Cartel del Noreste now controls Piedras Negras, Colombia, Nuevo Laredo and fighting for Veracruz territory

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A report released yesterday, leaked by Guacamaya Leaks after the hacking of millions of documents from the Ministry of National Defense, states that the upsurge in violence in southern Veracruz (the report is dated March 16 of 2019) is due to the fact that the governor of the state “is supporting the entry into the entity of the Northeast Cartel.” 

These are the states of  Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo, in which the criminal leaders of each area were identified, according to the document dated January 19 of this year, which is an analysis of the operation and structure of organized crime.

According to the analysis, violence could increase in the entities governed by Cuitláhuac García ( Veracruz ), Layda Sansores ( Campeche ), Rutilio Escandón ( Chiapas ), and Carlos Manuel Merino Campos ( Tabasco ).

Said report, considered “Extra-Urgent”, indicates that the Northeast Cartel is in Veracruz under the protection of “the heads of the Secretary of State Public Security, State Police and Civil Force.” 

According to the document, signed by an Army major and addressed to the commanders of the 6th, 19th, 26th, and 29th military regions, among other Sedena commanders, “the violent events that have occurred in the south of the state” were provoked by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, in response to the support that their enemies in the Northeast received from state authorities. 

The report announces a series of attacks and ambushes by the CJNG in Las Choapas, Agua Dulce, and Minatitlán, and informs that the cells of assassins deployed by the organization commanded by Nemesio Oseguera, El Mencho, were reinforced by others “from Orizaba and Nanchital”. 

The author of the report reported that each cell had tactical teams, vehicles, and 4 or 5 long weapons. 

It is a document that comes from the largest cyber attack recorded against Sedena, which had to be admitted by President López Obrador. 

The images would reveal that the meeting with El Gerry in CDMX would not have been casual or the only one. 
(Photos: Twitter/@hdemauleon)

In the report released yesterday, the Northeast Cartel appears again, one of whose financial operators —the famous Gerry— was photographed next to the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal (morena party), and the senator for Zacatecas José Narro Céspedes (morena party), the afternoon in that two sailors commissioned as bodyguards for the legislator was last seen. 

And it is worth remembering that El Gerry has not only appeared in photographs with Añorve, René Bejarano or Leticia Quezada, since some images had previously been released in which he was meeting with Senator José Narro Céspedes and Américo Villarreal .

For at least four years, the south of Veracruz has been at the center of a criminal war in which the Jalisco Cartel, the Northeast Cartel, the Zetas Vieja Escuela, and organizations such as Cárteles Unidos and Jarochos Unidos participate.

The reports of kidnappings, shootings, persecutions, executions, beheadings, riddled with bullets, charges for flats, and caravans of armed men have caused the south of Veracruz to be considered by business organizations as a “lawless town”, “on the verge of collapse”; and they have placed Las Choapas – where the CJNG announced, according to the report, the intensification of its attacks – among the five most violent municipalities in the state. 

Since 2018, in many southern regions, the inhabitants themselves have imposed “curfews”. Many others formed self-defense groups, with at least 200 armed men, to try to stop the increase in violence and, above all, in impunity. 

At the beginning of last year, a family of self-defense groups, the one led by Teódulo Gorostieta, was “kidnapped” and murdered: 12 of its members were found, tied hand and foot, and abandoned on a dirt road, in the vicinity of the Cerro del Ejido. Nanchital. 
Although the federal government denies it, the Northeast Cartel is one of the criminal groups that has registered the greatest expansion. 

It emerged only in 2015, after the arrest of the satanic Omar Treviño Morales, head of the Zetas (better known as Z-42) and one of the most wanted drug lords by the DEA

After the fall of Treviño, the Zetas split in two. One group formed the organization Zetas Vieja Escuela. Another one was grouped around a nephew of the Z-42: Juan Francisco “Kiko” Treviño. 

“Kiko” Treviño was apprehended by the DEA in 2016 in the city of Houston. The command remained in the hands of the bloodthirsty Juan Gerardo Treviño, known as El Huevo, who created a violent armed wing known as La Tropa del Infierno. 

This is the group that subjugated and plunged the inhabitants of Tamaulipas and Nuevo León into horror, and that soon managed to extend their criminal activities to Coahuila, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Tabasco, and even Morelos. 

It has been considered, with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel, as the third largest criminal organization operating in Mexico. Its major expansion occurred under the leadership of El Huevo Treviño. 

This capo was apprehended by Sedena in March 2022. 

He was the leader of the Northeast Cartel at the time that the report released yesterday informed that the governor of Veracruz had opened the doors of the state to this criminal group. 

Protection Renegotiations

Tamaulipas has historically had criminal enclaves due to its strategic position on the Texas border.

For several years there have been power relations and informal agreements between criminal actors and local elites. An example of this is former Governor Tomás Yarrington (1999-2005) who is imprisoned in the United States for collaboration with Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. Francisco Cabeza de Vaca, who ends his administration as governor this year,  has also been linked to the Gulf Cartel.

“The involvement of various law enforcement officers in criminal acts in Tamaulipas indicates that there has always been a certain type of protection for organized crime,  ”  Guadalupe Correa, a professor at George Mason University in Virginia, told InSight Crime in June last year .

With the entry of a new morena government in Tamaulipas in October, the CDN is likely to seek negotiations and protection agreements in the coming months. 

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