Upstart Jalisco Cartel Is Climbing to the Top of Mexico's Narco Underworld Christopher Woody - Business Insider
go to original October 12, 2016

In barely four years, a little-known criminal gang has grown to challenge the world's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, for domination of Mexico's narco underworld, unleashing a new tide of violence.

Once underlings in Guzman's Sinaloa Cartel, traffickers of the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) have turned on their former masters, seizing territory and buying off thousands of corrupt police.

Led by former policeman Nemesio Oseguera, aka "El Mencho," the gang has carved out an empire at the expense of weaker rivals.

The speed of its ascent shows how quickly power can shift in Mexico's multibillion-dollar drug trade.

After the death of Ignacio Coronel, a regional trafficker who worked with Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel, in 2010, two factions of a regional cartel based in southwest Mexico clashed over control of trafficking in Jalisco state.

The group that won out eventually became what is now the CJNG, assuming control drug operations in the area.

Juggling interests from China to North Africa and eastern Europe, the CJNG's bloody advance has helped push homicides to their highest levels under President Enrique Peña Nieto, who vowed to restore law and order when he took office in late 2012.

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