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Monday, September 16, 2024

Comonfort, Guanajuato: CSRL Stronghold's New Mayor Under Siege

By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat

Gilberto Zarate Nieves, the Morena mayor-elect of Comonfort, Guanajuato, has faced a wave of violence against himself and his associates in recent weeks. Armed attacks have targeted his son, a future tourism director, and a lawyer slated to become the town hall director. The CSRL, the region's dominant criminal group, is suspected of being behind these attacks

According to local security expert David Saucedo, the Cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) are the only group with the coordinating capacity and regional control to mount these attacks in Comonfort. Saucedo further explained that since Mayors and Mayors-elect are protected by the National Guard, criminal groups shift their targeting focus to their unprotected families and associates, as seen in similar political attacks in the Guanajuato regions of Valle de Santiago, Cortazar, and Tarimaro.

Guanajuato, the most violent state in Mexico by homicide count, is also one of the states with highest rates of political violence, found ACLED, an NGO focused on conflict data. Their report links the criminal conflict to control of illicit economies including extortion and illegal fuel sales (huachicoleo). Within this conflict criminals aim to control and influence local politicians as they direct the provision of contracts, local security forces, and control local budgets.

The issue of political violence in Guanajuato is further supported by figures from Data Civica in their report "Votar entre balas" (voting between bullets), which recorded 65 killings of politicians, candidates, political party workers and their families in the state between 2018 and now.

Map of attacks against associates of the mayor-elect Gilberto Zarate Nieves


The three attacks

Gilberto Zárate Lomas wounded in an ambush

The first attack occurred on September 2nd, when armed men attacked and wounded Gilberto Zárate Lomas, the son of the mayor-elect while he was entering the town of Empalme Escobedo in a Grey Ford Fusion. Carlos Augusto, the driver of his vehicle, was struck by bullets and died at the scene, while Zárate Lomas was rushed to a local hospital with an injury to his neck. Local press also mentioned that Carlos Augusto's daughter was injured at the scene.


4 September: Isaac Ortega Nieto killed while driving



Two days later on September 4th, Isaac Ortega Nieto, who was to become the Secretary of the city hall, was killed in an ambush outside Comonfort. Assailants shot at him while driving in his Grey Nissan March on the Comonfort-Jalpilla highway, near the town of La Presita. He was travelling with his pregnant wife and two others. The others sustained injuries, but survived.

A lawyer by trade, Isaac Ortega Nieto previously also served as a community representative for Comonfort during the 2015-2018 administration of independent mayor Alberto Méndez.

September 11: Tomás Mata Díaz shot dead while opening his business

The most recent attack occurred on September 11, when gunmen slew Tomás Mata Díaz, who was slated to become the municipalities Director of Tourism. Witnesses reported that unknown assailants shot and killed Mata Díaz around 8:00 a.m. when he arrived to open his dairy business in the town of Empalme Escobedo, about four miles south of Comonfort. This attack occurred just three blocks away from a previous attack on the mayor-elects son.

The killers escaped on a motorbike.


Photo of Tomás Mata Díaz. Source: El Universal

Gilberto Zarate Nieves, the Morena candidate, won the recent mayoral election in early June with 44% of the vote. He will assume the role of Mayor on October 10. These attacks are an effort to intimidate him from taking the position.

Claudio Santoyo Cabello, the current PAN mayor of Comonfort, who lost the June 2024 election by 10 points, denounced the attacks and appealed to the state Attorney Generals Office to investigate the spate of attacks.

CSRL control of Comonfort

Most news reports, government intelligence, and security analysts concur that Comonfort, along with several other nearby regions, are dominated by the CSRL.

Further evidence of this can be found in the CSRL response to the capture of “El Muñeco”, a high ranking CSRL figure and brother in law of El Marro in January 2023. CSRL operatives responded by burning businesses and causing disruption in several municipalites of Guanajuato. Comonfort and the nearby town of Empalme Escobedo were especially hit hard, with gunmen shooting up the mayors offices of both communities.



49 comments:

  1. Its bcuz the mayor and his administration are taking CJNG bribes, this was a peaceful state until CJNG arrived.

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    1. Exactly can't act like a victim now

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    2. 6:39 AM
      Has to be something like that,CSRL are seriously pissed and they are making an effort to kill these rats politicos who cause cain selling plazas and breaking agreements

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    3. Bullshit 3:13 it may have been more calm, but csrl has always been extorting and stealing from the good people of Guanajuato. They are lower than low ex-zetas. I’m not for the 4letras but csrl are absolute trash

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    4. That’s what people don’t understand the big crime groups show up when the crime is already there

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    5. Let’s just forget about the innocents that CSRL has killed along with CJNG but sure let’s keep the other sides balls in our mouths 🤦🏽‍♂️

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    6. Cant even read the article he is bullshitting about. Jajajaja

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    7. This is what happens when you take CJNG money. The plomo comes at you from the rival cartel. Nuff Said!!!

