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This article was translated and reposted from INFORMADOR.MX
By: Jaime Barrera
February 16, 2024 – 03:05 am
It has been almost 11 and a half years since the weekend of August 25 and 26, 2012, when Jalisco experienced one of the most violent episodes unleashed by organized crime cells in the Metropolitan Zone and in 16 municipalities of the state.
It was a Saturday of terror and direct aggression against citizens when, after the kidnapping of 36 public transportation units and private cars, 23 narco-blockades took place on streets and highways in the state. The following day there were six more narco-blockades and the following Tuesday the then Secretary of Public Security of the Government of Jalisco, Luis Carlos Nájera, explained that these aggressions were ordered by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes “El Mencho”, leader of the New Generation cartel, to escape from a federal police operation in Tonaya, in a scuffle that left six hired killers dead.
It was the end of the six-year term of the “war on drugs” of PAN member Felipe Calderón.
Two years later, in the administration of PRI President Enrique Peña Nieto, another violent day occurred again, corrected and increased, in another attempt to arrest the leader of the CNG. It was on Friday, May 1, 2015. There were burnings of banks, gas stations and other commercial establishments, narco-blockades with burned trucks and vehicles in the city and highways of Jalisco, which spilled over to Colima, Guanajuato and Aguascalientes. In the municipality of Villa Purificación, CNG militias shot down an Army helicopter, causing the death of six soldiers and an investigating agent of the Attorney General’s Office.
From that moment on, it also became a priority target of the federal government, according to the then Secretary of the Interior, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong.
But far from being stopped, since then and until today, Oseguera Cervantes has done nothing but consolidate his power, to the extent that this week Republican legislators in the US Senate and House of Representatives proposed a law called “Initiative to neutralize the Jalisco Cartel” that would oblige the Department of Defense to design a strategy to kill or capture the leaders of what they consider “the most violent criminal group in Mexico.
In contrast, in the current administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, it seems that his arrest is no longer a priority, to the extent that last Sunday, in the middle of the Carnival of Autlán, in the middle of the bullfight, led by the matador Arturo Saldívar, the leader of the CNG was honored with a colorful and colorful arrangement on the arena of a crowded plaza that read: “Lord of the Roosters. Whatever you wish for me, God will multiply it to you. Blessings.
Thus, while in the U.S. they tried to pass laws to persecute him, in Autlan they allow him to live happily.
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