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2026: El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, is killed in a federal raid. The organization was led by his stepson El 03
The administration of US President Trump demanded indicative results from neighbors in the fight against drug trafficking, threatening to recognize Mexican cartels as terrorists and start acting on their own.
Mexico City had to be proactive to prevent the US military from entering its territory.
The army conducted a large-scale special operation, the goal of which was the top of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
In February 2026, according to Mexican media, in Jalisco, Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho), the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, was killed during a federal raid.
He was considered one of the largest drug lords in the country, engaged in the supply of cocaine, methamphetamine and fentanyl in the United States, as well as diversified revenues through fuel theft and oil smuggling.
After the operation, criminal groups staged mass arson and road blockages in Jalisco and the neighboring states of Michoacán and Guanajuato. Criminals are trying to cut off the escape routes to military columns. Their main task is to create panic and physically prevent the army from removing El Mencho's body or transporting arrested associates from the scene of the operation.
The key danger of the "New Generation of Jalisco" is not so much in geography and coverage as in the manner of work: the militants rob all criminal structures and legal business. If the cartel is not paid "for the roof," then the guilty person is demonstratively executed. Cutting off hands and feet is common.
The cartel also selects "orphaned" gangs and integrates them into its structure. This approach is called the "orphan adoption strategy." 2026 could be a turning point in the history of the group: the plans were to clean up and "adopt" groups from weakened cartels and monopolize the market.
The place of the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was taken by Juan Carlos Gonzalez Valencia or El 03, the stepson of the murdered leader. Americans offer $5 million for his head.
He is a prominent and radical representative of the cartel's power bloc, and his blood ties to the financial wing of the Valencia family will strengthen the union within the organization.
Together with him, the cartel will be ruled by his mother Rosalind Gonzalez Valencia, who was released from prison a few months ago, as well as other relatives representing Los Quinis, the largest money laundering machine.
2025: Hacker hacked city cameras and helped Mexico's largest drug cartel find and execute FBI informants
The Sinaloa drug cartel used a hacker to hack city CCTV cameras and mobile phones to identify and subsequently kill informants from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation. The cybercriminal followed an FBI official in Mexico investigating former cartel chief Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. This was announced by the Office of the Chief Inspector of the US Department of Justice in July 2025. Read more here.
2024
Drug cartel "New Generation Jalisco" - the largest in the country
For the first time about the cartel "The New Generation of Jalisco" (aka CJNG) started talking in 2009.
By 2024, the cartel is the largest in Mexico and specializes mostly in the production and sale of synthetic drugs in North America and cocaine - on international sites. Cases of working with the supply of heroin and cannabis were also mentioned.
The approximate revenue of organized crime groups is more than $6 billion a year from the sale of synthetic drugs and more than $10 billion from cocaine.
Sinaloa Drug Cartel
The Sinaloa cartel declared itself as an independent organized criminal group in the late 1980s, and its founders, being hereditary drug dealers, managed to light up in the activities of the famous Guadalajara cartel - it was they who at one time tested the main logistics routes for the delivery of drugs and their precursors from Colombia and Mexico to the United States.
They approached the matter creatively - not only did they attach old smuggling trails and border tunnels to the matter, but they tried something fundamentally new for their time (for example, planes and small submarines).
After the collapse of the Guadalajara cartel and the redistribution of spheres of influence, the guys from Sinaloa still managed to maintain control over a significant part of the logistics facilities and intercept the "supervision" over most of the drug flow entering the United States. In international areas - in Europe, Australia and Asian countries - the cartel also works, but in media terms this story is not as promoted as that of the New Generation of Jalisco (CJNG).
Unlike the modern paramilitary group, which the CJNG positions itself with, the Sinaloa cartel places more emphasis on traditional "family contracts" for the region, where they prefer to conduct business with relatives, children can be connected to business from an early age, there are still certain aspects of blood revenge, as well as bonding unions through contractual marriages.
