US EditionGeneral Ricardo Trevilla: “an Attempt Was Made to Capture the Mencho, but Our People Were Dying”
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The Secretary of Defense of Mexico, Ricardo Trevilla, has maintained this Tuesday that the intention of the Army operation of February 22 was not to kill Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho: “An attempt was made to capture, but our people were dying.” The general has detailed that three uniforms fell in the operation in Tapalpa, in the Jalisco mountain range. In the first phase of the confrontation, in the cabins, an officer and a troop agent …
The defeat of Nemesio Oseguera El Mencho during the operation carried out by the Army was due to the fact that when the troops surrounded him to subdue him he opened fire against them and in that confrontation died an officer of the military group who intended to arrest him, said the secretary of the National Defense, Ricardo Trevilla Trejo. “They tried to capture him alive, but if our people are dying they have every right to defend themselves.…
"The Mencho made fire and the personnel, in defense of his life, had to make use of his armament," he said to Ricardo Trevilla.
"The Mencho made fire and the personnel, in defense of his life, had to make use of his armament," he said to Ricardo Trevilla.
General Ricardo Trevilla detailed how the operation was lived in Tapalpa, Jalisco, and the reason why the criminal leader was not captured alive.
On Tuesday, the president Claudia Sheinbaum and the Secretary of Defense, General Ricardo Trevilla, were questioned about the operation against Rubén Oseguera "El Mencho", in Tapalpa, Jalisco. General Trevilla stated that the military personnel must adhere to the National Law on the Rational Use of the Force, under which they cannot use their weapons indiscriminately, if they do not see their lives or that of their companions in danger. He affir…
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