US EditionMexico's Top Security Official Lists The Potential Successors Of El Mencho: 'Two Are More Likely'
- Mexico's Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, identified four potential successors to El Mencho, with two considered the most likely candidates who are under investigation by authorities.
- Juan Carlos Valencia González, El Mencho's California-born stepson, is one potential successor but reportedly lacks full influence among cartel commanders.
- The military operation that resulted in El Mencho's death caused the deaths of at least 28 soldiers and National Guard members, with dozens more injured and numerous cartel members killed or arrested.
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Now that the leader of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation is dead, what will happen to their coalition of ruthless regional commanders? Will they agree to share power? Will they make one of them supreme leader? Or will a bloody power struggle break out?
These criminal leaders are identified by the authorities as regional leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel
After the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), the federal government has already targeted four possible successors. “We have identified several leaders, four specifically, who are under investigation, who are the strongest leaders within this criminal group.”Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Citizen ProtectionOmar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security a…
Omar García Harfuch did not rule out a possible relocation within the CJNG, so he already identified four likely successors to 'El Mencho'.
Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security, has not revealed the names, but says the profiles are under investigation.
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