Chilling video shows Mexico’s most powerful criminal organization holding a rival cartel member hostage and forcing him to confess to his role in a drugs turf war shortly before his dead body is found hanging from a highway overpass
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- Mexican authorities recovered the body of Adolfo Mendoza Valencia on Sunday as it hung from a highway overpass in the central state of Guanajuato
- Mendoza Valencia was kidnapped by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and, in a taped video, admitted to running a drug turf in Valle de Santiago
- Jalisco New Generation Cartel threatened to come after Mendoza Valencia’s boss, José Antonio ‘El Marro’ Yépez Ortiz
- El Marro is the leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, which has grown to power through the illegal oil tapping business known as ‘huachicoleo’
- Mendoza Valencia’s assassination came two days after alleged members of his cartel attacked a police station in Valle de Santiago and killed five prisoners
Chilling footage has emerged showing Mexico’s most powerful cartel parading a high-ranking rival gang member in front of a camera before executing him and leaving his body hanging from a highway overpass.
Armed members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel appeared in a video released this weekend surrounding half-naked Adolfo Mendoza Valencia, who was in charge of managing a “plaza” or turf operated by the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel in Valle de Santiago, a city in the central Mexico state of Guanajuato.
Mendoza Valencia, who was also known as El Michoacano, was bound to a chair with his hands and feet tied.
A male voice behind the camera interrogated him during a recording that was later posted on social media Sunday.
‘[My name] is Adolfo Mendoza Valencia, also known as El Michoacano,’ he said before adding that he sold ‘drugs in the Valle de Santiago [Santiago Valley].’
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Adolfo Mendoza Valencia (center), who supervised a plaza or ‘turf’ for the Santa de Rosa de Lima Cartel, was found hanging from a highway overpass in Guanajuato, Mexico, Sunday after he was kidnapped by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the strongest faction in Mexico. He is pictured with an alleged cartel member, identified as El Chivo (left), and his son (right)
José Antonio Yépez Ortiz (pictured), who leads the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, and Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, have been at odds since 2017
A separate video that was circulated Sunday showed first responders removing the drug dealer’s body after it was discovered hanging from a highway overpass in Guanajuato.
According to local Mexican media outlets, Mendoza Valencia had previously escaped an assassination attempt which left his 17-year-old son and another man dead July 27.
The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, considered the strongest criminal organization in Mexico, sent a warning message to José Antonio ‘El Marro’ Yépez Ortiz, the leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.
Both criminal syndicates have been embroiled in an all-out bloody war that has left innocent civilians dead since December 2017 when El Marro declared war on New Jalisco Generation Cartel, led by Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, a former ally of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán who is wanted by the U.S. government.
Adolfo Mendoza Valencia was killed by Mexico’s most powerful criminal organization, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, just after it also led an attack that left his 17-year-old son (pictured) dead July 27
Both gangs have been fighting for control of the highly profitable illegal oil tapping business known as ‘huachicoleo’.
‘To everyone in the Valle de Santiago, we are the elite group of the four letters. We are already here in the Valle de Santiago,’ the Jalisco New Generation Cartel associated declared.
‘We come to clean the municipality of all the plague, extortionists, kidnappers and killers of innocent people. A clear example, here we have the Michoacano, who was the head of the Valle de Santiago turf … We are coming for you, you filthy Marro, and all of your filthy people, those who entered the Santiago Valley police department and killed innocent people.’
The cartel was referencing to Friday’s attack at the police precinct in which alleged members of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel killed five prisoners and freed a presumed member of their faction, only identified as ‘El Mano Mocha’, who was jailed at the station.
No arrests have been reported.
Mexican authorities recover the body of Adolfo Mendoza Valencia, which was left hanging from a highway in central Mexico on Sunday after he was kidnapped by a rival cartel