Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, allegedly gave the order to assassinate the Secretary of Public Security of Mexico City, Omar García Harfuch.
The more than 20 hitmen who carried out the violent mission did not achieve their objective, but on the way they left three people dead, two policemen and a young woman who was at the scene of the attack.
A shooting in the Mexican capital woke up the residents of Las Lomas de Chapultepec last Friday. At around 6:30 a.m., a heavily armed command attempted to assassinate García Harfuch.
Armed with fragmentation grenades and 50-caliber Barret rifles, they attacked the van in which García Harfuch was traveling with more than 400 shots.
For the attack against the secretary of Security of the CDMX were arrested that same Friday, 19 people -17 men and two women- who were admitted to the South Prison and the Santa Martha Acatitla female prison early this Sunday morning, respectively.
But this high-caliber attack is not the only one carried out by the “El Mencho” cartel. Although he had not previously attempted to assassinate a senior Security official (or no information is available); It had already carried out attacks, which due to their degree of violence, lethality and magnitude, have rocked the country.
The high-impact attacks, which generate a lot of publicity, have been an important part of the CJNG’s strategy in various states of the country.
Murder of federal judge Uriel Villegas
One of the most recent crimes, in which “El Mencho” could be behind, is the murder of federal judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz and his wife, Verónica Barajas, inside their house located in the capital of Colima.
On June 16, a group of armed men stormed at the judge’s house at approximately 11 am and murdered them. Two minors, the couple’s children, and another woman who worked in housework survived the attack.
Villegas Ortiz did not have bodyguards because this was determined by the Federal Judicial Council.
In March 2018, when Villegas was the sixth District judge in Criminal Proceedings in Jalisco, he requested the transfer of Rubén Oseguera, El Menchito, from a Oaxaca prison to a maximum security prison in El Salto. Later, El Mencho’s son was extradited to the United States.
They kidnapped and killed the deputy from Colima, Anel Bueno
Francis Anel Bueno Sánchez She was 38 years old and held the position of local deputy of Colima for Morena. Just two years after starting her legislative career, she was assassinated and sHis body has been found in a clandestine grave in Colima.
It was President López Obrador who reported a report of arrested for crime. Colima is also one of the states that has been hit hard by violence from the drug cartels.
“I want to express my condolences to the relatives of a legislator from Colima who was kidnapped, and yesterday her body was found in a clandestine grave. I first want to express my condolences to her family, friends, colleagues, it was very unfortunate. I also want to report that a report of detainees who participated in this crime was presented to us in the morning, ”said the Mexican president.
Well Sánchez she was kidnapped on April 29, in the municipality of Ixtlahuacán, Colima. The abduction of the legislator was perpetrated by a command of hooded and heavily armed men who came to the place where Bueno Sánchez was promoting sanitation work.
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Two weeks later, Emma Sánchez, mother of the victim, broke the silence and decided to make the disappearance of her daughter public, hoping to hear from her.
Sánchez explained that since May 9, he requested the Attorney General of the Republic to issue a Alba Alert for the disappearance of the deputy; however, for unknown reasons it was not released. “We are killed by the inefficiency of the investigation that is being carried out, because until now it has not been possible to give a concrete result that leads to the location of my daughter,” said the woman.
“El Alacrán”: a main link in the criminal structure of “Mencho” and who would have ordered the murder of a federal judge and a deputy
Last Sunday, staff from the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) and the Secretariat of the Navy of Mexico (Semar) reported the arrest of Jaime “T”, “El Alacrán”, member of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, who would have ordered the execution of federal judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz, who was assassinated on June 16 along with his wife in Colima, and linked to the murder of the Morena deputy from that state, Francis Anel Bueno, last June 7.
The federal authorities place the detainee as a highly dangerous subject and a main link in the criminal structure of the organization headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”.
We have to open up from here, let’s go! ”: CJNG hitmen ambushed a National Guard covoy in Chinicuila, Michoacán.
On a rural highway in Chinicuila in the state of Michoacán, an area marked by a secular backwardness, elements of the National Guard were ambushed by alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
The troops circulated through the site aboard two vans of the Navy and National Guard. Along the way, at least 10 vehicles of the hired killers were already waiting to attack them. Upon detecting law enforcement units, the criminals opened fire on him with assault rifles and Barret .50 caliber rifles.
