"El Mayo" Zambada warned against narcotics in Mexico and the return of the old school

Last weekend in the municipality of Coatzacoalcos, in the state of Veracruz, several narcomantas were signed by one of the most emblematic leaders of the Sinaloa cartel: Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada.

The blankets were found in different places in Coatzacoalcos, one of the municipalities that have recently been theater clashes between elements of the Civil Force and alleged members of Jalisco Cartel Nueva GeneraciónThe blockade and skirmishes continued for several days, leaving one element of the security forces killed and five other members of the criminal group as a basic element.

According to local media,The messages announced the return of Sinaloa's cartel to Veracruz and, with them, the "old school" of Mexican drug trafficking.

"Cleanliness begins in the country where we come with all the support of the federal government makes the new school welcome to dialogue all Atte: Mayo Zambada, "says one of the narcomannas.

Besides the warning in the messages that he reads, "or align or align", an obvious threat to CJNG members.

The appearance of these messages supposedly signed by "El Mayo" Zambada, are not the only ones to have appeared on the Mexican territory. On 20 February, members of the Sinaloa cartel hung a blanket with a message identical to that of Veracruz in Hermosillo, capital of the State of Sonora.

He also played with undertake a "cleansing" of criminals in the region and badumes that, to this end, it benefits from "all" support from the federal government.

In the same way, in the message, they spoke of "the old school". Over the last decades, the big cartels have undergone a reorganization of their structure, either by the capture or the death of the leaders, or by internal power struggles, at the origin of rivalries and betrayals.

In addition to Veracruz and Sonora, the Sinaloa cartel communiques signed by "El Mayo" have also appeared in Michoacán, Jalisco, Guadalajara, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and State of Mexico in the last weeks.

Ismael "El Mayo Zambada", from Culiacán, He is considered the last "big" Mexican narco of the cartel of Sinaloathat, unlike Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán "(who has been captured three times, has fled twice and is currently serving a sentence in the United States); Zambada has never been captured by the authorities, A few years ago, he gave an interview to the famous Mexican journalist Julio Scherer.

His low profile is what helped him stay isolated from all the media conflicts and that the authorities can not find him.

On the contrary, the narcojuniors publish in their social media accounts the excesses and luxuries of their criminal life, thus attracting the attention of his enemies and the authorities.

Drug Traffickers Explain Criminal Groups in Latin America they follow a tendency to fragmentation, unlike the "old school" drug traffickers, where it was a centralized and vertical cartel, with a leader at the helm.

With a greater dispersion of its structures, drug leaders lose the ability to control the company from the origin of the drug to the final distribution, just like Pablo Escobar with the cartel of Medellín or Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in the cartel of Sinaloa.

This trend towards the fragmentation of criminal enterprises is due in part to the pressure exerted by governments, which have more and more information and technological resources to pursue them. but also to the internal divisions in the big cartels and the changes that the drug market has undergone.

The advanced synthetic drugs has changed the businessSteven Dudley, Co-Director of the Insight Crime Organized Crime Research Group, wrote in Foreign Affairs.

"The Mexican cartels were built for drug trafficking like cocaine and heroin. These drugs, whose production requires intensive labor and are more cost-effective in the case of large-scale trafficking, tend to favor the emergence of large centralized criminal groups that can coordinate large transnational production networks. and distribution "Said Dudley.

Unlike synthetic drugs, their production is inexpensive from chemical precursors and they are sufficiently profitable, even when they are produced on a small scale. giving way to small criminal groups that operate regionally, but no less bloody. On the contrary, the battles waged by the control of the territory by these small cartels have left a bloodbath in the areas where they operate.