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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Tamaulipas News and CDG Information

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The following information was compiled by Borderland Beat forum poster Itzli.  We have many Tamaulipas readers who request Tamps material so I thought this would be appreciated and I am sure corrections and additions will be sent in. 

Unfortunately, there has been a narco news blackout in Tamps since 2010, typically sources on the ground and social media have been used to glean information of situations, events that occurred and SDR’s.  Unfortunately, social media is also a breeding ground for baseless rumors that spread and become “fact”.  It is an extremely difficult situation for reporting, in an explosive region. 

Tamaulipas Most Wanted List 
LOS ZETAS
Omar  Treviño Morales "Z42" (is headquartered in Coahuila)
Sergio Ricardo Basurto Peña " El Grande” (Nuevo Laredo)
Maxiley Nadales Barahona "El Max/Z-19" ( works in Veracruz, Chiapas and Tabasco)
CARTEL DEL GOLFO (CDG)
José Antonio  Romo López" La Hamburguesa" - Ciudad Mier
Juan Carlos  de la Cruz Moctezuma "El Chuma" - Miguel Alemán
José Ismael  Mendoza Falcón"Polimenso" - Frontera Chica
"El Comandante Paquito"- Reynosa
Juan Manuel  Rodríguez García"Juan Perros" - Río Bravo.
Carlos  González Escobar"Carlitos Whiskies"- Nuevo Progreso
Eduardo Ismael  Flores Borrego"El Negro" - Valle Hermoso.
Juan Francisco  Saenz Tamez"El Metro 103" - head of sicarios.
"El Orejón/Ciclón 7"- Matamoros

By Itzli April 7th
I begin by providing a brief recap and summary of information found elsewhere in other threads. The general consensus late last year was that the Gulf Cartel was divided into three major factions. Based out of Reynosa, the Metro faction was headed by X20. Based out of Matamoros, the Ciclones faction was headed by Homero Cardenas. Based out of Tampico, the CDG Sur faction was headed by K14. There was tension and outright conflict between Los Metros and Los Ciclones, while CDG Sur was aligned with Matamoros.

Within Los Metros there were conflicts between competing cells. X20 conducted a purge of those aligned with El Gringo, though X20 himself would later be arrested. Afterwards, conflict was predicted as a number of individuals seemed poised to compete for the leadership, yet things seemed to remain calm. Last week saw the arrest of El Simple, who was a member of Los Metros, though his power within the group is debated.

Within Los Ciclones, it was speculated that Homero was gradually consolidating power within the Gulf Cartel as a whole. Yet recent reports indicate that he suffered a medical setback last November which led to him being hospitalized. Rumors of his death have surfaced, as well as reports that Los Ciclones have been investigating if Los Metros had a hand in it.

Within CDG Sur, reports of extortion and kidnappings increased in Tampico and K14 was directly blamed. He would eventually be arrested as a result of betrayal by his own faction. A number of potential replacements were heard, but it appeared El Wuasa, a native of Matamoros took over, only to be executed by his followers and members of his family were killed and kidnapped at his funeral.

The Emerging Conflict
Over the weekend, a number of shootouts and killings occurred in Tampico. On the surface it would appear that it is the fallout of the death of El Wuasa as members seek revenge or to gain power. Yet there seems to be more going on and it appears that those acting in the conflict are pawns of an increasing conflict between Los Metros and Los Ciclones.

As best I can piece together based upon information on Valor por Tamaulipas, the struggle in Tampico on the surface the axis of power is shifting from the urban zone to the rural zone.

In Tampico there is a group called Los Jimmy, founded by Comandante Jimmy who was executed or killed in Reynosa some time ago. Members of the group have a call sign using the initial J followed by a number. After Comandante Jimmy's death, El Chive, also known as J2, took control of the group along with his brother, El Tony, also known as J3.
They have been in charge of stealing from pipelines in the area and have gained power since the fall of K14 and the death of La Wuasa. They have put in place another member of their group; some say El Guason, also known as J16, has been put in charge of Tampico, while others say it is El Chema. Regardless, it seems that  Los Jimmy's are receiving support from Comandante Cortez, reportedly a high ranking member of Los Metros. Other CDG Sur groups are aligned with Los Jimmy: Grupo Escorpion of Lazaro and Grupo Michelin of "Gordo May".

Los Jimmy are fighting to wipe out Arturo "El Sheyla/Sheila" Garza Treviño, provoking conflicts in Tampico and Ciudad Madero. "El Sheyla" was trained in Sinaloa by former soldiers and had previously worked under "El Coss" and "El Sierra" before working under "K14". He has been in charge of the war, alongside Los K, against Los Zetas in Tampico since 2010 and was the creator of Grupo Dragon. He currently is backed by Los Ciclones of Matamoros.

It appears that Tampico is now a proxy fight between Los Metros and Los Ciclones.

Most wanted list is from 24 Horas

41 comments:

  1. In a nutshell, what was written in this article is exactly what is going in Tamaulipas between the rival factions of CDG. If you it could still call it Cartel del Golfo. It's more like the cartel del los
    Ciclones or CDLM.

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  2. Thank you I live Tamps. this information is good Thanks

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  3. would the rojos be considered the ciclones now?

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    1. Los rojos split some joined metros some ciclones, los rojos were an all around enforcement group from different plazas that did the zetas job after they split from them

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  4. I got one question.so who the hell killed el metro 3 who was the one cdg lider who was not just respected but liked.was it el r 1 or was it his own people.

