Mexico Freezes CJNG Bank Accounts, Leader Shot Dead

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/12477-mexico-freezes-cjng-bank-accounts-leader-shot-dead

A judge and his wife were shot dead at home in the Mexican province of Colima on Tuesday.
Judge Uriel Villegas was at home with his wife Veronica Barajas when armed men burst into the house and started firing. The couple's two young daughters and a housekeeper survived the attack.
The province of Colima has Mexico's largest container port on the Pacific coast and has been the scene of a bloody battle between rival drug gangs for years. Colima had the highest murder rate of all provinces in Mexico in the past year.
The judge, in his forties, had only been appointed to Colima for four months, writes the Guardia Nocturna.
He handled the case of Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, the son of the leader of the infamous Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes aka El Mencho. The son was extradited to the US earlier this year.

Brazen ambush of Mexico City chief blamed on Jalisco cartel

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2020/jun/27/brazen-ambush-of-mexico-city-chief-blamed-on-jalis/

El Mencho is getting bolder, just a matter of time now before they get him.

It's funny how the Mexico Government don't try too hard for El Mayo, I guess they are in bed with each other. The Mexico Government aware they can't eliminate the drugs and violence but they can control it by making deals with El Mayo, just like they made deals with El Chapo until the relationship between El Chapo and the Mexico Government broke down.

Yeah El Mayo is the top guy now, but Mexican authorities did arrest his brother, two sons and a nephew. His son Vicente was extradited to US and sentenced to 15 years that was a pretty good deal.

That does not sound like El Mayo and the Mexico Government are getting along well. Just when I thought I had it all figured out

I think his son turned informant which is why he got a good deal.

El Vicentillo claimed there was an immunity deal between Mexico and the U.S, Sinaloa Cartel leaders provided federal agents with information about rival drug gangs.

Yeah I read somewhere that the SInaloa Cartel were providing federal agents with information on their rivals. I guess that immunity deal got thrown out the window.

In Mexico, a cousin of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was found dead on Wednesday . Residents of the town of El Ranchito in the state of Sinaloa heard gunshots from a distance around 19.15 and saw two cars drive away. The body was found the next morning, at an old Toyota Carola. El Ranchito is close to the town of Culiacán, the capital of the state of Sinaloa, the foundation of the drug cartel of the same name.

The victim was dressed only in blue shorts, his hands were cuffed and he was blindfolded. Police investigations have revealed that he was probably shot and killed with an AR-15 assault rifle, based on the cartridges found.

The victim was identified as Enrique Romero “El Juanon” Guzmán Rocha, who was the cousin of El Chapo. The role of his now murdered brother Enrique Romero was unknown. There was an arrest warrant from the Chicago court against Guzmán Rocha in a drug-trafficking trial. In July 2019, there was a failed assassination attempt on Enrique Guzmán Rocha in Sinaloa.

His brother Juan Guzmán Rocha, aka “Juancho”, was liquidated in December 2011. This Juancho was responsible for the Sinaloa network for cocoa shipments shipped from the city of Guadalajara to the United States.

I'm surprised they didn't give him a traditional cartel execution - chainsawing off his limbs or burning him alive.

A nephew of Caro Quintero died after confrontation in the city of Culiacán, Santiago Eduardo P, 26, was reportedly seriously injured when he was hit by bullets. He died in a private clinic after the attack. A series of shootings broke out, apparently it all started in a private room, where there was a party. The young man would be related to Genaro Rubén Payan Quintero, alias “El Gringo” or “El Ingeniero”, who works under the orders of “El Mayo”. It is known that “El Gringo” has had an extradition request from the United States since 1993.

The Black Hand and Glass Eye: A Killer’s Perspective (video) http://gangstersinc.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-black-hand-and-glass-eye-a-killer-s-perspective
Mexican cartel sicario Jose Martinez aka El Mano Negra discusses his trade.

Apparently Quintero retaliated by killing a Sinaloa cartel member along with a woman (possibly his wife?) and a 9 year old girl (possibly his daughter?).

