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Saturday, August 5, 2023

Local Gangs Unite to Fight the CJNG for Control of Poza Rica, Veracruz

"Morogris" and "HEARST" for Borderland Beat


The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is in competition with multiple local gangs for control of Poza Rica, a city in northern Veracruz.

These criminal groups have infiltrated the local government and businesses in the area, and at times, they even meddle in local elections and political parties to exert control over the territory.


El Coco, the local CJNG Leader

Locals and journalists, silenced by cartel violence, claim that one of the men heading this gang war is El Coco. He is the leader of the CJNG plaza in Poza Rica.


El Coco is a former subordinate of Ciro [or Cirilo] Gonzalez Perez, known as Z-37, El Puchini, or El Perrito de Evelio, who was the former leader of the Zetas in northern Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guanajuato, and San Luis Potosí.


Gonzalez Perez was murdered in a Tamaulipas prison by the Northeast Cartel (CDN) last April. He was once a close associate of Zetas founder Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, alias El Lazca or Z-3.


El Coco is alleged to have betrayed Los Zetas and joined the CJNG. The factions of Zetas deserters were derogatorily referred to as Los Torcidos by their rivals.

According to citizen journalists, El Coco controls the rural areas of Poza Rica, Coatzintla, Papantla, Espinal, Tihuatlán, and La Concha.




Who Is El Goyo?

According to Veracruz Governor Cuitláhuac García, Gregorio Gómez Martínez, also known as "El Goyo," is the primary adversary of El Coco in northern Veracruz.


El Goyo, a former member of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and ex-mayor of Tihuatlán municipality, is currently incarcerated for homicide. Despite being in prison, he allegedly continues to manage a criminal network through intermediaries.

Veracruz journalists say that El Goyo started his criminal career as a money launderer for Los Zetas and Grupo Sombra before becoming an "independent" cartel boss.


El Goyo's rivalry with the CJNG is now spilling over into local elections, with both El Goyo and El Coco trying to exert their influence in the political realm. El Goyo is said to have some control over the local media due to his ownership of Vanguardia de Veracruz, a newspaper based in Poza Rica.


Long before El Coco became involved with the CJNG, El Goyo held the position of plaza boss in Poza Rica. Local journalists believe that his political affiliations with federal deputy Rogelio Franco Castán and former Veracruz Governor Miguel Angel Yunes Linares played a significant role in consolidating his influence in the region.


The feud between El Coco and El Goyo escalated dramatically when El Goyo's gang allegedly abducted three young relatives of El Coco. In retaliation, the CJNG struck back, assassinating El Goyo's associate Fernando Pérez Vega, also known as El Pino, who was a prominent leader of Los Pelones, along with his family.






Gangs Unite to Expel CJNG from Poza Rica

Following the murders, the Governor disclosed that criminal factions in the Poza Rica region formed an alliance with a common objective: to target the CJNG and force them out of the area.

During this period, a trusted lieutenant of El Coco, who was well-acquainted with his boss, decided to emulate him and switched sides, initiating a series of clashes, killings, and assaults on bars associated with the CJNG in Poza Rica. These developments have contributed to an escalation in violence and instability in the region.

In a revenge attack, El Coco allegedly pursued his former associated and murdered him.

As of 2023, the Governor of Veracruz confirms that El Coco is in hiding, and one of his trusted lieutenants, Comandante 67, has assumed a leadership role.


However, El Coco's rivals have established a new group called Los Tercios (The Thirds) or as Los Alamilla. Their primary objective is to confront and combat the CJNG in the region of Poza Rica.

Los Tercios were once rival to the Veracruz-based gang known as Grupo Sombra. Grupo Sombra, composed of deserters from the Gulf Cartel, has historically controlled the municipalities of Tuxpan, Poza Rica, Coatzintla, and Tihuatlán. Both Grupo Sombra and Los Tercios, who sometimes collectively call themselves Los Guerreros, are involved in a power struggle with the CJNG as they vie for dominance in the region.



Apart from drug trafficking, financing politicians, and money laundering, the CJNG cell in Poza Rica derives income and control from various sources. Among these are the collection of fees (piso) from gas carriers, businessmen, corn growers, taxi drivers, and migrant smuggling. 

Corn merchants have reported being subjected to CJNG extortions for the past three years. Similarly, taxi drivers, junk yard owners, orange dealers, and gas carriers in Poza Rica, Coatzintla, Papantla, Espinal, Tihuatlán, La Concha, and surrounding areas have been forced to pay fixed fees to the CJNG.

These victims have accused the Veracruz Government, the State Public Security Secretariat, and municipal police officers on social media of providing protection and impunity to the CJNG.


Poza Rica is a hotbed of narco activity beyond just the CJNG vs Los Guerreros (Los Tercios + Grupo Sombra) conflict. 


In January 2023, Gulf Cartel’s Grupo Escorpión threatened their rivals in Poza Rica in a narco video. (Sol’s English translation is linked here.) 


In April 2023, a reporter was abducted by narcos, who made a video of him “confessing” that State Police coordinator Felipe Santes is working with cartel groups in Poza Rica. (Sol’s English translation is linked here.) 


In May 2023, Sinaloa Cartel’s Gente Nueva announced they were going to purge Poza Rica. (Sol’s English translation is linked here.) 














