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🇲🇽⚔️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Mexico Eliminates CJNG Leader El Mencho — Cartel Launches Violent Retaliation With Aid From US and Ukraine

The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, was killed on Sunday during a large-scale Mexican military operation in Jalisco. It is a major blow to cartel operations in Mexico, which have come under increased disruption due to a massive crackdown on their activities by President Claudia Sheinbaum’s government.

The move comes after strong pressure from the Trump administration, who warned that Washington could designate cartels as terrorist organizations, which would lead to US military intervention similar to Venezuela.

The response from CJNG gunmen has been immediate and violent:

▪️ Vehicles and buses were hijacked and set ablaze

▪️ Highways were blocked with so-called “narco-blockades”

▪️ Attacks were reported on a National Guard base in San Juan de los Lagos

▪️ A large prison breakout took place in Puerto Vallarta

The violence spread across the region like wildfire, making its way to Guadalajara International Airport where panicked passengers were forced to take cover. The cartel’s objective has been to create public chaos, block military advancement, and assert control amid an emerging power struggle.

However, there’s an important detail that is being left out. The United States has been responsible for arming these cartels through unregulated trafficking pipelines, with historical episodes like Operation Fast and Furious where the ATF allowed guns to “walk” over the Southern border from the US to Mexico in Arizona and Texas.

The hope is that they could track them to cartel leaders but it only led to hundreds of murders in both the US and Mexico. Mexico’s Secretary of Defense also confirmed that 80% of the weapons seized from the cartels are of US origin.

This isn’t to mention the fact that Trump pardoned the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was supported by the US Department of State even though they knew he was trafficking narcotics and received a $2 million bribe from Sinaloa Cartel leader El Chapo.

And former Mexican Federal Agent Genaro Garcia Luna was convicted in a US federal court of presiding over a multi-million dollar conspiracy with Sinaloa under the pro-US administrations of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon. Former US ambassador to Mexico Robert Jacobson acknowledged that Washington knew all about Garcia Luna’s cartel ties, but insisted, “we had to work with him.”

However, it’s not just the US. Mexican intelligence has revealed that members of CJNG have traveled to Ukraine to receive training in military drone operation and urban guerrilla warfare.

Ultimately, United States and its Neo-Nazi allies on Kiev are pulling the strings behind the violence because they hope it will give them a reason to push for regime change in Mexico City. Sheinbaum has been breaking the country away from Washington’s sphere of influence and follow a sovereign path, even sending oil to Cuba amidst the US blockade that has Ukraine’s support.

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Author: Jason Zaharis

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