Mexican cartel leader orders rival organizations not to target priests

A man who identified himself in a video as the leader of Mexico's most powerful cartel is inviting his rival organizations to wage war against his criminal structure instead of targeting innocent priests and civilian workers. Footage uploaded to social media over the weekend showed Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera urging competing cartels to stop getting in the way of priests as well as doctors, nurses, and teachers. Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera issued a video urging competing cartels to stop getting in the way of priests as well as doctors, nurses and teachers Nemesio 'El Mencho' Oseguera is wanted by the United States government, which is offering a $10 million reward for information on his arrest and/or arrest. His Jalisco New Generation Cartel is considered the most powerful in Mexico El Mencho issued the plea following the murders of Jesuit priests Joaquín Mora and Javier Campos and a tour guide on June 20 outside a church in Urique, a city in the northern state of Chihuahua. Jesuit priests Javier Campos and Javier Campos were executed in June when they confronted a drug trafficker identified as José Portillo, who went into the Urique, Mexico, church grounds chasing after a tour guide named Pedro Palma, whom he shot executed before killing the priests Under his leadership, that Jalisco New Generation Cartel has a presence in 32 states throughout Mexico and the nation's capital, Mexico City, the Drug Enforcement Administration noted in its 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment Report.