Victor Ramirez was a Mexican Federal Police officer who fought alongside El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel during the 1990s. On 3 July 2005, he gave an interview to the Nuevo Laredo newspaper El Informe about how he had been gravely injured on 4 May 1998 while fighting for Sinaloa, and, in 2012, he agreed to testify before a commission investigating Secretary of Public Security Conrado Higuera Sol's corrupt past, as Higuera Sol did not care when Ramirez was fired after losing his leg. Before the interview could be held, Claudia Ruiz Massieu came to his home and asked to speak with him on behalf of Higuera Sol, but he closed the door on her rather than continue their tense conversation. Ultimately, he was convinced to call her by his wife, and she convinced him that revealing that he fought alongside Sinaloa would ruin Higuera Sol's divide-and-conquer plan, that the commission did not care about him, and that she would provide him with a prosthetic leg and a pension in exchange for his silence, to which he agreed.