Drug trafficking in Mexico: Which cartels are fighting for control of the country?

Al menos 8 grupos criminales se reparten el control de México.

In 48 days of the dispute between La Mayiza and La Chapiza, there are about 300 people killed in Sinaloa, as well as a similar number of missing people.

Among the dead are 19 people killed by the Army, an action in which Edwin Antonio Rubio, El Max, operator of the Mayo Zambada, was also arrested. The case is under investigation for possible violation of human rights.

Meanwhile in the state of Guanajuato, another open front of violence, the dispute is between the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) cartels, the main generators of violence in municipalities such as Celaya, Irapuato, Acámbaro and Jerécuaro.

In these last two municipalities, last Thursday, two car bombs were detonated, in attacks directed at municipal police, events considered by the mayor of Acámbaro herself, Claudia Silva Campos, as “narcoterrorism.”

The car bomb explosion also caused severe material damage to the Public Security building, four nearby homes and seven private vehicles, the Public Security Department of that municipality reported.

A more open front is in Guerrero, which is governed by Morena member Evelyn Salgado, daughter of Senator Félix Salgado Macedonio. There, local groups are fighting for territory.

On October 6, Alejandro Arcos Catalán, who had been mayor of Chilpancingo, the state capital, was decapitated, and last Thursday, in Técpan de Galeana, the Guerrero Nueva Generación (GNG) and Los Granados cartels clashed.

There were also clashes with the Army. The result was 19 people dead and 15 arrested, including people from Guatemala and El Salvador, recruited by Mexican cartels.

According to news reports, the GNG is an alliance of the CJNG with local groups that seek to seize the hegemony that Salvador Granados Vargas or El señor de los mangos has on the Costa Grande.

The Granados also maintain hegemony and operations within other municipalities such as Atoyac de Álvarez and Coyuca de Benítez, after repelling their antagonistic group, Los Rodríguez.

The Los Granados group is accused of the murder of at least 13 elements of the Public Security Secretariat of Coyuca de Benítez, on October 23 of last year.

Meanwhile, in Tamaulipas, governed by the Morena member Américo Villarreal, the confrontation is maintained by the cartels of the Northeast and the various factions of the Gulf Cartel.

Meanwhile, in Tabasco, which is governed by another politician, Javier May, the CJNG and the Cartel of the Northeast are fighting; while Chiapas, led by Morena member Rutilio Escandón, is immersed in a spiral of violence due to the dispute between the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel.

Source: elfnanciero