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.”
Cristian Fernando “G,” also known as El Guacho, son-in-law of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
At the time of his arrest in November 2024, El Guacho was living in California under a false identity after faking his death. He is described as a "high-ranking leader of a Mexican cartel" and was charged with "international drug trafficking and money laundering."
Cristian Fernando was wanted by Mexican authorities on suspicion of kidnapping two members of the Mexican Navy in 2021 to secure the release of El Mencho's wife, who had been arrested by Mexican authorities, according to an affidavit from a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent.
Federal Judge Beryl Howell, in Washington, D.C., sentenced Gutiérrez Ochoa to 11 years and eight months in federal prison.
Last June, El Guacho pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to one count of conspiracy to conduct financial transactions involving proceeds of unlawful activity, or money laundering.
THIS INFORMATION WAS POSTED BY EL OCCIDENTAL AND WRITTEN BY: ROMAN ORTEGA
The arrest took place at 9:40 a.m. this Thursday.
For the third time, elements of the Federal Forces have arrested Armando G., also known as Delta 1, identified as the leader of the elite hit squad known as the Deltas, of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
According to the National Registry of Detentions, the arrest took place at 9:40 a.m. this Thursday. At the time of his arrest, Armando, who is 1.70 meters tall, was wearing braces, black sneakers, black shorts, a pink t-shirt, and a black sweatshirt with bright orange accents.
Although the National Registry of Detentions does not mention the location where Armando G. was apprehended, sources close to the investigation indicate that the operation to capture him took place in the municipality of Zapopan.
First Arrest
Armando G, also known as Máximo, was first arrested on June 21, 2020, on the streets of the Jardines del Country neighborhood in the municipality of Guadalajara. The reasons why Gómez Núñez was released after his 2020 capture remain unknown.
Second Capture
Last Monday, October 28, 2024, National Guard officers arrested Delta 1 for the second time at 5:03 PM on Patria Avenue, between Lago Superior and La Presa avenues, in the Lagos del Country neighborhood, the same neighborhood where he was captured in 2020.
At the time of the arrest, the National Guard seized a vehicle, a rifle loaded with 10 rounds, plastic bags containing 1.053 kilograms of methamphetamine, and three magazines with a total of 49 live rounds.
The Attorney General's Office reported that Armando G was indicted for drug offenses, specifically simple possession of methamphetamine hydrochloride, as well as possession of a firearm, magazines, and ammunition for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. In addition to the indictment, the District Judge based in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, ordered justified pretrial detention at Federal Social Rehabilitation Center No. 1 in Altiplano and granted four months for the complementary investigation.
However, last May, Armando G, identified as the third-in-command of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), was granted house arrest by a federal judge.
Delta 1 Controlled Illicit Activities in Puente Grande
According to federal investigations, Delta 1's area of influence is in the Guadalajara metropolitan area. He was also responsible for the attack committed on May 21, 2018, in the Chapultepec area, against Luis Carlos Nájera, the former State Attorney General during the previous administration headed by former Governor Jorge Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz.
Americans, Venezuelans, Guatemalans, and French nationals, as well as people from other states, have been arrested during clashes and operations in Culiacán and Navolato.
Foreigners from the United States, France, Venezuela, and Guatemala have arrived in the state, where they have been arrested as part of the two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, which have been engaged in a war for control of the territory since last September.
People from Jalisco, Durango, Michoacán, Sonora, and Baja California have also joined the dispute between the Mayos and Chapos factions, participating in clashes or being captured in coordinated operations in both urban and rural areas of Culiacán and Navolato.
On November 19, 14 men were apprehended at a hotel in Navolato, including two Guatemalans and one Venezuelan. Authorities seized 13 long guns, a machine gun, 15 magazines, and more than 420 rounds of ammunition of different calibers.
In Navolato, the Sinaloa Cartel cells have intensified clashes, murders, and attacks with explosives against businesses, and one explosion even occurred at a party, leading to constant school closures, especially in the Villa Juárez district.
In an operation carried out last Friday morning in the Portalegre sector north of Culiacán, elements of the Special Operations Group (GOES) of the State Preventive Police and the National Guard captured 10 alleged hitmen, among whom, according to unofficial reports, were individuals from Jalisco, Mexicali, and Michoacán.
