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The threat earlier this month was allegedly signed by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG,) one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal groups and a primary trafficker of fentanyl into the U.S ...
Security forces suspect that La Garra is one of the leading coordinators of the CJNG in the United States. [20] Based on his influence in the United States, investigators suspect that La Garra may not live in Mexico and may be residing in the United States, specifically California, where the CJNG has a major corridor through Tijuana. [1]
The Tijuana Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Tijuana, pronounced [ˈkaɾtel ðe tiˈxwana]), formerly also known as the Arellano-Félix Cartel (Spanish: Cártel Arellano Félix, CAF), is a Mexican drug cartel based in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
CJNG is considered by the Mexican government to be one of the most dangerous criminal organizations in Mexico [28] and the most powerful drug cartel in Mexico. [59] CJNG is heavily militarized and more violent than other criminal organizations. It has a special operations group for specific types of warfare. [60]
Fuerza Regida announced it was canceling an upcoming concert in Tijuana early Monday evening, hours after a handwritten banner with an alleged threat from a cartel was found in the border city.
By 2018 the CJNG was hyped as the most powerful cartel in Mexico. [223] [224] [225] though Insight Crime has said the Sinaloa Cartel is still the most powerful cartel and called the CJNG its closest rival. [226] [174] In 2019, the group was greatly weakened by infighting, arrests of senior operatives, and a war with the Sinaloa Cartel and its ...
Crime is increasing at high levels, and is repeatedly marked by violence, especially in the cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, and the states of Baja California, Durango, Sinaloa, Guerrero, Chihuahua, Michoacán, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo León. [5] Other metropolitan areas have lower, yet still serious, levels of crime.
The government took the threat seriously and reacted by tightening security in Autlán, the coastal region of Jalisco, and in the southern part of the state. The banner was supposedly signed by four suspected CJNG local leaders known by the aliases "El 24," "El 7," "Japo," and "Vaquero."