Inside El Mencho’s last hideout in Tapalpa, Jalisco

The last hideout of slain cause lord Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes was a large, well-appointed and modern location successful an exclusive residential property successful confederate Jalisco.

A time aft the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) main was fatally wounded during a subject operation, journalists were allowed into the location wherever the 59-year-old capo was hiding out.

Algunas fotografías del interior donde se encontraba “El Mencho”.
Se pueden apreciar un altar, una parte de la biblia escrita a mano y tratamiento médico.

Fotografías: Valente Rosas / El Universal pic.twitter.com/DgrZcnpuPE

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The location is located wrong the Tapalpa Country Club residential development, located adjacent the municipality of Tapalpa successful confederate Jalisco.

Oseguera fled the location on with members of his information item erstwhile national forces swarmed it connected Sunday morning, according to the Ministry of Defense. Mexico’s astir wanted cause lord was fatally wounded during a confrontation with subject unit successful a adjacent wooded country and subsequently died from his injuries.

The newspapers Milenio and El Universal were among the media outlets that gained entree to the Tapalpa Country Club location connected Monday.

“Luxury, melatonin, vino and psalms, successful the upland hideout of El Mencho,” work the header connected the beforehand leafage of the Tuesday variation of Milenio.

“Altar and kidney treatment, successful El Mencho’s refuge,” stated El Universal’s beforehand leafage headline.

Both newspapers besides published videos that instrumentality viewers wrong the location wherever Oseguera spent his last hours, and wherever helium had a last rendezvous with an unidentified “romantic partner.”

The location and its contents 

Made retired of bricks, stone, wood and different materials, the two-story location wherever Oseguera was located has precocious ceilings with pendant lights, “fine wood finishes” and wide windows, according to Milenio.

“From the air, the spot appears secluded, integrated into the wooded landscape, acold from municipality noise,” the paper reported.

The contents of the location see luxury furniture, neatly folded clothes, plentifulness of nutrient (including fruit, vegetables and meat), look creams and different idiosyncratic grooming products, and an altar connected a tiny array featuring statues of Jude the Apostle — patron saint of hopeless cases and mislaid causes — the Virgin of Guadalupe and Charbel Makhlouf, a Lebanese Maronite monk and priest.

Also successful the location connected Monday were candles and different spiritual items, arsenic good arsenic a handwritten mentation of Psalm 91, dated Jan. 25, oregon conscionable nether a period earlier “El Mencho” met his fate.

“He volition screen you with his feathers, and nether his wings you volition find refuge,” reads a conception of Psalm 91. 

El Universal reported that a medicine called Tationil Plus was besides recovered successful the home. That medicine contains an antioxidant called glutathione, which tin beryllium utilized to dainty kidney disease, an ailment from which Oseguera suffered. Melatonin tablets, which tin beryllium utilized to dainty insomnia, vino glasses filled with conifer cones and an antique array shot crippled are besides seen successful photos and video footage taken wrong the house.

The room seat successful the location is covered with galore items, including a vessel of sriracha chili sauce, cartons of milk, pots, a h2o vessel and a integrative jug. Some of the beds successful the location were unmade, an denotation that “El Mencho” and his bodyguards whitethorn person been sleeping erstwhile the national raid occurred connected Sunday morning.

The location has a ample backmost plot that leads to a hilly, forested area, to which Oseguera and his bodyguards fled. Milenio reported that 2 stones engraved with the figures of Jude the Apostle and the Virgin of Guadalupe people the bounds betwixt the spot and the forest.

A neighbour recounts the cognition targeting ‘El Mencho’

A nonmigratory of the Tapalpa Country Club property told El Universal that she started proceeding gunshots astatine 7:20 a.m. Sunday. She said that gunfire continued for 45 minutes and noted that a chopper besides fired shots.

National Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo said Monday that CJNG members managed to sprout a subject chopper during the cognition successful Tapalpa. Consequently, the chopper was forced to marque an exigency landing astatine a adjacent subject installation successful the municipality of Sayula, helium told reporters.

Trevilla besides provided an overview of the cognition targeting Oseguera, including details connected the cartel leader’s wounding and decease portion helium was being airlifted to a hospital. He described the determination arsenic a “complex of cabins” connected the outskirts of Tapalpa, a somewhat unflattering statement that is incongruent with the evident luxury of the residential estate, and which would beryllium improbable to look successful a Tapalpa Country Club brochure.

The nonmigratory who spoke to El Universal said that a batch of homes successful Tapalpa Country Club property are rented out, chiefly to tourists visiting Tapalpa. She said she didn’t cognize whether Oseguera lived there, but acknowledged that helium had spent immoderate clip there. It was unclear who owns the location wherever “El Mencho” and his entourage were staying.

Tapalpa is fashionable with tourists, and immoderate enactment successful the Tapalpa Country property portion visiting the municipality, according to the section mayor.

The municipality of Tapalpa 

The municipality of Tapalpa is 1 of Mexico’s galore pueblos mágicos, oregon magical towns.

“The cleanable operation of earthy beauty, architecture, tranquility, and adrenaline could beryllium a bully mode to picture Tapalpa, a unsocial spot that offers thing for everyone,” states the authoritative usher to Mexico’s 177 pueblos mágicos.

El Universal reported connected Tuesday that “amid the hostility and the beingness of the Army and the National Guard, Tapalpa residents are trying to instrumentality to normality, but the panorama successful the pueblo mágico continues to beryllium 1 of bare streets and closed businesses.”

“This Monday, immoderate radical went to the halfway of the municipality, but they inactive fearfulness that unit volition erupt again,” the paper wrote.

Reporters from the Associated Press besides visited Tapalpa connected Monday.

“A time aft the Mexican service killed the country’s astir almighty cause lord, the picturesque municipality wherever it happened was a survey successful contrasts,” begins an AP report.

“Children whose classes had been suspended by the outbreak of unit played successful cobblestone streets and tourer shops were unfastened connected Tapalpa’s main plaza Monday. But gunshots besides rang out, and conscionable extracurricular the municipality a dormant antheral laic connected the roadworthy adjacent to a Jeep sprayed with bullets,” the study continues.

A Televisa newsman said Monday that it was hard to get to Tapalpa, explaining that helium encountered astatine slightest 100 burnt-out vehicles connected his mode to the municipality, immoderate of which were inactive forming progressive narco-blockades.

Located astir 130 kilometers southwest of Guadalajara, the municipality of Tapalpa had a colonisation of conscionable implicit 21,000 erstwhile the 2020 census was conducted.

While it has been a pueblo mágico since 2002, unluckily the municipality volition present apt go amended known arsenic the spot wherever the lengthy hunt for “El Mencho” yet came to an end.

With reports from Milenio, El Universal and AP