Peace in Yucatan always felt like a glass dome, a beautiful but fragile structure that separated the safest state of Mexico from the whirlwind of violence that consumed the rest of the country. However, on January 5, 2026, that glass didn’t just shatter; it leaped into a thousand pieces under the bang of bursts of fire on Dzilam González.
Behind this outbreak of violence, there were not only hitmen on motorcycles, but a hierarchical structure headed by a female figure that defied traditional stereotypes of drug trafficking: Gabriela Alejandra, known in the hampa as “La Patrona”.
His recent capture on the streets of Merida has revealed a truth that the authorities tried to shade, but that reality has imposed blood: the Caborca Cartel has taken root in the land of Mayab.
The Landing of the Caborca Structure
Gabriela Alejandra, a woman of only 29 years old, originally from Quintana Roo, did not arrive in Yucatan as a tourist yet seeking the tranquility of its colonial houses or the coolness of its cenotes. He came in with a tactical mission.
As the wife of Valerio, a.k.a. “The Monkey” — who serves as the head of the square of the Caborca Cartel in Chetumal — Gabriela was neither a decorative figure nor a passive companion.
Intelligence investigations by the Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) and the State Prosecutor General’s Office (FGE) position it as a high-ranking operator, a strategist that takes advantage of the porosity of the Quintana Roo border and Yucatan to expand the tentacles of the organization led by the relatives of Rafael Caro Quintero.
The Caborca Cartel has been in the process of expanding aggressively towards the southeast. As the world watched the battles in the Sonora Desert, criminal cells quietly moved to the peninsula, seeking new routes of detention and, above all, shelter. Yucatan, with its enviable homicide rate of just 1.03 per 100,000 inhabitants registered in 2025, will become the perfect hideout.
But the shelter soon became a center of operations, and the “Yucatec peace” became the ideal camouflage for leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG), and even factions of the Mara Salvatrucha Barrio 18.
Source: Historias Anónimas
