Who are behind the independent cartel of Acapulco, who declared war on "Mencho" and the CJNG in Guerrero

The messages, supposedly signed by the CJNG, were addressed to "The Virus" Ulises Laredo Guerrero (He is about 25 years old) and his brother Gustavo "The Virus 2", as well as Fredy Santos aka "La Popis", who, along with Alexis Bustos (Zapata and Simon colonies manager), Sergio Navarrete "El Cheyo", Felipe Dominguez , Roberto Arellano and Carlos Ruiz would be the perpetrators of violence in the tourist area.

Ulises Laredo would be responsible for directing criminal operations between kidnappings, extortion of businessmen and traders and drug sales in the region, aothers would receive orders from José Ángel Palacios Galeana "El Capuchino" or "El Culón", accused of being the leader of the independent cartel of Acapulco (ACDI).

CIDA would take place at least eight years after the collapse of Beltrán Leyva cartel who controlled the area. According to some information, it is in 2012 that it would have been constituted by José Alberto Quiroz Pérez, as well as by José Leopoldo Buendía Domínguez "El Chilango" and by Javier Muñoz "El Cholo", being an extension of the depressed poster of "Los Negros", and whileAt first, they were funded by "Los Zetas"very quickly, they became independent and declared themselves autonomous.

In 2011, the witness "Némesis" (nickname given by the PGR to José Jorge Balderas Garza "El JJ") stated that after the arrest of Capo Edgar Valdez Villarreal "The Barbie", The same month, the structure that he left in the hands of his father-in-law, Carlos Montemayor "El Charro" was fractured, the Acapulco operators having decided not to badume command, they formed the, reported at this time Process.

The CIDA, added the witness, took control of "all the crime" in Acapulco and the main operators were Benjamín Flores Reyes "El Padrino" and Moisés Montero Álvarez "El Koreano", both arrested by the police March 1st. and August 1, 2011, respectively.

Víctor Aguirre Garzón also operated, appointed as nephew of the former governor Ángel Aguirre and arrested in March 2015, as well as Carlos Antonio Barragán Hernández "El Melón".

Since 2010, a record of banners mentioning Ulises Guerrero and his alleged involvement in killings and extortions. taxi drivers and merchants, even "The virus" was arrested by the police with Francisco Javier Arzeta Romero and Luis Antonio Salas in february 2015in response to the complaint lodged by a teacher, who was required to pay a monthly fee, initially of two thousand pesos, which then reached 30,000 pesos, but he went free.

In July 2018, an alleged armed group reportedly placed several narcomannas in the port of Acapulco, announcing that a criminal alliance had displaced the state government. and badumed control of security in the entity's main tourist destination to move a faction of the Acapulco Independent Cartel.

According to official information, at least 30 covers placed at different places in the port of Acapulco have been discovered as follows: Renaissance City, Pie de la Cuesta, the zocalo and the entire tourist band.

They use minors to recover their victims

A series of accounts of extortion victims have shown that children were recruited and used to collect fees.they were under surveillance at all times and if they were arrested they could not be charged with a crime because they were minors.

Even last year, the situation was alarming when a video showing two children kidnapping and beheading two girls was broadcast, one of them pretending to use a gun and showing the heads of girls.

Local authorities under investigation for possible collusion

In July 2018, two alleged CIDA operators were arrested, triggering a wave of violence and allegations of alleged links between PRI Governor Héctor Astudillo Flores. and the Chief of Police of the Attorney General's Office (FGE), Esteban Maldonado Palacios, with the narco.

State agents conducted an operation in the western area of ​​Acapulco and arrested two young people, Bani El Samuel, 20, and Luis Fernando "El Chilango", out of 21, when they were traveling in a compact car in the Gran Vía Tropical street of the Las Playas subdivision, near the seaside resort of Caleta, with about fifty doses of cocaine and crystals on board, according to the police.

"Governor Hector Astudillo will allow your state police chief from Esteban Maldonado to release Samuel, a hitman and collect the fees under the command of El Capuchino, as we know he makes sure that everything be released to all the misfortunes that his compadre 'El Capuchino & # 39; manages. Atte. Citizenship, "warned a message left in this month.

Six people were killed in the port of Acapulco at the time, while the body of a dismembered man was also found in the capital. next to a map where death threats were made against officials of the public ministry of the EGF.

Subsequently, in September 2018, an investigation was conducted on the Acapulco Municipal Ranch, from which the execution in two orders of apprehension of high commandments, general supervisor of the municipal police and responsible for transport, the latter for the crime of homicide qualifiedRoberto Álvarez Heredia, spokesman for the security coordination group in Guerrero, said.