Sunday, May 31, 2009

A bullet traveling silently through the air - Chapter 2: The Micas Clans Mission

Chabat District is located in the Gulf of Mexico. It is 100 miles southeast of Panama. The Chabat District is a lush, mountainous island, covered with fragrant flowering magnolia trees and rare tropical wildlife. Bordered by stunning beaches, and dotted with many colorful small villages and towns, the nation of Chabat is a major source of spices, sugar, cigars, and cocoa. This small nation consists of three islands: Romero District, San Montaine District, and Chabat District. Chabat District is the largest of the three, with a width of thirty-two miles and a length of sixty-one miles. It is the home of two Five Star Resorts and one of the largest casinos in the Caribbean Islands. Other than the resort towns, the island’s economy is mostly agricultural. Many of the farms in the district are either owned or controlled by the cartel. They grow the coca plants and process it into cocaine. The remainder of the farms provided produce sold at the local markets and overseas.

Cárdenas Carrillo grew up in poverty. His father died from malaria when he was two years of age. His mother worked at the hospital as a cook and cooked for one of the wealthy families in the San Paulo. She worked hard to provide for her two children, Cárdenas and Rosa. During the reign of President Manuel St. George, every child attended a state-sponsored school until the age of sixteen. Cárdenas Carrillo attended the public schools of Chabat. At the age of five, the young boy attended St. George Preparatory Academy. He learned basic reading and writing skills. At the age of twelve, he transferred to San Paulo Training Academy. Carrillo excelled at the coursework and graduated third in a class of forty-five. However, the streets of San Paulo, offer him a different and lucrative education.

The streets offered Cárdenas Carrillo the opportunity to make some fast money and to learn how to hustle for money. He would often run the streets with his cousins Carlos and Manuel. They had a few hustles and made a small amount of money. However, Carrillo soon discovered that working for the different cartels were more profitable. He ran drugs for many minor dealers and cartels until he was fourteen. Most of those years, he worked as a carrier. He would pick up a package at one location. Later, he would drop the package at another location and return with the money.

As the tourist industry grew, the island developed into a top vacation spot. Because of the tropical environment, tourist from every nation traveled to Chabat to enjoy the breathtaking beaches and the tropical nightlife. Quickly, more organized cartels took over the drug trade in San Paulo. The Micas Clans recruited Carrillo at fourteen and he quickly rose through the ranks. Because of his intelligence and skill with Creole, English, French, and Spanish, he became a major player in the operation of the vast drug smuggling industry. Cárdenas Carrillo left high school at sixteen years of age. Twenty-five years later, he graduated into a career as the head of the Micas Clans. In 1995, Cárdenas Carrillo violently took over the operations of the Micas Clans cartel, and now receives the bulk of the money.

"The Micas Clans" is the notorious alliance of the major kingpins of the lucrative illegal drug trade. They maintain the largest and most powerful drug cartel in this hemisphere. "The Micas Clans" control or are in charge of an estimated $142 billion a year business in cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and other illicit drugs. Consequently, the Micas Clans cartel control most of the drug transit corridors as well as most of the island of Chabat District. The powerful and feared cartel has controlled Chabat for 36 years. The resourceful organization's cocaine and heroin are shipped to the USA by small planes by way of Colombia or Mexico. They usually loaded marijuana shipments onto fishing boats, private yachts, or commercial ships coming into the United States.

Carrillo lived about seven miles outside the village of Juan. The target was scheduled to attend a birthday party at his residence. The ranger should be able to easily spot him there. Jamal understood the difficulty in accomplishing this mission. This mission would require some covert surveillance and a lot of waiting. The ranger came prepared for the task. He camouflaged himself with the Moss cover, covered his face with mud, and rechecked the picture inside the folder. He read the information on his target with great care, making sure not to miss any details. Jamal looked at another picture and continued to read the mission report.

After the mission is accomplished, he will proceed to the town of Juan. Jamal’s instruction told him to report to the police chief, Jesus Garcia. Chief Garcia, an undercover operative for the DEA for fourteen years, was educated at UCLA Berkeley. In 1993, he returned to his family farm on Chabat. The town of Juan changed. The drug gangs controlled the streets. In 1995, Carrillo and his gang killed most of the leaders of the cartel when Carrillo assumed control of the illegal enterprise. They also murdered the police chief because he was controlled by the head of the old clan. During these violent times, the United States needed an operative on Chabat. Jesus was advised by the DEA to run for the open police chief position. With the help of the US government, he was quickly elected as the police chief in the following election. Chief Garcia would provide the ranger with a safe escape from the island.

The cartel's camp was over five miles from Jamal's current location. He destroyed the report after reading it and stored the pictures in his backpack. The ranger stood, slung his Springfield .30-06 sniper rife on his shoulder, and disappeared into the dense dark rain forest. The rain forest came alive with the various foliage and tropical wildlife. Very carefully, the ranger covered his tracks. Jamal walked through the thick brush for about three miles. As he emerged from the rain forest, he looked down upon the fertile farms of the Juan Valley. It was now about 0600 and the night sky was giving away to the daylight. Jamal decided to take cover for the day and hiked back into the cover of the rain forest. The ranger will wait for nightfall to make his kill.

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