For years, a large part of the public discourse on organized crime in Mexico was built around a relatively simple narrative: large cartels were opposing organizations disputing territories, routes, markets, and power. However, a revelation made by the Federal Security Secretary, Omar García Harfuch, during an official federal government press conference, forces a revision of […]
EU warns of new scam by luxury Mexican hotel linked to CJNG
The U.S. Treasury Department revealed Friday afternoon that the Mexican resort Kovay Gardens, sanctioned last February for alleged ties to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), continues to defraud U.S. citizens, now using different names. “Today, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated the names and details associated with Kovay Gardens, a Mexican […]
Navy Special Forces capture El Jardinero, considered El Mencho’s successor in the CJNG
Audias Flores Silva, alias “El Jardinero” (The Gardener), was arrested in Nayarit. He is identified as one of the possible successors to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho.” The arrest was announced by Omar García Harfuch on April 27. The official noted that the captured individual, considered one of the leaders of the Jalisco New Generation […]
Silvano Aureoles escaped with the help of the CJNG: ‘He is hiding in the United States,’ says the governor of Michoacán
Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, governor of Michoacán, revealed this Thursday, April 9, that all indications point to former state governor Silvano Aureoles Conejo hiding in the United States. Ramírez Bedolla explained at a press conference that he has already requested the intervention of the Attorney General of the Republic, Ernestina Godoy Ramos, to issue an international […]
‘Los Viagras’ and the CJNG announce alliance; they arrived in Piedras Blancas, Michoacán
This Thursday, the town of Piedras Blancas in Buenavista, Michoacán, witnessed the announcement of the arrival of criminal groups through three banners signed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). The announcement was disseminated via a video detailing that the CJNG would be collaborating with ‘Los Viagras,’ a criminal group led by Nicolás Sierra Santana, […]
Juan Carlos Valencia, the American heir to ‘El Mencho’, is the new leader of the CJNG
Juan Carlos Valencia González, a U.S. citizen and stepson of Nemesio Oseguera, alias “El Mencho,” now appears to be in charge of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel, which could complicate U.S. efforts to eradicate drug trafficking in Mexican territory, The Wall Street Journal reported. In a lengthy report—the newspaper noted that El Mencho had just […]
The CJNG threat is spreading in Latin America: these countries have detected its presence.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is one of the most powerful organized crime groups in the world and continues to expand throughout Latin America. It is considered to have a strong presence not only in Argentina, but also in other countries such as Peru, Ecuador, and others. Javier Milei, the president of Argentina, has […]
Taxco residents report alleged checkpoints set up by La Familia Michoacana amid threats from the CJNG
According to local media in Guerrero, residents of the municipality of Taxco reported that cells of alleged members of the La Familia Michoacana criminal organization have set up checkpoints in the municipal seat, reportedly in an attempt to seize control of the area from members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which has a […]
Rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns: these are the Soviet weapons that a trafficking network intended to sell to the CJNG, according to the EU.
In the 1960s, the Soviet Army incorporated the ZU-23, a twin-missile anti-aircraft gun capable of hitting targets at an altitude of two kilometers, into its arsenal. It was used during the war in Afghanistan and the Russian-Chechen conflict. More than half a century after its adoption, this weapon appeared on a list of offers for […]
Alleged members of the CJNG cartel arrested in Zacatecas “are not criminals,” claim family members.
Six of the 18 people arrested last Friday, February 27, in the municipal seat of Nochistlán, Zacatecas, in an operation by the Zacatecas Attorney General’s Office—with the support of the Mexican Army and the National Guard—as alleged members of a cell of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, “are innocent; they are not criminals as the […]