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Monday, February 2, 2026

"El Mencho's" master plan: Why isn't the CJNG going all-in in Sinaloa?

 CHAR 

THIS ARTICLE WAS TRANSLATED AND REPOSTED FROM NOTICIAS PV

FEBRUARY 1, 2026


While Los Chapitos seek the full support of Jalisco to stop "Mayito Flaco," Mike Vigil of the DEA assures that Nemesio Oseguera is simply waiting for both factions to destroy each other.


The internal war within the Sinaloa Cartel, unleashed since the capture of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in September 2024, has entered a phase of desperate alliances. The Chapitos, weakened by losses against the faction led by Ismael Zambada Sicairos (“Mayito Flaco”), have turned to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). However, behind the deployment of hitmen and tactical equipment to Culiacán and Escuinapa, there is a much colder strategy at play on the part of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho.”


In an interview with Infobae Mexico, Mike Vigil, former director of International Operations for the DEA, described “El Mencho” as an extremely cunning drug trafficker who thinks like a “military general.” According to Vigil, the CJNG leader has no intention of waging an all-out war on behalf of the sons of “El Chapo” Guzmán.

The Tactic of Attrition

The CJNG's strategy is not to save Los Chapitos, but to allow the conflict to continue, thus weakening both sides. Vigil explains the key points of this strategy:

Minimal support: The CJNG sends limited reinforcements only to keep the war going and prevent Los Mayos from gaining ground quickly.

Mutual weakening: El Mencho benefits from both Zambada's and Guzmán's factions losing men, resources, and territory.

The final blow: "He's just going to sit there and wait until they destroy each other, and then he'll move in and take control," Vigil stated.

Sinaloa: A State Under Fire

More than a year after this conflict began, the toll is devastating: more than 2,000 murders have been recorded in the state, despite the constant deployment of military forces. The influx of hitmen from Jalisco into the southern part of the state has intensified the violence in municipalities like Escuinapa, where expert David Saucedo confirms that the clashes are now a direct fight between the CJNG and the Los Mayos faction.

If "El Mencho's" strategy succeeds, the CJNG is poised to become the most powerful criminal organization to ever exist in Mexico, absorbing the remnants of a Sinaloan empire that is devouring itself from within.


102 comments:

  1. He died in Guadalajara, on feb 13th 4:years ago

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    1. Those who talk know nothing, and those who know do not talk.

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    2. Who He?
      Name names pinchi bestia

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    3. I'm gonna need more proof chief.

      -Nuff McGruff

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    4. That's true, what are your sources?

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    5. The story behind is death is that La Gilbertona took out mencho, tearing up his ass beyond repair .. shortly after Gilbertona died of depression having lost his lover

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    6. You should mention that to the staff of Hacienda Labor de Rivera in Teuchitlan. They swear they see him a couple times a year. Weird part is that when he's there all cell phones and Internet goes down in the area. Weird maybe ghost have that effect ;)

      Gizzle

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    7. Mencho is not dead he is hiding out in the Bay Area , California. He will attemd the superbowl in Santa Clara and pregame in Oakland California which has the best food in California. After the superbowl him and his compadres will hang out in lil michoacan Redwood City Cali before closing the weekemd.out at Monta Carlo nightclub in San Jose. He will link up with Connor since he will be in town from Phoenix.

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    8. Oh my goodness.

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    9. Yep
      Mencho has been dead, long gone.
      Lung issues, blood issues and Civic got the best of him. He died 4 years ago this month.

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    10. 11:46 a Connor le encantan las Huezudas y las sin huezo

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    11. I saw Mencho at the Chevron gas station in Arizona.

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    12. He’s dead, backstabbed by his own daughter. How embarrassing that Mencho would lie and say that his son in law was dead, daughter slept with an associate of mencho with deep pockets and the plan was formed. Mencho was always too wild and obnoxious didn’t give af even his daughter was afraid when he would find out about sleeping with dads pockets

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    13. 8:39 la gilbertona was catcher, and la mencha was🤏 poquito picoso, why the smear?

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    14. El viejo sigue vivo caile aki anda en union de Tula

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  2. Good article. Thank you Char.

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    1. You sir have won the internet 🏆😂🫱 xD xD Happy new years 2010

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  4. Connor is Mencho still in Oakland Cali ?

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    1. Yes stays by the old raiders stadium

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    2. Connor is busy with Sol.

