Crime Mexican army kills leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, official says

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Destacado el 22 de Feb, 2026 por Null: “El Mencho,” a Mexican cartel leader, has been killed by the Mexican army. This has caused narco-terrorism incidents across Mexico.
A Mexican federal official says the Mexican army has killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in a military operation
February 22, 2026 at 12:35 p.m

By Fabiola SÁnchez | AP


MEXICO CITY — The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho,” in an operation Sunday, a federal official said.
The official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said it happened during a military operation in the western state of Jalisco.


It followed several hours of roadblocks with burning vehicles in Jalisco and other states. Such tactics are commonly used by the cartels to block military operations.

The U.S. State Department had offered a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to the arrest of El Mencho.
In February, the Trump administration designated the cartel as a foreign terrorist organization.

(https://archive.ph/20260222173919/h...e91db44677b_story.html#selection-241.0-373.96) https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...d4820a-1014-11f1-8e8d-fe91db44677b_story.html
 
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Disdainer of the Plebs dijo:
Kill them too then. Just keep killing them until there are none left. Even the Mexican army has the guns and the manpower, just not the will.
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The Mexican Military gets a lot of shit, but generally whenever they get a green light they get shit done. This is a good example, but they are capturing and killing cartel guys all the time. It's just it's often kind of futile because those guys get replaced very quickly, but also they get held back from a lot of targets due to corruption and legal red tape.
 
VanyaMotorbike dijo:
The Mexican Military gets a lot of shit, but generally whenever they get a green light they get shit done. This is a good example, but they are capturing and killing cartel guys all the time. It's just it's often kind of futile because those guys get replaced very quickly, but also they get held back from a lot of targets due to corruption and legal red tape.
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I know the Mexican Marines were reliable up to a few years back, but they basically had to live with their family's on their Military bases so they didn't get grabbed. I don't know if that's changed in recent years. A stable Mexico would be great, but they've always had issues with bandits and the like and it feels like the Cartels are just the modern expression of that.
 
Some videos from the airport, they may have attacked it.




Gun battle in the street:



NSFW, appears to be dead Mexican soldiers.

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Pretty huge deal. CJNG is the biggest cartel in Mexico but it was essentially an alliance between different criminal groups held together by Mencho. The splintering factions are going to have less resources going forward, but that does mean it will get pretty violent soon. It will also affect the war they have with a splinter faction of Sinaloa since they allied with El Chapo's faction.

As the cartels get smaller, they'll also get more violent, and their criminal operations will target smaller individuals since they will no longer have the operations for drug smuggling they once had. It's harsh, but it hopefully results in less powerful cartels that are able to influence the government like Sinaloa or CJNG did. Just last week, they grabbed a mayor who was an actual CJNG member. Not corrupted, just flat out a member who took orders from Mencho.
 
If Narco series are anything to go by then this looks like someone that fell deeply out of grace or got cucked out of the gravytrain. At this point I wonder how any of the cartel families havent claimed sovereignty over parts of Mexicos regions yet,
 
los pepes dijo:
whats the point of being a cartel leader when you have to spend your life living from safehouse to safehouse every night until you eventually get killed by the govt or your own guys or arrested and sent to a US prison?
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souschef dijo:
But they do enjoy it. Pablo Escobar lived in luxury for many years, he even had a personal zoo at his house. Most cartel leaders are shielded away from the routine violence of the cartel, often protected by their government.
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Bingo. In many cases they aren't on the run or hiding at all. They have their home base where everything is paid for with cartel money, so a bunch of the populace and local/regional politicians/police/prosecutors/judges support them.

In theory the federal government can go in, but might find themselves in a "Trump vs. Minneapolis" scenario, only much more violent. Plus it'll face opposition from national-level figures in the cartel's pocket. Escobar basically ran a semi-autonomous region for years, until US pressure built up enough.

Claudia Sheinbaum's administration is pretty lax/compromised with respect to the cartels, but maybe Trump's threats are working.
 
More AWS-8Q Than You dijo:
I know the Mexican Marines were reliable up to a few years back, but they basically had to live with their family's on their Military bases so they didn't get grabbed. I don't know if that's changed in recent years. A stable Mexico would be great, but they've always had issues with bandits and the like and it feels like the Cartels are just the modern expression of that.
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Traditionally cartels have had a harder time corrupting military (although they have managed it at times, including some very high level guys) because unlike with police and local politicians, they generally don't have direct access to military families since they'll station guys who have no local connections

But it's true they have to be very careful about remaining unidentified

The most infamous example of why was when legendary boss Arturo Beltran-Leyva was killed in a gunfight with the military. Photos emerged of his body, and it seemed the soldiers involved had made an effort to humiliate him by showering him with money and pulling his pants down. Well, in this operation one soldier was killed and they made the mistake of releasing his name publicly. Arturo's men waited for his funeral, and when this soldiers family returned home from that funeral they were all killed in retaliation.

 
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JohnnyG dijo:
Claudia Sheinbaum's administration is pretty lax/compromised with respect to the cartels, but maybe Trump's threats are working.
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I don't like Sheinbaum, but she is smarter and far more pragmatic than her predecessor, Obrador. Obrador was an old style commie who saw the cartels as noble fighters against America and Robin Hood style characters for the rural people, where Obrador is from. Sheinbaum essentially inherited the ties Obrador made with the cartels, especially Sinaloa and CJNG. However, Sheinbaum is not from a rural background. She is an urban socialist.
 
genuinely surprised this happened. mencho seemed to be unfindable. rumour was he'd died to liver failure 9 months ago but i guess not.

feel sorry for the residents of jalisco and any CJNG territory, it's going to be a bloodbath.

edit; it wouldn't surprise me if this was done due to the upcoming world cup.
 
The Puerto Vallarta International Airport, Jalisco region, was also attacked by the CJNG cartel. x/archive

CJNG fighters set a Costco grocery store on fire in Puerto Vallarta. The full parking lot shows that people may have been inside shopping when CJNG fighters arrived. x/archive
 
JohnnyG dijo:
Claudia Sheinbaum's administration is pretty lax/compromised with respect to the cartels, but maybe Trump's threats are working.
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I think they are. Mexico has been extraditing many, many cartel prisoners to the US since Trump won the presidency, and this is highly unusual because the extradition process has been very awkward and many of the guys being sent over have successfully fought extradition in the courts for years and years. Mexico though has started sending them over in large batches, seemingly no longer allowing these guys to stall the process. They are also extraditing freshly captured guys very quickly. And I'm not talking about low level guys, these are very significant players who are primo intelligence sources

Keep in mind as well many of these will have dirt on the Mexican government too, which is probably a reason why many of them have been allowed to stall the extradition process up until now
 
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