Tijuana, the border most coveted by "The Mencho"

Tijuana border is well known for Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes "The Mencho", leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), who after the recapture of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is considered Mexico's most powerful drug trafficker.

There he began his career in drug smuggling and now aspires to control this gateway to America to tighten its grip on land posters.

In the late 80s and early 90s, "The Mencho" crossed several times that border to start distributing heroin and methamphetamine in the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland and Sacramento, some activities that led him to jail 1992 before being deported, three years later, back to Mexico, according to court records filed in the Federal Court for the Northern District of California.

In his country, and as a member of the Millennium Cartel Valencia, brothers "The Mencho" continued to control shipments to that area of California of the methamphetamine produced in laboratories in Michoacan and Jalisco.

To do this, according to unofficial reports, at the end of the last decade he held an alliance with Fernando Sanchez Arellano "The Engineer", who was head of the Tijuana Cartel, to use that route to California by the respective payment of "dues" .

"The Engineer" also would have kept that agreement with La Familia Michoacana to cross through that border the crystallized methamphetamine produced, which is considered one of the highest purity in the market along with elaborate the "cooks" CJNG who worked Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, who has the nickname "El Rey de Cristal" won.

Laboratory analysis conducted by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to methamphetamine seized in the region of San Francisco from 2003, said the drug reached purity level of 98%, which would have come from Mexico and with average cost of $ 15,000 per pound.

In comparison, the "crystal meth" or "ice" Californians laboratories has a 30% purity.

To continue the lucrative business of methamphetamine in California, "The Mencho" decided to take over Tijuana advantage fractures and rivalries existing between the Tijuana Cartel and Sinaloa, who maintain a dispute over control of the border since 2008.

The war between the various criminal groups is exposed with corpses scattered around the city and the proclamation is in the "narco" who have hung on bridges, to let everyone know: "Tijuana has a new owner. Mr. Mencho, CTNG and CJNG. Tijuana pure ".

The branch of "The Mencho" in Tijuana

One of these "narco" came within a black box. It was a warning to each of the members of the Sinaloa Cartel operating in the southern border of California.

Inside they found the severed head that a man, accompanied by a white paper with a handwritten text with a clear threat: "Here follows Mr. Mencho and people doing clean throughout Baja. This will happen to all the people of Achilles and the Frog ".

The letter refers to Arzate Alfonso and Rene Garcia, who according to the DEA are operators of the Sinaloa Cartel in Tijuana, a place that CJNG has decided to endorse at all costs.

Currently the CJNG, headed "The Mencho" operates in twelve states of Mexico. Baja California has penetrated through fractures between groups who dealt the Sinaloa drug cartel.

The criminal cell of "The Mencho" in this border would be headed by Arturo Gomez Herrera "The Gross" or "rude" Jose Antonio Soto Gastelum "El Tigre" and Juan Jose Perez Vargas "El Piolin , " or "JP" who are identified as the Tijuana Cartel New Generation (CTNG).