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El Mencho’s Murder Made Mexican Journalists Less Safe

Sunday, February 22, 2026, was Guadalupe Martínez’s day off. She was at home in Puerto Vallarta making breakfast when her phone began buzzing with calls and alerts. “My fellow reporters know I cover the police beat,” she said in an interview, “and they told me, ‘They’re burning cars—don’t go out.’” So she quickly changed clothes and grabbed her work phone and microphone. “How could I not go out?” she recalled thinking. Guadalupe told me she is u…

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Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes alias El Mencho was shot down on February 22, 2026 in Tapalpa, Jalisco, which led him to the morgue and to reveal the aesthetic surgeries that were done in search of a different appearance from the one already known.The identity of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) was confirmed by an expert who compared the best-known image of El Mencho with the person in the morgue. They reveal the aesthetic su…

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SDPnoticias.com broke the news in on Wednesday, April 1, 2026.
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