The doors of a Zapopan clinic were crossed by armed civilians who identified themselves as members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG); as soon as they entered, they took one of the doctors, whom they accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl – allegedly a relative of a plaza boss. It was July 2013, the origins of the criminal group led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho) who has since launched several narco-banners threatening to “cleanse” entire communities of kidnappers, rapists and thieves.
To date, there is no news of the doctor “kidnapped” by the CJNG, so it is presumed that she was murdered and possibly buried in one of the clandestine graves that prevail throughout the state of Jalisco.
Official data indicate that between December 1, 2018 and April 30, 2023, 176 clandestine graves have been found in Jalisco; regarding the number of missing persons, the National Search Commission places the state as number one in terms of complaints, with a total of 14,954 of the 116,641 filed nationwide.
According to a study carried out by journalists and activists in Jalisco, the violence in which the entire population of the state lives today is closely related to the consolidation of the CJNG as a dominant criminal network, who has also taken into its hands the “cleanse” of alleged criminals.
“The CJNG often claims to have posted messages in public spaces in which rapists, among other aggressors, are repudiated and threaten to do a ‘cleanse’ of them. Sometimes, these messages are accompanied by people allegedly murdered for such reasons.”
Police and CJNG ‘pick up’ sexual predators
In 2022, the lifeless body of an alleged sexual predator who had been arrested by the Municipal Police of Poncitlán in July 2020 was found; the charges against him were for having sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl. The officers arrested him and – according to the official version – released him a day later; however, his relatives reported him missing: the agony that lasted two years.
At the end of 2021, a commando with long weapons and their faces covered entered a home in Zapopan; they beat and ‘picked up’ a subject for having allegedly touched a minor: to date, his whereabouts are unknown.
The report points out an “undetermined number” of similar cases, the context of which is accusations of sexual assault against minors.
“We do not know how many there are because the reason is not always clarified in the search reports and because there are around 7 thousand reports of missing persons that are confidential, that is, they have not been translated into search cells.
Among the conclusions reached by the investigators, they point out the participation of municipal police elements in at least two cases, the presence of direct relatives of the victims and elements of the CJNG.
Of the six cases analyzed, they highlight the possible participation of the CJNG in four of them, in various degrees and modalities and in regions where this criminal group has total control; in addition – they point out – “we must not rule out the possibility of payment for the service provided by individuals who do not participate in criminal networks, but do have the social capital necessary to activate them in their favor.”
“The ‘cleansing’ of transgressors in the territories controlled by (CJNG), is probably more of a rhetorical and propagandistic strategy.”
Of the six kidnapped victims, only one was located (dead) and one more confessed to being murdered; in two of the cases, it was said that the alleged sexual predators would be placed at the disposal of the authorities, from whose hands they disappeared; all the cases coincide with the time of the action and in the territories under the control of the CJNG.
Source: infobae
