The Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel is perhaps the most powerful criminal organization in Mexico. According to investigations and reports by US authorities, the CJNG traffics natural and synthetic drugs along the Pacific Ocean coast from the United States and Canada and to South America.
The leader is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, who has become one of the priority targets of the Mexican and US government. In late 2018 alone, American Union authorities doubled the maximum reward offered, from $ 5 million to $ 10 million, for his capture.
Mexico City, August 1 (SinEmbargo) .– A subject who identified himself as Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), appeared surrounded by a army of armed men and said that he will fight for control of Tepalcatepec, Michoacán.
“Town of Tepalcatepec, I am ‘Mencho’. I want to clarify that my war is against ‘El Abuelo’. I ask all innocent people not to leave their houses. We do not want to affect them. You know well that I like to support the people and I always look out for their well-being. I reiterate: I am ‘Mencho’. Go out and fight, ‘Grandfather’, son of your motherfucker, don’t throw the stupid people ahead, ”said the subject in a video that circulates on social networks.
“And you, National Guard of Tepalcatepec, from the payroll that ‘El Abuelo’ gives you, I give you double and without the need to sue you to fight. The only thing that I occupy is that they do not hinder ”, he added.
In the video, dozens of subjects are seen armed and wearing special suits. There is even a man wearing a bazooka.
The Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel is a Mexican organized crime group dedicated to drug trafficking and arms trafficking and, according to authorities from Mexico and the United States, as well as journalistic investigations, operates in 25 of the 32 states of Mexico, although its largest presence is in the states of Baja California, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Veracruz and Jalisco.
The leader is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, who has become one of the priority targets of the Mexican and US government. In late 2018 alone, American Union authorities doubled the maximum reward offered, from $ 5 million to $ 10 million, for his capture.
For years “El Mencho” has been accused by the United States of three drug trafficking charges.
The Drug Control Administration (DEA) included the CJNG in the list of transnational criminal organizations, specifically within the five priorities of the Government, which is going to create a group of specialists that will try to combat these entities.
In 2015, the cartel was declared the most dangerous by the United States, and a year later the Treasury Department described it as one of the most prolific and dangerous in the world.
According InSight CrimeCJNG, a foundation that studies organized crime and threats to national and citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean, has been associated with the extreme use of violence.
The organization noted that in the period after the CJNG emerged, the homicide rate increased considerably in the western state of Jalisco.
The initial mission of the cartel was also to fight the drug trafficking organization of Los Zetas in the eastern state of Veracruz, under the name of Los Mata Zetas.
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In recent weeks, the members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel have released three other videos.
In the third, broadcast on July 23, an alleged leader of the elite group of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) said that his criminal organization does not work with the government. He also asked not to support José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro”, alleged leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL).
“We do not work or mess with the government. We have the ability to work for ourselves, ”said the subject in a kind of video interview that now circulates on social networks.
The supposed member of the CJNG assured that they do not carry out attacks against innocents, and said that Guanajuato will not continue in war for long, because “the days of ‘Marro’ are numbered.”
“We are in all the municipalities of Guanajuato, and although ‘El Marro’ is still hiding … We make a call to all those who support the killing of ‘Marro’ innocents: stop doing it,” he added.
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On July 18, the subjects who exhibited themselves in a video with camouflaged weapons and vehicles, and who claimed to belong to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), clarified that it was not a message for authorities, but for José Antonio Yépez, alias “El Marro ”, alleged leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL).
“Our war is not against the people, nor is it against the government,” said one of the subjects in a new video circulating on social media. The scenes show aerial shots of the place where the alleged members of the criminal group led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes met.
“Guanajuato is from CJNG. People from all over Guanajuato, know that they have our support and we will soon get a filthy (‘El Marro’). We will not let him take out the white flag. ‘Marro’, CJNG Grupo Élite is already in all Guanajuato ”, added the narrator of the scenes.
“Government of Guanajuato, we do not mess with you, but if they cross when we go for the innocent kills, we are going to run into them,” he added.
“You are going to be alone, Marro. People are no longer afraid of you. We only go for those who support you. Stop blaming innocent people, “he said.
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Two days later, on July 20, the head of the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), General Luis Cresencio Sandoval, said that the group that boasted two videos with weapons, hitmen and armor under the letters of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel ( CJNG) is a cell led by Juan Carlos González, known as “R3”.
One of the videos, in which they refer to Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, was related to the criminal leader’s birthday, on July 17. The second video, the General considered, is a response to a threat by José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, known as “El Marro” and leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL).
“In the analysis of the videos that were circulating on social networks and in the media, a vehicle with artisan armor, painted green and with logos of an alleged group of special forces, an elite group of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is exhibited,” he explained. .
During the morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the official detailed “that there are 80 weapons present, one 50 caliber anti-aircraft machine gun, nine other types of machine guns, 10 Barrett 50 caliber rifles, 54 assault rifles, six grenade launcher attachments. In total 80 weapons and 75 people visible in the videos. “
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