36: Part 2: Victor Avila and the Ambush on the Highway of Death
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Victor Avila was living his dream of being in federal law enforcement as a Special Agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). His work from drug trafficking to human smuggling led him to the most dangerous countries in the Americas. While assigned to the Mexico City ICE office, Victor and his new partner, Jaime Zapata, were tasked with transporting equipment from Monterrey back to the U.S. Embassy. Their route took them on the most dangerous highway in Mexico, where they were ambushed by the Los Zetas cartel. Agent Jaime Zapata was killed and Victor was badly wounded. New information has been discovered by Victor that shows a coverup by ICE and DHS that goes all the way to the top.
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| 0:00.0 | Victor Ovelov describes the moment the Las Vegas cartel started opening fire on him |
| 0:18.5 | and agent Jaime Zapata. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm yelling at him. |
| 0:21.4 | Jaime's sitting next to me. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm yelling kind of going like this. |
| 0:24.2 | And then he shoots, he lets out rounds towards the front tire, front fender area of the |
| 0:32.8 | suburban. |
| 0:33.8 | And he goes, boom, boom, boom, boom. |
| 0:34.8 | I don't remember how many rounds, but he shoots several. |
| 0:37.5 | And that's the very first time that I think I might, I don't remember myself, did he |
| 0:42.7 | fucking shoot at the, like, did he shoot at the suburban, like it was so surreal that it |
| 0:49.2 | took me, I couldn't comprehend what was happening, not that I didn't know what was happening. |
| 0:53.7 | I couldn't, I didn't want to accept that that was happening. |
| 0:57.6 | Did I, did he just like in fucking shoot at the door? |
| 1:01.1 | Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:02.9 | I had never been briefed. |
| 1:22.8 | By the way, they had made these arrangements back in December. |
| 1:26.1 | And this is February. |
| 1:27.7 | February. |
| 1:28.7 | And I was never privy to any email, I was never CCed on any email, I was never told any |
| 1:32.6 | of this until hours literally before the assignment, which you know, that's very wrong |
| 1:36.8 | in long form. |
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