“El Mencho” killed by Mexican army

The drug baron, whose real name is Nemesio Rubén Orguera Cervantes, was killed Sunday in the western state of Jalisco.

Killed “El Mencho”, leader of the most frightening cartel in Mexico!
The 59-year-old gangster was the leader of a group that in recent years has become Mexico's most powerful and notorious criminal organization: Cardinal Jalisco Nueva Generation (CJNG).

Although less internationally famous than the sonar's Sinaloa Cartel of Joaquín “Guzmán, who is in prison, the Jalisco group is a popular name in Mexico, where it is notorious for its brutal violence performances and its large military-style arsenal.

The United States had offered a $15m reward for apprehending the drug boss, accused of smuggling large quantities of cocaine, phantanital and metamphetamine across the southern US border.

Orguera was the last of a generation of drug traffickers who, like El Chapo Guzmán, El Mayo Zambada and Ignacio Coronel, had begun their criminal career in the past century, when the Institution Revolutionary Revolutionary Party (PRI) dominated Mexico, from the smaller cities to the House of Representatives, and crime was subjected to official power.

As the years passed, things changed. PRIR lost its power and alliances between crime and state; criminal groups were fragmented and new ones appeared, creating and feeding powerful armed wings, while Mexico was flooded by weapons coming from the US.

It was under these circumstances that El Mencho, the fittest among them, acted. None of them remain at large.

El Chapo and El Mayo, the founding leaders of Sinaloa Cartel, were captured and serving sentences in American prisons, from which they are unlikely to be released. Now, El Mencho has died in the same region where his power was established.

Although he was born and raised in Michoacán, between Apatizingán and Agililla, where he first entered the criminal world, he had recently been hiding in Jalisco, the state he adopted, in the harsh area between Guadalajara, host city of several World Cup matches, and Puerto Vallarta, the Pacific Coast Pearl. Sources within the federal security cabinet had located it near Atequiza, a “Pueblo Mágico” announced in Jalisco.

Born on July 17, 1966, in Naranjo de Chila, El Mencho was the son of farmers who emigrated to California, where one of his few photographs was taken - young, curly haired, and a challenging look.

The other best-known picture, presented in calm terms and mustaches, is what has always been used to identify the man who created a criminal empire, originally in small-scale trafficking, then as a paid killer and a local boss, until he became a major international drug dealer.

Orguera was the most wanted target in the fight against drug trafficking following the fall of Sinaloa Cartel leaders El Chapo Guzmán and El Mayo Zambada, as well as extradition to the United States of another major drug baron, Rafael Caro Quintero.

CJNG was formed in 2009 and has grown into one of the most violent drug cartels in Mexico.

It is estimated that it has the highest capacity for cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine trafficking in Mexico, and in recent years it has included fetanic trafficking to the United States.

Under the direction of Orguera Cervante, CJNG has been responsible for many murders against rival trafficking groups and Mexican rule forces. Recently, CJNG operatives, suspected under his direction, have been involved in attempts at assassinations against Mexican government officials.

Since 2017, Oguera Cervantes has been indicted several times in the US District Court of the Columbia District.

The most recent additional act, deposited on April 5, 2022, is accused of plotting and distributing controlled substances (metamphetamines, cocaine and phantanil) with the aim of importing illegals into the United States, as well as using firearms during and in connection with drug trafficking crimes.

His death also marks a major victory in Mexico's fight against cartels responsible for trafficking cocaine and phentanili worth billions of dollars in the United States.

But this is also expected to trigger a wave of violence across Mexico.

“will have an extraordinary amount of violence”, said Wanda Felbab-Brown, an expert on international organised crime. She compared Ogueran to other drug barons that have been caught or killed in recent years, such as Guzman and Ishmael “El Mayo” Zambada, both of Sinaloa cartels.

State Governor Jalisco, Pablo Lemus Navarro, called on residents to stay at home until the situation is brought under control.

The American Embassy also called on American citizens in Mexico to seek safe housing. /VoxNews/

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