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An Ohio Republican senator claimed Mexican cartels are targeting American tourists as gang unrest spreads across the country.
Bernie Moreno wrote on X on Monday that the U.S. should halt trade talks and warned of ‘violent and terminal retribution’ if any American is harmed in Mexico.
The US State Department has issued a shelter in place order due to ‘ongoing security operations and related road blockages and criminal activity’ that encompasses vacation hotspots like Puerto Vallarta, Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum.
President Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to declare that the nation needed to ‘step up their effort’ on cartel and drug problems as cars and businesses were destroyed across the country.
The gunfire between narco gangs and officials began after the Mexican Army went into the rustic town of Tapalpa, which is about 170 miles southeast of Puerto Vallarta, in the state of Jalisco on Sunday, where they killed Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, according to high-ranking officials who spoke with local publications.
El Mencho was the head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of Mexico’s most powerful drug cartels that plays a key role in trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl to the US.
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