Ramiro Pozos Gonzalez, a leader and founder of the La Resistencia criminal organization, was arrested on drug, kidnapping, extortion and murder charges by Mexico Federal Police yesterday. A reward of 1 million pesos (nearly $76,350) being offered by Mexican authorities for Pozos Gonzalez, alias ‘El Molca.’
La Resistencia is associated with the La Familia (Michoacana), and Gulf cartels.
La Resistencia was led by Pozos Gonzalez, Elpidio Mojarro Juarez, and Victor Manuel Torres Garcia, who was arrested by the Federal Police on Feb. 28, 2011,” according to the head of the Mexican police force, Ramon Eduardo Pequeño La Resistencia formed an alliance with the Zetas “to increase its operational power and maintain a strong front against the Jalisco Nueva Generacion cartel,” reported Fox News.
In June, Mexican authorities captured the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel in Guadalajara, as Erick Valencia Salazar, alias “El 85.” Grenades, magazines and cartridges of different calibers, and over 30 rifles, were seized at the time of the arrest.
In February 2011, Víctor Manuel Torres García, alias El Papirrín, another leader of La Resistencia, was arrested in the city of Uruapan, Michoacán.
According to intelligence and various news reports, El Papirrín was previously aligned with the Beltrán Leyva cartel. “After the arrest of Alfredo and the death of Arturo Beltrán Leyva,He continued to operate under the direction of Oscar Orlando Nava Valencia, alias El Lobo Valencia who was arrested in October of 2009 by elements of the Mexican army. Some of El Lobo’s lieutenants re-organized themselves to form La Resistencia, which also includes members of La Familia, Gulf Cartel and the Milenio Cartel.”