Morelia.- In the last four years, the violent incursion of him New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) has increased mainly in three states: Michoacán, Zacatecas and Guanajuato.
Although the overall goal would be to expand the criminal group to establish their routes for traffic drug in the United States, In each entity the reasons for which they have been present have been different and in recent years the levels of violence in these places have increased.
In Michoacán, for example, according to different sources, the offensive is due to the fact that the leader of the organization, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, Seeks to seize his homeland.
In Zacatecas, the geographic location and connectivity have turned to the state into one of their objectives, since it is the forced route that connects to the Pacific Ocean with the main border zones of north of country and the United States; but in the last decade, Zacatecas has suffered the settlement of at least five cartels, mostly from the marketing of fentanyl, which has become popular on American soil and is more economical, strong and lethal than cocaine and heroin.
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In Guanajuato, since October 2017, his presence was most notorious when José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, El Marro, Leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL) openly declared the war to them by the control of the fuel robbery in the call triangle huachicol, in the municipalities of Apaseo the Great one, Salamanca, Leon, Irapuato and Celaya.
Dominate your land
Michoacán was one of the first states in the country where the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel began its armed expansion in 2014 and, according to inhabitants and authorities of the regions where it has attacked, everything is derived from a “whim” of its leader criminal.
Sources consulted explain that the goal of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes is to seize his homeland: Aguililla.
However, it was in late 2019 when the CJNG’s offensive to join Michoacán intensified; the first case was on August 30, 2019 in the municipality of Tepalcatepec, which cost Mencho the death of nine of his assassins and 11 more who were injured, after the population and local police went respond to the attack.
“Before the attacks we had threats by phone, messages and through emissaries about what the CJNG wanted to enter, as they were at the time. Knights Templar“, Explained José Luis, a businessman living in Terra Calenta.
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The farmer reported that the villagers participated to prevent the intrusion of criminals, because on this occasion they gave notice to the authorities of the threats and ignored them. “We didn’t understand why the Jalisco Cartel wanted to take over our villages, but we already know it’s for pure ego, to say they have control of their home state and want to retreat here again,” he noted.
On October 14, 2019, another CJNG command ambushed state police in Aguililla, Which left 14 officers dead and two more injured in the town of Aguaje, in addition to having previously perpetrated several massacres in the municipality of Uruapan.
During 2020, the attacks of this criminal organization did not cease in the region of Hot earth and, on the contrary, they have extended to other municipalities like the Kings, Tocumbo, Tingüindín, Peribán and Zamora.
In December last year, in just three days, CJNG cells carried out attacks in 10 different municipalities in Michoacán, most on the border with Jalisco.
The CJNG has been present in Michoacán since 2014, when self-defense groups extinguished the Knights Templar cartel.
Oseguera spread its cells through different municipalities of Michoacán, especially in the Terra Calenta, Serra and Serra-Costa.
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The split in 2018 of the said cartel also caused a rift between his lieutenants, who were exiled from Michoacan by the viagra cartel. Mencho’s obsession with returning to his homeland, Aguililla, made him confront the surviving armed civilian groups, which he attacked most intensely since 2019.
In addition, Oseguera Cervantes faces a battle with Érick Valencia Salazar, El 85, its former founding partner of the CJNG. Valencia Salazar already took several municipalities from Michoacán and Jalisco, but also formed a criminal bloc with the Serra Santana brothers, from Los viagres.