CHAR
THIS ARTICLE WAS POSTED BY MURAL
WRITTEN BY: GRUPO REFORMA
IGNACIO CORONEL VILLAREAL
EL REY DEL 'ICE'
THE KING OF ICE
If the history of crime has taught us anything, it's that when one head is cut off, others rise to replace it.
However, what no one expected, in the case of Ignacio 'Nacho' Coronel, is that after being killed in the midst of Felipe Calderón's war on drugs, a much more ambitious and violent group would emerge: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
With such an elusive figure as Ignacio Coronel, there is no certainty even about his birthplace.
Some say he was born on February 1, 1954, in Canelas, Durango, while an FBI report—dated April 17, 2003—indicated he was originally from Veracruz.
The drug lord began as the "godmother" of the commander of the Federal Judicial Police, José Luis Fuentes Jiménez, in Baja California, but soon joined Amado Carrillo Fuentes' group.
Coronel arrived in Guadalajara in the early 1990s on orders from the "Lord of the Skies." He was in the city with his brother Magdaleno Coronel Villarreal, "El Leno," who was the plaza boss.
However, along with his nephew Raymundo Carrasco Coronel, Magdaleno died in Zapopan on June 3, 1993, in a shootout with soldiers. It was then that the natural successor to protect Guadalajara's territory from other groups was Nacho Coronel.
The death of Amado Carrillo during plastic surgery in 1997, as well as the fall of General Gutiérrez Rebollo, led the drug lord to join forces with the Sinaloa Cartel, placing him under the command of Joaquín Guzmán, known as El Chapo.
A skilled drug trafficker, Nacho Coronel expanded his range of activities: in addition to cocaine, he trafficked methamphetamines and had dozens of clandestine laboratories throughout the country, allowing him to control more than 50 percent of synthetic drug production, according to the DEA.
He also negotiated with the Valencia brothers of the Milenio Cartel to conduct joint drug trafficking operations to the United States, effectively distancing Guadalajara from the drug-related violence that already plagued the rest of the country.
Despite everything, on the afternoon of July 29, 2010, the drug lord was killed by the Army in an operation carried out at his mansion in Colinas de San Javier.
CJNG PREVAILS
After the fall of Nacho Coronel, the Milenio Cartel suffered a split between La Resistencia and the CJNG. After three years of homicides, massacres, and bodies hanging from bridges, the latter group, led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," prevailed.
The CJNG would employ the same terror tactics to achieve impressive expansion in a short period of time.
For example, in 2015, the DEA identified Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and parts of Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Michoacán, Oaxaca, and Chiapas as the cartel's areas of influence.
By 2025, the landscape had changed completely. Today, the CJNG has a strong presence in virtually all states of Mexico, according to DEA information.
Likewise, unlike the business model of Nacho Coronel, "El Mencho" seeks to appropriate as much as he can.
The former focused on drug trafficking, primarily synthetic drugs.
Now, CJNG leaders have expanded their businesses to include extortion, fraud, illegal logging, arms trafficking, and heavy cargo theft, among many other crimes.
This, however, has come at an enormous cost in bloodshed.
Speaking only of the Jalisco case, the battles the CJNG has waged against other criminal groups have left a trail of violence and destruction.
There are also countless cases of innocent victims who have lost their lives due to the boundless ambition of "El Mencho" and his accomplices, as well as due to the inaction (and in some cases, complicity) of authorities at all three levels of government.
As a consequence and reflection of this, there have been cases such as the murder of young people working in call centers, the CAAV film students mistaken for criminals, the execution of the González Moreno brothers, and the recruitment center at Rancho Izaguirre. All of this is compounded by the problem of disappearances that keeps Jalisco in first place nationwide.
Over the years, the CJNG has only spread its tentacles, not only in Jalisco but also around the world. And, so far, it remains unclear who or how they can stop it.
AGGRESSIVE EXPANSION
Ten years ago, the CJNG barely controlled Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and parts of Michoacán, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Veracruz. It now operates nationwide.
