By “El Huaso” for Borderland Beat

Two plastic wrapped bodies and a narco message were found early this morning in front of the municipal palace of Tamuín, San Luis Potosi. In the message, the Gulf Cartel threatens rivals the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).

The message contains a list of names of alleged CJNG affiliates and their jobs, such as “police” and “lookout”.

Andres La Estaca

Jorge Munrroy

Silenia de la posta

Marianna Guadalupe

Ernesto Escamilla policía

Jorge Martínez alias “La bola”

Gastón Soni

Benjamín Alejandro

Omar Cepeda alias la empanada

Raúl barrer alias Panochas

El Pichus alias la vaca

El hinchado

Martín Em alias Poly venanos


This will happen to all of those who support “Romin Soni” and all of his people who are in Tamun, here CJNG does not belong.

Signed, Cartel del Golfo

A leaked Secretariat of Defense report from August 2022 shows that several major criminal groups actively dispute the state, including the Gulf Cartel, the Northeastern cartel, Los Alemanes, the Sinaloa cartel, the CJNG, and the Cartel de los Independientes.

Now the battle still rages as these groups fight for control of the centrally located state. According to El Financiero, the main criminal markets are drug trafficking, business extortion, kidnapping, robbery, and cobro de piso, which is charging criminal actors for the right to operate. Last month, Milenio reported that sugar cane producers in Naranjo, San Luis Potosi, fed up with extortion are threatening to rise up and form an autodefensa group.

Sources: @vigilantehuaste, ReformaInformadorInfobae, El Financiero, Milenio