[166] More than 80 elements of 41 Military Zone, as well as the Navy, and the Federal Police, as well as four CJNG members who also remained anonymous, were also arrested with "El 20. It is however the dominant criminal actor in Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima, the port of Lázaro Cárdenas in Michoacán, the eastern state of Veracruz and in the oil-rich central region of Guanajuato, Puebla, Querétaro and Hidalgo. "El Alacran" (The Scorpion), was arrested on 28 June 2020. [108] When asked if they had tortured them, the cartel members replied that they did not. 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"[166], In April 2019, Adrián Alonso Guerrero Covarrubias, known as "El 8" or "El M", was arrested for drug trafficking and kidnapping. In June 2009, inside an abandoned truck in a residential neighborhood in Cancún, Quintana Roo, the Mexican authorities discovered the corpses of three men. Based on the average street value, these volumes could net upwards of $8.1 billion for cocaine and $4.6 billion for crystal meth each year. The rival cartel was started by two former CJNG members in 2018 when its co-founder Erick Valencia Salazar and another high ranking leader Carlos Enrique Sanchez left. [39] El Cholo and CJNG co-founder Erick Valencia Salazar, alias "El 85", departed from the CJNG and formed a new cartel called Nueva Plaza Cartel. [102] At around 7:00 pm, the Guadalajara police received numerous anonymous calls from civilians reporting that "several vehicles with more than 10 bodies had been abandoned" in a major avenue. [86] On 25 December 2011 near Tampico, Tamaulipas, a city on the border with Veracruz, 13 bodies were found inside an 18-wheeler truck. [158] They wrote that the blockades were "only a reaction for messing with their CJNG companion," who reportedly dedicated his work to "maintain tranquility in the state of Jalisco. Although the CJNG is particularly known for diversifying into various … [59] Other gunmen pointed their weapons at the frightened drivers. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, formerly known as Los Mata Zetas and Los Torcidos,[10][11][12][13] is a semi-militarized Mexican criminal group based in Jalisco and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"), one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, formerly known as Los Mata Zetas and Los Torcidos, is a semi-militarized Mexican criminal group based in Jalisco and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"), one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. The recording, which is slightly over four minutes, shows several men dressed in black, with ski-masks and heavily armed; some of them (apparently the leaders) were sitting down at a table—as has been observed in other videos of the CJNG. [119] Another 10 people managed to escape their capture by members of Los Zetas that same day, and alerted the local media of the situation. [55] All of the corpses were alleged to be members of Los Zetas,[56] but it was later proven that only six of them had been involved in minor crime incidents, and none of them was involved with organized crime. [45] With this split, a turf war against La Resistencia, headed by Ramiro Pozos (El Molca), and Los Zetas for the control of the region started.[50][51]. [39] According to InSight Crime, the Nueva Plaza Cartel retaliated against the failed murder of El Cholo by successfully murdering the person in charge of the CJNG's hit squad, nicknamed "El Kartón" or "El Marro", in August 2017[39], Salazar and El Cholo also began a war with their former cartel as well. [39], On 2 December 2018, at approximately 7:30 CST, 2 grenades were thrown onto consular grounds in Guadalajara, with one of them exploding and causing a 16-inch (approximately 40 cm) hole in the wall of the building. [114] The attorney general of the state of Jalisco, Tomás Coronado Olmos, stated that this massacre was a revenge attack for the 23 killed in the 2012 Nuevo Laredo massacres. La Resistencia accused CJNG of giving up Oscar Valencia (El Lobo) to the authorities and called them Los Torcidos (The Twisted Ones). [17][18] U.S. prosecutors have said operatives of the cartel tried to buy belt-fed M-60 machine guns in the United States, and once brought down a Mexican military helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade. [171] Other high-level associates of El Mencho prosecuted in Chicago include Diego Pineda-Sanchez, sentenced to 15 years in prison for laundering money for him and other drug kingpins. [64] Then the man with the microphone states that the Matazetas are "warriors without a face, but proudly Mexicans,"[64] and that their objective is to eradicate Los Zetas. We are narcotics traffickers and we don't mess with honest working or business people. This bloke had his toes smashed, ear cut off, jumper cables that were sparking attached to his chest and and face. [27] The Sinaloa Cartel, once led by Joaquín Guzmán Loera (a.k.a. [126] All of those killed were between the ages of 30 and 35. [10] Being the most notable the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) headed by Nemesio Oseguera "El Mencho" (Who suspected the Sinaloa cartel had betrayed their leaders )[44][45][46] and La Resistencia headed by Ramiro Pozos "El Molca" who switched alliances to form a brief alliance with Los Zetas (La Resistencia was founded by Sinaloa to counter Los Zetas),[47] and started a turf war for the control of the region. As for you, 40, I tell you that you don't scare me. [144], In May 2020, it was reported that former CJNG security chief Enrique Alejandro Pizano, who was arrested in September 2015 died in a Jalisco prison on 13 May 2020 due to COVID-19[172], On 28 June 2020, it was reported that the number of CJNG members arrested for the 26 June 2020 assassination attempt of the Mexican City Police Chief had grown to 19. [28] Currently, along with the armed conflicts, petroleum theft and criminal extortion, the CJNG is also said to have over 100 methamphetamine labs throughout Mexico. On 20 September 2011, two trucks containing 35 dead bodies were found at an underpass near a shopping mall in Boca del Río, Veracruz. The current alliance between Guzmán's Sinaloa Cartel and the Gulf Cartel may successfully extract Los Zetas and give El Chapo the upper hand. [31], By 2018, the CJNG became the second most powerful cartel in Mexico. [97] Later on at 07:00 hours, anonymous calls from civilians notified the police that another vehicle in the northern city limits of Culiacán was on fire. [159] On 15 April 2012, Marco Antonio Reyes, reported to be the head of the cartel's gunmen,[160] was captured in Veracruz along with five of his associates. [88] On 9 February 2012, the Mexican authorities exhumed 15 bodies from clandestine mass graves in Acayucan, Veracruz. