To face the CJNG, "El Marro" combines with Grupo Sombra: one of the most bloodthirsty criminal cells

The discovery of the body of a woman in Irapuato in recent days has revealed the alliance that the criminal cell Grupo Sombra has with "El Marro", head of the Santa Rosa cartel of Lima, whose criminal activities are mainly fuel theft, the so-called "Huachicol".

On May 9, at the Libramiento Norte of the municipality of Irapuato, Guanajuato, The body of a decapitated woman was found, her head was located under the bridge of Malvas and the rest of the body several kilometers away, at the entrance of a community called "El Carrizalito".

The events were recorded at exactly four o'clock and provoked the mobilization of security and relief organizations. The unit specializing in homicides from the prosecutor's office opened an investigation file to clarify the facts.

In addition to the body, the authorities also found a cardboard box where it could be read: "We already have bading hawks and sellers of white jale, we go with everything. Att Grupo Sombra ".

With the narcomensaje this criminal group claimed the murder of the woman who was beheaded, but what most attracted the attention of the security forces, it's the postscript that appeared after the signing from this criminal cell.

"At the command for the desor … Mr. Marro", she was reading on the red card found on the side of the woman's body.

According to local media, They killed the victim because "halconeaba" for the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación (CJNG).

Since 2017, Guanajuato has plunged into a spiral of violence for the conflict that exists between the CJNG, whose leader is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka "El Mencho", and the cartel of Santa Rosa de Lima, who directs it is José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, nicknamed "El Marro".

The first clues you have of this battle for control of the region date from this year, when "El Mencho" voraciously tried to enter the territory of "El Marro", Guanajuato. What has left most profits to criminal gangs is not drug trafficking, but the theft of fuel, the "huachicol".

According to military intelligence data on "huachicol", this Illicit companies have left losses to the Mexican state for 48,000 million pesos a year, only under the administration of Enrique Peña, with a theft of 70,000 barrels a day.

In 2017, 10,363 clandestine takeovers were detected in the Country, occupying Guanajuato first place in the undercover with 1,092, followed by Puebla with 774.

Oseguera Cervantes before entering the territory of the cartel of Santa Rosa de Lima (Guanajuato), I had already done so in the states of Puebla and Veracruz, where the CJNG seized the entire penal catalog of the region, including the theft of fuel.

However, "El Marro", with its criminal structure, put an end to the Jalisco New Generation cartel's attempt to seize the area and the activity of millionaires.

With a video broadcast by the same Santa Rosa de Lima cartel on the Internet, he made it clear that the war against the CJNG was beginning.. The recording shows a group of heavily armed men firing into the sky, threatening "El Mencho" and his people.

Since this year, violence: Homicides or intentional executions, kidnappings, extortions, robberies with street violence increased by 65% ​​in the state of Guanajuato, according to official data.

The strategy of the federal government headed by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to fight fuel theft across the country but especially in Guanajuato, among other actions, was considering a plan on security.

With the operation "Golpe de Timón", elements of the Mexican army and navy constituted a security barrier, as well as searches and detentions in several state municipalities, mainly in Villagrán, with the aim of capturing "El Marro" without success.

In the early days of the operation, the inhabitants of the original community of Yepez Ortiz and for which the cartel bears the name of Santa Rosa de Lima; they blocked the main access roads to prevent the entrance of security forces. We would then know that this was the way to operate this criminal structure dedicated exclusively to fuel theft.

The operation "Golpe de Timón" did not succeed, The arrest of the main leader Huachico has not been carried out, but arrests and seizures of property and vehicles have been made.

However,the battles for the control of the place between the cartels of "El Mencho" and "El Marrro" did not stopeven with the security forces stationed in the area and with an operation to locate the chief of the "huachicol".

One of the bloodiest attacks occurred in March, a few days after the implementation of the operation. The attack of a bar of the municipality of Salamanca made at least 15 dead and several wounded, According to local authorities reports.

Members of the Jalisco New Generation cartel are responsible for the attack at the bar of La Playa against alleged members of the cartel of Santa Rosa de Lima, directed by José Antonio Yépez "El Marro".

Guanajuato is the state that has recorded the highest number of homicides in the first quarter of 2019, making it the most violent entity in the country, with 727 intentional homicides, according to the executive secretariat of the national system of public security.

Until now, it was not known that the criminal cells were allied to the cartel of Santa Rosa de Lima., the recent execution of the woman who worked as a "hawk" for "El Mencho" and the message found next to the decapitated body of the deceased, they would confirm that Grupo Sombra, one of the most bloodthirsty of Mexico, is allied with "El Marro" to face the Jalisco Cartel Nueva Generación, that he was taking advantage of federal operations against Yepez Ortiz to take control of the place.

The Grupo Sombra in 2018 starred in one of the most violent scenes related to drug trafficking. In a video that circulated on social networks, they recorded the decapitation of "Comandanta Paty" , whom they identified as responsible for the planning of the kidnappings in different municipalities of Veracruz for the cartel Los Zetas.