Mexico City authorities ended the bloodline of Felipe Pérez Luna, known as El Ojos, former leader of the Tláhuac Cartel, with the arrest on Friday, October 3, of his daughter Liliana Pérez, known as La Voz, the last of his heirs.
Since April 2024, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) had offered a reward of 500,000 pesos for information leading to the capture of La Voz, who was ultimately captured in Cuautla, Morelos.
According to investigations in the capital, La Voz received accounts for at least 50 drug sales points in the area, the largest in terms of seniority and profits being those located in the Agrícola Metropolitana neighborhood market and the one on Jenufa Street in the Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood.
The Tláhuac Cartel reached its peak under the leadership of Felipe Pérez Luna, known as El Ojos, who was killed in an operation involving the Navy in 2017.
Afterward, Liliana Pérez was identified by the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office as a probable perpetrator of drug sales and distribution under the orders of her mother, María de los Ángeles Ramírez, who was recently arrested in Pachuca, Hidalgo, along with another of her daughters, Samantha Pérez, known as La Sam.
Felipe Pérez Luna’s ex-wife had been the leader of the criminal group until her arrest, which caused a domino effect and led to the fall of two members of the criminal organization’s old guard.
On September 18, officers from the Mexico City Citizen Security Secretariat (SSC) arrested Juan Carlos ‘N’, known as El Ramiro or El Ramirín. along with his partner, Karla Gabriela, in possession of drugs and a firearm in the Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood of the Tláhuac municipality.
One of the victims, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals from the criminal group, recounted witnessing the arrival of the truck with the suspects.
“They started getting out, kicking the door, breaking in, hitting us, stealing things, money, bags, they even took our dog food, yelling and insulting us. They told us we had to align ourselves with the Tláhuac Cartel, with the Los Felipillos faction, that we had to pay 65,000 pesos upfront and an additional 5,000 pesos a month.”
The interviewee noted that this is not the first time El Felipillo’s hitmen have carried out these actions against merchants. He added that the vast majority of those affected do not report it out of fear.
“They came shouting that if they reported it, it would be a disaster and that they shouldn’t mess with the wrong people, that they were from the Tláhuac Cartel.”
Regarding El Ramiro, he commented, he is “a very aggressive person,” so he asked authorities not to leave the Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood after his arrest.
