Said security expert David Saucedo, quoted in "Expert’s chilling warning after killing of cartel boss 'El Mencho' sparks violence across Mexico" (NY Post).
February 23, 2026
"This didn’t seem to be just an operation to capture 'El Mencho,' but to exterminate him, to use lethal force to bring him down."
"In the criminal underworld, such actions are not simply overlooked. The reaction is what we’re seeing now: narco-terrorism, blockades, and fires in grocery stores across Mexico."
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According to the post: Violence was breaking out in Acapolco. I loved some violence to break out and be directed at the Newspaper reporters who use that lazy stupid phrase.
If Russia is a gas station posing as a country, then Mexico is a trap house posing as a nation.
Have to take out all of the cartel members.
Its sad the Mexico provoked the Narco-Terrorists to violence. They were so peaceful and passive before. In 2024 there were 33,000 homocides in Mexico. But of course none were done by the Gangs. Because they're like rattlesnakes, they only strike when provoked.
At least the Mexican police were smart - "he died in custody". Had he been held over for trial, God knows what the "Mostly peaceful" criminal gangs would've done to get him free.
These cartels guys are not covert operators, but in plain sight, and were in probable frequent contact with Ms. Presidente', who suddenly got worried after Venezuela caper.
"In the criminal underworld, such actions are not simply overlooked"
An implicit acknowledgement that the government and the criminals occupy the same world?
To Abort a Mexican Cartel
My wife was in Puerto Vallarta a few months ago, and when she left I told her to keep her head on a swivel. She didn't quite believe me, but it sank in after she chatted with her hair stylist, from Jalisco. Two-thirds of Mexico is affected with violence right now. Mexico is faced with choosing what kind of government they want, elected or elected, gang-controlled.
Long ago security experts told our office never go to Mexico
A dangerous animal can be much more dangerous when wounded, if not severely enough to disable it. At this point, your option to leave it along has been lost.
I wonder if the cartel needs new pagers?
mccullough said...Have to take out all of the cartel members.
This will make it easier to identify the dangerous ones and round them up (as well as provide the pretext to kill whichever of them you would prefer to just kill.) Especially if, as Saucedo says, this was a predictable response.
RCOcean,
It's just a force of nature, don't you know?
"Rain clouds formed; the tide came in; violence broke out."
The Trump Administration believes that killing cartel leaders will result in a significant decrease in cartel activity. Research supports this position.
I imagine that had he survived, he would have been more heartbroken than furious. Is that the way this is done if you wish to project your unfalsifiable views onto dead people?
Mmm... Mucho Mencho Muerte
Are the cartels like Houses and Barons on Jackson Hole?
Do we have Dendarii on standby?
We did the same with pablo escobar with the bloc snd delta force
Mexico is what the democrat party wants the United States to be.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/i-told-you-so-monday-february-23?publication_id=463409&post_id=18
Now that the cartels are in disarry, does that mean his supply will dry up and we'll finally be able to understand the incoherent babbling spam posts from Dinky?
Why did the Mexican government not anticipate this reaction? Why were they unprepared to deal with this violence? Will the US military have to go in hard to rescue Americans who were vacationing?
Because claudia is a sockpuppet like kamala she wasnt elected for this purpose
This type of violence...soon to be coming our way especially in gang and illegal alien tolerant and ICE repellant areas of blue states...spreading beyond to everywhere unless met head on. I imagine agitating protesters, antifa, government employees and others are on their private chats ready to sabotage any efforts to clear our country of gang affiliated people and the people who came here illegally by enriching cartels.
Former Delta guy John McPhee predicted this reaction last year on Joe Rogan Podcast.
The guy wasn’t kicking enough up to Mexican politicians. That’s why he was the only one killed.
Mexico is part of the USA's cultural dysfunction:
1. The USA has plenty of drug users who really want to keep the supply flowing.
1b. Mexicans provide the product, and the drug gangs receive sufficient funding to bribe/fight off the government and keep the supply flowing.
2. The USA has plenty of self-feeding establishment folks who profit from the system and who will do anything to keep the money flowing.
