Mexican organized crime group
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Guerreros UnidosCartel de los Guerreros Unidos |
| Founded | 2010 |
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| Founded by | An alliance in 2010 signed by La Familia Michoacana remnants with Beltrán-Leyva Organization, Tijuana Cartel, Juárez Cartel, and Los Zetas |
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| Founding location | Guerrero |
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| Years active | 2010-present |
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| Territory | Mexico: Guerrero, Oaxaca, Edomex, Morelos, Distrito Federal, Puebla
United States: New York State, Miami, Chicago |
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| Ethnicity | Mexican |
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| Leader(s) | Esther Yadira Huitrón Vázquez |
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| Criminal activities | Drug trafficking, corruption, extortion, kidnapping, murder |
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| Allies | La Familia Michoacana
Beltrán-Leyva Organization
Los Zetas
Juárez Cartel
Tijuana Cartel
La Barredora
CIDA
Los Talibanes Cartel
CJNG |
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| Rivals | Gulf Cartel
Knights Templar Cartel
Popular Revolutionary Army
Sinaloa cartel
Los Rojos
La Nueva Familia Michoacana |
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Guerreros Unidos (English: United Warriors, lit. 'Warriors Unified') is a Mexican criminal syndicate in the states of Southern Mexico.
In 2014, the cartel kidnapped 43 students from Ayotzinapa College in Iguala, Guerrero. A witness confirmed that soldiers in the Mexican Army were involved in the kidnapping, by interrogating the students at the army base in the town of Iguala and then handing them over to the cartel.[1]
History
The Guerreros Unidos were founded in 2010 as two factions from La Familia Michoacana merged an alliance with different cartels. One faction chose sides with the Tijuana, Beltrán-Leyva, Juárez and Los Zetas cartels. Another chose alliances with the Gulf and Sinaloa Cartels. The faction that chose sides with the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels rivals formed Guerreros Unidos with the remains of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. Before the kidnapping of the 43 students, it was suspected of attacking a bus of Ayotzinapa activists on 11 December 2011, with Guerrero state militia and police.[2]
2014 Iguala kidnapping
On 26 September 2014, students from Ayotzinapa College were assisting a protest in Mexico City to commemorate the 46th anniversary of the Tlatelolco massacre. Under orders from the mayor, Iguala Municipal Police, Federal Ministerial Police, Mexican Federal Police, various members from SEDENA, and Guerrero State Police carjacked a bus carrying them to Mexico City. They shot the bus windows killing six students. Witnesses that survived the ordeal described they were taken to the Mexican army base in town, and then the commander decided who would be killed or left alive. The mayor was then arrested a few months later on November 4, 2014, by PGR and SEIDO agents.[3]
References
- ^ "Mexican president confirms witness implicated soldiers in kidnapping of 43 college students". www.nbcnews.com.
- ^ "Comisión Nacional de los derechos Humanos México" (PDF). www.cndh.org.
- ^ "Detienen a José Luis Abarca, ex edil de Iguala, y su esposa, en Iztapalapa, DF". www.aristeguinoticias.com.
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| Projects | - Coronado
- Delirium
- Gunrunner
- Shadowfire
- Southern Tempest
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| Operations | - Baja California
- Bishop
- Black Swan
- Blue Storm
- Chihuahua
- Community Shield
- Coyote
- Diablo Express
- Escorpión
- Fast and Furious
- Jump Start
- Kruz Control
- Lince Norte
- Michoacán
- Nuevo León-Tamaulipas
- Phalanx
- Quintana Roo
- Sinaloa
- Solare
- Terminus
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- Xcellerator
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| Books | - Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars
- El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
- The Fight to Save Juárez
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