Teams of armed males torched autos and blocked roads throughout Mexico on Wednesday, police and native media mentioned, as a turf conflict rages between the influential Jalisco New Technology drug cartel and native prison teams.
Gunmen seized cargo vans and set them on fireplace on a freeway connecting Mexico Metropolis to Guadalajara, earlier than police reported a minimum of 18 related instances within the neighboring states of Michoacan and Guanajuato.
A Michoacan police supply mentioned on situation of anonymity that the assaults had been a response by Jalisco New Technology to a army operation within the space.
The fires had been beneath management by Wednesday night, with roads cleared and no casualties reported, in accordance with native media.
The Mexican authorities declared conflict on drug trafficking teams in 2006 and violence has rocked the nation ever since, with round 480,000 folks murdered up to now 19 years.
The Jalisco New Technology cartel was designated a terrorist group by President Trump in February. The cartel, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says has some 19,000 in its ranks, developed quickly into a particularly violent and succesful power after it cut up from the Sinaloa cartel following the 2010 killing of Sinaloa cartel capo Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel Villarreal by the army.
The group has been accused of utilizing faux job ads to lure new members and of torturing and killing recruits who resist. Final month, a gaggle of individuals on the lookout for lacking relations discovered charred bones, footwear and clothes at a suspected coaching floor for the cartel.
Brokers from the Jalisco prosecutor’s workplace guard the Izaguirre ranch, in Teuchitlan, Jalisco, Mexico on March 20, 2025. Mexico’s Legal professional Common, Alejandro Gertz Manero, is investigating an alleged cartel killing website and coaching camp in Teuchitlan, Jalisco, after state authorities didn’t correctly deal with proof.
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The Jalisco cartel is led by Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes. The U.S. authorities has provided a $15 million reward for info resulting in his seize. Oseguera drew renewed consideration after his picture was projected as a band performed at a music pageant in Jalisco in late March.
In February, his spouse, Rosalinda Gonzalez, was launched from jail in Mexico after receiving a five-year sentence following her arrest in 2021 for the illicit monetary operation of an organized prison group. Her launch got here on the identical day that 29 drug traffickers being held in Mexican prisons had been despatched to the US.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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