Kartel Generasi Baru Jalisco dimulai sebagai salah satu perpecahan dari [[Kartel Milenio]], yang lainnya adalah La Resistencia. La Resistencia menuduh CJNG menyerahkan Oscar Valencia ("El Lobo") kepada pihak berwenang dan menyebut mereka Los Torcidos ("The Twisted Ones"). Kartel Jalisco mengalahkan La Resistencia dan menguasai jaringan penyelundupan Kartel Millenio.
JaliscoKartel NewGenerasi GenerationBaru CartelJalisco expandedmemperluas itsjaringan operationoperasinya networkdari frompantai coastke topantai coasthanya indalam onlywaktu sixenam monthsbulan, makingmenjadikannya itsalah onesatu ofkelompok thekriminal criminaldengan groupskapasitas withoperasi theterbesar greatestdi operatingMeksiko capacity in Mexicopada bytahun 2012.<ref name="eluniversal.com.mx">{{cite news|title='Chapo' y Cártel de Jalisco, aliados contra Zetas: Stratfor|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/842470.html|access-date=22 April 2012|newspaper=[[El Universal (Mexico City)|El Universal]]|date=19 April 2012|language=es}}</ref> AtSaat this timeini, theKartel Sinaloa Cartelbersekutu allieddengan withKartel theGenerasi Baru Jalisco New Generation Cartel to fightuntuk offmelawan Los Zetas.<ref name="Viernes negro en Nuevo Laredo: 23 m">{{cite news|title=Viernes negro en Nuevo Laredo: 23 muertos|url=http://www.informador.com.mx/mexico/2012/374076/6/viernes-negro-en-nuevo-laredo-23-muertos.htm|access-date=5 May 2012|newspaper= El Informador|date=5 May 2012|language=es}}</ref> InPada theperiode periodsetelah followingmunculnya the emergence of thekartel CJNG cartel, homicidespembunuhan, kidnappings and thepenculikan discoveriesdan ofpenemuan masskuburan gravesmassal spikedmelonjak indi Jalisco.<ref name="insightcrime.org" />
InPada tahun 2017, the CJNG reportedlydilaporkan brokememutuskan itsaliansinya alliance withdengan [[Ismael Zambada Garcia|Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada]] ofdari theKartel Sinaloa Cartel.<ref name="borderlandbeat3"/> ByPada tahun 2018, the CJNG becamemenjadi thekartel secondterkuat mostkedua powerfuldi cartel in MexicoMeksiko, anddan wasdiyakini believedmemiliki tolebih have overdari 100 methamphetaminelaboratorium labsmetamfetamin throughoutdi theseluruh countrynegeri. BasedBerdasarkan onnilai therata-rata average street valuejalanan, itsperdagangannya tradedapat could net upwards ofmenghasilkan $8.,1 billionmiliar foruntuk cocainekokain anddan $4.,6 billionmiliar foruntuk crystal methsabu eachsetiap yeartahunnya.<ref name="wjla.com" /><ref name="reuters.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence-idUSKBN1HV07Y|title=Mexican students were killed, dissolved in acid, officials say|date=24 April 2018|access-date=3 March 2019|via=www.reuters.com|newspaper=Reuters}}</ref><ref name="businessinsider.com.pl">{{cite web|url=https://businessinsider.com.pl/international/with-el-chapo-guzman-locked-up-abroad-the-shift-in-mexicos-cartel-underworld-grinds/lfgxe8t|title=With 'El Chapo' Guzmán locked up abroad, the shift in Mexico's cartel underworld grinds on|first1=Christopher|last1= Woody |date=7 February 2017|website=Business Insider|access-date=3 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="businessinsider.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/r-carnage-and-corruption-upstart-mexican-cartels-path-to-top-2016-10|title=Crystal meth 'superpower': An upstart cartel is climbing to the top of Mexico's narco underworld|first=Christopher|last= Woody|agency=[[Reuters]]|website=Business Insider|access-date=3 March 2019}}</ref> InPada tahun 2018, salah satu pendiri CJNG co-founder Érick Valencia Salazar anddan formermantan highpemimpin rankingtinggi CJNG leader Carlos Enrique Sánchez alsojuga bothmeninggalkan leftkartel thedan cartelikut andmendirikan co-foundedkartel asaingan rivalyang cartel called thedisebut [[Kartel Nueva Plaza Cartel]].<ref name="Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación: Cá">{{cite web|url=https://vanguardia.com.mx/articulo/cartel-nueva-plaza-y-cartel-de-sinaloa-buscan-arrebatar-al-cartel-jalisco-nueva-generacion|title=Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación: Cártel Nueva Plaza y Cártel de Sinaloa se unen para arrebatale el control de las drogas en el occidente del país | newspaper=Vanguardia |date=2018-09-10}}</ref><ref name=salazarelcholo /><ref name=sinaloajoin /><ref name="insightcrime2018" /> The CJNG are currently fighting the Nueva Plaza cartel for control of the city of [[Guadalajara, Jalisco]]; La Unión Tepito for [[Mexico City]]; [[Los Viagras]] and [[La Familia Michoacana]] for the states of Michoacán and [[Guerrero]]; [[Los Zetas]] in the states of [[Veracruz]] and [[Puebla]]; Cártel del Noreste in [[Zacatecas]]; the Sinaloa Cartel in [[Baja California]], [[Sonora]],<ref name="nationalgeographic.com">{{cite news |title= Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller: Season 1 Episode 8: Guns |url = https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/trafficked-with-mariana-van-zeller/episode-guide/season-01/episode-08-guns/vdka21702613 |access-date=12 February 2021 |work= Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller |publisher=National Geographic |date=13 January 2021}}</ref> [[Ciudad Juarez]], Zacatecas and [[Chiapas]]; as well as the [[Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel]] in [[Guanajuato]].<ref name="Entérate. Este es el origen del Cár">{{cite web |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/nacion/seguridad/cuando-y-como-surgio-el-cartel-de-santa-rosa-de-lima |title=Entérate. Este es el origen del Cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima|date=5 March 2019|website=El Universal}}</ref> They currently have an alliance with the [[Gulf Cartel|Cártel del Golfo]] in Zacatecas, [[La Línea (gang)|La Línea]] in Juárez, and several smaller cartels in Mexico City which help it fight against La Unión Tepito.<ref name="insightcrime1" />
Combatting CJNG is proving difficult because of [[police corruption]]. The retention and hiring of new police officers is poor,<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Analysis {{!}} Center for Strategic and International Studies |url=https://www.csis.org/analysis/neighbor-risk-mexicos-deepening-crisis |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=www.csis.org|date=4 September 2020 |last1=Ellis |first1=Evan }}</ref> and many of Mexico's smaller communities prefer to police their communities themselves.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2019-09-13 |title=Mexico's Wild West: vigilante groups defy president to fight cartels |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-mexico-violence-vigilantes-idUKKCN1VY1GP |access-date=2022-04-01}}</ref> Vigilantism is one way in which these communities are resisting the control of cartels and the government. Although the government has asked these groups to lay down their arms, the vigilantes continue with some success.<ref name=":0" />
