"The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) made its grand entrance onto the criminal scene with a macabre image: the public display of 35 corpses bearing signs of torture in the city of Boca del Rio, Veracruz, in 2011. The criminal group of Nemesio El Mencho Oseguerra was then known as Los Matazetas (The Zetas Killers), as that was supposedly its purpose: to exterminate the Los Zetas cartel."
"Many things have changed on Mexico's criminal map in the last decade. Los Zetas have lost influence, the CJNG broke its alliance with the Sinaloa Cartel, and El Mencho became the last remaining target on the government's list of objectives after the fall, one by one, of the major leaders of the other drug cartels. On Sunday, El Mencho was killed in an operation by Mexican security forces, led by the Mexican Army and in coordination with the United States."
"The feat has many dimensions, one of them symbolic. In the very heart of the capital, the CJNG orchestrated an attack in 2020 against Omar Garcia Harfuch, who at the time was Mexico City's secretary of security. Today, he holds that position at the federal level and leads President Claudia Sheinbaum's security strategy against the cartels. The score has now been settled."
Nemesio El Mencho led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which entered the criminal scene in 2011 with the public display of 35 tortured corpses. The CJNG mirrored and amplified extreme violence, including strapping dynamite to rivals. Over the last decade, Los Zetas lost influence, the CJNG split from the Sinaloa Cartel, and El Mencho emerged as the last major targeted cartel leader. Mexican security forces, led by the Mexican Army and coordinated with the United States, killed El Mencho in a recent operation. The death raises immediate questions about succession, the future of CJNG operations, and federal security strategy.
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