The detainees were found outside a residence next to a black vehicle, and were carrying nine long guns, a machine gun, a pistol, 1,225 rounds of ammunition, and 33 magazines, in addition to tactical equipment, eight ballistic vests, seven tactical helmets, and seven buckets of tire spikes. On Saturday, November 15, cells of the Sinaloa Cartel clashed in the town of El Guasimal, located in the municipality of Imala, Culiacán. A ground and air operation was launched in the area, resulting in the arrest of nine men, one of whom was identified as Ogelian Fabio “N,” a French national.
Two vehicles were found in the area with their doors open, each containing the bodies of two men who had been shot to death. Another body was found on a dirt road. Authorities seized two machine guns, 21 rifles, more than 3,350 rounds of ammunition of various calibers, 15 bulletproof vests, and three vehicles, two of which had makeshift armor plating.
On November 5, in Culiacán, Daniel Silvestre Manjarrez, also known as "El Dany," a U.S. citizen, was arrested at a residence in the Infonavit Humaya neighborhood. He was wanted by the U.S. for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and had an Interpol Red Notice issued against him by the FBI.
GABRIEL SETH RODGERS. Captured in Culiacán.
“Security agents identified the property where one of the most wanted targets by U.S. authorities was hiding, and during reconnaissance patrols, they detected the subject's presence. They ordered him to stop, confirmed his identity, and he was arrested,” said Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection.
On October 23, 2025, Erick L., a U.S. citizen, was shot and killed at midday inside a house located on Jorge Romero Zazueta and Luis M. Rojas streets, in the Adolfo López Mateos neighborhood in Culiacán.
Five days earlier, federal forces freed a U.S. citizen who had been kidnapped from a home in the Espacios Barcelona subdivision in this city, and arrested three of his captors, including a woman.
In Culiacán, another U.S. citizen, identified as Gabriel Seth Rodgers, 26 years old, originally from Sundance, was arrested on March 27. The young man had fled to Mexico while on parole in the state of Wyoming, where he was sentenced in 2019 to 44 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release for stealing more than 30 weapons from a pawn shop a year earlier, which he sold in Colorado.
At that time, the 19-year-old was charged with possession of stolen firearms and conspiracy to distribute LSD and marijuana.
The U.S. Department of Justice reported that Rodgers violated his parole and traveled to Culiacán, Sinaloa, where he trafficked fentanyl and methamphetamine under the protection of the Sinaloa Cartel. On November 3, a judge in Cheyenne sentenced the young man to 30 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
Another U.S. citizen, identified as Matthew Kenneth Rewald, 30 years old, was arrested in Mazatlán on July 8 of this year. He had irregular immigration status and was linked to drug trafficking and arms smuggling for the Sinaloa Cartel, as well as pedophilia.
Dutch media reported that between September and October of last year, Marco Ebben, of Dutch origin, and who was linked to Ismael Zambada García, was in Culiacán, but this information was not confirmed. The drug lord was murdered on February 13 in the municipality of Atizapán, in the State of Mexico.
Ebben was wanted by Europol for drug trafficking.
Governor Rubén Rocha was questioned about the arrests of foreigners in Sinaloa and said that it is a matter of concern to him.
“Yes, of course it's worrying, how could it not be? These are events that attract attention,” he said.
Article published on November 23, 2025, in issue 1191 of the weekly newspaper Ríodoce.
They seized 15 high-end vehicles, 24 magazines, 351 cartridges, 36 vests, tactical equipment, and animals.
WRITTEN BY: ELIZABETH IBAL
Agents from the Attorney General's Office in Jalisco carried out a search warrant issued by a judge in the municipality of Arandas.
The Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection reported that the operation took place at a ranch near the community of Cieneguilla.
There, during the search of the property, agents seized 15 high-end vehicles, 24 magazines, 351 rounds of ammunition, 36 vests, tactical gear, 10 horses, exotic birds, and a crocodile.
During the operation, personnel from the Mexican Army and the National Guard took charge of security in the surrounding area.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident in the municipality of Degollado, members of the National Defense Secretariat and Pemex personnel located and disabled four illegal taps into pipelines.
They also recovered 34,500 liters of gasoline, secured a storage facility, 13 containers, and 2,750 meters of high-pressure hose.
