The leader of the notorious Jalisco New Generation cartel who was killed during a military raid on Sunday was themost wanted drug bossin both Mexico and the US and rose up the ranks from lead assasin to kingpin through a carefully orchestrated, deadly coup.
Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, an ex-cop who had a $15 million bounty from the US State Deptartment for his capture, waskilled during a clash with the Mexican militaryin Tapalpa, a municipality in his home base of Jalisco.
Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus Navarro confirmed in a statement that Oseguera Cervantes, the co-founder and leader of theJalisco New Generation Cartel(CJNG), was one of seven members killed during an operation in Tapalpa.
Puerto Vallarta, a popular resort town on the coast of Jalisco, was plunged into chaos as enraged cartel members started setting fires in the streets to keep the encroaching soldiers at bay. Others launched assaults in Michoacan, Tamaulipas, Colima, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes, and Veracruz, Spanish-language news outlet Milenio reported.
Thewidespread carnageis likely just as Oseguera Cervantes, 59, would want in the wake of his death. Under his leadership, CJNG was accused ofemploying various forms of torture, ranging from acid baths to decapitations and even cannibalism in Mexico, according to aCourier Journal investigation.
When he was a child, the drug lorddropped out of schoolto help his parents, who were humble farmers, pick avocados in their hometown of Michoacán.
He left Mexico when he was a teenager and illegally entered the US. He established his hodgepodge drug dealings in San Francisco, where he was caught and deported three times, according to authorities.
The third time was, by far, the sloppiest endeavor in Oseguera Cervantes’ laundry list of a criminal record.
He and his older brother,Antonio Oseguera Cervantes, tried to sell $9,500 worth of heroin to a pair of undercover cops in 1992. El Mencho served four years in a federal prison before he was deported back to Mexico, seemingly for the final time.
By then, he already had two American-born children.
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