Reported roadblocks and burning buses followed news of the cartel leader’s killing, leaving residents and those with family ties to the Coastal Bend region on edge.
Locals with Jalisco ties describe fear and hope following death of ‘El Mencho’
Burning buses, vehicles and plumes of black smoke filled parts of Jalisco, Mexico, following the reported death of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes — known as El Mencho — the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Kimberli Powers, a former Port Aransas resident who moved to Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, five years ago, described what she witnessed.
“About 9:30 we started seeing this big plums of black smoke,” Powers said…