LATIN AMERICA Jalisco New Generation Cartel Announces Arrival in Salamanca OE Watch Commentary: A new video by the Jalisco New Source: “El Mencho asegura en video que CJNG peleará plaza de Generation cartel (CJNG) circulated on social media on 28 August Guanajuato (In a video, El Mencho says that CJNG will fight for 2018, announcing the cartel’s arrival in Salamanca, a city in the Guanajuato plaza),” El Sol de Salamanca, 28 August 2018. Mexican state of Guanajuato. According to the accompanying https://www.elsoldesalamanca.com.mx/mexico/sociedad/el-mencho- excerpted article from the Mexican state news outlet, El Sol de cartel-jalisco-nueva-generacion-llega-guanajuato-peleara-plaza- Salamanca, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes—also known as ‘El amenaza-video-el-marro-cartel-santa-rosa-de-lima-1950705.html Mencho’—leader of Jalisco New Generation cartel issued a statement Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco addressing the conflict between CJNG and the Santa Rosa de Lima New Generation cartel, announced a fight for Guanajuato cartel over territory in Guanajuato. He warned the Santa Rosa de Lima against the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel and warned its leader, José cartel’s leader, José Antonio Yépez Ortiz—also known as ‘El Marro’— Antonio Yépez Oritz, also known as El Marro, that they will be that he and his cartel will be eliminated from the area. The article exterminated… explains that the fight between the two cartels is over the so-called “Guanajuato Corridor,” which consists of Celaya, Salamanca, Irapuato, In the video, he warns that the Jalisco cartel will not leave and Leon, and extends to Los Apaseos, which borders Querétaro. the municipality and anyone that ‘works, helps or protects El Marro, will be banished not only from Salamanca, but from all of According to the excerpted article from Vanguardia, another Mexican Guanajuato’… state news outlet, the video is meant to not only announce CJNG’s arrival in Salamanca, but also state the cartel’s alleged intention of Source: “Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación anuncia con video providing security to the people of the city. The video is slightly over llegada a Salamanca (The Jalisco New Generation cartel announced two minutes long, in which the camera pans out for a view of a number their arrival in Salamanca in a video),” Vanguardia, 28 August 2018. of armed, hooded men while a narrator explains the cartel’s plan to https://vanguardia.com.mx/articulo/cartel-de-jalisco-nueva- liberate Salamanca of “thieves and traitors.” The video concludes generacion-anuncia-con-video-llegada-salamanca with the narrator stating, “we are looking for peace and tranquility in Salamanca.” End OE Watch Commentary (Keshavarz and Bunker) A new video by Jalisco New Generation cartel circulated social media announcing their arrival to the municipality of Salamanca, “In the video, he warns that the Jalisco cartel will Guanajuato to supposedly bring security to the population and exterminate the criminal cell led by El Marro… not leave the municipality and anyone that ‘works, ‘We are looking for peace and tranquility in Salamanca,’ the helps or protects El Marro, will be banished not only narrator concludes; afterwards, five narco banners were placed at from Salamanca, but from all of Guanajuato’...” different points of the Guanajuato municipality, all signed by the cartel, led by ‘El Mencho’.

CJNG Video. Source: YouTube, 28 August 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXBIFX3tt4&app=desktop, Fair Use. OE Watch | October 2018 71