The Wives of Guerreros Unidos Take Control

Translated by Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Universal

By: Dennis A. García Nov 4, 2017

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The Guerreros Unidos organization, a splinter of the Beltrán Leyva cartel (BLO) , recently identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as one of those that has extended its operations in the United States, is led by women, most of whom are wives of the Guerrero Unidos leaders who have been arrested.

An investigation opened by the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) points to a new structure that includes women, including the wives of the brothers Casarrubias Salgado, founders of the criminal group, ministerial sources reported.

With a low profile since the arrests of those allegedly involved in the disappearance of the 43 normalistas of Ayotzinapa , which occurred in September 2014, some of the women took part in the control and decisions within the cartel, which distributes heroin in the United States. To the new conformation the wives of the heads of sicarios are also united . Within the structure, some of them act as controls but also as hawks (halcones).

Jose Luis Abarca and his wife Maria de los Angeles Moreno
Mayor of Iguala and his wife Maria at the time of the infamous disappearance of the 43 Student /Teachers

The takeover of feminine power in the cartel has its beginnings with María de los Ángeles Moreno, wife of the former mayor of Iguala, José Luis Abarca, who, according to the statement of one detainee, Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, "El Sapo", leader of Guerreros Unidos, was the principal financial operator and, together with her husband, they acted from the municipal presidential position.

After their capture, on April 30, 2014, in Toluca, Mario Casarrubias, "El Sapo" , founder of that criminal organization, his brother Sidronio exercised control of the organization that operates mainly in Guerrero, State of Mexico and Morelos.

Sidronio Casarrubias Salgadado, was arrested in the State of Mexico on October 17, 2014. Since that day, the person who assumed the leadership was his brother, Adán, "El Tomate", who maintains a dispute with the organization called "Los Rojos", both are splits of the brothers' cartel: Beltrán Leyva (BLO).

In relation to the hawks and the operative group, the former police director of Iguala, Felipe Flores Velázquez, and Francisco Salgado Valladares had an elite team within a corporation called "Los Bélicos", identified as violent and under the orders of José Luis Abarca.

In his statement for the Iguala case, Sidronio Casarrubias said that José Luis Abarca used money from the coffers of Iguala to pay the directors of the police and municipal presidents of Taxco, Cocula, Buena Vista de Cuéllar, Tepecoacuilco, Huitzuco and Teloloapan to contain the entrance of antagonistic groups that fought the square.

Among the women who are mentioned as those who probably assumed part of the control of Guerreros Unidos are those related to Sidronio Casarrubias Salgado, "El Chino", Mario Casarrubias Salgado, "El Sapo", Adán Zenen Casarrubias Salgado, "El Tomate", and José Ángel Casarrubias Salgado, "El Mochomo".

Felipe Flores Velázquez, former director of the Municipal Police of Iguala; Francisco Salgado Valladares, former deputy director of Iguala police; Israel Arroyo Mendoza, "El Spaghetti"; Víctor Hugo Benítez Palacios, "El Tilo", head of the plaza in Iguala; Brassieres Toribio Rentería, "El Chino", Pedro Bailón Díaz, Onofre Marquina Chapa and Felipe Rodríguez Salgado, "El Cepillo".