September 1, 2021 • 15 mins
To complete new missions in South America, Transportista creates a new identity under which he smuggles Chinese immigrants and cocaine from Venezuela to Mexico until a powerful capo convinces him to make a "vuelta" and use the new DC-9 he acquired to move the merchandise.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
They offered me to live for Venezuela. There were good
relations there, there were people there, so they needed my
help and hand again, so I did. I went to
Venezuela and indeed the connections went to the highest levels
(00:22):
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
(00:42):
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
(01:04):
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
(01:26):
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,
(01:48):
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
(02:09):
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,
(02:30):
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,
(02:52):
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
(03:14):
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.
(03:35):
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.
(03:59):
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.
(04:22):
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
(04:51):
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
(05:14):
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,
(05:36):
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
(06:08):
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
(06:31):
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,
(06:55):
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
(07:22):
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
(07:43):
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
(08:05):
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,
(08:26):
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
(08:48):
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
(09:11):
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
(09:35):
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
(09:59):
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
(10:21):
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
(10:42):
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,
(11:20):
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
(11:43):
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
(12:05):
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
(12:26):
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
(12:48):
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
(13:09):
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,
(13:34):
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,
(13:57):
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,
(14:18):
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
(14:41):
in partnership with iHeart Radios Michael Tura podcast Network. Directed
narrated by John Gibler, Transportista's voice by Jaquen Cosio, Editing
and sound design by Ferdandeli La Rossa and Pedro Garcia.
Reporting by John Gibler Emanuel Adios produced by Juliguans List
voice recording by Ugo Merino and Rene Garcia. Transports interviews
(15:05):
translated by Carla ries Arguys. Production supervision by Nanda Wila
and Alder Roses. Associate producers Alonso Hilar and Alejandro Duran
Diego and Driquez Orro is the creator and executive producer,
along with Daniel Eilenberg and Eakley. Executive producers for I
Heeart Media are Conald Byrne and just tell Bunces. For
(15:27):
more podcasts from My Heart, visit the iHeart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
They offered me to live for Venezuela. There were good
relations there, there were people there, so they needed my
help and hand again, so I did. I went to
Venezuela and indeed the connections went to the highest levels
(00:22):
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
(00:42):
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
(01:04):
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
(01:26):
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,
(01:48):
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
(02:09):
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,
(02:30):
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,
(02:52):
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
(03:14):
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.
(03:35):
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.
(03:59):
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.
(04:22):
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
(04:51):
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
(05:14):
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,
(05:36):
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
(06:08):
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
(06:31):
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,
(06:55):
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
(07:22):
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
(07:43):
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
(08:05):
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,
(08:26):
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
(08:48):
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
(09:11):
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
(09:35):
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
(09:59):
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
(10:21):
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
(10:42):
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,
(11:20):
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
(11:43):
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
(12:05):
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
(12:26):
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
(12:48):
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
(13:09):
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,
(13:34):
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,
(13:57):
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,
(14:18):
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
(14:41):
in partnership with iHeart Radios Michael Tura podcast Network. Directed
narrated by John Gibler, Transportista's voice by Jaquen Cosio, Editing
and sound design by Ferdandeli La Rossa and Pedro Garcia.
Reporting by John Gibler Emanuel Adios produced by Juliguans List
voice recording by Ugo Merino and Rene Garcia. Transports interviews
(15:05):
translated by Carla ries Arguys. Production supervision by Nanda Wila
and Alder Roses. Associate producers Alonso Hilar and Alejandro Duran
Diego and Driquez Orro is the creator and executive producer,
along with Daniel Eilenberg and Eakley. Executive producers for I
Heeart Media are Conald Byrne and just tell Bunces. For
(15:27):
more podcasts from My Heart, visit the iHeart Radio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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