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación) or CJNG, formerly known as Los Mata Zetas and Los Torcidos, is a semi-militarized Mexican criminal group based in Jalisco and headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ("El Mencho"), one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. [87] According to officials, the truck had license plates from Veracruz. [1] On 23 June 2020, it was revealed that the CJNG had sent assassins to kill Santa Rosa de Lima leader José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, also known as El Marro, on many occasions, including at his sister's wedding earlier in the year. This page was last edited on 17 February 2021, at 17:49. [177], Logo of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Continued attacks and 2012 Veracruz massacres, Kidnapping of Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, "Why the Jalisco Cartel Does Not Dominate Mexico's Criminal Landscape", "U.S. sanctions 2 for money laundering, prostitution tied to Mexican cartel", "Nobody has seen a cartel like this': DOJ targets Mexico's most powerful drug organization", "Training CJNG recruits: they eat their victims", "Surge nuevo cartel aliado al CJNG en Zicuiran", "El ocaso del Cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima: porqué la organización del Marro se desmorona", "El cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación rapta al hijo de El Chapo Guzmán", "Mas sobre de la Guerra de CJNG vs Los Zetas : suman 321 muertos para los zetas y 56 para La Nueva Generación", "Is Mexico's CJNG Following in the Footsteps of the Zetas? [116] They were consequently towed to government offices to unload the bodies. [151] The same day, it emerged that the CJNG still controlled organized crime in Jalisco, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Hidalgo, but no longer was listed as having such control in any municipality in Veracruz and still was unable to take away territory in other parts of southeastern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel, Los Zetas and the so-called Los Pelones group. Zetas in the state of Veracruz and politicians helping them: This is going to happen to you, or we can shoot you as we did to you guys before too. [153] On 7 August 2012, it was announced that Ortega's successor, Eliot Alberto Radillo Peza, was captured in the Zapopan, Jalisco. This weekend it was revealed that a Mexican drug lord dubbed the new 'El Chapo' is ordering the slaughter of pregnant women and kids amid the country’s coke wars. [60] The gunmen then fled the scene. [136] According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Nuevo Laredo is the busiest border crossing in terms of truck crossings with over 1.7 million trucks a year, more than double than any other crossing on the Mexico–United States border. [59] Other gunmen pointed their weapons at the frightened drivers. It is also strong, although facing stern rivalries, in strategic areas such as the border cities of Tijuana and Juárez, Tierra Caliente – the area which covers parts of Michoacán, Guerrero, and the State of Mexico, as well as the Riviera Maya. In August 2016 in an upmarket restaurant called La Leche in the resort city of Puerto Vallarta, the CJNG kidnapped two sons of Joaquin Guzman Loera (El Chapo), Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar and Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, along with friends and then released them after negotiations. Nevertheless, Guzmán retreated after a few years of bloody turf wars. Then he was beheaded. [64] The men in the video state that they understand and respect the government's decision of refusing to negotiate with the cartels. While searching at another house they found 11 more bodies. [70] A day later, Reynaldo Escobar Pérez, the State Justice Attorney General, stepped down and resigned due to the drug-violence. [97] When the police forces managed to put down the flames, they found inside the vehicle a dozen of bodies burned to death, and with wood remains on top of them. [15][16] The cartel has also been noted for cannibalizing some of its victims, sometimes during the training of new sicarios or cartel members. 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[143][144] La Catrina, also known as "Dame of Death, was suspected of being the CJNG leader in Mexico's Tierra Caliente region. [157], The Matazetas (CJNG) later apologized for the blockades by putting up several banners throughout the Guadalajara metropolitan area. [1], The Jalisco New Generation Cartel also made its presence in Ciudad Juárez with its New Juarez Cartel, though it failed to deter the hold which La Linea and the Sinaloa Cartel's Los Salazar affiliate had over the Ciudad Juárez drug trafficking market as well. [108] When asked if they had tortured them, the cartel members replied that they did not. It is unconfirmed if the attack was carried out by the CJNG or a rival gang trying to hurt the CJNG's reputation. The group has shown it may be focusing on entering the capital, after a brazen attack against Mexico City’s public security secretary in June 2020. [1] Despite numerous efforts, CJNG has also been unable to establish a major presence in the Mexican states of Morales, State of Mexico and Mexico City. (Both assertions are not wholly true, but often reflect a popular sentiment.) [1] Despite alliances with the weakened Tijuana Cartel, the CJNG failed to weaken the Sinaloa Cartel's control over criminal activities in Tijuana. 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[89] According to government sources, by March 2012, the homicide rate in Veracruz and its surrounding territories has decreased. Don't forget that I'm your true father. [105] The authorities concluded that only six of the twenty-six that were killed had criminal records, and another ten of those dead were reported as disappeared by their family members. Dismembered remains of 14 men were found in several plastic bags inside a Chrysler Voyager in the border city of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, on 17 April 2012. [107] Other families claimed that their loved ones did not have any problems with anybody and were honest workers. What are your thoughts? This is going to happen to all the Zetas-fucks who continue to operate in Veracruz. [63] Nonetheless, on 27 September 2011, the CJNG released a video claiming they had carried out these attacks. [90] President Felipe Calderón attributed the low homicide rates to the Operation Veracruz, the military-led operation implemented in October 2011.
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