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Three siblings whose dead bodies were found dumped on the side of the road may have been mistakenly targeted by Mexican cartel members
José González 29; Ana Karen González, 24; and Luis Angel González, 32, were kidnapped by armed men Friday from their house in Tlaquepaque, Mexico
The siblings were found dead on the side of a road in San Cristóbal de la Barranca
The Jalisco state prosecutor said they were abducted by an armed group wearing bulletproof vests with initials of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
The state prosecutor s office is investigating whether the cartel henchmen kidnapped them by mistake
US Special Forces trained Mexican drug cartels linked to decapitation, torture, rape
Published: May 6, 2021
The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has established itself as one of the most feared paramilitaries in Mexico over the last decade. Images of the group have become the standard depiction of the Mexican cartels writ large. Their propaganda videos often feature groups of masked men bristling with enough small arms to make them formidable against even conventional armies.
In an interview aired on Mexico’s Telemundo network in May 2019, a former CJNG soldier described his experience at a training camp and claimed that the cartel employed U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to train their recruits.
April 28, 2021
Christopher Landau, U.S. ambassador to Mexico during the Trump administration, said during a roundtable event with former diplomats last week that drug cartels control between 35 and 40 percent of Mexican territory.
“I think there is no doubt that they play a broad role in the governance of Mexico,” Landau said.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he added, has taken a passive approach to the cartels. “He sees the cartels as his Vietnam,” Landau said, noting that López Obrador has tried to avoid open conflict, and instead adopted a “
laissez faire attitude towards the cartels.”
In comments Wednesday, López Obrador dismissed Landau’s assessment, saying, “It’s not like that,” and boasting, somewhat implausibly, that he travels all over Mexico without bodyguards.