El Chapo's cartel is stepping up the bid to retain its position as the most powerful criminal organization in Mexico.
The Sinaloa Cartel sent a warning message to their main rivals, the New Jalisco Generation Cartel, by setting cars on fire in the state where they are based, according to news reports.
They also hung up a huge poster outside the parking lot town of Zapopan, which read: 'We’ve come for what belongs to us. We do not steal. We do not extort. We do not kidnap. We are coming for everything you filthy possums.'
It is the latest sign that the rival gangs are stepping up the violence to gain total dominance.
The Sinaloa Cartel is seeking to overtake the New Jalisco Generation Cartel as the most powerful group in Mexico. On Monday night it left the following message which read: 'We’ve come for what belongs to us. We do not steal. We do not extort. We do not kidnap. We are coming for everything you filthy possums'
The Sinaloa Cartel allegedly set cars on fire at a parking lot in Zapopa, a city in the Mexican state of Jalisco, as a notice to the New Jalisco Generation Cartel
Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada García, the new leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, has given his henchmen the green light to hunt down members of the ew Jalisco Generation, Mexican news outlets have reported.
The DEA once considered the Sinaloa Cartel to be the biggest threat to the United States.
But in the last few years, especially since El Chapo's arrest, they have lost their dominance, and the New Jalisco Cartel have taken over.
They are still operating in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, Coahuila, Baja California, Baja California Sur and
