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El Parece

19 Dec, 11 tweets, 6 min read

Holy shit, ok. So, in 2010, the US sent personnel from the Marine Corps to Colima in Mexico and Guatemala to exchange knowledge and training with MX military in *Colima and Guatemalan Kaibiles (SOF)
marforsouth.marines.mil/News/News-Arti…

2ndmaw.marines.mil/News/Article-V…

In July 2010, the MX Marina killed Nacho Coronel, which is how the CJNG was born. It supposedly caused a fracture of the Milenio Cartel into 2 factions: La Resistencia and Los Torcidos, which would become CJNG

In 2011, Los Matazetas, the Zeta-killers, materializes in Veracruz.
insightcrime.org/news/analysis/…

In 2012, 200 USMC personnel were deployed to Guatemala to train with Los Kaibiles, the notoriously brutal U.S.-trained SOF soldiers that specialize in (counter)insurgency and (counter)terrorism.

In 2015, after a raid against CJNG in Villa Purificación goes to shit and supposedly a helicopter gets shot down, afterwards it's reported that there is a group of "stateless" mercenaries that are "former" USMC and Kaibiles were protecting El Mencho.
estadomayor.mx/53643

But it gets crazier: after an assassination of the Jalisco Labor Secretary in May of 2018, which was reportedly the first appearance of CJNG "Grupo Élite" in 2018, the now-former and now-dead governor, Aristotelés Sandoval, who just got murdered yesterday in Jalisco…

…said that the attackers were trained by Colombian mercenaries, who of course have been trained by, yup, you guessed it: USMC starting in 2015.
aa.com.tr/es/mundo/la-ll…

This post was from this past June, right after AMLO put the military in control of the ports in Manzanillo, Colima. This is the slogan used by the U.S.-trained Kaibiles.

In July, CJNG "Grupo Élite" made their famous propaganda video which was filmed 4 km from a SEDENA base in Tomátlan, Jalisco.

After the video came out, it was suggested by one expert that this criminal group was probably the one that has its base of operations in the customs and ports in Manzanillo, Colima

I made this thread in a hurry, working on an article in which I'll get everything right. Matazetas made their debut in June 2009 in Quintana Roo and July in Guanajuato and USMC probably trained with Colombia long before 2015.

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