Recently, I learned a quite intriguing story about Mexican drug trafficking that not many people know. It turns out that in 2012, when Ramiro Pozos González, alias 'El Molca', was arrested, he made a nearly prophetic statement about what would happen to Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 'El Mencho'. Handcuffed and in front of cameras, 'El Molca' basically predicted that they would end up killing or imprisoning the man who later became the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. And look, 14 years later, exactly that happened on February 22 when security forces shot him.

The most interesting part is that 'El Molca' didn't just make the prediction casually. During that interrogation with the Federal Police, he explained the entire dynamic of how the Millennium Cartel split and how the CJNG emerged. It turns out Pozos González was born in Guadalajara in 1970 and was a logistical and financial operator for the Millennium Cartel. When the main leaders started to fall, the organization divided into two factions: Los Torcidos and La Resistencia. 'El Molca' sided with La Resistencia, while 'El Mencho' consolidated power in Jalisco and Colima, which eventually became the CJNG.

In 2012, the government offered one million pesos for information about 'El Molca', who already had open conflicts with 'El Mencho's' group. He was arrested in Zapopan, Jalisco, and according to reports from that time, they even seized an AK-47 rifle coated in gold. He was presented to the media, and 'El Molca' appeared smiling in the photos, apparently unconcerned.

What’s curious is that during his arrest, 'El Molca' revealed details about how the war between these factions began. He explained that when they captured the previous leaders, especially 'El Tigre' in 2010, the internal reconfigurations started. 'El Mencho' was gaining strategic ground while he and his people were left on the other side. That friction eventually led to open conflict.

Today, 'El Molca' is serving a 28-year sentence handed down in 2021. He is 56 years old and is detained at Altiplano, the maximum-security prison in the State of Mexico. His prediction about 'El Mencho' turned out to be accurate, although more than a decade passed before it came true. It’s one of those cases where the details revealed in interrogations end up being more interesting than fiction.