This article was translated and reposted from MILENIO
Destroys a car in 3 seconds, blows up a police headquarters in 10 blinks of an eye and wipes out a town in 5 minutes. US agent assures that the CJNG has a dozen of these weapons in Michoacán, Jalisco and Zacatecas.
By: Óscar Balderas
It is the pride of the U.S. arms industry. It is also, as of this week, the terror of those who live in regions of the Pacific disputed by organized crime.
Produced by General Electric, one day in 1963 it occurred to its directors that, in addition to making refrigerators and washing machines, they would make the most perfect weapon for evaporating people. Its official name is M134, but everyone who owns one – including the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG) – calls it Minigun.
It is made of a metal alloy that shields it from attack and can be mounted on tanks or helicopters. It is so fast that – modified – it can fire up to 150 shots per second. So deadly that it can pierce a maximum armor plate in less than half a minute. So effective that even those without warfare training can use it intuitively as if it were a video game.
Fast, lethal, reliable. It has the perfect trinomial for those who love guns. It is used from Germany to Turkey. From soldiers to terrorists. Artillery connoisseurs say it is the most effective instrument of war to exterminate an entire community in record time, second only to the atomic bomb.
It is the weapon of choice of the Terminator when he fights the Predator, of the human saviors in the Matrix saga and of the villains who want to take down James Bond. And now it’s in the hands of some kingpins.
This Thursday it made his public debut in the hands of organized crime in the “war on drugs.” There had been rumors since 2018 that drug lord Nemesio El Mencho Oseguera Cervantes kept her as his most fearsome bodyguard in case of emergency.
Neither the Army nor the communities stalked by the capo wanted to believe it, but the rumor became certainty in Cotija, Michoacán, where the Minigun shattered pickup trucks in just a few seconds demonstrating what it could do against civilians, police and military.
Sources consulted by MILENIO in Mexico and the United States in the security cabinets agreed that the CJNG arsenal is already made up of at least a dozen Miniguns. The last known location of this weaponry is in Michoacan, Jalisco and Zacatecas, where Mencho’s gunmen are fighting a war against the United Cartels and the Sinaloa Cartel. Although there could be more.
“We know from investigations that have been done against arms dealers, for example, in Texas, that one cartel in particular placed orders for parts that are only consistent with a Minigun. This has been of special concern in the fight against the cartels because there is no security force in Mexico capable of resisting an attack with this weapon,” said a Texas agent who does intelligence work and purchases simulated weapons for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
NEMESIO OSEGUERA-CERVANTES AKA: “MENCHO” “EL SEÑOR DE LOS GALLOS” “1” LEADER OF CJNG CARTEL