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    3. Also Santa Cruz Mountains supposedly

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  5. Could Potus do the same thing he did to Maduro ? To mencho? Or would someone like Mencho be better prepared? ( hence the helicopter that was shot down that was going to nab mencho as an example )? I know he has a smaller army than Venezuela but I wonder what would happen?
    Even with Star wars technology it would be hard to use directly on Someone like him since he has all of Mexico i assume watching his back hence again why he has never been caught.?

    Yall Boys be nice now!

    Neo-Nuff Nuffy Said!!!

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    1. Oh my goodness.

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    2. Back in the day, police used to find where people had been through their cell phones, and dogs had chips inserted in their ass to locate transmitting dogs.
      I think it is time to insert chips transmitting from the bearer's ass, that would be the end of crime, but not the end of wishes to commit said crimes, after all the 89 % of the whishes to commit crimes is the best part of it, and not illegal

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    3. Delta Force would wipe the floor with the drug addicts! What a stupid idiotic question! Nobody would do shit nobody would stop Delta from doing whatever in the fuck they are ordered to do! All of Mexico’s military shit we give them and we could just as easily shut their shit down! Delta has done all the major extractions since way back. Noriega sadam maduro, etc.. the seals kill delta captures

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    4. 8:07
      Not possible, Mencho been dead.
      Unless you want them to blast his bones. Higher ups are running the cartel now.

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    5. Mencho’s dead posters trying to troll but they are actually spreading Mencho propaganda…….

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    6. @8:31 nobody asked you

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    7. 6:22 the 3 period dick trolls everywhere.

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    8. 11:32 Hey culito, ya le creció la pinga a tus tres periods,
      no sabes contar?
      •••••••

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  6. El mayo was captured in August 2024

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  7. I'd take anything vigil the clown days with a grain of salt. He's the same dude that said mayo was dying and lost a leg cuz of le diabetes.

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    1. @9.05. Same with Saucedo. They're reliable US friendly rent-a-quotes still dining off their reputation. I was in a lobby with Virgil once with a gaggle of journalists and the elbows got so sharp it got to the point the photographer I worked with was so shocked he stood back and photographed the grasping journalists instead of the scene he was there for. Like shooting the paparazzi instead of the star.

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    2. 8:19 300 journalistas got fired by the Washington Post, they migh hire you if you prove you can toe "the line" in the Brave New World of cynicism mixed with freedom of expreshun and self censure, and you can keep your job here, unless you quit.

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  8. Ahhaha ese Mencho es un hijo de la brga .. apoyar a los chapitos algo leve pa continuar la guerra con los mayos y dejar que las dos facciones se den en la brga hasta que se acaben y conquistar Sinaloa y Sonora . En Escuinapa Sinaloa ya puro corridos de las 4 letras se oyen por las calles .

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    1. ¿Cuánto tiempo tiene las 4 letras que agarró Escuinapa?

      ¿O quien controla Escuinapa?

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    2. 7:56 El Caballo Blanco...

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  9. @8.07 in the grand scheme of things he is not important. He doesn't control the real money oil fields . And isnt supplying Russia, iran and china with oil that America would like to steal.
    As I said he's a nobody.
    Us likes to have a weak neighbors in the South.
    This keeps price of manufacturing in Mexico low.
    If mexico became a rich neighbors like Canada imagine how expensive everything would become in the US too.

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  10. https://noticiasalertamichoacan.com/identifican-a-los-dos-ejecutados-por-fuera-del-bar-madison-en-zamora-a-uno-le-decian-el-charro-informaron-%f0%9f%91%87%f0%9f%91%87/ Can you do an article on this

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  11. I wouldn't call it so much a tactic, so far, as much as it is not doing the things that get a person killed or doing their business with people who do. Remember when in Sinaloa it was the guy with a dad bod in a white cotton polo shirt driving a Volkswagen who was the fearsome guy? The others didn't grow up.

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  12. The wars in Mexico really don't, the conflict still looks so predictable in comparison, don't rise to the sort of chaos that's going on in the rest of the world anymore. I mean it's really just something like a social Darwinism process in organised crime in Mexico. The winners over the long term are the criminal actors that tend to reduce harm for Mexicans and eliminate the generators of violence. All these dead and notorious people vs the people nobody needs to talk about or be seen talking. In Asia people shout their crimes all day, use the drugs, go out in public, and rely on numbers and cointel tactics, their model is like, if enough of us have to be executed that it becomes impractical, then we're all safe because there's nobody in this city who qualifies as a human being. Life is so cheap there, every plaza is on fire, the Sinaloas and bikers talk to those idiots.

