{"id":20641,"date":"2025-04-24T10:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/gunmen-torch-vehicles-block-roads-across-mexico-as-cartel-turf-war-rages\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T10:14:05","slug":"gunmen-torch-vehicles-block-roads-across-mexico-as-cartel-turf-war-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/gunmen-torch-vehicles-block-roads-across-mexico-as-cartel-turf-war-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen torch vehicles, block roads across Mexico as cartel turf war rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Groups of armed men torched vehicles and blocked roads across Mexico on Wednesday, police and local media said, as a turf war rages between the influential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jalisco-cartel-operation-investigation-recruitment-ranch-mexico\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jalisco New Generation drug cartel<\/a>\u00a0and local criminal groups.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen seized cargo trucks and set them on fire on a highway connecting Mexico City to Guadalajara, before police reported at least 18 similar cases in the neighboring states of Michoacan and Guanajuato.<\/p>\n<p>A Michoacan police source said on condition of anonymity that the attacks were a reaction by Jalisco New Generation to a military operation in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The fires were under control by Wednesday evening, with roads cleared and no casualties reported, according to local media.<\/p>\n<p>The Mexican government declared war on drug trafficking groups in 2006 and violence has rocked the country ever since, with around 480,000 people murdered in the past 19 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Jalisco New Generation cartel was <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-president-warns-us-invasion-cartels-terrorist-group-designation\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">designated<\/a><\/span> a terrorist organization by U.S. President Donald Trump in February.\u00a0 The cartel, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says has some 19,000 in its ranks, developed rapidly into an extremely violent and capable force after it split from the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/smuggler-migrants-us-canada-border-60-minutes-transcript\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Sinaloa cartel<\/a><\/span>\u00a0following the 2010 killing of Sinaloa cartel capo Ignacio &#8220;Nacho&#8221; Coronel Villarreal by the military.<\/p>\n<p>The group has been accused of using fake job advertisements to lure new members and of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jalisco-cartel-operation-investigation-recruitment-ranch-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">torturing and killing recruits<\/a><\/span> who resist. Last month, a group of people looking for missing relatives found\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mass-killing-site-possibly-found-jalisco-mexico-search-missing-relatives\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">charred bones, shoes and clothing<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at a suspected training ground for the cartel.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/24\/03b0909c-b04d-496a-b163-15e5acf5682d\/thumbnail\/1240x827\/9015bb4f270d5471891077ff10dda03b\/gettyimages-2205543458.jpg?v=3c17db24e594e0bfc14b069a51163c10#\" alt=\"Mexican Attorney General investigates alleged cartel killing site amid irregularities \" height=\"827\" width=\"1240\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Agents from the Jalisco prosecutor&#8217;s office guard the Izaguirre ranch, in Teuchitlan, Jalisco, Mexico on March 20, 2025. Mexico&#8217;s Attorney General, Alejandro Gertz Manero, is investigating an alleged cartel killing site and training camp in Teuchitlan, Jalisco, after state authorities failed to properly handle evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Stringer\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Jalisco cartel is led by\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-town-thanks-cartel-leader-el-mencho-childrens-holiday-gifts\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Nemesio Rub\u00e9n &#8220;El Mencho&#8221; Oseguera Cervantes<\/a><\/span>, for whom the U.S. government has offered a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/2024-12-4-English-Reward-Poster-El-Mencho.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$15 million reward<\/a>\u00a0for information leading to his capture. Oseguera drew renewed attention this week after his image was projected as a band played at a music festival in Jalisco over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>In February, his wife, Rosalinda Gonzalez, was\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jalisco-cartel-boss-el-mencho-wife-released-prison-mexico\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">released from prison<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Mexico after receiving a five-year sentence following her arrest in 2021 for the illicit financial operation of an organized criminal group. 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