Fighting Between Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco Cartel May be About to Intensify Christopher Woody - Business Insider
go to original October 30, 2016

In mid-August this year, the brief kidnapping of Guzm's sons by elements of the Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) underlined the growing rivalry between Mexico's two most powerful cartels.

It reportedly took the intervention of high-level cartel leaders and former leaders as well as the federal government to secure the release of the sons and avoid a larger war between the CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel. Even though they were returned unharmed a few days later, their abduction is an ominous sign for their father's cartel.

That kidnapping, according to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez, could be considered the first time we saw that Guzman "no longer controls even his own house."

The events this summer, and recent attacks in and around Sinaloa state mean "maybe we are for the first time seeing the true fall of Chapo Guzman with all the consequences that this may bring," Hernandez, an expert on Mexico's narco world, told Aristegui Noticias.

"And this is not a fall brought about by the government but by his own family," Hernandez added, referring to the involvement of Alfredo Beltran Guzman.

According to Hernandez, Alfredo Beltran and the remnants of the BLO are allied with the ascendant CJNG, which is clashing with the Sinaloa cartel in several parts of the country, particularly on the west coast and in Tijuana in Baja California.

"Right now there's only two major drug cartels in Mexico: Sinaloa cartel, which ... remains the most powerful, and then the Jalisco New Generation cartel," Mike Vigil, a former head of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider. The CJNG emerged around 2010, originating from a cell of the Sinaloa cartel based in southwest Mexico around Jalisco state.

The CJNG has expanded rapidly, but most of its growth was initially in the southwest and southeast. As the cartel's ambitions have grown, however, it seems to have turned its sights on valuable territory held by the Sinaloa cartel.

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