Mexican President Says County Is 'at Peace' After Cartel Boss Killing Spurs Violence - Beritaja

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sought to quell fears Monday aft unit erupted successful 20 Mexican states complete the sidesplitting of the world’s about wanted cartel kingpin: Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known arsenic “El Mencho.”

“The state is astatine peace,” Sheinbaum told reporters astatine her regular news convention successful Mexico City. “It’s calm.”

Schools were closed Monday successful immoderate states and immoderate flights remained suspended astatine the celebrated tourer destination of Puerto Vallarta successful the authorities of Jalisco, wherever Oseguera lived and was killed astatine his upland hideout.

Omar García Harfuch, Mexico’s apical information official, said 25 members of the National Guard were killed Sunday successful attacks by organized crime successful Jalisco state. It was not instantly clear really the soldiers were killed.

Mexican Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla Trejo revealed caller specifications of the typical forces cognition targeting Oseguera, the laminitis and leader of the notorious Jalisco New Generation cartel.

Trevilla said that successful caller days, Mexican intelligence officers identified wherever Oseguera lived by search the movements of his girlfriend.

As troops approached Oseguera’s compound adjacent the municipality of Tapalpa connected Sunday, Oseguera’s guards opened occurrence successful what Trevilla described arsenic “a very convulsive attack.”

As a weapon conflict collapsed retired betwixt soldiers and cartel henchmen, Oseguera escaped. Troops established a perimeter about the compound, and later recovered the supplier lord hiding successful immoderate adjacent woods, wounded.

He and 2 of his bodyguards were earnestly injured. The 3 were transported by chopper to the adjacent metropolis of Morelia, but died en route, Trevilla said.

He said an arsenal of guns, rocket launchers and grenades was recovered astatine Oseguera’s compound.

The cognition against Oseguera triggered retaliatory attacks done Jalisco and successful different states wherever the cartel has a presence, pinch gangsters blocking roads pinch burning cars, torching immoderate state stations and storefronts, and opening occurrence connected information personnel. It is by now a communal method for cartels to effort to sow chaos successful an effort to disrupt subject actions.

Officials said the unit has eased for now, and Sheinbaum said she expects schools and flights to resume by Tuesday.

“We awoke coming pinch nary blockades,” Sheinbaum said. “All activity has practically been reestablished.”

The authorities has sent thousands of soldiers to Jalisco to reenforce information there, and is ready, officials say, to combat further unit arsenic the apical remaining leaders of the cartel jockey for power.

“We’re prepared for this,” Harfuch said.

Trevilla said that U.S. intelligence played a domiciled successful the operation, but that the recognition of Oseguera’s hideout and the readying and execution of the onslaught were the activity of the Mexican equipped forces.

“In this lawsuit location was accusation provided by the United States,” Sheinbauam said. “But the full cognition from its readying [stage] was the work of national forces. “

Said Trevilla: “Mexico has coagulated institutions ... Trust successful your government.”

Linthicum reported from New York and McDonnell from Mexico City.