[1] The group is alleged to be based in Atlacomulco and to have been very influential in the politics of Mexico State and the federal government.
[1][3] It is claimed that the group has its origins with the political connections of Maximino Montiel Olmos, the grand-uncle of Arturo Montiel Rojas, and to people like Lucindo Cárdenas, Rafael Suárez Ocaña, and Silviano Díaz Cid.
[3] Fabela was governor of Mexico State from 1942 to 1945 during which he started an educational movement, which culminated in the Insitituto Cientifico Literario, now the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.
Fabela was instrumental in the political rise of Salvador Sánchez Colín, Alfredo del Mazo Vélez, and Carlos Hank González in the 1950s to the 1970s.
With the death of Hank in 2001, the group is now supposed to be leaderless even though it is still alleged to be a strong force in politics and even to have connections to drug trafficking.