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Julio Alberto Castillo is a member of the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation, trusted by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes.
Julio Alberto Castillo, El Mencho’s son-in-law (Vanguardia)
WRITTEN BY; JESÚS BALDENEA
Julio Alberto Castillo Rodriguez, alias “Ojo de Vidrio,” is a member of the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG) who is trusted by leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho” because he is married to one of his daughters.
It is known that he is one of the CJNG’s financial operators in the state of Jalisco, where the criminal group has dominated for more than 13 years, according to Mexican government data.
Nemesio Oceguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, leader of the CJNG Photo: DEA
El Ojo de Vidrio’ has a brother who likewise was in the ranks of the cartel led by ‘El Señor de la M’, who goes by the name of Fernando Castillo Rodríguez, alias ‘El Toro Valencia’. In addition, Julio is the husband of Johanna Oseguera González.
The spouse of ‘El Mencho’s’ daughter could be the next leader of the CJNG in a few years because he has become his father-in-law’s right-hand man, and there was even speculation that he could have become the boss because Oseguera Cervantes was in poor health and needed to take time off work.
These decisions may have caused an internal conflict within the cartel, as many are not in favor of this decision due to the fact that there are other members seeking to take command. One of the most recent evidences was when the Sedena on August 10, 2022, was about to apprehend Ricardo Ruiz Velasco, ‘El RR’ and Gerardo González Ramírez ‘El Apá’ or simply ‘El Gera’, leaders of the Jalisco criminal group, which caused narco-blockades to break out, according to an investigation by Vanguardia.
Narco-blockades in Jalisco in 2022 after arrest of CJNG members (X from @SinViolenciaMor)
He managed to escape prison on two occasions.
On June 23, 2015, when Julio Alberto along with his brother-in-law Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, alias ‘El Menchito’ were apprehended in Zapopan, Jalisco by the Mexican Army and the extinct Federal Police after an operation that lasted 20 minutes, however, on July 1 of that same year a federal judge in the State of Mexico ordered their release as there was insufficient evidence for the crimes of kidnapping and links to organized crime.
Subsequently, on April 6, 2016, now in Guadalajara, Jalisco, federal agents arrived at a home and arrested Castillo Rodríguez, as well as two of his companions Édgar Ernesto Moreno Barragán and José Antonio Rodríguez Contreras, only to be released again months later and find himself a fugitive from justice for more than 7 years.
I respectfully disagree that El Ojo De Vidrio will be Mencho’s successor in case of his absence. A more suitable successor for Mencho would be his stepson Juan Carlos Valencia González “El Pelon” or “El 03.” The mother of Juan Carlos is Rosalinda González Valencia married to CJNG cartel leader Nemesio Ruben Oseguera-Cervantes “Mencho.”
