Cartels unite in the fight against Los Zetas

 Coalition Anti-Zetas

Distrito Federal, Mx ─ The revival of violence in Zacatecas for the control of routes to Jalisco and central parts of the country.

According to federal government sources, The Zetas, who has dominion over 80 percent of the territory in Zacatecas, intend to take the south routes bordering Jalisco and Aguascalientes, to take over the corridor in the central parts of the country and for the control to carry out their illegal activities. 

Organizations that have blocked the entrance of the Zetas into Jalisco and other states in the center of the country is the association called Cartels Unidos, United Cartels, which includes members of the Gulf Cartel, La Resistencia (The Resistance), and el Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (The Jalisco Cartel New Generation). 

According to officials of the Security Cabinet in the federal government, alliances reshape these criminal groups to maintain a partnership of convenience, like after  the death of Ignacio Coronel Villareal, Nacho Coronel, one of the leaders of the Pacific cartel. 

The United Cartel are made up of former members of the Milenio cartel, a reminiscence of the Valencia and the Amezcua Contreras Cartels, La Familia Michoacana, and the Gulf Cartel. Who make criminal groups like The Resistance, Jalisco Cartel New Generation, and the Gulf cartel, which after its break from their executive arm The Zetas, maintain an internal struggle that seeks the destruction of both organizations.

 Executive Arms

The group called The Resistance, and the so called Matazetas, Zeta Killers, are the executing arms of the association of cartels, who in a "joint" effort are trying to destroy the criminal organization of The Zetas, carrying out a strategy in Central and Gulf states of the country, like in Veracruz, Tabasco, and Campeche.

The Resistance, was created by La Familia Michoacana to counter the attacks of criminal groups such as The Zetas.

According to government authorities of Jalisco and Zacatecas, the killing of drug lords like Nacho Coronel, has in many cases fragmented criminal groups that have spread through out the Mexican territory creating criminal cells.

Disputing Roads

According to federal government data, nearly 30 cities, both in Zacatecas and Jalisco, are disputed by criminal organizations for control of routes.

In Zacatecas, the municipal's in conflict are Juchipila, Apozol, Tabasco, Huanusco, Mezquital del Oro, Jalpa, Villa Gonzalez Ortega, Pines, Tlaltenango, Tepechitlán, Florencia de Benito Juárez, Chimaltitán, Villanueva, Teúl Gonzalez Ortega, Momax, Tepetongo, Monte Escobedo, silver Joaquin Amaro, Villa de Cos, Santa Maria de la Paz, Atolinga and Trinidad Garcia de la Cadena.

In these municipal's there have been constant fighting, the execution of people, and the permanent presence of armed groups in trucks, many of them Bullet proof.

Dispute in Jalisco

In Jalisco, the municipal's in dispute are Huejucar, Santa Maria de los Angeles, Villa Guerrero, Totatiche, Huejuquilla Mezquitic and El Alto.

According to federal authorities, the rate of violence in Zacatecas will increase to the extent that The Zetas will try to penetrate the route of drug transfers to the states in the center of the country and the Pacific.

While in some areas they're present armed forces, both federal and local, and the continued presence of armed groups who move in convoys to keep their territory guarded.



Source: http://www.diario.com.mx/notas.php?f=2011/09/19&id=87576895d00223fd6ac6bc93b356d4f4