Bloody narco battle for Zacatecas: El “Mencho” and “Mayo” fight for territorial control

One of the most serious problems in Mexico is the constant struggle of organized criminal groups for the territories of the state. This fight becomes even bloodier when the more established cartels begin their fight in the midst of urban areas.

Shootings have been constant in various parts of the country, executions, beheadings and other episodes of violence have even mobilized civilians in other parts of Mexico. The fifth massacre recorded in less than a week took place on the road to San Juan Capistrano Tulillo, Zacatecas.

Prior to this confrontation, Reynosa saw 19 innocent people die, Salvatierra and Fresnillo seven each, and Villa Hermosa lost six inmates murdered in a prison. All this a few weeks before the mid-term elections in Mexico, an electoral process described as “the bloodiest in history”.

What happened in Zacatecas, says journalist Héctor de Mauleón, is the result of the confrontation between the Sinaloa cartel, now led by Ismael el “Mayo” Zambada, and the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, whose chief is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias el “Mencho”.

The road where the confrontation took place is the one that climbs up to the Sierra Madre Occidental and connects the borders of Nayarit, Jalisco and Durango, a space where the inhabitants denounced the presence of “armed civilians who control the flow of vehicles, extort merchants and scare away many families, ”the communicator wrote in his El Universal column.

“This is the area that the people of ‘May’ have traditionally controlled and in which today the Sinaloa cartel is trying to prevent the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel from entering Zacatecas,” he said.

However, the presence of the “Mencho” people has been reported since 2019, when Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytán, alias el “Sapo”

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