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The Los Rojos Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de los Rojos) is a Mexican criminal organization that emerged as a split from the Beltran-Leyva Cartel, being led at first by brothers Arturo "El Barbas" and Héctor "El Ingeniero", Alfredo "El Mochomo" and Jésus Nava Romero "El Rojo", hence the name of the group. [1]
Los Rojos is a faction of a Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel. [3] The group was formed in the late 1990s during the reign of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the cartel, to provide security to the organization's leaders as the cartel's armed wing.
The infighting between the Metros and the Rojos of the Gulf cartel began in 2010, when Mejía González was overlooked as the candidate of the regional boss of Reynosa and was sent to La Frontera Chica, an area that encompasses Miguel Alemán, Camargo and Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas – directly across the U.S.–Mexico border from Starr County ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The U.S. government deported drug lord Osiel Cardenas on Monday, transferring custody of the ex-Gulf Cartel chief known for hyper-violent tactics to Mexican authorities at ...
Gutierrez-Ochoa is the son-in-law of Nemesio Oseguera-Cervantes, 58, also known as "El Mencho," the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel, which the officials described as "one of the world ...
A federal judge, however, sentenced him to seven years and two months behind bars. On 9 July 1990, he was transferred to another prison in Mexico City, and in March 1992 he was moved to the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 (known simply as "La Palma") in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico. A year later, Esparragoza Moreno fulfilled ...
[28] and accusing President Felipe Calderón and state authorities of protecting the cartel. [29] In 2010 and 2011, it was also claimed that the state government and police protected the cartel. [29] The addition of bodies to the messages suggested that the killers were trying to attract more attention to alleged cartel-government collusion. [29]
José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, known as El Marro, The Sledgehammer [2] and The Brown, [3] is a Mexican suspected drug trafficker and huachicolero (fuel thief). Between 2017 and 2020, [3] he served as the leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL), [4] a criminal group based in Guanajuato, Mexico. [5]