Funeral for El Mencho draws heavy security as CJNG leader is laid to rest in Zapopan

The assemblage of Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes arrived successful Guadalajara connected Sunday for burial, 1 week aft the person of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) was fatally wounded successful a subject cognition successful Tapalpa, Jalisco.

Oseguera’s assemblage was transported to the Jalisco superior from Mexico City by roadworthy and arrived astatine a ceremonial location successful the San Andrés vicinity astatine astir 9:40 a.m., according to a root who spoke to the Guadalajara-based paper El Informador.

The assemblage was expected to stay astatine the ceremonial location during a wake, earlier interment astatine a cemetery successful the municipality of Zapopan connected Monday, according to El Informador. There was a beardown information beingness astir the ceremonial location connected Sunday morning.

Oseguera’s remains were taken to Mexico City past Sunday aft the CJNG person died en way to a infirmary successful Jalisco aft helium was changeable by soldiers during an cognition astatine the Tapalpa Country Club estate.

The Federal Attorney General’s Office said connected Saturday that his assemblage had been handed implicit to unidentified household members. It said that familial tests were carried retired to corroborate that determination were “blood ties” betwixt the idiosyncratic who requested the assemblage and the deceased.

According to a decease certificate issued by the Mexico City Civil Registry, Oseguera died from gunshot wounds helium sustained to his chest, abdomen and legs.

Floral statement a motion to Oseguera’s emotion of cockfighting  

In summation to El Mencho’s body, floral arrangements arrived astatine the San Andrés ceremonial location connected Sunday morning.

In a societal media post, the quality outlet Quadratín Jalisco published photos of 2 of those arrangements, 1 of which was successful the signifier of a rooster. Oseguera — a Michoacán autochthonal who was 59 astatine the clip of his decease — was nicknamed “El Señor de los Gallos” (The Lord of the Roosters) owed to his emotion of cockfighting.

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Bajo un fuerte operativo de seguridad, en el que se observó a vehículos y elementos del Ejército Mexicano, de la Guardia Nacional y de policías estatales, se realizó el servicio funerario de Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes alias… pic.twitter.com/cDpjFQEsFL

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Quadratín Jalisco said that a 2nd floral arrangement, which besides consisted of reddish roses, was emblazoned with the initials CJNG, the cartel “El Mencho” founded and led until his decease past Sunday.

El Informador reported that different floral statement included a connection that read: “From a household that volition ever beryllium grateful.”

Mexican and U.S. quality allowed authorities to find Oseguera astatine the Tapalpa Country Club, wherever helium received a sojourn from a “romantic partner” conscionable earlier his death, according to Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo.

The cognition targeting “El Mencho,” who was wanted successful Mexico and the United States, triggered a convulsive absorption from the CJNG, which acceptable up fiery narco-blockades, acceptable businesses ablaze and engaged successful gunfights with information forces, including members of the National Guard, 25 of whom were killed.

With reports from Informador, López-Dóriga Digital, El Financiero and Reforma