Breaking the back of Mexico’s narco-empire, elite security units gunned down ‘El Mencho,’ Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the CJNG’s iron-fisted overlord. U.S. Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau broke the news online, proclaiming it a colossal stride for justice worldwide.
‘Good outpowers bad,’ Landau tweeted, while lamenting the ‘heartbreaking’ violence: criminals’ fearful backlash demands unyielding resolve.
Cartel vengeance exploded immediately. Puerto Vallarta highways choked with burning wrecks, Guadalajara streets alive with torched buses and shops, multi-state brawls pitting gangsters against federales—the raid’s fallout is raw pandemonium.
Wall Street Journal analysts call it crime’s darkest day, propelling Mexico’s offensive. Washington Post chronicles the bedlam in CJNG fiefdoms; Fox News the Jalisco kill zone; CNN the arson-spiked riots; New York Post the Vallarta roadblocks.
America’s most-sought narco, El Mencho bankrolled fentanyl-meth pipelines stateside, earning a $15M U.S. price tag. This comes as Washington leans hard on Mexico for results, rebuffed on direct intervention pleas.
Travelers beware: State Department lines at 1-888-407-4747 (U.S./Canada), +1 202-501-4444 (elsewhere). El Mencho’s void tests Mexico’s mettle—decapitation or dragon’s new head?