2b. The USA employs lawfare against all who challenge this setup: Their biggest firms debank their enemies, government forms a Ministry of Truth led by Mary Poppins, they fabricate the transgender ideology to increase medical industry profits, and they generally strongarm enemies under the guise of authority.
The problem is concrete and clear. Both Mexico and the USA have rot to the core. Bad apples have contaminated the barrels.
Fires in grocery stores?
Does anyone else suspect that there may be an intramural element to the violence? And that those grocery stores weren't just selling groceries?
Last time a state government had a cartel leader in custody and going into a justice process, this happened: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-killings-cartel-stronghold-sinaloa-leaders-detained-us/
There is no peaceful way to take down what is nearly a nation-state narco organization.
boatbuilder said...
"Fires in grocery stores? Does anyone else suspect that there may be an intramural element to the violence? And that those grocery stores weren't just selling groceries?"
One stop shopping. Not just a mercado, but a supermercado.
Selling coke thru the drive through window at the fast food joint was a tradition in certain neighborhoods back in the late 80s / early 90s.
Rocco said...
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Selling coke thru the drive through window at the fast food joint was a tradition in certain neighborhoods back in the late 80s / early 90s.
I'm old enough to remember a Dragnet episode showing that. Tough I think it was heroin... For an extra $10. you got a special bag of sugar...
There is a reason that the left hates Bukele.
He has proven that the cartels are not popular and not unbeatable.
you dial past the ambient noise and this may not merely be cartel, but other non state actors, time will tell
Harrison Krank
@HarrisonKrank
While Mexico is weak, Trump should take Baja California and rename it West Florida.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/trump-is-right-about-the-mexican-american-war/
Achilles, do you want to see your Rangers in these activities or just covert operators?
Mexico is failed state by definition, lacking a monopoly on physical force.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/least-25-soldiers-died-raid-142651300.html
"Mexico's most-wanted cartel leader was killed after visit from romantic partner"
Angry wives, girlfriends, and side chicks/dudes have taken down more criminals than all the wiretaps in the world.
Bill Clinton: "Wait, they are tracking girlfriends now?"
It's not a last meal, but a last conjugal visit isn't so bad...
My father-in-law was a native of Tapalpa, Jalisco. His whole family (pretty much) has long since (since the 1920s-30s) been in the US so we dont have actual ties there. A friend of my wife does still have property in Tapalpa, so we may hear something.
Per the news the snatch operation turned into a gunfight and 4-5 of El Mencho's men were killed or wounded, along with the boss. The big guy died on the helicopter on the way to a hospital.
Mexico is vastly bigger than El Salvador. Its going to be a huge campaign. This has been tried since the days of Vicente Fox, 2000-2006, with great expense and negligible results.
Even cutting off US drug revenues, difficult as that will be, may not work. Most of the cartel funding now comes from Mexican domestic sources, effectively "taxes" on the Mexican economy.
"Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme," said security expert David Saucedo...
"Thank you, we're glad to be here. I'm Saucedo."
The power of cartels is that they are a source of funding for politicians, like the power of gangs in Chicago.
Howard said...
Achilles, do you want to see your Rangers in these activities or just covert operators?
This is a tough one. I don't know.
JSOC could operate the way we did in Afghanistan if the Mexican government cooperated. At that point Battalion would be "pressure on the networks."
But I don't see Jalisco being occupied by regular army folks.
I don't really know how long this lasts or how organized the narcos are really. They aren't anything like the Venezuelan Army. They don't have real military equipment or organization.
If Mexico asks and we oblige the gang bangers will start volunteering to go to CECOT if they turn tier 1 units loose on them after a week or so is my guess.
That's a fair answer, Achilles. You're right, it a tough question. On some level, if we are going to be the world's policeman, it makes more sense to fix our immediate neighborhood rather than someone else's problem half way around the world.
El Salvador found a way to incarcerate their gang members. Intel on who is a gang member would be of the highest value here. Otherwise, they pretend to be civilians and the next thing you see is their children crying in front of a burned out home. Just like the Hamas members in Gaza, now that I think about it. Hamas delenda est. Cartels delenda est.
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