Narcomanta from Cartel Independiente de Colima Further Alleges the Death of El Mencho

"Socalj" for Borderland Beat

The Colima Independent Cartel assures that El Mencho has already died. Violence in Colima has escalated since they announced their split from the CJNG.

The wave of violence in Colima left two more executed in Villa de Álvarez that add up to a dozen in the last couple of days, as well as narcomantas that mention the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Only on February 22 and 23, local media recorded nine murders, as reported by Borderland Beat, that was added to by the two men executed on the morning of this February 24 near a school, in the Albarrada neighborhood, one of those considered dangerous by state authorities. In addition to this, police elements withdrew drug banners with threatening messages signed by the self-styled Cartel Independiente de Colima. One of them was located on Liceo de Varones avenue in the Tecolote neighborhood, in the state capital. This deployment was behind the back of the South Sports Unit.

While this Thursday morning another narcomantas was near the beach soccer field, next to the garden of the Villa Izcalli neighborhood in Villa de Álvarez, according to media from the entity. One of the narcomantas assured that Oseguera Cervantes has already died, a rumor spread in the last three weeks, and that the authorities have not yet denied. The manta, signed by the leader of the Colima Independent Cartel, El Vaca. In addition to the internal differences, his separation from the CJNG and the struggle for the state would have derived from not having the main leader at the head of the cartel of the four letters.

Translated by Socalj

Julio Alberto Castillo Rodriguez & Miguel Ángel Jarqiun Jarquin
They are killing purely innocent people because the one who was killed in La Lerdo and the one from La Albarrada do not work with us. 

It is fucking killing innocent people, what is the fault of the normal people? The fight is between us assholes. We hit you and don't get involved with innocent people.

There you look at the pure weakness they have and that's how they want to fight. Send me double RR to fight since you are fucking pussies.

As for me here, we are going to continue fighting and I am going to take away the state [of Colima]. And you, the government, do not side with them, they are traitors, they only use the people. 

Mencho has already died, let’s see, who has seen Mencho? Check the letters from Mencho, it is no longer the same anymore. I say it because they changed the writing on me. Think about it everyone that gets these letters.

Att El Vaca de Colima Cartel Independiente

Mencho’s Death According to El Vaca

Previous messages posted online, as reported by Borderland Beat and attributed to El Vaca have mentioned the death of El Mencho and further spurred rumors of his death.

Among the unique parts of the online message is El Vaca mentioning his time in Altiplano prison, which is a verifiable fact, as well as the killing of Uriel Villegas, a judge who had previously presided over the case of Rubén Oseguera González "El Menchito", son of CJNG leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes "El Mencho", as previously reported on Borderland Beat, which was later blamed on the CJNG, as Borderland Beat reported in a separate article.

Surprisingly, the message merely references the alleged death of El Mencho in passing, stating:

“And now nobody is afraid of you because Mencho is dead. The support has ended faggots because El Mencho was the one who was respected.“

Despite this being significant news, the message never mentions it again and in the days immediately thereafter the message flew under the radar for the most part.

Mencho’s Death According to Local News

By the weekend the “news” of El Mencho’s death reached a fever pitch as another line of rumors opened up, this time allegedly from “local and independent newsgroups from Guadalajara”. Through second-hand reports it appears this line of information contains a few key points:

• El Mencho died in a private hospital in Guadalajara
• His death was due to respiratory failure
• Hitmen and heads of plaza have been using social media to spread the news and are using the phrase “The heir is coming”
  
  
  

Reaction to Violence in Colima

Just this February 24, the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) sent 950 additional soldiers to deal with the drug war in the entity governed by Indira Vizcaíno. The elements of the Mexican Army arrived as members of the Mexico Joint Task Force to inhibit organized crime activities.

It is integrated with Infantry, Parachute Riflemen, and Special Forces personnel, whose main mission will be to strengthen the rule of law and the development of the entity's daily activities. The arrival of the hundreds of Sedena agents occurs one day before the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, visits the entity to head his usual meeting of the Security Cabinet, prior to his morning conference at the 29th Infantry Battalion, in the vicinity of the Loma de Fátima community.

With the latest deployment, there are at least 4,550 members of the security forces, including the Army, Navy,  and local police. Well, until last February 16, the governor counted more than 3,600 agents in the state and with which they arrested half a hundred alleged criminals in a week.

The drug war was announced on the night of February 8, when narcomantas were deployed against Jarquín Jarquín, whom they identified as El Chaparro. Both the nickname and the surnames coincide with data released by the United States government in October 2021, as plaza bosses of the CJNG in Manzanillo.

José Bernabé Brizuela Meraz "El Vaca"

The CJNG maintains the drug war against the local faction, supposedly headed by José Bernabé Brizuela Meraz, El Vaca, El Animal, and/or la Bestia. Judicial records indicate that Brizuela Meraz collaborated as head of the plaza for the Juárez Cartel and was in charge of coordinating drug shipments in Manzanillo as well as in the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, although since the beginning of the last decade he was allied with the CJNG.

While his current rivals, the Aldrin brothers Miguel Jarquín Jarquín, El Chaparro and/or Chaparrito and José de Jesús Jarquín Jarquín, El R32, would coordinate the supply of cocaine from Colombia at the port of Manzanillo.

Sources Infobae Infobae Borderland Beat