The Jalisco New Generation poster is stirred. The Mexican government has strengthened the siege against the powerful criminal organization during the last weeks in its main feuds, Michoacán, Jalisco and Guanajuato, a strategy aimed at diminishing the strength of the CJNG through clashes and arrests of important logistics operators. Hit the poster in its great bastions and suffocate it little by little. The hitmen of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, The Menchohave reacted on Wednesday afternoon with roads of roads and fires of vehicles and businesses in the three states. The Mencho, the drug trafficker most wanted by the United States, exhibits muscle in his land and shows that he will sell the skin.
Some local media talk about shots clashes between the armed forces and members of the CJNG with the help of viagras in Apatzingán, but the official information is scarce or zero at the close of this article. Known sources of the operation point out that “federal elements arrested a high -ranking criminal leader”, which triggered the blockages in that area. It is the usual modus operandi of the CJNG, which he already used when, in 2022, a failed army operation tried to capture two of its leaders, Ricardo Ruiz, The double rand Gerardo González, The Apá. At the moment, neither Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, nor Pablo Lemus, nor Libya Dennise, governors of Michoacán, Jalisco and Guanajuato, respectively, have spoken about it. Nor the President of the Republic, Claudia Sheinbaum, nor any of the three state prosecutors.
The attacks, for the moment without victims or detainees, have been directed mainly to federal roads, the most circulation arteries in the country. The CJNG has converted load trucks and private vehicles into improvised flames. The state of Michoacán has been the most affected, with blockages in a dozen municipalities in its rural area, an area with a strong presence of the national Guard and the Army: Apatzingán, Tanhuato, Yurécuaro, Erongarícuaro, Uruapan, Zamora, Chilchota, Purépero, Zacapu or Tlazazalca. In Apatzingan, at least two Oxxo stores were also burned.
The fire of the poster has spread with less intensity to the Border Guanajuato region with Michoacán, with trailers settled on fire on the roads that join the municipalities of La Piedad, Pénjamo, Abasolo and San Gregorio, according to the State Public Security Secretariat. Another truck on fire has caused the closure of the circulation on the highway between Irapuato and Zapotlanejo, and beyond between Zapotlanejo and Maravatío. On Wednesday night there was a bus burning on Federal Highway 51 between Acámbaro and Celaya. Other vehicles also burned in the Ocotlán collection booth in Jalisco.
-On March 16, on the border between Jalisco and Michoacán, the men of Mencho ambushed soldiers and national guards with coordinated attacks in different municipalities, some of which have also been the scene on Wednesday of the blockages, such as Ocotlán, in Jalisco, and Zamora, in Michoacán. In that assault, the majority of the dead were put by the federals: four soldiers and two national guards riddled in front of three kilos of the dead CJNG. The battle was agonized and in communications among the military, to which the country had access, the desperate calls were heard. Three days later, the government counterattacked in Autlán de Navarro, one of the epicenters of the criminal organization, and two other national guards fell.
It was one of the most high and visual moments of the violent reaction of the poster before the new government offensive, which for years had left a free hand to the movements of drug traffickers. The CJNG took advantage of the policy of “hugs, not bullets” by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador almost as much as the intestine war that the two great features of its main rivals have maintained, the Sinaloa poster. With the old capos, Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera and Ismael May Zambada, under the power of the United States, the Chapitos, the sons of Guzmán, and the Mayiza, the faithful to Zambada, massacren each other with Culiacán as a war front and its inhabitants as usual collateral damage. The battle strengthened the territorial and economically.
Things changed with the arrival in the presidency of the United States of Donald Trump and his obsession, an old mania of the Washington Falcones, of throwing themselves to hunting Mexican capos, to those who blame all the evils of their country: of the epidemic US addiction to the fentanil irregular from Mexico to the north of the border. His first official day at the White House, Trump designated six Mexican posters, Sinaloa, Jalisco Nueva Generación, Northwest, Gulf, the United States and the Michoacan family, as terrorist groups, and forced his Mexican counterpart to intensify the fight against criminal groups under the threat of a commercial war.
Before the pressures, Sheinbaum militarized the border, the seizures of drugs and high -profile arrests rose like foam, the entrance of fentanyl to the United States through the border was reduced by half and 29 drug lords were delivered to appease the US authorities. As a consequence, the organized crime board in Mexico is being shaken daily, with the renewed persecution of the CJNG as one of its most visible manifestations. The blockages and fires in Michoacán, Jalisco and Guanajuato are only the last replica of a tremor that has not yet seen the end.
