Posted on 02/23/2026 3:32:41 PM PST by Libloather
(FOX 5/KUSI) — The Mexican state of Baja California is far from the military operation that killed a powerful Mexican cartel boss, but the cartel’s outbreak of violence across the country in retribution reached the border region and its effects continued into Monday.
Mexican authorities killed Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, in a targeted operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, in the central part of the country, early Sunday morning.
Within hours, the cartel’s operatives in more than a dozen states set fire to vehicles and buildings, including several branches of a government bank, with the most destruction concentrated in Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-largest city, and Puerto Vallarta, a coastal city popular with international travelers.
In Baja California, nearly two dozen incidents of burning vehicles and buildings were observed in four municipalities, including Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate and San Quintin, although no injuries were reported, according to the governor’s office.
19 people were detained across the state in connection with the disturbances, state officials said.
In-person classes across Baja California were canceled for Monday, with educators hastily switching to virtual lessons for the day.
On Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico issued a security alert for the Mexican states of Baja California, Nayarit and Jalisco, as well as parts of 11 other states, advising American citizens in those states to shelter in place.
Employees of the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana were instructed to work from home on Monday, as were those at consulates across more than a dozen Mexican states.
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Another one. Ordinary, everyday cartel violence.
SFO flights to Mexico are resuming. Is it safe to go?
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/flights-mexico-safe-sfo-21895343.php
Lots and lots of information on your eyewitness testimony.
Can I cross the border to Mexico today? What we know for California
So what she do after she hangs up with me? After everything I told her? After all her “Yeah, yeah, yeah” bull____? She picks up the phone and calls from the house.
There’s more.
Cancun Travel Advisory: What Americans Need To Know Amid Mexico Violence
https://www.newsweek.com/cancun-travel-advisory-what-americans-need-know-mexico-violence-11567456
Easy, if someone is holding up a weapon cap them. Clean house.
Great scene.
There was a commercial for something automotive related, maybe tires. Back in the early '70s.
In it, a guy with a Mexican accent says "Jou gonna take that honk of teen out on the Baja?? Ha ha ha!"
Pat Hingle played a judge in Hang Em High and a detective in the Gauntlet, both starring Clint Eastwood. Both excellent movies. He also voiced the character Rooter in the first Land before Time series.
They can even see it in Cleveland.
Urgent travel alert: U.S. tourists told to shelter amid Mexico violence
I had an inkling he was one of Clint Eastwood's circle of go-to guys.
How can so many be so wrong?
Californians ‘hunkering down’ in Puerto Vallarta as cartel violence frays nerves
Even CNN can’t hold back.
What travelers need to know as violence disrupts parts of Mexico
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/22/travel/what-to-do-stranded-mexico-intl-hnk
Trump should buy it. Give the people 10-20 years to get rid of the riffraff before opening the border. 3 million people there now. The bottom half of the peninsula will be next.
Two dots on the Cally border. That can’t be good.
Map Shows Where CJNG Cartel Is Most Prevalent in US Amid Violence in Mexico
Uh, oh. Ticked off the canucks.
Canada deploys staff to help 26,000 Canadians in Mexico as violence continues
It doesn’t seem to end.
Is Mexico Safe Right Now? El Mencho’s Death Plunges Tourist Hotspots Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara Into Chaos
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mexico-pacific-coast-cartel-violence-1780855
Could be someone you know.
Bay Area residents stuck in Puerto Vallarta as cartel violence continues
https://www.ktvu.com/news/bay-area-residents-stuck-puerto-vallerta-cartel-violence-continues
Got a lot of rich American expats in the Cabo San Lucas area.
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