‘The people of Mexico should be very proud of our armed forces and the security cabinet we have’: Monday’s mañanera recapped

President Claudia Sheinbaum’s Monday greeting property league was held little than 24 hours aft quality broke that Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) person Nemesio “El Mencho” had died owed to gunshot wounds helium sustained during a subject cognition successful Tapalpa, Jalisco.

Three national officials spoke astatine the mañanera: Sheinbaum herself, National Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo and Security Minister Omar García Harfuch.

How Mexico recovered ‘El Mencho,’ according to the Army

Trevilla spoke astir however Oseguera was located and the execution of the cognition aimed astatine detaining him. (Read Mexico News Daily’s study here.)

García Harfuch reported that much than 60 people, including 25 National Guard members and implicit 30 “organized transgression people” were killed successful confrontations that occurred aft the apprehension and decease of “El Mencho.” (Read Mexico News Daily’s study here.)

Here is simply a recap of different cardinal accusation from Sheinbaum’s Feb. 23 mañanera.

Sheinbaum: A nationalist ‘command center’ remains operational 

Sheinbaum told reporters that a “command center” aimed astatine facilitating “national coordination” remains operational a time aft the cognition against Oseguera triggered a convulsive effect from the CJNG successful states crossed Mexico.

She said that unit from the army, the navy, the national Security Ministry and the Interior Ministry are moving astatine that center, and they are successful interaction with each authorities governments.

“I privation to convey each the governors due to the fact that the information is they each collaborated and provided a batch of information,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum extends condolences to the families of deceased information personnel 

On behalf of her government, Sheinbaum extended condolences to the families of information unit who mislaid their lives connected Sunday.

“The radical of Mexico should beryllium precise arrogant of our equipped forces and the information furniture we have,” she said.

“They are large men and women who are ever consenting to springiness their lives for others,” Sheinbaum said.

Trevilla: CJNG operative offered 20,000-peso bounty for sidesplitting soldiers

Trevilla told reporters that the subject obtained accusation that a antheral called Hugo “H,” aka “El Tuli,” was coordinating the CJNG’s effect to the cognition targeting Oseguera from El Grullo, a municipality astir 100 kilometers southwest of Tapalpa, Jalisco.

That person, helium said, is simply a logistics and fiscal relation and a main confidant of “El Mencho.”

Trevilla said that from El Grullo, “El Tuli” coordinated the mounting up of narco-blockades connected highways arsenic good arsenic different aspects of the CJNG’s assertive effect to the cognition against Oseguera.

He said that “El Tuli” was besides offering a bounty of 20,000 pesos (about US $1,160) for each worker oregon National Guard subordinate killed by a subordinate of the Jalisco Cartel.

‘El Tuli’ was killed 

Trevilla said that a parachute regiment was deployed to El Grullo and located “El Tuli.”

He said the fishy attempted to flight successful a conveyance from which helium fired astatine subject personnel. The subject returned occurrence and killed “this alleged criminal,” Trevilla said.

He said that 2 firearms were seized from “El Tuli,” and told reporters that the fishy was carrying 7.2 cardinal pesos (US $417,000) and US $965,000 successful cash.

2,500 further troops to beryllium deployed to Jalisco 

Trevilla said that a full of 2,500 further national troops were being deployed to Jalisco to bolster information successful the state. He said immoderate of the further troops person already entered the authorities and much would travel connected Monday.

#EnLaMañanera | Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, titular de la Sedena confirma que hay un full de dos mil 500 efectivos militares en #Jalisco con la intención de reforzar la seguridad en el estado tras operativo que llevó al abatimiento de ‘El Mencho’ pic.twitter.com/uUpmhZgxp0

— El Financiero (@ElFinanciero_Mx) February 23, 2026

The defence curate said those troops were joining astir 7,000 subject unit who were already successful Jalisco.

“More than anything, the volition is to person a dissuasive effect with the beingness of these personnel,” helium said.

Sheinbaum: “All the highways are wide today’

Both García Harfuch and Sheinbaum reported that each the narco-blockades acceptable up by the CJNG connected Sunday had been removed.

“All the highways are free, they don’t person immoderate problem,” Sheinbaum said.

García Harfuch: FGR has identified Oseguera’s body 

García Harfuch told reporters that the Federal Attorney General’s Office has confirmed that the bodies of the 3 radical brought to Mexico City connected Sunday correspond to Oseguera and 2 members of his information detail.

Asked what would hap to Oseguera’s remains, the information curate said that corpses are “normally” handed implicit to a deceased person’s family.

Sheinbaum stresses that US didn’t enactment successful operation 

Sheinbaum told reporters that “all operations” successful Mexico are carried retired by national forces.

“In the cognition [on Sunday] determination is nary information of U.S. forces,” she said.

“What determination is is simply a batch of speech of information, arsenic we’ve said present respective times,” Sheinbaum said.

Sheinbaum: There is ‘governability’ successful Mexico 

Although narco-blockades were reported successful 20 of Mexico’s 32 national entities connected Sunday, Sheinbaum asserted that “there wasn’t immoderate problem” successful “the bulk of entities.”

She acknowledged that “some universities” suspended classes connected Monday, but said she was hopeful that “everything tin instrumentality to normal” connected Tuesday.

Pdta #Sheinbaum llama a la calma tras violencia del #CJNG: “Hay Gobierno, hay tranquilidad”

La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum pidió a la población mantener la calma y confiar en las instituciones luego de la ola de violencia desatada por el Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación… pic.twitter.com/uXwv24seEs

— Jaime Guerrero (@jaimeguerrero08) February 23, 2026

Asked whether determination is “governability successful the country,” Sheinbaum responded:

“There is, determination has ever been governability. The contented is simply that, pursuing yesterday’s events, calm and bid indispensable beryllium restored everywhere.”

Sheinbaum denies that she was transferred to a navy vas connected Sunday 

Sheinbaum acknowledged that determination were reports connected Sunday that she had been transferred to a (navy) vessel and “who knows what else.”

“It’s not true, it’s a lie,” she said.

After a newsman said that a video showing the president landing connected a vessel successful a chopper was “old,” Sheinbaum said she believed it was from erstwhile she antecedently went to the larboard metropolis of Guaymas.

The president spent the play successful Coahuila and Durango earlier returning to Mexico City by plane.

In a connection posted to societal media connected Sunday, she urged Mexicans to stay calm and enactment well-informed successful airy to the cognition targeting Oseguera and the consequent convulsive effect from cartel henchmen.

García Harfuch: ‘We are prepared’ for a perchance convulsive ‘restructuring’ of CJNG

After a newsman noted that erstwhile cartel “leaders fall, caller heads emerge,” García Harfuch said that information authorities are “prepared for immoderate benignant of eventuality.”

“In different words, the precedence is the extortion of citizens,” helium added.

“With the bid halfway installed, we’re precise attentive to immoderate benignant of absorption determination mightiness be, oregon restructuring wrong the cartel, particularly if it’s going to beryllium violent,” García Harfuch said.

“So we are prepared for that and we are besides moving connected the reinforcement [of security] successful the area,” helium said, referring to the authorities of Jalisco.

By Mexico News Daily main unit writer Peter Davies ([email protected])