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| 2026-02-27 | ||
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Ruthless gangs that melt rivals in acid and run Nazi-style 'extermination camps' poised to turn streets into war zones after drug lord killed On Sunday, Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) boss Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, was killed in Tapalpa in a joint Mexican military and US-backed operation. At least 20 states were plunged into cartel-fuelled chaos as a result, with violence surging as authorities tightened security across the region. Oseguera, known as 'El Mencho', ruled his drug empire with extreme brutality, using terrifying torture and violence to instill fear into rivals. Over the last decade, the kingpin turned CJNG into the strongest crime ring in the country, partly by extending his power through 'franchise' agreements with smaller gangs around Mexico. Following his death, authorities have said they are actively working on containing the cartel's reactions and reinforcing security after the highest-profile blow against cartels since the recapture of former Sinaloa cartel boss JoaquÃn 'El Chapo' Guzmán a decade ago. With the leader now gone, fears of extreme violence and war are rising as several brutal rival cartels compete for control of the territories he left behind. JALISCO NEW GENERATION CARTEL The CJNG is considered one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels that plays a key role in trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl to the US. El Mencho's brutal control of the drug-trafficking routes from Latin America to the US, using speedboats and submersibles to ship cocaine and methamphetamine from Colombia and Ecuador via the Pacific, is thought to have made him billions. The Jalisco cartel has a presence in at least 21 of Mexico's 32 states and is active in almost all of the US, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration. During his merciless rule, kingpin El Mencho displayed a savagery many deemed extreme even by narco standards. In 2011, CJNG was implicated in a series of massacres, including the torture and murder of 35 people whose bodies were found dumped in the streets of Veracruz during an evening rush hour.
Buried beneath the Izaguirre ranch, authorities found three massive Nazi-style crematory ovens. They contained piles of charred human bones, and a haunting mountain of belongings - over 200 pairs of shoes, purses, belts, and even children's toys. Experts believe victims were kidnapped, tortured, and burned alive, or after being executed, to destroy evidence of mass killings. Just a few weeks prior, authorities in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara, unearthed 169 black bags at a construction site, all filled with dismembered human remains. The bags were hidden near the CJNG territory, where disappearances are widespread. In October 2024, the town of Ojuelos, Jalisco, woke up to yet another horror - the decapitated bodies of five men dumped by a dirt road. Their heads were found in a separate sack, left beside a cardboard sign with a blood-soaked warning from CJNG.
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