Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Operation Jalisco has failed after three years

On May 1, 2015, the Federal Government implemented Operation Jalisco, which is intended to dismantle the New Generation Jalisco Cartel and capture its leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho", neither of the two main objectives has been achieved three years since the deployment of federal forces in the entity, on the contrary, with the arrest of the leaders of other criminal groups the Jalisco cartel has successfully expanded its operations in other territories.

At the start the federal forces mounted operations by land and air in the municipalities of Villa Purificación and Casimiro Castillo, in the southern part . . .

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