US EditionTrump Urges Mexico to 'Step up' Efforts Against Cartels, Drugs
Trump called for stronger action against cartels after El Mencho's death sparked violent reprisals, including 25 National Guard deaths in Jalisco, officials said.
- President Donald Trump urged Mexico to increase efforts against cartels following a military operation targeting drug gangs.
- Mexican federal forces conducted a military operation in Tapalpa against the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, resulting in the reported death of cartel leader El Mencho.
- Following the operation, road blockades and arson attacks were reported in Jalisco and other states, likely as retaliation by the cartel.
- The Jalisco state government advised residents to stay home, suspended public transportation, and activated a 'red alert' due to threats to public safety.
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US President Donald Trump has awarded his administration credit for the fall of the leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, killed in a Mexican Army operation on Sunday. “We have also eliminated one of the most sinister leaders of the cartels, as everyone saw yesterday [sic],” Trump said during his speech on the state of the Union this Tuesday at the Capitol in Washington, without explicitly m…
The drug lords have been killed or captured and the cartels have split or collapsed, just to see how more violent ones replace them and the illicit trade expands. So, in almost 60 years of war on drugs, what has really worked? On Sunday, the Mexican army killed Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, leader of one of the world’s largest drug cartels. It’s called Jalisco Cartel and its reach is felt in almost all the world.
“Mexico must step up its efforts against cartels and drugs!” President Donald Trump said yesterday on its social networks, not to mention the operation of Mexican federal forces that culminated in the death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho.
President Donald Trump had put Mexico on notice: he had to pursue the country’s powerful drug lords, or he would. The long-awaited offensive of the Mexican authorities came when the country’s most wanted drug lord died after a gunfight with the country’s army. But the unrest that broke out after Nemesio’s bloody attempt to capture “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes brought with it a warning. Trump’s enthusiasm for hard-handed law enforcement could s…
The assassination of Nemesio Oseguera (60, aka “El Mencho”), the leader of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), the largest drug cartel in Central and South America, in a military operation reminiscent of war on the 22nd is seen as a boost to the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on drug cartels in the region. Circumstances are emerging that Oseguera, who had been evading law enforcement by abusing public authority, was eliminate…
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