Communist Party of Mexico: On the violence in Jalisco and the "war against drug cartels"

Statement by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Mexico (PCM) concerning the recent violent events that followed the killing of drug lord Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, in Jalisco. 

 

On the Violence of the War Against the Narco 

"On the morning of Sunday, February 22, a Mexican state operation was launched in Tapalpa, Jalisco, culminating in the arrest and killing of Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), along with other capos and gunmen. 

Mexican Communists on Teuchitlán mass grave: Drug cartels and mafia are linked to the bourgeois state

By Nikos Mottas

Earlier this month, on March 8, the discovery of a suspected training and extermination camp for a drug cartel has sparked outrage across Mexico. 

More specifically, activists unearthed a mass grave in a ranch called Izaguirre farm, in the Teuchitlan region of the state of Jalisco, which is estimated to contain personal belongings, as well as cremated remains of at least 200 persons.