2023-07-28 07:27:23
The Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and Sinaloa (CDS) cartels expanded their presence and drug trafficking networks to more than 100 countries in the world, with around 45,000 elements, revealed the director of the Administration for Drug Control ( DEA), Anne Milgram.
Testifying at a hearing before the Judicial Subcommittee on Crime and Surveillance of the federal Government of the House of Representatives, he pointed out that the Sinaloa criminal group, led by Ismael El Mayo Zambada, has an army of 26,000 members, associates, facilitators and runners in the world, while the one in Jalisco, run by Nemesio Oseguera, El Mencho, has 18,800 people and allies around the world at his disposal.
The official acknowledged that both organized crime groups have a state of force five times higher than the nine thousand elements that the DEA currently has.
He added that the CJNG has a greater presence in Mexican territory, operating in 21 of the 32 states, while the CDS is in 19 states.
“We have been able to identify not only the members of those cartels, but also the facilitators, the wholesalers, the money launderers, and also the people in our communities that are that last mile that are getting that fentanyl into the hands of an American. ”, he explained.
Milgram warned that the US government’s operational priority is to relentlessly pursue and defeat such cartels.
“As the single-mission agency charged with enforcing our nation’s drug laws, the DEA’s top operational priority is to relentlessly pursue and defeat the two Mexican drug cartels, which are primarily responsible for the current fentanyl and drugs,” he stated.
In this context, the deputy director of the DEA, George Papadopoulos, announced the presence of both criminal groups in more than 100 countries in the world.
The DEA report identified that the CDS exports and distributes wholesale quantities of drugs such as fentanyl, methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine in the US, where it has distribution centers in Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles California; Denver, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois.
Meanwhile, the group led by El Mencho has a presence on practically every continent, with the exception of Antarctica, Papadopoulos said.
He added that the illegal operations of the CJNG in the US are located in distribution centers for fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine in Los Angeles, Seattle, Charlotte, Chicago and Atlanta.
The substances are moved from various corridors along the border, mainly in cities such as Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juárez, Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo.
Anne Milgram mentioned that there is a DEA team in charge of tracking the finances of the two cartels, of which selective information is already available, not only of the main leaders. She added that she has data that they operate in 40 countries with money laundering activities.
In addition, he added, other minor groups are being tracked, such as the Northeast and Gulf Cartel, which might work with the CJNG and CDS. He added that it costs these criminal groups as little as 10 cents to produce a fentanyl-laced pill, which in the US sells for between $10 and $30 a piece.
He also reproached that they have asked Mexico, on three occasions -2011, 2014 and 2019-, to intensify their efforts to arrest the sons of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, identified with a faction within the Sinaloa Cartel, without any results so far. .
EU investiga a armeras, asegura Ken Salazar
The United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, affirmed that the Joe Biden government is investigating companies that sell arms and arrive in Mexico, most of which fall into the hands of criminal groups, and warned that they will be prosecuted if they have committed some crime.
The diplomat said that the foregoing responds to the commitment assumed with his Mexican counterpart in the bilateral meeting between the White House Security Advisor, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, and the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Alicia Bárcena.
“We know where the weapons come from, they come from many places in the US, but we also know the cities where they are sold the most, and we know that US laws apply to the licenses of the companies that sell these weapons.
“If these companies are selling weapons that they know are going to reach Mexico, we are also going to those companies and we are investigating them, and we are going to try them, it is the work that continues,” he said yesterday, at a press conference.
He recognized that in the past not enough information on arms and drug trafficking was shared between the governments of both countries, therefore, the commitment of both nations is to exchange data to effectively combat drug trafficking.
“The first thing is that we have to share more information, in the history of Mexico to the United States, very little information was shared regarding what was happening with the flow of weapons,” he declared.
Atrocities show a 39.5% rise in Colima
In the state of Colima, there was a 39.5 percent increase in atrocities in the last two months —cut to June—, which led Causa en Común to put this entity in red.
According to the Gallery of Horror of this civil organization, until the indicated cut, in the state governed by the Morenista Indira Vizcaíno, 113 atrocious acts had been registered, while in April the figure was 81.
The atrocity that showed the highest incidence was the murder of women “with extreme cruelty”, with 42 cases, a much higher figure than the number of femicides officially reported by the State Attorney General’s Office and taken up by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, which is eight.
According to the report, between April and June massacres increased 66.6 percent, because the cases went from three to five, while torture grew 57.1 percent, since attacks of this type went from 14 to 22 in the period studied.
Precisely yesterday the body of a man with visible traces of torture was found in the municipality of Villa de Álvarez, a suburb of the state capital.
From the Causa en Común report, it can be seen that the atrocity classified as mutilation, dismemberment and destruction of corpses registered a rebound of 27.7 percent, due to the fact that the cases went from 18 to 23 between April and June of this year.
In actions of this nature, the state of Colima was placed in fourth place at the national level.
Meanwhile, the murders of officials and relevant actors in security matters —among which are political leaders and elements of the forces of order— had a rebound of 12.5 percent, since the cases went from eight to nine in the period studied.
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