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    1. 2:04 King Vonn, of chicago, and his dead buddies would not clasify mexican gunfights as wars, they are mostly criminal actions by mostly black drug addicted gangsters supplied by indiana's arms dealers that can't control their greed, like the suppliers to mexican cartels,

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  13. CJNG waiting and watching while the Sinaloa Cartel continues to implode.

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  14. DEA Law enforcment and BB; I thought Mencho is dead?!??

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  15. Sheinbaum and Obrador are proud of their darling Menchito; not everything that squirms out of a bitch's ass will rise to be the king of shit. It was nice of the Morena party to outlaw e-cigs, creating more opportunity to prosper in illicit commerce for the new generation of turd babies.

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    1. 8:40 is disrespecting the Mexican President without proof. Not licensing something outlawing/decriminalising or prosecuting baby level misdemeanors is not cost effective, disrespect without reason or proof, without one gram of evidence is just subversive, propaganda, paid for, ask SOL...

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  16. Mencho can’t even take Zacatecas which is a neighbor state to his domain aka Jalisco and Zacatecas isn’t necessarily home base to Sinaloa Cartel, yet Jaliscos got slaughtered and had their asses handed to them .. so for the DEA to claim that Mencho will simply take over Sinaloa after MF and Chapo Isidro clean house simply ain’t logical. Honestly I can only see La Linea whooping MF if he attempts to take Chihuas again ese grupo si esta preparado pa la guerra mientras los Jaliscos son puro pajaro nalgon

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    1. CJNG has south Zacatecas which has the biggers towns, and the northern part is because the government wont let them enter, Mayitos suck thats why they have to pay the government, but ones the money starts drying cause of the war against the Chapitos well its gonna be a no brainer, this war only benefits CJNG with out a daught, they keep sending merca and stacking the money

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    2. CJNG has south Zacatecas which has the biggers towns, and the northern part is because the government wont let them enter, Mayitos suck thats why they have to pay the government, but ones the money starts drying cause of the war against the Chapitos well its gonna be a no brainer, this war only benefits CJNG with out a daught, they keep sending merca and stacking the money

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    3. @6:10 … you my friend are an idiot

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    4. @6:10 youre naive if you think all cartels don't pay up in one way or another, especially CJNG. they don't get this big without paying..

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  17. Mencho is in El Paso TX

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  18. It doesn’t matter who helps the chapitos, they are still going to lose this war. Any group that plans to fund the chapitos war would just end up losing their money, weapons, and man power that they will be sending. In turn weakening their own reserves, while emptying their weapon stockpiles and wallets.

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    1. Sure bud, im sure you know way more than Don Mencho el Señoron de los Cocks 🐔🐓 el de la M Grande, Don Mencho tiene mas feria que el chomo de Elon Musk y Jeff Bezas la verga juntos! Ajuuaaaaa!!!!! Arriva el Señor de los Cocks!!!!!!!!!

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    2. 6:14 No mames!
      Mira Pinchi Chapo del Ocho
      La mencha lives off crack and amphetamines, musk lives off the US Federal Government, he went to epstein island, la mencha can't even go to lago de Chapala...
      sucksee a la brga güey.

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    3. 2:01 saquese de aqui perro jediondo, usted siga poniendose su peluca rosa como su santa La Gilbertona!!! Arriva el señor de los Cocks!!!!!!!! Ajuuuaaaaa!!!'🐓🐔🐓🐔

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    4. 9:53 pinchi culo de gallina, no ti cansas de lamberle el yoyo a la mencha valii!

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  19. I don't get why the leaders dont just take the cash and flee and retire and live off grid somewhere

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    1. Play golf and watch TV?
      Sounds like a boring retirement. 🫡

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    2. its a tale as old as time - no one ever thinks their "time" or end will come.

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  20. If that was the case he would already have all Colima, Chiapas, Michoacan which he does not. There is more presence of Mayos in Guadalajara than 4 in Sinaloa. Difference is Mayos in Jalisco are involved with paper and not violence.

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  21. Or maybe 🤔 it is true what some people say that chapo isidro and el jardinero are primos so cjng may be attacking both factions at the same time by allowing isidro destroy and gain territory from chapos uncle guano and at one point once el guano take over guanos and chapitos territory then he will swich sides with cjng and they both will go in all full force against e flacos forces.

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  22. The Mexican government would never allow CJNG to become that powerful. The Mexican military is currently backing Mayito Flaco. Past history has shown us that the cartel which has the backing of the Mexican government always wins. One example is CDS vs the original Zetas. The Mexican military has technology that nobody has like tapping into cell phones and satellite tracking surveillance. This gives Mayito Flaco the upper hand and a guarantee victory. Nuff Said!!!