Given the situation, the officers descended from their units and positioned themselves in the rear to protect themselves. As witnessed by a video recorded by the uniformed personnel, they never stopped responding to the shooting of the gunmen.
Four elements were injured; however, two of them lost their lives there. Finally, the troops managed to withdraw the assassins.
Officers César David “R” and Néstor Daniel “S” died in the eventwhile the uniformed Sheila Berenice “G” and Flavio Óscar “G” were transferred to a hospital.
“They knocked us all down!”: The CJNG ambush policemen in Aguililla, Michoacán
On October 14 of last year, at the National Palace, the secretaries of state presented a “cash cut” in terms of security to the president. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Almost 600 kilometers away, in Aguililla, Michoacán, one of the fiercest and bloodiest attacks that the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) had committed against police elements was taking place.
“They knocked us all down!” is heard in an audio amid wailing. You can also hear “I’m dying”.
After 9 am, they began to circulate in social networks photographs and sounds of the attack perpetrated. Terror and barbarism blinded the lives of the troops.
The balance of the attack was 14 elements of the Michoacán Police killed, according to information confirmed by the secretary of Public Security of that state, Israel Patrón Reyes; several burned patrols and scenes as if this were a war field.
The policemen were attacked while carrying out a surveillance operation in Aguililla. Through Twitter, the Michoacán Security Secretariat regretted the fact and said that “the legal proceedings are carried out to find those responsible.
According to witnesses, the attackers were traveling in armored trucks and other police officers were wounded or missing. Also, in the photos that circulated on social networks, cardboard is observed, placed on the windshields of the patrols shot, with threats that are directed at the police force and signed with the initials of the CJNG, the most violent in Mexico.
In a narco-message it was read: “All the Michoacán police officers who support ‘Los Templarios’, Biagras, Trollanos and Chocomiles de Tepeque will be charged by the ATT: CJNG” (sic).
The day the CJNG dropped a Navy Black Hawk
In 2015, he dropped a Navy Black Hawk helicopter to prevent his arrest. On May 1 of that year, in the municipality of Villa Purificación, a series of clashes were registered between the security forces and members of the CJNG. During the attacks, the criminal group shot down a police helicopter with a rocket launcher, killing 11 soldiers and two federal policemen.
That same day, hours before and without notifying the local authorities, elements of the Center for Investigation and National Security (CISEN), the Mexican Army, the Federal Police and the PGR, They deployed the operation to arrest “El Mencho”, specifically, in the municipality of Villa Purificación.
The battles that were carried out on the ground between the members of the “El Mencho” cartel and security elements, prevented his capture. The Armed Forces decided not to follow him out of fear that a second attack could be registered.
In 2015, for example, the group killed 15 police officers in an ambush and later shot down an Army helicopter in Jalisco. In 2018, in the western state of Nayarit, some members of the CJNG kidnapped and murdered two agents of the Sub-attorney General’s Office for Organized Crime Investigation (SEIDO), but not before spreading a video showing them tied hands and forced them to criticize government security policies.
Why the CJNG planned high impact attacks
The CJNG leader has reacted furiously to the strategic blows that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has given him: the extradition to the United States of his son Rubén Oseguera González “El Menchito”, the arrest of his daughter Jessica Johana Oseguera alias “La Negra”, as well as the freezing of millions of pesos through individuals and corporations related to the cartel.
According to the journalist Héctor de Mauleón, specialized in drug trafficking issues, the federal and Mexico City governments knew that Omar García Harfuch’s life was threatened.
He noted that as confirmed by high-level federal government sources, eavesdropping of the National Intelligence Center a few weeks ago (seven days ago, according to the federal government’s own Secretary for Citizen Security, Alfonso Durazo) they captured a conversation between relevant members of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
The extradition of “Menchito”
On February 21, Rubén Oseguera González was extradited to the United States., turning into reality the biggest fear of the Mexican drug traffickers: being judged in the American Union.
After a long legal battle to prevent being sent to American soil, “El Menchito” faces accusations of drug trafficking and the use of exclusive Army weapons in that country. Experts have stated that the trial against “El Menchito” could last from one to two years.
