In mid-October 2022, in the Guanajuato region of Mexico, residents of the city of Irapuato are celebrating the Cervantes International Festival in the streets. What is shocking is that there are stray dogs running all over the street with corroded corpses, and with a terrified scream, stray dogs are also frightened to run around.
After someone called the police, the local police used police dogs to quickly find the corpses carved out by wild dogs, and dug up more than 50 decomposed, rancid corpses in an open field in a small town in Guanajuato. Suddenly, a disgusting putrid smell wafted everywhere in the air.
And this brutal operation area is in 2020, the damaged "Santa Rosa Delima Cartel", and its sworn rival "Jalisco New Generation Cartel", Mexico's two major criminal groups, often "compete for territory" land. And the leader of the Santa Rosa Delimakal's group is José Antonio Yepes Ortiz.
Today, the master we want to talk about is him. Step into the country of Mexico and find out what kind of country he lives in.
Mexico the land of hell
José Antonio Yepes Ortiz, born in Guanajuato, Mexico, nicknamed El Maro, the specific date of birth is unknown, it is presumed to be born in 1980, a proper post-80s generation, is now 43 years old.
Because the foreigner's name is too long, in order to make it easier to get to know him, we call him by the nickname El Maro given to him by the locals.
It is said that the environment makes "heroes of the times", and El Maro is. As early as the 60s, the Mexican government allowed its citizens to grow drugs in order to earn foreign exchange from the United States. By the 80s, the time El Maro was born, drug marijuana cultivation was commonplace.
In 1984, the "anti-narcotics" department of the United States investigated and dealt with a large marijuana cultivation base in a certain area of Mexico, with an annual revenue of $12 billion.
However, Carter, the leader of the Mexican drug cartel, who was investigated and punished, took crazy revenge by capturing Camarikai, an agent of the US "anti-narcotics" department.
Half a month later, Kamarikai's body was thrown on the street, his eyes gouged, his ribs broken several times, and his body penetrated by wire, and his cruelty was shuddering.
Seeing that their own people were being treated like this, the American bigwigs were not convinced in their hearts, and immediately ordered the Mexican government to encircle and arrest Carter, but the corrupt Mexican government was powerless, just superficial, and in the end, the US government failed to treat Carter.
It's not that the Mexican government doesn't care, it's that it really can't manage it. To say that Mexico guards the large oil depot in the Caribbean Sea and is the land of crops and corn, it is no problem for the people to eat, wear and warm.
Bad is bad for America. The U.S. government has never explicitly banned drugs, and even drug use in its country is not a felony, at best it is considered drug abuse, and even former US President Barack Obama has smoked marijuana.
Because Americans need a lot of marijuana every year and are adjacent to Mexico, farmers in Mexico grow corn and other crops that cannot be sold, but the cultivation of marijuana sells well, and the Mexican government can get tax revenue from the sale of marijuana, and its government turns a blind eye.
On the one hand, the United States needs drugs, on the other hand, it is pretending to "ban drugs", and both good and bad people let him do it.
In the 90s, the Mexican government suddenly realized that it could no longer control the drug cartels, because the drug cartels had stopped paying taxes to their government, many people in Mexico went to drug trafficking jobs, and corn and other crops were no longer grown.
As a result, its government lost a lot of revenue, government agencies could not pay salaries, and even some Mexican police officers were poached by drug cartels to engage in drug trafficking.
In Mexico, drug cartels have armed forces that surpass even the regular army of their governments, and you can imagine how strong their cartels have become.
In 2006, the Mexican Army Police colluded with drug cartels and was executed by its government more than 600 policemen, police and bandits, Mexico really wants "chaos in the world".
Mexican President Calderón wanted to do something, so he used the navy to destroy Mexican drug gangs, but he also paid a terrible price, with hundreds of thousands of casualties and billions of dollars in losses.
What is even more infuriating is that this gang of drug trafficking gangs is like "wildfires that burn endlessly, and the spring breeze blows and grows", not only does not play a shocking role, but becomes more and more arrogant.
Mexican anti-drug hero Angullo, who was wiped out by a drug gang; In a decade, drug cartels have publicly killed hundreds of senior government officials.
The Mexican government's drug trafficking is incurable, and in the final analysis, it is the credit of the United States, which sells guns to drug cartels, and drug cartels sell drugs to the United States, which has become a "win-win" relationship with each other.
And El Maro was born in such a country. So, when El Maro was 32 years old, that is, in 2012, he began to steal cars in garages everywhere and sell them without learning; Or help drug gangs find sellers to earn ill-gotten gains.
