Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

National Guard kills ‘El Chopa’, leader of the CJNG cartel in Puerto Vallarta

They called him El Chopa or Señor de Vallarta. Saúl "N", one of the heads of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) was killed on Friday afternoon during a confrontation with federal forces in Marina Vallarta, one of the most exclusive areas of the state of Jalisco.

According to official information, El Chopa was traveling with his escort identified as El Moi, who was unharmed by the armed attack and was transferred to the Attorney General's Office in Guadalajara by helicopter.

The authorities had been on the heels of the capo . . .

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