Cártel Nueva Plaza: El 85 and El Cholo fight against El Mencho for the Guadalajara Plaza

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Érick Valencia, "El 85”, regained his freedom in 2017, after he was arrested in 2012, allegedly because "El Mencho" betrayed him and handed him over to the authorities to keep him in full control of the cartel.

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel in less than a decade has managed to seize control of criminal operations in 22 states, according to the DEA and Intelligence reports of Mexico.

With violence, alliances and betrayals, this criminal organization quickly escalated to become one of the most dangerous in the country. According to reports from the Mexican authorities, the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación which is led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka "El Mencho", unblocked the Sinaloa Cartel in the territory control.

However, as his strength of this criminal enterprise grew, his enemies have also grown.

Currently, in the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara (ZMG) the violence has intensified, just a week ago an armed group murdered 6 men who drank in the streets of a popular neighborhood in the south of Guadalajara.

Another violent event in the town of Ixtlahuacán of Membrillos recently residues 20 people were located within a rain water channel.

According to reports from federal officials, the ZMG is in dispute over territorial control, between the CJNG and a recent organization identified as the Cártel Nueva Plaza.

According to reports, the municipalities covered by the Guadalajara metropolitan area: El Salto, Chapala, Juanacatlán, Poncitlán, Tlajomulco de Zuñiga and Ixtlahuacán de los Menbrillos; They are the plazas in dispute.

But not only in the state of Jalisco is this battle for control of the drug market and other illicit activities carried out, the conflict has also spread to the states of Colima, Nayarit, Michoacán and Guanajuato.

In Guanajuato, "El Mencho" is also fighting for control of the territory against his former partners, a cell that was part of the CJNG that specialized in the theft of fuel from Petróleos Mexicanos pipelines.

Cártel Nueva Plaza is a group of men, Mexicans and Colombians, whose leaders at the time were close to the leadership of the former cartel of "Los Valencia", which then converted into the CJNG.

Cártel Nueva Plaza leadership

Reports indicate that since April 2018 the Cártel Nueva Plaza has been growing with support from the Sinaloa Cartel {Mayo] in different areas of the state of Jalisco.

Enrique Sánchez Martínez, "El Cholo" and Érick Valencia Salazar "EL 85", who were members of CJNG,   have been identified as leaders of this new criminal group.

Érick Valencia, "El 85”, regained his freedom in 2017, after he was arrested in 2012, allegedly because "El Mencho" betrayed him and handed him over to the authorities to keep him in full control of the cartel.

"85" since he was released he reintegrated into organized crime and for his revenge against Oseguera Cevantes.

Enrique Sánchez Martínez, "El Cholo", was one of the closest and most trusted people of "El Mencho",   but declared war after differences after the murder of "El Colombiano", (financial operator of the criminal organization) and resulted in the separation of Sánnchez Martínez from the CJNG in March 2017 and since then he dedicated himself to recruiting people to form the CNP. According to official reports, "El Cholo" uses several aliases, including Luis Emmanuel Rodríguez Cerros and Miguel Ángel Sánchez Solórzano.

The territorial dispute between several of the operators of the CJNG and members of the Cártel Nueva Plaza, has generated violence in the state of Jalisco and does not rule out that the human remains that were located in past days, are related to piso/tax, extortion and treason..

In the first quarter of 2018, 79 cases were registered, three times more than those in 2015 when there were only 23 events. So far this year the figure is 732 wrongful killings in the state of Jalisco.

The violence in Mexico, beset by bloodthirsty drug cartels who are also engaged in fuel theft, extortion and kidnapping, reached a new record during the first quarter of 2019 with 8,493 murders.