Sonora.— The northwest of Sonora, one foot from the border with the United States, is one of the most violent areas of the entity due to the dispute between the “Caborca Cartel”, of the recently arrested Rafael Caro Quintero, once morest the “Sinaloa Cartel”. “.
This region is almost on a par in murders than the south of Sonora, where Guaymas or Empalme are, or the center, where the capital Hermosillo is, and is only below the crimes that Cajeme (Ciudad Obregón) has registered.
Above all, San Luis Río Colorado and Caborca, both with a piece of territory that connects with Arizona (United States), are among the main municipalities that have accumulated the most inquiries for intentional homicides, from January to May, according to official figures:
1. Cajeme (Ciudad Obregon): 202
2. San Luis Rio Colorado: 72
3. Caborca: 69
5. Hermosillo: 59
6. Guaymas: 55
7. Splice: 38
However, they are also considered dangerous areas due to their proximity to the small cities of Pitiquito, Altar or Puerto Peñasco, all immersed in the Sonoran desert area.
Caborca Cartel vs. “Chapitos”
Since 2019, the dispute between this new criminal group and the Sinaloa Cartel, the latter with its armed wing “Los Salazar”, who receive orders from “Los Chapitos”, Iván Archivaldo and Jesús Alfredo, sons of the already detained Joaquín “El Chapo”. ” Guzmán, has been more visible because of the shootings, narcomantas and murders.
Likewise, the Sinaloa Cartel leads a group that has walked around shouting the name: “Los Cazadores!”
On the side of the “Caborca Cartel” it is ensured that in addition to the detainee Caro Quintero, his nephews are also in the criminal organization:
-José Gil Caro Quintero, aka “El Pelo Chino”
-Rodrigo Páez Quintero, “El R”.
The narcomantas
The names have appeared in narcomantas from 2020 and 2021, the most recent just when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited the city.
“The citizens of Magdalena, Santa Ana, Caborca and Nogales are fed up with the violence that does not stop in these municipalities, those responsible for everything are Felipe de Jesús Sosa Canisales “El Gigio”, Leonardo López “El 20”, Ramón Quintero Páez, “El Tiko”, José Gil Caro Quintero, Rafael Caro Quintero and Rodrigo Páez Quintero”, was secured on a canvas deployed in July 2021.
“The people of the coast are informed, we are people from Caro Quintero, this square belonged to us and now all those producers, merchants and miners in the region will have to pay square, we are here to clean, we are ‘La Barredora’ 24/ 7, the R Páez, Cara de Cochi and all together we are the Caborca Cartel”, was written in another from May 2020.
Recent violence:
Just this Sunday, it was reported in Caborca that a man was killed in his vehicle on Domingo Quiroz y Mora street, and also the body of a man was found behind the Cerro Prieto.
On July 15, two assassins were arrested and two others were killed in this same municipality following police officers, as well as members of the Armed Forces, were attacked with high-powered weapons, reported the state Public Security Secretariat.
That same week, a group of armed men also attacked elements of the Ministerial Criminal Investigation Agency (AMIC) in broad daylight, leaving no deaths, and on July 9, a shootout outside a church on Avenue Q, where a graduation was being held, caused terror among minors and adults.
Two days earlier, nine bodies were located by “Rastreadoras de Caborca” and authorities in two vacant lots near the roads from Caborca to Sonoyta and another to Desemboque.
In Altar, on July 2, the Armed Forces detained an alleged capo, which triggered blockades and confrontations that were recorded on video.
In May, four patrol cars were robbed by “Los Cazadores”, who boasted regarding the theft on social networks, and in Pitiquito, on April 22, armed individuals ordered backhoes to demolish houses of alleged members of an opposing group.
