Mexican Cartels and Trump

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Trump Sends Terrifying Message To CJNG After EL Mencho Killed Super Cop Who Jailed His Son Donald Trump has reportedly sent a chilling message to the CJNG cartel following the suspected killing of Mexico’s top "super cop" by El Mencho, the cartel’s ruthless leader. The cop had previously arrested El Mencho’s son, and his death has sparked major tension between the U.S. and cartel forces. Trump isn’t holding back, and his strong warning could mean serious consequences for the CJNG. This video breaks down what Trump said, why it matters, and what it could mean for future U.S.-Mexico cartel crackdowns. Watch now to get the full story and all the shocking details.

On today’s episode, Katarina breaks down a recently released Justice Department report detailing how the Sinaloa cartel hired a hacker in 2018 to track FBI personnel and informants in Mexico City. The hacker accessed phone data and surveillance cameras to monitor the movements of an FBI attaché and identify individuals meeting with U.S. officials. Some of those individuals were later targeted by the cartel. The episode explores how cartels are using digital tools to support their operations and what this means for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence efforts abroad.

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DEA Agent Reveals CJNG Conducted Surveillance at US Court Hearings of Menchito & Murdered Witnesses, Even After Sentencing

By Socalj 6/29/2025 07:37:00 PM  75 comments
"Socalj" for Borderland Beat




The message that Mexican drug cartels want to send to the United States is clear: “We are here. We are among you.” This is how Special Agent Matthew W. Allen of the DEA, the U.S. anti-narcotics agency, explained it when he was asked about the risk posed by Mexican criminal organizations in the United States.

Allen, head of the agency’s Los Angeles division, said at a hearing before the U.S. Senate that members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were monitoring DEA agents and witnesses during the trial of Rubén Oseguera González, "El Menchito," the son of cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera "El Mencho."

At the hearing, Allen recounted how the criminal group retaliated against family members of informants, an example of the violence this group routinely employs and the threat it poses to American citizens.



The DEA special agent asserted that they have evidence that cartel members are monitoring DEA agents in the United States and that some of these operations occurred in parallel with the Menchito trial. 

“In my 22 years-plus in the DEA in the Los Angeles area, and in other areas of the world, I’ve experienced several instances of cartels and criminal organizations surveilling our people, both in Mexico and the United States,” he explained. 

Allen asserts that these activities “are frequent,” and that his agents notice they are being spied on when they go out to execute a search or arrest warrant. When they realize they are being followed, they must notify local police so they can stop the suspect car and initiate an investigation. The agent used this activity as an example to demonstrate the danger that the men and women who work for the DEA face every day in their operations, even in their own country. “I’ve personally lost several friends on this job,” he lamented.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing on Tuesday titled “The Thin Blue Line Protecting America from the Cartels” to assess the danger Mexican criminal organizations pose to its law enforcement.

Witnesses & Family Killed

To illustrate the violence they face, Allen stated that after the capture of "El Mencho’s" son and his prosecution in the United States, his father’s cartel retaliated in Mexico. “One of our major CJNG cases involved a key witness who was later executed in Mexico along with his wife. Separately, the daughter of a cooperating witness was murdered soon after the sentencing,” he added. “This horrific act of revenge underscores the threat these terrorists pose to U.S. security: adversaries who kill without hesitation and who reach across borders with impunity.”


Ivan Morales and his wife were slain in May 2025.

The witness and his wife executed was Ivan Morales. Morales was a highly decorated federal police officer who survived a fiery helicopter crash in 2015 during a raid where authorities tried to capture El Mencho. The downing of the helicopter was ordered by Menchito and part of the charges against him. Morales traveled to the US to testify about the attack.




Last month, he and his wife were executed 10 years to the day of the helicopter crash, while driving about 60 miles outside of Mexico City. Morales Corrales was gunned down in a neighborhood in the municipality of Temixco, in the state of Morelos. He had no security, not even an armored truck. The gunmen intercepted his black pickup truck and fired a dozen bullets at it. Both the former police officer and his companion, his wife, died instantly. The killers fled on a motorcycle toward Cuernavaca and have not yet been arrested.

The daughter of the cooperating witness who was killed in Mexico is still unnamed. 

According to the Los Angeles DEA agent’s statement, the woman was killed after the April 2025 sentencing of “Menchito” and was the daughter of one of the cooperating witnesses against Ruben.

Several prominent Mexican drug traffickers testified at his trial including his relative, Oscar “El Lobo” Nava Valencia of the Milenio Cartel, Elpidio "El Pilo" Mojarro Ramírez who worked with early iterations of CJNG, as well as Sinaloa/Juarez killer Jose Antonio “El Jaguar” Torres Marrufo and former Gulf Cartel leader Mario “X20/Pelon” Ramirez Trevino.

Shortly before the murders, Rubén Oseguera González had been sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit over $6 billion in proceeds from the cartel’s drug trafficking by the District of Columbia Court in Washington.



Another witness in the trial recently passed, however it is believed he died naturally. Mario Ramírez Treviño, known as "El Pelón" or "X20," former leader of the Gulf Cartel, died on March 13, 2025, while in custody in a U.S. federal prison. He had also been a witness against Menchito in his trial. It was reported by the BOP that "El Pelón" died of natural causes at 63 years old.

