Aliven “N,” a leader of La Familia Michoacana, was murdered on March 6 near Plaza Cuernavaca in the capital of Morelos, where he had gone to purchase an armored vehicle.
From a gray Toyota Yaris, a man with a long-range weapon with a silencer fired 26 shots at him. Aliven was traveling in a Mercedes Benz with Level 3 armor, but the attacker grouped the shots and managed to enter through the passenger window.
Journalist Héctor de Mauleón discusses the incident in his column “En Tercer Persona” (Third Person) this Thursday, titled “La batalla por Morelos” (The Battle for Morelos).
In it, he stated that in the following weeks, new attacks against members of La Familia Michoacana were reported. On June 2, for example, in Burgos, an exclusive neighborhood in Temixco, Luis Pioneda, known as “El Wicho,” another leader of that criminal group, was hit by a silver Toyota Yaris.
According to the investigation, the journalist explains in his column, El Wicho was negotiating the purchase of a Corvette, for which he would exchange a Beetle and a Golf GPI. The man with whom he made the transaction, who apparently had no connection to the armed attack, also died at the scene.
The windshield of the Beetle in which El Wicho’s body was found had seven bullet holes.
According to surveillance cameras, the attackers’ car traveled through the Vista Hermosa, Delicias, Reforma, and Lomas de Cortés neighborhoods.
Two days later, after a chase along Cuauhnáhuac Boulevard, a man identified as Neftalí N. was executed. Prosecutor Edgar Maldonado said that this homicide could be related to El Wicho’s execution. “There is mention of a previous precedent. It could be related to driving a vehicle, potentially linking it to an incident that occurred last week in the Burgos neighborhood,” the prosecutor said.
Miguel Ángel Urrutia, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection, said that a Toyota Yaris with similar characteristics to the one used in the events of March 6 and June 2 had been located in the Las Delicias neighborhood, and in the car were two individuals, one nicknamed El Sinaloa and the other El Chupón, linked to the criminal group known as Los Mayas or Los de Siempre, led by Abel Maya Domínguez.
“A former lieutenant of Arturo Beltrán Leyva, Abel Maya managed to impose himself through violence over criminal groups such as Los Rojos, or the one led by Francisco Javier Rodríguez Hernández, nicknamed El Colombiano, El XL, or El Señorón,” De Mauleón explains in his column.
“For fifteen years, he has extended his group’s influence to the Cuernavaca metropolitan area and municipalities such as Huitzilac and Jiutepec. He is one of the main perpetrators of the massacres, of the wave of violence that Morelos has yet to shake off,” the journalist writes.
He is associated with various crimes, such as drug dealing, extortion, kidnapping, extortion, illegal logging, vehicle theft, and land theft.
Abel Maya’s group fractured at the beginning of this decade. One of his accomplices, known as El Negro Valdovinos, allied himself with La Familia Michoacana four years ago.
The executions in the metropolitan area and its surroundings are a result of the clashes between these groups. The war between Mayas and La Familia Michoacana has also focused on Huitzilac, where successive homicides have taken place in recent years.
In recent days, the Morelos Security Secretariat dismantled a gang dedicated to stealing high-end cars, motorcycles, and SUVs operating in Cuernavaca, Jiutepec, Temixco, Tepoztlán, and Emiliano Zapata. On May 20, Yael Ricardo N and five other individuals were arrested for possessing a high-tech scanner that cloned Honda car and SUV keys. They also possessed a GPS jammer.
Source: infobae
