Reporting from Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco—At least 13 states in Mexico woke up to explosions and fumes on Sunday morning.
Local news and community accounts report that Cartel Nueva Generacion Jalisco (CJNG) is in the midst of conducting widespread retaliatory attacks against the federal capture and killing of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, commonly referred to by his alias, “El Mencho,” in Tapalpa, Jalisco, around 7 a.m. this morning.
Reports are coming in of widespread chaos across Jalisco, which was the epicenter, and neighboring regions. Videos from Puerto Vallarta, where most of the early footage first arrived from, show narco-blockades with burning vehicles and homemade spike strips and blocking highways; shootouts between cartel gunmen and private security forces, and thick black smoke rising over areas like Puerto Vallarta, including reports of almost every OXXO convenience store and gas station in the coastal city estimated to have half a million residents.
Reports have come in that the Costco in Puerto Vallarta has also been burned down.
Multiple videos show ordinary people hiding themselves at the Guadalajara International Airport, and others experiencing sudden flight disruptions, amid videos and alleged early reports of gunmen invading the national airport in Mexico’s second-largest city.