Mexico City. In just two years, the cartel Aragua Traina criminal organization of international scale, managed to grow its criminal structure in several municipalities of the city, mainly in Cuauhtémoc, where they maintain total control of human trafficking on Sullivan and Juan Aldama streets, under a scheme that was profitable and that is already known by the capital authorities: to recruit foreign women who enter from the southern border and who arrive in the city with a debt of 12 to 14 thousand dollars, which they must pay with prostitution, according to a federal report from the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC).
The document to which you had access The Day and of which there is a copy, it reveals this growth since the main leaders of this organization entered the capital and settled in the first square.
Their criminal networks have allowed them to operate through different cells, some dedicated to sexual exploitation, drug dealinghitmen, pimps, links with the Union Tepitosexual exploiters and even their own armed group called Batiperrossays the report.
The leaders
The first level of this criminal group is made up of 26 people, headed by Nelson Arturo Echezuria Alcántara, alias Nelson Yamaha, and Guillermo José Virguez, known as Jhoshwar o Yoswarwho are already detained, but for other crimes. Jesús Alberto, lieutenant and pimp, operates behind them.
He Aragua Train It has six chief hitmen who are entrusted with different attacks or settling scores against antagonistic members, and even order femicides of women who are co-opted for sexual exploitation.
The lower part of the criminal structure is made up of pimps who control forced prostitution in Sullivan and Juan Aldama. It has among its networks hotels that are used for these purposes, according to the document, but this activity extends to the state of Mexico.
Lodging businesses such as Uno77, Muy, Plaza Belices, Pigal, and five other properties in the Cuauhtémoc and Venustiano Carranza municipalities are used for women to take clients. However, the money they generate goes to the criminal organization, since they must pay 12,500 pesos a week for the plaza, in addition to the debt when they entered the city, the SSPC report states.
This same way of working It had already been used years ago in the country’s capital by the Zona Divas portal and later by Boutique Vip, cases for which investigations for human trafficking were opened.
Women used for sexual exploitation also sell drugs, and this is added to their bill; That is, they make a kind of loan, they can sell the merchandise as they wish, but they must pay the Aragua Train.
The ringleader Nelson Yamaha He used to walk around the Revolution Metro, the document states, where he was observed on several occasions with people he trusted.
In this area you can find Venezuelan citizens who settled in the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office and are dedicated to marketing different products, even cutting hair. Images obtained by federal agency agents show Yamaha before his arrest in that area, wearing a striped t-shirt, cap and jeans and he was seen smiling.
The agents in charge of carrying out the investigation refer in the document consulted that the vicinity of the Revolución Metro is a place with a high concentration of people of Venezuelan origin and a high incidence of sexual exploitation.
This subject was hiding in two homes, one in Iztacalco and the second in the Culhuacán neighborhood, Iztapalapa, right in a housing unit located on Halo Street corner Amanecer, in the G1 building, which, after his arrest in October 2025, was searched by the federal authorities.
The document also establishes the actions that the capital authorities have carried out against the Aragua Trainfor which the Special Affairs Prosecutor’s Office of the Attorney General’s Office has six investigation folders open, plus three from the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic.
Femicides
He Aragua Train He is also involved in femicides of those who have refused to continue with the extortion and human trafficking scheme, those of Stephanie and Susej, whose remains were found burned in the area of Topilejo, Tlalpan, are just one example.
In this case, Joy Maikel and José Gregorio, close to Nelson Yamahawho tortured the young women who were seeking to leave the criminal network.
The authorities detected that those who are under the yoke of this criminal organization are marked with a butterfly tattoo to identify them.
Mexico City became a bunker for the criminal activities of the Aragua Train and currently their presence not only covers the capital, but also Morelos, Puebla and the state of Mexico, where they have managed to settle to engage in human trafficking for sexual exploitation, drug dealingfloor collection and the organization of exclusive music parties that are used for the sale of narcotics.
