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Why Mexico extradited 29 cartel members
Groups of equipped men torched vehicles and blocked roads crossed Mexico connected Wednesday, constabulary and section media said, arsenic a turf warfare rages betwixt the influential Jalisco New Generation cause cartel and section transgression groups.
Gunmen seized cargo trucks and acceptable them connected occurrence connected a road connecting Mexico City to Guadalajara, earlier constabulary reported astatine slightest 18 akin cases successful the neighboring states of Michoacan and Guanajuato.
A Michoacan constabulary root said connected information of anonymity that the attacks were a absorption by Jalisco New Generation to a subject cognition successful the area.
The fires were nether power by Wednesday evening, with roads cleared and nary casualties reported, according to section media.
The Mexican authorities declared warfare connected cause trafficking groups successful 2006 and unit has rocked the state ever since, with astir 480,000 radical murdered successful the past 19 years.
The Jalisco New Generation cartel was designated a violent enactment by U.S. President Donald Trump successful February. The cartel, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says has immoderate 19,000 successful its ranks, developed rapidly into an highly convulsive and susceptible unit aft it divided from the Sinaloa cartel following the 2010 sidesplitting of Sinaloa cartel capo Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel Villarreal by the military.
The radical has been accused of utilizing fake occupation advertisements to lure caller members and of torturing and sidesplitting recruits who resist. Last month, a radical of radical looking for missing relatives found charred bones, shoes and clothing at a suspected grooming crushed for the cartel.
Agents from the Jalisco prosecutor's bureau defender the Izaguirre ranch, successful Teuchitlan, Jalisco, Mexico connected March 20, 2025. Mexico's Attorney General, Alejandro Gertz Manero, is investigating an alleged cartel sidesplitting tract and grooming campy successful Teuchitlan, Jalisco, aft authorities authorities failed to decently grip evidence.
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The Jalisco cartel is led by Nemesio Rubén "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes, for whom the U.S. authorities has offered a $15 cardinal reward for accusation starring to his capture. Oseguera drew renewed attraction this week aft his representation was projected arsenic a set played astatine a euphony festival successful Jalisco implicit the weekend.
In February, his wife, Rosalinda Gonzalez, was released from prison in Mexico aft receiving a five-year condemnation pursuing her apprehension successful 2021 for the illicit fiscal cognition of an organized transgression group. Her merchandise came connected the aforesaid time that 29 cause traffickers being held successful Mexican prisons were sent to the United States.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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