Source: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2020/07/guaymas-sonora-massacre-8-shot.html

Colombia says it captured a narco sub carrying a ton of cocaine for Mexico's rising Jalisco cartel

https://www.businessinsider.com/col...0-8?international=true&r=US&IR=T

The Sicilianization of Mexican Drug Cartels

https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/the-sicilianization-of-mexican-drug-cartels/

El Chapo admitted women were his only addiction
The former cartel boss admitted to fathering 23 children

https://www.foxnews.com/world/el-chapo-women-addiction

President Behind Mexico’s War On Drugs Admitted It Was ‘Unwinnable’
In 2018, Calderón told VICE News that he first deployed the army in 2006 after a request from a state governor who said he had lost control.

'We got very good results at the beginning,' he said, adding: 'Honestly, I think nobody expected that the violence could reach those levels. However, I insist, I'm absolutely clear that violence started because of the fight to control territory between the organised crime groups, between the cartels, not because of the action of the government.'

Questioned about how Mexican military action led the narco gangs to fragment without appearing to impact the overall ability of criminals to traffic drugs, Calderón said in 2018: 'Of course there will be some rearrangements or instability or whatever, but the end of the game is exactly when you take over completely or recover completely the control for the citizens.'

He also blamed America's gun laws: 'The US government, Congress, and society honestly did not do anything to stop the flow of money, to stop the flow of weapons. Actually, the paradox is we seize like 106,000 guns and weapons, and 90 percent of them were sold legally in the US.'

In 2009, following Calderon's own proposals, new laws to decriminalise personal possession of small quantities of some drugs were passed - suggesting he accepted the inevitability of drug use - after previous plans were scrapped due to US opposition.

In 2016, a special session of the United Nations was convened after a joint request in 2012 from Calderón's Mexico, as well as heads of state in Guatemala and Colombia - whose then president Juan Manuel Santos led the efforts - to discuss radically overhauling the UN's prohibitionist approach to drugs. However, the session left reformers disappointed, as no significant changes to the global drug control regime were passed.

http://www.publicnow.com/view/36CD019DC3C0B997608446E2417F131902A5F88A?1600960676

Mexican Drug Cartel Boss, ‘La Madrina,’ Gets 22 Years in US Prison
By TCR Staff | 13 hours ago
Drug trafficking leader Luz Irene Fajardo Campos was sentenced to 22 years in prison on Wednesday in connection with an international drug trafficking conspiracy, reports The U.S. Department of Justice. Campos, who led a drug trafficking organization that was aligned with the Sinaloa cartel, had been found guilty in December 2019 in connection with aconspiracy to transport thousands of kilograms of cocaine and dozens of pounds of methamphetamine into the United States. Campos was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release and forfeit $18 million.

According to evidence submitted during the trial, Campos partnered with other traffickers and her adult children in operating a U.S. distribution network that was aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel, Campos, 57, who was known by nicknames “La Comadre,” “La Madrina” and “La Doña,” oversaw the manufacturing of methamphetamine in a desert outside Hermosillo, Mexico. “With this sentencing, we cut the head off of the snake,” said Special Agent in Charge Cheri Oz of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Phoenix Field Division. “Drug traffickers like Fajardo Campos tear at the very fabric of our communities. She made millions of dollars from pushing thousands of pounds of poison into Americans’ communities while at the same time fueling violence and crime across the United States.”

https://thecrimereport.org/2021/07/...s-la-madrina-gets-22-years-in-us-prison/

The Zetas’ Model of Organized Crime is Leaving Mexico in Ruins

https://insightcrime.org/news/zetas-model-organized-crime-mexico-ruins/

Is her organization a part of the Sinaloa cartel or more of an independent set that has some connections to the cartel?

La Jenca was trained as a lawyer, but she soon built herself as a narca, she was close to El Chapo, but they ran their own cartel.
She paid a high cost with the murder of her two children.