Treasury Targets Terrorism and Timeshare Fraud in Mexico
Scams Targeting U.S. Victims Produce Significant Revenue for CJNG
WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Mexican individuals and 13 Mexican companies linked to timeshare fraud led by the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). These individuals and companies are based in or near Puerto Vallarta, a popular tourist destination that also serves as a strategic stronghold for CJNG. A brutally violent cartel, CJNG is a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that is increasingly supplementing its drug trafficking proceeds with alternative revenue streams such as timeshare fraud and fuel theft.
“We are coming for terrorist drug cartels like Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion that are flooding our country with fentanyl,” said Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. “These cartels continue to create new ways to generate revenue to fuel their terrorist operations. At President Trump’s direction, we will continue our effort to completely eradicate the cartels’ ability to generate revenue, including their efforts to prey on elderly Americans through timeshare fraud.”
Treasury has taken a series of actions targeting the diverse revenue streams benefitting the cartels, including fuel theft, human smuggling, extortion, and fraud. As Treasury and its partners seek to disrupt the cartels’ revenue streams, it is important to remind current owners of timeshares in Mexico: If an unsolicited purchase or rental offer seems too good to be true, it probably is. Those considering the purchase of a timeshare in Mexico should conduct appropriate due diligence.
Today’s action was taken pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14059, which targets the proliferation of illicit drugs and their means of production, and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, which targets terrorists and their supporters. Today’s action was also taken in coordination with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the Government of Mexico’s financial intelligence unit, the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (UIF).
CJNG: VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF PROFIT
CJNG is considered one of the most powerful cartels in the world. It has conducted intimidating acts of violence, including attacks on the Mexican military and police with military-grade weaponry, the use of drones to drop explosives on Mexican law enforcement, and assassinations and attempted assassinations of Mexican officials. CJNG has also executed its own recruits who defy orders. All of this is perpetrated in furtherance of CJNG’s relentless pursuit of illicit proceeds. In addition to drug trafficking, the group’s core source of revenue, CJNG is also generating alternative revenue streams through fuel theft, extortion, and timeshare fraud, among other activities.
On April 8, 2015, OFAC designated CJNG pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act) for playing a significant role in international narcotics trafficking. On December 15, 2021, OFAC also designated CJNG pursuant to E.O. 14059. On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of State designated CJNG as an FTO and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
PARADISE LOST: TIMESHARE FRAUD IN MEXICO
Mexico-based cartels have been targeting U.S. owners of timeshares through call centers in Mexico staffed by telemarketers fluent in English. Beginning in about 2012, CJNG took control of timeshare fraud schemes in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, and the surrounding area. These complex scams often target older Americans who can lose their life savings. The lifecycle of these scams can last years, resulting in financial and emotional devastation of the victims while enriching cartels like CJNG.
The cartels generally obtain information about U.S. owners of timeshares in Mexico from complicit insiders at timeshare resorts. After obtaining information on timeshare owners, the cartels, through their call centers, contact victims by phone or email and claim to be U.S.-based third-party timeshare brokers, attorneys, or sales representatives in the timeshare, travel, real estate, or financial services industries. The fraud may include timeshare exit scams (a.k.a. timeshare resale scams), timeshare re-rent scams, and timeshare investment scams. The common theme is that victims are asked to pay advance “fees” and “taxes” before receiving money supposedly owed to them. This money never comes, and the victims are continuously told to pay additional “fees” and “taxes” to finalize the transactions. Victims are typically told to send these “fees” and “taxes” via international wire transfers to accounts held at Mexican banks and brokerage houses. After these initial scams, re-victimization scams can occur. The scammers may impersonate law firms, claiming that they can initiate proceedings on behalf of the victims to recover lost funds for an upfront fee. In other instances, scammers impersonate government officials, including OFAC, claiming that victims have engaged in suspicious transactions and demanding “fines” to release their funds or face the risk of imprisonment.
On July 16, 2024, Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), OFAC, and the FBI issued a joint Notice on timeshare fraud associated with Mexico-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs), including in Spanish, to provide financial institutions with an overview of these schemes, associated financial typologies, and red flag indicators. In the six-month period following this Notice, FinCEN received over 250 Suspicious Activity Reports, and filers reported approximately 1,300 transactions totaling $23.1 million, sent primarily from U.S.-based individuals to counterparties in Mexico. Based on FinCEN’s analysis, U.S. fraud victims sent an average of $28,912 and a median amount of $10,000 per transaction to the suspected scammers potentially working for Mexico-based TCOs.
