Miss Universe Mogul Implicated in Arms Pipeline from Guatemala Supplying CJNG, Mexico City Cartels

A criminal investigation into the majority owner of the Miss Universe pageant has uncovered allegations that his organization helped smuggle weapons from Guatemala to Mexico, using shipments of clothing and electronics to move weapons that ultimately supplied Mexico City’s black market and cartel groups, including the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Union Tepito. The revelations come from testimony in a federal complaint that also links businessman Raul Rocha to cartel financiers and fuel theft rings, intensifying controversy around the competition and its leadership.

To move the weapons, arms traffickers concealed their shipments in shipments of clothing and electronics coming from Guatemala to Mexico and ultimately transported them to Mexico City to supply the local arms trade, as well as to supply the Jalisco New Generation cartel and the Tepito Union cartel. The information first surfaced in El Sol de México, which cited testimony from federal criminal complaint 495/2025.

The testimony comes from a local Mexico City arms dealer who organized the sale of weapons via WhatsApp calls and messages. The document shows the transcript of a conversation between a Mexican federal investigator and the arms dealer who agreed to provide him with a weapons catalog and supply him with the necessary weapons.

Once the weapons arrived in Mexico, the arms traffickers relied on complicit security companies whose employees held weapons permits to move the weapons to different cities.

The document is part of the criminal investigation against several cartel businessmen and also against Raul Rocha, a Mexican business owner who is the majority owner of the Miss Universe pageant. As Breitbart Texas reported, the revelation of his criminal investigation last month sparked widespread controversy in Mexico after his alleged ties to a cartel and fuel theft were revealed. The case also sparked widespread speculation that the competition may have been rigged to favor the daughter of one of Rocha’s business associates.

Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning Breitbart News Foundation journalist. He co-founded the Breitbart News Foundation’s Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Breitbart senior management. You can follow it Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at Iortiz@breitbart.com.