Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG), was buried Monday in a golden coffin, with regional Mexican music and under a huge military and police deployment, in a cemetery in the municipality of Zapopan, near Guadalajara.
At noon on Monday, the hearse arrived at the Recinto de La Paz, a cemetery in the west of the city, 23 kilometers from where the wake took place, and which was guarded by federal, state and municipal security forces.
The funeral of El Mencho
When a capo like El Mencho “falls,” even the funeral ends up under military and National Guard protection. The criminals are guaranteed security; the victims are abandoned. Meanwhile, thousands of families continue to search for their disappeared without real support from the State. pic.twitter.com/VUS7TwKn4a
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The body was transported in a gold-colored coffin and was received with a regional music band that began to play songs such as “El muchacho alegre” (The Happy Boy), and then entered the chapel of the place.
The float was preceded by three cranes that transported the dozens of floral arrangements that arrived during the funeral and were able to enter the cemetery through the usual places due to their size.
Since last Saturday, when family members claimed the body at the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico City, an extensive security operation was deployed in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area by the Mexican Army, the National Guard and the state police.
The body of the most wanted drug lord in Mexico and the United States arrived at the funeral home on Sunday night, heavily escorted by civilian and military vans in charge of guarding the float.
From that moment on, dozens of floral arrangements with white roses arrived, including one whose ribbon showed the initials “CJNG”, as well as another with red roses in the shape of a rooster, alluding to the fact that the suspect was known as “El Señor de los Gallos” (The Lord of the Roosters). Most of the arrangements arrived without ribbons identifying the sender.
The entrance and exit of people around the funeral home was controlled by the military, including a military vehicle, which remained there until the transfer to the cemetery.
Since no federal, state or municipal authority has confirmed the presence of the kingpin’s remains, the mobilization of military elements has caused tension and fear among the population of Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco, which will be one of the three Mexican cities hosting the World Cup to be held in just 100 days.
Jalisco, in western Mexico, is still trying to recover from the fires and riots of last Sunday, February 22, when the state governor, Pablo Lemuns, decreed a two-day “Code Red” for the violent response of Oseguera’s allies and associates following the death of their leader.
The military operation against El Mencho, 59, took place in Tapalpa, 130 kilometers south of Guadalajara, and triggered a wave of violence across much of Mexico including road blockades, business fires, flight cancellations and attacks on security forces by organized crime.
According to authorities, 25 members of the National Guard and more than 30 members of the CJNG were killed in clashes following the military operation, most of them in the state of Jalisco.
Filed under: Funeral del Mencho
With information from EFE
