Do the news articles move the Prosecutor’s Office?
Omar García Harfuch, the Secretary of Security, came out with a statement that sounds good on paper. He said that all media publications about the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and its leader, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ‘El Mencho’, are taken into account to open investigation folders. Even those of this newspaper.
“Yes, they are all analyzed… where warranted, the investigation folder is started,” he said during the morning in Colima.
The question, of course, came after this medium revealed that the CJNG has a network of hired hackers. A narconomina with payments of 630 thousand pesos to seven computer specialists. The official response was that they have taken down more than 180 websites, but…
“More than hackers, more than hacking an institution or something like that… we have no knowledge or any indication about it,” Harfuch responded.
A curious fact: they have no signs of the hack, but they have downloaded pages. Logic there is conspicuous by its absence.
Digital recruitment and ‘important assurances’
The official also spoke of forced recruitment. He said criminal cells now use TikTok and Facebook for that. He highlighted the good collaboration with these platforms and assured that they have arrested a large number of recruiters.
In Colima, according to him, the Security Cabinet has paid greater attention to drug dealing and drug trafficking in the Port of Manzanillo. There would have been important assurances during this administration.
He also mentioned disputes between local groups such as ‘Los Mezcales’. It’s always comforting to know that there are more bands competing for territory.
The promise remains on the table: the journalistic investigations will be analyzed. The question is also: how many open folders have ended up in something more than a dusty file? The memory is long and the results, historically, short.
