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Newsrack images4/29/2023 ![]() The military-style attack on Tepalcatepec was not necessary for accomplishing the objective, yet it was a deliberate strategic choice. But instead, even more so than the Zetas a decade ago and far more so than its principal rival, the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG relishes acting as a de facto nonstate army. The Cartel could have simply attempted to take over the town’s legal and illegal markets through a quiet clandestine campaign of assassinating members of Cárteles Unidos and the militias affiliated with them and of local officials. The brazen blatantly-visible nature of the offensive against Tepalcatepec is significant, being a modus operandi hallmark of CJNG. Earlier this year, CJNG took over several communities and ranches in the Tepalcatepec municipality, trying to push closer to the town. Its failed attack against Tepalcatepec will most unlikely be its last attack against the town, which it has sought to seize since August 2019. After CJNG failed to take the town, it switched its immediate effort to take over a nearby community of La Estanzuela. It was fighting the rival criminal coalition known as Cárteles Unidos, which now incorporates the remnants of Michoacán earlier large criminal group – Caballeros Templarios – and smaller local groups, including La Nueva Familia Michoacana, Los Viagras, the Tepalcatepec Cartel, and former local anti-crime militias that have flipped to the criminal side. In the latest episode, CJNG, acting more like a militant group of the Taliban and al Shabab kind, attacked the town of Tepalcatepec on the evening of Tuesday September 16 in a battle that persisted for over 24 hours. CJNG has purposefully sought to cultivate an image of a criminal group without restraint and without any fear of government authority. The Cartel has shot down military helicopters and attacked high-level Mexican officials in a war-like ambush in Mexico City. ![]() ![]() CJNG has long indulged in brazenness and brutality.
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