The Mexican drug lord leading the brutal Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) was reportedly spotted in a town southern Mexico, according to a video proliferating on Mexican social media.
The original clip of the jefe was sourced to X user Vivo en Marte (@DemonioTtv) in a since-deleted post. In the video, a man is seen being escorted through a dusty tropical street by heavily armed gunman.
“Sicarios from some cartel guarding a boss in a community apparently they are from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel #CJNG and are in the south of the country,” reads the caption posted by Vivo en Marte.
The video features the song “El Doble R” by banda group Los Alegres de Barronco, a song celebrating the exploits of CJNG lord Ricardo Ruiz “Doble R” Velasco with lines such as “with my rocket launcher, I minimize a fifty-something.”
However, it is not Velasco who is reported to be the subject of the video, but none other than the CJNG’s grand boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, more commonly called by his nickname “El Mencho,” the single most wanted individual in the United Mexican States. The man in the video was identified as Cervantes by Mexican outlet Blog de Narco Mexico, following a since-deleted post by InfoPortal News.
Comenzó a circular este video donde algunos medios hacen creer que se trata de Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes El Mencho, líder del CJNG y su anillo de seguridad, la información es completamente FALSA, se trata de la grabación de una serie/película, del lado izquierdo incluso se… pic.twitter.com/2662a1pKcd
— Blog del Narco México (@blogdelnarcomex) April 28, 2024
“The most wanted drug trafficker in Mexico moves calmly through areas of Mexico with more than 30 armed men. This is the security ring with CJNG men taking care of their Top Boss,” InfoPortal wrote on X.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel emerged in the early 2010s and quickly became one of the most powerful and violent criminal organizations in Mexico. Originating from the state of Jalisco, the CJNG was initially part of the Milenio Cartel, which was aligned with the Sinaloa Cartel. However, following internal disputes and the fragmentation of older cartels, the CJNG declared its independence and began a rapid expansion. Under the leadership of Cervantes, the cartel engaged in a vicious campaign to gain territory and control over drug trafficking routes, not only in Mexico but also extending into the United States and other countries.
The CJNG are now the chief rivals to the Sinaloa Cartel, and the two crime syndicates operate according to significantly different strategies, with the CJNG preferring a taxation-based—and far more brutal—approach to their unlawful enterprise.
“Being a decades-old and very successful criminal group, the Sinaloa Cartel’s self-presentation is one of buttoned-down criminals whose oppressive rule comes with predictability and some level of moderation,” writes Brookings Institute fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown. “Indeed, a key hallmark of the Sinaloa Cartel has been a rather careful calibration of violence that imposes its domination in a form to which local politicians, businesses, and people can develop predictable coping mechanisms. In contrast to CJNG, the Sinaloa Cartel keeps a lower, behind-the-scenes profile, one of ‘polite extortionists who bring in order, who are civilized criminals, who don’t just drag in violence for the sake of violence,’ as a businessman in Baja California Sur whom I interviewed phrased it.”
In contrast, the CJNG are described by Felbab-Brown as solidifying control by brazen and outrageous acts of random brutality, a quality which she attributes to the peculiar qualities of their “taxmaster” business model, in contrast to the Sinaloa Cartel’s efforts to control entire vertical supply chains.
“[T]he CJNG takeover and domination are based on brazen violence. Its modus operandi is to be more ostentatiously violent than anyone else around. Brazenness, brutality, and aggressive expansion are its signature approach at both the strategic and tactical levels, making both the takeover and the forced regular interactions with the group highly grating to both local communities and big businesses. While my interlocutors described the Sinaloa Cartel extortion fee collectors as ‘buttoned-down criminals’ and ‘polite extortionists’ with whom it wasn’t ‘so bad and scary to deal with,’ the CJNG operatives were described as ‘brash, crude, frightening,’ and ‘a plague to be rid of.’
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