biggest cope i ever fell for
isolated myself for years on end
thought I was more superior than everyone around me and that they just didn't get me
played a victim role for so long that when I tried to go back, it was the hardest thing to do
suddenly ordering a coffee outside was even scary
you can still achieve greatness by being around people
the most dangerous cartel on earth is run like a family business and half of them are already in prison
- CJNG
- founded around 2009 by El Mencho after the Milenio Cartel collapses
- El Mencho didnt even earn his position through power. he married into it
- his wife Rosalinda González Valencia gave him the cartel connections
- her brothers ran Los Cuinis the financial arm laundering billions
- brother-in-law Abigael González Valencia: life sentence in the US
- brother-in-law Jose González Valencia: 30 years for trafficking tons of cocaine
- El Mencho's son El Menchito: life sentence plus 30 years. ordered to forfeit $6 billion. trafficked 50+ tons of cocaine. supervised labs producing 1000+ tons of meth
- El Mencho's son-in-law El Guacho: pled guilty to international money laundering
- El Mencho's brother Don Rodo: arrested Feb 2025. ran property purchases and notary offices for laundering
- El Mencho's wife Rosalinda: arrested on money laundering charges
- El Mencho's brother "Tony Montana": arrested 2022 extradited 2025
- El Mencho's godson: arrested for drug trafficking and kidnapping
- El Mencho's nephew: suspected CJNG leadership working as top security chief
- stepson El Pelón (Juan Carlos Valencia González): $5M bounty. de facto second-in-command
- son-in-law El Chorro (Julio Alberto Castillo Rodríguez): sanctioned senior lieutenant
- El Jardinero (Audias Flores Silva): $5M bounty. senior lieutenant. territory manager
- El Sapo (Hugo Mendoza Gaytán): senior lieutenant. recruitment and franchise operations
- Doble R (Ricardo Ruiz Velasco): controls Guadalajara the nerve center of the whole operation
- El Tanque (Ivan Cazarin Molina): $10M reward. senior member running fuel theft network
- El Tanque's brother Cesar "Tornado" Cazarin Molina
- El Tanque's father-in-law Domingo "El Mingo" Medina Diaz
- El Tanque's nephew Jahir Cazarin Ramos
- plus 6 more fuel front operators sanctioned by OFAC in September 2024
the cartel operates in all 50 US states
present in 40+ countries
controls the Port of Manzanillo
earns $8B+ from cocaine and $4.6B+ from meth annually
structured like a franchise with 90+ affiliated organizations across 27 Mexican states
designated a foreign terrorist organization by the US in February 2025
February 22 2026
- Mexican army kills El Mencho in Tapalpa Jalisco
- he separated from Rosalinda in 2018 and was with a different woman when he died
- his son is in a US prison for life
- the line of succession is broken
- no clear family heir
- 5 lieutenants now competing for control
- El Pelón wants inheritance
- El Sapo wants administration
- El Jardinero wants territory
- Doble R controls the capital
- El Chorro wants the family name
- within hours of his death 20+ Mexican states erupted in violence
he built a cartel so powerful it operated like a government
staffed it with family so loyal it operated like a dynasty
and now every single family member is either dead or in prison
the machine is still running but the family that built it is destroyed
As I’m looking for $2M
I’m also looking for $500k
I’m still looking for $100k
Still actively looking for $10k
And if I see $1k, I’ll still take it.
I’m here for all the money.
@_Solo69@dawninternet I didn't bro. I honestly didn't create nothing this week.
My schedule was so tight.
Btw, sunrise ceremony is always fun, I'm glad you enjoyed it
grass in 2025
> 3x’d node count
> launched the most performant multimodal data crawl in the world
> broke 3PB in daily scraped data
> scaled quarterly revenue from data sales to 8 figures
among other things, a big focus for 2026 will be expanding from training to inference data
Momentum is building at @dawninternet.
With $13M in Series B backing led by @polychain, the network is gearing up for its next phase — broader reach, faster rollouts, and stronger collaborations across the ecosystem.
Decentralized broadband is scaling worldwide! 🌎
DAWN has raised $13M in Series B funding, led by @polychain
This capital accelerates our global expansion, new deployments, and ecosystem partnerships as we continue our mission of scaling decentralized broadband worldwide 🌍