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    1. Sopposely his own people , betrayed by X20 n was blamed on los rojos R1 , si seran pendejos cdg was at one top at one point but since they started fighting with each other have lost many people , maybe one day they'll be one whole cartel and get back to the top

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    2. His bff did it.

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    3. Entonces la faccion the reynosa no vale verga.ellos son los k mataron al metro.ese x20 nunca fue patron ni de reynosa mucho menos del cdg.

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  5. Now that Z40 is locked up, there's more talk about Z42. He's a bad, bad guy, just like his brother. I think he's a sadist with no limits just like his brother. We haven't heard the last from this guy.

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  6. its about time... thanks for the info on tamps. can we see more?

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  7. So this means El Sheila is the supporter of kidnappings and extortion?

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  8. What about El Juanillo? What plaza is he in charge of?

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  9. Cmdte wuasa was a good man. I knew his familia, was really tite wid one of his cousins 'el chispa' (not zeta chispa). He didn't deserve to go down like dat, especially after all da work he had put in for cdg, and to wipe out his whole familia at his funeral was a fucking horrible thang to do. Alot of backstabbing going on within cdg at da moment, can't trust no one

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    1. That's what happened after the cds truce. Mixed feelings but most of all panocheo between fractions of cdg. The only one in my point of view that had all needed to be the 1 was M3. Reynosa lost respect of matamoros due to leadership failure in matamoros. When the z cdg split reynosa was the one who acted and fought mainly Miguel Aleman to reynosa financially as well. The bs in tampico is who is going to keep the route in other words the $ the drugs. In what did cdg cds alliance help us nothing cause when this happened the michoacanos where the ones who came to fight no sinaloa. In my opinion they played CDG with some old but great strategies called divide and conquer. .....

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    2. Was Comandante wuasa from El 20 De noviembre in matamoros??

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  10. glad u decided to pick up on tamps news, keep it up, excelent artical

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  11. Garcia is behind it

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  12. at 9:52 AM
    "and to wipe out his whole familia at his funeral was a fucking horrible thang to do"
    Whats happened to his crew?Some of them mofuckers looked as though they were juicin and liftin weights?Guason wit Chive,,fuck knows,,its a free for all never mind CDG

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  13. no respect for the living, let people bury in peace, but their is no good people left. just at least 10 more years of this

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  14. yes pena lets it happen

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  15. It's was el r1 b his people el trusted el R1 like it was his brother. El R1 fuck up when he did that's why Los metros desaparesieron Los Rs

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  16. Ok first of all Omar looks like he's at a luau in that picture. The other cat looks like he's retarded or got dropped on his head or somthin' damn. And Maxiley just keeps mad doggin' motherfuckers dude chill!

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  17. This was very informative i wish there was more articles like this thank you. Also encase yall didn't know Eduardo flores borrego "el negro" of Cdg is really m3 brother sometimes he is confused with m4 because of the moniker.

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  18. Soon Sheyla's head will be on a stick.

    Looks like the Zetas will be taking over all of Mexico. It is funny how the CDS and GDG's huggers keep trying to write them off...

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  19. So whyd they kill wausons and whyd they kill his family?

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  20. Yea el negro is M3 brother

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  21. I saw a documentary on Juan Raul Garza. That he was the first Kingpin to get the death sentence. Does anybody know for what cartel he worked for?

    Chivis can you do an article on him and let us readers know more about him

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  22. I don't understand why these two factions are fighting over the Zetas leftovers. Yes the Tamaulipas state is a valuable and stragetic drug trafficking corridor but the reality is that the Zetas will just come and take it if and when they want it. My guess is that the Zetas have discussed a truce with one of those factions and will sit this one out. That way they can focus mainly on pushing the remnants of the CDS out of Chihuahua.

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    1. CDG has been stopping nomourus attemps from the zetas to take the plaza since 2010 they really want do your research buddy

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    2. Damn you have to be a professor. Your fucking smart damn when I go up I want to be just like you.

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  23. The reason they fight because they r not businessmen, the Itaitains cartels were busineemen

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    1. The Italian cartels where a bunch of rats \ snitches.

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  24. I heard "El Grande" from Nuevo Laredo got killed a while back.

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  25. El M14 controls Frontera Chica . From Diaz Ordaz to now Miguel Aleman who's leader was ambushed by M14. The zetas have set up to take control of Miguel aleman but M14 and his metros are controlling all areas of entrance. It could be a battle brewing.

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  26. I am going to Mexico to see family, pray for me

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  27. April 21, 2014 at 3:33 PM
    "Entonces la faccion the reynosa no vale verga.ellos son los k mataron al metro.ese x20 nunca fue patron ni de reynosa mucho menos del cdg"
    "X20 was never patron of Reynosa much less CDG"
    I can believe this more than the bullshit of X20 being jefe of CDG?There are still many long time CDG cmdtes operating?

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  28. I dont think the Z are trying to take shit over right now,they to busy tryin to make paper and hold what they have,the sicarios and cmdtes of estacas in NL are young kids who go down all the time against marinos

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  29. So about this Homero cárdenas????

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  30. "I am going to Mexico to see family, pray for me"

    Ahh hey man,its not that bad,can i go with ye?I'll hold your hand ?

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  31. Commandante hamburgesa and commandante chokopor are better bosses right now.

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  32. Only posting to a 2 year old article in hopes of mods seeing this.. Can we please have an updated version of the CDG report?

    The format from this one works!

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