Alleged Townspeople Approve The Recent Attacks Of CJNG Cartel Against El Abuelo Farias and Allies In Michoacan.

 BY: CHAR 

JULY 24, 2025 

On Saturday, July 19, 2025, CJNG Cartel resumed its attacks against El Abuelo Farias/ Poncho La Quiringua/ El Guicho de Los Reyes/ and Los Caballeros Templarios. Simultaneously, the Jalisco Cartel New Generation armed wings, Fuerzas Especiales Mencho/ Grupo Delta, and Los Viagras Cartel (allies of CJNG) initiated an offensive attack on various flanks. The attacks of the CJNG Cartel occured in Tepalcatepec, banners were found in Los Reyes, and clashes occurred in Apatzingan. 

On Tuesday, July 23, 2025, a video surfaced of alleged townspeople in Michoacán supporting the recent attacks by the CJNG Cartel against its rivals. 

VIDEO TRANSLATION

BY: SOL PRENDIDO

Good evening to all the Michoacán citizens, federal government, and the leaders of the Ministry of National Defense. The day of a social uprising is very near. As citizens, we will protect our families and stop the murders of innocent, hardworking people committed by Wicho, Poncho, and Abuelo Farías. 

We say to the government, that if you are going to continue supporting the insults and abuses committed by these extortionists, the people will no longer allow it. Let them wage their war with other cartels. It's not fair that we, the people, have to pay for this.

Their extortion and fee collection business is lucrative. But now, they’re trying to recruit our wives and daughters to form so-called self-defense groups. Open your eyes: these self-defense groups are hitmen under the command of Wicho, Poncho, and Abuelo Farías. It's unjust to see them mess with the lives of people and hard working citizens.

We're fed up with their persecutions, the government's abuses, and their lies. The only thing they’ve ever given us was lots of empty promises. If Michoacán and Mexico need another revolution, it will be born here in Michoacán. The state of Michoacán will no longer live under the injustices of the government and the murders of the so-called self-defense groups.

As for you, Abuelo Farías, we all know that the government supports you with the weekly percentages you give them. Wicho and Poncho, we Michoacanos know that you are supported by the mayors of Los Reyes, Tingüindín, Tocimbo, and Cotija.

They’re the ones that allow them to have those scumbag public security directors who lend themselves to the disappearances of citizens and many other things. Let it be clear, government, this is our last warning. Expect us very soon.

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“El Chanda", Head Of The Los Caballeros Templarios-Knights Templar, Murdered In Paracuaro, Michoacan

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from EL UNIVERSAL 

Sergio Gilberto Gómez Romero had been free for three months after his release from prison in March.

JUNE16, 2024

Sergio Gilberto Gómez Romero, alias "El Chanda" or "El Señor de Úspero", who was one of the Knights Templar's lieutenants in Parácuaro and a former member of the self-defense groups in the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán, was executed early Saturday morning.

Following a citizen's report, elements of the Municipal Police located Gomez Romero's body, with several bullet wounds, under a bridge on the highway connecting the municipalities of Apatzingan and Nueva Italia, state authorities reported.

Alias "El Chanda" or "El Señor de Úspero" had been at large for three months after his release from prison in March. In 2017, he was arrested by the Mexican Army and agents of the Michoacán Attorney General's Office in Nueva Italia, the municipal capital of Múgica, for the crime of aggravated kidnapping and others related to drug trafficking.

According to Michoacan authorities, Sergio Gilberto Gomez Romero, alias "El Chanda," was the head of the Knights Templar in the communities of Uspero, Cuatro Caminos, Nueva Italia, Buenavista and Gabriel Zamora.

He was associated with the criminal cell of Ignacio Rentería, "El Cenizo" and Antonio Torres González, "El Americano," who had a dispute with "Los Viagras" in Apatzingán.

SOURCE: EL UNIVERSAL 

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Autodefensas: The State Government and Caballeros Templarios Are Coming To Attack Us

By: Rodrigo Caballero | Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

Autodefensas from the sierra-coastal region of the state of Michoacán ensure that members of the Caballeros Templarios are waiting for the state government to “diminish” them in order to attack; “they’re coming together” they declared.

