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Judi Lynn

(160,213 posts)
Tue Aug 10, 2021, 08:41 PM Aug 2021

Mexican news anchor Azucena Uresti threatened in video by alleged gang leader

August 10, 2021 6:53 PM EDT

Mexico City, August 10, 2021 – Mexican authorities must immediately act to protect news anchor Azucena Uresti and investigate death threats against her, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Uresti, one of Mexico’s best known news anchors who hosts programs on television broadcaster Milenio Televisión and radio broadcaster Radio Fórmula, was threatened yesterday by an unidentified man claiming to speak for the leader of one of Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking cartels in a video widely circulated on social media, according to news reports.

In the video, which CPJ reviewed, the man said he represents Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” whom news reports allege is the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), in delivering a message threatening to kill Uresti over her reporting on ongoing violence allegedly involving CJNG in the Tierra Caliente region of the central Mexican state of Michoacán.

“I assure you that wherever you are I will find you and I will make you eat your words even if they accuse me of femicide,” the speaker says on behalf of the alleged gang leader.

“The threats against Azucena Uresti, a nationally known news anchor, are unprecedented even in the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere and represent yet another escalation in violence against reporters in Mexico,” said Jan-Albert Hootsen, CPJ’s Mexico representative. “Mexican authorities cannot stand idly by and allow a nationally broadcasted news anchor to be threatened with impunity.”

In the blurry recording, which depicts masked men carrying automatic rifles and other firearms, the man says also that the alleged gang leader finds Uresti’s reporting “unbalanced” and accuses her of taking money from local gangs in Michoacán in exchange for favorable coverage and of criticizing him personally on air.

More:
https://cpj.org/2021/08/mexican-news-anchor-azucena-uresti-threatened-in-video-by-alleged-gang-leader/

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Clearly, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias "El Mencho" is a dedicated family man.

Look how his sweet children want to protect him!



'El Mencho' is the new Chapo Guzman, hiding out in the mountains of Mexico, DEA says

Intelligence reports suggest Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 'alias El Mencho' head of the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel, has created his own Golden Triangle, much like the one El Chapo Guzman once ruled. The DEA agent leadingthe investigation to capture him told Univision News how close he's come to being captured.

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Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho and head of the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel (JNGC) was added to the list of most wanted drug traffickers in 2016. Crédito: Isaias Alvarado/ Univision
LOS ANGELES – One of the world's most wanted criminals, the murderous head of the Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel (JNGC), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho, has turned into a new Chapo Guzman for US authorities, and not just because of his growing power over international drug trafficking.

PUBLICIDAD

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official who leads the investigation to capture him told Univision Noticias that El Mencho also has found his best hideout in mountainous areas of three Mexican states controlled by his crime organization.

“He hides in mountainous parts of Jalisco, Michoacán and Colima. We believe he's not in the cities any more,” said Kyle Mori, the DEA special agent in Los Angeles who leads the team tirelessly trying to track down the Michoacan capo also known as 'Lord of the Roosters.'

Trying to avoid compromising the investigation started eight years ago, when the DEA noticed the JNGC's fast growth in Mexico, Mori paused when asked specifically whether El Mencho is hiding in luxury cabins, humble homes or even caves.

“I'll say this: It's a combination of a lot of things. I don't believe he spends a lot of time in the same place, or in the same type of home. It's a combination of everything that you can imagine,” he said. “He's definitely moving constantly.”

DEA intelligence reports suggest that Oseguera Cervantes has created his own “Golden Triangle” in the same general area where El Chapo Guzman once hid for many years, a region fertile for the cultivation of poppies and marijuana that covers parts of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa.

The El Mencho bastion, however, covers a large region where narcotics are cultivated and clandestine laboratories operate and includes two major seaports – Lazaro Cardenas in Michoacan and Manzanillo in Colima – where his cartel receives shipments of precursor chemicals for making synthetic drugs. The region also includes Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco, Mexico's third-largest city and home to a vigorous economy that allows it to hide its money laundering operations.

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The southern and western mountains of the Sierra Madre are now the refuge of this cartel chief, blamed for the increase of violence in Mexico. His rise in the world of drug trafficking has been linked to the extradition and sentencing to life in prison of his former boss, El Chapo Guzman.

A traditional Mexican song known as a corrido by the group Los Plebes del Rancho already noted his rise as the new “Lord of the Mountain” – “Few know his face/He rarely comes down to towns/He moves between the mountains/From up there he runs everything.”



The US Department of Justice says the capo has used bullets and bribes to expand his cartel to 23 of Mexico's 32 states and many US cities, including Los Angeles, San Diego, El Paso, Laredo, Houston, Dallas, Miami, Orlando, New York, Denver, Atlanta and Chicago.

Federal charges filed against Oseguera Cervantes, his son El Menchito and their accomplices also reveal that the cartel has extended its tentacles throughout the world in barely a decade. That's why the US government in November posted a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture and branded his cartel as one of the top five threats facing the United States.

“He's made few errors. He's smart”
El Mencho has achieved in a few years what it took Guzman decades to do, according to Mori.

“He's made few errors, has a lot of street experience, and that's made it very difficult for us to manage the investigation to arrest him,” the DEA official acknowledged. “He's an intelligent guy, very good at what he does. He's avoiding capture, earning millions of dollars. It's like a cat and mouse game. He makes moves, and we have to make our moves to capture him.”

Agents tracking the capo have noticed one important fact: He does not take unnecessary risks by moving around in cities. His behavior is similar to that of Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada, current head of the Sinaloa cartel, who has been in the drug trafficking business for more than 50 years yet never set foot in a prison.

More:
https://www.univision.com/univision-news/latin-america/el-mencho-is-the-new-chapo-guzman-hiding-out-in-the-mountains-of-mexico-dea-says

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Judi Lynn

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1. Mexico drug cartel threatens prominent news anchor
Tue Aug 10, 2021, 08:47 PM
Aug 2021

By Karol Suarez
Published 6:47 PM EDT, Tue August 10, 2021



A motorist passes by a wall with a graffiti of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in Michoacan state, Mexico, on April 23.
Mexico City CNN —

One of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels has threatened a prominent Mexican news anchor in a video message.

In the video posted on Monday, a masked man claiming to be the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), threatens to track down and “get” Milenio TV anchor Azucena Uresti for her coverage of the cartel. Uresti regularly covers cartel violence and self-styled civilian militias formed to defend communities against organized crime in her nightly newscasts.

CNN cannot independently authenticate the video.

In the video, six armed men surround a masked man who claims to be cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho.”

“As a leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, I’m directly addressing Milenio News,” the man reads aloud. “The only thing I say to you is that you need to be balanced, to not lean to one side, don’t mess with businesses that aren’t yours.”

More:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/americas/mexico-cartel-milenio-azucena-uresti-intl-latam/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+Most+Recent%29

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