Mexican Troops Slay Mencho And His Thugs Set Country On Fire
Washington gave intel on CJNG leader; Mexico City ruled he not be taken alive
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It was predictable that the narco lord El Mencho, supreme leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, wouldn’t go down peacefully. In repeated attempts to capture Nemesio Oseguera, 59, also known as the “King of Ice” for flooding the U.S. with crystal meth (and later fentanyl), he unleashed thugs to block highways with burning trucks and they even shot down an army helicopter. With his calculated use of violent pressure, he survived the arrest of all his contemporaries, including El Chapo and El Mayo, and became the top narco still standing.
Yet Mexican security forces probably didn’t give Mencho a choice to be taken into custody anyway. Several Mexican and U.S. security sources told CrashOut that Mexican officials made the decision that Mencho not be arrested alive. Subsequently, after Mexican soldiers, with U.S. intelligence, swept on a safe house today in a dawn raid in the Jalisco town of Tapalpa, and captured Mencho in a gunfight, the army said that he died on a a military plane to Mexico City of his injuries.
The army’s statement also said another two of Mencho’s cartel operatives perished of their wounds while being transported from Tapalpa. What are the odds of three people dying on a military plane after a firefight? Still, considering the CJNG has murdered and disappeared thousands and scarred Mexico with vast clandestine graves, not many will complain if soldiers finished him off.
Even in death, Mencho made sure the world remembered him. His cartel operatives rose up with so called “narco blockades” on an unprecedented scale in at least 15 Mexican states, torching oil trucks, buses, pharmacies and banks among targets. The fires are still burning at the time of this publication.
Former cocaine trafficker Margarito Flores, who personally knew Mencho, told CrashOut he was always trying to prove himself. “He had that chip on his shoulder, a violent man from the beginning,” Margarito said. “It’s always about legacy…To them, you are your name.”
Pressure to get Mencho came from both sides of the border. President Donald Trump has been effectively muscling President Claudia Sheinbaum to hit cartels harder, and the DEA was especially after Mencho for moving tons of fentanyl and meth, earning a $15 million reward on his head. Sources say there was additional pressure from Washington to remove Mencho before football games in Jalisco in the joint North American world cup this summer.
“El Mencho was killed today by the Mexican military in Jalisco. He died like a dog,” wrote Congressman Dan Crenshaw. “Cause for celebration—absolutely.”
Meanwhile, Mexican security secretary Omar García Harfuch, and Mexico’s military brass, had their own reasons to get Mencho, and to make sure he wasn’t captured alive. In…
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