After illegally obtaining "windfall profits", El Maro thought of forming a gang.
Crazy scramble for turf
In 2014, El Maro saw a "business opportunity" when he repeatedly helped drug gangs resell drugs. As a result, he formed gangs in three major regions of Mexico, Guanajuato, Querétaro and Michoacán.
Soon after, El Maro founded the "Santa Rosa de Limacartel" criminal group, which quickly "got rich" in the Central American country of Guatemala by selling drugs and stealing government oil. El Maro also became one of the leaders of Mexico's major criminal syndicates.
In the face of a steady stream of wealth, El Maro's gang has attracted more than 100 people in a relatively short period of time, and its armed equipment and personnel "skills" are enough to surpass the regular army of the Mexican government.
In 2019, El Maro was in cahoots with the "Gulf Cartel" drug cartel and with his support, the group led by El Maro and the "Jalisco New Generation Cartel" drug cartel had a fierce turf war.
In March of the same year, El Maro sent a number of vans to Salamanca, popularly known as "Oil City", in the state of Guanajuato, to prepare a big operation.
That night, dozens of El Maro's subordinates, well-armed and armed with live ammunition, under the leadership of El Maro, suddenly broke into a nightclub near it, and more than a dozen people, armed with submachine guns, pointed at the nightclub venue, and shot targetedly, and suddenly, the nightclub screamed everywhere, and 15 people died on the spot.
The next day, when the names and identities of the deceased were counted, it was discovered that the members of the "Jalisco New Generation Cartel" gang accounted for 14 people, and it was clear that this sudden shooting was directed at its gang members.
In 2020, the murders of 11 people in Guanajuato caused a wave of panic.
On September 27, a gang of gangsters suddenly broke in, in the town of Jalal de Progliso, Guanajuato, a bar next to the highway, the gangsters shot at the bar with guns, screaming, the sound of wine bottles falling to the ground, glass explosions, gun strafing sound suddenly spread over the bar, and several people fell in its lobby, blood flowed like a river.
After the incident, the identities of the deceased were counted, and 4 dancing girls and 7 unknown men died. Strangely, the Mexican police did not arrest anyone on the 28th, and did not make a clear judgment on this crazy shooting incident.
However, this bar is not far from the border of Michoacán, and the drug cartel "Jalisco Generation" gathered in Michoacán has been trying to expand its territory in the Guanajuato region, and this violent incident is typical of violent groups. In other words, the "Jalisco generation" wants to encroach on the territory headed by El Maro.
Since automobile manufacturing is one of Mexico's main industries, criminal gangs own a variety of local cars and often "wear" them in the Guanajuato area. Therefore, it is common for drug cartels and gangsters to compete for territory and suddenly stage violent incidents.
In particular, the drug cartel headed by El Maro, "Santa Rosa de Lima", and the powerful "Jalisco New Generation" drug cartel are fighting for territory in the state area, and the death incident is even more commonplace, which is more "exciting" than shooting and killing film and television dramas.
It was the most violent and bloody year in Mexico's history. On 7 June, 117 murders occurred in just one day. In July, a drug rehabilitation center in Guanajuato was killed by several gunmen, the worst shooting death since President André Manuel Lopez Obrado took office.
While the criminal group led by El Maro and its opponents are frantically fighting for territory, they also have a bad thing and are targeted by Mexican President Lopez.
The president threatened revenge
Back in 2019, since El Maro met the boss of the "Gulf Cartel" drug cartel cartel, crime has become more rampant, not only drug trafficking, but also kidnapping for ransom, killing people and robbing goods, and what is more headache for the Mexican government is stealing oil.
It is said that as long as there is oil, the area will be rich in "flowing oil", which means that as long as a country or region has stone fuel, its economy does not have to worry.
However, in Mexico, the rich oil industry has become its "culprit". Lawless gangs, with the formation of elite troops, because many of their members are special forces, and they are all guys who can "technical work". Therefore, the oil of the Mexican government is considered their own by them.
El Maro, the leader of the drug cartel, colluded with corrupt Mexican government officials to form a group of "oil thieves".
El Marro's men generously took out a hose about 4 kilometers long from the oil storage tanks of the Salamanca refinery, and gasoline and diesel fuel were continuously exported from the refinery like tap water, and then transferred to the designated place by tank truck, and then taken away by El Marro's men with large and small oil drums prepared in advance.
They sold the fuel openly in the service areas of the motorways at a market price of 8 to 10 pesos per litre. With this "sale" alone, El Maro's gang can steal hundreds of tons of oil every day, making a daily profit of about $60,000, and they can sell it below the market price.
