GRAPHIC: Messages Indicate Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG Helping Gulf Cartel in Turf War

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A message scrawled on a posterboard and left next to the bodies of eight murdered cartel gunmen points to a dangerous new alliance. The message reveals that a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) are helping one side of the Gulf Cartel in an ongoing turf war.

This week, a group of gunmen dumped the bodies of their rivals and posterboards with threats in the city of San Fernando, Tamaulipas. Other gunmen took the bodies away before police could arrive leaving only blood on the floor where the bodies had been dumped.

A series of photographs and videos that were shared through Whatsapp messages and on social media are the only evidence left of the mass killing attributed to the Escorpiones faction of the Gulf Cartel. A narco-message left next to the bodies mentions MZ ( the Sinaloa Cartel faction led by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada) and CJNG, claiming that they are not welcome in Tamaulipas and that their allies would not back them up.

The eight victims are believed to be gunmen siding with the Old School Zetas or with a group known as Sierra Fox that is based in San Fernando. That group is led by a man known as “Chuy 7.” It remains unclear if they were locals or if they were gunmen from other cartels and had been helping the San Fernando groups.

As Breitbart Texas has reported, the Old School Zetas and the Metros faction of the Gulf Cartel began fighting with the Escorpiones faction earlier this year over key territories. Since the fighting began, the Metros have been claiming to have the support of CJNG. Rumors began circulating in recent weeks that gunmen from Mayo Zambada’s group had also been wanting to enter Tamaulipas.

Despite the mass killing, on Wednesday morning, the Tamaulipas government posted on social media that the state had gone through 24 hours without a single murder. The outlandish claims come at a time when government officials have been working to minimize the appearance of violence while locals live in constant fear.

Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.  The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and their original Spanish. This article was written by “Francisco Morales” and “J.C. Sanchez”  from Tamaulipas. 

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