All of the above concerns rather the leadership of the groups, as well as the manufacturers of the goods and, in some cases, personal protection. Combat formations mainly consist of professionals, including foreign mercenaries.
"Nepotism," as well as the peculiar transfer of power by inheritance from parents to children (or nephews, pupils) is one of the reasons for the more frequent occurrence of internal conflicts in this organized criminal group, which sometimes flow into open hostilities over spheres of influence or territories.
In 2024, the cartel specializes in the supply of Colombian cocaine, synthetic drugs, as well as marijuana. Since the latter, it is interesting that earlier the organized criminal group was engaged exclusively in the Mexican harvest, but now, according to some data, they trade more in what was grown in the United States, in California.
Additionally, it is known that the Los Chapitos faction is attempting political lobbying and has begun investing in businesses related to the legal cultivation and trade in cannabis.
On July 25, 2024, it became known that Ismael Sambada Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Lopez, two of the famous leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, were arrested at one of the private airports in Texas.
Several versions of what happened are distributed on the Web. According to one of them, the drug lords decided to surrender themselves, leading before this long negotiations with American law enforcement officers. In the second, one of them betrayed the other by luring US justice into the hands in exchange for legal immunity.
At the same time, there is no specifics, and if we take into account the specifics of such detentions, then the whole truth will not be revealed for many years, and maybe never.
At the same time, this arrest can be called important, if only because:
- Apparently, the main investigative actions were carried out in Mexico - but the official version, according to which drug lords were captured in El Paso, hints that the organizers of the action wanted to avoid disputes over extradition and jurisdiction. The very disputes that allow you to slow down the trial or even allow criminals to hide.
- The arrest was carried out by people from the team of US President Biden, and more specifically - the protege of the Clinton clan and US Attorney General Merrick Garland.
2023: Clashes with drug traffickers after arrest of Ovidio Guzman Lopez - son of former Sinaloa cartel leader
According to official statements by the Mexican authorities, on January 6, 2023, a special operation to ensure law and order is being carried out in the north of the country amid the arrest of Ovidio Guzman Lopez, one of the sons of the former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, El Chapo.
Ovidio Guzman Lopez, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar and Alfredo Guzman Salazar are the leaders of the Los Chapitos group. The structure claims to be part of the Sinaloa cartel, but other factions do not recognize them as part of the cartel. These comrades have the most definite reputation - all the largest outbreaks of violence in the state are recorded on the account of Los Chapitos, which, even by local criminality, are recognized as non-negotiable.
For the "unexpected" arrest of Guzman, many in Sinaloa were ready - they prepared shelters in the mountains in advance or left the country. In another month, military equipment began to be transferred to the state, and American aircraft of the Drug Enforcement Administration patrolled the sky. A few hours before the capture of Guzman, the commander-in-chief of the 9th military zone of the Secretariat of National Defense in Sinaloa was replaced - and this essentially happened in the dead of night.
Cartel members continue to resist, though they retreat, burning civilian vehicles and seizing hospitals with doctors. It is known that American specialists are taking part in the special operation in Kulyakan.
Outbreaks of violence were recorded in the states of Sinaloa, Sonora and Nayarit - roads were blocked, shootouts did not subside, airports were stopped and mass events were canceled.
To a greater extent, the public is shocked that the cartels took part in the air battle on a par with the Mexican troops. At the same time, the fact that the bandits had helicopters and planes at their disposal is not surprising, if we recall that in some states entire units leave the army for cartels - and take with them everything they can. Some even go to the army to get the necessary training there to serve on narcos.
It is noteworthy that chaos in Mexico erupted against the backdrop of preparations for the Summit of North American countries (where US President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are to attend). In addition, just a few hours after the start of the special operation, former US President Donald Trump published a video message about the need to use the US armed forces in the fight against drug cartels.
2021: Number of prisoners - 215,232
2019: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 12
2018
Murders of journalists
The number of prisoners per 100 thousand citizens
1920
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