'Los Tequileros', the Terror of the Mayors of Tierra Caliente

By: Paris Alejandro Salazar | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

(July 26, 2016)—Los Tequileros are an organization that operate in the Tierra Caliente region in the state of Guerrero.  It has a hallmark of threating and extorting mayors in the region, and they do it through an armed cell called Fuerzas Especiales Tequileras.

 

Raybel Jacobo de Almonte “El Tequilero”

Guerrero’s District Attorney’s Office has identified Raybel Jacobo de Almonte “El Tequilero”, as the leader of the criminal group that bears his nickname.  There are 15 arrest warrants against him for crimes such as: extortion, kidnapping, and homicide.

 The criminal organization, Los Tequileros, emerged as one of the armed wings of the Guerreros Unidos Cartel in northern Guerrero.  It seeks to dispute the control of the Tierra Caliente region with La Familia that borders the State of Mexico; La Familia is supported by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

 

Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga “El Pescado”

La Familia, led by Johnny Hurtado Olascoaga “El Pescado”, and Los Tequileros, led by Raybel Jacobo de Almonte “El Tequilero”, are disputing for the control of the drug corridor that connects the sierra and the Tierra Caliente region of Guerrero with Michoacán and the State of Mexico.

San Antonio de la Gavia, in the municipality of San Miguel Totolapan, is considered to be the center of operations of Los Tequileros.

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Two Bodies Appear in Morelos; One Dismembered, CDG Narcomanta

Body found in Yautepec, Morelos in 2015
Archive photo

By: Jaime Luis Brito | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

A dismembered body was found in the municipality of Zacatepec while another was found executed in Yautepec this Thursday in Morelos.

In the early hours of Thursday, the discovery of a dismembered male body was found, whose remains were in five black plastic bags, along the road Zacatepec-Jojutla at the crossing known as Cuatro Caminos.

The remains were accompanied with a narco-message where a person identified as “José Álvarez Ramírez” is threatened:

“Here is the trash, [this is for] all the kidnappers and extortionists and to all who support José Álvarez Ramírez, for all the kidnappers,” the message says, which was secured by the authorities.  

 Apparently, the message wasn’t signed by any criminal group.

Meanwhile, in the neighborhood Ixtlahuacán, in the municipality of Yautepec, neighbors reported shots and then a man’s body was found with multiple wounds on his body.

This municipality has been the target of violence for almost five months, in which there have been assassinations, executions, and the discovery of dismembered bodies.

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