El General’s death follows sanctions over alleged Wedding ties

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Edgar Aarón Vázquez Alvarado, known as “El General” or “El Lic,” was killed alongside another person during a federal arrest operation in Naucalpan, State of Mexico, on November 5, according to Infobae México. Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch said officers serving an organized-crime arrest warrant returned fire after coming under attack in Lomas Verdes.

Authorities identified Vázquez as a founder and leader of the Cartel Nuevo Imperio. Infobae reported that the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned him on November 19, 2025, accusing him of protecting former Canadian Olympic athlete Ryan Wedding in Mexico and using police contacts to locate targets for Wedding’s organization.

The sanctions record described Vázquez as a suspected former Mexican law-enforcement official with connections to senior officers, without identifying those contacts. Infobae’s account places his group’s operations in the State of Mexico, Morelos and Mexico City. Officials linked it to kidnapping, extortion, homicide, property dispossession, money laundering, fuel theft and drug trafficking to the United States and Canada.

Investigators also identified Vázquez as the suspected organizer of the July 21, 2024, killing of Milton Morales Figueroa in Coacalco de Berriozábal. Morales coordinated a strategy and special operations unit within Mexico City’s police and had worked with García Harfuch.

The financial background extends beyond Vázquez personally. According to Infobae, OFAC also blocked three companies it identified as his in November 2025: VRG Energéticos, Grupo RVG Combustibles and Grupo Ares Imperial. The two fuel wholesalers were based in Atizapán de Zaragoza, while the private security company was based in Mexico City. The article gives their incorporation dates as June and July 2019.

Those designations blocked the companies’ property and interests in property in the United States or held by U.S. persons, the report explained. It also described a wider sanctions action against alleged Wedding associates across Mexico, Canada and Europe.

Wedding had competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics. Infobae reported that U.S. authorities had offered up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest before his January 2026 surrender at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico. He was subsequently sent to the United States to face charges.

Original reporting: Infobae México.