Milenio cartel

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The Milenio cartel ( Spanish Cártel del Milenio ), also known as Los Valencia , formerly Cártel de los Aguacates , was a Mexican drug cartel in western central Mexico , whose roots go back to the late 1970s.

history

The Valencia family, an avocado farming family from Tamaulipas , began growing cannabis and opium poppies and selling them to larger cartels in the late 1970s . Until the beginning of the 1990s, the Valencias in the neighboring communities of Michoacán and Jalisco grew drugs for other cartels and later operated independently with their relationships with Colombian drug traffickers such as Fabio Ochoa Vásquez from the Medellín cartel and the merger with other partners, within the framework of the Milenio cartel . At that time they expanded their sphere of influence to Colima and Nayarit .

In October 1999, during Operation Milenio , jointly carried out by the governments of Mexico, the United States and Colombia, the cartel's work with Colombian drug lords like Fabio Ochoa was exposed. Since that time, the cartel has been considered one of the most violent and powerful organizations in Mexico, responsible for introducing a third of the cocaine used in the United States.

In the early 2000s there were conflicts between the Milenio cartel, led by José Armando "Juanito" Valencia Cornelio, also known as "El Maradona", with the Michoacán family led by Carlos Rosales "El Tísico" Mendoza and his partner Osiel Cardenas Guillén from the Golf Cartel . After the death of Ramón Arellano Félix and the imprisonment of Benjamin "El Min" Arellano Félix in early 2002 and the arrest of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén in March 2003, the cartel tried to expand its sphere of influence to Tijuana and Nuevo León . Since 2003, they have also been working with synthetic drugs provided by Sino-Mexican businessman Zhenli Ye Gon from China.

In August 2003 the leader "Juanito" Valencia Cornelio, wanted since 1999, and the alleged number two of the cartel, Eloy Treviño Gracia, were arrested by the Mexican army together with other cartel members in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga (Jalisco). At that time the cartel was mostly active in the states of Michoacán, Jalisco, Colima and Tamaulipas. To protect its structure, the Milenio cartel became a branch of the Sinaloa some time later with the new leader Óscar Orlando "El Lobo" Nava Valencia, under the supervision of Ignacio Coronel Villarreal , and some time later with the Sonora cartel and the Colima cartel Cartel .

In October 2009 “El Lobo” Nava Valencia was captured in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga after a shootout with troops of the Mexican army. His brother Juan Carlos "El Tigre" Nava Valencia took over the new leadership. Together with “El Lobo” Nava Valencia he was responsible for the planning and smuggling of cocaine shipments from South and Central America in the port of Manzanillo , from where they were smuggled into the United States.

On May 6, 2010, El Tigre was also arrested during an operation by the Mexican army in Guadalajara . After Ignacio Coronel was killed in a shootout with the Mexican army in July 2010, a power vacuum developed and the Milenio cartel broke up into smaller factions called Kartell Jalisco Nueva Generación ( CJNG ) and La Resistencia , also known as Cárteles Unidos (United Cartels) ). CJNG, La Resistencia, and other remnants of the Milenio cartel have since formed various alliances and fought battles with other cartels.

Movie and TV

  • 2017: The Valencia Brothers are portrayed as the Plasencia Brothers in the second season of the El Chapo series .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AlMomento - Historia del Cartel de los Aguacates, después del Milenio y finalmente de Los Valencia
  2. ↑ El Pais - Una operación coordinada por la CIA desmantela el mayor cartel del narcotráfico colombiano
  3. ^ Excelsior - Los Valencia, Los Milenio, la Nueva Generación
  4. ↑ La Jornada - Capturan a Armando Valencia y otros siete jefes del narcotráfico
  5. ↑ GOB - Detención de óscar Orlando Nava Valencia (a) “EL LOBO”, líder de la Organización delictiva “LOS VALENCIA”
  6. Jump up ↑ InSight Crime - El ejército salvadoreño, el tráfico de armas y un cartel mexicano convergen en Honduras
  7. ^ El Economista - Caen dos hermanos del cártel de los Valencia
  8. ↑ Roberto Saviano - ZeroZeroZero: How Cocaine Ruled the World
  9. ↑ BBC - Mexico police arrest 'gang boss' Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez