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Los Rojos is a faction of a Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel.[3] The group was formed in the late 1990s during the reign of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the cartel, to provide security to the organization's leaders as the cartel's armed wing.[3]
The current leader of Los Rojos is Juan Mejía González, alias El R1.[4][5] On 2 September 2011, Mejía González and Rafael Cárdenas Vela, two leaders of the Rojos, ordered the assassination of the drug lord Samuel Flores Borrego, who commanded the Metros, another faction within the Gulf cartel.[6]
The death of Flores Borrego triggered a series of confrontations between the Rojos and the Metros throughout the end of 2011.[7] Nonetheless, in early 2012, the Metros emerged victorious in the infighting and have relegated the Rojos to a less-powerful position in the cartel operatives.[1]
^ ab"Reynosa rooster honors slain Gulf Cartel boss, Sinaloa alliance". The Monitor. 21 January 2011. Archived from the original on 21 September 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
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^ abPachico, Elyssa (11 October 2011). "Death of Gulf Cartel 'Finance Chief' Sign of Internal Strife?". InSight Crime. Archived from the original on 9 August 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2012.
^"Prison riot in Matamoros kills 20; shootouts reported in Reynosa". The Monitor. 16 October 2011. Archived from the original on 17 August 2012. Retrieved 4 February 2012.
^"Juan Reyes Mejía González "R-1". Blog del Narco (in Spanish). 17 April 2010. Archived from the original on 18 June 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2012.
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^"Drug War Exiles: Amid Gulf Cartel infighting, leaders taken in by U.S. authorities". The Monitor. 8 November 2011. Archived from the original on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
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