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40 comments:

  1. CJNG Make Chapitos look like school girls

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    1. Cjng ladyboy feeling the need to support his lovers by bringing cds into something that has nothing to do with them

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    2. @11:38
      No seas llorón ardido

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    3. 12:14 CDS woman trying to defend the honor of his chaputitos 🤣

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    4. 1:45 en este caso el que parese que esta llorando eres tu, hasta te ardio el comentario de 1:45

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    5. cjng cheer leaders are the most loyal I swear 😭
      Hasta que les violen a sus esposas van a quedar agusto

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    6. 6:49 🤣 CJNG cheer leaders nunca van a entender ni con eso, igual como los CDS no han entendido despues de saver que el chapo y el mayo son pedophilos y han violado a muchas niñas de 14 y 15 años

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    7. CDs cheerleaders are the worst at least cjng cheerleaders know they are scum. CDs fangirls living in denial.

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    8. You’re all trash

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    9. 3:00 🤣🤣 "CJNG has trannys though" 😂😂😂 didnt CDS filmed themself making love to a CJNG guy? That really gives you an inside look at what CDS has in their ranks 😭😭😭😭

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  2. Is there just endless Cartels and criminal groups in Mexico? Right now we hear Ivan and the Chapo sons are the most wanted but even if the U.S. captures them will it help stop the drugs and violence?

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    1. No. A couple days ago a priest mentioned the government counts 176 criminal groups in México. Weak government who won't impose the rule of law.

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    2. @1250 — “Los cartelitos” as that one dumbass general said aeons ago..

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  3. Zetas and Golfos Run Veracruz

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    1. Looks like many z's in veracruz & surrounding states like slp have became cjng. That's how they a presence in so many places. Has anyone heard anything out of el bukanas in the last few years.

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    2. It’s like when morena started winning everybody jumped ship ti morena pero eran las mismas ratas, no hay honor.

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  4. Isnt that something how in every state cjng enters they are not liked by the locals

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    1. Deep down, I imagine all locals hate these bastards all around the country..

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  5. What a freaking mess mexico is. Theres no hope.

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  6. CJNG are not liked anywhere, they’re considered the bottom of the barrel when it comes to organized crime. They’ve started a lot of fights across Mexico and haven’t been able to win one. The continue to extort locals, rape women and children, they’re just a twisted group of lowlifes. May every organization in Mexico wipe them out.

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    1. Yeh agree bro, that's the CDS thing, a truly great cartel! They never extorted and always helped the poor residents, I think if CDS and their allies dominated all over Mexico, then the country would have the highest level of happiness in the world, and the level of pvp increased threefold!

      I think when CDS finally liberates Mexico from lacras CJNG I will move to live there forever! To be honest, I think that in the future school textbooks will tell about El Mayo and El Chapo same as about Emilian Zapata and Pancho Villa, real heroes and revolutionaries! We lack such people…

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    2. @3:12
      The unfortunate thing is the person you are replying to may not pick up on your sarcasm.

      People are so determined to identify a lesser evil.

      But evil is evil. And every group is evil.

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    3. 1:29 if you change CJNG for CDS or any other cartel is the same, they all do what you say, any ways if all the cartels and their cheerleaders would dessapear from mexico it would be a paradise

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  7. Reading some of you stunted children here favor one criminal group over another and speak of various members as if you have their “baseball card” is disgusting and offensive. Innocent lives are affected by this madness in ways you obviously don’t understand. I’d love to take some of you and drop you in the hot areas for a year or two. One thing is for sure - you wouldn’t come out the other end glorifying this heinous shit.

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    1. @4:29 I agree 100% . To be put in those hot zones , with friends and loved ones , will definitely make them change their mindset about rooting for this cartel , or that cartel . It’s all fun to glorify , until your one loved or someone you care about gets extorted,rape, dismembered, disappeared or thrown in a barrel of acid by the cartel you root for

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    2. a year??! Try a day lol

      And while discouraging, it should be no surprise that the number of sheer morons these days is exponential… let’s say versus 10-11 years ago even.

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    3. Preach that shit ! Every once in a while someone in this comment section drops a little truth bomb ! BOOM There it goes !

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  8. Los torcidos son las jaliscas.

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    1. Eso decían los idiotas de "La Resistencia" y hasta de testigos culones pone dedos resultaron 😆😂🤣

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    2. Y que importa el punto es que los torcidos originales fueron la mencha y la 85 que se le voltearon a los valencias.

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    3. 3:17 Nada diferente a lo que gan echo todos los cateles hasta ahora

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    4. No sabes ni lo que escribes. A qué Valencias se le voltearon? Al Lobo y al Tigre? El 85 es pariente de AVC y el era el que seguía al trono pero el rata ponededo del Lobo quería que su lugarteniente Pilo, otro rata ponededo, se quedará de jefe cuando el ni es de la familia Valencia.

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  9. Nobody fears menso and his band of tweekers. Everyone knowd cjng peaked years ago and is on the decline. Even if menso is alive nobody gives a fck about him anymore

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  10. Z-37 looks like he was born to be a damn Zeta…

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  11. Poza rica es el mismo lugar donde el grupo sombra andaba haciendo una limpia. Que paso?

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  12. I wonder if “Coco” is short for “Cocoliso”? Lol shiny bald bastard

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