MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A video claiming to be from Mexico’s highly effective Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) circulated on social media on Friday, urging that combating be kept between prison teams and keep away from innocents.
Two Jesuit monks and a tour information have been killed final month in a suspected run-in with a needed drug trafficker in the border state of Chihuahua, against the law that shocked Mexicans and drew condemnation from Pope Francis.
More than 30,000 folks have been murdered in Mexico final yr, with a lot of the violence linked to combating between rival drug trafficking organizations.
“I ask you that the war stays between us, that we do not contain anybody who should not be concerned,” stated a person talking Spanish in the video, which additionally confirmed masked, closely armed folks dressed in fight camouflage.
“We are people who find themselves for the folks,” the person stated.
In the identify of the cartel’s shadowy chief Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias ‘El Mencho’, he urged rival cartels throughout the nation to spare medical doctors, medical personnel and academics.
Reuters was not capable of independently confirm the video.
A supply accustomed to cartel beliefs stated it appeared to be actual however couldn’t say whether or not it was the voice of Oseguera.
A press official on the lawyer basic’s workplace stated authorities have been analyzing the footage.
Oseguera, a former policeman, has masterminded the CJNG’s emergence as a prison empire spanning 5 continents and a rival to the Sinaloa Cartel of captured kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, now in a U.S. jail.
U.S. authorities positioned a $10 million bounty on Oseguera’s head in 2018.
(Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz and Stefanie Eschenbacher; Editing by Rosalba O’Brien)
