in Agencia EFE ).įor more information on the states' ministerial police forces, see Response to Information Request MEX105240. Interviewed by Radio Fórmula, a Mexican radio network, two police officers of the Fuerza Única de Jalisco, a Jalisco state police force created in 2014 and tasked with combating drug cartels, stated that high ranking security force officials collaborate with organized criminal groups and that whenever police officers detain a member of an organized criminal group, they are ordered to release them (qtd. According to former Mexican governors from different political parties interviewed by Guillermo Trejo, an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame who specializes in organized crime and political violence in Latin America (University of Notre Dame n.d.), the states' ministerial police forces are "heavily infiltrated by organized crime" (12 Oct. 2014).Ĭountry Reports 2014 states that organized criminal groups committed killings with the participation of state, local, and security officials (US 25 June 2015, 1). Fuentes Rubio had been kidnapped her Twitter account was then hijacked and a photo of what appeared to be her body was posted ( SinEmbargo 16 Oct. 2014), who had been receiving threats by organized criminal groups (ibid.). Sources report the alleged killing on 16 October 2014 of María del Rosario Fuentes Rubio, a citizen journalist for Valor por Tamaulipas, a website that denounces violence in Tamaulipas ( Animal Político 17 Oct.
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The US Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2014 indicates that organized criminal groups "exercised a grave and increasing influence over media outlets and reporters, frequently threatening individuals who published critical views of crime groups" (US 25 June 2015, 16). According to sources, drug trafficking organizations in Mexico have been complementing their revenues with other activities such as kidnapping, extortion, illegal extraction of fuel (Professor 10 July 2015 Trejo 12 Oct. The US Department of State's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report ( INCSR) indicates that Mexico is "a major transit and source country for illicit drugs destined for the United States and a center for money laundering" (US Mar. Sources indicate that the Knights Templar cartel has also been weakening (AP Professor 10 July 2015). InSight Crime similarly notes that this cartel is a "fragmented force" that is dependent on local criminal activities, most notably in the state of Tamaulipas and on the Gulf Coast, rather than on transnational drug trafficking (n.d.). 2014).Īccording to the Director of the AIC, the Zetas cartel is "on the brink of disintegration" ( Proceso 9 June 2015). In a March 2014 article, 24 Horas, a Mexico City-based newspaper, reports that the CJNG is also present in the state of Mexico alongside the Knights Templar cartel and the Michoacán Family (10 Mar. Proceso 9 June 2015), in the states of Jalisco, Guanajuato, Colima, and Michoacán, as well as in "several" South American countries (ibid.). The CJNG operates in western Mexico (ibid. Sources indicate that the CJNG is one of the most powerful and violent cartels in Mexico (ibid.
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He also explained that the remaining groups are loose cells that originated from the dismantling of larger criminal organizations and that they are fighting each other for the control of the cities where they operate (ibid.). In a June 2015 article, Proceso, a Mexico City-based news magazine, quotes Tomás Zerón, Director of the Criminal Investigation Agency ( Agencia de Investigación Criminal, AIC) of the Attorney General's Office ( Procuraduría General de la República, PGR), as stating that three drug lords and two cartels remain in Mexico: Ismael Zambada and Fausto Isidro Meza Flores, drug lords of the Sinaloa cartel, and Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, of the CJNG ( Proceso 9 June 2015). In an October 2014 article, ABC, a Madrid-based newspaper, quotes Eduardo Guerrero, a member of Lantia Consultores, a consulting firm that provides research and analysis on public security in Mexico ( Lantia Consultores n.d.), as saying that his firm has knowledge of nine cartels – Sinaloa, South Pacific ( Pacífico Sur), Juárez, Tijuana, Gulf (Golfo), Zetas, Michoacan Family ( Familia Michoacana), Knights Templar ( Caballeros Templarios), the Jalisco New Generation Cartel ( Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, CJNG) – and 113 drug trafficking criminal cells, including Guerreros Unidos (United Warriors) and Los Rojos (The Reds), operating in Mexico (24 Oct.