Through an interview broadcasted by Grillonautas, Héctor Zepeda, best known as the Commander Teto, said that the Templario leaders along the Michoacán coast were never arrested and are waiting for the right moment to attack.

Commander Teto said that plaza bosses such as Federico González ‘El Lico’, Pablo Toscano Padilla ‘El 500’, Ignacio Andrade Rentería ‘El Cenizo’ and Carmelo Núñez Vargas remain free and nobody looks for them.

They claim that they are in Colima, Puerto Vallarta, Guanajuato and Guerrero just waiting for the autodefensas to weaken.  “They [the government] have forgotten about them, now the problem is us, the autodefensas, who obstruct them.”

Silvano Is a Liar

Following the announcement of Silvano Aureoles Conejo, Governor of Michoacán, who gave them six months in order for them to integrate themselves into the State Police or disarm themselves, Commander Teto called him a “liar like all politicians.”

Commander Zepeda says that he and his men voted for Silvano after he promised negotiations with the coastal autodefensas but as soon as he came into office, they haven’t even had a phone call with him.

Various autodefensa spokespeople are concerned with the position of Silvano Aureoles who considers the sierra-coastal region as a “red flag.”  “Why are we a red flag?”

“If we don’t have kitchens, we don’t extort, we don’t kill”, commanders like Teto ask themselves.

“We are concerned with anything that comes up,” Héctor ensures referring to the deployment of 5,000 Federal Police announced by Silvano Aureoles for the coming months.

Antioco Libre

Juan Hernández Ramírez (left) & La Tuta

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Violence Continues In Michoacán; Reign of Impunity Extends

Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat

Michoacán is one of the states with the most violence in the country due to the dispute between drug cartels in the Tierra Caliente region, which covers 17 municipalities in the state along with nine in Guerrero and five in the State of Mexico.

Municipalities include:

Michoacán: San Lucas, Tuzantla, Susupuato de Guerrero, Nocupetaro, Caracuaro, Tiquicheo, Huetamo de Nuñez.

Guerrero: Arcelia, San Miguel Totolapan, Ajuchitlán del Progreso, Tlapehuala, Coyuca de Catalán, Zirándaro, Cutzamala del Pinzón, Pungarabato, Tlalchapa.

Estado de México: Tlataya, Amatepec, San Simón de Guerrero, Tejupilco, Palmar Chico, Sultepec, Zacualpan.

The autodefensas

The fight from organized crime for the control of the plazas and the inability of the state government to maintain a state of peace caused the armed uprising of hundreds of civilians from the communities of La Ruana and Tepalcatepec to make up groups called autodefensas in February 2013.

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Alleged Caballeros Templarios Shoot at Police In Morelia

By: Camila Luna

During the early hours of Friday, a group of armed civilians attacked the facilities of the Citizen Protection of the Attorney General of the State (Centro de Protección Ciudadana de la Procuraduría General de Justicia del Estado) in the west of the Michoacán capital.

According to police reports, it was around 4:00 am when two trucks filled with heavily armed men arrived at the Center for Citizen Protection belonging to the Attorney General of Justice of Michoacán, located between avenues Francisco I. Madero and Pedregal.

After getting out of the vehicles, the criminals shot up the building leaving one policeman injured (who was reported as stable) and severe damage to the building structures and the facility located beside it, as well as damaging six police vehicles.

Within the Center for Citizen Protection, there were a dozen ministerial policemen who tried to repel the attack, however, the criminals fled.

After initial investigations were carried out, about 100 shell casings from AK-47’s, 7.62x39mm, and AR-15’s, .223, were found at the scene.

Almost simultaneously, a second attack on a base of the Municipal Public Security located in the north of Morelia near Estadio Morelos was also recorded. 

Sources: Michoacán 3.0, Revolución 3.0

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Jalisco state mass grave death total rises to 42 -- UPDATED

Excelsior now says that the total is 42.  Also updated with corrected count of detainees
By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

Another four bodies were found in the La Barca, Jalisco mass grave Friday bringing the death toll to 37, according to Mexican news reports.

