friends, enemies, partners, competitors, family members, government employees, and even his own children fall, without this ever making a dent in his power, the father of Vicentillo: Ismael el Mayo Zambada.

On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. On route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Hernández reconstructs almost minute-by-minute the events of those nights in late September 2014, giving us what is surely the most complete picture available: her sources are unparalleled, since she has secured access to internal government documents that have not been made public, and to video surveillance footage the government has tried to hide and destroy. Hernández demolishes the Mexican state's official version, which the Peña Nieto government cynically dubbed the "historic truth". As her research shows, state officials at all levels, from police and prosecutors to the upper echelons of the PRI administration, conspired to put together a fake case, concealing or manipulating evidence, and arresting and torturing dozens of "suspects" who then obliged with full "confessions" that matched the official lie. By following the role of the various Mexican state agencies through the events in such remarkable detail, Massacre in Mexico shows with exacting precision who is responsible for which component of this monumental crime.

With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN PromotesVeering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure (more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared" leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798 were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's street children. Anabel Hernández and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio González Rodríguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed to oppose it.

The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernández, The Lords of el Narco has been a publishing and political sensation in Mexico. The definitive history and anatomy of the drug cartels and the "war on drugs" that has cost more than 50,000 lives in just five years, the book explains in riveting detail how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. Hernández reveals the complicity of Mexico's government and business elite. At every turn, she names names-not just the narcos and their immediate accomplices, but also the politicians, policemen, functionaries, judges and entrepreneurs who have collaborated with them. Hernández became a journalist after her father was kidnapped and killed and the police refused to investigate without a bribe. She gained national prominence in 2001 with her exposure of pharaonic spending on housekeeping at the presidential palace. All her previous books have also focused on corruption at the summit of power, under presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.