The massive leak of Army documents to which EL PAÍS has had access reveals the power of drug traffickers in Mexico City. The military warns of the presence of criminal groups in the 16 city halls of the capital, a dozen gangs, some with the support of the big cartels, that kidnap, sell drugs locally and move them out of the city, extort money and traffic with people, the same crimes that are observed in the most violent states of the country and that are concentrated in three municipalities. The files reveal two major mafias, the Unión Tepito and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. The second, one of the most powerful in the country, tries to seize power from the historic cartel of the city’s rough neighborhood through alliances with its enemies, such as the Anti-Union Force.
The mayor’s offices with the most murders linked to organized crime are Gustavo A. Madero, Cuauhtémoc and Iztapalapa, the most populous in the capital, whose crime rate has grown in recent years, according to the documents. Despite the efforts of the Government of the capital, led by Claudia Sheinbaum, to deploy more police and National Guard troops in this area of the southeast, in 2020 1,784 homicides were registered; in 2021, 2,129 and until August of this year 1,545 were registered.
A file from June of this year called Criminal Panorama and another from August with the same name sent to senior officials of the Ministry of Defense (Sedena) give an account of the criminal map in the city and who the main capos are.
Union Tepito: The Chori
The city’s historic criminal group, based in the rough neighborhood of Tepito, is the most powerful. Army documents point to it as one of the strongest cartels nationwide. Its presence is focused on the capital and the center of the country, not like the two largest, Sinaloa and Jalisco Cartel, with expansion throughout the national territory, but for decades it has established itself as a third important group due to its capacity economic and fire
It has around 300 hired assassins and is present in the mayor’s offices with the greatest economic power, in the party centers and financial heart of Mexico City: Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Gustavo A. Madero, Miguel Hidalgo, Iztacalco, Coyoacán and Venustiano. Carranza.
Its current leader is Eduardo Ramírez Tiburcio, alias The Chori. And the Army relates it to murders, kidnappings, collection of flat (extortion), drug dealing, invasion of properties and human trafficking. His leadership is made up of close people and relatives of previous leaders of the cartel, Roberto Moyado Esparza, the babyand David Garcia Ramirez, the pistachioarrested in 2018. There is another strong man in the organization, Alberto Fuentes Castro, alias the elvis either The Viscowho is in charge of the extortion and kidnapping of merchants and businessmen in the downtown area of the capital.
Enemies: Anti-Union Force, Jalisco Cartel, Round 88, Los Rodolfos
allies: Los Malcriados 3AD, by Lenin Jonathan Canchola, alias the lenin; and the group of El Güero Fresa.
Anti-Union Force: El Cejas and El Uriel
This group, which emerged as a split from the largest, Unión Tepito, has allied itself with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which provides it with weapons and drugs, to fight for criminal control of the historic gang both in the mayor’s offices it controls, and in other municipalities of the State of Mexico, adjacent to the capital, such as Nezahualcóyotl and Ecatepec. According to Army records, the gang is made up of about 150 members.
Its leaders are Eusebio Hernández Vázquez, alias the eyebrowsand Uriel Flores Conchas, The Uriel-brother of the previous leader, Sergio Flores Conchas, the cakesarrested in 2019—of those who are mentioned as carrying out “homicides, kidnappings, collection of flats and drug dealing” in the mayor’s offices of Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Gustavo A. Madero, Miguel Hidalgo, Iztacalco, Coyoacán and Venustiano Carranza, the same ones where the of the Union. The document mentions a certain I sendalleged head of a cell of assassins, who is the group’s link with the Jalisco Cartel.
Enemies: Union Tepito (and allies)
allies: Jalisco Cartel, Los Maestrin
New Generation Jalisco Cartel: El Calaca
The powerful cartel with a presence in almost every state in the country, founded by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias The Mencho, made his big break in the capital on June 26, 2020, when he tried to assassinate police chief Omar García Harfuch. In a huge attack at 6:30 in the morning in one of the richest areas of the city, almost twenty men fired more than 400 shots at the truck in which Harfuch was traveling, gunning down two of his escorts and a woman who I was walking around the area. The policeman was shot in the arm and the cartel became the main enemy of the government of the capital, led by Claudia Sheinbaum.
The Army papers indicate as their leader in the capital Omar Ramsés, alias The Calaca. They accuse him of extending the group’s dominance in the city with the same strategy that has made them strong in the rest of the country: arming the enemies of the larger group. The document mentions that the objective of El Calaca is to “limit the power of the Tepito Union” and enter the municipalities of the State of Mexico that it controls, Nezahualcóyotl and Ecatepec. In the capital, he supplies weapons and drugs from Guadalajara (Jalisco) to the Anti-Union Force, to prevail in Iztapalapa, Tláhuac and Xochimilco. Its stronghold in the city is in the Gustavo A. Madero mayor’s office and it is estimated that there are 50 members of the organization in the capital.