Despite his youth, “El Menchito” was considered by Mexican and American authorities as “number two” within the Jalisco Cartel, just below his father, Nemesio Oseguera.
He was first arrested in January 2014 in the municipality of Zapopan, Jalisco.. But in December of that same year, a federal judge ordered his release in the face of the apparent lack of evidence presented by the federal Public Ministry. At the time of his capture, “El Menchito” was carrying 25 million pesos and firearms.
On June 23, 2015, “El Menchito”, the alleged financial operator of the cartel, was recaptured. The then Attorney General of the Republic (today FGR) accused Oseguera González of laundering money of illicit origin through the purchase and sale of farms.
Despite the multiple legal strategies of Rubén’s defense, such as ensuring that his father was not Nemesio Oseguera and even sending a letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, “El Menchito” could not avoid his extradition.
For some specialists it was suspected that the CJNG had not reacted furiously in response to the extradition of the male child of “El Mencho”. But the answer would have come months later with a first event that shocked the Mexican state: the murder of federal judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz who had ordered the transfer of the Oaxaca federal prison to a Jalisco prison, the prelude to his extradition.
Days later, the attack against Omar García Harfuch came, who throughout his police career, has dealt forceful blows to the CJNG and its allies in the country’s capital, La Unión Tepito.
The capture of “La Negra”
Five days after the extradition of “El Menchito” (February 26), Jessica Johana Oseguera González was arrested in Washington DC, the capital of the United States. Jessica was present at the preliminary hearing of “El Menchito”.
It was there that agents of the American Anti-drug Agency (DEA, for its acronym in English) detected it and when entering their data into the system they realized that it was Jessica Johana, accused in the US of criminal association and money laundering.
As soon as they found out who he was, DEA agents They surrounded the court floor and waited for the hearing to conclude to arrest the 32-year-old woman who is facing charges of criminal association with money laundering.
The Office of Asset Control of the United States Department names Jessica Oseguera aka “La Negra” as owner of companies linked to the CJNG used to launder money. Is about Flores Cabañas, in Tlapalpa; Mizu Sushi in Puerto Vallarta, and Onze Black in Guadalajara, Jalisco.
The formal accusation against Jessica Oseguera was filed on February 13, 2020, although the charges against her were revealed on February 27. The complaint indicates that as of September 17, 2015 and to the present date, in the United States, Mexico and other places, the defendant participated in transactions or businesses in goods or interests in goods through her tequila Onze Black, “to materially help or provide support for international narcotics trafficking activities of the narcotics trafficking organization known as the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel. ”
Of Mencho’s daughter’s businesses, tequila and sushi are the best known. In the case of the drink, it was sold only online and was intended to compete in the premium market internationally, mainly in the United States.
After her arrest, attorneys for “La Negra” in the US asked a federal District Judge to pay bail to achieve freedom, but she was denied because of the type of crime she is accused of and because she was booked by the Office for the control of Foreign Assets (OFAC).
If found guilty, Oseguera Gonzalez could obtain a sentence of at least 20 years, since due to his dual nationality the penalty could be more severe, since US law prohibits its citizens from doing business with companies suspected of carrying out money laundering.
“Blue Agave” the blow to the financial structure of the CJNG
On June 2, the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Ministry of Finance, Santiago Nieto, announced a Another blow to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
Under the operation called “Blue agave” coordinated between Mexico and the United States, lThe authorities frozen 1,770 bank accounts for individuals, 167 for companies, and two trusts linked to the CJNG.
The operation was carried out after 2,571 irregular operations were detected for an amount of 2,951 million pesos. In addition to this, there was a report of relevant operations for more than 11,478 million pesos that generated 8424 reports for an amount of 7,216 million pesos.
The operations were carried out mainly in Jalisco, Mexico City, Michoacán, Estado de México, Baja California, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Querétaro and Colima.
Santiago Nieto compared the magnitude of this operation only with that carried out against the Sinaloa Cartel, commanded by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, where the accounts of more than 300 people were blocked.
Until before the “Blue Agave” operation, it had blocked 990,000,000 pesos from the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS), Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL), Los Zetas and La Unión Tepito.
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