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Herminio Gómez Ancira, better known as El Indio, former police director of Villa Purificación, testified on the fourth day of the trial against Rubén Oseguera González, alias El Menchito, son of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho.
According to information from journalist Ángel Hernández of Milenio, on this occasion El Indio narrated how he himself gave three million dollars to the former PRI governor of Jalisco, Aristóteles Sandoval, to finance his government campaign in 2012. According to the witness, this financial support was delivered under the direct orders of El Mencho.
During his testimony, Gómez Ancira detailed that the delivery of the money took place in the town of Barra de Navidad, located on the coast of Jalisco, and that the money came from the highest levels of the cartel. The money, according to him, was for the campaigns and the agreements he needed to make.
Gómez Ancira also confessed that Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was personally in charge of ensuring the protection of his illegal operations by financing the campaigns of both municipal presidents and governors.
Aristóteles Sandoval won the election on July 1, 2012, with the support of the coalition formed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) called Commitment for Jalisco, after a close race with the emecista Enrique Alfaro.
The CJNG operated with impunity in the mountainous region of Jalisco, Gómez Ancira assured during his testimony. In fact, according to his statements, the creation of the state’s Unique Force was a strategy by Sandoval to provide security for the cartel’s operations. According to the governor, the Jalisco State Single Force united elements of the state and municipal police forces, to supposedly combat organized crime.
El Indio also detailed that financial support for political campaigns was not limited to the state level, but extended to municipal presidents.
On the eve, El Indio revealed that the leader of the four-letter cartel offered him protection and strategic advantages, thus allowing him to dominate the region and establish methamphetamine laboratories.
Gómez Ancira described how, under the command of the CJNG, he helped transport large quantities of drugs. He recounted specific episodes in which El Menchito participated in drug trafficking, as well as his attempt to diversify the cartel’s activities towards fentanyl, despite his father’s opposition. In addition, he provided details about the violence exercised by El Menchito, including the execution of at least six people.
Rubén Oseguera González, son of El Mencho, faces charges of cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking, as well as possession of firearms.
This trial not only brings Rubén Oseguera face to face with justice, but also unravels a network of corruption and complicity that has allowed the CJNG to operate with alarming freedom in Mexico.
What happened to Aristóteles Sandoval?
In the early hours of December 18, 2020, Mexico woke up to the news of the murder of Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, former governor of Jalisco. The crime occurred at the Distrito 5 restaurant-bar in Puerto Vallarta.
The attack occurred around 1:40 a.m. when Sandoval, who was in the establishment with two men and a woman, went to the bathroom. It was then that he was intercepted by Carlos Andrés Rivera Varela, alias “La Firma,” an alleged member of the CJNG who shot him in the back of the neck. Sandoval was pronounced dead about an hour after the attack.
Source: infobae
