Just over a year after the betrayal of Ismael El Mayo Zambada that landed the powerful kingpin in a prison cell in the United States, the arrangements on the Mexican criminal scene continue. Now, La Mayiza has added an unlikely ally: the old Zetas who survived the extinction of their original group.
A report by the federal government’s security cabinet reveals that troops belonging to Ismael Zambada, Sicairos, or El Mayito Flaco, began rapprochement in June of this year with Los Chuckys, one of the most bloodthirsty armed wings of the Northeast Cartel, a splinter group of the former Gulf Cartel paramilitary guard.
After a couple of months of negotiations, Los Chuckys have agreed to join the mega-cartel formed by the heir to the Mayo Zambada throne—who, incidentally, has never been arrested—the Guasave Cartel, and the Cabrera Sarabia family, according to the official document.
Thus, Mayo Zambada’s loyalists now have allies in strategic states in the north of the country: Sinaloa, Nayarit, Durango, Zacatecas, and Tamaulipas.
The objective of this merger is to halt the advance of the second mega-cartel formed after Mayo Zambada surrendered to agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA): Los Chapitos and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
This common front is worrying to the federal government because it represents a union between Mexico’s most infamous narco-juniors and the national criminal group led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, considered the most widespread in the world.
The aforementioned official report estimates that the Los Chuckys group has around 200 permanent members. They are joined by occasional collaborators, public officials who provide protection, and a social base numbering in the hundreds, concentrated primarily in the Tamaulipas municipalities bordering Texas.
This group lacks the federal government’s estimate of the number of young people who could be forcibly recruited in the immediate future, as Los Chuckys must increase their firepower if they wish to remain allies of Sinaloa’s drug trafficking heavyweights. The outlook is bleak if they are not stopped in time, the report warns.
The archives of the Ministry of National Defense (Defense) place the birth of Los Chuckys in late 2022 or early 2023. Its founder is Ricardo González Sauceda, known as El Ricky or Mando R, who held the second-ranking position in the Northeast Cartel until February of this year, when he was arrested in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, by members of the National Defense, the Ministry of the Navy (Marina), and the National Guard (GN).
El Ricky’s importance in the Northeast Cartel was such that only one man could give him orders: Juan Cisneros Treviño, Juanito Treviño, nephew of Miguel Ángel and Omar Treviño Morales, the fearsome Z40 and Z42, respectively, founders of Los Zetas in 1999. Should Cisneros Treviño fall, El Ricky would be crowned the ruler of the Gulf.
