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Place of Birth: Mexico
About José González Valencia
- José González Valencia (Spanish pronunciation: [xo'se ?on'sales ßa'len?ja]; born 18 May 1975) is a Mexican suspected drug lord and high-ranking leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal group based in Jalisco.
- He is part of a clan that heads a CJNG money laundering branch known as Los Cuinis.
- Since 2015, González Valencia reportedly held a leading role within the CJNG as the security chief of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (alias "El Mencho"), the top leader of the criminal group.
- Security forces in the U.S.
- and Mexico suspect he was also responsible for coordinating drug trafficking operations from Mexico to the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
- As the Mexican government crackdown on the CJNG, González Valencia fled to Bolivia in September 2015 using a Mexican passport with a fake name.
- Bolivian officials were not able to decipher his real identity because his alias was not on the Interpol watch-list and his passport had all international security features in place.
- He lived in Bolivia for two years, obtained a Bolivian foreigner ID card, and was granted temporary residency.
- In December 2017, he flew to Brazil to spend time with his family during Christmas and was arrested by the Federal Police.
- Brazilian authorities confirmed that the arrest was part of a request from the U.S.
- government for his extradition.
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