$200 million in 2 years - Profile of Sinaloa drug lord Victor Emilio Cazares Gastellum https://gangstersinc.org/blog/200-million-in-2-years-profile-of-sinaloa-drug-lord-victor-emilio

US authorities have tripled the tip money leading to the arrest of Ismael Zambada Garcia to $15 million. “El Mayo” as Zambada Garcia is nicknamed, is therefore the narco with the highest reward on his head.

Ismael Zambada Garcia is no longer the youngest at 73 years old. He has managed to stay out of the hands of the authorities since 1998. Together with “El Chapo” he led the Sinaloa cartel for years. “El Mayo” would have a budget of $1 million a month to bribe politicians, military and police officers. One of the soldiers who was bribed was a personal bodyguard of former President Vicente Fox. A general of the Mexican army was on the payroll of “El Mayo” for $50,000 a month. He is wanted for murder, drug trafficking, kidnapping, money laundering and leading a criminal organization.

Meanwhile, Zambada Garcia is fighting with the sons of El Chapo over the leadership of the Sinaloa cartel.

Shortly after the announcement of the tripling of the tip money, banknotes of 1000 Mexican pesos appeared on a large scale depicting “El Mayo” (see photo below). The notes were mainly found in the state of Sinaloa.

Oregon City drug boss pleads guilty to trafficking narcotics from cartel in Michoacan, Mexico, to U.S. https://gangstersinc.org/blog/oregon-city-drug-boss-pleads-guilty-to-trafficking-narcotics-from

Jailed Mexican drug lord Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo talks about DEA agent "Kiki" Camarena https://gangstersinc.org/video/jailed-mexican-drug-lord-miguel-angel-felix-gallardo-talks-about

An addictive war: How drug cartel bosses are playing the U.S. justice system

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/article256530026.html

Long read but very interesting!

A record catch of crystal meth in Rotterdam in 2019 appears to be linked to a Spanish investigation into a Mexican drug cartel operating in the Netherlands. In the investigation, the Dutch police seized a total of 2,537 kilos of pure methamphetamine in a Rotterdam shed in the Schiebroek business park in 2019. The police recently arrested 16 people in Spain, the Netherlands and Turkey who smuggled large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine into Europe, the Spanish National Police reported. The organization was based in Spain and the Netherlands and is said to be affiliated with the Mexican Beltrán Leyva cartel.

The US has offered a $5 million bounty for the arrest of four sons of drug lord EL Chapo. These are Ovidio, Iván Archivaldo, Jesus Alfredo and Joaquín Guzmán.

If they are extradited, they could face charges of trafficking in cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana. The United States does not regard them as the leaders but as key figures of the Sinaloa cartel.

Sinaloa Cartel
Ovidio, nicknamed El Ratón (The Mouse), is the best known of the four. The 30-year-old son of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán and his second wife Griselda López Pérez is regarded by the US as a "high-ranking member of the Sinaloa cartel." He is wanted in several US states for illegal drug imports and money laundering.

In Mexico, Ovidio became known to the general public at the end of 2019 when he was arrested in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa, during an operation by the national police, the Guardia Nacionál. In October of that year, heavily armed, balaclava-clad officers arrested El Chapo's son on orders from the government who wanted to extradite him to the US. Almost immediately, members of the Sinaloa cartel appeared from every nook and cranny of the city and launched an attack on the police and army with weapons of war.

The city was literally under fire. Residents had to run for their lives. Shops and offices closed their doors, schools ended classes, public transport was shut down and a Mexican football match was cancelled. The drug criminals took soldiers hostage and freed 51 inmates from the local prison. Violent videos of the violence appeared on social media.

massacre
Hours later, Ovidio Guzmán was released on orders from President López Obrador because he wanted to prevent “a massacre.” This is consistent with his strategy against organized crime called 'abrazos no balazos', roughly translated: hugging each other instead of shooting at each other. Thirteen people, including a civilian, were killed during 'Black Thursday' or 'El Culiacanazo'.

Drug lord El Chapo is serving a life sentence at ADX Florence Prison in Colorado, one of the highest-security prisons in the US.