Operativo Enjambre: Dozens of CJNG-Linked Officials Arrested Across Jalisco and Michoacán Since Feb 22

One month and eight days into the post-Tapalpa pressure campaign, Operativo Enjambre has produced a documented pattern of institutional-capture dismantlement across CJNG's territorial footprint. Key arrests in sequence: five Chavinda, Michoacán municipal officials (March 19–20), including síndica Ana Laura Covarrubias Ramos (classified a CJNG 'priority operator'), two security directors, and two regidores — with seized items including a bulletproof vest bearing CJNG insignia, assault rifles, and cocaine; Tequila, Jalisco municipal president (March 29), charged with extortion, homicide facilitation, and functioning as a CJNG liaison official. Security analysts at WOLA and InSight Crime note that dismantling local government corruption networks is essential to preventing plaza bosses from reconstituting operational capacity following national-level leadership decapitation — the 'narco-administración' model that has allowed CJNG to operate quasi-openly in Jalisco for over a decade. The Tequila arrest is symbolically significant: the internationally known distilling town sits in the highland Jalisco zone that formed CJNG's historical operational core. Operativo Enjambre has resulted in dozens of public official arrests across CJNG's primary zones since February 22, constituting one of Mexico's most sustained anti-corruption sweeps targeting cartel-infiltrated municipal governments.