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25 Mexican National Guard troops left dead during an operation that killed cartel leader ‘El Mencho’
- On Sunday, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader 'El Mencho' was killed during a raid in Tapalpa, Jalisco, after being seriously wounded en route to Mexico City, authorities said.
- Mexican Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla said authorities followed one of Oseguera Cervantes' romantic partners to his hideout, targeting him due to his status as a top fentanyl trafficker with a U.S. reward of up to $15 million.
- Security officials reported at least 73 people dead after the operation and reprisals, including twenty-five members of the Mexican National Guard, a prison guard and a state prosecutor's office agent.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum urged calm, and authorities said more than 250 cartel roadblocks across 20 states had been cleared by Monday; the U.S. government confirmed it provided intelligence support while the U.S. Embassy ordered personnel in eight cities and Michoacan to shelter in place.
- Given the CJNG's history of sophisticated attacks, analysts said the violence could weaken the cartel but also spark rival fighting as Mexico hoped the leader's death would ease U.S. administration pressure.
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According to the US agency Associated Press, which relays the count of Mexican security officials, this includes, among other things, cartel members killed in the Sunday operation as well as police officers.
Homeland security officials watching for response by cartel's U.S.-based networks after leader killed
Law enforcement is monitoring potential increases in violence, coercion or debt-collection activity in domestic trafficking corridors after cartel head "El Mencho" was killed Sunday.
Mexican National Guard members killed after 'El Mencho' taken out
Twenty-five Mexican National Guard members were killed after Mexico‘s army took out the leader of one of the country’s largest drug cartels on Sunday night. The country’s security head, Omar Garcia Harfuch, confirmed that over two dozen guard members were killed in six separate attacks across the state of Jalisco after the army took out the drug lord “El Mencho.” El Mencho, or Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, ran the fentanyl-trafficking Jalisco New …
Dozens of troops left dead in bust that killed cartel leader
Twenty-five members of the Mexican National Guard have been left dead in six separate attacks after special forces killed the notorious leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the country's security secretary says, as much of Mexico fears more violence.Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as "El Mencho," was the boss of one of the fastest-growing criminal networks in Mexico, known for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to the US…
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