The Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) in Mexico presumed to have given “ a hard blow” to organized crime by arresting so far this year to 1, 76 priority targets of organized crime.
According to official information, enter the names that the army highlighted , there is the leader of the so-called Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, José Antonio Yépez “El Marro”, Rosalinda González Valencia “La Jefa” , wife of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera “El Mencho”, as well as Santiago Mazarí Hernández “El Carrete” , head of a faction of the Los Rojos gang operating in Morelos.
According to the Secretary of Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandoval, the federal government’s security strategy, implemented by the Armed Forces and civil authorities, has allowed to arrest five leaders It is from criminal organizations that operate in the country; another five regional chiefs; nine plaza managers and 1, 059 members of criminal cells.
These priority target arrests, he said, represent an increase of 106 percent, compared to 522 alleged criminals detained in the previous government.
In addition, the head of the Sedena reported that have secured 87 narco laboratories and 143 aircraft, as well as 56 thousand 567 kilos of cocaine, 76 thousand kilos of methamphetamine and two thousand 168 kilos of fentanyl, the synthetic drug that caused the announcement of the United States government against criminal leaders in Mexico.
Also, it highlighted the participation of the Army and federal forces s in the increase in the cost of massacres such as the murder of the Mexican-American family LeBarón, in Bavispe, Sonora, in northern Mexico, which has so far led to the arrest of 25 people linked to multiple crimes.
However, about the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, there are still pending arrests of the most important drug traffickers, wanted in Mexico and the United States, such as Nemesio Oseguera “El Mencho” or Vicente “El Mayo” Zambada, in addition to the sons of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
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