The former federal agent and his wife killed after testifying against the son of the powerful leader of the Mexico poster

A former Mexican federal agent who testified against the drug trafficker son of the most wanted man in the country was shot dead in the central state of Morelos, authorities said on Thursday.

Ivan Morales witnessed prosecution at the United States trial of Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, A leader of the violent poster of the new generation of Jalisco de Mexico, who was imprisoned for life by a Washington court in March.

González’s father is Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as “The Mencho” – Who directs the poster and has an American reward of $ 15 million in the head.

Morales and his wife were shot dead on Wednesday morning while traveling in their vehicle in the Temixco area, about 60 miles from Mexico City, according to a police report.

State prosecutors are investigating crime and have not ruled out revenge as a possible reason, local media reported.

Morales had had a decade on May 1, 2015, survived one of the most bloody drug trafficking attacks in Mexico, when a military helicopter that transported 16 soldiers and two Federal Police officers were shot down in the western state of Jalisco.

Nine people died, but Morales managed to escape the burning remains, although he suffered severe burns that left part of his disfigured face.

That helicopter flew in a failed mission to arrest “the Mencho”.

In September, a federal jury condemned the youngest Osecuera, nicknamed “El Menchito”, for conspiring to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine for the importation of the United States and use a firearm in a drug conspiracy.

“The Menchito directed the efforts of the Jalisco cartel to use the murder, kidnapping and torture to build the poster in a self -described” empire “by manufacturing fentanyl and flooding the United States with massive amounts of lethal drugs,” said former United States attorney general Merrick Garland.

Ruben Oseguera ordered the murders of at least 100 people, shot personally and killed at least two people and ordered the subordinates to tear down the Mexican military helicopter in 2015, prosecutors said.

Jalisco poster directed by the United States

The new generation poster of Jalisco is one of the most powerful criminal gangs in Mexico and has been designated A foreign terrorist organization of the United States government. The group has been accused of using false job ads to attract new members and torture and kill recruits who resist. In March, a group of people looking for missing relatives found Carbonized bones, shoes and clothes In a suspected training for the poster.

Thursday, the Trump administration on Thursday Economic sanctions imposed In three Mexican citizens and two entities based in Mexico involved in a drug trafficking network and fuel theft linked to the Jalisco cartel.

The new sanctions attacked the main members Cesar Morfin Morfin (called “Primitto”) and his brothers Álvaro Noe Morfin and Remigio Mor, point to the group Fuel robbery network.

“The luxurious lifestyle of Primito has included the ownership of exotic animals and dozens of luxury vehicles,” said the treasure in a press release, while throwing an image of a supposedly seized jaguar of Primito by the Mexican authorities in December 2023.

American officials claim that Primito is involved in the transport and distribution of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana in the United States.

The Treasury Department says that the network has resulted in dozens of millions of dollars in lost income for the Mexican government and also finances the flow of illicit fentanyl in the United States.

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