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    Mexico gang feud: 19 bodies found in Michoacan

    https://abc7.com/mexico-gang-feud-19...oacan/5455805/

    MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police found nine bodies hanging from an overpass Thursday alongside a drug cartel banner threatening rivals, and seven more corpses hacked up and dumped by the road nearby. Just down the road were three more bodies, for a total of 19.

    The killing spree reported by prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan marked a return to the grisly massacres carried out by drug cartels at the height of Mexico's 2006-2012 drug war, when piles of bodies were dumped on roadways as a message to authorities and rival gangs.

    Two of the bodies hung by ropes from the overpass by their necks, half naked, and one of the dismembered bodies were women, Michoacan Attorney General Adri?n L?pez Sol?s said at a news conference.

    The victims in the city of Uruapan had been shot to death. Some were hung with their hands bound, some with their pants pulled down.

    While the banner was not completely legible, it bore the initials of the notoriously violent Jalisco drug cartel, and mentioned the Viagras, a rival gang. "Be a patriot, kill a Viagra," the banner read in part.

    "This kind of public, theatrical violence, where you don't just kill, but you brag about killing, is meant to intimidate rivals and send a message to the authorities," said Mexico security analyst Alejandro Hope.

    "This kind of cynical impunity has been increasing in Michoacan," Hope added.

    In one particularly brazen attack in May, a convoy of pickups and SUVs openly marked with the letters "CJNG" - the Spanish initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel - drove through the Michoacan city of Zamora at night, shooting up police vehicles and killing or wounding several officers.

    Uruapan is where Mexico's drug war first erupted in 2006, when members of the now-diminished La Familia cartel rolled five severed heads onto the floor of a dance hall.
    What followed were eight years of terror in Michoacan, until farmers and ranchers rose up in an armed vigilante movement to drive La Familia and its successor cartel, the Caballero's Templarios, out of the state.

    Hip?lito Mora, one of the original founders of the vigilante movement, said the violence is worse than ever and he wants the army to come back to Michoacan to help battle the cartels. "We're worse off now than we were then," Mora said.

    The state attorney general said the killings discovered Thursday appeared to be part of a turf war.

    "Certain criminal gangs are fighting over territory, to control activities related to drug production distribution and consumption," L?pez Sol?s said. "Unfortunately, this conflict results in these kinds of acts that justifiably alarm the public."

    Meanwhile, in another part of Mexico, an angry crowd beat and hanged seven suspected kidnappers, leaving some of their bodies dangling from trees, the national Human Rights Commission said Thursday night. The Puebla state government said police and soldiers were sent to the area to try to stop the attack, but villagers from the hamlets of Tepexco and Cohuecan kept them from intervening.

    Late Thursday, authorities in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz reported that four dismembered male bodies had been found in 15 bags left along highways near the state's border with Puebla. Veracruz is another battleground between the Jalisco cartel and other criminal groups.

    For years, Mexican cartels had seemed loath to draw attention to themselves with mass public displays of bodies. Instead, the gangs went to great lengths to hide bodies, by creating clandestine burial pits or dissolving corpses in caustic chemicals.

    But the Jalisco gang, which has gained a reputation for directly challenging authorities, appears to have returned to showy killings as a way to intimidate rivals.

    In 2011, the then-smaller Jalisco cartel dumped 35 bodies on an expressway in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. In 2012, the Zetas cartel left 49 decapitated bodies on a highway in northern Mexico, and later in the same year they strung nine bodies from an overpass and left 14 severed heads near the city hall.

    Still, homicides dropped for a few years between 2012 and 2015, and many thought Mexico's drug war was winding down. But homicides surged again last year and Mexico now has more murders than it did during the peak year of killings in 2011.

    In the first half of 2019, Mexico set a record for homicides, with 17,608, up 5.3% compared to the same period of 2018. The country of almost 125 million people now sees as many as 100 killings a day nationwide.

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    Is mexico going to sue mexico for the killings of these mexicans?

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    https://insightcrime.org/news/smalle...violent-world/

    . Mexico has once again dominated a list of the most violent cities in the world but smaller towns have now shot up the rankings, reflecting new hotspots where criminal groups are fighting for control.

    The most violent place in the world in 2020 was Celaya, a city of around half a million people in the central state of Guanajuato, according to the report by a Mexican non-governmental organization, the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice (Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad P?blica y la Justicia Penal).

    The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generaci?n – CJNG) have been battling around Celaya over control of oil theft, drug trafficking and other criminal economies.

    A few years ago, Celaya wasn’t even on the list. But since 2018, it has shot up more than thirty places, with 699 killings in 2020, or a homicide rate of over 109 per 100,000 habitants.

    The situation is similar in nearby Irapuato, also in Guanajuato, which has gone from newcomer to fifth-most violent city in the world, with 823 homicides last year.


    Located only a few hours away from Celaya and Irapuato, the city of Uruapan has climbed to eighth in the rankings, with a homicide rate over 72 per 100,000 habitants. It is the deadliest place in the state of Michoac?n, which has seen regular clashes between the CJNG and about a dozen other criminal factions, all seeking control of key cocaine and fentanyl trafficking routes.

    And the city of Zacatecas, in central Mexico, only appeared on the list in 2019 but broke into the top 15 most violent cities in 2020. This coincided with the CJNG invading 17 municipalities in Zacatecas state in April 2020, during the country’s first lockdown and clashing with the Sinaloa Cartel and other groups throughout the year.

    Latin American and Caribbean cities made up the overwhelming majority of the list, claiming 46 of 50 spots. But notably, some of the most murderous cities of past years, such as Kingston, Jamaica or Caracas, Venezuela, have dropped below smaller Mexican newcomers.

