Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes (born 17 July 1966) was a Mexican drug lord and the boss of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Biography[]
Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes was born in Aguililla, Michoacan, Mexico in 1966, and he lived in the San Francisco bay area during the 1980s and was arrested in 1986 for stolen property and carrying a loaded gun. He and his brother-in-law Abigael Gonzalez Valencia became involved in meth production in California's Central Valley, and he was arrested in San Francisco in 1989 for selling narcotics. He was deported to Mexico, only to return and be arrested again in 1992 in Sacramento. He was imprisoned for three years and deported to Mexico, where he joined local police forces in Jalisco before becoming a full-time member of the Milenio Cartel and becoming a leader of its squad of assassins. He went on to become a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel in Colima and Jalisco, and the deaths of Oscar Orlando Nava Valencia and Ignacio Coronel Villarreal in 2009-2010 led to Oseguera attempting to seize the cartel's leadership. The ensuing power struggle led to a split between Oseguera's "Los Torcidos" and the rival La Resistencia gang, and Oseguera soon renamed his gang to the "Jalisco New Generation Cartel". His gang consolidated its influence in western Mexico, and the CJNG became one of the leading gangs in Mexico, making El Mencho one of the country's most wanted men. The gang came to dominate Jalisco, Colima, Guanajuato, Nayarit, and Veracruz, and his gang trafficked cocaine and meth abroad. By 2020, Oseguera's gang was the second most powerful cartel in Mexico after the Sinaloa Cartel.