Sangre Nueva Zeta: the growing cartel in the administration of AMLO

At the beginning of 2019, a new criminal group took up arms under the orders of Roberto de los Santos de Jesús, alias the “Bukanas “ , a huachicolero leader of The Zetas. He used violence as a method of control and challenged Puebla’s forces on several occasions through narcomas signed as New Blood Zeta.

Collusion with local authorities and Jalisco Next Generation Cartel (CJNG), in addition to the government’s “negligence” of Andrés Manuel López Obrador were the causes of its rapid expansion, warns the writer Raymundo Riva Palacio.

The panel New Blood Zeta became strong, according to the expert, in the region known as Red triangle, which covers the municipalities of Puebla d’Acajete, Acatzingo, Palmar del Braco, Quecholac, Tecamachalco, but a report by the National Intelligence Center presented on February 1 warns that its tentacles have reached the states of Tlaxcala, Veracruz and San Luis Potosí – where he currently has a dispute with the last letter cartel.

Its founder, Roberto de los Santos de Jesús, the “Bukanas “, started to emerge as a fuel theft problem since 2012, but then-President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) performance has been lacking. Now this gang is working under the wing of CJNG, considered by the DEA to be the most dangerous and powerful criminal group in Mexico.

Last January, the criminal group was reduced after the capture of five of its members. Juan Antonio González Martínez, Beard; Jalit Cano Parra, The Mamer; Spirit of Erick Espinoza, Le Cheneque; Eduardo Pérez Martínez, El R; Yes Ruben Alcantara Mendoza, who were in possession of cocaine, hundreds of thousands of liters of fuel, jewelry, centenarians, communication devices, seven pipescocaine about twenty vehicles Yes weapons of various calibers.

According to the FGR, shares derived from a anonymous complaint received in August 2019, when they were alerted to a criminal group controlling the fuel theft, known as the huachicoleo, drug traffic, removal Yes floor fees in the region of San Martin Texmelucan, Puebla.

But it wasn’t until a year later, in October 2020, that they incorporated the test data to claim the Arrest warrants against Sangre Nueva Zeta operators and others of the same group for their alleged responsibility in crimes of organized crime and huachicoleo.

In January of this year, information from the National Guard helped locate addresses associated with the operations of this criminal organization. Therefore, a district judge granted a search warrant for 10 directions from Puebla, Tlaxcala and Campeche.

Ministerial staff from the Specialized Bureau for Organized Crime Investigation (SEIDO) as well as experts from the General Directorate of Expert Services, court orders were completed in coordination with members of the National Guard.

Thus was registered an address of Cacalomacán, Toluca de Lerdo, State of Mexico, where various were located jewels, 21 centenarians, four long guns and two short, as well as 300 cartridges and bags of cocaine, plus a desktop computer, two cars and a motorbike.

While in Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, González Martínez was arrested, Beard, who carried a handgun, a bag of cocaine, two cell phones and three boxes of gun magazines.

In the same entity, but on the federal road Chekubul-Chicbul-Escárcega, city of Chicbul, El Carmen, 17 insured vehicles, ammunition of different calibers and a magazine.

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