A man authorities say was the leader of the Los Rojos criminal organization and who has been linked to the case of 43 students kidnapped in 2014 has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on organized crime charges
who was apprehended in August 2019 on organized crime and kidnapping charges
where at one point he gave orders to 15 of Morelos’ most wanted criminals
former head of the Guerreros Unidos gang — has implicated Mazarí in the case of the Ayotzinapa teacher training college students
Rodríguez said that one of the students told him that Mazarí had paid the teachers college director to send the 43 students to demonstrate and “cause disturbances” in Iguala
against then-mayor José Luis Abarca Velázquez
43 male students from the college disappeared in the same city
Federal authorities’ previous version of events alleged that municipal police in Iguala attacked the students
probably because they mistook them for being affiliated with the Los Rojos
then handed them over to the Guerreros Unidos
who killed and burned them before dumping their bodies
that version of events has been disputed by many
a new video emerged of Rodríguez under interrogation and appeared to have been tortured
President López Obrador announced he was reopening the investigation into the case
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) cites as major traffickers of heroin
are believed to be spinoff groups of the Beltran Leyva cartel
the two active groups casually cooperate with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and the Los Zetas cartel
Sources: <a href="https://www.milenio.com/policia/rojos-lider-carrete-sentenciado-20-anos-prision">Milenio</a> (sp)
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