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    1. I regret to inform you, CJNG is already in 33 states, pay the bribes to the government, they get to play.

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  23. "Trakas, hijo'e su puta madre!
    Armamento militarizado, maña cien por ciento
    Si miraron un convoy bien bélico en la city, son nuevos talentos
    Bien pendiente siempre de los radios, también del gobierno
    Unas Dior y un equipaje que es de "las cuatro", pónganse atentos
    Las blindadas se miran fresonas, perrón la plebada
    La perla fue encomendada, no pasa nada, ya está cuidada
    Ya hay un tres que lleva la batuta, jefe, usted aquí manda
    Por ahí anda un grupo Delta, cumplen misiones, no dicen nada
    Solo le jalan, solo le jalan al SCAR con lanza papas
    Y aquí en GDL, también Vallarta firme y pluma no le fallan
    En su sector es el doble R, al vergazo, a lo que manda
    Cuidan en el terre, son de "las cuatro"
    Por si se les olvidaba, por si se les olvidaba
    El puro Luis R Conriquez
    Y arriba Jalisco
    ¡Trakas, hijo'e su puta madre!
    Una puta rayita más al tigre
    Afirmativa la copia, somos de los más buscados
    Igualito al presidente, duras al jefe, vienen cuidando
    Aquí nos morimos todos por el Señor de los Gallos
    Bueno pa hacer billetes y ni se diga pa los vergazos
    Nomás que el jefe nos dé luz verde, brincan los blindados
    Pura verga nos hacen, son puro monstruo bien laminado, eh
    Pa los que andan hablando aquí, se la siguen pelando
    Traemos puesta la camisa y el cartel Jalisco seguirá rifando
    Solo le jalan, solo le jalan al SCAR con lanza papas
    Todos por el jefe tres, al lado va el gallero que no se le raja
    Y no se metan que no se salvan de una ráfaga de balas
    Mundialmente conocidos, somos "las cuatro" por si se olvidaba
    Somos "las cuatro" por si se olvidaba, ah"

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  24. "Guzmán Salazar
    Les dicen Los Chapitos
    Alfredo e Ivan
    Hijos del chaparrito
    Hay para las cocas
    Son los retoños del viejo
    Y si es necesario el pellejo
    Se lo rifan por su apa
    Se escucha mentar
    El apodo de los menores
    Y el power lo traen los brothers
    Del cartel de Culiacán
    Morritas bien nice
    Pa no perder la línea
    La velocidad,
    Carros y adrenalina
    Fincas exclusivas
    Whiskito y el agua amarga
    Con armas cortas y largas
    Los ninis saben cuidar
    Suenan la bandeja
    Y Enigma con los corridos
    Con sus más fieles amigos
    Se la pasan bien relax
    Y tú como la vez carnal
    Yo la miro al cien Ivan
    Ya voy saliendo de la perla
    Aquí te guacho en Culiacán
    En una Mercedes cuadrada
    Dependiendo la velada
    Peli negro o peli güera
    Pa pegar una bailada
    Y hay va de nuevo el apodito
    Guzmán Salazar
    Les dicen Los Chapitos
    (Y así suena Enigma Norteño plebes
    Hay otro? Jajay)
    Parece desfile
    La clika de Archivaldo
    Ahora es cuando chile
    Le has de dar sabor al caldo
    Cero y van tres
    Las capturas del general
    El copetón desde los pinos
    Ya no sabe que inventarse
    Tardan mucho más
    Inventándose el teatrito
    Que lo que tarda el chapito
    Para volver a pelarse
    Se les extraña mucho
    Voy a hablarles en plural
    Quemando un cartucho
    Recordamos a Marcial
    Y cuando arrancamos
    Rumbo a Jesus Maria
    Es pa hacerle compañía
    A nuestro carnal moreno
    Y muy pronto el viejo
    Va a terminar la condena
    Así rosa la cadena
    Con Ivan y con Alfredo
    Y tú como la vez carnal
    Yo la miro al cien Ivan
    Ya voy saliendo de la perla
    Aquí te guacho en Culiacán
    En una Mercedes cuadrada
    Dependiendo la velada
    Peli negro o peli güera
    Pa pegar una bailada
    Y hay va de nuevo el apodito
    Guzmán Salazar
    Les dicen Los Chapitos"

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  25. Soon Mayo Zambada will be pardoned by Trump and he will take back his place in the organization.