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    Bloodshed in Mexico has reached such a level that continued outbreaks of violence in individual, medium-sized cities can register on a global scale, due to larger cartels with a national presence facing smaller but entrenched adversaries.

    In August 2019, InSight Crime reported that Irapuato, an important industrial and trade center in central Mexico, had become an unfortunate model for similar cities in the country. At the time, clashes between the CJNG and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel had already been raging since 2018.

    Despite the arrest of Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel leader, Jos? Antonio Y?pez Ortiz, alias “El Marro,” in August 2020, shocking acts of violence have not stopped.

    The fighting is brutal but fragmented, having broken down into neighborhood- and street-level feuds that appear endless. With the fall of Y?pez Ortiz, his group began to internally fracture, with smaller groups claiming pieces of the illicit oil economy, leading to additional violence at the same time that the government was executing a plan to militarize the area.

    Uruapan tells a different story as the climb in homicides there has been more sudden. While located in the western state of Michoac?n, which has consistently been a patchwork of rival clans, Uruapan saw violence spike in late 2019 when the CJNG moved in and faced off against C?rteles Unidos. The latter is an alliance between members of Los Viagras and Cartel del Abuelo, two Michoac?n-based groups, who have teamed up to defend their control of drug trafficking routes.

    Similarly, Zacatecas had actually seen homicides drop by 9 percent in 2019 before they spiked again in 2020 after the CJNG moved in.

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    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rs/7409534002/

    . At his peak, he was known as "El Cholo," a prominent gangster and presumed head of the Nueva Plaza Cartel, a criminal organization based in Guadalajara, Mexico.

    But in the end, he was simply Carlos Enrique S?nchez, his body left wrapped in plastic on a park bench in downtown Tlaquepaque, the Mexican state of Jalisco — yet another casualty in Mexico's bloody cartel wars.

    A former member of the notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), El Cholo once was considered the right-hand man of El Mencho, one of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's most-wanted drug lords.

    The cartels are vying for supremacy in the push to be America's chief drug supplier, pumping ultra-pure and ultra-deadly drugs such as methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl.

    Who is El Mencho? He's the most powerful drug kingpin you've never heard of

    But El Cholo separated from the cartel in 2017 after allegedly ordering the killing of Marcos Hern?ndez, a cartel financial operator who told El Mencho about robberies El Cholo supposedly committed, according to Mexican security sources based in Jalisco that requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.

    El Cholo formed his own gang, the “Nueva Plaza Cartel,” financially supported by the Sinaloa Cartel, one of CJNG’s biggest enemies. CJNG and the Nueva Plaza Cartel fought over the years to control Mexico’s western states.

    In a video that went viral on the internet, heavily armed men guarded a handcuffed man speaking to the camera.

    “My name is Carlos Enrique S?nchez Mart?nez, aka El Cholo,” said the man on the video in Spanish. “I met (Mexico City police chief) Omar Garcia Harfuch in Mexico City to ask for support, as we both are CJNG’s enemies."

    The man claiming to be El Cholo finished the video advising his supporters to stop following him.

    "You guys that still support me, stop doing it, and dedicate to your family," he said. "Look how I ended.”

    Jalisco’s Attorney General Gerardo Solis said all indications suggest the man on the video is Carlos S?nchez Mart?nez, or El Cholo.

    In June 2020, Harfuch blamed CJNG for an assassination attempt that left him seriously injured and killed two of his friends. "Our nation must continue to confront the cowardly organized crime," he tweeted.

    More:A ruthless Mexican drug lord’s empire is devastating families with its grip on small-town USAAfter the attack, at least a dozen suspects, members of the CJNG cartel, were detained, according to Mexico City’s attorney general. But El Mencho, whose name is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, remains free.

    El Cholo wasn't so fortunate. On March 18, the same day the video went viral, a body was left on a park bench in Jardin Hidalgo, a park near the City Hall of Tlaquepaque.



    The body was wrapped in plastic, stuck with two knives that pinned signs saying: “The traitor, El Cholo.”

    Jalisco’s Attorney General Office said families identified the body as El Cholo.

    Authorities said an investigation is ongoing into the vehicles and people who participated in throwing the body in the main square.

    Such practices are not new to CJNG, known for bloody killings, dismembered bodies and recorded video of their actions.

    Unfortunately, the decapitated bodies, corpses hanging from bridges and remains with narco blankets are part of the daily landscape of violence that is experienced in many parts of the country," said David Saucedo, a security analyst based in Mexico.
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    In the first two months of 2021, Jalisco has officially registered 494 deaths.

    On Dec. 18, the former governor of Jalisco, Arist?teles Sandoval, was shot to death in a Puerto Vallarta restaurant. Last year, Mexican authorities found 559 mass graves in a country with more than 80,000 missing people. Authorities have recovered nearly 1,100 bodies — 433 in Jalisco.

    More violence was expected after the death of El Cholo, with experts predicting a dangerous offensive by the Nueva Plaza Cartel against El Mencho’s cartel.

    Instead, a surprising but tense calm hung over the city, said security analyst Saucedo. “We expected an aggressive reaction from the Nueva Plaza Cartel, but there wasn’t. It seemed that the cartel was OK with the killing.”

    But it is clear El Mencho was sending a message, Saucedo said.

    "Leaving the body in broad daylight is to intimidate enemies, Saucedo said. "'El Cholo' wasn’t killed during a clash; he was captured, interrogated, tortured and finally murdered."



    This is a message from El Mencho to his own people: Any member of CJNG who dares to rebel or to separate from the organization will have this end," he added.

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