I just found out something pretty crazy about the El Molca case and how this type of person practically predicted what would happen to El Mencho more than a decade ago. In 2012, when he was arrested in Zapopan, Ramiro Pozos González, known as El Molca or El 7, was handcuffed in front of the cameras giving an interview with the Federal Police. At that moment, without hesitation, he let go of a phrase that sounds almost prophetic: he claimed that El Mencho would end up arrested or killed. And well, 14 years later, exactly that happened on February 22, when security forces killed him.

What’s interesting is that El Molca didn’t just throw that prediction out into the air. The guy was inside the Milenio Cartel and saw firsthand how everything broke apart. He was a logistics and financial operator, had influence in Jalisco and Colima, and when the cartel was torn to pieces after the captures of the main leaders, he ended up in the faction opposite the one El Mencho would lead. While El Mencho kept the structure that would become the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, El Molca ended up in La Resistencia.

During the interrogation, El Molca explained how all that internal reshuffling played out. He said that when they arrested El Tigre, the war between factions began. He mentioned that there were conflicts over who should be in charge, and that everything got out of control when they wouldn’t hand over certain operators. El Molca described this as an endless war, and frankly, he expected El Mencho to end up arrested or dead so all of this would be over.

Now, El Molca is 56 years old and has been serving a 28-year sentence in the Altiplano since 2021. When they captured him in 2012, they were offering a million pesos for information that would lead to his arrest. He was presented as a major blow against the remnants of the Milenio Cartel. Even in the photos of his media presentation, you can see him smiling with thumbs up, as if nothing.

What grabs my attention most is that El Molca, despite being on the losing side of that fragmentation, managed to see clearly what was coming. His prediction about El Mencho came true to the letter years later. It’s one of those cases where someone who was involved in the criminal structure from the inside understood perfectly how all of this would end.