A former lieutenant from a powerful Mexican drug cartel who separated from the gang appeared – wrapped in plastic on a park bench.
Mexican officials said they believe the tightly wrapped corpse found in a Jalisco park last week is that of Carlos “El Cholo” Enrique Sanchez, a former member of the New Jalisco General Cartel before breaking up to form his own gang in 2017, Mexico News Daily said.
Police said the body was found Thursday at Jardin Hidalgo with two plates nailed to his body with knives, including one that said in Spanish, “the traitor El Cholo,” the newspaper said.
The corpse was not officially identified, but it came after a video posted online showed the handcuffed narcotic being held in front of armed members of the Jalisco cartel – claiming he cooperated with the police.
“This material confirms the existence of an orchestrated strategy to destabilize the state by an organized crime group,” said Jalisco’s attorney general, Gerardo Octavio Solis Gomez. “Everything indicates that it is… Carlos Sanchez Martinez, nicknamed ‘El Cholo’.”
According to Mexican News Daily, Sanchez broke with the Jalisco cartel and formed his own drug gang, the Nuevo Plaza Cartel.
The two gangs are at war for control of the methamphetamine trade in Guadalajara and other parts of Central Mexico.