Elise Huggins of Carmichael sat on a Puerto Vallarta balcony Sunday to enjoy a final morning coffee after what had been an idyllic week in Mexico with family.
“I noticed fires,” Huggins said in a phone interview Monday from Puerto Vallarta. “And I thought, ‘What is going on? And why are there no sirens? Nobody’s called this in — how does this work in Mexico?’”
Huggins, 60 and the others with her were witnessing unrest that followed the killing Sunday of cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes in Tapalpa, about 170 miles in-land from Puerto Vallarta. People burned cars. There was looting. And the military came in…