Tepalcatepec, Michoacán: The Jalisco New Generation Cartel Is Attacked With Drones

"Sol Prendido" for Borderland Beat

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The war for control of the state of Michoacán between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the United Cartels criminal conglomerate continues its course. In a video broadcast on the Tepalcatepec community account on the TikTok social network, an explosive device launched from a drone explodes and immobilizes a convoy presumably from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. 

The account that claims to be from the Tepalcatepec community police who on several occasions have been identified as part of United Cartels broadcast the recording from the drone where 4 trucks are observed fleeing after the explosion. Some armed men with tactical vests get out of their vehicles to reconnoiter the territory. But they return to them and leave driving at full speed through the dirt road. 

The Tepalcatepec community account calls itself the Michoacán self-defense groups. Despite the fact that the Michoacán government has constantly pointed out that there are no legitimate self-defense groups in the state.

The Tepeques, as they have been named by the opposing cartels or the Tepalcatepec cartel, are led by Juan José Farias aka El Abuelo, who in turn is the criminal conglomerate leader of the United Cartels. 

With whom the Jalisco New Generation Cartel maintains a drug war for control of various municipalities of Michoacan. On social networks it has been pointed out that in the video you can see the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in action. While in the comments of the original publication, people ask if the trucks belong to the community police or to the cartel.

Luis Cresencio Sandoval Gonzalez, head of the Secretary of National Defense, has declared that he has a record of the use of explosive drones, mainly by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. But that the use of these explosive devices combined with technology has been extended to three cartels and criminal cells. In another video from the same TikTok account, another drone attack can be seen on what appears to be a clandestine synthetic drug laboratory.

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