{"id":29867,"date":"2026-02-23T07:27:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=29867"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:47:49","slug":"mexiko-im-feuer-weil-ein-mann-tot-ist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/mexiko-im-feuer-weil-ein-mann-tot-ist\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico in Flames Because a Man Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guadalajara - Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was dead on Sunday. The Mexican military killed him in a town called Tapalpa, twenty kilometers from Guadalajara. \u201cHe was wounded during the operation in Tapalpa. Later, on the way to Mexico City, he died.\u201d That was at eleven in the morning, maybe also at noon. It is unclear. The exact time does not matter. What matters is that he was dead. And then Mexico began to burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He was called El Mencho. That was his name in the underworld, in the headlines, in the minds of Americans who were hunting him for 15 million dollars. A bounty. The state had put up a reward higher than the value placed on many human lives. El Mencho was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the cartel that had become the most powerful in Mexico. Not Sinaloa, not anymore. Jalisco. His cartel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Police officers cordon off an area in Zapopan after members of organized crime set vehicles on fire there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

He was 59 years old. From Aguililla. A poor boy who went to California, later went to prison for heroin trafficking, served three years, got out, and went back to drugs. That was his life. At some point he founded a new cartel with another man. That was in 2007. Since then it grew. It grew and grew. The cartel was in all 50 American states. It sold fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine. Billions of dollars per year. These are not numbers one understands. Billions. Ten billion perhaps, 15, no one knows exactly. And El Mencho controlled all of it. He sat somewhere in Jalisco and controlled an empire larger than many countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n