Guadalajara
AP
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The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel was buried Monday in a shiny golden casket with monumental flower wreaths and a giant army presence in the state that gave title to considered one of Mexico’s strongest cartels.
A federal official confirmed that Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” was buried in a cemetery in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest metropolis. Dozens of individuals accompanied the funeral procession, many carrying black umbrellas on a sunny day and with a band taking part in Mexican regional music often called banda.
The official who mentioned the situation requested anonymity as a result of they weren’t licensed to debate the case. The Attorney General’s Office declined to substantiate the situation of El Mencho’s burial for “security reasons.”
There had been stepped up safety since Sunday round a funeral house the place giant flower wreaths had been arriving with out a title. Some did embody the picture of a rooster in flowers and Oseguera Cervantes was typically known as the “Lord of the Roosters.”
The Mexican military killed Oseguera Cervantes simply over a week in the past whereas making an attempt to seize him. He died from a number of bullet wounds, in response to the demise certificates obtained by The Associated Press.
The killing set off violence in some 20 states. The demise certificates suits with a description of the operation to seize Oseguera Cervantes given by Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla, who had stated that the cartel leader and two bodyguards had been badly wounded in a gunfight with troopers outdoors a house in Tapalpa, Jalisco. The three died en path to a hospital.
The certificates specified that Oseguera Cervantes had bullet wounds to his chest, stomach and legs.
His physique was taken to Mexico City the place an post-mortem was carried out after which the physique was turned over to his household on Saturday, the Attorney General’s Office stated in a temporary assertion.
The demise certificates additionally notes that Oseguera Cervantes was to be buried, customary observe in instances of violent deaths to permit for extra forensic proof to be gathered if wanted in the longer term. The doc didn’t say the place the burial would happen.
Authorities’ safety issues surrounding the burial location are properly based. Oseguera Cervantes’ killing set off retaliation by the cartel in quite a few states. More than 70 individuals died between the army operation and the violence that adopted. The authorities has stated that safety operations proceed towards different high-ranking members of the cartel.
It customary for an air of secrecy to encompass the burials of drug lords in Mexico, one thing their supporters benefit from to attempt to elevate them to legend. Within hours of El Mencho’s demise there have been already ballads, often called narcocorridos, written about his killing.
In Culiacan, in neighboring Sinaloa state, house to a cartel of the identical title, there may be a cemetery recognized for its luxurious crypts and mausoleums for one-time kingpins like Ignacio Coronel — an outdated affiliate of El Mencho — and Arturo Beltrán Leyva.
There was the drug lord who was famously killed twice, Nazario Moreno, leader of the violent and pseudo non secular Knights Templar cartel who authorities stated was killed in 2010 solely to kill him for actual in 2014.
Sometimes the our bodies disappear, like in the case of Heriberto Lazcano, leader of the fearsome Zetas, whose physique was stolen in 2012. Or they die beneath weird circumstances, like Amado Carrillo Fuentes, “Lord of the Skies,” who died in a botched cosmetic surgery.