A former lieutenant of a powerful Mexican drug cartel has appeared who broke away from the gang, wrapped in plastic on a park bench.
Mexican authorities said they believe the heavily wrapped body found in a Jalisco park last week is that of Carlos “El Cholo” Enrique Sanchez, a former member of Jalisco’s new general cartel before separating to form his own gang. in 2017, Mexico News Diia Daily.
Police said the body was found Thursday in Hidalgo Garden with two signs nailed to its body with knives, including one that said in Spanish, “the traitor El Cholo,” according to the newspaper.
The body has not been officially identified, but comes after a video posted online showed the handcuffed narco standing in front of armed members of the Jalisco cartel, claiming he was collaborating with police.
“This material confirms the existence of an orchestrated strategy to destabilize the state by an organized crime group,” Jalisco Attorney General Gerardo Octavio Solis Gómez said. “Everything indicates that he is … Carlos Sánchez Martínez, nicknamed” El Cholo “.”
According to the Mexican News Daily, Sanchez broke away from the Jalisco cartel and formed his own drug trafficking gang, the Nuevo Plaza Cartel.
The two gangs have been at war over control of methamphetamine trafficking in Guadalajara and elsewhere in central Mexico.