DEATH PARADE
Masked killers in Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel parade rival gangster, make him sign confession then slaughter him in horrifying footage
MEMBERS claiming to be from one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels have released shocking footage of a rival gangster being interrogated and then slaughtered, it has been reported.
A group of ten alleged members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are seen wearing military-style combat gear and armed with rifles as they surround a captured man from a rival drug gang.
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According to local media reports, the half-naked man is said to be Aldolfo Mendoza Valencia, aka ‘El Michoacano’, who is one of the leaders of a rival gang the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel in the Valle de Santiago.
He is seen in the footage sat on a chair with his hands and feet bound and appears to be only wearing underwear and socks.
The masked men then say they will go after the members of the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel and threaten its leader Jose Antonio Yepez Ortiz, known as ‘El Marro’,
One man is heard saying: “We are coming for you, filthy Marro, and for all your filthy people, those who entered the Valle de Santiago and killed innocent people.”
According to reports, the group also demanded the resignation of several public officials in a bid to keep their own criminal activities alive.
The disturbing footage emerged at the weekend after two bodies were found hanging with ropes around their necks from pedestrian bridges in the regions of Salamanca and Villagran, in Guanajuato state, yesterday.
The body in Villagran was found at around 6am after police received reports of a body had been found hanging from the Pan-American Celaya-Salamanca road.
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Drug-related violence in Mexico has increased massively in recent years with murders now commonplace.
Mexico’s history of its drug cartels is one of splits and constant fighting between themselves as they battle for supremacy.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel sprang up in around 2009 when an earlier gang, Milenio Cartel, split apart.
Current leader of the CJNG is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as ‘El Mencho’ who is one of Mexico’s most wanted drug lords.
The gang are currently caught fight an increasingly bloody and violent drug war with a number of gangs.
They are currently fighting La Nueva Plaza for control of Guadalajara, Los Viagras for the state of Michoacan and bitter rivals Los Zetas for the city of Puebla.
They are also battling the Sinaloa cartel in Tijuana and Baja California as well as the Cartel de Juarez in Ciudad Juarez.
Then they are also fighting La Resistencia for control of Jalisco.
Members of the State Public Security Forces (FSPE) found a man wrapped in polyethylene and bound with tape.
Another man’s body was found hanging from a foot bridge near Palo Alto, near a road leading to the Valle de Santiago.
According to a local report a message written on cardboard was found near one of the bodies saying it was Alfonso Mendoza Valencia.
Violence also reputed in Guanajuato on August 2 when a group of armed men attacked the Directorate of Public Security in the Valle de Santaigo, killing five people.
The latest deaths are part of an ongoing violent war between rival criminal groups for domination.
Led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka El Mencho, the CJNG are currently fighting a number of rival cartels with their main rivals for control of Guadalajara, La Nueva Plaza.
That cartel was started by two former CJNG members in 2018 when its co-founder Erick Valencia Salazar and another high ranking leader Carlos Enrique Sanchez left.
While the CJNG are thought to be responsible for a number of massacres.
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In one of their most notorious massacres in September 2011, 35 bodies were dumped in two abandoned trucks in Veracruz.
Some of the bodies had their hands tied and showed signs of having been tortured.
The CJNG claimed the men had been members of a rival gang Los Zetas, but it was later proven that none of them had links to organised crime.
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