According to the FBI, approximately 6,000 U.S. victims reported losing nearly $300 million between 2019 and 2023 to timeshare fraud schemes in Mexico. In 2024 alone, FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received nearly 900 complaints concerning timeshare fraud schemes in Mexico with reported losses of over $50 million. However, these figures likely underestimate total losses, as the FBI believes the vast majority of victims do not report the scam due to embarrassment, among other reasons. On its website, the FBI has included a timeshare fraud resource page, and FBI’s New York Field Office has posted a public service announcement video featuring a victim of timeshare fraud. Victims of timeshare fraud are encouraged to file a complaint with the FBI’s IC3 by visiting https://www.ic3.gov. For elder victims, financial institutions may also refer their customers to the Department of Justice’s National Elder Fraud Hotline at 833-FRAUD-11 (or 833-372-8311).
TARGETING TIMESHARE FRAUD
Montero
Today’s action marks the fifth time OFAC has sanctioned those linked, directly or indirectly, to CJNG’s timeshare fraud activities, resulting in the designation of over 70 individuals and entities to date. The previous actions occurred on March 2, 2023, April 27, 2023, November 30, 2023, and July 16, 2024.
Rivera
The three senior CJNG members most involved in timeshare fraud are Julio Cesar Montero Pinzon (Montero), Carlos Andres Rivera Varela (Rivera), and Francisco Javier Gudino Haro (Gudino). These three individuals have also been part of a CJNG enforcement group based in Puerto Vallarta that orchestrates assassinations of rivals and politicians using high-powered weaponry.
Gudino
On June 2, 2022, OFAC designated Montero pursuant to E.O. 14059. Today, Montero is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, CJNG.
On April 6, 2021, OFAC designated Rivera and Gudino pursuant to the Kingpin Act. Today, Rivera and Gudino are being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059 and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, CJNG.
Ibarra
The other individual sanctioned today is Puerto Vallarta native Michael Ibarra Diaz Jr. (Ibarra). An ostensibly legitimate businessman involved in the tourism industry, Ibarra is engaged in timeshare fraud on behalf of CJNG. For over 20 years, Ibarra has been involved in the sale and management of timeshares in the Puerto Vallarta area, including just north in the state of Nayarit. Ibarra was trained as an accountant, which is consistent with CJNG’s use of professionals to conduct this complicated and highly lucrative scheme. Ibarra is being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059 and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, CJNG.
Also sanctioned today is Ibarra’s corporate network, which is composed of 13 companies. Five of the companies—Akali Realtors, Centro Mediador De La Costa, S.A. de C.V., Corporativo Integral De La Costa, S.A. de C.V., Corporativo Costa Norte, S.A. de C.V., and Sunmex Travel, S. de R.L. De C.V.—explicitly acknowledge their involvement in the timeshare industry. Another company involved in timeshare-related transactions—TTR Go, S.A. de C.V.—claims only to be a travel agency. Three additional companies are purportedly engaged in real estate activities: Inmobiliaria Integral Del Puerto, S.A. de C.V., KVY Bucerias, S.A. de C.V., and Servicios Inmobiliarios Ibadi, S.A. de C.V. This diverse corporate network also includes tour operators (Fishing Are Us, S. De R.L. de C.V.; Santamaria Cruise, S. de R.L. de C.V.), an automotive service company (Laminado Profesional Automotriz Elte, S.A. de C.V.), and an accounting firm (Consultorias Profesionales Almida, S.A. de C.V.). These 13 companies are being sanctioned pursuant to E.O. 14059 and pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for being owned, controlled, or directed by, or having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, Ibarra.
SANCTIONS IMPLICATIONS
As a result of today’s action, all property and interests in property of the designated or blocked persons described above that are in the United States or in the possession or control of U.S. persons are blocked and must be reported to OFAC. In addition, any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, 50 percent or more by one or more blocked persons are also blocked. Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by OFAC, or exempt, OFAC’s regulations generally prohibit all transactions by U.S. persons or within (or transiting) the United States that involve any property or interests in property of blocked persons.