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    1. 12:54 Chapo G has his billions, but Mayo has more billions and more accomplices since the days Chapo was selling his oranges from a street carr Laura de America sent him from Perú...
      Mayo also has the cuban side on his side since he was a driver for his cuñao in Las Vergas & has never been noisy.

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  26. Mencho is playing 4D chess. He knows Ivan will wipe out Maria Fernanda soon and Mexico will be controlled by both Mencho and Ivan. Much better for business.

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    1. Mencho esta muerto vato loco .

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    2. What world do you live in ?? Maybe in that “4D” world but here on earth MF Les a partido la madre a los chapitos and Jaliskas just the same … Flechas alone wiped the floor with everyone Jardinero and RR sent to Zacatecas .. elite my nuts .. delta my dick .. mencho ain’t got shit cause he ain’t shit

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    3. How is that 4D chess? If you managed to work it out (no offence) then it sounds more like the last bored jump on a checker board.

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  27. SnitchALoas love to show off and make corridos and tik toks, then they’ll rat and betray their own mothers. Michoacanos are smarter and more cunning and shrewd. They know how to lay low and take the money and run. Thats why you never hesr of too many narcos from michoacan. Snitchaloas are all alucines who eat pollos asados and mariscos everyday

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    1. Are we talking about the same Michoacán donde los”narcos”jodidos steal and extort from the avocado and limon farmers pa andar en trocas robadas ? Wow some powerful men those hillbilly warashudos from michoacan are .. regards !

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  28. Boy that picture of Mencho looks enhanced, younger, moles removed.
    Talk about artificial intelligence.

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    1. 1:25 look at mencho with the eyes of your youth, and discover love never gets old.

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  29. I said this since the beginning since this alliance was announced. Mencho got to the top by knocking off other cartels and absorbing the rest. Try telling Mica this tho.

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  30. How can the us gov capture all these wanted people like maduro, sadam, etc and not be able to capture the most wanted man in Mexico.

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    1. Because deals were made with their father and sons for being rats. Plus the amount of info they have on crooked US Banks, politicians from both asides, and law enforcement would cripple the credibility from both countries. Sadly this game is all about Money!

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    2. you have to look at the real reasons why US goes after those certain guys... You think they actually care about drugs?

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  31. Neo-muff did you get Buffy too?
    Right in her pedorro?

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  32. Another survival tactic these upstarts need to consider is not getting into business with Hezbollah or the Spanish crews in Dubai anymore. I don't take Sheinbaum for a Zionist but she's probably inclined to kill you.

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  33. The master plan is to take over Zacatecas. A massive route that no one has tried to take over!

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    1. 4:13 the monriales, AKA: "los cuinis de zaca" own that pinche tancho bicicletero, it is a Must Hold if el ricky wants to keep his hopes alive of becoming Presidente by chewing a friend after another's ass, he gave some little mines to Carlos Slim Helu in the state, omar Hamid Garcia harfuch has given the whole country to Him Slim, and he ain't no president yet.

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  34. That plan failed for Mencho and now that state belongs to El Sombrero del Salado

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  35. There's all these myths about this guy and how he is the grand Machiavelli, supreme general yet nobody can even vouch for whether he's even alive at all.

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    1. 6:54 well,
      That's Machiavellian...

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    2. 6:54 if he is alive that means he like a ghost and wont get caught and if he is dead that means his name alone has a ton of power, either way you look at it its bad for the opps

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  36. "narcomantas" (banners) claiming death are tools of deception that cloud the truth, and investigators need to "seek truth from facts

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  37. Oh yes my wonderful humanoids here is my take on drug cartels 🫱🫱🫱🫱🫱🫱🫱🫱🫱🫱
    Man who sells Kotex is crack salesman.

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  38. Yes.... But the United States is Bout to me ane Mencho a trophy

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  39. Trumps gonna mount Menchoa head on the wall

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    1. Mencho been dead, perhaps his skeleton head, no period kid.

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    2. Mencho wants a pair of elephant feets for his library bookends, but Chicken Spurs will do...

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  40. Don mencho aki en red wood city

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  41. Cus all of sinaloa wld unite against jaliscas. Except chapos. Jaliscas want the sinaloans fighting amongst themselves.

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  42. Snitcher lil balls truther snitched!

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  43. Mencho isnt dead. Once he crosses the CIA they will dispose of him the same way they did with Decena and Lazcano. CJNG labeled terrorists now only means one thing for mench, his days are numbered.

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