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Joaquin Guzman Loera=JGL
JGL: My friend!
PF: What’s up, how are you?
JGL: Good, good. Nice talking to you. How’s your brother?
PF: Everyone is fine. I’s too bad I wasn’t able to see you the other day [Pedro was not present at the October 2008 mountaintop meeting attended by Margarito Flores].
JGL: Oh....
PF: It was my brother [Margarito Flores].
JGL: Oh, but I’m here at your service, you know that.
PF: Yes, everything is fine. Nice talking to you. Hey look, I’m bothering you because of what I picked up the other day from over there. I have the check ready, I’m not sure if... .I want to ask you for a favor.
JGL: Ask me.
PF: Do you think that we can work something out where you can deduct five pesos [lower the price $5,000 per kilogram of heroin]?
JGL: What did we agree on?
PF: You’re giving them to me for 55 [$55,000 per kilogram of heroin]. JGL: How much are you going to pay for it?
PF: Well, if you do me the favor I’ll pay 50 for them, I have the check ready [if the price is lowered to $50,000 per kilo, the Flores brothers can make payment immediately].
JGL: Do you have the money?
PF: If you give them to me with a difference of 5, I can pay you right away. And if you want to send me more, well like...
JGL: All right then...how much, how much did they give you? PF: They gave me 20 [20 kilograms of heroin].
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JGL: How much?
PF: 20.
JGL: All right then, I’ll pick the money up tomorrow. That’s fine. PF: Yes?
JGL: That price is fine.
PF: Okay then, I really appreciate it. It’s because the...the other man had given me something that didn’t turn out good and I have to even it out [Zambada- Garcia also provided heroin, which was of poor quality, requiring the Flores brothers to mix the heroin together to improve the quality].
JGL: Hey! Do you have a way of bringing that money over here [make payment in Mexico]?
PF: Over here? Y es, of course.
JGL: Yeah. So you’ll give it to me here then?
PF: Yeah, give me... .if you’ll give me a couple days and. . . .I have it here. Better yet, I have a check that is coming. If you want as soon as I get it I can advance you something. . . . when I get it. I had like 400 [$400,000].
JGL: Look, look, hold on. I’m going to talk to someone right now. There might be someone that can pick that money up over there [pick up the money for the heroin in the United States].
PF: Yes.
JGL: I’ll call you back. Hold on.
PF: Okay, okay.
JGL: I’ll call you.
My friend.
PF: Excuse me, but I just wanted to ask you. I just have 3 left [3 kilos of heroin remaining from the 20-kilo shipment]. When do you think we can receive again?
JGL: What the fukk? I thought that you can only get rid of a little bit.
PF: The truth is these resulted fukking good. Why should I lie.
JGL: How much can you get rid of in a month?
PF: If, if you want. . . .if they are the same, around 40 [the Flores brothers can distribute 40 kilos of heroin per month].
JGL: Oh, that’s good. Hey, has anyone else sent you? Because this guy told me that they were going to send you [Zambada-Garcia told Guzman-Loera that he had also sent heroin to the Flores brothers].
PF: Yes, but what they sent was not good. It doesn’t compare to what you had [Zambada heroin was of inferior quality to Guzman-Loera heroin].
JGL: All right, I’ll send it then [begin supplying the Flores brothers with 40 kilos of heroin per month]. So then uh. . .
PF: But do you think they have like another seven there that they can give me [seven more kilos of heroin available for immediate pickup in Chicago]?
JGL: Uh. . . .I’ll send you from this week to the next. PF: Okay, please. Thanks a lot.
JGL: That’s fine.
PF: If anything. Okay, that’s fine.