Violations of U.S. sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on U.S. and foreign persons. OFAC may impose civil penalties for sanctions violations on a strict liability basis. OFAC’s Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines provide more information regarding OFAC’s enforcement of U.S. economic sanctions. In addition, financial institutions and other persons may risk exposure to sanctions for engaging in certain transactions or activities involving designated or otherwise blocked persons. The prohibitions include the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any designated or blocked person, or the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.
Furthermore, engaging in certain transactions involving the persons designated today may risk the imposition of secondary sanctions on participating foreign financial institutions. OFAC can prohibit or impose strict conditions on opening or maintaining, in the United States, a correspondent account or a payable-through account of a foreign financial institution that knowingly conducts or facilitates any significant transaction on behalf of a person who is designated pursuant to the relevant authority.
The power and integrity of OFAC sanctions derive not only from OFAC’s ability to designate and add persons to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List), but also from its willingness to remove persons from the SDN List consistent with the law. The ultimate goal of sanctions is not to punish, but to bring about a positive change in behavior. For information concerning the process for seeking removal from an OFAC list, including the SDN List, or to submit a request, please refer to OFAC’s guidance on Filing a Petition for Removal from an OFAC List.
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."
The Jalisco Cartel New Generation's armed wings, including Grupo Delta, Fuerzas Especiales Mencho, Los Guerrero, and Los Viagras Cartel (which has formed an alliance with the CJNG Cartel), have continued their attacks on El Abuelo Farias or Cartel de Tepalcatec territories.
Moreover, for almost two weeks straight now, violent incidents have occured in Michoacan, the attacks led by the CJNG Cartel-Los Viagras Cartel in territory controlled by El Abuelo Farias and allies. This Friday night, August 1, 2025, CJNG Cartel made an incursion into Querendaro, Michoacan, in which they targeted the house of the mayoress of Querendaro. The house was vandalized, set on fire by the armed group, and two vehicles with a 'CJNG' sticker were left behind by the assailants.
CJNG ATTACKS QUERENDARO MAYORESS' HOME
The two videos uploaded were published by the 'ZULU' telegram channel on August 1, 2025.
"Last night, CJNG hitmen raided the home of the mayor of Queréndaro.
During their escape, they left two vehicles abandoned on the outskirts of Queréndaro, one of which was set on fire."
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.
The morning of this Saturday, July 19, 2025, Michoacan woke up to Jalisco Cartel New Generation attacks against longtime rivals, El Abuelo Farias, Poncho La Quiringua, El Guicho De Los Reyes, and Maniaco.
LOS REYES, MICHOACAN BANNERS SIGNED BY CJNG
Several banners were hung in Los Reyes, Michoacan, in which CJNG claimed responsibility. The banners were found early Saturday, July 19, 2025, on the roads leading to Los Reyes, Tinguindin, and Tocumbo, according to Monitor Expresso.
BANNERS READ
TOWN OF LOS REYES
WE ARE HERE. THE CLEANSING OF DIRTBAGS HAS BEGUN, INCLUDING GOVERNMENT THAT SUPPORTS, GUICHO, PONCHO, MANIACO, VENADA, SOMBRA, MASCARITA, ARLEQUIN, YOUR BUSINESS OF EXTORTION HAS FINISHED AGAINST AVOCADO GROWERS, MOREROS, LIMON GROWERS, AND THE FACTORIES. PRESIDENT HUMBERTO JIMENEZ SOLIS, YOU ARE HERE TO PROTECT YOUR TOWN, NOT TO SUPPORT THOSE DIRTBAGS, COMMISIONARY JUAN SEBASTIAN MANZO.....
TEPALCATEPEC AND APATZINGAN SHOOTOUTS
CJNG Cartel attacked the limits of Tepalcatepec yet again, this past Friday afternoon, and shootouts were also reported this Saturday in Apatzingan, Michoacan.
The Zulu Telegram channel reported that clashes between CJNG and its rivals took place in the small town of Cholula, located in Tepalcatepec, Michoacán, on Friday, July 18, 2025.
Zulu Telegram channel reported that CJNG Cartel clashes against rivals reignited this Saturday morning in Cholula and Olivos, located in Tepalcatepec, Michoacan.
Also sanctioned today is Ibarra’s corporate network, which is composed of 13 companies. Five of the companies—
Three additional companies are purportedly engaged in real estate activities: 
