MEXICO CITY: Certainly one of Mexico’s most infamous drug lords, Nemesio Oseguera, or El Mencho, was killed in a army raid on Sunday (Feb 22), sparking widespread retaliatory violence.
President Claudia Sheinbaum has been beneath mounting strain from Washington to intensify her offensive in opposition to drug cartels blamed for producing and smuggling medication, significantly the artificial opioid fentanyl, throughout the border to the USA.
Oseguera, 60, the mastermind of the highly effective Jalisco New Technology Cartel (CJNG), died in custody after being injured in a army operation by Mexican particular forces within the city of Tapalpa on Mexico’s Pacific coast in Jalisco state, in accordance with Mexico’s defence ministry.
His corpse arrived in Mexico Metropolis on Sunday afternoon in a closely guarded convoy of Nationwide Guard troops.
Reuters had reported on Sunday {that a} new US-military-led process power performed a task within the raid led and carried out by Mexican forces. White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt later posted on social media that the USA supplied intelligence assist.
Leavitt added that the Trump administration “commends and thanks the Mexican army for his or her cooperation and profitable execution of this operation”.
After stories of El Mencho’s dying, cartel henchmen blockaded highways with burning automobiles and torched companies in additional than half a dozen states, paralysing elements of the nation. No civilian deaths have been reported.
In Jalisco’s in style seashore resort of Puerto Vallarta, frightened vacationers on social media described a “conflict zone” as plumes of darkish smoke rose into the sky from across the bay. Air Canada, United Airways, Aeromexico and American Airways suspended flights within the space.
