Cartel attacks kill more than two dozen people in Mexico
The killing of Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG), has triggered a wave of violence across several Mexican states, including Jalisco.
Cervantes, better known as “El Mencho”, was killed in an operation by Mexico’s army on Sunday.
But what is the Jalisco cartel, and what happens next after the killing of one of the most powerful drug lords in the country?
What happened in Mexico on Sunday?
Shortly after news of El Mencho‘s killing spread, suspected cartel members launched coordinated reprisals across multiple states.
Attackers torched convenience stores and petrol stations, dragged trucks onto major highways and erected flaming roadblocks, known locally as narcobloqueos, paralysing cities and cutting off key routes.
“Panic spread among many people,” Miguel Alfonso Meza, director of Defensorx, a Mexican civil organisation dedicated to strategic litigation and the defence of human rights, told Al Jazeera.
“I heard from several relatives who had panic attacks; they were calling in tears, desp
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