[5] In June 2020, it was reported that state government raids and turf wars with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel resulted in the Santa Rosa de Lima losing much of their territories in Guanajuato, Querétaro and Hidalgo and all of their "soldiers.

"[2] However, cartel members still maintain a small presence in certain municipalities of Guanajuato, such as Celaya, Santa Rosa de Lima, Irapuato, Apaseo, San Miguel Octopan, Cortazar, Salamanca, Villagrán, they are active in organized crime.

There, the organization was born, which has expanded throughout the entity and even in adjacent parts of the state with Querétaro and Michoacán, where its main activity is the theft of fuel, registering 1,696 milking points during 2017.

[7] On 3 March 2019, authorities from the state of Guanajuato, supported by federal forces, launched the “Timon Strike” operation against the organization, bringing up to 42 detainees up to now, in addition to recovering more than 100 vehicles and searching 25 properties.

[15] The report states that more than 28,816 homicides were committed during 2018, which meant an increase of 15% compared to 2017 being the worst rate of the last 20 years, since the federal actions against criminal organizations began of the country in 2000.

[20] On 29 October, Marco Antonio Flores Martínez, aka El Ñecas, was arrested, who planned to place a bomb on a plane, as well as detonate a Pemex pipeline in response to the operations that the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador launched.

[24] On 11 June 2020, Óscar Balderas, a Mexican journalist and expert in organized crime, revealed to Insight Crime journalist Victoria Dittmar that government crackdowns and a turf war with the rival Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) resulted in the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel losing a significant amount of land in Querétaro, Hidalgo and even their native state of Guanajuanto.

[2] According to Balderas, “The most recent outbreaks of violence have been the execution of the last soldiers [of the CSRL].”[2] However, some Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel members still remain in certain municipalities of Guanajuato, such as Villagrán.