Officials in Michoacán said six male gunmen were captured and a woman was killed after they opened fire on soldiers and police in the same area where the October ambush occurred. The 21-year-old was involved in an attack against the military, national guard and police in La Bocanda, a town in the central state of Michoacán. The clip and photographs appear to confirm she was María Guadalupe López Esquivel, known as 'La Catrina,' a female member of a cartel hit squad that massacred 13 police officers in October. Video footage has emerged showing the dying moments of a female cartel boss after she was fatally wounded during a shootout with police in Mexico. Friday's attack, also in Aguililla, took place during a meeting with Miguel 'M2' Fernández, a top leader in the Jalisco New Generation Cartelīy Adry Torres For and Associated Press.She reportedly oversaw an Octoambush that left 14 cops dead and nine other injured in the Michoacán city of Aguililla.López Esquivel was 21-years-old and was known as 'La Catrina,' Mexico's 'Grande Dame of Death,' a satirical skeleton figure celebrated on the Day of the Dead.Authorities arrested another woman and six other men, and confiscated a cache of military-style weapons and ammunition.She was airlifted to a hospital after the road leading out of the city of La Bocanda was blocked.María Guadalupe López Esquivel died after she and seven other members of Mexico's most powerful cartel attacked security forces Friday in Michoacán.Despite numerous New Generation attacks, Los Viagras and the Cartel del Abuelo were reported as having a "profound advantage" over New Generation in Tierra Caliente.Last moments of Mexico's most deadly female cartel boss: Ruthless drug lord called 'La Catrina', 21, who led the nation's most powerful hit squad is killed in shootout
Los Viagras and New Generation have been in conflict for control this region since 2017. Īs of June 2020, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has been unsuccessful in taking territory held by Los Viagras in Tierra Caliente, covering parts of the states of Michoacán, Guerrero and the State of Mexico. In February 2020, nine people, including three children, were killed by Jalisco New Generation gunmen in an arcade during a turf dispute. One of the group's sicarios was arrested and charged in February 2019 for allegedly committing dozens of murders.
Los Viagras expanded into the drug trade, first by becoming involved in the production and transportation of methamphetamine, which brought them into a turf dispute with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, particular the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán. When announcing the first attempt to disarm and dissolve the self-defense groups in December 2014, "Los Viagras", they took over the municipal presidency of Apatzingán and were violently evicted by the federal police on 6 January 2015, with a balance of 10 civilians dead and 21 wounded. The name of "Los Viagras" comes from a joke between them, due to the excessive use of hair gel by one of the younger brothers with a spiky hairstyle. Former Michoacán security commissioner Alfredo Castillo Cervantes then asked them to assist in the efforts to capture the leader of the Los Caballeros Templarios cartel, Servando Gómez Martínez ("El Tuta"), who was then arrested in Morelia in February 2015. The gang began operating as a self-defense force ( grupos de autodefensa comunitaria) in 2014. The leader of the group is Nicolás Sierra Santana ("El Gordo"), for whom arrest warrants have been issued in connection with multiple counts of homicide, robbery, extortion, and kidnapping. Los Viagras is a criminal group based in Michoacán, Mexico. Drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking, extortion, murder, kidnapping