A high-ranking Mexican government source has confirmed that notorious drug cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera, better known by his alias ‘El Mencho,’ was fatally shot during a military raid, according to Reuters reports from Sunday.
Oseguera, who previously worked in law enforcement, commanded the influential Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a criminal organization that derives its name from the western Mexican state where the country’s second-largest city, Guadalajara, is located.
Within a relatively brief timespan, the CJNG expanded into a massive international criminal network that competed directly with the Sinaloa Cartel, previously led by infamous drug trafficker Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, who is currently serving time in an American federal prison.
Reports of Oseguera’s death emerged after federal security forces conducted an operation in Tapalpa, a municipality within Jalisco state, as confirmed by Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro in a social media post.
Following the military action, numerous vehicles were torched across Jalisco and neighboring states, according to news reports and government officials.
Michoacan state Governor Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla posted on social media that his office had been notified of highway blockades occurring as a consequence of the Jalisco operation.