In the same year, the Mexican government, President López decided to strike "hard". His government ordered banks to freeze El Maro's multiple bank cards, totaling $1.84 million, which is only a fraction of El Maro's stolen money.
In order to cut off El Maro's back road, the Mexican government confiscated more than a dozen of El Maro's private properties and hundreds of cars.
The criminal group led by El Maro was greatly weakened in the turf war between the criminal group led by El Maro and its mortal rival, the "Jalisco Generation" drug cartel for turf.
However, in 2020, in Guanajuato, El Maro criminal gangs stealing oil were not suppressed, but more rampant. Its gang can "open" more than 1,690 oil storage points a day, has more than 199 truck transport fleets, and makes nearly $400 million a year by stealing fuel.
The Mexican government faced such heavy fuel losses that its government forces turned red eyes on the criminal syndicate led by El Maro. In the same year, Mexican government forces investigated and dealt with most of the guns, ammunition, magazines, grenades, bulletproof vests, wireless communication equipment, methamphetamine, marijuana, and vehicles of El Maro's gang.
And in June of the same year, Mexican government troops captured about 25 criminals, people from El Maro's hometown of Celaya, including El Maro's mother and 2 sisters.
El Maro, who felt that "soldiers were coming to the city", began to retaliate wildly, instigating his men to burn police cars, shoot policemen, the National Guard, etc., and even directly intercept large trucks on the highway and burn them.
In addition to threatening the Mexican government with "violence", El Maro used local residents to "bribe" people willing to assist him in the form of salaries, with the name of his group blatantly printed on salary envelopes.
For some time, this method really worked, and in places where Mexican government troops were dispatched, local residents were often exposed to the burning of police cars. In this way, a message was sent to the El Maro criminal gang and let him escape quickly.
However, El Maro ran to the Internet and openly shouted at the President of Mexico, Anlopez: "I am not afraid of you!" President López, you captured my family, and I'm going to make you pay for it..."
In the face of the Mexican government's military blows, why does El Maro dare to openly challenge the president online? Did he eat leopard gall?
Grab the net in the callboard
The reason why El Maro has such "boldness" is nothing more than wanting to make the Mexican central government submit to himself. He wanted to emulate the events of Ovidio Guzman, the son of Mexico's "godfather of drugs" Guzmán, nicknamed "Chapo the Short".
Because in 2019, Mexican government forces arrested the son of the short man Guzman, however, but stabbed the "hornet's nest", its group frantically retaliated against the Mexican troops, in the hours of "fighting" each other, dozens of police officers strewn the road, several passing people also suffered, in order to avoid innocent people being harmed again, the Mexican government was forced to release the son of the short man Guzman.
With June 2020, El Maro's mother and sister were arrested by the Mexican government. El Maro also retaliated fiercely, and he and his gang kidnapped a local businesswoman, whose family called the police after discovering her missing.
To that end, Mexican security forces carried out a carpet search in the area, and in the early hours of 2 August, in two houses in an area of Guanajuato, they searched the kidnapped businesswoman and seized a box of weapons.
In a village not far from Guanajuato, the "Santa Rosa de Limar Cartel" group, headed by El Marro, several criminals and El Maro were arrested by the police.
So far, in Mexico, a country full of violence, a "cancer" boss has been brought to justice. El Maro was sent to Mexico's tightest prison. In the end, his government sentenced El Maro to 60 years in prison, and he may die of old age in prison.
The state-of-the-art facilities above the surface of its prison leave crime leaders with nowhere to escape. Even so, when Guzman, the son of the Shorty, was imprisoned in 2015, Guzman used the night to dig underground tunnels and successfully escape from his prison, which became famous.
Due to the corruption of the Mexican federal government and the duplicity of the "friend" of the United States, although its national economy has the natural endowment of oil given by God, it cannot resist the habitual theft of drug cartels. In recent years, the world has faced another "new crown epidemic", and Mexico's economy has suffered a serious recession, which can be said to be a poor livelihood.
Although, El Maro was arrested and imprisoned, this may only have damaged the Mexican criminal syndicate, a period of rampant crime. What's more, a criminal group suddenly loses the head of the group and will quickly split into several gangs, because most of their subordinates are from special forces, and under the training of small leaders, they naturally "grow" very quickly.
We are fortunate to live in a country of national security. The phenomenon of crime in Mexico, on the other hand, is like an abyss with no end in sight.
Resources:
Zheng Dianhuanyu Viewpoint reports
MexiconewsDaily
Daily Mail
Mexican newspaper Cosmos
Peruvian La Republica website
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Author: Wish
Editor: Lin Yan