The Washington Post He explains that, unlike the Colombian cartels of Pablo Escobar’s time, the Mexican cartels seldom attacked top officials, in part to avoid confrontations with the state.
Saltillo, Coahuila (Vanguardia) .– The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has targeted the mexican elite in his ascent to drug trafficking control, he published the American newspaper The Washington Post.
In a report, signed by Kevin Sieff, the US newspaper reports the series of murders and attacks against Mexican officials that the criminal group led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”, has perpetrated to ascend to power in a few years.
It is noted that before the attack against Omar García Harfuch, Mexico City’s secretary of Citizen Security (SSC-CdMx), the CJNG had already murdered judges, legislators, dozens of police and thousands of civilians. In that bloody trail, it has come to control the trafficking of more than a third of all drugs consumed in the United States and has spread to Europe and Asia, according to United States officials.
But it was as a result of the attack on García Harfuch that other officials, including the Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, and the president of the National Commission for Human Rights (CNDH), Rosario Piedra Ibarra, announced that they had also received threats. by the same criminal organization.
In this regard, the Jalisco Governor told journalists that “we are seeing the threat to institutions, a reality already visible in some states and now reflected in Mexico City.”
The Washington Post explains that, unlike the Colombian cartels of Pablo Escobar’s time, the Mexican cartels seldom attempted against high officials, partly to avoid confrontations with the State, partly because they considered that bribery is a more useful tool than murder. Although local officials have been frequent targets, this has not been the case with state governors and federal officials.
Two weeks before the attack against the head of the SSC-CdMx, federal judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz and his wife, Verónica Barajas, had been killed in Colima. Villegas had directed the case that allowed the extradition to the United States of “El Mencho’s” son, Rubén Oseguera, alias “El Menchito,” the newspaper said.
STELA OF BLOOD
The bloody war that the CJNG has waged with other cartels for having control of the country is evidenced in figures, since last 2019 was the bloodiest year in the recent history of Mexico, with 35 thousand 588 homicides, a trend that seems to continue. this year despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the Drug Control Administration (DEA), in just a few years the CJNG has become the main drug trafficking organization in Mexico, maintaining a presence in 24 of the 32 states in the country.
The CJNG’s strategy has been to recruit local gangs and small criminal organizations, uniting everyone under their command. That is, instead of building an infrastructure, it copied and reformulated an existing one, according to the publication.
As a consequence, hundreds of teenagers and young people who had been involved in other crimes such as petty theft or addiction problems have become easy prey for the cartel, which has recruited and added them to its ranks.
Regarding the response of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the US newspaper noted that there has been debate on how to respond to the expansion of the CJNG and the increasing violence that is particularly plaguing Guanajuato and other states.
Finally, they recalled how AMLO attributed the attack against García Harfuch as a sample of the effectiveness of the work that is being done to fight organized crime.
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