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    8. Good Morning Nuff Said kid.

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    9. Morons on here no one is supporting ANY cartel.. The reason CSRL are killing these politicos is the concern not supporting any scrub cartel.

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  2. Otros tlacuaches muertos de hambre chingado a la población. Matenlos cuando los capturan a los HDSPM. Son un escoria para el país.

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  3. No expongan a gente inocente dejen su cargo esa gente no pelea de frente y ustedes con puesto del gobierno no sean cobardes y se escondan detras de la guardia dejen su cargo no expongan a su familia
    El fuerzas especiales

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    1. Con una "fuerza especial" esque te meten la verga. Vato piojoso

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  4. Fucking Cowards. Go fight the CJNG

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    1. 10:25 😂😂😂 cjng nowhere to b found near by after getting handled 😂....go put ur pom poms away

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    2. Who? Me @1025

      🦎

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    3. Connor is a CJNG nutthugger and Trump sympathizer.

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    4. Your a lame hea backing cjng so why should he or his famybe untouched chales he's wants deal with the cartel and it should be handled accordingly..your not from the streets so u wouldn't understand lil boy

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    5. @1025 lives in a gated community and is in charge of the HOA

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    6. Sol transitioning ☀ 🌈

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    7. 11:15 CSRL are too busy killing every woman they see

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    8. @12:58 I guess it's an open invitation
      🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎

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  5. This personal has to be betrayal or reneged on promises,just intimidation ? But,politicians are the shit of the world fuck em..Blithely they sit in offices and make decisions that affect thousands then retire to a bubble of indifference,safety and plenty

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  6. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://laparadadigital.com/calcinan-a-sus-enemigos-en-jimenez/&ved=2ahUKEwiI-8Go88eIAxXIDzQIHXAlDMcQxfQBKAB6BAgFEAI&usg=AOvVaw08MMtU4oN-wMold5utEVTM

    Topon in Chihuas

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  7. Yo Connor do you want to smash Shinebomb?

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  8. LFM in they're endless stacking of feria endeavors let in a bunch of cubanos a few days ago that were heading from veracross to masapan and got into it with these santa rose people in iraputo and lion and in response these lower tier nortenas go after politicos to make up for the shame of getting clapped by some unarmed barefoot mz/guevaras. A new nortena low. Last I heard the cubanos are held up at senoloa/durengo border by chaps 300 with orders to die in place or get they cheeks spread if the cubanos get in. Idk if I mentioned anything about this before I just woke up behind winco someone left me a king cobra and 2 percs I hope it was my cumpa Sol again Adios muchachis




    -Semper Fi-

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    1. Fi Fi is in love 💕 with LFM. Just like Connor likes Rubio.

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    2. Fifi gives me bad dreams

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    3. Fucken love Winco

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  9. In other news,they killed Manuel Beltran Quintero,leader of the Caborca cartel in Sonora! Last night in Polanco DF

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  10. I see I'm living In everyone's mind rent free... LOL .. IAG IS KING !!!!

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    1. Yo Connor is it true Canadagirl has a chorizo? I'm not into that but do your thing bronie.

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    2. 10:38 sol is that u???? Fuck u both

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    3. I love chorizo con guevos in the morning.

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    4. Connor loves to play with Rubios chorizo.

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    5. Is Conor the resident gilbertona transformer on this site or is the LFM nuthugger?

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    6. Sol dated Connor briefly, but he had to..
      wait for it..
      BREAK IT OFF!!!
      🦎

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    7. @726
      Keep Canada girls name outa your fuckin' mouth! 😂

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    8. this is no canadian girl...this is salvatrucha muchacha.......

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  11. @8.32......imaginate si era inteligente....traia camioneta blindada.....y no traia escoltas......pez gordo.......solo....se bajo a poner monedas en el parquimetro..........de que te sirve una camioneta blindada,si te expones como una blanca paloma......esto esta de pelicula.........................

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  12. 9 people killed in confrontation outside of Jimenez chihuahua

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    1. El 4 from Los Salgueiros was killed

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