Thus began the conflict between Los Zetas and the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) in Veracruz.

Friday night, several hooded men burst into a hall of the municipality of Minatitlan. There was food, drinks, and a group of women danced on the dance floor when they were hooded. "they came in pulling against all"The balance was 14 dead.

"Those who squatted were asked to turn around to see and the dead were shot again, they told you to watch them, you did it and they shoutedIt was something horrible, horrible. Never in my life have I seen so much hatred, so much evil in the hearts of men, that God forgives them, but that the justice of the man does his job, "said one of the witnesses of the mbadacre. as one of the worst we remember in Veracruz.

Jorge Winckler, chief of the Attorney General's office, said that it was perhaps a revenge between two criminal groups for the sale of drugs (cells of Los Zetas and the new generation of Jalisco cartel).

In January 2019, with only a month and a half in power, the governor Cuitláhuac García Jiménez He used the National Guard forums to expose the current situation in Veracruz.

"The reality is that we are a drug trafficking area and we do not have the operational capacity to fight drug trafficking.", admitted in open court in the legislative palace of San Lázaro.

García Jiménez also took the opportunity to say that there are six drug cartels "active" in the territory of Veracruz.

Although he did not name them by name, he was referring tol New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG), Los Zetas, New Zeta Blood Group, Grupo Sombra, Northeast of the cartel and cartel of the century.

These acts of vandalism alarmed the population during the four days that lasted. As the CJNG explained in blankets that seemed suspended throughout the state, the motive was the alleged extrajudicial execution of three of its members in Misantla and the confiscation of two of its properties in Veracruz.

This operation was led by SSP leader Hugo Gutiérrez and the director general of the Civil Force (CF), Jorge Luis Pescador Tirado.
However, with these actions, they eventually ignite the criminal organization and in the following days police commanders from Tierra Blanca and Jaltipan were attacked.

The covers hung by CJNG members had written a direct warning: "Get well, because we are going to die a lot".
In 140 days of government of Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, there have been more than 700 intentional killings, according to official figures of the Attorney General's office. An average of nearly 5 murders a day.

In the crime statistics alone from April 1 to 7, in Veracruz, there were 43 homicides, seven kidnappings, 112 vehicle thefts, 142 armed robberies, among other crimes.

The war between the CJNG and the Zetas in Veracruz

The Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) cartel began to sprout in 2010 as a result of a series of deaths, captures and struggles with older cartels; mainly that of Sinaloa and the Millennium Cartel.

After the consolidation as a new criminal organization, One of the first missions imposed by the cartel was to fight Los Zetas in the state of Veracruz, a territory that they had dominated for a long time.

He did it through the creation of The matazetas, which several experts describe as an equivalent of the CJNG or a special cell of the organization.

This group claimed responsibility for the mbadacre of 35 people in Veracruz in 2011, and a month later, the authorities discovered the bodies of 30 other alleged victims of Los Matazetas.

From that moment on, a series of conflicts between the two organizations has erupted and is still going on today. Both seek to seize ports in the Mexican Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico; key in the production of synthetic drugs.

According to the authorities' reports, the CJNG currently controls approximately 212 municipalities in the territory of Veracruz (about 70 percent), while the rest of the Zetas control some southern areas of the entity and the mountainous region.