Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat
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A big thank you to the BB reader who gave me the heads up on this story...you wanted to remain anonymous so I will just say "Thank you S" :)
It was on March 9th or 10th when I received an email from a reader saying there was a new to us Chapo photo.
I tweeted the photo, which was retweeted many times and featured on twitter pages such as #MexicoRojo among others. Today I see that some of the other narco blogs are now running it. The truth is it was not something sent exlusively to BB nor Mundo nor any other blog it was published on a Facebook page.
That said, I made a post on the 10th titled "New Chapo Photo? You Be the Judge", and I added a little poll and thought that would be that. However, I continue to get emails and comments sent in about the "new Chapo Photo" which tells me most of our readers did not check it out on forum, hence I will post here on mainboard for your enjoyment and discussion.
I will tell you that at first I was on the fence about its authenticity, but as I dug deeper clearly there are not only landmarks that are identical such as eyebrows and lower ear lobes, but I also ran in through software to see if it had been "photo shopped".
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From what I know...which is not a lot, I did covert the photo to ELA looking for obvious tampering. at first I spotted 2 areas and DUH it was my drop in of BB2013...after getting a clean photo I converted it and all that comes up are the uniform grids (see directly above) indicative of conversion from Jpeg to another format like PNG. It looks clean and uniformly broken down as will occur in each time a copy is made.
Jpeg uses YUV coloring so certain colors will remain prominent such as purple, orange green among others.
Maybe someone else knowing more than I do can take a look but what little I know it looks clean with no rain bowing and the grid looks uniform indicting the photo has gone thru same number of compressions throughout. I had two friends very knowledgeable, one a professional look at it and deemed it with no detectable add ins. So the question is....is it Chapo? I can say in my opinion this is the first photo produced that my vote says "yes". It is supposed to be taken around 2006-2007.
Maybe someone else knowing more than I do can take a look but what little I know it looks clean with no rain bowing and the grid looks uniform indicting the photo has gone thru same number of compressions throughout. I had two friends very knowledgeable, one a professional look at it and deemed it with no detectable add ins. So the question is....is it Chapo? I can say in my opinion this is the first photo produced that my vote says "yes". It is supposed to be taken around 2006-2007.
Jumping on the ban wagon, blogs such as Mundo, added some other pitiful photos attempting to pass them off as new Chapos, one in a swimming pool, that BDN tried to pass off as Chapo in 2010 when they first ran it.
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| This was published in 2010 as a new Chapo and has resurrected this week |
Another known photo of Chapo:
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Exactly one year ago a cell phone video surfaced with claims it was Chapo Guzman. I am posting that video below. It was accompanied with a letter, see below. A reader sent Buggs a comparative side by side photo of a known Chapo photo and a screen shot from the video, see below.
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Letter:
There is also a letter dated February 28, 2012 that makes reference of El 50 - M-1, El Fantasma - M-Z and Bravo - Chapo. It is signed by Licensiado Damaso. It ends with "Note - Do not forget to filter "El Bideo" (video) and "las fotos" (photographs)
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There is also a letter dated February 28, 2012 that makes reference of El 50 - M-1, El Fantasma - M-Z and Bravo - Chapo. It is signed by Licensiado Damaso. It ends with "Note - Do not forget to filter "El Bideo" (video) and "las fotos" (photographs)
Letter translated by a BB reader:
"Valued friends Today is a day with lots of advantages for what we have planned the big bosses are very stressed and must feel trapped we are the only ones with any authority talk to your boys(people).we have very little time left i have been insisting on our plan for a long time don't forget you are the one's that made them big those who now only enjoy pleasures and betray us. This is always more disturbing ,lets see if now you believe me, remember who will betray who: 50-M1, Fantazma to MZ , Bravo-Chapo PS don't forget to filter video and pictures or blog"
A big thank you to the BB reader who gave me the heads up on this story...you wanted to remain anonymous so I will just say "Thank you S" :)