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Showing posts with label Los Tequileros. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Los Tequileros. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
'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.
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| 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).
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| 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.
