Mica for cartelinsider.com
The threat of potential riots at the borders between Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas due to the capture of Jose Alberto Garcia Vilano, also known as “La Kena”, caused the federal government to strengthen security in the region with the arrival of special forces from the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), who this afternoon dismantled a suspected narco-camp allegedly linked to the Northeast Cartel (CDN).
In a statement from the 48th Military Zone, it was confirmed that during a patrol by the Sedena and National Guard in the community of Llera de Canales, south of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, a plot of land used by a criminal organization to store vehicles and firearms was detected.
In the narco-camp, they found eight trucks, one of them with homemade armor; three long guns, R-15, M-4, and a Barrett rifle; 95 magazines, 11 tactical vests, 12 ballistic plates, and 2,779 live cartridges.
The second operation took place 83 kilometers north, in the community of Güemez; there, 11 rifles of caliber 5.56, one Barret rifle, two magazines for caliber .50, two supply boxes for caliber 5.56, and hundreds of cartridges of different calibers were seized.
It was in Güemez where personnel from the Sedena (Mexican Army) detected 14 bulletproof vests with decals of the Northeast Cartel, as well as 18 magnetic decals with the emblem of the State Prosecutor’s Office, one ballistic plate, and 10 vehicles belonging to the cartel, two of which were had homemade armor.
In the course of the year, Sedena has already deployed more than a thousand soldiers to reinforce security efforts in Tamaulipas, specifically in the municipalities of Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros, and Reynosa.
The first group of military arrived on January 3rd: it consisted of 120 agents from the National Guard and 180 members of the Mexican Army who arrived in Reynosa to join the search for the 31 migrants kidnapped on a passenger bus, allegedly by hitmen from the Gulf Cartel.
One day later, another 100 Special Forces soldiers from the Mexican Army landed at the Reynosa International Airport; meanwhile, by January 19th, 120 National Guard officers and 380 members of the Army were deployed in the municipalities of Nuevo Laredo and Tamaulipas.
The last group of soldiers arrived on January 23rd in Nuevo Laredo to join the efforts to combat organized crime, according to the commanders of the IV Military Region and the Eighth Military Zone based in Reynosa.
Prior to the capture of “La Kena”, members of the Mexican Army clashed with members of the Northeast Cartel on the border between Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. A few days later, an intense shootout resulted in victory for the men of the Gulf Cartel, who boasted their arrival in the municipality of Doctor Coss, northeast of Monterrey.
Official sources report on the war being fought in Tamaulipas by both criminal groups vying for control of the territory and the route that connects Nuevo León with the small border town of Nuevo Laredo, considered the “crown jewel” for organized crime.
This war would have erupted since the separation of Los Zetas from the Gulf Cartel and the formation of the Northeast, but it intensified when the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel tried to settle in the area with the support of some groups like Los Metros.
Due to the potential for violence in Tamaulipas as a result of the reorganization of leadership in one of the major cartels operating in the region, authorities in the United States have also ordered a nighttime curfew for personnel working in the border area: it will be in effect from eight in the evening to six in the morning and will start on January 26th.
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