By “El Huaso” for Borderland Beat
Methamphetamine seized from Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) aligned dealers greatly outnumbers that from captured rival Cártel Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) dealers in Guanajuato public security social media posts, suggesting that CJNG is gaining the upper hand in the years long conflict for control of the state.
The Twitter account of the Public Security Forces of Guanajuato (@FSPE_Gto) regularly posts images of captured drug dealers alongside photographs of their product. The feed is updated daily with new arrests, acting as a daily press release of law enforcement actions. The data in this article was tallied from these posts about captured drug dealers.
So far in 2023, meth from CJNG aligned dealers greatly outnumbers meth seized from CSRL drug dealers, with at least 190 (83%) dealers arrested selling CJNG meth, versus just 38 (17%) selling CSRL meth.
This branding makes it easy for both groups to discover which drug dealers are aligned with their rivals. This rivalry is reflected in the narco messages each group leaves by the bodies of killed dealers, which frequently reference blue or white meth as the reason for their death.
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| “This happened to me for selling white meth”, reads a message left by the body of a CJNG dealer |
Authors note: This data was tallied from posts of FSPE meth busts bin Guanajuato in 2023. This is therefore not official data, but is based on which seizures were reported on. It is possible that some seizures may not have been reported on by the government, which would skew the dataset.
Sources: Analysis of FSPE Twitter posts (1/1 – 4/25), FSPE Guanajuato Blue Example,
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