Some of the businesses the cartel has entered into:
- Drug trafficking
- Human trafficking
- Criminal call centers
- Huachicoleo
- Timeshare fraud
- Extortion
- Money laundering involving currency exchange centers, real estate, and restaurants
- Arms trafficking
- Slot machines
- Mineral theft
- Heavy cargo theft
- Illegal logging
These are the preliminary investigations and homicide files:
2009: 570 Arrest of Óscar Orlando Nava, "El Lobo," Valencia.
2010: 888 Deaths of Nacho Coronel.
2011: 1,222 deaths, War between La Resistencia and CJNG.
2012: 1,184
2013: 1,099 deaths. The CJNG prevails and begins expansion.
2014: 907
2015: 957
2016: 1,105. Violence intensifies in the Los Altos region.
2017: 1,342 Carlos Enrique Sánchez Martínez, "El Cholo," forms the Nueva Plaza Cartel.
2018: 1,960
2019: 2,017
2020: 1,754
2021: 1,816 War between CJNG and CNP ends after death of "El Cholo."
2022: 1,601
2023: 1,449
2024: 1,442
2025: 529 (as of June)
great read hope everyone likes the post with lots of historical context.
ReplyDeleteI want to apologize on a previous post I misspelled and wrote that Mayo, Caro, Viceroy got sentenced to death.. The three mentioned avoided the death penalty
Excellent piece Char ... Chapo and Mayo hated on this guy and turned him in. Lobo Valencia was also key to his methamphetamine empire .. I think Noel Torres Nacho coronel rola is hard as foook.
ReplyDeleteThis tacuache would listen to Noel Torres probably bought his albums lmfao
DeleteHard as foook in your asshole! Puto!
DeleteA man should never praise another man. Praise God.
Did chapo and mayo tell you that directly ?
Delete1:51 Connor
DeleteGet some sleep, BB will be here in the morning and stop stalking Char.
Connor's Honda Civic is blinged out with Pep Boys accessories.
DeleteCallese alv Connor joto mitotero
DeleteCallese alv Connor joto mitotero
DeleteConnor no le hace gestos a la Maziza de cabeza
DeleteNuff Said is king!
Delete11:56 y menos si es anaranjada
Delete1120 callese alv lombriciento panochon insensato
DeleteChapo mayo hated nacho? You guys talk out your arse like you even know what they think.. Nacho was Chapos compadre as with Mayo they didnt “hated on him”. In that business nobody untouchable if anything it was cuinis and the under dogs making way for their up coming.
DeleteTell me what would cds have to gain from giving up Nacho Coronel cmon man.. think before you speak no seas pndjo cuh
@3:03
DeleteThe gained getting heat off them. Think.
I love you conner.
DeleteConnor, I've been reading your "negative chief" shit for years, and not just on BB, but since you first dipped your toe in, and you've never backed up anything you claim. Chapo and Mayo hated on Nacho Coronel? What are you talking about?
DeleteEs falso el que lo entregó fue el mencho y su gente los volteados
Deletenoel torres suggs donkey bills
DeleteThese dirtbags CJNG have brought so much death and destruction to Jalisco. There were a lot of peaceful little towns controlled locally. No outside influences. In a lot of towns the local head boss would not allow the sale of meth. Only weed and coke. Everything was calm and peaceful. Then CJNG started taking over these towns. Meth was sold everywhere. You would see young people walking the streets at all times of the night looking like zombies trying to score their next fix. People started disappearing. The only town that fought back and held it's own against these scumbags was Teocaltiche
ReplyDeleteCity with Mario. Everyone in these small towns hate CJNG. They can't wait for MF to go in and destroy these child killers. Nuff Said!!!
Why does Kristi Noems face melt on south park? Is that confirmation that shes actually washed up barbie?
ReplyDeleteThe American Barbie, uses lots of makeup, if she is in a hot area, or sun it melts off.
DeleteA Connor le gusta los bejestorios
DeleteShe's had plastic surgery done.
Delete815 ok thats why she looks like a lizard.
DeleteAside from making fun of her plastic surgery it's also a pun on the English phrase "saving face" because every attempt the US government makes to improve the public image of ICE and their operations makes them seem more horrifying and not less
DeleteThe USA government just put a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for drug trafficking!
