On February 22nd, Nemesio Ruben “el Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, cartel boss of the CJNG (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación), was captured and died from wounds sustained in a Mexican raid. See here and here.
It appears now that the cartel’s new leader is, or is about to be, 41-year old Juan Carlos Valencia Gonzalez, stepson of El Mencho.
Here is Valencia’s Wanted Poster. That bounty will probably be increased soon:
According to the New York Post, “Juan comes from drug-dealer royalty on both sides of the family, with his biological father Armando Cornelio the founder of the Milenio cartel in the 1970s. His mother remarried El Mencho and was part of the ‘Cuinis’ gang, the financial branch of the Jalisco cartel.”
Valencia was born in California, thus making him a U.S. citizen. (Valencia is also a citizen of Mexico).
The question being asked now is, how is Valencia’s U.S. citizenship going to complicate U.S. attempts to fight or apprehend Valencia? There are rules about surveilling Americans in foreign countries. How do they apply to Valencia?
If you think of it, there is and has already been plenty of U.S. citizen involvement with the Mexican drug cartels.
U.S. drug addicts, after all, are the main consumers, and willing consumers, of the drugs sold by the Mexican cartels. That makes American drug users the main financiers of the Mexican drug cartels. I wish President Trump would point that out.
Also, as this chart, based on U.S. government data, shows, the majority of people arrested in the U.S. for drug trafficking are American citizens:
