{"id":1074131,"date":"2021-12-01T19:29:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074131"},"modified":"2021-12-01T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:29:29","slug":"cartel-gunmen-break-leader-out-of-mexican-prison-using-car-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cartel-gunmen-break-leader-out-of-mexican-prison-using-car-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartel Gunmen Break Leader Out of Mexican Prison Using Car Bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcartel-gunmen-break-leader-out-of-mexican-prison-using-car-bombs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1074131&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Cartel gunmen used at least three car bombs and superior firepower to storm a prison in central Mexico to break out a regional leader and eight of his top associates.<\/p>\n<p>The attack took place early Wednesday when gunmen used a car bomb to blow up the entrance to a state prison in Tula, Hidalgo. The two other vehicles were set off near a hospital and a busy intersection to distract authorities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Law enforcement information obtained by Breitbart Texas revealed the gunmen were riding in Chevrolet Suburbans and pickups as they drove into the prison and clashed with guards in a short but intense shootout. The gunmen also used a truck with makeshift armor plating. Two guards sustained gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.174785100287\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">Grupo armado a bordo de veh\u00edculos modificados sustrajo a nueve reos del <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CERESO?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CERESO<\/a> de Tula, Hidalgo, esta madrugada, tras amagar a personal de seguridad y detonar coches bomba. Autoridades estatales confirman que dos polic\u00edas resultaron lesionados durante enfrentamientos. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MAL91Ibf1m\">pic.twitter.com\/MAL91Ibf1m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LupitaJuarez (@LupitaJuarezH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LupitaJuarezH\/status\/1466048500840513544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mexican authorities have since confirmed the gunmen rescued Jose Artemio \u201cEl Michoacano\u201d or \u201cLa Rabia\u201d Maldonado Mejia, a regional leader with the criminal organization that is now being called \u201cPueblos Unidos.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/El-Michoacano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18966658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/El-Michoacano.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"1020\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gunmen also rescued El Michoacano\u2019s brother, Mariano Maldonado Mej\u00eda, and other gunmen. The cartel is made up of smaller groups including Los Viagras, Familia Michoacana, El Michoacano\u2019s group Los Emes, and \u201cself-defense\u201d groups joined to fight against Cartel Jalisco New Generation.<\/p>\n<p>El Michoacano\u2019s group had been involved in ransom kidnappings and the large-scale theft of fuel in Hidalgo State. He had recently been arrested in late November on murder and kidnapping charges.<\/p>\n<p>The other members of his criminal who escaped are identified as: Jobani Morales, Ram\u00f3n Farfan S\u00e1nchez,&nbsp; Juan Valent\u00edn Rangel Albor, Jaime Eusebio Medina, Abel \u201cEl Cucaracho\u201d Mill\u00e1n Gaspar, Fernando Cer\u00f3n G\u00f3mez, and Yair Alejandro Hern\u00e1ndez Mart\u00ednez.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities set up a large-scale operation to recapture the cartel boss and his henchmen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to Mexico City and the states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Le\u00f3n to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities.&nbsp; The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used.&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2015\/02\/15\/breitbart-texas-announces-cartel-chronicles-effort-begins-to-help-citizen-journalists-in-mexico\/\"><em>Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;are published in both English and in their original&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2015\/02\/15\/cronicas-de-carteles-breitbart-texas-un-esfuerzo-por-ayudar-a-los-periodistas-de-ciudadanos-en-mexico\/\"><em>Spanish<\/em><\/a><em>. This article was written by&nbsp; \u201cL.P. Contreras\u201d from Mexico City, and Jose Luis Lara from Michoacan.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartel gunmen used at least three car bombs and superior firepower to storm a prison in central Mexico to break out a regional leader and eight of his top associates. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}