Notorious cartel leader

The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel He was buried Monday in a shiny gold coffin with huge flower crowns and a large military presence in the state that gave its name to one of Mexico’s most powerful cartels.

A federal official confirmed that Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” He was buried in a cemetery in Zapopan, a suburb of Guadalajara, Mexico’s second largest city. Dozens of people accompanied the funeral procession, many of them carrying black umbrellas on a sunny day and with a band playing regional Mexican music known as banda.

The official who spoke about the location requested anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case. The Attorney General’s Office refused to confirm the location of El Mencho’s burial for “security reasons.”

Since Sunday, security was intensified around a funeral home where large wreaths of nameless flowers arrived. Some included the image of a rooster with flowers and Oseguera Cervantes was sometimes called the “Lord of the Roosters.”

Almost all the flowers were sent anonymously. There were so many that five trucks were needed to take them to the cemetery, a local journalist explained to News. Earlier, eight people dressed in black, presumably relatives of Oseguera, were traveling in two cars that followed the white hearse carrying his remains to the cemetery.

He Mexican army killed Oseguera Cervantes a little over a week ago while trying to capture it. Oseguera Cervantes, who had a $15 million bounty on his head, died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to a death certificate obtained by The News.

After the operation, a crucifix, religious candles and a handwritten psalm were found in Oseguera Cervante’s home. Mexican authorities said they tracked down one of their romantic couples hide and seek.

the murder unleash violence in about 20 states. The death certificate fits a description of the operation to capture Oseguera Cervantes given by Defense Secretary Ricardo Trevilla, who had said that the cartel leader and two bodyguards had been seriously wounded in a shootout with soldiers outside a house in Tapalpa, Jalisco. All three died on the way to a hospital.

The certificate specified that Oseguera Cervantes had gunshot wounds to the chest, abdomen and legs.

His body was transferred to Mexico City where an autopsy was performed and then the body was given to his family on Saturday, the Attorney General’s Office reported in a brief statement.

The death certificate also notes that Oseguera Cervantes was to be buried, a common practice in cases of violent deaths to allow for the collection of additional forensic evidence if necessary in the future. The document did not say where the burial would take place.

The authorities’ security concerns around the burial site are well founded. The murder of Oseguera Cervantes unleashed retaliation by the cartel in numerous states. More than 70 people died between the military operation and the violence that followed. The government has said security operations against other high-ranking members of the cartel continue.

It is common for an air of mystery to surround the burials of drug lords in Mexico, something that their followers take advantage of to try to elevate them to legend. Within hours of El Mencho’s death there were already ballads, known as narcocorridoswritten about his murder.

In Culiacán, in the neighboring state of Sinaloa, home to a cartel of the same name, there is a cemetery known for its luxurious crypts and mausoleums of former bosses such as Ignacio Coronel – a former associate of El Mencho – and Arturo Beltrán Leyva.

There was the twice-killed drug trafficker, Nazario Moreno, leader of the violent, pseudo-religious Knights Templar cartel who authorities said was murdered in 2010 only to be killed for real in 2014.

Sometimes bodies disappear, as in the case of Heriberto Lazcano, leader of the fearsome Zetas, whose body was stolen in 2012. Or they die under strange circumstances, like Amado Carrillo Fuentes, “The Lord of the Skies,” who died in botched plastic surgery.