Guanajuato.- In blood and fire, the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG) seizes the drug market a Guanajuato and, from this territory, it outlines “the freeway” for the traffic of narcotics from the port of Lazaro Cardinal red, Michoacán, Towards the border, en route to the northeast, according to specialists.
In six years, the strategy based on money, firepower and the attraction of opposing sides allowed this criminal group to conquer 60% of the state territory, without reaching the domain in the cities of the Laja-Baix area, Where the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL) is sustained despite the capture of José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, El Marro.
In Guanajuato, since October 2017, the presence of the CJNG was more noticeable when Yépez Ortiz openly declared war on those in Jalisco, for the dispute over the theft of fuel in the so-called triangle the huachicol, formed by the municipalities of Apaseo the Great one, Salamanca, Leon, Irapuato and Celaya.
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The shootings, massacres, attacks and the death row that have since placed Guanajuato in first place nationally in malicious homicides are a reflection of the war between local cartels and the CJNG, public safety experts say.
The heads of the Attorney General’s Office, Carlos Zamarripa, And the local Secretariat of Public Security, Alvar Cap de Vaca, Have said that more than 80% of willful homicides are related to the square dispute between CJNG and CSRL.
David Saucedo, a specialist and consultant in public security, considers that the cartel war in Guanajuato has three fronts: the one in León, between the CJNG and La Unión de León; that of the CJNG against the Santa Rosa Cartel, in the huachicolera area and in the one of the south, where apparently the Cartel of Sinaloa fights against the one of Jalisco, in reinforcement of the Cartel Santa Rosa of Lima.
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The expert details that the CJNG’s determination to conquer the squares was due to the desire to control the routes of phentanyl trafficking, “Drug more profitable than cocaine,” to a dispute over trade route and, on the other hand, control of the domestic market of designer drugs retail.
Susana Martínez, a criminal policy specialist at the University of Guanajuato, explains that criminal organizations tend to go to places where money moves and there is a way for their businesses to flourish.
“Organized crime leans toward states that are key to geographic position, avenues of communication with others, spaces that exist to hide and maintain their activities,” he considers.
the strategy
In its advance, the CJNG deployed its elite groups, Powerful armament and large number of assassins. It has gained ground in Leon, San Francisco and Purissima of the Corner, Silao, Romita, Irapuato, Huanímaro, Abasolo, Valley of Santiago, New Town and Pénjamo; in addition, it deploys its groups in other regions.
The advance of the cartel has been gradual: blood and fire or resorting to the tactic of opening franchises, inducing the leaders of opposing cartels to change sides, resorting to betrayal and desertion to seize the municipalities.
“It goes to the conquest of every street and colony to dominate the cities. It has reached 50% presence in León, the other half is still under the control of The Union of Leon“A confederation of cartels more than 25 years old,” says Saucedo.
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The consultant reports that the cartel war in Guanajuato began in León, in the final stretch of the triennium of Mayor Barbara Botello (2012-2015), when the CJNG decided to seize the city and entered into confrontation with The Union of Leon.
“Leon was the first point of invasion, a beach chief, so to speak; the next was in Pénjamo. From León they jumped to the villages of the Corner: to jump to Silao, to Romita, evidently they reached Irapuato and were extending from west to east.
“In the case of Pénjamo, what the Jalisco Cartel did was disarticulate the Michoacan cells that were taking control of the municipality from the government of the PRI mayor Jacobo Manríquez. At the time, the CJNG gave the federal government the location coordinates of the CJNG leaderships The Knights Templar“, Details Saucedo.
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In León there is a resurgence of violence and a rise in homicides could come, because the CJNG strengthened the cells it has in this city: bring more items, more assassins.
“They are trying to conquer the areas that are under the control of the Union of Leon, colony by colony,” he says.
“For its part, the Union of León also responds to the attacks it receives, and takes revenge. Then in the León area we have this conflict.
“The war between the cartels takes place in the presence of the National Guard, Which has no gasoline to move, and the state prosecution, Who only gets to lift corpses, or the police who arrive after the clashes took place, ”he says.