The day "El Mencho", "El Viceroy" and "El Z42" allies against "El Chapo" in Piedras Negras

It is in June 2014 that after 8 years of initiation of the "war on drug trafficking," said former president Felipe Calderón, unleashing an unstoppable wave of violence until the end of the war. now throughout the national territory; Four leaders of Mexico's most powerful cartels, who were operating at the time, met in a narcocumbre in the municipality of Piedras Negras, in the state of Coahuila.

The meeting at Narcon Conclave 2014 Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, "El Viceroy", of the cartel of Juarez; Omar Treviño Morales, "El Z42"; the head of Los Zetas, plus another man identified as "The Z43"

The meeting was also followed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho", from the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación; the only capodas that did not attend Piedras Negras was Héctor Beltrán Leyva, "The H"; however, he was represented by his operator, Fausto Isidro Meza, "El Chapo Isidro".

The top of the drug traffickers, According to information from the intelligence services of the Mexican and United States governments, a ranch was reported to have been held in Piedras Negras.

The goal of this summit, according to reports, it was the reorganization of the territory to pacify the country, in addition to creating an alliance between cartels to create a united front in the drug trade.

In those years, these 4 criminal groups were operating in about 20 states of the republicAt present, the cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación is the criminal organization operating in 22 entities, according to the latest data provided by the DEA and the Mexican authorities.

The reconfiguration sought by criminals at the Conclave, this is because of the multiple losses recorded by its structures because of the operations implemented by the government of Enrique Peña Nieto, but mainly because of the growth of its main enemy: the cartel of Sinaloa.

Last January Alex Cifuentes, a drug trafficker who worked with Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and witnessed the trial of the Sinaloa cartel leader in a New York court, He said that former President Enrique Peña Nieto had received a $ 100-million bribe from the party leader "El Chapo".

Former President Peña Nieto was involved in a previous scandal related to drug trafficking, especially the Sinaloa Cartel.

Some photographs of Peña Nieto appearedwhen he was elected president in 2012, where he posed smiling together Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela, member of "El Chapo".

Celaya Valenzuela was arrested in Spain in 2012 and sentenced in federal court in New Hampshire for attempting to expand his cartel activities in the United States in December 2015.

The Sinaloa cartel was not at the top of Piedras Negras, since he was the enemy of many of the participating groups and during those years he was the largest and most powerful criminal organization in the country.

On the narcocumbre that was manufactured in June 2014, there are no more details, the state authorities interviewed on the subject have denied having any information..

The secretary of the Government of Coahuila of those years, Armando Luna Cbades, said in an interview: "I'm worried a bit, we do not have any related information And what I can also say is that if it's an authority, it has the information to share it with us so we can take the corresponding action. "

However, The meeting of the great chefs narco of 2014 was not the first. Seven years ago, in 2007 We learned that a congress of narco leaders took place, where even it was stated that there was a representative of the federal government.

In June 2007, versions were published concerning a meeting between the cartel drug cartels of the Gulf and Sinaloa.

In the meeting, The chiefs of narco would have accepted not only the distribution of territories, but also a truce throughout the country at the convenience of their illicit enterprises. According to their agreements, the decision to appease Mexico depends only on them and not on the federal government.

At the 2007 narco meeting, capo Juan José Esparragoza Moreno, "El Azul", played the role of mediator. A powerful drug trafficker from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, and renowned leader of the Federation, a well-managed cartel organization very similar to the mafia, through extortion and family ties.

The meeting is held on a ranch in the state of Tamaulipasat the arrival of various luxury vehicles, on which high numbers of drug trafficking arrived with their respective security forces.

According to information from the intelligence services, the meeting would have been a bit harsh because the petitions What "El Chapo" did, is that they gave him Tamaulipas and Veracruz, in addition to eliminating some of Los Zetas members.

According to statements by a DEA official, published in the weekly Proceso that year, the Mexican government had all the details of the meetings between the chiefs of narco.

Historical data show that the most famous summit between antagonistic groups dedicated to drug trafficking is the one that took place after the fall of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, who led until April 1989 the Pacific Cartel.

Felix Gallardo on this occasion managed to gather all the capos: brothers Arellano Felix, Rafael Aguilar Guajardo and El Güero Palma, among others, to whom he divided the territory.

The meeting took place in Acapulco and Aguilar Guajardo was in charge of making all the preparations. The negotiations were successful, although the quarrels began later.