Mexican cartel urges that innocents be kept out of drug war in video message
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A video claiming to be from Mexico’s highly effective Jalisco New Era Cartel (CJNG) circulated on social media on Friday, urging that combating be stored between legal teams and keep away from innocents.
Two Jesuit monks and a tour information had been killed final month in a suspected run-in with a needed drug trafficker within the border state of Chihuahua, a criminal offense that shocked Mexicans and drew condemnation from Pope Francis.
Greater than 30,000 folks had 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 warfare stays between us, that we do not contain anybody who should not be concerned,” mentioned a person talking Spanish within the video, which additionally confirmed masked, closely armed folks wearing fight camouflage.
“We’re people who find themselves for the folks,” the person mentioned.
Within the title of the cartel’s shadowy chief Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias ‘El Mencho’, he urged rival cartels throughout the nation to spare docs, medical personnel and lecturers.
Reuters was not capable of independently confirm the video.
A supply conversant in cartel beliefs mentioned it seemed to be actual however couldn’t say whether or not it was the voice of Oseguera.
A press official on the legal professional basic’s workplace mentioned authorities had been analyzing the footage.
Oseguera, a former policeman, has masterminded the CJNG’s emergence as a legal 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; Modifying by Rosalba O’Brien)