ReplyDeleteUSA has a big deficit, in the Red by the trillions. But somehow they have $50 million for reward money.💰
Delete"https://www.state.gov/reward-offer-increase-of-up-to-50-million-for-information-leading-to-arrest-and-or-conviction-of-nicolas-maduro"
ReplyDeletedat foo Maduro goin' DOWN!
DeleteNUFF SAID!!!!
Dominan donde? Chihuahua, sonora? 😂
ReplyDeleteEs lo Que vine a decir . La Linea los trae en Corto
DeleteLas jaliscas no pisan Chihuahua compa
DeleteNo ay nada en chihuhahua, ya tienen otras fronteras en tijuana y tamaulipas
DeleteDominan tus nalgas.
DeleteChihuahua and Sonora are dry ass Mexican states where theres no water and nothing grows.
DeleteJalisco is run by Michoacán families. When people brag about Jalisco just let them know that they get told what to do since the Purepecha empire and still do.
6:29 🤣🤣🤣🤣 te mamastes
DeleteTrafican por Chihuas
Delete7:39 sorry to let you down but Jalisco is way bigger than a Cartel, even your michoacanos rather use the Jalisco name than what they are from 😭
DeleteJalisco always been soft asf and have been getting told what to do by Michoacános since time immemorial. Even Canelo the boxer brings up Michoacán when asked where he’s from.
Delete8:54
DeleteJalisco is ran by Mencho and his extended family members that are all from MICHOACÁN you clown ass fool, quit trying to make Jalisco tough when its not!
@1252: Exactly.. Tellem.
Delete@12:52 tell us what’s so tough about a bunch of high-pitch voiced short and scrawny little men that get together to steal from their own communities. I have to admit michoacanos have a lot of faith in their people, only they think they’re tough 😝.. while we all laugh at yall the same way you would laugh at a child making threats
Delete...back when the dinosaurs ruled the earth!
ReplyDelete🦕
Lmao
DeleteThat's a good one 🤣
DeletePuro paiza power!!!!
ReplyDeleteI ❤️ Nuffy
ReplyDeleteGet a life
DeleteA nuffy le gusta Connor
DeleteNuffers gives me goosebumps, He's like Brad Pitt, Don Johnson and Broley Banderas all in one package. God I wish I was him.
DeleteWe got rid of Nuffy.
DeleteLike Rubio NYC, he thought the article was about HIM.
pinche egoista 😅😀
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ReplyDeleteKnow why he was named Nacho?
ReplyDeleteBecause he ate Nachos.
Fat ass.
That makes sense now I always thought it was because his name was Ignacio had a cousin named and we called him nacho but after all this years finally the truth I can tell the family he ate a lot of nachos when being a baby.
Delete@3.09. Americans assuming everyone's as "big boned" and "curvy" as they are.
Delete“Big boned” like Griselda Blanco?
Delete@8.11. Yeah, just like her- went to the US and doubled in weight. I'm not having a go at people with obesity, just fat heads who have no idea what Nacho Coronel looked like and think the kind of Nachos people make in Jalisco or Colima are the same as you get in fast food US joints.
DeleteEl CJLGBT no controla ni madres, control el que tienen los Cabrera en Durango, no hay control cuando hay muchos grupos en un estado, controlan Guadalajara no más.
ReplyDeleteSo nacho coronel was the "godmother" of the commander of the Federal Judicial Police, José Luis Fuentes Jiménez, in Baja California 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ReplyDelete@7.31. Unless it was the first article they ever read that wasn't written by a non-Spanish speaker (Mexican Spanish to English translation online is full of minor He/She mistranslations) and unless people don't know exactly what is meant then any dude who chuckles enough to comment is a bit of a clown. No offence Payasa.
