Mexico: Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel murdered and mutilated 19 people

Until now, the Michoacán Forensic Service keeps the 19 bodies under its guard –six of them dismembered– because they have not been identified yet.

According to the prosecutor's office, a blanket was in one of the places where the CJNG had baderted the multiple crime and had threatened the self-proclaimed criminal group. Viagras, armed arm of the poster The new Michoacan family.

The agency said the two cartels were seeking to control illegal operations in Michoacan and in the border areas of Guanajuato, Jalisco, Mexico City, Colima and Queretaro.

"There is a fight between the cells claiming membership, or some criminal gangs, and the territory is disputed to control the activities related to the production, distribution and consumption of drugs," said the prosecutor of Michoacán yesterday evening, Adrián López.

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CJNG and Nueva Familia Michoacana seek to occupy the place left by the cartel The Templar Knights which was dismantled, but not before its extinction, by the Commission for Security and Development of Michoacán which installed in 2014 the then president's government Enrique Peña Nieto.

The governor of Michoacán, Silvano AureolesHe announced that his government would work in coordination with the national government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador to attack the drug gangs operating in that state.

The US Drug Agency (DEA) recently revealed that El Mencho, considered the most powerful drug trafficker after the fall of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, it hides in the mountains of the states of Michoacán, Jalisco and Colima.

Last June, López Obrador ordered the deployment in Michoacán of hundreds of agents of the newly formed National Guard, with the aim of containing the wave of violence that dates back more than ten years in this region.

Mexico experiences a wave of violence in most high and low impact crimes. During the first half of the year, 17,138 intentional homicides were recorded, which represents an average of 95.2 daily murders and 7.2% more than the statistics for the first half of 2018, where 15,973 cases had been reported.