In his statement, filed in September 2024, he recounted having met "El Menchito" at the Altiplano Prison in 2014. According to his testimony, Oseguera González asked him for help in obtaining weapons, including an M60 machine gun and a .50-caliber rifle, and arranging a cocaine purchase with his father.

Carlos Almada Castrillo was found hanged in his prison cell in Puente Grande in 2020. He was due to be extradited to the US and believed to have been set to testify against "Menchito" having essentially grown up in the cartel with him.





Later in 2020, Mexican Judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz and his wife were executed. The magistrate had overseen one of the Amparo cases involving "Menchito" including his prison transfer.

Several accusations against Menchito in court filings prior to the trial included accusations from a "jailhouse snitch." According to the defense, the witness, who was in custody with "Menchito" testified in court in February 2021 that he either was told or overheard the proffered evidence.

El Mencho’s Son-in-Law in California

At the hearing, the DEA agent detailed how some members of El Mencho’s family lived in a gated community in Riverside, California, “just down the street from the Chief of Police.” 

The home of Cristian Fernando Gutiérrez, "El Guacho," and his wife, who is the daughter of Nemesio Oseguera, was searched by the DEA, and they found garbage bags overflowing with Rolex luxury watches, exclusive designer handbags, and $1 million in cash. 

In total, the seized goods were valued at $2.25 million. 

“These cartel figures were living in luxury, embedded in our communities, hiding in plain sight. They not only live in our communities, but they also sneak their deadly products into our homes under false pretenses,” the agent emphasized.

El Guacho fled to the United States to live a life of luxury after faking his own death in Mexico, where he was involved in the kidnapping of two Mexican marines in November 2021. The crime was the CJNG’s response to the capture of Rosalinda González Valencia, "El Mencho’s" wife, in the Guadalajara metropolitan area. When he was finally arrested late last year, U.S. authorities accused him of being one of the cartel’s leaders and recounted how "El Mencho’s" son-in-law assumed a false identity to “evade justice and live a life of luxury in California.”

Last week, he struck a deal with US authorities to plead guilty to money laundering charges instead of the drug trafficking he was also accused of. It is not believed he is cooperating beyond the plea deal. The primary charge of money laundering involved the Riverside, California home that was purchased by a Mexican Pasión Azul Tequila firm allegedly tied to the CJNG. The tequila company's owner denied associations with the cartel via lawyer Victor Beltran Garcia who has been sanctioned by the US OFAC for representing CJNG figures, including "Menchito" during his detention in Mexico.

Laisha has not been arrested and is believed to still operate a small coffee shop in nearby Perris, California.

The Cartels have reached into the pockets of American authorities just as they have in Mexico's Narco state. No brag just a fact.

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Sinaloa Cartel Used Hacked FBI Phone Data & Mexico City Cameras to Find and Kill Informants

By Socalj 6/29/2025 06:25:00 PM  22 comments
”Socalj” for Borderland Beat

From a Reuter’s Article

A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official's phone records and use Mexico City's surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency's informants in 2018, the U.S. Justice Department said in a report issued on Thursday.

The incident was disclosed in a Justice Department Inspector General's audit of the FBI's efforts to mitigate the effects of "ubiquitous technical surveillance," a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data.
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The report said that the hacker worked for a cartel run by "El Chapo," a reference to the Sinaloa drug cartel run by Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, who was extradited to the United States in 2017.

The report said the hacker identified an FBI assistant legal attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City and was able to use the attaché's phone number "to obtain calls made and received, as well as geolocation data." The report said the hacker also "used Mexico City's camera system to follow the (FBI official) through the city and identify people the (official) met with."

The report said "the cartel used that information to intimidate and, in some instances, kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses."

The report did not identify the alleged hacker, attaché or victims.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico referred questions to the State and Justice departments, who did not immediately return messages seeking comment. The FBI and a lawyer for El Chapo did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

The collection of granular location data from people's phones by a wide variety of commercial and official actors, combined with ever-growing coverage of surveillance cameras, has posed a thorny problem for intelligence and law enforcement officials, many of whom rely on confidential informants.

The report said that recent technological advances "have made it easier than ever for less-sophisticated nations and criminal enterprises to identify and exploit vulnerabilities" in the global surveillance economy. It said the FBI had a strategic plan in the works for mitigating those vulnerabilities and made several recommendations, including more training for bureau personnel.

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The FBI just pulled off the largest takedown of Anti-Tren gang members in U.S. history - 16 Venezuelan criminals running a $40 million drug and weapons trafficking operation right out of Houston. Anti-Tren is made up of defectors from the notorious Tren de Aragua cartel who are now in a bloody turf war with their former gang. This comes as Trump's administration has arrested over 2,700 TdA members nationwide, forcing these cartels to literally fight each other for survival. The pressure from these arrests is causing TdA to fracture from within, with breakaway gangs like Anti-Tren going to war over territory and drug routes while American communities. #AntiTrenCartel #TrenDeAragua #CartelTurfWar #VenezuelanGangs #TrumpCrackdown Timestamps 1:25 -THE DEFECTORS: Ex-TdA Members Turn Enemy 3:34 -Sponsor 4:44 -The $40 Million Drug Operation 5:33 -The Latinas Sports Bar 6:44 -The 2,700 Arrest Success Story 7:57 -The Terrorist Designation Impact 9:00 -THE STRATEGY: Maximum Pressure Success