El Gringo, Mexican Jalisco Drug Cartel Leader Used Dynamite To Disintegrate Rivals

Newly released confiscated footage by Grupo Reforma shows members of the Jalisco drug cartel under the leadership of El Gringo used sticks of dynamite to disintegrate rivals while they were still alive.

By H. Nelson Goodson

June 15, 2015

Jalisco, México - On Monday, the Grupo Reforma released video confiscated by Jalisco state military authorities showing members of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (Jalisco Cartel) using sticks of dynamite to disintegrate its rivals while they were still alive. Video depicting the brutal dynamite murders were confiscated from cell phones of four cartel members, including Heriberto Acevedo Cárdenas, aka, "El Gringo" one of the leaders of the Jalisco Cartel who were killed on March 23, 2015 at the Zacoalo de Torres in Jalisco during a confrontation with state authorities.

The video shows an unidentified man who was tortured and had an attached stick of dynamite on his chest and a terrorized 10-year-old boy who had a stick of dynamite taped to his neck that were executed by lighting the dynamite fuses in a remote field. Then their bodies exploded killing them while they were still alive.

Jalisco Cartel video footage of dynamite used to kill rivals: https://youtu.be/bSK6gtfqEwI