The Daily Populous Tuesday July 23rd, 2024 morning edition
Authored by telegraph.co.uk and submitted by TheTelegraph

It vies with the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquín “el Chapo” Gúzman, currently serving a life sentence plus 30 years in the United States, to be Mexico’s most powerful – and trigger-happy – organised crime group.

Both originated by smuggling cocaine and cannabis into the United States. But they have since metastasised, and now have multiple revenue streams, including extortion, kidnapping and migrant-smuggling.

They also routinely bribe and control public officials, including important figures in national politics.

Mr Morales Figueroa was a close ally of Mr García Harfuch, who has been named national head of public safety by Claudia Sheinbaum, the incoming president and former Mexico City mayor.

The pair had worked together from 2019 until earlier this year during a successful spell that saw a fall in violent crime in the capital.

Mr García Harfuch had previously held the same position as Mr Morales Figueroa, who continued his work coordinating investigations and raids on the cartels and other organised crime groups in the capital.

Recent operations under Mr Morales Figueroa included dismantling a drug retail network covering much of Mexico City and headquartered in Tepito, a central neighbourhood that has long had a ferocious reputation as a hive of criminal activity off limits to the police.

Describing his murdered colleague as a “great friend” and “extraordinary investigator,” Mr García Harfuch posted on Twitter: “As a team, we will find those responsible, as we always have done.”

Devilfish11 on July 22nd, 2024 at 21:54 UTC »

I was just a block away when the Tijuana police chief was assassinated. Middle of a Sunday afternoon and several shooters sprayed his vehicle with automatic weapons. They couldn't even count how many times he was hit.

He was trying to run an honest police department and had just mandated the entire Tijuana police force to declare all their assets. If it showed a lavish lifestyle above their salaries could provide, or they refused, they were going to be fired. The word on the streets was that disgruntled cops took him out, but the criminals in general down there depend on corruption also. It's a bad thing in Mexico to interfere with the status quo.

Ranier_Wolfnight on July 22nd, 2024 at 20:14 UTC »

Seriously though, knowing deep down inside that if you don’t play ball with some of the most dangerous and lawless people in the world, you WILL find a bullet in your head by within a year. And your family follows…Fucking wild to even type that.

hotguysixpackbigdick on July 22nd, 2024 at 19:15 UTC »

Jesus Christ being a not corrupt official in Mexico has got to he a fate worse than hell. At least in hell it's only you who suffers but these cartels will slaughter you your family their family and your entire family tree