Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government is responding to reported violence after the operation against the cartel leader.
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Mexican security forces have killed Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, the notorious drug lord widely known as “El Mencho”, in a major military operation, the country’s Secretariat of National Defence confirmed.
The Mexican government said that seven members of Oseguera’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) were killed in the raid in Tapalpa on Sunday.
Reports of road blocking and violence by drug cartels emerged in Jalisco and other states after news of the operation became public.
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