Jalisco
Treasury’s largest action against CJNG sanctions 39 individuals and 16 companies while identifying Juan Carlos González, alias Pelón, as El Mencho’s successor. The designations expose the relatives, trafficking cells, fuel thieves, front companies and professional money launderers that keep Mexico’s most powerful cartel operating through leadership losses and government pressure.
Despite the violence they unleash, they entrust themselves to religious figures. The lives of drug…
Mencho built CJNG like a paramilitary machine—fear, discipline, and violence, not flash. Across years of reporting, I never saw the usual narco theater: no supercar fleets, no jeweled rifles, no loud displays. Even his end reflected that mindset: controlled, guarded, and absent the gaudy mausoleum tradition.
In October 2013, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was 47 years old, and his dreams of becoming…
The instructions left by ‘El Mencho’ for after his death have been revealed; here’s the…
In recent years, Tapalpa has been the scene of multiple operations targeting important leaders of…
Between the capture of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada and the escalation of violence by the…