Abraham Oseguera Cervantes: Who is El Mencho’s brother who was arrested in Mexico

The National Guard of Mexico dealt a hard blow to the most powerful drug trafficker in the country, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias ‘El Mencho’boss of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). On Sunday, he arrested his older brother Abraham Oseguera Cervantes, ‘Don Rodo’, who would have been carrying out administrative functions in the criminal organization.

The arrest of ‘Don Rodo‘occurred in the municipality of Autlán de Navarro, state of Jaliscoaccording to the National Detention Registry (RND).

According to the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena), Abraham Oseguera Cervantes “He is considered one of the main coordinators of the cartel’s logistical and financial operations, dedicated to money laundering and in charge of drug trafficking and sale.”

After his arrest, he was transferred to the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO) located in the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s officein the Mexico City.

Currently, the CJNG It is one of the most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations in the world. From a small group of deserters from the now extinct Millennium Cartel evolved to form a vast criminal network whose links extend throughout America, as well as Europe, Asia and Oceania, indicates Insight Crime.

The United States offers a reward of 10 million dollars for information leading to the capture of their ringleader,’El Mencho’.

Who is Abraham Oseguera Cervantes?

The National Arrest Registry describes Abraham Oseguera Cervantes like a man with white skin, dark hair and 1.70 meters tall. At the time of his arrest he was dressed in a red, blue and white long-sleeved plaid shirt, with jean pants and black boots.

Security analyst David Saucedo told the AP agency that ‘Don Rodo’ does not have a bloodthirsty profile nor does he lead shock groups. Its function was to carry out “administrative activities within the cartel.”

“He was mainly in charge of drug shipments to the United Stateshaving some transportation routes under their control,” said Saucedo, who did not rule out that the arrest had been carried out for the purposes of extradition to that country.

He explained that for many years Abraham has had a discreet role but according to files and intelligence information, “it has been known for a long time of its existence and the role it played within the Jalisco New Generation Cartel”.

According to the Infobae portal, Abraham had already been arrested in 1992 in the United States when, together with ‘El Mencho’, he sold heroin to two undercover police officers in a bar in San Francisco, California.

Both accepted their responsibility for the crime charged, for which ‘El Mencho’ was sentenced to five years in prison and Abraham to 10 years in prison.

The Mexican newspaper Reforma reported that ‘Don Rodo’ returned to Mexico after serving his sentence.

In 2013 he was accused of murder in Michoacán, but the statute of limitations expired and the investigation was archived.

In December 2022, another brother of ‘El Mencho’, Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, alias ‘Tony Montana’who was accused of organizing logistics, buying weapons, laundering money for the cartel and organizing violent offensives against antagonistic groups, AP recalls.

The power of CJNG

According to the United States Department of Justice, the CJNG It is one of the most dangerous and prolific mafias in Mexico. It is responsible for bringing significant quantities of illegal drugs such as fentanyl and to use “extreme violence” to achieve this objective.

The origin of CJNG dates back to the 2000s, when the Millennium Cartelcommanded by the Valencia family, maintained an alliance with Sinaloa Cartelled by Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, with the aim of combating rivals such as The Zetas in certain states like Veracruz.

In August 2003, after the arrest of Armando Valencia Corneliowho was leader of the Millennium CartelÓscar Nava Valencia, alias ‘The wolf‘, assumes leadership of the mafia.

To confront the drug war with its enemies, ‘The wolf‘created an armed wing of hitmen which was baptized as ““Los Mata Zetas”which is the direct antecedent for the emergence of CJNG.

In 2007, the DEA documented for the first time a conspiracy between the then leaders of the Millennium CartelNemesio Oseguera Cervantes and his brother-in-law Abigael González Valenciato traffic cocaine from Colombia to the United States through Mexico, according to the Animal Político portal.

Two years later, in 2009, ‘El Mencho’ and González Valencia extended their network of suppliers to Ecuador.

In June of that same year, Los Mata Zetas They made their first appearance when they left the inside of an abandoned van in Cancun the lifeless bodies of three men, who had plastic bags tied to their heads.

A message was placed next to the victims: “We are the new group kills Zetas and we are against kidnapping and extortion, and we are going to fight against them in all states for a cleaner Mexico,” the warning said, according to El Universal.

Subsequently, conflicts arose within the Millennium Cartelwhich ended up divided into two main sides: The Resistance, led by Ramiro Pozosalias ‘El Molca’, and Los Mata Zetaswho were commanded by ‘El Mencho’.

In 2010, Los Mata Zetas they changed their name to Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)with ‘El Mencho’ as leader and financed by his brother-in-law Gonzalez Valencia.

Today the CJNG It does not stop expanding, making its way with blood and fire in search of hegemonic control in everything Mexico. The cartel’s enormous firepower includes automatic machine guns, grenade launchers and rocket launchers.

“Based on violence, death and terror, his instruments of war, the cartel he commands”El Mencho‘ controls the entire national territory, from Quintana Roo to Baja California, where it sealed an alliance with the Tijuana Cartelalso called New Generation because, although it is directed by Enedina Arellano Félix—a member of the so-called old guard—the rest of its members are young people with little experience in organized crime,” the journalist specializing in security and crime told Sin Embargo. studies of organized crime, Ricardo Ravelo.

Insight Crime maintains that the key to CJNG’s rapid growth was the strategic presence of operators on the southwest border of the United States, adjacent to the Mexican state of Tijuana, and on the northwest border, adjacent to Vancouver, Canada. Along with this, it has control in areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans where it takes drugs.

He CNJGoften in alliance with local criminal groups, have displaced the historically dominant cartels in Mexico such as Sinaloa and that of the Beltrán Leyva brothers.

The DEA considers that the CJNG distributes cocaine y methamphetamines along 10 thousand kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, in an area that extends from Ecuador to the border of the United States and Canada.

In addition, the DEA has evidence that starting in 2014, the CJNG expanded its operations to Asia and Oceania.

The federal government of Mexico considers that the ‘El Mencho’ cartel is the one with the greatest presence in Mexico, as it has been confirmed that it has operations in 27 states, according to the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF).

The United States Department of Justice considers it the “best armed cartel in Mexico.” While a DEA report indicates that it has a presence in 26 cities in the United States, such as Orlando, Florida; Honolulu, Hawaii; in addition to San Juan, Puerto Rico.