CJNG's Chito Cano Leaves Warning Banner in State of Mexico

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The Banner

On the morning of August 4, 2021, the Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) left a narcomanta (narco message sign) in the municipality of in the Lechería neighborhood of Tultitlán, State of Mexico. The printed tarp, approximately 2 meters long by two meters wide, was placed on a post of the vehicular bridge on the Cuautitlán - Tlalnepantla highway. The narcomanta reads: 

The cleaning out of all the scumbags, thieves, rapists, kidnappers has begun.

Here they will not be allowed to leech off of these starving people.

We are going to kill anyone who supports them in the same way, be it the State or Federal government.

The State of Mexico and Coacalco are owned by the Jalisco Cartel. 

CJNG, Special Forces of the boss Chito Cano 

 

The back of the tarp also had a printed message of threats for someone with the alias “Carmona” and his son Kevin. 

Cartel Landscape 

Alejandro Carranza Ramírez, alias “Chito Cano” is identified by federal authorities as a regional leader of the CJNG in the border area of ​​the State of Mexico, Michoacán and Guerrero.

“According to information from the intelligence areas of the Federal and State governments, the Señor del Valle Cartel is a group of gunmen that for months has settled in the Huetamo Valley region, which includes that municipality and those of… Cáracuaro, Nocupétaro, San Lucas and Tuzantla, as well as several more from the neighboring State of Mexico and Guerrero.” 

Chito Cano’s primary rival is the La Familia Michoacana group led by Medardo Hernández Vera, alias "El Mantecas”, "Lalo Mantecas" or “El 100", whose base of operations is Tiquicheo, Tuzantlam, Susupuato and Zitacauro. 

Lalo Mantecas is believed to report to Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga, alias “El Pez”, and his brother, Jose Alfredo Hurtado, alias “La Fresa”, leaders of one the of the major LFM groups. 

History of Chito Cano vs La Familia Michoacána

By as early as March 2020, Chito Camo was recognized being the leader of a CJNG group operating on the border of Guerrero, state of Mexico and Michoacán. 

Video of hitmen of a group led by Señor del Valle, also known as Chito Cano.  

Sometime in May 2020, there was a large battle between La Familia Michaocana and the Chito Cano group of the CJNG. Following the battle, both sides interrogated, tortured and killed the captives they took from the other side. Videos of these acts were then circulated on social media on May 20, 2020. El Universal claims one of the men dismembered on video was a nephew of Lalo Mantecas. 

El Universal reports that in response to the dismembering of his nephew, people from La Familia Michoacana chased down a group of CJNG members in Caracuaro, Michoacán. 

The CJNG members reportedly took shelter in a house that was under construction and from inside, they tried to fight off the LFM members but they were outnumbered and succumbed to their attackers. These 12 bodies were later found in the bed of an abandoned red pickup truck by authorities on May 23, 2020.

There was then an announcement of a truce between the CJNG and LFM groups operating near Taxco, Guerrero on May 29, 2020. However the truce ended within less than a day when LFM members began threatening the CJNG and showing off weapons they were preparing to use against them. The CJNG responded in kind with a narcomanta threatening LFM placed on May 30, 2020. 

Recently it was believed that the LFM group led by José Pineda González, alias “El JP”,  had an alliance with the CJNG Chito Cano group however tensions seem to be rising quickly. On July 15, 2021, the CJNG accused Lalo Mantecas of having an alliance with Los Correa in flyers they distributed. They also asserted that they will not be leaving the area and telling locals not to pay the LFM protection fee.

Sources: ContraPapel, Proceso, El Universal Article 1, Article 2, Cuarto Poder Michoacán, La Opinión