{"id":480612,"date":"2025-08-30T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/mourning-networks-narco-violence-claims-the-lives-of-6-mexican-influencers-in-the-last-weeks\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T18:38:38","slug":"mourning-networks-narco-violence-claims-the-lives-of-6-mexican-influencers-in-the-last-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/mourning-networks-narco-violence-claims-the-lives-of-6-mexican-influencers-in-the-last-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourning networks: Narco-violence claims the lives of 6 Mexican influencers in the last weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"Mexico.- <\/strong>So far this year, at least six influencers and content creators<\/strong>, accused of alleged links to organized crime, have been brutally murdered in Mexico, pointing to an internal war between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel<\/strong>, specifically between Los Chapitos and Los Mayos<\/strong>.\n\nViolence has intensified since September 9, 2024<\/strong>, following the capture in July of the same year of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada<\/strong>, former leader of the criminal organization, unleashing a wave of violence in Sinaloa.\n\nA turning point was January 9, 2025<\/strong>, when “narco-flyers” were dropped from a small plane in several parts of Culiac\u00e1n, accusing content creators and singers, including Camilo Ochoa and Markitos Toys, of links to Los Chapitos.\n\n\n
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Recent Murders<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Camilo Ochoa “The Hallucinator”<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    \u25e6 Date of murder:<\/strong> August 16, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n    \u25e6 Place:<\/strong> Temixco, Morelos, inside a home.\n\nHe created content about drug trafficking and his experiences as an alleged former drug trafficker from the Sinaloa Cartel, managing a plaza in Mazatl\u00e1n until 2014. He spoke openly about the war between Los Chapitos and Los Mayos<\/strong>, and had received threats.\n\nOchoa Delgado, born in March 1982, had a life marked by his connection to drug trafficking, including a kidnapping<\/strong> and his subsequent incorporation into a cartel<\/strong>. His story was also linked to the support he received from the government in operations against leaders of organized crime factions.\n\nFrom a wealthy family, his father Juan Francisco Ochoa<\/strong> is the founder of the well-known restaurant chain ‘El Pollo Loco’, with its first location opened in 1975 in Guasave and five years later opened a branch in California, United States.\n\nIn social media, ‘El Aluc\u00edn’ has more than 212 thousand followers on Instagram,<\/strong> while his YouTube channel has more than 300 thousand subscribers.\n\n\n

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Agust\u00edn Pa\u00fal “El Pinky”<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n \u2022 Date of murder:<\/strong> January 10, 2025.\n\n \u2022 Location:<\/strong> His body was found lifeless with signs of violence and gunshot wounds on La Costerita of the Benito Juarez bypass in Culiacan.\n\nA video circulated where he supposedly confessed to hitmen from Los Chapitos that he had provided information about their location to an opposing cell. He is the only one of the mentioned influencers who did not appear on the narco-flyers<\/strong> released in January.\n\nResidents of the Sinaloa capital who were passing through the area identified the body, so they made the corresponding report to the authorities. Their personal profile on Instagram<\/strong> has more than 30 thousand followers, while the YouTube channel they shared with other content creators has a total of 97.3 thousand subscribers.<\/strong>\n\n\n
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Gael Castro “Gail Castro”<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    \u25e6 Date of murder:<\/strong> March 28, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n \u2022 Location:<\/strong> Ensenada, Baja California, while in a restaurant.\n\nBrother of the popular tiktoker Markitos Toys<\/strong> and originally from Culiac\u00e1n. Although his content focused on his lifestyle and travels, he was pointed out in the narco-flyers for supporting Los Chapitos.\n\nAccording to the data, the influencer received more than 15 shots<\/strong> in the stomach and chest from a group of men who arrived at the restaurant in a burgundy Toyota Corolla vehicle.\n\nGael Castro is linked to the attempted trademark registration of the nickname ‘El Nini’ of N\u00e9stor Isidro P\u00e9rez Salas, alleged head of security for Los Chapitos, before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI).<\/a><\/strong>\n\n\n