As of Sunday evening, according to Excelsior news daily, the death toll in La Barca is at 42.

According to an El Universal wire service report featured on the website of El Diario de Coahuila news daily, all but two of the dead were men.  Mexican Procuraduria General de la Republica (PGR) or attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam, was quoted saying that 31 bodies have been examined, but none of them are the two PGR ministerial agents who went missing two weeks ago.

The grave was found after police detained 20 individuals of a kidnapping ring, including local police agents almost two weeks ago.  Information from the raid led investigators to the La Barca site.  Apparently the gravesite extends over an area which straddles the Michoacan and Jalisco state borders, and include Villa Hermosa municipality in Michoacan, as well as La Barca municipality.

Michoacan is currently one of Mexico's most violent states, as drug cartels have reacted with violence to indigenous self defense groups, which were formed stop encroachment on Indian land considered sacred.

Meanwhile in Tancitaro municipality, a Mexican Army road patrol exchanged gunfire with suspected members of Los Caballeros Templarios drug cartel Friday.  The Proceso wire service report did not detail casualties in this latest encounter.

Armed suspects were caught at around 1600 hrs.  According to the wire report, the encounter was the third in Tancitaro municipality since November 16th, when self defense groups, colloquially known as autodefensa took control of Tepalcatepec and Buenavista Tomatlan municipalities.

The report also mentions a separate shooting involving drug cartel shooters taking place in November 19th in Tancitaro municipality near the village of Zirimbo.  In that incident, cartel shooters fired their weapons on a residence.  Casualties in that shooting were not detailed in the wire report.

Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com

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Self-Defense Groups Claim That They Disarmed the Knights Templar Cartel In Michoacán

By: Rubén Mosso

The relatives of the 34 people who were detained by the Mexican army for allegedly being linked to organized crime by acting as community guards for the community Felipe Carrillo Puerto (La Ruana), in Michoacán, requested for the intervention of President Enrique Peña Nieto to release the detainees, because they say that they are innocent. 

Farmers who demonstrated outside the Assistant Attorney General's Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SIEDO) reported that the firearms that their relatives had were seized from the Knights Templar Cartel, who live within the community and have also committed a series of abuses against the community.

 The wives, mothers, sisters, and other relatives warned that in case they don’t receive support from the president, they will take matters into their own hands by arming themselves in order to defend their community from various criminal groups operating in the area of Michoacán.

“Release the guys that you brought, they’re innocent, they are people like us, lemon harvesters, who left their family, wives to their children.   They seized the weapons in order to defend us from the Knights Templar Cartel, simply because it was too much what they were doing,” said one woman.

--What were they doing?

--“They increased the price of tortillas and meat.  They were charging us for each box of lemons that we packed, they would take a portion.  We would work three days a week, with those three days, do you think that we were going to be able to support our children and apart from that they would take away our money.”

The complaint mentioned that the owners of the trucks that would transport the lemons had to pay “Los Templarios” 200 pesos per car, a situation for those who would harvest lemons, their payments would go down, plus they also had to pay to work.

--Who gave the weapons to the guys?

--“They took them from “Los Caballeros”.  In La Ruana, we caught “Caballeros”, when we started to rise up in arms we were all saying: there lives a guy; he’s a “Caballero”.  We would all go and take their weapons away.”

They commented that the municipal and state police in those zones are “leaders” of the Knight Templar Cartel, so they decided to go and also take their weapons, bullet-proof vests, and trucks away.

--“The weapons that the guys had belong to the Knights Templar Cartel.”

The complainants say that their families do not have a lawyer, or even a public defender.  They were informed that they would be transferred to jails in Matamoros, Veracruz, and the state of Mexico.

Last week at a press conference, both officials from the Secretariat of Governance (SEGOB) and the PGR said that the detainees were armed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación), a group linked to the drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Family members have not determined whether they will be staying at the outskirts of the SIEDO, but they do ensure that they will insist federal agencies for the release of those detained, as they called it an outrage.

Source:  Milenio - Rubén Mosso

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