MEXICAN AUTHORITY RECOVERED THE BODY OF ADULFO MENDOZA VALENCIA ON SUNDAY AS IT HUNG FROM HIGHWAY PASSOVER IN THE CENTRAL STATE

MEXICAN AUTHORITY RECOVERED THE BODY OF ADULFO MENDOZA VALENCIA ON SUNDAY AS IT HUNG FROM HIGHWAY PASSOVER IN THE CENTRAL STATE

 

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].' 

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.

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.