Delete@7:39pm l can tell by what you say that your a dumbass michoajoto pinche Indio Cara de Juanga .. entre Sonora y Chihuahua hay mas bosques que en todo Mexico pinche vato baboso.. y el otro pendejo que segun Jaliskas dominan en TJ y Tamps.. eso tampoco es cierto, pinches Russos los sacaron alv de la Baja y en Tamaulipas les dan las ballad a los metros para usar Reynosa .., pinches michoajotos pendejos como siempre bola de indios traga-iguanas y con piojos hasta en el culo .. hasta la mama del pinche Canelo trae el rabo bien piojoso
ReplyDeleteMICHOACÁN runs those areas stfu already nobody cares about you wack ass dry states you lames don’t run shit that’s why you’re so pissed off.
DeleteLotsa coconuts and avocados in michoacan, not much else
Delete🥑 🥥
Michoacán home of the real Mexican Mafia
Delete4:00 always the 5’2 Michoacacas with an inferiority complex. You people are like barking chihuahuas thinking everyone is scared of you, in reality we’re all laughing at you
DeleteMichocaca runs nothing but their mouth… no mas se callan el hocico pa mamar verga los jotitos… 🦋
DeleteMichoacán Que ?? Pinche meco pendejo.. michoacan ni es relevante en el tema del narco, cual pinche narco si aya se estan matando entre si para poder extrocionar a los aguacateros y limoneros a eso han caido los disque “narcos” de Michoacan pura pinche rata jedionda.. jajaja y neta que si tragan iguanas aya
DeletePuro SLRC
Aqui en Nvo.Leon les matamos el hambre a las indias de michoacan . No mas los michoacanos se espantan entre ellos
DeleteThese fools all mad that Michoacános run the show
DeleteThese fools from other Mexican states all in their feelings, all mad because Michoacán runs the show.
DeleteMichoacán runs GTO since ancient times.
Delete2:33 Did a Michoacano take your girl? Go back to rocking tall hats and having beer guts
DeleteEvery fucker I’ve met from michoacan is just all bark fucking shorty man syndrome haciendose los bravos cause they’re short, ugly and just inferior as men .. they’re malnourished af and have a high-pitched voice from lack of testosterone but some how they think they’re tough
Delete@12.00. That's kind of sweet, being loyal to a bunch of institutionalised old Americans who can't shit without permission, yet you claim the Mexican Mafia for Michoacan. It's either that or you think Michoacan is the birthplace of organized crime in Mexico. Flick a coin, cos I still can't decide which is worse.
DeleteNice one Char. Too many articles call that power struggle between the early New Generation and El Pilo a battle between "La Resistencia" and "Los Torcidos", which basically translates as The Goodies vs The Baddies, and still gets repeated today.
ReplyDeletethis comment has been removed by a blog administrator for sexual explicit language and grotesque undertones.
ReplyDeleteSome you are idiots… don’t forget that when the Zs whiped out over a 100 members of there family and organization the Milenio cartel (Los Valencia) went into exile in Jalisco at that point La Familia Michoacana was the armed wing of the Gulf cartel and they took the state from the Milenio cartel when El Menchos cousin had an affair with El Maradona. When they got to Jalisco they allied with CDs and was placed under Nacho Coronel who owned Guadalajara and had operations in Nayarit, Colima, Oaxaca and other states. El Nacho was the “King of Crystal” and was already heavy into synthetic drugs. It was because of that alliance the Milenio cartel was able to survive. They were moving tons of cocaine from tuna boats from Lazaro Cardenas but after LFM and Zs kicked them out of Michoacán and Osiel took Carlos Rosales side they couldn’t operate in Tamaulipas anymore either.. it was Nachos network and infrastructure they allowed them to still move drugs. And when Nacho got killed by the army (by El Chapo) his nephews took some of his operations but the Milenio cartel which was now Los Matazetas or Los Torcidos who were already operating in Jalisco, Colima, Veracruz etc stepped up and took the infrastructure that was already in place. Without Nacho there would be no Mencho
ReplyDelete@5.12. Slow down. It reads like you've been researching online without sleep and you believe way too much of what you read.
DeleteMilenio did not turn into Matazetas or Los Torcidos, no matter what wiki tells you. Matazetas were a group with outside funding with permission from the same politicians who'd backed Nacho. Los Torcidos was a slur aimed at the traffickers who didn't back El Pilo, not the name CJNG chose for themselves.