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Two new narco videos released by members of the Cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) show the interrogation and killing of two lookouts working for the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) in Guanajuato.
In the first video, two CSRL members interrogate a young man who identified himself as working as a lookout for the CJNG in the town of Puquichapio, in Yuriria, Guanajuato. He claims he was paid 1,500 pesos (90 USD) a week by a local officer named Martin. According to the lookout, in recent days the CJNG has been attacking targets in the town with the support of the local police.
Since the mid 2010s, Guanajuato state has been violently contested by the CJNG and CSRL. Around 2017, the CJNG invaded the state from the east, intending to secure control of drug trafficking routes north. The CSRL, then under control of José Antonio Yépez Ortiz “El Marro”, declared war on the CJNG, sparking a brutal turf conflict which has made Guanajuato the most violent state in Mexico by homicide count for ten years. In recent years, the Los Mayos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel has supported the CSRL, using them as a proxy against the CJNG.
The CSRL routinely records interrogations and violent murders of captured CJNG members in an attempt to influence public perceptions of the group.
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