"El Cholo": ex-right hand of "El Mencho" ally of cartel Sinaloa to fight against CJNG

The Jalisco New Generation cartel is the most powerful and most aggressive criminal organization in Mexico.That's how the US Gas Control Agency (DEA) and the Mexican authorities called it last year.

In 2015, the agreement led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka "El Mencho", showed its criminal strength by shooting down with the help of a rocket launcher, a military helicopter on May 1 of this year during clashes that took place between the security forces and members of the CJNG, in the state of Jalisco and its surroundings.

Since that day, the Mexican government has implemented the so-called "Jalisco" operation to capture Oseguera Cervantes, With this operation, the Mexican state spent 7,659 million pesos to try to capture it.

In 2018, the US Treasury Department announced its offensive to stop "El Mencho"which includes a $ 10 million reward to the person providing reports leading to his capture.

But it's not just the governments of Mexico and the United States who are looking for the criminal leader, also former partners declared war on "El Mencho", according to, because of the betrayals committed by Oseguera.

The Nueva Plaza Cartel, a criminal group challenging the control of the drug market in the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara, with the CJNG; was born from the union of two of the closest men of "El Mencho" with those who, according to the versions, have betrayed and are fighting now.

One of these men is Enrique Sánchez Martínez, aka "El Cholo". Sánchez Martínez has long been the right hand man of Oseguera Cervantes, but after the badbadination of "El Colombiano", the financial operator of the Jalisco cartel, declared war on him.

With the support of the Sinaloa Cartel, "El 85" and "El Cholo", both founders of CJNG, they are at the head of the Nueva Plaza cartel and the struggle between these criminal organizations has intensified the violence in Jalisco.

The strongest faction of the cartel of Sinaloa, where Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the sons of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, would finance, even with weapons, Sánchez Martínez to go to Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit and Michoacán..

These states are the most important for drug cartels, since the ports of Manzanillo and Lázaro Cárdenas, the second highest productivity port in the Pacific Ocean, they are the gateway for Asian chemical precursors for the manufacture of synthetic drugs.

According to official information, "El Cholo" has a strong presence in Zapopan, but also has operators in Tonalá, Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and Tlaquepaque. In addition, he could gain strength in some points of Michoacán with the support of Valencia Salazar.

The location of "Cholo" is not very clearIn 2015, the Attorney General's office issued a bulletin confirming his arrest for carrying a portion of cocaine.

He deposited a bond and was released despite the fact that he had a warrant arrest for the murder of a man in 2007.

The unit reported that "El Cholo" was in the Guadalajara Pre-Trial Prison and was waiting for the judge to settle his legal situation. but a few days later, he left the prison.

The authorities' reports indicate that since 2017, Sánchez Martínez has been dedicated to people to form the CNP. Dozens of young people are at your service as hawks or drug traffickers.

According to official reports, "El Cholo" uses various pseudonyms, including Luis Emmanuel Rodríguez Cerros and Miguel Ángel Sánchez Solórzano..

The CJNG's internal war provokes a rebound of the homicides and their revenge avenged on the innocent, as it was the casee Solomon, Daniel and Marco, three film students who have been confused with hitmen from the Nueva Plaza cartel; They were killed and then dissolved in acid in March of last year.

Recently, in the municipality of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, the remains of 20 people were located inside a rainwater channel.

In 2016, eIn that same municipality, there were 123 cases of willful homicide and, for 2017, once the conflict between the NPC and the NCG started, the figure skyrocketed to 187; an increase of 65%.

In the first quarter of 2018, there were 79 cases, three times more than in 2015 when there were only 23 events. So far this year, the figure of 732 intentional homicides in the state of Jalisco.

During the first quarter of 2019, the number of intentional homicides in Mexico hit a record high with 8,493 murders.