In the early morning hours of October 1, 2021, the bodies of two men were found executed on the Laredo highway in the municipality of Ciénega de Flores, in the state of Nuevo León.
The discovery was made by a cargo truck driver, who saw two suspicious looking “packages” on the shoulder of the highway, near the entrance to Colonia Privadas de Bella Vista. When the driver shone light on the packages with the headlights of his truck, he discovered that the packages were two dead people whose bodies showed obvious evidence of violence despite being partially covered by a tarp, alongside a narco-message sign.
The citizen called the emergency line at around 2:00 am and officers were dispatched to the scene where they were able to confirm the citizens report. At the location they found two deceased men. The bodies were lying in a direction from south to north on the west side of the highway, according to La Prensa. Both bodies were still wearing bindings on both their hands and their feet and their bodies were partially covered by a blue tarp that was held down from blowing away in the wind by several rocks.
According to the publication Debate, both remains show gunshot injuries, specifically a coup de grâce (a final killing blow or shot) shot to the head. One of the northbound lanes of the highway was cordoned off and closed while evidence was being collected by forensic experts and ministerial agents.
The neon green narco message sign found by the authorities was only officially reported as being addressed to a criminal group, with no further details given. According to Twitter user El Guzman the message was threats towards Northeast Cartel (Cartel del Noroeste, CDN) signed by the Gulf Cartel (Cartel del Golfo, CDG) faction of Los Metros.
Larger Cartel Context
Although these are just social media reports, their has been a lot of CDN versus CDG activity within the last two weeks in the state of Nuevo León.
In particular, on September 26, 2021, Los Metros announced a “cleaning” of CDN members from Nuevo León, as they wished to “give the citizens peace”. For the full message, please see this previous story by Sol. The signs were posted in the towns of Linares, Montemorelos, Allende, Santiago, and Cadereyta.
These signs were posted just after a major CDN vs CDG battle on September 20, 2021, in General Bravo which left at least four dead cartel hitmen to be found by law enforcement authorities however it is suspected that more died in the encounter than were found by authorities.
In the General Bravo battle, a Los Metros leader named “El Chaparro” was believed to be involved in organizing the Metros side of the attack. El Chaparro is believed to be a direct subordinate of Metros boss César Morfín Morfín, alias “El Primito”. For further details on this battle please see this previous story.
Back in 2019, El Chaparro was said to have a presence in the municipalities of Los Aldamas and Dr. Coss, marked in green below. These locations may be used as launching point for further CDG attempted incursions deeper into central Nuevo León.
The area of Ciénega de Flores, where the two bodies with the Metros narco-message were found, is far more central than previous locations of CDG activity. This may suggest CDG has been able to gain more of a foothold in the area or it may simply suggest a Los Metros convoy successfully passed through territory that is still largely controlled by CDN.
Sources: El Porvenir, La Prensa, Circulo Informativo, Dominio Medios, Debate, Posta, ANA Noticias, El Guzman
Additional Photo Credit: Planeta
Primito seems to be growing in power ever since he became supreme boss within CDG metros and after Vaquero was arrested its said he was able to get all the right political ppl on his side. Having CJNG suppoet through his stepdad doesnt help and seems to be helping both parties alot. The new Gov of NL is an alleged Ally of Both Primito and Mencho and Co. With a mean appetite of cleaning his state of CDN garbage. Samuel Garcias uncle was a capo for cdg during Osiel Cardenas time.
ReplyDeleteHonestly CDN seems to tbe taking some huge blows and hnedtly i dont think its long before their boss Huevo Treviño is killed or captured. Heavy rumors is that he resides in Nuevo Leon and or Texas as a gardener lol no BS. Military reports inidcate he may be working as a gardener in Texas Area
El primito is a pussy ass jalisca he wont set foot in tamaulipas. And his brother is a pussy too
DeleteSamuelito is going to turn NL into a war zone like back in 2010. But now you got golfas cdn jaliscas and sinalokas all in the state. Shit is going to get hot now when he takes office and unleashes all the resources of the state and federal government now that he is buddy’s with amlo to fight golfas enemies.
ReplyDeleteSamuelito is going to turn NL into a war zone like back in 2010. But now you got golfas cdn jaliscas and sinalokas all in the state. Shit is going to get hot now when he takes office and unleashes all the resources of the state and federal government now that he is buddy’s with amlo to fight golfas enemies.
ReplyDeleteWith the truce declared between the matamoros and reynosa cdg factions the metros can now go in the offensive against cdn. But all is not well in the metros faction. El primito was openly challenged. And even though there was a rumor that el comandante pezon was killed last week in a firefight that hasnt been confirmed by authorities and el pezon el boludo are high ranking members of the metros faction that are against el primito.
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