The Brutal Demise Of El Cholo | What Happens When You Betray CJNG

At his peak, he was known as “El Cholo,“ a prominent gangster and presumed head of the Nueva Plaza Cartel, a criminal organization based in Guadalajara, Mexico. But in the end, he was simply Carlos Enrique Sánchez, his body left wrapped in plastic on a park bench in downtown Tlaquepaque, the Mexican state of Jalisco — yet another casualty in Mexico’s bloody cartel wars. A former member of the notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), El Cholo once was considered the right-hand man of El Mencho, one of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s most-wanted drug lords.