Enemies: Union Tepito, El Güero Strawberry,
allies: Anti-Union Force, Los Rodolfos
Tláhuac Cartel: Wife of El Ojos
To the south of the capital, the wife of the former head of the Tláhuac cartel —Felipe Jesús Pérez, executed by the Army in 2017— has taken control of the criminal power left by her husband through a network of motorcycle taxis to move the drug. María de los Ángeles Ramírez Arvizu is the only woman in the high echelon of drug traffickers in the city and the Army document indicates that she “orders homicides, kidnappings and extortions”, as well as controls drug dealing in the area east of the mayor’s office. Arvizu has a group of about 250 members that has expanded her presence to Nezahualcóyotl and Valle de Chalco, in the State of Mexico, bordering the southeast of Mexico City.
Enemies: The Rodolfos, The Strawberry Güero, The Maceros
allies: Los Tanzanios, led by the brothers Nicolás Enrique and José Manuel García González, alias Jackal.
other groups
![Drug bosses and groups and their presence in Mexico City, according to an Army document.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/t5JaqckpQnSOHj6refpJlg-w2ps=/414x0/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/GOMWYZYYTZAXPKL6SQYZJF23YA.png)
Los Rodolfos, with presence in Xochimilco, Tlalpan, Coyoacán, Milpa Alta and Iztapalapa. They are led by César Rodríguez Morales, alias The black. The crimes attributed to them are: homicides, arms trafficking, drug dealing, extortion, collection of flat and property dispossession. The Jalisco Cartel supplies them with drugs and weapons.
Los Molina, headed by Juan Carlos Molina Plascencia, carry out crimes such as homicides, drug dealing, collection of flats, extortion, fraud and kidnapping in Xochimilco, Tláhuac, Coyoacán and Iztapalapa.
Ronda 88, headed by Fabian Oswaldo Solís Vieyra, carries out drug dealing, extortion, kidnapping and homicides, as well as the theft and sale of auto parts (for vehicles) in Cuauhtémoc, Venustiano Carranza, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juárez and Miguel Hidalgo. The document links them to corrupt officials from the Ministry of Citizen Security, “who provide them with protection,” although they do not mention any names.
The Güero Fresa criminal group, led by Rafael Contreras Galindo, alias Ghost. They have a presence in Iztapalapa and Tláhuac. They are linked to homicides, extortion of merchants and public transport, dispossession of real estate, sale and distribution of drugs in those areas. On April 7, the group placed a tarp on a pedestrian bridge in Iztapalapa with a threat to Mayor Clara Marina Brugada, from Morena, of retaliation if “previously established agreements” were not fulfilled.
Los Canchola or Los Malcriados 3AD, headed by Lenin Jhonatan Canchola, alias the lenin. They are responsible for homicides, kidnapping, collection of flat, extortion and drug dealing in the Cuajimalpa, Álvaro Obregón and Magdalena Contreras mayor’s offices.
Los Maestrín, led by Francisco de Jesús López (son of El Maestrín). They carry out homicides, kidnappings, collection of flat, extortion and drug dealing in Cuajimalpa, Álvaro Obregón and Magdalena Contreras.
Los Maceros, led by Jesús Eduardo Mejía Herrero, alias The Macero, accused of homicides, drug dealing, extortion and money laundering. They have a presence in Tlalpan and Xochimilco. According to the document, the group “controls the entry of drugs into Mexico City from Morelos.”
The Tanzanians, led by Nicolás Enrique García González, with drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion activities and, to a lesser extent, armed robbery, home robbery, vehicle theft and public transport. They are linked to the previous authorities of the mayor’s office of Iztapalapa, because according to the report, on March 15, 2019 “they carried out a violent eviction of protesters from the Francisco Villa Popular Front, who demanded greater security from the local government, at the request of the authorities ”.
The men of El Balta, Juan Baltazar, who carry out drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion in Azcapotzalco, Venustiano Carranza, Iztacalco, Coyoacán, Iztapalapa and Xochimilco. They are linked to authorities of the Government of the capital: “police, judges and public ministries”, although they do not mention any names.
Drug routes in the capital
The Sedena document draws up a map of the main drug trafficking corridors in the capital.
![Drug trafficking routes in Mexico City, according to a Sedena document.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/HiZpUGPHQLANr-UtpecaTPvJoc4=/414x0/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/WYFNSM25T5BLHCQLIHOHDTIZF4.png)
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