Mencho Shares Control Of CJNG

"Mica/DrivingMSSQL" for Borderlandbeat.com

(Milenio) 45 capos from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are currently in the runaway, of which the authorities do not yet know the faces of 15 of them, although they do know how they operate and what areas they control, reports from the Ministry of National Defense (Sedena) hacked by the Guacamaya collective reveal.

In a report classified as "Urgent" of August 11 of this year, the 14th Battalion of the National Guard in Jalisco reveals that although the head continues to be Nemesio El Mencho Oseguera Cervantes, the command of the cartel is now shared with his brothers Antonio Oseguera, Tony Montana and Abraham Oseguera.

The document to which MILENIO had access describes that several relatives of these brothers have become the regional coordinators and heads of the square of the criminal organization, such as Guadalupe Moreno, the current partner of El Mencho, as well as some of their children, such is the case of Jessica Johana, who owns one of the premises bulletined by the United States Treasury Department as a money

The non-capture of these alleged criminals has caused the operations of this criminal organization to cross borders. And now the United States government has denounced that they have noticed an increase in border clashes and heavy drug trafficking, since 2018 and to date.

A few weeks ago, the Congress of this country published the report "Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking," where it assures that it sees with concern the "ineffectiveness" of the Mexican government to stop violence, but also to bring them to justice.

It also questions Mexico's decision to accept the support of the Drug Control Administration (DEA), recalling that in May 2022, "in what was perceived as a blow to anti-drug cooperation between the United States and Mexico," the government denied the DEA the landing rights of its plane to carry out anti-narcotics operations within the country.

The military reports reviewed by this newspaper reveal that among the faces that are not yet known are names such as Amparo Aide, known as La Señora de las Tostadas, and Iván Acosta Candelario, who operate in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, where clashes have arisen in broad daylight. Another is Jesús Ruiz, known as La Pelota or Francisco Gudiño, La Galleta, among others.

According to the National Guard, the CJNG maintains an alliance with Los Cuinis, its armed wing. The command is still from Ulises Yovani Mora, El Yiyo, who is wanted by the DEA for charges related to drug trafficking.

Faced with this scenario of violence and lack of control in Mexico, the United States assures that it has increased the trafficking of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl.

"The role in the production and trafficking of synthetic opioids to the United States has expanded significantly since 2018. There were more than 106,000 overdose deaths in the United States in 2021, more than 70 percent of which involved opioids, including fentanyl."

They emphasize that Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, elected in 2018, "has advocated policies that focus on the causes of crime, but his government has not carried out anti-narcotics operations consistently."

Ungovernable cartel

The documents of Guacamaya Leaks describe that the operations of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel continue to be centralized in the Jalisco area. According to the August 11 report, the areas where the greatest clashes have been reported are Jocotepec, Tamazula and Autlán de Navarro.

Until August 2022, they have detected that there are 45 cartel operators who are still fugitives and are distributed between the coast and the mountains of this state. Names such as Ricardo Quiroz Montejano, El Parotas, and Rosario Alcaraz Brambilla, of whom they do not yet know their identity, are placed on the organizational chart as close collaborators and close to the circle of Nemesio Oseguera.

The National Guard assures that there have been blows to this structure thanks to the arrest of businessman Sergio Kurtz Schmidit, who served as the financial operator of the cartel and is in a prison in this state. Other beatings were those of Rosalinda Gonzalez Valencia, wife of El Mecho, and Rubén Oseguera, who was arrested and extradited to the United States.

However, in the coastal region most of the targets are free, such as Hugo Mendoza Gaytán, El Sapo, Carlos Andrés Rivera, El Colombiano, Julio César Moreno, El Tarjetas, among others.

The same thing happens in the Los Altos area, where of the 11 targets that are still in the run, out of five their faces are unknown. In this area, two drug traffickers have been captured: Alexis Delgado, El Chofo, and Enrique Pizano, El Anestesia.

Cross the border

According to the report prepared by the research area of the United States Congress, the cartel maintains operations in central Mexico, including the states of Colima, Michoacán, Mexico, Guerrero and Guanajuato.

It has now become a dominant force by becoming the "most prolific and violent drug traffickers in the world," as Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán once was.

According to its analysts, the CJNG already has operations throughout the American Continent, as well as in some regions of Asia and Europe. The group is allegedly responsible for distributing cocaine and methamphetamine with an international range of 10,000 kilometers from the Pacific coast, on a route that extends from the Southern Cone to the border of the United States and Canada.

However, this would not have happened, they say, without the expansion within Mexico, where it continues to make its way thanks to its confrontations with the factions of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, especially in Tabasco, Veracruz and Guanajuato, as well as its incessant struggle with the Sinaloa Federation.

"The CJNG's battle to dominate key ports on the Pacific and Gulf coasts has allowed it to consolidate important components of the global narcotics supply chain. In particular, CJNG maintains control over the ports of Veracruz, Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas."

The American report adds that "this has given the group access to chemical precursors entering Mexico from China and other parts of Latin America. As a result, according to some analysts, the CJNG pursued an aggressive growth strategy supported by the U.S. demand for methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl.

Despite the loss of several leadership, the CJNG has expanded its geographical scope and maintained its own cohesion. The reputation for extreme and intimidating violence continues. An example of this is the ambush of the police chief of Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch, in June 2020.

The DEA considers the CJNG one of the main threats to the United States and the best-armed criminal group in Mexico. It offers a reward of 10 million dollars for information leading to the arrest of El Mencho, who is believed to be hiding in the mountains of Jalisco, Michoacán or Colima.

They remember that he was once a policeman and that he served a sentence for heroin trafficking in California. The only one he has faced. They emphasize that the CJNG was the target of a major DEA operation in March 2020, which resulted in about 600 arrests. The work was done by them, they say.

Although the National Guard knows their identities and areas of operation, almost fifty of its leaders are free, while the United States assures that this violence is impacting its territory.

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