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Leovardo Aispuro “Gordo Peruci”<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    \u25e6 Date of murder:<\/strong> December 9, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n \u2022 Location:<\/strong> South of Culiac\u00e1n, shot while walking with his wife.\n\nLocal media linked him to the influencer Markitos Toys, who is also accused of alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel. He was blacklisted in January for his alleged links and support for Los Chapitos.\n\nAccording to reports, an armed man tried to rob them of their truck<\/strong>, and when the couple resisted handing over the keys, the attacker<\/strong> opened fire on them.\n\nAispuro managed to consolidate a large audience on digital platforms thanks to his videos, in which, on occasion, he showed controversial displays of firearms.<\/strong>\n\n

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Miguel Vivanco “El Jasper”<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n \u2022 Date of murder:<\/strong> His body was found lifeless on November 23, 2024.\n\n \u2022 Place:<\/strong> On a dirt road in the district of El Quemadito, next to the Culiac\u00e1n-Mazatl\u00e1n highway.\n\nHe was reported missing on November 21, 2024<\/strong>, after being forcibly taken by an armed commando. He also appeared in the narco-flyers of Culiac\u00e1n, accused of alleged links with Los Chapitos.\n\nThe Sinaloan youtuber<\/em> had received 70 bullet impacts<\/strong>, in addition to showing possible signs of violence. In the area, the victim was found wrapped in a sheet, with his hands tied and his eyes blindfolded with green tape; for their part, the authorities also noted the presence of spent cartridges from handguns<\/strong> and AR-15 rifles in the crime scene.\n\nThe ‘Jasper’<\/strong><\/em> had some popularity on social media, as the deceased made multiple collaborations with the influencer Marcos Eduardo Castro C\u00e1rdenas,<\/strong> known as ‘Markitos Toys’.\n\n\n
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Juan Carlos “El Chilango”<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n \u2022 Date of murder:<\/strong> October 19, 2024.\n\n \u2022 Place:<\/strong> Musala Island of Culiac\u00e1n, while selling sweets from a stroller.\n\nHe alluded to Los Chapitos and the Sinaloa Cartel in his content. He was blacklisted in the narco-flyers of January, accused of being a “financier and close collaborator” of Los Chapitos.\n\nA group of armed civilians<\/strong> who were near where Juan Carlos was making his sales opened fire with heavy caliber weapons from the motorcycle they were riding<\/strong>.\n\nIn various videos posted on social media, especially on TikTok, Juan Carlos combined humor content and scenes from his daily life with direct references to the Sinaloa Cartel and the “Los Chapitos” faction, led by Iv\u00e1n Archivaldo Guzm\u00e1n after the arrest of Joaqu\u00edn “El Chapo” Guzm\u00e1n Loera, whom he also mentioned frequently in his recordings.\n\n\n
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\u00a0Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n <\/strong>The ‘tiktoker’ Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay<\/strong>, known on social media as Esmeralda FG,<\/strong> was murdered along with her husband and their two children inside a last-model pick-up truck in San Andr\u00e9s, Guadalajara.\n\n\n

You may be interested in: <\/strong>Influencer Esmeralda Ferrer, her husband, and 2 children murdered in Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThe bodies were found on August 22, but it wasn’t until Thursday, August 28, that the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office confirmed the identity of the influencer and her family.\n\nThe influencer generated controversy for including narcocorridos and “corridos tumbados” in her videos, and even went so far as to write in one of them: “Advantages of having a narco boyfriend”, which was interpreted as an apology for the crime.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mexico.- So far this year, at least six influencers and content creators, accused of alleged links to organized crime, have been brutally murdered in Mexico, pointing to an internal war between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, specifically between Los Chapitos and Los Mayos. Violence has intensified since September 9, 2024, following the capture in July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":480613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[22467,108,41300,18822],"class_list":["post-480612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-influencers","tag-mexico","tag-murders","tag-narco"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-211O","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-08-30T143249.366.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Elsa Cesilia Feliz","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/cropped-elsa-cesilia-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/08\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-08-30T143249.366.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}